#hubologists

[dotssu3]

happy little fallout critters

[artbyblastweave]

The thing about the Hubologists in Fallout is that they've never been particularly well-integrated into the setting from a worldbuilding perspective; they were introduced in Fallout 2 as a very 90s-flavored swipe at the topical punching bag that was Scientology, one of many ways in which that game was much more about 1990s culture than 1950s culture. In Fallout 4 they're just kind of there, and they're depicted as terminally collectively out-to-lunch in a way that heads off any analysis of how sinister and robust of a power structure the referent organization is.

But the thing is that they do very thoroughly belong in the setting in some form, because if you're going to set a game in the ruins of the just-below-the-surface insanity of mid-century Americana, you can't not talk about the Scientologists, about the cults and the rest of the new-wave woo. You can't not talk about Jack "Rocket-Wizard" Parsons. You can't not talk about America's centuries-long track-record of spawning wackadoodle religious movements and doomsday cults in the face of social upheaval. They somehow wrote an entire DLC about Mormons without touching on that subtext once, so it would be nice if the Hubologists could be leveraged for a do-over.

[r2x2]

Fallout headcanon

Cooper Howard once acted in a sci-fi movie based on the works of Dick Hubbell, a sci-fi writer who founded Hubology (The Fallout universe's parody of Scientology).

The Hubologists still exist post-War. Imagine if Cooper meets one, hears about their religion, and realizes it's just the plot of one of his old movies.

[thefalloutwiki]

Pictured: The ESS Quetzel, a spaceship owned by the Hubologists in Fallout 2.

You can read more about it here

[thewookieruns]

I just love how nonchalantly he's sitting in the chair. Nuka-world is kinda getting to Captain Richardson, it looks like.

[pallegina]

BIRTHDAY ???????????????

DAY OF MINE BIRTH

[roseredpoison]

MacCready: Unless you’re collecting junk, you might want to skip this part.

Me: *turns my character around to see him sneaking over to a garbage can*

Me:

MacCready:

Me:

MacCready: *stands up super quick* What.

[spockvarietyhour]

Nov-Dec:

1. Skeletal Synths, I like em, I like to seem em explode.

2, 3. NIRA, cute.

4. Fallout 4 sure upped the Bathroom Antics

5. This synth in the background is giving me the creepiest face

6-8: Hubologists, which I covered here, and definitely tried to warn that their magic carpet ride wouldn’t end well. They all died so I guess I’m the head of Hubology now

9. Protectrons playing roles are always cute. I mean I just shot my way through most of his quest but he doesn’t need to know that.

10. FUN