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I had a dream last night and it was so fantastic, I'm gonna fucking share it and eventually draw and expand on it-but this is basis of it.
They finally made Fallout 5.
TLDR: Where the actual First Nation's People went, history threatening to repeat itself, finally the non-romancable npc is that way for a GOOD REASON.
It actually takes place in the middle of America; and it's established when the bombs dropped-it was mostly on major cities near the coastal areas-such as Las Vegas,Boston,Washington Dc, etc. etc.-but with the radius, there is a part of the US that recieved the least amount of radiation.
(A poorly made map by your truely, probably not all accurate where bombs dropped but like. The darker places is all the places I'm pretty sure we've been. Probably wrong but I don't care to look up for accuracy.)
And it's this odd massive strip of land right down the middle. It's not COMPLETELY devoid of radiation-but it's a small part of the whole of USA that received the LEAST amount of it and over time was able to recover successfully, similar to Chernobyl years after the Nuclear Meltdown. Still toxic levels of radiation if you do things like upset the dirt or go in too deep-but otherwise harmless to explore and live in if you're tolerant to those levels of radiation. And in Fallout where RadAway is a helpful common place medication tool-it could potentially be a paradise. The wild life is actually very plentiful and you can honestly spot a lot of normal looking wildlife like normal looking deer and occasionally-a one headed cow. But it's still vast and ominously empty at the same time. Like wandering through thick forests and open plains and prairies with nothing around for miles.
But it was the answer to where the actual Native Americans were in Fallout-they're in this place that everyone in the game referred to as The Holy Strip. A lot of the settlements and cities are a part of the First Nation and one of them I specifically remember was the biggest city called Cherokee City-and it had a collage where for caps or certain items you could move around a point of your S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats if you felt it like it's better used in a different spot-and it was flavored as that's where all the academics flocked to share survivalist knowledge so when people venture out into the Wastes they'd at least have a basic grasp on things. And for the most part, all the cities in The Holy Strip got along-there was a sort of system where each city had an elected person on a council and everything was voted on before major choices were made, etc. etc. all in all the most high functioning areas in Fallout at least in that sense. There's of course tiffs and occasional spats-but other than that-not a whole lot of blood is shed.
And of course there were other factions outside of The Holy Strip who wanted the area for themselves; rather they wanted to affirm governance over the entire area (We know what this is an allegory for, Government trying to run off Native peoples.) And the game gives you the option to either side with the outside Factions-each with their own reason for wanting control of The Holy Strip or siding with The Holy Strip and the people who were there from the start and helped that area STAY as nice as it could be in an irradiated hellscape. And it's not just the theme of 'War never changes' but also the theme of 'History always threatens to repeat itself.' and you have to decide which part of this repeat of history you want to be on.
And there were like....4 Specifical companions I recalled.
One was a woman named Angora and she was a porn actress-and in some of dialogue, it's insinuated she's from New Vegas or that area because in her idle mode she'll tell raunchy jokes-specifically 'Did you hear about the mailman with a bullet in their skull?' Her specific quest is to destroy the holotapes of shoot that had gone wrong and turned into an assault and the footage still was spread out in the public. And the destruction of these holotapes is her reclaiming agency over herself.
Another was a Vietnamese woman named Jun who was a botonist looking for the national seed depository in Colorado that happens to fall within the area of the Holy Strip-she's got the pass key to get in there and she wants to use this time since The Holy Strip has shown such successful progress and good soil ph levels-to start cultivating and distributing seeds to the settlements so more food can be grown. Her idle animation if you leave her alone long enough, she'll start planting saplings and if you come back to the same area she plants in later in the game, you'll see them growing slowly.
There was another one-who was like I feel like....a teen girl? Put her at 18? 19 Maybe. A short girl who kinda reminded me of the girl from Atlantis the Lost Empire. She's a tech mechanic and builds guns, improves them, repairs broken things and she's looking for her younger brother whom she got separated from. I think her name was either Delilah or Tuesday. I don't remember clearly. She was a fan favorite for actually normal reasons cause she had such a teen energy to her to say out of fucking pocket shit all the time and sasses you constantly-but in like a fun way.
