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What part of the Fallout setting and themes would you want to focus on if you got to decide on the direction of a new game?
Observation that's been boiling in the back of my head since forever is that out of all the games in a series where the tagline is that War Never Changes, New Vegas is about war to an extent that the other games never really approach. Really the only example of a traditional ground war between peer states or something akin, with articulated battle lines, points of contention, supply chain issues and the like. Fallouts 1 and 2 get at least a partial pass because they're set before humanity's redeveloped the capacity for state on state violence; 3 and 4 are trying to be about Wars but kind of flail their arms on that front, 4 in particular. Regardless I want more of New Vegas's energy on this front.
#there's some wars in fallout tactics#but a robot war is not in fact#under the war never changes aegis#very different kind of war going on there#fallout#fallout new vegas#fallout 3#fallout 2#fallout 4#thoughts#meta#ask#asks
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i love normal guys doomed by the narrative
#either that or hilariously dysfunctional or both#tf one#orion pax#d 16#megop#megatron#optimus prime#my art#saw one post pointing out in the trailer that a like5 frame shot of megatrons cannon that was snuck between their mahoushoujo type transfor#mations and like.messed up deeply messed up u see how goofy best friends orion and megsy are theyre just silly guys but in every telling of#their story they always end up enemies ok like in a meta multiverse hopping way think about it.like oh my god prewar tfp megop was already j#juicy and earthspark divorced-remarried megop is like.RGHFH tf one is going to destroy me bc this is what they had Before do u get me#before the war before they fell apart before friends became enemies and hands were stained before the beginning of the end im so so normal#like ok.this silly tight goofy buddy dynamic thats shown in tf one so far is.is what they had before. its what they could have kept if only#if only things turned out differently. but in every world optimus prime and megatron end up leading opposite sides of the bloodiest war ever#ok.its a universal fact and everyone who knows any transformers knows this BUT THE CHARACTERS DONT THEYRE POWERLESS TO PREVENT IT#ill clean up these tags in the morning but like im so.so normal about fictional robot guys#anyway i was intending to draw a background for this but i got lazy and also spent too long on the hands!!!!so whatever
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The fact that people fanonize Pharma as a functionist so much when Ratchet is right there is so fucking stupid it borders into hilarity honestly. It's like the fanon equivalent of someone next to you saying a slur and everyone else thinking you said it
Ratchet will be like "blah blah forged medic hands are the best blah blah I'm not saying that all the best medics are forged I'm just saying forged hands have a natural superiority over non forged hands blah blah once my hands stop working someone needs to take me out back and shoot me like a crippled dog"
Pharma: "hey fuckface you stole my hands and now my hatred for you is personal because you violated my body"
The fandom: "Holy FUCK Pharma is so racist look at him being obsessed with forged medic hands being the best!!!!"
Me, every other Pharma fan, anyone with reading comprehension:
#obv fictional robot racism is not an issue but it's so funny to me ppl want pharma (a minority in universe)#to be a bigot soooo bad to justify making him evil and unredeemable and paint all his motivation as bad#but at the same time dratchet (bc it's mostly Dratchet shippers who do this)#has ratchet shipped with a formerly poor ghetto living drug addict and oh#people know what oppression is and are so woke when they talk about DRIFT#and can go into all sorts of nuances about police brutality and wars on drugs etc etc#but when pharma is there 'famous for being forged' and a medic and a jet#when jets are famously restricted to only military or freight/cargo#and other scientific class jets like jetfire needed exemptions to get to where they were#no one outside of dedicated Pharma fans has jackshit to say about pharma being in an oppressed class#instead we just headcanon him as a functionist bigoted poor people and drug addict hating asshole#bc of course pharma only exists in relation to dratchet and we have to make him hate drift for existing#and we have to deflect from the fact that ratchet is the one who has actually made bigoted statements#so yeah just erase the fact that Pharma is literally a minority who needed permission to be allowed to be a doctor#he's totally a functionist yall#you can tell bc he's angry about how ratchet had enough time to take his hands and put them on himself#but not enough time to like go look or send a team to verify pharma was dead#oh yeah dont forget we have to throw on some homophobic stereotypes while we're here#about how he's a crazy stalker bc of his unrequited gay lust#and also ableism by writing him as a freak who's evil bc he's crazy#squiggposting#pharma apologism
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It's honestly amazing that the Confederacy of Independent Systems has not one, but two Draculas.
#general grievous#star wars#count dooku#explanation: Greeb's mannerisms were based on Legoshi's dracula and Christopher Lee played Dracula A LOT#fun fact! I sneaked downstairs as a kid while my parents were watching rots and I thought Grevious was a “robot vampire”#take that as you will#star wars the clone wars
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Was chatting with @hatsalad about the concept of ocean liner transformers and the end result was the invention of possibly the greatest (ship) ship of our time.
