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from 2021

#sets expression is so good #and the master is appropriately uncanny #fallout 1

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im not a ghoul fucker but i believe in their beliefs

#I was gonna point out that Harold isn’t technically a ghoul but you know what? #he’s nicer than set and none of the other og ghouls from 1 or 2 have designs so Harold it is

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harold, for a patron

patreon.com/marchery

#everyone look at Harold!!! #love the expression #harold

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I often think to myself that maybe me and the other FO fans I interact with most could totally make a fan project that’s better written than even a lot of recent canon stuff, if not through something like a total conversion mod then something a little more manageable like a visual novel…

But then I remember that back around the time Half-Life Alyx came out, I was very briefly part of a group of HL fans who wanted to make a HL-themed dating sim. And by very briefly, I mean less than a day, I recognized almost immediately that I wouldn’t be able to bring anything to the table, especially since my interest in HL is only casual. So, I suggested the title for them (String Theory) and then I bowed out of the Discord for it, intending to still follow their progress and be a beta-tester if they made it far enough into the process.

They spent the next month or couple of months announcing roles various people would have in the visual novel’s development on their blog, followed by silence. Several months later, I asked the project leader what happened, and they confirmed that arguments among themselves brought the project down, plus other factors like it being the middle of 2020.

My point is, big fan projects are really hard to make, and whatever genuine grievances we can have with many of the bigger projects that make it past the finish line, at least you can give them props for completing something.

Well, I doubt in the case of the Half-Life dating sim that they would’ve made it far anyway since the project leader was 14 years old at the time.

#fallout #half life

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Uh hey so how come the enclave scientist in the fallout show is named after a real life holocaust survivor

Like this shows up immediately when you Google the name. Literally unmissable if you do a basic search of the name. Did nobody check first or was this intentional

What the fuck

#ah but you see he’s former enclave so it’s alright 🙄 #what a shitshow

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"Bethesda/Todd Howard doesn't actually hate FNV 🙄"

They have stated the show is apparently 100% canon and they're using it to retcon the only good Fallout game to come out in decades. It wasn't even enough to ruin West Coast lore post-FNV, they're literally saying FNV never happened.

No wonder Pete Hines resigned back in October; even he thought this was stupid.

Bethesda haters stay correct. Anyone who somehow still had hope for this franchise despite the last ten years, now you can finally let go.

#why do they think 1 2 and NV fans would want to watch more of this after all the retcons like the NCR getting destroyed #most backhanded fanservice I’ve ever seen #I don’t know yet if it’s Todd influencing the writers or if there’s some huge timeline goof but either is bad

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I’m probably not gonna be posting much about the FO show, I’d rather sit it out, wait for the episodes to come out and the noise around it to die down, then check it out. Besides, I’ve absolutely swamped lately (I.e. I’ve finally been playing New Vegas for the first time).

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Felt like I was going to go crazy if I didn’t draw Set as soon as possible

#fallout fanart #thank you for your service #set

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Getting shot by your best friend and having to dig yourself out of your own grave can do things to a man.

AWOOOOGA!

Of course, the only logical thing to do after my first commission from @pirate-cashoo was to go ahead and get another one!!! So amazingly talented and really brought my vision to fruition on this OC that’s been gnawing on my brain like a worm on an apple. Thank you so very much!!! 😭🥹😍

#that’s so rad

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I have no real interest in mods aside from somewhat following the Frontier mess, but when I found out that the fairly popular old New Vegas Bounties mods included incredibly blatant references to Judge Holden and Glanton from Blood Meridian, plus a character named "Javier Sugar" who speaks several lines lifted straight from No Country for Old Men, I wanted to find out how many references to other things pop up throughout the three mods. Turns out, a LOT.

I identified some of them myself, but eventually when I realized how much time it would take for me to watch a whole playthrough or try it out myself, I decided to look up the rest on TV Tropes and put them all together in a list.

The aforementioned Judge Holden knock-off is also said to be seven-feet tall and is a child predator (though only technically implied to be in Holden's case)

The character literally named Glanton runs a group who goes around killing "tribals"

There's a character named Cormac, as in Cormac McCarthy

During the scene with "Javier Sugar", in addition to all the NCFOM quotes there's also a random quote from the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales thrown in there... to spice things up? IDK, the quote is something like "Dyin' ain't no way of livin', boy"

A character called "Harmonica" references one of the main characters of Once Upon a Time in the West

The ghoul Doc Friday references the historical figure Doc Holiday, and his revolver the Huckleberry references the famous quote from his depiction in the movie Tombstone, "I could be your huckleberry"

Marko's outfit seems to reference the character Loco from the movie The Great Silence.

