Fallout 3 at least has a context: nuclear apocalypse. And New Vegas is in a sparse desert.

Every other FPS going with shit brown as a theme, like an entire generation of Call of Duty games.

I could see Quark learning it. He lives in the federation, and fluency is good for business. Probably a RoA to that effect.

70k is literally poverty wages in SF. The poverty line is like 80k for singles and 118k for families.