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Kicking my feet in the air thinkin’ bout Fallout

[kkdeer]

Howdy! You can call me Jane. I'm not super active and I mostly post fallout.

[kkdeer]

Fallout OC week Day 4 - Favorite Weapon/Patching Up

Been wanting to do @falloutocweek but I have not had the energy after work. So I’m posting a day late.

Anyway Charlie is a big hunting rifle fan, it reminds her of her bb gun and it lets her hide & snipe instead of getting directly into confrontations. She’s very sentimental and refuses to replace things, so her gun is held together by duct tape and spite.

I have not drawn with my finger on my phone in probably genuinely 8 years and it did weird things to my art style. Whatever.

[kkdeer]

I appreciate that Charon does this anywhere and everywhere. Consistent king.

[petezone]

my favorite part of fallout new vegas is the boomers. this absolutely psychotic group of people who live in the desert and bomb the everloving shit out of anyone who poses the smallest threat to their secluded military "homeland". best part of their quest is when you go into a museum and there's this ten year old kid who's like "I am the keeper of the story" and when you ask what the story is he goes on this deranged rant about how everyone outside their community is a "savage" that needs to be killed immediately and how there's this prophecy that says they're going to fix up an aircraft and destroy the mojave desert. fucking love these weird freaks

[kkdeer]

Just killed a man in his own casino, feeling good.

[kkdeer]

Drawing that spawned because I thought the lighting on a pinterest pic was cool

[kkdeer]

I am in camp James was not a bad dad.

[kkdeer]

@kittykittyredcat I think @/tinytorchlight did a better job explaining than I can, but I will try:

I’m not saying he’s perfect, but I do not believe James is a bad father by any means.

Honestly a fair amount of James’ issues are game-level issues. James is kind of smothered by a bunch of content being crammed into a short period of time. You have to look deeper than “well he doesn’t react to x or y,” because most of the time you can’t actually properly tell him about it. This exists with so many situations throughout the game, it’s not exclusive to James by any means.

Should he have told the Lone Wanderer he was leaving? He was likely concerned the Lone Wanderer would try to follow him outside, and he’s very clearly trying to give his kid a better life than they get outside. In the vault you have comfort, clean food, modern medicine, a normal career, and most importantly, safety. It’s unreasonable to blame him for any of the events of Escape!. Vault 101 had opened many times before, of course he’d expect that he could just slip out and the Overseer would get over it, in, like, a day. There was no indication that he’d start killing people.

I’ve seen the claim he’s neglectful of the Lone Wanderer, but I don’t see a case for that? Every snapshot we see of him (primarily the growing up scenes/timeskips), he’s being an attentive parent and trying to raise his kid with strong morals & values. Yes, he works, like everyone else in the vault? He’s a single parent and he has to work, I don’t know what’s expected here. Once you get back to Rivet City he does get tunnel vision, yes, but that’s because he’s alive for all of a few minutes after that. Like, he dies before we even see what he’d do next. (and everything’s a bit rushed and weird here for game pacing/mechanics anyway).

Every overarching point of James’ character shows he strives to keep the Lone Wanderer safe. The moment Catherine died he dropped his life’s work to go raise his child away from the hell of the wasteland. If you walk back to Rivet City with him from Vault 112, there’s a lot of dialogue where he laments the Lone Wanderer having to be out in the wastes. He left his kid in the vault to keep them safe. However he still feels like it’s his responsibility to give the wasteland clean water. And I mean, he was kinda right. If not for him and his kid, nobody would’ve done it. They’d just left the purifier rot to for 20 years.

[tinytorchlight]

@kittykittyredcat ok i could honestly write a whole essay about this but i'll try to keep it succinct: in every scene in the opening, james seems to genuinely love and care for the lone wanderer. trying to instill good values in them, making sure their mother is still a part of their life, spending months planning their birthday party and fixing up their gift, and encouraging them to be their best self. and if you have a good ear, the transition dialogue paints an even clearer picture of an attentive parent. the insistence that all of this is performative or obligatory is, to me, pure cynicism, and i guess i'm just not that cynical.

leaving the vault: i truly do not think james should have expected the overseer to go berserk. overbearing bully is one thing, jumping straight to murdering your residents is another. lest we forget: james was not the first person to escape. moriarty and moira both talk about their encounters with escapees, moira specifying that at least one of them was in the lone wanderer's lifetime, and presumably, no one died. should he have told the lone wanderer his plans? maybe, but he really thought not doing so would keep them safe, and as he said, that's all he's ever wanted for them.

project purity: people often act like he left to go build a golden statue of himself. bringing clean water to the wasteland is genuinely important, and clearly no one else is going to do it. does he get tunnel vision? absolutely. but i don't think this alone is enough to deem him a "terrible father." and as for his lack of reaction to jonas' death and everything else that happened in the vault: you can't even tell him. he can't react to information he doesn't have. not sure why people pin this on him as a character?

and of course, obligatory megaton line: this is not a james problem. not a single character has an actual appropriate reaction to an entire town being blown up, especially not the characters who live there.

[kkdeer]

I am in camp James was not a bad dad.

[kkdeer]

Falloutober day 1: Eden

This is how the intelligence dialogue to convince Eden to self-destruct feels.

[kkdeer]

I finally bothered to set up TTW so I could properly mod Fallout 3, now I’m back on my Fallout obsession. Have some out of context Lone Wanderer.

[kkdeer]

I love Codsworth’s little bowler hat what a silly little guy

(New username because I didn’t like my old one)

[kkdeer]

Courier Six: Hey you seen a little weasel man in a checkered suit? He shot me and now I’m pissed and I wanna kill him.

Faction Leader: You seem like a very stable and functional individual, have you ever considered making major decisions that would impact literally everyone?

[kkdeer]

Oops I disappeared for like 4 months—

anyway

[kkdeer]

The night watch

[kkdeer]

Was testing out some new photoshop brushes, so this is kinda rough looking.

[chaosintheavenue]

What’s the best/weirdest/funniest glitch you’ve ever had in a Fallout game?

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