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[Rolan7]

It's just personal conjecture, but I see the Firemen as a sort of extra-governmental (un)holy order.  They don't burn to protect the government, but a perverted virtue of decency.  I suppose they're supposed to be caricatures of the people who preach about violence in video games and witchcraft in books, but instead I see this guy:

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Cremator

Dispassionate, faceless, simply purging the offensive speech.  Don't they let the LCS leave in peace before burning the safe house?  I could be misremembering that.

[FinetalPies]

iirc they burn everyone to death. Surrender is not an option.

[Cheedows]

It's actually a Fahrenheit 451 reference.  They give no shits when burning someone alive in cold blood. 

[KA101]

Last I knew, surrendering to the Firemen resulted in their arresting anyone Wanted, confiscating anything that could justify a Special Edition, and burning your printing press.

Even in F451 they were more interested in destroying the books than in the people.

(Though they preferred to just kerosene the whole thing and light a match, too.)

[EuchreJack]

Last I knew, surrendering to the Firemen resulted in their arresting anyone Wanted, confiscating anything that could justify a Special Edition, and burning your printing press.

Even in F451 they were more interested in destroying the books than in the people.

(Though they preferred to just kerosene the whole thing and light a match, too.)

That is how I remember it.  It makes more sense if you've read the book F451 instead of saw the movie.  The book was much better.

Of course, the movie was action sci-fi whereas the movie was romance sci-fi.  So the book had more content relevant for this game.

[Cheedows]

Nah, I read the book, never actually saw the movie to be honest. Besides Montag, I do remember him seeing people willing to die for books which influenced him to eventually harbor books. Was fairly sure there was parts where there was murder (Not counting him killing Beatty). Feel free to correct me on this.

[FinetalPies]

The movie was terrible, they replaced a robotic dog with six eyes and anesthetic needle jaws with a fireman pole.

Also, romance sci-fi? I know there are multiple contexts for the word romance but that really paints an inaccurate picture in my mind.

[Cheedows]

Romance? Well, you could almost guess there was one blossoming, until she "dies" (disappears). In my opinion I wouldn't classify F451 as "romantic sci-fi".

[FinetalPies]

I like that we are all in agreement that "Very good book."

Right?

[EuchreJack]

Right, very good book.

[Cheedows]

Sure, it's a very good book.

[Alpheus]

Death for loitering.  C++ is a bitch.

[Liberal Elitist]

Death for loitering.  C++ is a bitch.

Well then what programming language do you propose we port the game to, if C++ is such a nasty bitch? LOLCODE? Microsoft actually uses LOLCODE, it says so in teh LOLCODE article, might help explain why Windows 8 is such a joke.

[LordSlowpoke]

you're acting as if it's not obvious

l++

[Nicholas1111]

I broke into appartments, killed 3 guys stole some cellphones and ran, - not guilty, thanks to my law skill.