#fallout shit post

[callmewisteria]

Arthur Maxson listened to "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" almost religiously growing up, and, though he won't admit it, every so often is heard humming to himself 'you must be swift as the coursing river with all of the strength of a great typhoon'

[xphantasmagoria]

[rogue-snorunt]

Shit posts

After the gang finds an old easy bake oven and May explains what it is, Isaac repairs it and plugs it into a generator before attempting to make dinner in it.

She tells him gently that "doesn't taste too good", mainly due to it being cooked in a 200+ yr old irradiated easy bake oven.

He quietly takes everyone's plates back while unplugging the easy bake oven. Places the plates on top, tying them to said oven before before tossing the thing into the air and using his powerfist to yeet-punch it into oblivion

(Reference to this classic cow chop moment:)

Hello...again

“Like a disgruntled cat”

[callmewisteria]

Deacon wearing a long, blonde wig that makes him look like he has Lucius Malfoy's hair now lives rent free in my head

[xphantasmagoria]

[omkdear]

There’s inconsistency *shock* around MacCready’s dialogue surrounding Lucy and Duncan but I don’t care and it is Lucy from LLl and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[omkdear]

[Once again gestures helplessly that you can be critical of a piece of media but still enjoy it.]

[omkdear]

I was talking about plot holes I'm having to plug in my fanfic, with my husband, and one of the things we talked about was how much of a set piece Boston is in Bethesda's hands. There's so much more to Boston than "ooh America". And, watching this documentary in conjunction with my readings on race relations really hammers home how frustrating it is when game designers just SHRUG their way out of reality. Which is shorthand for "predominately white and cis excuses poor writing because of "medium constraints. and "lore".

Which is the same gripe I have, albeit much smaller, when I think of the treatment my home town got in Fallout 2 by BlackIsle/Obsidian. When you reduce a place to a trope you really flatten WHY a people and a place grow the way they do and I think, from a historian's perspective, is so important to larger narrative considerations. I think that could easily have been remedied by *checks notes* even a fraction of forethought and consideration.