#fo4 things

[callmewisteria]

the more i think about the institute in fallout 4, and the FEV experiments, the more convinced i am that the institute scientists who started the programme just played way too much resident evil as kids, and thought they could do what william and annette birkin couldn't in re2 with the g virus

[lacquerheadd]

pov: you ask the good mayor for some chems…

[syckubota]

my markers were calling to me like sirens in the midst of finishing my finals, so i caved in and did an indulgent 1 page skit...

[vault81]

I've finished my Fallout OC Character Sheet! this is my first time making something like this, but I like how it turned out!

PSD below cut!

Compressed Version!

[rad-roche]

the treatment is rough, the job is difficult, but at least the pay is awful

[gobald]

That was....unexpected.

[bongosinferno]

A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

[minilev]

Boss ain't afraid of anything... except

[nyarlah]

Who is feral, now? (I'll go to hell for this)

[dykedvonte]

Hancock: Mama Murphy this jet be straight bussin' fr fr no cap

Mama Murphy, not understanding a damn thing he said: Thank you sir, I love when you visit Mayor Hancock

[valencock]

Idk what they're saying but Hancock's grabbing his ass for sure

I can't believe a ghoul and a synth could be so in love holy fuck

[callmewisteria]

i'm laughing way too hard at this explanation of fallout 4 from youtube

[gearbroth]

“Were we ever really here at all?”

[grimbothefool]

Hi Honey!

Turns out when I draw fresh out the vault Randall he kinda just looks like default Nate but ya know...oh well!

[lesbianralzarek]

fo4 fans drive me crazy sometimes. the fact that "the railroad, a rapidly shrinking organization whose lack of members and basic resources is constantly mentioned, focuses on specific people who have no other charitable organization helping them in any way whatsoever, are bad because they arent trying to solve world hunger with their budget of 10 caps and some duct tape" is the most common criticism of the railroad makes me wanna maul someone

theres a reason why the minutemen and railroad endings are not mutually exclusive. mm have larger goals that will likely help more people, but rr still punches above their weight. there is literally no downside to giving rr the attention their cause deserves. you can even continue to help settlements afterwards. rr is best ending hands down

[rad-roche]

It's Valentine's day! You there, browsing the tag. Have you ever thought 'I like Nick Valentine, but I wish he starred in two novels lovingly written in the prose style of a detective noir from 1943, and so help me God, I don't want to pay a cent for it?' No! Nobody has! What an unusually specific dream!

But it's too late, I've already written them.

More than that, I've filled them with art, too.

If this sounds like something you'd like, you can find the full series (the two books and two small side stories) here.