The Frosthill segment of III is also lifted from The Great Silence, what with its Utah setting during the winter, the main character getting shot through the hand, and bounty hunters pretty much kill the whole town.

Aaron Flagg the cult leader seems to be inspired by Randall Flagg the Stephen King villain

The sniper Charlie Halfcocked references the U.S. Marine sniper during Vietnam, Carlos Hathcock, the previous record holder for the most kills

Tom Quigley references the movie Quigley Down Under, the titular character being played by Tom Sellick.

Enclave members Quantrill and Onoda, who keep fighting despite the Enclave's repeated defeats, are named after Confederate guerilla William Quantrill and WWII Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda, who did the same for their sides (okay, I thought that reference was pretty good)

Eileen the Fiend = serial killer Aileen Wuornos

Tony Idaho = Tony Montana from Scarface

Tommy the former Omerta enforcer who killed a made man references Tommy DeVito from Goodfellas

Alex and his gang in Freeside reference Alex DeLarge and his droogs from A Clockwork Orange

Freddie the ghoul = Freddy Krueger

Jack, former muscle for Heck Gunderson, references the villain Jack Wilson from Shane, his revolver is called "Shane's Bane"

Albert Quisling = Vidkun Quisling

Mario Barksdale = character from The Wire

Prometheus is named after the subtitle for Frankenstein: "The modern Prometheus", his Deathclaws are Mary and Shelley

Pancho Cortina = Pancho Villa

"Squirrelly" Bill Blasius references outlaw "Curly" Bill Brocius

Angel Lee is a combination of Angel Eyes from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and the actor Lee Van Cleef

Godwin, who mails out bombs, probably references Unabomber

Joe Frost = Edward Snowden

Guys fighting over treasure named Clint and Tuco

Fiend chem lab has characters Walter and Pinkman, references Breaking Bad

John Ramsey's body is put on display with a quote referencing the movie Unforgiven, "This is what happens to assassins/rangers around here".

Those are the ones that I either caught myself or saw other people list, if there's more, go ahead and add on.

Some of the historical references are kinda funny, though others are either tasteless (Aileen Wuornos) or eye-roll worthy (Carlos Hathcock = Charlie Halfcocked, GEDDIT IT'S A GUN JOKE), and the majority of the pop culture references are so blatant and so numerous that it gets annoying.

If I made my own mod or anything else, of course I too would love to stick in a bunch of references to the things I love, though I would try to be less obvious about them, put different spins on them, you know? You can't really judge mods to the same standard as the source, and I would be more forgiving if the rest of the mods didn't look like such an edgy slog.

#fallout mods #fallout new vegas #new vegas bounties

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#thank you for the Modoc rep #fallout fanart

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I intended to make a sequel to my “Michigan in Fallout” post by coming up with ideas on what people could to do for Tennessee, where I live now, but for the life of me I could not come up with anything that FNV or 76 didn’t already do.

A group of Dolly Parton and/or Johnny Cash worshippers? Too much like the Kings.

Groups fighting over the Tennessee Valley Authority (which provides power to the region)? Too much like the Hoover Dam conflict, especially since the TVA also has a dam.

Country music everywhere? Both FNV and 76 have a lot of it.

That’s all I’ve got 😭 except… Tennessee and Kentucky have a lot of caves that you could put all sorts of things in, not just Vaults. You can hold concerts in caves if they’re big enough.

It’s embarrassing how little I can think of when I’ve lived here for nearly half my life, anyone else with ideas can chip in.

#fallout

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an aesthetically true fallout show could only be accomplished through claymation actually

#quick somebody call Phil Tippett! #alternative: 90’s style CG that incorporates clay models like how they did it in the first two games

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These four things are like thematic cousins to me.

#fallout 1 #Brazil 1985 #dark city #the city of lost children #fallout meme

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First Images from “Fallout” TV series from Vanity Fair.

#where’s the NCR??? #holy crap that ghoul looks awful

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Mordecai Todd for @the-chosen-none

Thank ye again for commissioning me! o/‧₊˚ ⋅* ‧₊

#thanks for doing this for me! #love the man who laughs type grin you drew for him