„Daniel has weaponized his hats. God save us all.“
Well, the Fallout: New Vegas modding community is officially beyond help. It’s with a mixture of amusement and alarm that I bring you news the modders have lost it, becoming so intoxicated of modding a single Mormon’s hat that I fear they may have no route back to polite society at all. The hat is their world now: All they know and all they can ever know.
I am referring, of course, to the just-concluded war for Daniel’s hat. Daniel is a Mormon missionary from New Vegas‘ Honest Hearts DLC, the pacifist counterpart to Joshua Graham’s righteous fury, and generally not a character given much attention by the fanbase. He is, after all, a bit dull compared to the iconic figure of Graham.
That is until a modder named Redquinox created Daniel’s Hat Refitted, an attempt to adjust dear Dan’s sombrero „so it actually fits a human head.“ Our hero was a bit miffed by the hat as it was: „I was sick and tired of staring at that stupid, comically oversized clown hat floating over Daniel’s head, knowing it had the potential to be the best-looking hat in the game were it not for the aneurysm the designer must have had while making the model.