The final one I remember is a Ghoul you meet at one of the First Nation Settlements. I don't remember his name-but he is of the First Nation and sort of nomadic lifestyle drifting between cities and settlements, helping people where he can when he can. While the Holy Strip is nice-there still is a level of ghoul discrimination and he just preferred being on his own. But when he becomes your companion you learn that he makes a lot of jokes about the 'Native American Wisdom.' One being
"How did you know I was from a Vault?"
"I heard it on the wind....I heard it from the birds....I felt it in the sunlight on my face.....Also you've got the word VAULT 29 Plastered on the back of your stupid blue jumpsuit."
He also liked Romance paperbacks. You meet him during an escort quest he's doing, helping a pregnant woman get to one of the vaults (that apparently she was born at? And she wanted her kid to be born there too.)
And there was new romancable companion functions-where you could gift them items they liked (like Romance books for the ghoul, Seeds for the Botonist, etc.) that would not only boost their affection for you, but give you a temp boost during a fight. ( the 18 year old is the non-romancable option in the game. For once a Non Romancable NPC that makes SENSE.)
And for the most part it was well received? There was still people who bitched a lot about it, complaining they 'needed like 50 million mods to make it acceptable' and people complaining about the ghoul being 'such a sterotype' where most of what he did was ironic and prodding fun at the trope similar to Raul wearing the spirit halloween costume as a joke for his sister. Then there were the freaks who were mad they couldn't romance the 18 year old.
But pobody's nerfect ya know. All in all I now have a game I cannot play.
#TSB talks#Fallout 5#Fallout OC#Dream#Bethesda get on it#Make it happen#I will promote the fuck out of this and do designs for you#Fallout Au?#I don't know how to label this at all#Fallout#Fallout Fakegame
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let's fucking gooooooo
#maybe this will finally finally help get the rest of the industry to move on unionizing#mp#gaming stuff#bethesda#want to join a union so badly i am vibrating at impossible frequencies and producing a high pitched whine
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reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck
her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability...
i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.
they were HOLDING HER SURGERIES HOSTAGE TO COERCE HER TO RESIGN
fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving
#bethesda#trans#transgender#i am so fucking furious right now#glad i left this fucking industry after getting fired myself#making dumbass meme video games and furry art is infinitely more rewarding and fulfilling
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Was thinking about Deacon yesterday and became possessed by a spectre or perhaps some kind of demon that compelled me to draw this.
This is technically a WIP, I intend to eventually finish the background and colour it properly but I like this version too
#Sometimes raiders show up while you're making lunch and you gotta get the shot off#even if it means a little forced motorboating between friends#Bethesda why is he not romanceable ANSWER ME#fallout 4#fo4#fallout4#sole survivor#fo4 sole survivor#fallout 4 deacon#fo4 deacon#deacon fo4#deacon fallout 4#sharky art
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“Not a king… but a WARRIOR…”
#doom#doom the dark ages#doom: the dark ages#doom slayer#doomguy#art#fanart#doom eternal#bethesda#id software#metal#get that loin cloth out the way I wanna see his BFG
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Like let's be real it may also be fueled by pettiness but mostly they want the Fallout lore to be consistent and to be able to make more games in the franchise in the West Coast without it contradicting existing worldbuilding. They don't want post-post-apocalypse "nonsense". They don't want society rebuilding. They want fun guns and an apocalypse setting they can plant some uncomplicated enemies and a Power Armor suit on. But that's not something the existing worldbuilding in the West Coast can support. So it has to go.
And very few people play Fo1 and Fo2 anyway so retconning that directly is not necessary, you can just gloss over the glaring discrepancies. But you can't just gloss over New Vegas. So you don't! You nuke it. Problem solved. Now the lore is consistent over all Bethesda Fallouts and the show and we can forever and always stuff the main themes and message of the original games up our collective asses.
