Fallout 3 - quick rant

Can you believe that I have only just started playing Fallout 3 but already have stuff to rant about? 

Anyway - language warning.  This starts off with a major rant.

Manual
First off, I want to say to Steam and Bethesda - FUCK YOU!

As you know, I bought and installed Fallout 3 from Steam.  Seeing as this is an RPG, the first thing I did was to go looking for the manual (normally, on the games product page on Steam, there will be a link to the games manual).  However, in the case of Fallout 3, it said that there was no manual.  I had a quick look around on my hard drive to see if the manual had been part of the download in pdf form but I couldn't find it there either.  As a caveat, this might simply be because I missed it but regardless, I couldn't find it.

Although this was annoying, I figured it wasn't a big deal and turned to the internet for help.  More specifically, I turned to replacementdocs (a great online repository and my no.1 go-to-source for game manual downloads).  Unfortunately, this is what I found.  The short version is that Bethesda won't allow the site to post any of the manuals from their games.

So in summation - I buy one of Bethesda's games from Steam and not only do I not get the manual but Bethesda seem to be going out of their way to prevent the manual from being posted online.  What a fucking bunch of bastards.

PS I do have the manual now.  In the past, it had been uploaded to Steam and all Steam did was remove the link to it without actually removing the manual.  Of course, I was only able to find this out via a google search. Considering I actually went and bought the game though, getting a copy of the manual was way more difficult than it should have been.

Quest log
The quest log in this game sucks eggs.  Minor spoilers ahead - very minor though as this is all very early on in the game.

Anyway, I have escaped the Vault and have just arrived in Megaton.  After talking to Moriarty and trying to find news of my missing father, I realise I need some bottle caps to purchase this information from him.  Naturally, rather than blindly following the obvious route of talking to the junkie who stole caps from him, I wander around town to talk to the townsfolk to see if there are any odd jobs that I can do for money (hey, it is an open world RPG!).

As I wander around talking to people, I find several possible quests.  One of the settlers is a junkie and the local doctor needs help in getting him to break the habit, the water pipes are old and broken down and need to be repaired and one of the settlers seems to be very worried about something.  None of these quests were logged in my quest book.  Furthermore, the quest book doesn't allow me to type in my own notes so I can't create my own quest notes either.

WTF?  Seriously?  Am I supposed to memorise this crap?

This is an open world RPG.  As a general rule, ALL quests should be logged into the quest log and this rule should only be broken as an exception.  Finding 3 quests which are not logged within the first 10 minutes of entering a new town is simply taking the piss.