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"I can hardly believe a place like this actually exists. I don’t even feel the urge to clean." - Codsworth

Hello.

This is </null>. They woke up one day in a strange white place with a man in a lab coat and a child. Then they found themselves awake in a place called home. The robot knew them. They had memories of the place. The robot is very nice. It knew the spouse and child. They love the spouse and child. The memories know. The robot knows, too.

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Hello.

First off: this is my Survival playthrough I have going on concurrently to my Sizzel game. Sizzel has about 2 days on it, so sometimes I step away. Plus I was monumentally let down when I tried to go rogue on the landing of the Overboss' dorm room or whatever it's called. Did you know no one gets hostile... unless you shoot Gage? I hate this game sometimes.

Second: I play my Survival save in black and white. I think of it as a much more engaging and dramatic experience.

Now. Let's talk about one of my favorite things to talk about: the number of heavy-handed changes I've made to the game mechanics to play exactly the way I wanted to.

I've made it so that the damage values across the game are increased extremely high, and that both the damage ideal and the damage deal to me are multiplied by 4. That has seemed to lead to a nice balance where attacks take a reasonably realistic number of hits to take someone down, usually in the one range. I also downloaded a mod that I need to remember the name of, next time I open the thing I'll try and take a look, but it completely rebalances headshots so that they are always lethal so long as the caliber of the weapon is proportionally powerful enough for the size of the creature.

So as you can imagine, any firefight I get engaged in is a really short fast tussle, and leads to some absolutely ridiculously engaging moments. Cracking off with a pipe and watching a super mutant slowly fall backwards, only to sprint in the other direction out of fear as several hounds sprint towards me. I use the same cocktail of mods for my non-survival playthrough as well, but on the survival difficulty the lack of fast travel and the additional impact of body health simulation systems lends itself to the hyperlethal game mode I've cultivated. I also downloaded Bastion, a mod that rebalances power armor, but I haven't really used any yet, so I'm waiting to review. I'm excited because it makes it so all damage taken is zero until the air breaks, then whatever area broke off becomes a weak point.

Additional mods I would love to get: I watched a video where somebody said that on survival difficulty you should be able to fast travel from a settlement to another settlement that is connected by a supply route. I thought that was brilliant, and I agree. Crafting: way more recipes, way better interface. I've finally drained all the affection I have for the default HUD, but FallHUD requires compatibility patches, and I don't even know any other mods.

Also, I know there's a voice pitch modulator mod: I'd love if Sizzel and </null> sounded different.

Oh </null> has no name because they're a synth and Father is a quack, so the value in their brain for name is empty. Hence... </null>.

In my heart both characters exist in the same game, but alas, nobody cares, and so, I can't.

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veryflirtytransportalate · 7 days

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I have made fistfuls of progress! I met the Railroad, I got that thing Virgil asked for, and Preston is still waiting on me to get back to him about those guys I helped, which I will totally eventually do. Yup, things are really clicking into place for ol' Sizzel, so it was time to upgrade the banner.

I think people are starting to recognize that my allegiances lie predominantly with the Minutemen, but no one has as of yet ascertained that the Preston Patrol are a cover for my dreams of total economic domination. Everything I purchase, I purchase with hundreds of bottles of purified water, and nobody seems to mind that weird metallic aftertaste.

I have yet to meet The Institute everyone speaks so fondly about, although I'm practicing for when I do: I've been going to Nuka-World and swallowing the intense desire to remove everyone in the entire vicinity from existence. I imagine these skills are going to come in handy whenever somebody at the Institute becomes so stupid that they think they can enlist me into their dumb operation. Literally every organization I run into does it at some point... except for Diamond City where I should be mayor, godfunkingdammit. I'm 99% sure that both Nuka-World and the Institute will fall by my hand, but I'm willing to let it play out a little bit.

Deacon is embarrassing to be around. Not that I'm not, but, he is. I have to admit, I sort of enjoy his jovial attitude and desire to method act a spy thriller. That's at least less embarrassing than role playing as knock off Batman, and I spent like three days doing that. Respect, Deacon.

(My rambling thoughts about the Railroad and how I'd rewrite everything below, including how Tinker Tom would be a Minuteman.)

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I usually ramble and rewrite the game below the cut anyway, but today is especially rambly, and especially rewrite-y. Also FUNK the Tumblr app, making me post this at 9 AM when it was SCHEDULED for 3:30 PM. 😤👿😤

The second thing I hate is the hands on the synth in the first picture, I had absolutely no idea, but without access to software there was nothing I could do about it. C'est la vie.

