jane lesbo

Vault-Tec Lobbyist & Lesbian

[jane-lesbo]

I feel a deeply unexplored aspect of the Fallout universe is the Culture of the wasteland

It feels like the post nuclear society has made people lose a lot of what makes them human. There's no new art being made, no movements or aesthetics that aren't copied from whatever remnant the bombs left behind, now mangled and repurposed to serve modern sensibilities

The Kings clearly worship Elvis (and Some have even listened to him) however, that visual identity is not tied to a form of self expression, but a tribal branding that helps keep them and their people safe

In 76 there are many instruments laying around you can play with, and there can be a real sense of community behind that practice, but it's a shame that's never translated to the single player games. People in Fallout have lost the human need to express themselves artistically, they've been reduced to the very essentials in the pyramid of needs

Perhaps it's the fact that it's Hard to actually move past those basic needs, to achieve enough security to make art, but a lot of people do make art today Despite (maybe even because of) their shitty circumstances

The nukes didn't cause a nuclear winter, but it did turn the world into a snow globe. The memory of a place forever frozen in time

Nothing changes, nothing progresses; nihil novi sub sole, as they say

Also, I refuse to believe that, were the world end today, people would still be listening to Taylor Swift's Wood in 200 years

[jane-lesbo]

After checking everyone's recommendations (thanks a lot, btw) I've installed the New California and London mods and will be possibly talking about them here as well

While I was looking for them, though, I did find the site for the now-dead Nuevo México mod. It seemed like such a cool concept and I'm: sad, that we won't get to play it

[jane-lesbo]

[guy that only played New Vegas 7 years ago] they should let ME write for the Fallout show, actually

[senorpugbean]

Lesbians on wigglypaint

[calder]

i wanna balance out what i mentioned abt that legion cosplayer. (which isnt even the only negative experience ive had w a legion cosplayer)

theres a gigantic dude who hangs out in the saloon as lanius every year and he rules

the evening after that other incident, i recounted it to some ppl on the deck & this drunk great kahn gets all indignant. "uhhh whats wrong with deus vult?? why cant his cosplay say deus vult?"

so my bearded ass just says "im a woman." proud as i can

he starts literally stumbling around swinging his bottle yelling about queers and this and that and lanius steps in like "RESPECT HER." so fun. had me cackling. i teed him up and he nailed it

another kahn collects his drunk buddy and walks him into the saloon. as they leave the guy mutters something about how he wants to be in the company of straight men. is2g his companion says "i'm pansexual. we've been over this"

[stolengifts]

[thesecretuncle]

Lou “Fallout New” Bega’s hit song “Vault No. 5” is taking over the Mojave in style!

[jane-lesbo]

Courier No. 6 am I right fellas

[hiscottibiscotti]

Drawing Legionnaires as sorority girls

Because apparently I have nothing better to do

[senorpugbean]

She thought it was gonna be a walk in the park, bless her

[senorpugbean]

Can't bring your companions with you for dlcs and I know why

[senorpugbean]

This was supposed to be a thing about Veronica being the black sheep of Brotherhood but I messed it up ❤️

Quote from "le village" by Pomme

[calder]

"why can't there be a good enclave faction?? my oc is part of a good enclave faction" ok the premise of the faction is that the most powerful men in the western world sealed themselves in trillionaire bunkers, and their descendents emerged in war machines with bioweapons to exterminate everyone outside of their genetic group or die trying, because they are a eugenicist death cult

they claim to be the pre-War government. the pre-War government had death camps for chinese-americans, and filled work camps with union organizers in bomb collars.

the enclave literally play dixie on their propaganda radio without comment. they dogwhistle to Old World Racists on the surface. read the room

vault experiments are an iconic cornerstone of this setting. for all intents and purposes the enclave is vault tec. they spent millions on a concrete bunker just to lock a guy in it with a tiger when the world ended. yeah i wonder if the tiger ate the innocent man or if elsewise occurred. this is just one of their many literal monuments to sadism, abuse, and dishonesty.

sometimes their bunkers were literally led by immortal Large Language Models

oh theyre doing it to ascend mankind to the stars? oh wow thats so noble and isnt what a cult would say to justify slaughtering villages and torturing people.

"but... theyre the most patriotic faction, and i'm... i'm a patriotic fallout fan! plus... they have the legal authority!" damn boss your sympathy and loyalty are that easy to command? like a glassy-eyed kid, touching your sternum and reciting a mantra of cosmic devotion to a cloth rectangle?

at goodsprings last year i saw a guy with deus vult written on his legion chestplate and i shamed him into taking his cosplay off for the rest of the festival. took me eight words. i guess his fellow legion cosplayers were just gonna let that shit happen

fallout is about the rot, the collapse, and the mutilated remains of the imperial core. your shallow enclave/legion obsession is not clean or cute or separate from straight-up nazi nerds. if you deeply involve yourself with pretend nazi nerd shit, actual nazi nerds will start sitting with you

"i wanna be in a faction that helps americans!" make a Responders, Followers of the Apocalypse, or Minutemen character. that is the entire premise of all of those factions.