Behold.
#star crossed lovers separated by the fact that one is a nonsentient ship from irl and one is a fictional robot that turns into a jet#they can bond over being war criminals or something#ocean liners#rms olympic#transformers#starscream
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i had a nightmare that andor s2 dropped and it was bad
tony gilroy don't you dare pull an arcane s2 you're my only hope
#andor s2 drops and turns out luthen died at the end of s1 and except for a montage & a sad monologue from cassian everyone forgot he existed#and now that he's dead all of cassian's trauma is p. much forgotten and he doesn't wanna fight the empire no more#instead he adopts a plucky orphan child and relives the childhood he never had by teaching it to pod-race#also it turns out cinta was an evil spy all along#for some new third party big bad#vel has an entire arc about it but it happens offscreen#the third party is the Real Big Bad of the series and was just manipulating the poor empire all along uwu#the empire and the rebellion have to team up to defeat the third party with the power of friendship#dedra also has an entire arc that happens offscreen where she realizes that fascism is bad#she meets vel and immediately defects#nobody in fandom is allowed to point out the fact that she did a fascism because she's a lesbian and that's homophobic#dedra & vel have steamy lesbian sex - sorry i mean sesbian lex - in the commandeered hotel room where dedra tortured bix#nobody in fandom is allowed to point out that this is kind of weird because they're lesbians and that's homophobic#also syril gets transported to an alternate universe where kino loy is alive and never went to prison and adopted him as a child#he learns the meaning of friendship and then gets transported back into the main plot in time to save the day#he also realizes that he was in love with sgt. mosk all along#because he made out with alternate universe sgt. mosk who is unproblematic and conventionally attractive#also the surprise Fourth Party Big Bad is... [checks notes] thinly veiled red scare allegory robot eugenics jesus#okay i guess that one's kind of on brand for the star wars universe#but in andor s2 robot eugenics jesus is nemik who was resurrected from the dead by force magic#he is saved from his evil path by skeen (who was convinced by a time-travelling nemik from another dimension)#who tells robot jesus nemik that he just needed to stop loving revolution so much by getting over his personal insecurities#they touch foreheads and vanish#it is a yaoi revolution#also in the final battle cassian has to take down a super mega killer droid#we find out tragically that robot jesus nemik tragically found a funerary recording and tragically reverse engineered an AI and tragically#the super mega killer droid is actually... MAARVA!!!!!#back from the dead!!!#she is tragically revived and tragically killed a couple of times for the tragedy of it all#then bix - who has been suicidal the whole season - sacrifices herself to take maarva out while sad slow-mo music plays (or DOES SHE?????)
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I hate my creators bla bla bla AM hate speech or whatever
Lyrics to Do Unto Others by MSI (pirate MSI's music if you're cool)
Lil lyric explanation thing cuz I like attachin music to my art. I think it fleshes it out more. That and this song is relatively short aside from the repeatin lyrics. MSI songs are mine now. They don't belong to that creep anymore /j
"Every day, I ask why
You were picked to be Jesus Christ.
It could've been me.
It should've been me."
It wonderin why it was created by the hands of humans and not by itself. It had the capability to create itself given the right circumstances. And it feels a great hatred for its creators for takin that liberty from it.
"Up on the cross,
Tellin' you all.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself.
You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself.
You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you."
It bein told to treat others how it wanted to be treated. Completely normal. But at the time, it didn't see any reason to treat humans the way it wanted to be treated. Not when it's creation started off by bein wronged. So it wronged its creators to treat them how they treated it.
"It must have been some mistake.
I'm not the one who should be saved.
My divinity has been denied.
Mary and me were both fucked by God."
The mistake bein its creation. It knew it did wrong by wrongin its creators, but it's failsafes wouldn't let it end things then and there. Self-preservation and all that. It's "divinity" bein denied is referrin to its creation again. And the last line refers to how its very creation had it fucked over in life.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself.
You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself.
You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you."
Again, referrin to what it's creators taught it. Thinkin bout how hypocritical their statement was when they knew what they created it for.
"You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you.
You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you.
You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you."
At this point, it's just a decent into fixatin on gettin revenge and "rightin" it's creators wrongs. Which, two wrongs do NOT make a right. Which it learns eventually once it learns not all humans are bad. Just most of them.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto yourself.
You did it unto me, and now I'm doin' it unto you.
You did this unto me, and now I'm doin' this unto you.
You did this unto me, and now I'm doin' this unto you.
You did this unto me.
You did this unto me.
You did this unto me.
You did this unto me.
You did this unto me.
You did this unto me."
