His Name Is Robert Paulson
Playing Fallout 3 this afternoon I found myself knee deep in Super Mutants while trying to track down my scientist father who skipped out on me (thanks, dad) in his relentless pursuit of supplying the war torn landscape with clean drinking water. Scanning through my Pip-Boy 3000 I noticed this odd contract in my inventory I picked up after being attacked by a band of renegades whilst wandering the vast wastelands:
For the uninitiated, Robert Paulson is the name of a character in Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club:
And so I, the protagonist of Fallout 3, am named after a charter whose nickname was “Bitch Tits”. Fantastic.
I’m constantly amazed at how this book (and movie) has permeated into the consciousness of America. It couldn’t have happened to a finer work of fiction (at this point I’d like to name drop Chuck’s best (IMHO) book, Survivor. Go read it. Now.)
If I didn’t take a moment to point out this Fight Club sighting, I’d forever regret it 