I've recently been playing a lot of my second save, which is a Survival run that I play entirely in black and white, so expect to see pictures of that in the future. I don't think anybody reads any of this part, so if you are, you get a little preview, as my thank you for reading the part where I just ramble about whatever I want and I don't have to commit to any kind of storytelling.

I don't dislike Deacon as much as I dislike McGravy but I don't like Deacon all that much either. I do appreciate that he is injecting some much-needed levity into the proceedings. The waste land is an absolute hellscape, and this dude just straight up didn't get the memo. He was written and voice acted and directed and animated to be the wacky one. I feel like a lot of people in the Fallout 4 development team thought they were making "the wacky one", unaware that many of their co-workers were also making, "the wacky one". I don't understand the Railroad at all, they have this dramatic the lights turn on and they're all wielding high-powered weaponry moment, like out of an anime, but this should have been the one faction that they treated with the most severity. Considering the real world connection that they're trying to make here? This would have been the perfect place to juxtapose thoughtful realism with the bombastic and horrifying world, not the place to introduce somebody surreal and comedic like Tinker Tom. Tinker Tom should have been a Concord/Sanctuary person, especially because Sturges has this flipped up hair cocky attitude situation going on, and that's basically what Deacon, Glory, and Desdemona eat, drink, and breathe.

I'm just kind of freeballing this right now but: I don't know if the characters are all that much bad as they are misplaced. Let's do some dramatis personae rearranging. Mama Murphy should totally be in Goodneighbor. Absolutely ridiculous that Goodneighbor does not have all of the super fun-loving wacky chem affiliated weirdos, and Mama Murphy is a textbook wandering oracle stereotype with a white wash, she'd fit in great there.

Swap Tinker Tom and Sturgis. I haven't considered that fully but that just seems like one too many mechanical people since we want TT in the Minutemen, and I think Tinker Tom should take the role of the wacky one that Mama Murphy was filling in the Concord/Sanctuary group. Imagine that Preston is trying to be serious and solve the problem but that gets undercut when Tinker Tom has a solution that actually would be very helpful and is well considered, but is rooted in this ridiculous technological background that nobody else can follow and unless he can teach everybody advanced engineering really fast this might not be the best plan ever. You ever see the new She-Ra? Entrapta and Adora. I can't think of any other examples at this moment, but I think dramatically the broad and overall heroic goals of the Minutemen provide a more cohesive framework for slightly more exaggerated or expressive characters, and the Railroad should have been a faction that presented a straightforward and grounded objective and methodology.

This is fun, I'm going to keep going, but I can't stress how winged this is, I'm not even going to spell check this, so if you've made it this far, congratulations, you've seen the breakdown of all logic for me at this point.

Dr Li was really humanity focused in Fallout 3*, so her joining The Institute doesn't make any sense to me. She bangs on the doors of the whatever building to get in, she advocates for saving an individual who is a detriment to the survival of the group, and she does so in a, "I will not be accepting contrary suggestions because this is how we're doing it," kind of way. Like she wouldn't hear that the Institute are boogeyman? That she what, got kidnapped by them and just rolled with it like Sean did? Ridiculous. And all of the questions raised by this plot thread aren't fun, and wouldn't be fun to explore and answer. I would take Dr. Li and have her start off in Diamond City, at that same science school place where the girlfriends are. And just like before she can get recruited into the Brotherhood of Steel, and just like in the base game, it will be extremely disappointing that you can't recruit her to any faction that you want.

You know what this isn't even related to switching anybody but I would also rewrite it that instead of having the courser go after a synth that we've never heard of and will never hear from again while we fight gunners to get to them, the courser should have been targeting a synth super mutant at the top of the tower because it would have been a nice storytelling moment where we see that the Institute is aware that Virgil looks like a super mutant now and is taking active efforts to deduce where he has escaped to, and also validates Virgil trusting us, a stranger, because he can see the writing on the wall that is hiding strategy isn't going to work forever, and would have also tied in that big tower where Strong is located, and like Faux (sp??) in Fallout 3, we'd be able to collect a companion if we wanted to while on the critical story path, which is always really fun, and also it would dramatically escalate the stakes because you would see that the Institute is not just replacing people in communities with synths, but that they have started to place agents in positions within super mutant communities in the area as well, which is equal parts disgusting because the Institute villainizes super mutants as subhuman, but also terrifying because it truly represents that the Institute can get a version of anyone anywhere at any time, and also there should have been random events where the Institute sends a one-to-one clone of the player to kill the player, I don't know if that happens maybe it happens later in the game and I just never got to it, okay my fiance just came home with quesadillas and nachos and said I'm allowed to have some I'm going downstairs goodbye.