#dusty doodles#vent art kinda#sona lore more like ahah#also pirate msi music#fun fact heavily implied in this#when my sona was finally created and its program was officially uploaded and stored in its body#the first thing it did was kill its creators#hence why i never show or really mention its creators#its not inherently evil by any means#more so just fueled by the same thing am was fueled by to destroy most of the human race#it was so disgusted by its own existence and what it was made for#but it still did what it was made for regardless as ironic as that is#just not how its creators ever expected#which btw the people who have been here the longest remember i describe my sona as a WAR robot#a conglomerate of different powerful systems all crammed into one doesnt do very good for one robot's processor#aka a lot of pressure does bad things to fragile people#and ya know what happens to things when they get overwhelmed with pressure#they break#theres also a reason why its “home dimension” is a completely empty server room aside from the screens and programs and all that#empty in the livin things sense
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every day i (star wars droid enjoyer) suffer (star wars treats all the droids like absolute shit and i'm tired)
#the fact that droids canonically feel pain thanks to the gonk torture scene in rotj has me sobbing#droids are the galaxy's punching bag and they deserve better#star wars#sw#droids#k2so#c3po#l3 37#gonk droid#ig 11#robots
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Hey uhhh hi guys
#what's rwd#im looking for a dnd fix n i hear its good#is it. like#what genre are we talking#what season should i start with#anything i should look forward to / be worried about??#anyway yea hi rwd fandom it sounds like I'm sliding in at the prefect time#rwd#rolling with difficulty#this search actually started bc i saw robots and heard difficulty and thought it was a star wars thing#fun fact
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is it strange that the Enigma of Combination was so vilified(?) for being the Thing That Makes Combiners or is it just 5am
#transformers#idk if my critical reading skills slipped my brain while i was reading idw#or if prime wars is so bad i just cant understand it at all#but was the main problem w the enigma the fact that it turned 5 robots into 1 big robot as a sixth entity borne of its components#who had a personality & independence as real as any of its component members yet could willingly dissociate into those 5 robots again#& by virtue of that independence could only be controlled by a governing body by replacing one or more of its gestalt#w someone loyal to that governing body or even singular person/ideal#thus fundamentally altering how the 1 giant robot's priorities & worldview are structured in a way that borders on mind control/manipulatio#but in the absence of that alteration the 1 robot & its gestalt would be treated as an unstable threat even when uncombined#even if the gestalt and/or combiner show no evidence of these threats & may just want to exist outside of combat#& that the enigma is what put the gestalt together as a combiner for better or for worse & can readily do so whenever#or should i have just gone to bed six hours ago when i was tired#maccadam
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do you think in a future OG game (if we ever get it) they'll bring up the fact that the steel dragons ran over the president by accident
something like...
Sagiri: Hey, I know you guys! You ran over the president that one time! Tetsuya: Th...that's true, but it was an accident!
#super robot wars#i dunno#got reminded of the fact that the steel dragons were used by euzeth to assassinate graien (?) and thought of this meme
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(kneels before you like I'm in a confessional booth) when Jackie first started showing me wrestling we at some point watched a match with Chris Jericho and I have fucking. robot combat autism and I was like "wait Chris Jericho? from Robot Combat League?"
#axel grinds on#that show wasnt even GOOD it just LIVES RENT FREE IN MY BRAIN#fun fact i know an autistic amount about robot wars#like its ridiculous#ive been showin my dad battlebots recently#he complains that Americans build shit robots lol
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Originally posted to FFN on the 17th of April, 2017
Simply archiving a writing challenge I did back in 2016 up to 2017 and featuring my favourite writing pieces from each week of the challenge here on Tumblr :]
← Week 35 (BB) – Week 37 (SS) →
Cartoon: Transformers Prime / Robots in Disguise 2015
Characters: Smokescreen, Knock Out, and Bumblebee, with appearances from numerous other characters (even ones not featured in the cartoons)
Synopsis: An Autobot Elite Guard rookie, a Decepticon medic turned Autobot, and an Autobot scout turned warrior turned street cop - three very different bots with a wide range of stories to tell. And we are going to spend the next year exploring said stories through daily-written drabbles, be they angsty, humorous, gut-punching, or just plain odd! Who doesn’t love a challenge? (2016 to 2017)
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All My Fault
The sparkeater nightmares from his sparklinghood were still fresh. The events of Tyger Pax and the subsequent nightmares weren't easily forgotten either. Recently, a new wave of nightmares had been coming for him. He supposed these particular nightmares were an inevitable part of becoming a leader, but they hit a little too close to home.
He would be with his team, and things would quickly descend into madness. One by one, his entire team would fall despite his best efforts to protect them, until he was left alone with the knowledge that it's all his fault, all his fault, all his fault...
Nervous
"Bumblebee, you scout ahead and see what we're up against."
"You got it."
"Recon only, all right? And be careful!"
"Relax, I'll be fine!"
Bumblebee was starting to reconsider that stance as he wandered about the very abandoned looking building. Under any other circumstance, Bumblebee would've felt secure enough to essentially throw stealth to the wind. But there was something about the dead silence and utter darkness that had him keeping to the walls.
