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i kinda don’t get people who characterize maccready as like… secretly generous, or having a heart of gold or anything. like don’t get me wrong i don’t think he’s downright malicious or anything, but the dude is absolutely a selfish jerk once you get past the charming facade. that’s the part that’s compelling!

like, he’s nice enough and open enough with the player once you get high enough affinity with him, but his reactions to player actions still point to him being a jerk overall. the sosu just happens to be in His Circle of people he can be vulnerable with. that includes you, his son, and maybe daisy. everyone else can kick rocks, the same way it was in little lamplight

he HAD to grow up with that kind of “us vs the world, every man for himself” mentality in the capitol wasteland. doing so otherwise gets you killed or taken advantage of, which is just protracted death anyways. having grown up in a place where slavers run rampant, people are all pushing each other further down just to boost themselves up and live one more day, and it’s literally impossible to make renewable food sources because the ground is so poisoned i genuinely don’t blame him for ending up a little tight fisted. the fact that he was the mayor of little lamplight just meant that he ended up being able to accept a few people as His To Protect instead of being a total lone wolf.

the way he reacts to the players open generosity isn’t just for show, he Actually Dislikes when you give stuff away without expecting anything in return. you might need that thing and now its just gone!! that person might see you as a sucker! you give an inch and they’ll take a mile! and it makes sense for his character to be like that considering everything. i don’t get why people want to change that into him just being kind of tsundere.

i understand that having your babygirl blorbo comfort character be a canonical asshole in ways that aren’t just kinda charming can be offputting, but like…. the way he treats the sosu is a very notable exception to the rest of his life & it’s a much more interesting dynamic imo. especially if you’re playing a goody two shoes martyr. but that’s just me

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Fallout should really get more into the micro mutations that the radiation has caused. Like both with already mutated creatures and non-obvious ones.

Psykers, Night-kin, tunnelers and multiple other variants of mutated things exist so why can’t humans with other slight mutations? We know that radiation and FEV have affected how things have evolved, so it’d be really easy to say that these tribes or factions can do this cause they are slightly mutated to better fit their environment.

Perhaps Mojave people that live in very high areas have just noticeably long limbs due to all the climbing. Perhaps those who live in dark areas have larger pupils and borderline night vision. Perhaps rando NPCs that just mention having webbed hands cause their families live around water.

Like I’m not saying a bunch of new mutants or factions but just like humans who are more obviously slightly mutated.

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what da dawg doin ⁉️⁉️ 🐾🐕🐕🐕🍖🍖🍖

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idgaf if bethesda ever tells us concretely which country launched the first nuke, the only answer i will accept is the original one, the one that said "we wont tell you, because it doesnt matter. there is no moral highground in the story of the great war, and the end result for those alive today is all the same either way. those most responsible faced the fewest consequences, and no justice was served. there is no justifiable way to nuke anyone, no matter who struck first. everyone lost and thats the very nature of war and always has been. war is evil, and in that way, war never changes"

not broadcasting who was "really to blame" is purposeful, and any other answer would undercut fallout's core identity to me

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Don't take this lying down! Fuck Tumblr feeding AI our posts. Opt-out now! Leave them nothing to work with.

On mobile it's under visibility settings. On browser it's under blog settings. I opted out on browser and I had to do it for each side blog individually. I'm assuming it's the same on mobile.

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Animal Crossing: New Vegas


Meet your new neighbors! (Inspired by radiation’s take on this from a while back)

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Me knowing full well the kind of hold this man will have on me when April comes around:

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"Fallout new vegas is better-" "Fallout 4 is better-" SHUT UP. make out

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Sometimes Reddit has some gems, this was under someone asking why good old Doc is so good to the Courier (charges less for services etc) and this was the top answer.

I really like this take of Doc being the Anti-Benny and being a moral anchor for the player to make them think about their actions as the Courier.

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it's worth considering that the director said the makeup was toned down 1) so that Walton Goggins could still act with his face/be expressive, and 2) even with the makeup used it was REALLY hot under that latex. I would have loved gnarlier makeup but I can't imagine being in heavy prosthetics filming in a desert for 18 hours a day in the summer like that sounds horrible (and also they're supposedly adding an in-lore explanation as to why he's not as ghoulified as expected)

i love harold and gob and nasty ghoul designs SO MUCH but i also think think there are multiple practical reasons on why they turned down the body horror for the ghoul character on the fallout show

for one i am SO STOKED that they are using special effects and facial prosthetics and makeup for him instead of cgi!!! but- this also means in order to see the actor's expression and not have him be constantly uncomfortable it has to be less detailed especially in comparison to fo3 ghouls

also i've seen quite a few comments saying "if u like his design ur STUPID" or "must be new to fallout if u think that's a ghoul" which is just... feels like fake fan accusations come on guys.

he's a gunslinger bounty hunter THAT ALONE IS COOL AF and his design still looks pretty canon to how fo4 ghouls look and even tho some ppl don't like fo4 designs they still are canon in the lore now so it's not necessarily the make up design that's the problem

I AM NOT ONE TO DEFEND PRIME OR BIG COMPANIES but i also think the actors and artists involved are doing a good job so far and goggins isn't too bad looking ghoul wise imo

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he should have been at the club............

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I'm not exactly a fan but maybe Kojima is allowed to say a few things

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growing up in the legion

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yeag... he's my companion (boyfriend 😻) in the game now :3

I still desire Benny carnally tho *explodes into dust and dies*

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“Were we ever really here at all?”