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“We need you out of retirement for one last job.” “Who?” “Not who, but where. The Olympics, in France. You’ve always been our best shooter.”

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"Afterlife vampire dilf"

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this came to me in a vision. and it was way funnier in my head.

im so sorry. its almost 3 am. please excuse this thing.

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Here is the goggle doc on what to do! Even if you don’t need to live in New York, you can message the tourism board.

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partly inspired by my own recent adventures in real estate, partly by posts I’ve seen here discussing tangential issues, I’ve been thinking about the house in Sanctuary Hills.

on the face of it (literally the name) it’s the House of Tomorrow; it’s bright and shiny, it’s got all mod cons, not to mention that handy-dandy Vault just up the hill. it’s sometimes brought up as proof that Nate and Nora are hugely privileged for being able to afford such a fancy house; but it never really struck me as that luxurious.

a) the house itself isn’t that big; probably not much more than 70-75sq m which while only slightly below average for the UK is very small in comparison to the average US house (supposedly about 250sq m). it’s going to seem spacious to some - given my background I can attest to that - but it’s not exactly a sprawling McMansion.

b) the lack of foundations and modular structure of the houses on the estate suggest quickly, cheaply-built prefabs. the level of disrepair given the distance from the detonations and the almost pristine state of more fragile structures nearby (e.g. the trailers up by the vault) support that. and given the world we’re talking about, we can pretty much assume a lax approach to building regulations.

c) there’s almost no insulation to speak of, not that I’d expect the game to render that much detail in building materials. but those radiators we all scrap as soon as we get the workshop unlocked are tiny and often affixed to exterior walls, which given the lack of insulation would make them significantly less efficient. Sole ‘n’ Spouse may be chilling at home in short sleeves in October but when a nor'easter blows in I’m willing to bet they’d be wrapped in blankets and hugging Codsworth for warmth.

d) it’s not so hot location-wise either. this is a tiny and isolated estate of small houses about as far from the city as you can get. close to a Vault, yes, but not far from such delights as the robotics dumping ground, plus the quarry at Thicket Excavations that must have had plenty of heavy goods vehicles thundering down the roads nearby. there’s no medical facility, no school, no police station; in fact there’s not a single community-oriented building. anything like that would necessitate a trip into Concord, or further afield.

e) and on that note, the Red Rocket might well sell frozen TV dinners and maybe some individually shrink-wrapped vegetables but it’s probably a trip all the way to the Super-Duper-Mart to get… well, more frozen TV dinners, but a larger variety of them at least. might be stretching it to say it’s a food desert but it’s definitely not convenient.

and f) is for finally: just because it looks good doesn’t mean it’s expensive or unnecessary. poor people don’t automatically neglect their possessions to the point of decay. assistive devices might be expensive but they can be lifesavers. that poor people can’t have nice things and that seeking convenience is a sign of indolence is a gross fallacy.

I’m probably a) missing some details b) overthinking and c) projecting wildly due to my own background but it’s my blog, I can do what I want.

any thoughts? is your Sole slumming it in Sanctuary Hills or is it the nicest place they’ve ever seen? or do you sidestep the whole thing and have them live somewhere else entirely? I’m aware that as An English I’m not the authority on American real estate so I’d be interested to hear some other perspectives.

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Finally some good fucking news

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crawls back into my hole

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Give the wheel a spin! I tried my darndest to get as many Fallout 3, 4, New Vegas, and Fallout Prime characters as possible on here! There are 360 characters at present on the wheel. Do with this whatever you want!

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just a normal day in goodneighbor

🔊 volume warning!

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This machine kills AI

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this frame from the fallout tv show is so funny i nearly puked watching it

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App Store pop-ups keep appearing while I’m browsing tumblr. I’m not clicking on anything. if anyone else knows the awful state that internet ads are in right now, you’d know that this is extremely bad

cool

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nvm I just saved it I didn’t post it. tumblr is confusing

I posted something from my drafts and it’s not showing up where tf did it go

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this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

(it’s completely unrelated to any of my songs that have to do with “puzzleboy”) Patreon: www.patreon.com/PengoSolvent

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I posted something from my drafts and it’s not showing up where tf did it go