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*I'm coming back later to say that I was watching a video and somebody was describing a theory about Catherine from point lookout being Catherine the mom, and they listed some of the things Dr Lee had done, including driving Pinkerton into hiding, not being willing to cooperate with the Brotherhood of Steel at all, and argued that she was a narcissist. I could sort of see the logic in their argument, that she had a pattern of non-cooperation and that cooperation required that she be placed in a high level position, but I just don't know if I agree that that behavior wasn't in some ways justifiable. I would need to do more digging into who Pinkerton was in Fallout 3 to know whether or not it was justifiable that she didn't want to work with him, but at the same time, regardless of his involvement, she's a high-level administrator by trade, it seems to be what she excels at. I would believe if she was saying no, this is not a format of work that I really consent to or feel like I can thrive under, and her departure from the Brotherhood of Steel had more to do with organizational differences, which makes sense because they're an extremely militaristic and self-aggrandizing organization, I remember starting the DLC for the first time, broken steel, and being somewhat surprised at the total control the Brotherhood of Steel took over project purity. But that's exactly what they do, is exert control over these kinds of technological programs. Lots of people have an objection to that aspect of the brotherhood, so why be so judgmental over Dr Lee if she had the same impression and chose to withdraw her participation, knowing that the Brotherhood was committed to the free distribution of this resource, which was her ultimate goal in the first place! Complicated, very complicated, and if nothing else I wanted to make clear that my original assessment of her felt somewhat oversimplified after learning more about her. Also I wrote this entire thing using voice to text, because I was busy doing dishes, so if it doesn't make sense in certain parts, I hope you can deduce what I'm trying to say, because I don't have time to go back and fix it.

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veryflirtytransportalate · 11 days

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Spooky! My life at the moment is busy in the way that a train roaring along the edge of a cliff, two wheels in the air as the entire locomotive all but hurls itself off it's tracks, passengers screaming*. I didn't wanna let a bunch of days go by without something so... here we are. Some pictures with a sort of vague theme. Or perhaps... a menacingly vague theme.

Lots of spooky cabins in Boston. Top one, that's uh... a good one. Bottom one is, good, too. I'm sure they have names.

And yeah, you know, sometimes, it's a spooky day. Lots of, woah, and, hey, and, what's that, and, don't scare me, and, I almost shot you, and, lemme stimpack you and stop screaming and what the funk was that and zoinks or whatever and stuff like that.

*...is busy.

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I hate being busy. I will be back. Enjoy bugs killing raiders in the dark.

Me from the future here, I was seriously really ridiculously busy, y'all are lucky you got anything at all. Anyway I'm just here to make the button that goes previous actually work, I forgot to do that all the time. Also it broke and me from the future future is here fixing it now.

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veryflirtytransportalate · 11 days

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I just want to be clear here, as a vocal proponent of the "Fallout is Truly Awful but used to be Actually Kinda Good" line of thinking:

Fallout 1 was Actually Kinda Good.

Fallout 2 was Kinda Bad, but Very Charming.

Fallout Tactics was Bad, but Interesting.

Fallout Brotherhood of Steel was Truly Awful.

Fallout 3 was Bad, but Interesting.

Fallout New Vegas was Actually Kinda Good.

Fallout 4 was Kinda Bad, but Very Charming.

The games, taken as artistic wholes, vary in quality all over the place, and the old ones are not flawless titans but worthwhile comparisons to the modern entries.

The QUALITY OF WRITING in Fallout has been a straight shot down, by comparison. Now that's whats written on the side of my soap box. Fallout 1 tried for something, Fallout 2 riffed on that try but got wacky with it, and everything thereafter is best summed up by, well:

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veryflirtytransportalate · 15 days

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THESILVERSHROUD

"The Commonwealth will tremble before the might of the Silver Shroud." - The Silver Shroud, but actually just Sizzel

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It started with a ghoul. A kid. A radio.

Next thing I know I got a dame barking at me, legs like an advertisement, red dress screaming danger in the best way it could: "I knew you'd get yourselves in trouble," she said, eyes like daggers beneath a layer of smothering fear. Did I mention she was a woman? Yowza.

I snuffed a cigarette under my heel, another lit one already between my lips. "I am trouble." I tilted up my hat with the tip of my shishkabob. It fell off. No one said anything. "Where they got him at?"

"It's playing on the radio, oh, such a horrible looping-"

"Hey," I interrupted, "I took off my Pip-Boy to put on the costume. I ain't got radio."

