#i went to the vault for you

[sims4bradshaw]

Some of u need to go to sims jail for render fishing because 😭

[sas-afras]

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

[sarsaparilla-star]

playing fallout 3 for the first time means oscillating between "this is a really fun game and is reminding me why i love fallout" and "this is the worst thing anybody has ever written"

[strqyr]

shout out to beacon for being the only academy not in the middle of its city while also managing to have a defensible position on a cliffside.

the goal was to have the vaults & relics protected by warriors (at least ones in training) at all times, yet some people didn't get the memo and are closely surrounded by entire cities on top of that.

not that the relic necessarily is at beacon anyway, but at least it's acting as a perfect decoy.

sucks for the students, tho.

[wammypilled]

Source

[worstloki]

Idowu Koyenikan // Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

[shithowdy]

So question I must know: what’s the deal with Fallout AU Chadley and his spawn? I need to know this because of reasons.

An exercise in how mean I can be to a character, apparently. 💀

This Chadley pursued a career in cancer genome research with a focus on colorectal carcinoma, which took his mother's life when he was 12. He partnered with a private research group for a while until it was absorbed by a company called Mimir Syndicate after a very weird acquisition process that involved a lot of psychological evaluations on the researchers and signing of contracts that were functionally super-NDAs; his only options were to remain under contract and attempt to continue his work or leave and be barred from continuing anything in that particular career path for the rest of his life due to his work being their "intellectual property".

After agreeing to remain, he and about 50 other scientists (from his own team and other new ones) alongside their spouses and children, plus some other operative staff, were relocated to an underground facility in another city entirely under the assurance that it was for "their protection" with an increasing risk of spies. He was unable to inform his father of this move before it became evident that none of them were able to leave-- they were not even informed when the world outside had been set ablaze.

This ended up being one of Mimir's own vault projects, a psyker development program overseen by robots that were both remotely operated by executives and also a default AI. The purpose was to use the researchers' own genetic material as the baseline for the project, while all the staff and families would keep the population consistent enough for the project to continue until viable. Except this was a terrible idea for a hundred reasons and several people rebelled instantly, ended their lives when they discovered what had happened above, and basically everything that can be expected to go wrong when people are imprisoned and told they are going to now be part of what's basically a horrifying mutant eugenics project.

The executives vanished from the command system (because of nuclear war lol), leaving only the AI to handle protocol for what to do with the remaining people, and in an attempt to preserve the project they put the remaining 30 or so researchers into cryogenic stasis for routinely cycled resuscitation, one at a time, so they would be unable to easily communicate with one another but still continue the project where a human hand (and genetic material) was actually required. What followed was a nightmarish 190ish years of being in and out of consciousness for only a few months at a time, watching mutant creations made from your own flesh and blood (and other spliced things, like fungi) be created and die in what feels like a flash, growing increasingly more disoriented and sick from a process that should really only happen once... but still plotting with the others in secret through hidden notes for a way to terminate the entire system.

And eventually it worked. About 10 years before the story begins, he finally manages to set off what was functionally a homemade EMP by the the remaining team in the room housing the stasis pods, killing his companions. With alarms blaring he records a final log of what happened there before taking his own life with a cocktail of surgical drugs, leaving the AI with nothing but only what material remained and no humans to actually guide the project. It took about ten more years for the whole thing to unravel completely, allowing ample opportunity for at least one of the more clever mutants to escape through an old breach left by raiders terminated by the AI.

He only had fleeting interactions with Emil, though notably with a hint of both horror and pride as he had to make the recommendation to continue following this specific blueprint, because finally one was stable. Cognizant. None of them have said they were scared of the scalpel before. God help him.

[betweenheroesandvillains]

NO HANG ON SICK SO SICK LAVILLENIE IS THERE NEXT TO MONDO'S PARENTS OK IN TEARS AGAIN

[msburgundy]

epic parkour gains btw, if u even care

[arcann]

bruh as if people didn't mod out the fallout 3 AND the fallout 4 intro, they're hitting us with BOTH of them

[emometalhead]

I think I won with surprise songs omg

[hyperionshipping]

Think the twins don't even care about Tricks because bandits dying is not all that concerning and I think people assumed "that little dog of Jack's" died with him.

I think Tricks only becomes a hassle sometime later on. But no one can seem to find him... Lilith keeps dealing with vandalization and her already small crew getting picked off ("It's like a professional is hitting us. I... I think I know who it is") and, I think, just because he can he fucks with streams/the towers. He's got so much hate in his body.

Oh, and Jack's shield. Now you see him, now you don't, and now a corrosive bullets lodged in the worst spot it could be. Killing you agonizingly slow! If he doesn't shoot again and... oh. He did already

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

everytime you post benefactor gman i get so happy... love she/her gman like that's my wife bro!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAAAH REAL, she's so silly to me

[jaymber]

Halfway through the Fallout series and...

My Autism™ is having a very bad time, Scoob 😮‍💨

[mymelodyisme]

I had a dream that I was trapped with a group of people in this vault like building. We didn’t know how we got there but pretty quickly we realized what we had to do. Inside each vault was a new creature who was out to kill us and our job was to avoid the creature and find the exit of terminate it. So very quickly we got ourselves organized into a team and I was actually left with just roaming around trying to track it.

In one of the vaults we were in a store. I was going through the smaller toy aisle when I spotted a pretty pink heart necklace and beads that I told myself I’d take right before we escape. I turn the corner and I feel like I’m being watched. I walk down towards the longer aisles made of large industrial shelves and I’m between the items the creature stares at me. He snarls and starts coming around to attack me.

Naturally I scream and ran off towards the team. They quickly sprung into action and dealt with the creature.

To celebrate we decided to take something from the store. I headed straight towards the toy aisle to find the necklace but it wasn’t there anymore. Instead I I noticed a box of Pokémon figurines and picked up what looked like charzard. I took that with me and showed my teammates. We opened the box to see how cool it was and it was a little more realistic than we thought?? It pieces were divided into both bones and flesh.

I wasn’t quite sure how to put that together but a friend said he could do it for me. So in the next vault, which seemed to be a street corner of a hotel, he sat piecing it together in the lobby while the rest of us dealt with the new threat. He only finished right before we were to leave for the next vault and presented me with the finished box. When I opened it up I noticed that not only was the figure done, but had left me a the heart necklace as a gift 🥺

[spaceratprodigy]

thinking so many thoughts abt iris fresh out of the vault so scared, confused, vulnerable, alone, grief about to hit in full force, and still malleable, just for poppy to be the first person to find her and she has iris wrapped around her finger for a while