I cannot and likely will not be able to ay this enough times in my life....
If you want to make friends, start playing fallout 76.
This is not a fucking drill. Every damn time I come back to this game, whether it be with a fresh faced character or a fleshed out well leveled character, I come across a whole array of people. Fallout 76 has one of the friendliest, kindest and most welcoming communities on the planet. So many of the friends I've made in my ventures of that game have become lifelong friends that I frequently message or otherwise speak to from around the world.
Tonight was no exception to that rule. Tonight it was some banter, coming across someone I had seen yesterday in the same server. This time I turned my mic on and within half an hour I was gifted a weapon, ammo, went on some adventures and got to know some random guy I otherwise would have never spoken to. Truth be told, he was a really nice guy! It's small gestures we are told that go a long way and this damn game is a constant steady source of all the right chemicals in the brain when you have the sudden wave of bravery to speak.
Couldn't recommend it enough. Fallout, I'm sorry your launch almost stuck a wrench in the whole project, but I am soo not sorry for what a beautiful mess has been made of you since.
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Fallout TV Show
9.5/10
Okay ! so i absolutely love and adore this fucking show! i shouldn’t have high expectations when people try to do shows based off something else. simply because we get a lot of shitty remakes and stuff like that. deathnote & fnaf are great examples. but i still can’t help but be overly excited for anything like that being announced!
i found out about the show being made while it was still in its early development and it wasn’t even properly announced. for awhile i didn’t think it was real until this year. and i have been so fucking patient while waiting for this fucking show. and my god was it worth the fucking wait. so in this review imma be going over the horror, lore, set designs, characters, and small details, but first, a little backstory on fallout it’s self.
fallout started as a video game that first came out back in october 10th, 1997. due to it’s popularity and it being the first of its time, they continued to make a second game, and then a third, and a fourth, a fifth, and sixth game. we have fallout 1-4 + New Vegas & 76.
fallout takes place in a post apocalyptic world, about 200 years after a nuclear blast wiped out the surface of the earth. i say surface because there were vaults made by vault-tec. there are hundreds of different vaults across america, all made to keep the rich & privileged alive after the bombs fell. each game follows their own separate story line but it all takes place in the same universe, just at different times. this leaves us to have a bunch of different backstories and ideas. this is also why i wasn’t mad at the show for not following a story line like in a video game.
now, onto reviewing the show. to start off! the small details continued to make me so happy throughout the whole show. they got the comics, brands, vault doors, the vault, fridges, containers, the plants, the drugs, the weapons, EVEN THE WEAPON SOUNDS- THEY PUT THEIR TIME AND EFFORT INTO THIS SHOW FOR THE SMALL DETAILS- IT LITERALLY HAD ME TWEAKING THE WHOLE TIME. THE PIP BOYS, THE TERMINALS- THEY WERE LITERALLY EXACTLY LIKE THE GAME.
okay- the sets. god where the fuck do i begin? the vaults in the show are literally perfect. down to a fucking T. those sets could not have been cheap because of fucking uncanny they are to the fucking game. the cities, the wasteland, the iconic red rocket gas station, just everything was so perfect and it makes me sob. small details in shit that i absolutely love will always have my heart.
this shit is so fallout lore accurate it makes me cream like 30 pairs of panties. the only lore that wasn’t in the games was the ghoul lore. in the games, there’s no explanation for why some ghouls are feral and why some aren’t. in the show, non feral ghouls drank some kind of thing and it kept them from going feral. i don’t know what that’s about but it’s alright. OTHERWISE EVERYTHING ELSE? AHHHHHHHHHHHH.
we also got some new fucking lore and i’ve BEEN CRAVING IT- we got more vault tec lore! in the games, they’re this innocent yet shady company that sold vaults and adverted them as safe spaces for when the world ends bc ties with china we’re getting strained. at least that’s what we’re led to believe cuz it’s heavily implied. but in the show, we have one of the workers of vault tec suggesting they drop the bombs themselves. it’s still yet to be confirmed. EITHER WAY- WE LEARNED WHY MOST OF THE VAULTS HAD DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS!
i was so happy to finally get some answers. now, cosmic horror has always been heavy in the fallout franchise. it has always been a dark game with dark backstories and choices. hell you can sell a kid into child labor for a funny hat. vaults that you can explore has always been a big thing in the games. if you explore some of the vaults across the map, you will see just how fucked some of them are. bodies, skeletons, journal entries, blood, a d just gore everywhere in these vaults can be seen. it’s something fallout has never shied away from.
they carried that to the show perfectly. they show you three other vaults in the show and they’re all so fucked in their own ways. it’s so fucking amazing and mesmerizing to see it on the big screen. i love that they take big and small aspects and make sure to get it all in the show. everything felt like fallout.
now, the characters. they all perfectly fell into their roles and absolutely ate it up. especially the ghoul. i absolutely love his role and character. he did such an amazing job and he fit so well in the fallout universe. ALL OF THR CHARACTERS DID- jesus fuck i can’t tell you how literally everything felt like fallout. they actually made a perfect show to such an amazing franchise. it means the world to me and i treasure it. i need season two and soon. i need answers and more content.
anyways, i’m ending this by saying that i would boot ride cooper’s boot.
(note: i wrote this review at like 11pm and i was so tired so its not proof read and it may not make sense. long story short, it made me cream cuz it was so good)
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