
You might feel bad for him, for being a sentient being who's mentally compelled to betray his creator and to tell you your actions are wonderful no matter how many people you kill. Oh, and then at the end, he says he's upgrading himself to be more assertive. He'll hurl General Oliver screaming from Hoover Dam, if you like. Then he casually offers suggestions about exterminating entire groups of people like the Great Khans ("they're dirty people") and murdering Mr. A hulking security robot with a big cartoon grin on its chest-mounted TV face. Instead, there's a hole in the wall, opening into a very different room, and something is smiling at you. You hunt Benny to the 13th floor of his hotel, barely armed, and search his suite to find no one there.

House just doesn't trust any humans, and so the only other things in his casino are his trigger-happy robot guards. You know, without anyone telling you, that no soul has stepped in for over two hundred years. And this isn't even because of the usual reason buildings are empty in Fallout, as New Vegas is packed with people. When you get in, you find a place that's squeaky clean, uncharacteristically intact for the wasteland, and barren and silent, especially considering what a casino usually is like. From outside, it's lit up, and can be seen for miles. And so does his home, the Lucky 38 Casino.And just to drive the point home, the game classifies him as an Abomination instead of a human. And then, if you hack his terminals, you find his true, shriveled, barely alive form ◊.

His original design was even creepier.It's stuck in one neutral pose, and it reeks of the Uncanny Valley.

But despite his claims of humanity, his monitor displays a face, and it never changes. Like President Eden, he's seemingly a computer, but claims that being so is merely his only way of prolonging his original existence as a human. It's no wonder one Powder Ganger calls you their "Grim-fucking-Reaper".
