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my reshade preset

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i eventually proved that the first event happened in the early 2060s, because that's when the asylum closed. wild

wait... the moth cult arrived at the mine on the very eve of the war... charles had his revelation on October 22... which means the First Priestess's group, who were lurking at the mine before the war... weren't moth cult... OHHH

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my main theory is still that this is a cinematic parallel to the jars in the interloper's lair & signifies that they deliberately left jeff behind because he was obnoxious and physically sticky

jeff's apartment is strewn with whole jars of sugar, which he presumably ate either with a spoon or his hands

that's so specific and funny. what a perfect weirdo

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My piece for @falloutghoulzine ☢️ Camp Searchlight ☢️ It’s one of my favourite locations so I wanted to do a piece that included a bunch the fun landmarks throughout the town!

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Cover and selected photos from the January, 1967 issue of Ebony, featuring Nichelle Nichols on the set of Star Trek.

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If you're in the need for some kind of magical artifact of magic for your setting, consider Fresnel Lenses which are used in lighthouses:

These things are Alive.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 18, 1908

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beautiful subject beautiful envirornment

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I'm sure this sounds stupid but why are you tagging fallout show things Pet Shop Boys? What's psb in fallout context? All I can think other than Pet Shop Boys is "Player Spell Book"

no stupid questions here. i started tagging it that way from the first Please Stand By teaser and i never changed the tag

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i liked how the show introduced the enclave by cutting to a scientist casually putting a puppy in an oven. im glad enclave fans have to live w that forever

#animal death t #psb #enclave

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once chatted for a while with a self-declared atom worshipper as a novelty and he eventually mentioned that the atom lore spoke to him because he wanted to pray directly to the power of his son's chemotherapy

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Sole: Not with voice lines, if that's what you mean. [10:33 PM]They do speak, quite often actually. [10:33 PM]They had this really cool feature of having audible whir clicks when they spoke. [10:34 PM]So it felt like every time they said something, that they were processing a punch card and then spitting out what it said.

ah. yeah that sounds right. i'll have to see if they were british coded in any way yet. thanks for your expertise

huh. just realized mr handies dont talk in pre-beth lore. far as i can recall

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the idea that victor has to be based on vegas vic in-universe is odd. i dont see why that is an implication worth preserving or getting mad about.

i had never considered this post-war subversive political agent might diegetically be based on a specific sign from the old world. it's possible but is it really additive

open to being wrong but i dont see it

#vagueing a different thread i saw

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ok yea but. it would make a sense on every axis i can see.

some or all of mr house's securitrons were based on brainscans and voices from pre-War actors, that was always a thing. vic has an actor who is unspecified, & specifying this does not actually alter his context. the two speak very similarly. this would also be congruous w the show's revelation about mr handies

it's also not necessary or additive that vic be based on vegas vic in-universe, nor is this idea mutually exclusive with that one

i think there is a near-zero danger of this coming up in the show and i think it seems like a fine idea at a glance

does anyone have a particular reason this is bad other than the show being cringe? and is the show really creatively worse than fallout 4

no disrespect just talking video games lore

no we fucking don't

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So, I saw an interview with the show’s writers and it gave me a lot of thoughts regarding fallout, narrative themes, and colonialism.

First off, I consider myself pretty misanthropic, but even I know “people are evil and innately bad and destructive” isn’t the theme of fallout. That’s doing a lot to lift the blame off of American imperialism and how *that* is the great evil the series warns us about, not “everyone is like this”. The first game opens with us seeing American soldiers executing prisoners of war as America annexes Canada to take petroleum and uranium: it’s clearly about American evil and military/imperial evil, not something innate to all people.

Second, fallout is unique *because* you see “civilization” in a post-apocalyptic setting. Tim Cain has a quote about fallout 1 where he said “my concern in this story is the ethics of life in the aftermath of nuclear war, not building a better laser gun”, and that’s pretty central to fallout. Rather than stagnating, it tries to show us how life would adapt and move on from the apocalypse. The world will change, yes, but it will change in that the apocalypse will become more distant. The future won’t look much like the day the bombs dropped.

Third, what a colonial view to have! “Where’s civilization? Where’s *everything*?” is what you got from westerns? You think railroads and churches being built in recently stolen territory (as is common in Wild West stories) is “civilization”? Wanna tell us what you think America was pre-colonization, Wagner?

It shows this perspective that doesn’t truly want to admit the flaws of America, either willfully or (more likely) due to ignorance. It’s a sheltered perspective, one that doesn’t know history, one that doesn’t know other cultures, one that doesn’t even know the themes of the story it’s writing for…

Edit: this next quote doesn’t have anything to do with those points, it just feels wrong to me to write so spitefully for a series…

#very well expressed. i personally really liked the decision to destroy shady but it was for misguided and gross reasons #& im not worried about the last thing yet. reddit fallout communities are godawful. who knows what that might allude to. unclear omen