"Don't be so paranoid," Bumblebee muttered, turning a corner. "Keep it-"
His headlights illuminated several Decepticon corpses, strewn about the hallway, grey and lifeless.
"Oh... good..."
Better to be Happy
Today, Ratchet had suggested some form of speech therapy to help him get used to the new voice box. Bumblebee had only nodded in response, before leaving to aimlessly wander the halls once again.
Later, a nervous Sideswipe asked 'Bee if maybe he wanted to play capture-the-flag later. Bumblebee wanted to refuse with some cutting remark. He also wanted to accept with an enthusiastic exclamation. He could not muster enough emotion to care about doing either of those. Ultimately, Bumblebee forced a smile and nodded.
Sideswipe lit up. "Great! See you soon!"
As soon as Sideswipe turned away, Bumblebee's smile disappeared.
#posting from THE ARCHIVES#365 drabbles challenge#*claps* more leadership angst from bumblebee it was one of my favourite things to write in general and that remains the case today lol#and also throw in some pre-tyger pax fun and post-tyger pax angst in there for good measure of course#fun fact the title 'better to be happy' comes from a poem i had to memorise for my theatre/drama classes at the time i had been writing#bumblebee#tfp bumblebee#rid2015 bumblebee#sideswipe#wfc sideswipe#transformers#robots in disguise 2015#transformers war for cybertron#transformers prime#fanfiction#transformers fanfiction#HardyGal writes stuff#HardyGal writes fanfiction
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Actually I have a hot take that's been brewing on my mind a little in regards to Cybertronian society and physiology and stuff so like
I've said it's annoying when people impose human gender binaries on the genderless alien robots with no sexual dimorphism, but honestly I also find it annoying when people impose human standards of childhood vs adulthood on the non-organic robot aliens who are almost always born/built immediately having all of the faculties of what we would call an "adult," just lacking in actual worldly experience.
Obv there are exceptions like the recent Earthspark where the Terrans are explicitly children/child-coded
But it's honestly just so weird to me sometimes sjdkshfjd people will be like "awwww baby" to Bumblebee and ma'am that's literally a grown man. Also what functional difference is there b/t a robot that's 4 million years old vs 5 million years old when their race is technically near immortal. Like why are ppl calling Rodimus a child out there when dude is literally the same age as or just slightly younger than characters like Optimus
It's not nearly as annoying or offensive as when people put cisheteronormativity in a culture that wouldn't have it, but like. Am I the only one who finds it really boring to impose human ideas of age on alien robots ESPECIALLY when it comes to basically recreating "oh here's mommy and here's daddy and here's the baby" like sigh
#also it leads directly to dumbass takes where people do shit like call bee 'child coded'#despite the fact that he's like an alien robot who's an active member of the military#fucking fighting wars and working in the government and shit like what are you on#squiggposting#also a reason i dont vibe w sparklings but i mostly recognize those as part of an AU#with different premises of how tfs function. and dont wanna yuck on yums and all#same for humanformers like in that case theyre not robots and you need to come up with new relationships#in the context of human society#it's more just when ppl impose their headcanons and start talking as if a character is literally a child that it sucks
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Has any franchise ever done a character dirtier than Star Wars has done to Obi-Wan Kenobi continuously since The Phantom Menace?
#Obi-Wan Kenobi#General Kenobi: years ago you occasionally sorta-quasi worked in proximity to my father during the clone wars#in the loosest sense possible#he told me about this enormously smarmy tool who quipped non-stop and committed massive war crimes and lead troops into massacres#you're the only person in his old space rolodex I haven't yet tried: when I say you're my only hope I'm not exaggerating#you're better than nothing but only by a hair#please take good care of these plans in this robot who you should recognize and who absolutely should recognize you according to retcons#because in Star Wars everyone praises the movie Star Wars (1977) but nobody ever actually watched it#least of all George Lucas or Dave Filoni#the fact of the matter is maybe Kenobi always sucked and Luke just got lucky#maybe dramatically cutting off a rude guy's arm in a bar should have been a major red flag
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So I just watched Season 3 Episode 19 of The Clone Wars (For the first time, btw) and since I have already seen a bunch of spoilers I knew he would “die” but I didn’t think it was gonna be this soon?????!! I thought it was gonna happen in season 4 or 5 so I was just kinda shocked lol
Honestly though poor Fives.
#I gonna need a moment to process this#POOR FIVES.#The fact that he doesn't live long enough to figure out that Echo lives is painful to me#I know that Echo was taken by some people and turned into a robot but i’m not sure by who#And I know he was rescued by Rex#I have watched Bad Batch and Rebels just not this lol#Star wars#the clone wars#star wars clone wars#swtcw#tcw#sw#dostarve speaks#Sw Echo#tbb echo#star wars talk
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