"They're at the Milton General Hospital."

"...cool."

"Do you know where Fallon's Department Store is?"

"...how could I not?"

There was a pause.

"...hey ...Piper? ...hand me my Pip-Boy, will ya?" I sighed, and took out another cigarette. 200 years old, just like me, and fresh, just like me, but it's another source of death, a third similarity. The old world and the new are two sides of the same token, and the subway is here, and the conductor laughs.

The client laughed. They always do. "Need a light?"

I pulled closed the handle on my shish', the gas powered blade roaring to life as flames rippled like a wave of hungry lions. "Got one." The howl of the fire alarm drowned out the barks.

'This is... sorta just how Nick acts normally,'' I realized. I leapt without another word into the dark outside.

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First: Sizzel's signature weapon is the shishkabob. Did you know that? I keep it in a separate place to all other weapons I find, because it's her thing. It's why she's called Sizzel (in universe, again, out of universe, the name proceeded the signature). Lil' fun fact for ya'.

Second: The funking hair keeps clipping through the goddamn hat. You can see it in all those pictures, the black and white hardly hides it.

So glad to be done with this quest chain. Cause of the hat, mostly. Wish I got the bonus to damage from just the outfit and the tommy but no!

It did inspire me to open up Outfit Studio and see if I can't make some of this ship work. I know, if I'd done this before the pictures I'd have fixed the hat but I didn't realize how much the hat was destroying my soul until I saw these pictures come out so good.

A lot of things I download don't work for me: I like to make my characters kind of on the big and wide and stout side of things, but many mod creators seem to ere either on the default CBBE body shapes, or like, this model runway super super skinny look. Neither is inherently bad or wrong or evil, I'm not that whiney (I mean I am but not about this... at this moment, at least). It's not what I'm going for, though, so shoulders and upper chest and thighs always poke through, while cup sizes seem to run by default in the Double J area, and we're working with a solid A here.

Apparently Outfit Studio will let me actually augment individual outfits to better fit the body shape I have set up through Body Slide. Okay. Integration Cool. There's... not an obvious batch build function.

So this might... take a while.

See you on the other side, I guess.

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veryflirtytransportalate · 17 days

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"You know, for someone who just woke up from a 200-year nap, you're pretty easy on the eyes." - Sizzel, on the topic of... Sizzel

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Taking another off day, since I'm busy as hell, so here's some additional shots from my bunny shoot.

My attempt to steal power from the Mayor of Diamond City isn't going well. No one responded to my attempts to generate an impromptu emergency election that would allow me to oust the mayor through semi-legitimate means, so I followed up with an op-ed calling gently for rebellion. I published both of these things in the paper, and came to an awful realization.

Mayor McDonough is the only one who reads Piper's paper.

I walked around and the only article anyone talks about is the one the Mayor got up on stage and explained. I don't even think anyone read it, I think they just know what it's about from hearsay. Can they read? I mean funk, seriously no one gives a damn that I'm calling for insurrection against Diamond City authority?! I'm pretty open about how they'd be getting on the ground floor of an incredible business opportunity! No wonder everyone ignores Piper, all she talks about is reading and writing to a community of... of... what... what do any of these citizens do? Anyone but the merchants got a hobby?

New theory: literally everyone in Diamond City is a synth.

(Thoughts on the new Fallout show below the cut. I haven't seen it and also hate the plot of modern Fallouts so, uh... let's just call it high in sodium, you get me?)

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Hello! I am actually very busy.

Happy show day. I guess they moved it from a day early to two days early? I thought it was coming out in December?

I'm... trying to get excited about the show. I want to be excited about the show.

I'm...

I'm not excited about the show.

I want to care... the show is going to be well made. Amazon money? Westworld guy? Sure. Whatever. I can picture it. Great lighting. The post-processing, well blended. Sound will do that thing where it gets loud and then suddenly cuts off. Dramatic. Vault-Tec. Ghouls. Vertibirds. Power armor. Hair. Make up. Last looks. Camera. Rolling. Action. Cut.

My favorite part of what Fallout used to be was that it was a strange blend of isometric RPG with the Star-Trek approach to episodic speculative fiction, approaching real world problems through the lens of a very non-real world, and trying out approaches to complex issues of governance through that frame in a collaborative form of fiction where your actions defined your character and the world around them.

It was not to see a beautiful actor in heavy make-up with perfect hair pretend to be in a gun fight. If I wanted to see a beautiful actor in heavy make-up with perfect hair pretend to be in a gun fight, I'd just watch John Wick. Or a Star War. Or a Marvel.