#sigh#and the show is not bad!! dont take me wrong it is not bad#it is however a spit in the face of the people who built the existing story#like i get why they did it#fo2 and fnv lore doesn't fit the image bethesda is going for#but it still sucks that they're taking it that direction#fallout#fallout prime#fallout show spoilers#fallout prime spoilers
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tired: the bats are so weird and creepy and everyone else is always so normal compared to them!
wired: impulse started fidgeting so hard he just started vibrating and clipped halfway through the floor and part of helen's foot before he realized what he was doing. this is just a normal tuesday
inspired: superman, superboy, and supergirl are sitting together in midair having a mild-mannered midwestern discussion as to which of their nonpowered combatant friends has the most fucked-up looking bones. several of said friends are in the room and really wish they wouldn't do this
#rimi talks#sorry every time i see a ''wow gotham is so weird and everyone else plays straightman'' post or fic i just#speedsters are walking bethesda glitches and supers are freaky powered aliens.#i haven't read as much amazon lore so i don't want to make Inaccurate Jokes but theres Definitely ways for them to be weird as fuck too#like im SURE there are theyre magic and also have superpowers#Everyone In This House Is Kind Of A Freak. All Of Them#constantly thinking abt becketts post of jon asking if he can look at bruce's fucked up skull#bc his dad says batman gets hit in the head nightly and now he's curious and wants to see#fucking devastating man laskdjflkdjs
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akaVIr. I've been calling it for years and id like to remind everyone that I still am. It's Akavir and it'll be stylized as AkaVIr.
however I'm hoping bethesda learned something. Anything. From starfield. An open world doesn't count if it's fucking empty.
#dear bethesda:#the reason people like your other open world games is bc they have stuff in them#and you dont force the player to replay the entire game when they get to the end of the main quest????????????#bc that was such a stupid fucking choice???????????????#the whole appeal of the character creation screen is making new characters. come on now.#but also just. put fucking THINGS in your open worlds. make them feel LIVED IN.#isqueue#<- bc i said i was going to sleep on my main and i lied
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I got upset that Nick's agency looked so rundown because RoboDad deserves better. So I fixed it up and decorated it with mods to give him a better place to live and work.
His office is still messy and disorganized but there’s a lot more storage so that everything has a proper place, it just gets moved around a lot.
Nick’s desk area now has a bunch of pictures and notes taped to the wall to help him spell out his thoughts on recent cases.
There’s also a picture of Maggie on his desk to remind him of his lady love.
His guest room looks a lot more cozy with actual sheets on the bed and pillows.
I know it’s kinda implied that it’s actually Nicks bed and Ellie sleeps upstairs, but I like to think she has her own apartment elsewhere.
Nicks new room has a big and luscious bed because he deserves to have one and no one can tell be otherwise. Let Gramps have some comfort dang it.
And there are books everywhere because Valentine seems like the type who likes to read and write. Some of those he wrote himself.
That carved duck on the dresser was a gift from a grateful client. Actually, most of the stuff he has are gifts because so doubt he’ll buy much comforts for himself.
