okay to be fair i actually. really dont like nottem. im fine with fan interpretation of him however and im fine with other people liking him i just really dont like him myself. i say i dont hate him but i dont hate him i just. don't... like him,, more talk about some brutal topics below because i keep making long ass posts about it

i just dislike the comparisons between him and postal dude a little bit. because one is going on a genocide crusade (in new york, of all places) because hes an angry edgelord with a gun who hates people so much he's willing to die as long as other people in any capacity die too. his final act was genociding over EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE by wiping new york off the map. new york. of all places. there are so many other big cities they could have used but they used the one that would be the edgiest to murder. nottem also inspired three other people to continue his genocidal crusade as well. so that's over EIGHT AND-NEARLY-A-HALF MILLION people.

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postal dude is just mentally ill. its not really that he originally hated people, because he does, in fact, have 'his' people he likes, or is at least neutral, to be around. the reason people are so hostile to him in other games is often because he is wrongly blamed or in the crossfire of other problems and targeted. in the first game, he doesn't hate people. it's that he's scared, he's terrified - he's mentally ill, he's suffering emotionally from a delusion that makes him believe the entire town is out to get him specifically - he believes he's being gangstalked by everybody and everything. he believes that a nerve agent is being spread across the town by the air force base, and people are targeting him specifically because he's the only one immune.

postal dude is scared. always wearing a kevlar vest as protection. he's afraid he's going to be attacked. he's being evicted from his home, and now there's nothing to protect him. he speaks about God in his anguish, and talks to the Lord, asking if he, too, might be infected, like the others. In REDUX, he talks about forgiveness, salvation, at the church in The End. He's desperate, he's so, so scared. He's praying to what he's believing in, in the hopes that he may find an answer. He's recording his journey, hoping someone else will understand, later. To make it make sense to himself.

He fights because he believes he must. He doesn't hate people; he just believes that there is no hope for Paradise, that the entire town must be napalmed to save the lives of countless others, him included. He believes that he must do something, to save these unnamed others - to warn them, to make sure they have the ability to leave, or go somewhere far, far away. He must get to the Air Force Base, under any circumstances, because he must find out the truth.

But eventually, he wanders away. He finds himself hallucinating on the sidewalk in front of a schoolyard, believing himself to be attempting to cause physical harm to these children. These children aren't being hurt, and are just continuing to walk around, scream, sing, and play. He breaks down, anguished, possibly begging or screaming for some kind of help, possibly from God; likely from someone else at all. He doesn't hate people. He doesn't want to hurt, or harm. He's in a bad place - both in the town of Paradise, and mentally. He believed he was doing true good. He ends up being put in psychiatric care, which he hallucinates as a horrible, fleshy, personal Hell, curled up in a box that doesn't even let him stretch his legs. He believes he's being tortured, for the sins he's committed, for the horrific crimes he's done - and he didn't know that before. He thought he was doing what was right.

Hatred is the story of a violent misanthrope who believes that humankind is a plague upon the earth and must be eradicated, him included, and thus begins a genocidal crusade specifically hoping that all humans will die - or at least as many as he can bag.

POSTAL (1997) is the story of a lonely, cornered, scared, mentally ill, and now-homeless young man who believes his only options are kill or be killed. He believes that everybody around him is going to tear him apart because of a perceived chemical warfare against his very home town.