I hate marketability. I hate the way in which everything has to appeal to a consumer base that has had their options for entertainment sliced away until only the Disney remains. Amazon is just nerd Disney, these days, too. I hate money. Can't wait to see Fallout cross-promoted Capital One Credit Card commercials.

But more than anything else... the writing in Fallout 4 was so bad, so without understanding of using dialogue to represent character to facilitate plot, that the entire world lost a layer of joy. We're never going to have an intelligent Deathclaw ever again: I believe, based on the general writing quality that was permitted in Fallout 4, that if they made a sentient Deathclaw it would be some big twist that it's leading a raider gang, being answered to by between one and five henchmen. Never will we have communities that look like raiders but are actually engaging with the world around them with long term objectives and goals - the way the word "raider" is used is fucked, it applies a moral justification to seeing someone and blamoing them because they had the wrong name tag on. If you met some people that you had a moral justification to un-do, it was because they began a fight with you. Misdoings were just as dire, and writing hinted at additional atrocities than we saw in the explorable maps, but you discover these things by interacting with the sprites, both in a conversation mini-game and in the primary simulational RPG layer. Sorry, but hey, get a cool raider-y FO76 skin, it's only $15. A part of me doesn't wanna see a show celebrating that.

On the other hand... it's gonna be Amazon money well constructed, and, what else am I doing with my time, I guess?

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veryflirtytransportalate · 17 days

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I made a TV bingo for the upcoming prime series.

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"I've been hearing rumors about the Minutemen coming back... as far as I'm concerned, they were nothing but dangerous vigilantes." Mayor McDonough, aka THE TARGET

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(The following op-ed was posted in the Publick Occurance, following a comment made by the Mayor of Diamond City.)

Do I look like a dangerous vigilante? I mean honestly.

Sure, the man saying this is an artificial plant, created by a clandestine network of mass murdering scienceers, who was then correctly identified as a double agent by my photographer, and sure again, I have caused a not insignificant amount of damage to the local infrastructure, ecology, population, and economy, using the Minutemen as a shield for my water and mutfruit based mass expansionism, and yet a single sure more will I grant that he has correctly identified that I have a serious hero complex and will do whatever I think acceptable without taking into consideration the feelings, motives, or even suggestions of even a single member of the entire Commonwealth population before making changes to the area that can have impacts well into the future, but is that any reason to name call, McDonough? Huh? Calling me a thing you don't like, so what, that's your game?

I'm probably going to one day application of violence Mayor McDonough but I want the world to know that I was in the right about it. Rise up! And by that I mean just let me get 'im! Open the door and look away for five minutes! WE THE PEOPLE! FORESCORE! LET ME DO IT!

Sexily yours, Sizzel Owner/Proprietor of "Sizz'el's Water and Mutfruit Emporium" (NOW HIRING!)

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I have to update my little banner thing, because I found Virgil! It was boring and lame and I took zero pictures. Virgil blooooooooows as a character. Virgil says basically what I would have imagined he would say. "Look at me... I'm... A MONSTER." Dude there are like entire communities of super mutants out there why are you like this. He is also an idiot. Whatever. I only want to do more main content because I was told that it makes synths spawn the Commonwealth and that sounds cool, to be honest.

Diamond City is fine, but I found out (SPOILER OH NO) that Mayor McDonough is a synth? Is it a spoiler if Piper printed it in the newspaper? I mean come on, really? The people of Diamond City are such non-people, why did they try and represent this community like this when it's so obviously a Plutocracy, or maybe more accurately Clientelism: I'm 99% sure if the swatter guy wanted Piper's press dismantled it'd be dismantled by now.

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veryflirtytransportalate · 22 days

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"You open the closet, it's just a closet. You can never find the monster that hides inside… Not until it jumps out at you." - C. Kellogg

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Kelly Manor: A Fallout 4 Horror Mod

You may be wondering what mysteries the Kelly Manor holds. After wandering through a fog filled mire, dense with monstrous foes who's eyes loomed in the darkness, what treasures and stories hid behind those walls?

I have no funking clue, dude. I literally walked in like, three rooms, turned, and tailed it out of there. I touched a tricycle and a mansion pops into existence? Are you Drake & Joshing me here, what am I - an idiot?

Now if a bunch of zombie dogs had been outside, that's a completely different scenario.

Beautiful architecture though. Dogmeat eat crab. Very Boston.

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(More image and text fun below the cut! Check out the mod for yourself here, opens in new tab!)

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"Dogmeat, dude, back up, buddy."

