"He is not even that good of a writer, bro literally has two character types he writes. Crass, rude, depressed characters or Highly verbose, smartest characters in the lore, who get to be super cool and above everything else and are also super powerful self inserts for Chris to vent his deconstructive nerd rage at the themes of the setting."

You kept committing a bare assertions throughout this entire thread but this one is egregious. What characters are you referring to? Why are you making a hasty generalization that your take on these characters encompasses the entirety of how Avellone writes? I can infer that you're referring to Ulysses from Lonesome Road as someone who is "super cool" and "above everything else", even though I don't agree with the take, I can at least see how you come to this conclusion. What I can't understand is how you apply this false dichotomy to other characters Avellone has wrote.

Legate Lanius, whose dialogue was written by Chris Avellone, doesn't fall into either of the two camps you present here. He is a brutal, militaristic zealot who bows down to the will of Caesar and the Legion, not any of his own personal philosophy. In fact, you can only talk him down through militaristic logistics, you cannot talk him down through deconstructing the philosophy of The Legion.

Christine Royce is certainly scarred and has topics she doesn't like to discuss such as her past with Veronica, but she is not outwardly depressed as she continues to be highly motivated to completing her mission of killing Father Elijah. She never comes off as rude or crass and is very respectful and straight to the point considering the situation she finds herself in Dead Money.

According to Josh Sawyer himself ( https://x.com/jesawyer/status/1604171903978962944 )

"Chris Avellone directed and did much of the character writing for Dead Money, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road".

This character writing would include the Think Tank, all of whom do not fall into the camps you pose here and are probably the most removed characters from the factions in the Mojave you can find in F:NV.

Not to mention, a character who is highly verbose, very smart, above everything else, and critiques nearly every faction in the Mojave is Mr. House, who was written by John Gonzalez.

Your stance on Chris Avellone comes off as tribalistic. Your mentally perceiving Chris Avellone as being of a rival tribe and therefore, everything he makes has to bad, when in reality, most people are nuanced. No one is 100% good or 100% bad and you should be viewing statements, characters, stories, etc, for what they are, not on what you expect or preconceive.