#In my world Nick's room would actually be converted into a kids room for Jasmine.#So everything would be colorful and cute. And the floors and walls would be redone because Handyman Nick would redo his whole house.#Gotta keep his little girl comfortable. The downstairs area would be a little kitchen/living room.#Also I refuse to believe that he doesn’t have some sort of bathroom in there.#Idk why Bethesda just didn’t add bathrooms to most living areas.#Even a lot of the prewar houses just don’t have bathrooms.#Welp. It just works I suppose.#Also the other companions I had with me would not stop getting in the way.#I had to redo the photos so many times because of this.#Dogmeat was the biggest offender but he’s cute so that makes it okay and he’s not guilty.#Cait and Hancock on the other hand not so much.#Maybe they are all just jealous I give Nick all the attention. 🤷♀️#fallout#fallout 4#fo4#nick valentine#ellie perkins#fallout screenshots#fallout 4 screenshots#fo4 screenshots#steel magnolia#nick x magnolia#nick valentine x magnolia
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Since Fallout was such a hit I double dog dare Bethesda to make Prey (2017) an eight-episode mini-series where the first couple episodes shows Morgan before the experiment and then we instantly get dropped into it without any transition so nobody knows what the fuck is going on until the end and then everybody is like what the fuck and also Morgan is a girl
#it could also be set up that it gets extended after the reveal because let’s be honest#simulation within a simulation within a simulation#the end is bullshit but you’re 100% still in the game brother#prey 2017#bethesda#morgan yu#fallout#fallout show#mortitalks
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Anyway do you ever think about how piper is given weight in the main plot only to be shoved into a ditch to make way for Nick Valentine Synth Detective, who has large presence in the main plot + a personal quest + a whole ass DLC
#shes there to introduce you to DC#she's implied to be a good lead/source of info#which she kinda is? just not utilized#and then nick is like (oh no kellogs dead. guess we have to go to piper)#then you go to piper and then she gets maybe one sentence out before nick is like (wait no actually we'll just use kellogs brain matter)#and then you never see her again#like Nick and Piper are very much set up as like. the main plot companions (everyone else is rogue or faction)#and piper is there for maybe 20 minutes#beth can you PLEASE let your characters DO SHIT#beths fallout and skyrim are similar in that sometimes i feel like im playing with barbie and ken dolls#and not participating in a world where shit happens beyond the player character#this is an issue with all of them but idk#where are my hijinks bethesda.#CAN WE GIVE THE OTHER COMPANIONS CONTENT.#COMPANION REHAUL DLC WHEN
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Oh? Fallout 4? Yeah I know that game. I like it a normal amount, yes. *is visibly vibrating*
#fallout 4#fallout#its my special interest and i get to talk about it#autism#special interest#shitpost#i fucking love fallout man#gaming#bethesda
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Blocking every annoying fallout fan and taking away new vegas until you all learn to behave
#like im so serious i dont think ive ever been more annoyed at my dash#can you all learn to enjoy things.#every single criticism ive seen so far has been ' once again this proves new vegas is the only good fallout game'#absolutely nothing constructive#ive also seen such dogshit takes about the series as a whole like. jesus christ#i dont care if i get labeled as a bethesda shill i think you guys are just wrong about what fallouts about in general#like i think new vegas and the bethesda fallouts can both be different takes on the same thing and none of them are inherently bad
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How tragic that the dragon language in Skyrim doesn’t have cannon words for laughter and love
#Skyrim#tes#the elder scrolls#the elder scrolls skyrim#skyrim tes#bethesda#alduin#the fastest way to get the right answer#is to say something wrong and get corrected#I’m hoping#I really wanna make a live laugh love poster but like a Skyrim word wall
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How is it at all fair that you can romance Paladin Danse, but not Nick Valentine???
#spoilers //#text#rambles#fallout#fallout 4#paladin danse#nick valentine#(This isn't slander to Danse. He's real asf.)#(I'm just genuinely wondering.)#(And yeah I know mods exist. But it's the sentiment that gets me.)#(Bethesda is full of COWARDS!!!)
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Just thinking about this as I mindlessly brainrot when watching the new Fallout show. I think the Elder Scrolls franchise would be infinitely more difficult to adapt than Fallout, just because explaining the world to an audience would take a lot more effort and there is way more cultural and physical diversity among the cast, not to mention a timeline that is several thousand years versus ~two hundred, a bajillion gods and kings and heroes and species of significance, a lot of interconnected trade networks and alliances, so on and so forth.
Whatever it ended up being, it would have to be a tiny infinitesimal snapshot fraction of what the entire Elder Scrolls lore can provide.
#mod b#elder scrolls#bethesda#not screenshots#I think probably making it animated would be the easiest way to get around some of the deeper pitfalls but ... whoof#anyway I might run other follow-up polls to this like when and where people would want something like this to be set#or what major character (canonical) they'd most like to see in the driver's seat if it was a miniseries about them
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