I couldn't get this mod to work. I know it's weird to spotlight a mod and then... not play it, but dude, I just kept crashing, and every save file I had that interacted with the manor at all would also be really unstable.

I left it installed, with the intention that a fresh save would probably not encounter any issues going through the quest, but alas, consider this no more than a preview of what horrors await.

The visual design of the manor was top notch, I can say: the way lights highlighted important areas and items, the way the dust filtered in the air, the corridor on the bottom floor full of water, it was all really spooky without feeling like a Fallout 4 location I'd seen before! I can't wait to finally actually explore the manor... maybe with someone a little less armed to the teeth than Sizzel. The tank busting rifle she uses on Mirelurks is maybe... overkill, against a spooky ghost house.

The mod can be found on the Nexus (opens in new tab)!

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veryflirtytransportalate · 23 days

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"BRING FORTH THE GREAT SIZZEL." - Alfred Ashford (more or less)

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I'm taking a bit of a day off today, so here's some old pics I had on hand. I want to spend some time going back and adding alt text to all the pics I've uploaded, but I can't find where to do that on PC, and I'm busy busy busy at the moment anyway.

I think I look like a Resident Evil character in the top shot, I don't know about you.

(Below the cut we answer the question: what does rocket jumping in Fallout 4 look like?)

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What did you expect?

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veryflirtytransportalate · 24 days

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WELCOME TO NUKA WORLD

"Colter's dead. We've got ourselves a new Overboss."

- Porter Gage, a man who will join Colter soon

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"Thank you all for coming out this... afternoon, I think. To those who were friends of Overboss Colter, I'll give you... maybe six seconds to grieve."

"Let's talk about us. About, we. About, team raiders. I'm your new mom-dad, and our family just changed a lot, with me killing your old dad-mom. Things were said in this... bumper car ring that I don't think should define our relationship. Mostly by Colter, but I'm willing to overlook that, since he was a coward and a loser and an idiot and is now a leaky buckshot container. A little about me, then! Used to roll with the Atom Cats, big meow to all my... okay, okay, relax. I'm also the General of the Minutemen which is..."

"It's okay, I get it, this one you can laugh."

"...which is, fine. No complaints - turns out water and food are so like stupid easy to generate that only a complete idiot would do anythin... it's just easy, is all I mean. What else, what else... favorite colors are green and black and gold, or pink and yellow and blue, but not mixed, don't give me a green and gold and pink and blue thing because I'll hate it. Okay? Little hint for the gift love languageers. Least favorite tense, past perfect, get outta' here with that. And I guess the last thing I wanna say is... I am immortal, and I don't need tricks. I've smelled the breath of a deathclaw with nothing but a snub nose in my hand. You mean nothing to me. When I see your disgusting friends in the wasteland it's dirt nap on sight. Hangman's Alley? Corvega? The Combat Zone? All me. I'm not going to stop, so if that bothers you, you have ten seconds to come into this bumper car ring and make me care. Go ahead and hop in Colter's armor if you want... he's not using it."

"Sexy. Now that we're all on the same page... go run off and gossip in your little fan clubs or whatever you are. Announcer guy, please stay. I have some... criticisms, of your performance."

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"Are you sure you don't wanna come to Nuka-World? We can get novelty t-shirts and pose the skeletons funny."

I will maybe play Nuka-World. I did this first part back a while ago. I... approached fun. The Gauntlet was lame as could be. Colter was lame. I hate that everyone taunts me and never seems to recognize that I'm the biggest cause of death in the Commonwealth. I was level 34 when I got here, it's not like I didn't do things! I looked it up and Colter will comment on power armor if I brought any, he'll even comment on my vault suit if I show up in one, but says nothing about me being the General of the Minutemen, the most egregiously anti-raider faction of all time. I've never sided with raiders, and won't start now, which means there's no content for me to do, apparently.

Oh.

Anyway these pictures came out WONDERFUL. It was Jet, funny enough. The visual effect, the saturation boost, it was really great for this fight. Looks like winners do do drugs!

If you're not unjustly asking why I changed Cait to the Grognox costume it's because Nuka-Cola theme park comic cosplay group theme. Piper was supposed to be the Shroud but again, can't remove Shroud. I finished that quest today just to get that outta pockets.