"but i also want to worship the eagle and the flag and the war god george washington while exterminating the mentally-criminal greenskins with my slave brain robots, and i don't want the video game to imply that's inherently bad!" ok stupid there are 9999 fallout fans who expressed this before you and the ip has never entertained them

because the various artists who have shaped this concept always intentionally designed the faction as basically just nazis who do not wear swastikas

if you are obsessed with rehabilitating the concept of the enclave, it is because you are so indoctrinated that you cannot accept the basic premise of a dystopian scifi setting where the american government is not a benevolent god destined to uplift humankind through torture, dominance, and genocide

For Auld Lang Syne is as far as we ever need to explore the premise of 'a good enclave' and it is ultimately one of the goofiest, ugliest, most unsuccessful premises in that game

this science fiction is about how americans are This fucking deranged. the point is proven in shallow fans who insist that the Secret Patriotic Eugenics Death Cult can still be a positive symbol.

likewise, Legion Fans who intellectually justify their death cult or wreath themselves in thin irony to rehabilitate the concept are saying as much about their ideology and national character as the satire they are failing to engage with

[jane-lesbo]

It's such a fascinating thing to genuinely see people even suggest a "pre war "government"" would hold any authority or legal power whatsoever

The old world is dead, and the American government played a major part to make that possible, they don't get to reclaim the ashes to try and salt the soil again

In that same vein, "American" as an identity is no more. There are no borders defining the country because they got blown up with everything else. There is no American People to help, because there is no American Nation. The pieces of what used to be nationality can only be found in the xenophobic and racist propaganda the Enclave itself used to spout, and only them subscribe to it because they're the only ones clinging to such labels to exert any kind of power over people

There can't be a good Enclave faction because the Enclave's purpose is to maintain the fascist ideals that caused the war to begin with, and that made existence miserable even for the ones that were allowed in vaults

[jane-lesbo]

I must confess that I've never modded any of the Fallout games

I never had the need to, as the game's content was more than enough for me already and I didn't really experience any of the crash issues most people seem to have either

But, as I run out of things to try after many years of replaying all games, I'm kind of interested in looking for fan-made stories and such

Does anyone know of any cool mods that add new stories/settings? I want playable fanfiction, basically

For any of them, btw, I own and love 'em all*

*Well idk about love them All but-

[jane-lesbo]

My fixation with Fallout has led me to want to write some fiction again, which I hadn't really done in a couple years

I'm currently at that stage where every sentence I write is terrible and ends up being deleted instantly, so that's been fun

I will keep trying, because I've seen some fics around here that are genuinely Amazing and very inspiring

'Just need to: get momentum going

[sayodoko]

[jane-lesbo]

I'm very new to Tumblr in general (which I feel is kinda obvious) and it's been nice so far. I've recently discovered the beautiful world of People-Obsessed-With-A-Random-Scrimblo and it's fascinating

You could carry on without ever seeing someone ramble about Doc Mitchell for 7 paragraphs and your life Would be worse because of it, tbh

I don't think these people necessarily choose to be obsessed with characters so ultimately mundane (for a lack of a better word), but love is often left in common places

[jane-lesbo]

So, do you guys think the inflated value of weapons in New Vegas vs Fallout 3 is an artistic choice that comes from understanding an active warzone disputed by (at least) 2 huge factions at the dawn of their biggest battle yet would lead to people seeking more and bigger guns OR ☝️ like, just balancing?

Because as far as I can tell, most food/medicine/misc stuff seems to be of the same value, so it's not like there's general inflation going on

As an additional note, Fallout 4 Does seem to suffer from quite the inflation. All goods tend to be pricier than in other games, with the exception of: weapons, weirdly enough. Weapons in 4 are even cheaper than in 3

That could mean there's less need for a weapon in the Commonwealth, or that there's an abundance of them, so they're not worth as much

Or, you know, could mean nothing. The curtains were a sort of color, etc

[sapphic-scarlet-dynast]

Beyond the fact that people getting laid off was bad obviously, it has been incredibly annoying to see gamers act as if Bethesda employees deserved it for "doing nothing for 15 years" despite them releasing multiple major releases during that time, including a brand new game that wasn't a part of their established franchises, with pretty standard development times of 3-4 years with the exception of Starfield which took longer for multiple understandable reasons. But since some of them didn't like or don't play Starfield or 76 they decided that the lay offs are awesome actually, and that ESO devs being gutted is also good despite them also actively clamoring for more Fallout and Elder Scrolls. Nevermind the fact that among the people laid off there were multiple TESVI developers, including Bethesda veterans who designed iconic parts of the series, but so many are just defending it as "Bethesda needing a push" and mocking employees being upset that the studio with one of the highest retention rates suddenly having their coworkers laid off without warning. Also the fact that so many gamers also seem to believe that the next elder scrolls will be trash anyways and "low quality and unfinished like Starfield" despite that game being the least buggy game Bethesda has released and it including mechanics that had been requested by people for years, but people just ignore that and still claim that Bethesda has just been "simplifying their games" still and demanding that more people be fired. Gamers are some of the most annoying and entitled people on earth.

[jane-lesbo]

Developer's worth as human beings is equal to the amount of enjoyment the average gamer receives from their work, and this concept has gone without interrogation for far too long

If a game is bad or mediocre, then that is a punishable offense, and as such, some truly do believe what happened here was a good thing

I don't really know how to even begin to fix this issue. I guess we start by trying to make people understand companies do not make games; human beings do

But then again, how does one really teach empathy to others?