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New Vegas Hidden Heterosexual ending:

Credit Slide where it’s revealed Benny and the Courier have eloped and have had a small litter of children, all of which look identical to the Courier except smaller, save for one that looks exactly like Benny except smaller

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That old lady in Novac : Why did you bring me over here under Dinky the T Rex?

The Courier :

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ghoulification in fallout

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There are SO many things that can be said about the male sole survivor’s canon backstory (either of them, really) but the fact that he’s a soldier is already so incredibly damning. You’ve lost at the starting point. 

I don’t care if his planned speech was radical and would have been considered treasonous. I don’t want some wishy-washy “speak truth to power” BS. Fallout 1 starts it’s intro with soldiers executing Canadians in the street while laughing in some “go get em boys!” propaganda reels. I don’t want a pre-war soldier protagonist unless he was kicked out of the military for refusing to commit war crimes and beating the shit out of his commanding officer instead, Doomguy style. 

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I love this low intelligence dialogue mod

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And of course, can't forget the "T" in "LGBTQ" during Pride Month 💙💛 Much love to all trans Fallout fans

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i watched the thing and now there's two funny hat inhaler guys

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What I like about New Vegas is that out of all the Fallout games, it feels like it's the most aware of the fact that everyone is doing a bit of some kind from the fifties and is much more attentive and thoughtful than some of the other games to the implications of the fact that everyone is doing some kind of bit from the fifties.

The Kings are a salient example of this. The surface level gag, of course, is that they're a militant gang of Elvis impersonators, having adopted the aesthetic after their leader mistook a training facility for Elvis impersonators as some kind of religious site. Stock Future-imperfect stuff, oh-those-silly-wastelanders, elevating our pop-culture to the level of organizing-societal-principle.

Until, of course, you take into account the (singular) King's actual project- the fact that his gang is the defacto governing body of Freeside, the accompanying fact that he's got his anarchist predilections and thus would like to maintain that governing position without having to constantly kick people around to get them to listen. And here you've come across a guy from before the war who was apparently so incredibly charismatic that people came from all over the country to see him, so charismatic that they built an entire school to train people how to imitate his mannerisms. No shit they're gonna check if there's any gas left in that can! There might be some real practical power on the table if they can walk that walk! Even if the quick-and-dirty pitch for the gang is "Elvis Cult," there isn't really a spiritual component, they aren't morons who're mistaking this guy for a literal god, they just recognize that there might be some unreclaimed social capital here for them to tap into. And there absolutely is, in-universe and out- have you ever encountered a Fallout fan who didn't love The Kings?

Compare this, by the way, with the Three Families, who aren't in a situation where they're scrambling for a symbol they can rally populist support around. These guys are on top of the world. They aren't doing a bit because they're pursuing the social power that bit would provide them- there ultimately is some, but that's not why they started doing it and it isn't strictly something that they needed to do, given their combined force of arms. They're doing their respective bits because the guy with the robot army told them to. They're theme-park employees, working to brute-force back into existence the halcyon youth of a guy who can't even go outside to enjoy it.

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he’s holding his arm :D

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If i had a dollar for everytime i drew characters on like a nondescript vaugely bar like background arguing about milfs id have 2 dollars which isnt a lot but it is a bit weird that i did it twice i should examine that

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greetings. i am shaun. your son. and this is an android modeled after myself. as a cherubic little rascal of age ten. that i built. and i cannot stress this enough. specifically to traumatize you. welcome to the institute

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[skyrim guard voice] i heard kendrick lamar murdered drake… with his voice! shouted him apart!

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me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

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that's him

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x6-88 occupies a very interesting and very uncomfortable space in the narrative. he doesnt think of himself as a person, and this isnt stupid, its necessary for his sanity. to admit he is a person is to admit that he has been wronged, to admit that the institute is wrong, to admit that he has been wrong to follow their directions, to admit that he has wronged others. if he lets himself think hes a person, that means hes a victim. that is unthinkable to a badass like him. if he thinks hes a slave, that means hes a slavecatcher. that means those he wants to please are slavers, just like the raiders he delights in killing. if he admits that hes scared of being reset (which he is. its why he walks on eggshells around you at first), that means its bad when he sends other synths to be reset. he has wholly bought into not being a person, because that would mean his life's work for the institute is wrong

to look himself in the mirror, he cant afford to be wrong. he cant be a person. he cant be a slave. the institute must. be. right.

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Listen to Preston people

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Was gonna make this into one of those edits but can't find an app without ai so I give up.

Fuck ai man.

Also this is literally him.