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"To the world that was. Mankind shall never see its like again." - R. Boylston, October 30, 2077

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I can't get Sanctuary to stop crashing, so I did what I always do: started a new game. At first, it all clicked into place. I loaded my preset of Sizz'el, tweaked her name to Siz'zel (it's closer to how it's pronounced), and hit go. 2015 this was not. But, when I turned around from the mirror, the mod I use to skip the beginning (Another Life - Alternative Start by Xylozi, opens in new tab) wasn't working. It's trigger is hooked to the door to the bathroom, but there was no door. Just an empty doorway with a hole where the door was supposed to be. I thought to myself, "I haven't played the opening with genuine interest since... probably 2016. Will it feel any different now that I care about my protagonist? That she's someone I've traveled with, and not just a tragic stranger?"

I couldn't rewrite the entire game to not include the Lone Survivor stuff, so, in my version of events, Sizzel is a name taken by this woman. She emerged from the vault and recognized what had happened. The overgrowth. The skeletons. There was no way to know if Shaun was alive, a child, or if he had lived a long prosperous life and died very happy. It also didn't matter. There was no family, there was no home, there was no expectation to do something meaningful. Just a deluded robot and a broken crib and a useless ring.

So, she left. Eventually found her way to the other side of the world, became an Atom Cat, quit because they're cool but shallow, met Dogmeat, barely survived the first push into Boston, met Piper, wandered into Concord looking for power armor pieces, and... suddenly found herself back home. Not home. The place that stood where it used to.

So I played through the opening again, and had all that in mind, and when I got out of the cryo-chamber, I didn't move for a while. I imagined the feeling. I imagined the moment like I didn't in 2015.

She said her goodbyes through a two foot window.

...then I did get Sanctuary working again and abandoned this new playthrough.

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veryflirtytransportalate · 25 days

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hello! lmao so, i hate to ask this, but i just got a surprise shut off notice for my household’s electric in my email (i don’t handle that bill myself but my email is on the account, my mother does, i have no control over it, which leads to surprises like this). $440 needs paid by 4/1/24 or it’ll be shut off. we can request an extension of two days to 4/3/24, but it’ll still be a partial amount paid (total amount due for the bill is actually $889), enough to not shut off, and it’ll roll over into us being even more behind the next month etc etc etc. if anyone could possibly help out, with the shut off amount or overall amount since it goes to both really, that’d be appreciated! i know i’ve gotten a fair amount of help from you really generous folk before, so just some good vibes sent out would be just as welcome too. thank you!!

paypal: ironheading / Venmo: eurodynes

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VOTE ME NEW MAYOR OF DIAMOND CITY

(Please check out the full remix by JustAnotherDrummer - URANIUM FEVER, opens in new tab)

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(More pictures of my glorious campaign below the cut.)

HAPPY GOOF DAY. HAPPY HAHA DAY. HAPPY LAUGH DAY. HAPPY THE MAYOR IS A STOOGE AND I BELIEVE THAT WHICHEVER OF US CAN WIN IN A FLYING FIST FIGHT SHOULD BE GIVEN THE CROWN OF THE DIAMOND CITY AND THE FACT THAT I CANNOT PUNCH HIM IS A SIN OF THE HIGHEST AND MOST STURDY.

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO ROLEYPOLEYPLAY IF I CANNOT LAUNCH A LONG AND BORING POLITICAL CAMPAIGN THAT ENDS IN ME LOSING BY JUST A FEW VOTES AND THEN DEMANDING A RECOUNT SO I CAN BREAK INTO THE BALLOT BOX AND SLIP IN THIRTY EXTRA VOTES FOR ME AND ALSO SOME PROOF THAT THE MAYOR IS A ROBOT. PEOPLE IN OL' FOUR POINT HATE ROBOTS THAT AREN'T THE ONE ROBOT WHO WALKS AROUND BEING A ROBOT AROUND THEM.

ALSO IF YOU VOTE FOR ME I'M RENAMING DIAMOND CITY "FOUR POINT", FOR MERCHANDISING REASONS.

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Piper spit out a mutfruit seed. "Fine," she said as she stood, "Don't explain the bunny ears."

"It's for Spring!"

"But I will sniff out the truth."

"There was a holiday! And it had to do with bunnies and the son of god?"

"Who works at the Atom Cat garage, yes, and I can only imagine your reason for wanting to take your clothes off for him."

"...just take pictures."

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(My pictures and my thoughts below the cut.)

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The bunny outfit by nadriel (opens in new tab, viewer discretion advised) is the star of today's show. The screen archer menu by maximusmaxi (opens in new tab) also pulling heavy weight, too, letting me set this up with (comparative) ease. I'm not sure which pose I'm using where, but it's the most popular ones on the Nexus, if that helps!

I love bunny outfits - I've never worn one in real life (I've offered on many occasions and I just don't think it's... let's say "in hot demand"), so this is me living out a fantasy. I decided to write a little scene instead of a journal account, because I wanted to set a more intimate tone for the photos. Like, this is a fun little ritual, sure, but on another level, a 200 year old lone survivor of an armageddon would have... complicated feelings about the nature of the world post war. I find it fascinating that in some parts of Fallout we have literal Mormons, just, straight up, but in Boston it's basically just a turn of phrase that stuck around. The people at Fenwick don't even know what baseball was. Maybe some side quest or something explains, but as of yet, I am wandering an organized religion free wasteland, which is... odd.

Anyway, happy bunny day, and religion day too, if you do that. These were super difficult to do, which is why they end the week. And the bunny thing too, but if I did it on Monday it would feel like it was actually for the holiday and that feels wrong to jump into bed with, considering how much of a weirdo that religion considers me.

Also in game news no big deal but I've somehow made Sanctuary a direct crash to desktop and have no way of fixing it so this save may be unfinishable! We'll find out. Nothing big to report, again, just the primary settlement with all my stuff, instant crash, no fix, okay see you next week.

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"Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate." - Virgil... I'm told

I shrugged through the opening fields and ruins of the Glowing Sea! It was... pretty fine! I sometimes forget how utterly invincible I am with the power armor, but I also suited up a couple of people in hazmat suits to come with me and stocked up on RadAway and Rad-X. It was fun, actually - we got attacked by some weird rats that I didn't want to hurt but had to, then some feral ghouls which the entire Commonwealth community seems to deem a free space to go wild with the murder so woopie to that, and then we got to a crater full of those absolute weirdos in that cult. No, not the Brotherhood, and no, not the Enclave, and no, not the Institute, but the Adam ones. I at one point became violently ill after I spaced out standing and talking to one of them and didn't realize that my power armor wasn't doing a very good job dealing with the rads - next thing I know I'm on the floor, hyperventilating. It happens! You know how there's a culture of people stabbing each other with the Stims? I think... I think Dogmeat stabbed me to life.

Overall great trip. Terrible that this whole place is a noxious wasteland that tears through metal and PVC alike - if only some group of people with a massive collection of pre and post war technologies could come in and do some ecological work here. You know, how back in the day human beings would clean up the results of radioactive disasters? How that existed? Just spitballing here. Would be of tremendous material and political value and would profit the perpetrator massively, especially if the work force is rad resistant. Might be a good use for... maybe an endless supply of synthetic human beings or something but again just spitballing here.

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No extra pics from this photo set, actually! Usually one or two get relegated to the below the cut spot, but not today! So here's Sizz'el in a nice green dress.

The Glowing Sea was new for me! Never went before, not even once. I don't know if it's obvious from my descriptions but I kind of hate Fallout 4 - I have a very grognard-esque old school centric view of the Fallout series, but I'm also open to the idea that Fallout 4, when you wash off the blood and sweat of the crunchatized developers, executes on the mechanical experience of the Fallout games with aplomb. Someone I listened to said there are no games that are Fallout-likes, and play like the original Fallout. I think FO4, mechanically, is exactly a FO2-like, but I don't have the space to argue that here.

Anyway, Glow-C. It was an interesting outdoor dungeon design. I only did the first leg of it, out to the Crater of Atom, but I thought it was a well considered experience: players explore the first part of the Sea and perhaps realize that the biome is dangerous enough that they're going to have to come up with a plan of attack. If they push hard enough out of spite, they have a halfway-ish, one third-ish checkpoint to stop at with the crater. There, they can learn where Virgil is more specifically, fast travel out to Sanctuary, and reconsider their options. Dump junk, repair armor, etc., and enter the truly grueling part of the dungeon fully prepared.

I did actually die a couple times because of the radiation at the crater: I (surprise) downloaded a mod to increase the radioactivity of the entire Glowing Sea by... 5x? 3x? Can't remember. I think it's this mod by CrimsonKnight77 (opens in new tab) but that only affects storms. I'll come back to this. Or not. It's a game.

Anyway I was standing talking to who's-her-face who tells you Virgil's exactly GPS coordinates, got up to get a snack. I come back to find everything rewound to the beginning of the conversation and a pop-up. Why did I load? What? I hit the pop-up. I talk to the lady. I'm thinking how to respond. Suddenly, dead. Power armor just flumps to the floor. I load. I'm looking around. I see the rads. I get it.

So yeah, that got me not once, but twice. Sneaky. Gonna be a pain if I ever go out to Lost Lookout or Lookout Point or whatever the DLC is called.

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