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Gloating a bit here because I used to work in the same store as Stephen "Voice actor for Nick Valentine* a few years back.

He's such a cool, sweet dude and I loved telling people that he worked there and seeing their reactions because they would give the exact same reaction I gave. I was litterally shaking when I asked him for an autograph, which I will now hang on my wall.

One time when we were talking about books I mentioned how I wanted to be a detective because of his character. I shit you not, he approved and started speaking as Nick Valentine saying how proud that makes him.

Never felt like exploding with happiness before until that moment. I really wish I took a selfie and talked more with him before I left that job smh. I really do hope he has a good life in Massachusetts

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i’m starting to have more fun with fallout 4

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Happy Get-Shot-in-The-Head Day!

On this day in history, you will be shot in the head!

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everyone its okay. we can accept that arcade kind of sucks. it is good representation for a gay man to kind of be mid.

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Power Armor would make for a horrible prosthetic or mobility device,

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Todd Howard’s brain is equal parts American idolatry, stupidity, and a pathological need to lie

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transfer settlements update!!! \o/

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"what do you do to contribute to society" i post my ocs to tumblr dot com lol.... 5 people on there like them.......

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Fallout 4.

There is a settlement in Fallout 4 called Spectacle Island. It's situated off the coast of the southern half of the map, and is one of the largest settlements you can acquire in the base game.

Fallout 4's settlement system allows you to set up supply lines between settlements, which allows them to share basic resources like food and water, as well as component items you need for crafting. This will also set up a settler on that supply line who can be encountered in the world moving between the two settlements, which can create some interesting encounters.

You can set up supply lines to and from Spectacle Island, but the game doesn't have any functioning boats and NPCs aren't supposed to swim, so the settlers will just kinda hang out on the coast with a brahmin. Fallout 4.

Functionally, the supply line still works and the settlement will share resources with wherever you set it up, but cosmetically it isn't a great look to have someone longingly look out to the coast with a pack brahmin.

However, if the settler is wearing power armor, they can just walk along the bottom of the ocean between Spectacle Island and your other settlement just fine. Fallout 4.

The problem is, you can't assign settlers to power armor. Fallout 4.

Well, I know for a fact that settlers CAN get into power armor, as it's happened to me and several other people in the past. If the settler is engaged in combat and if they have a fusion core, they will- sometimes - enter an empty suit for the fight.

However, they have to be close to the power armor (which, I mean, yeah), and Spectacle Island is one of the largest settlements in the game, so the chances of a settler being close to the power armor while they're in combat is low. Thankfully, in workshop mode, you can tell settlers to go to a certain location. Less thankfully, they will walk as slowly as possible to where you need them to go, and they tend to get distracted on the way by anything and everything, requiring constant guidance the entire path. On top of that, as soon as they reach the requested destination, they will wait there for all of two seconds before getting bored and going back to wandering aimlessly. Fallout 4.

Well, I put a fusion core in the settler's inventory and hold their hand as they walk to the shed where I'm keeping the power armor. There are ways of bringing enemies directly to a settlement thanks to a DLC I have installed, but it's a long and slow process that I really didn't want to have to deal with, so I used console commands to spawn in a Deathclaw Matriarch, a high-level enemy. However, at my high level and with the defenses I have set up, the deathclaw takes about all of thirty seconds to take down, which isn't enough time for my settler to decide to get in the power armor. Fallout 4.

After this, I start spawning Deathclaw Matriarchs in 2-4 at a time. My settler keeps running out of the shed to fight the deathclaws with a base-level pipe pistol and getting knocked down instantly, which prevents him from entering the power armor. I decide to use the power armor to trap the settler inside the shed, so that the only way to leave us to enter the power armor. The deathclaws are still dying too fast, and I still have to spawn them in multiples to keep combat going as long as possible. The settler simply won't get in the power armor. He's clipping through and getting stuck on the power armor, but not entering it. Fallout 4.

Miraculously, after about 12 Deathclaw Matriarchs had their lives taken as unceremoniously as they were given, my settler finally decided that now was the time to enter my power armor. I could now safely assign him to a supply line. I usually liked to give my supply line settlers higher-level weapons since they tend to encounter enemies pretty frequently. Plus, basic pipe weapons look really small and awkward when paired with a beefy suit of power armor, and this entire endeavor has been for cosmetics' sake, so I walk up to my settler and press the talk key. Instead of hearing my character ask to trade a few things, I instead hear:

"I need you to get out of your power armor."

My settler agreed and was more than eager to hop out of a top-of-the-line suit of T-45d Power Armor. Fallout 4.

I gave him the weapon I wanted him to have equipped and started the entire endeavor over, with another dozen Deathclaw Matriarchs dying for the express purpose of forcing a settler into a suit of power armor. But, well, it worked again, and he had the Assault Rifle I wanted him to be using. I hit the quicksave key as fast as I could because if Fallout 4 knows you've done a lot of things since you last saved, it will crash just to make you do it all again, because Fallout 4 is a vindictive and spiteful force of evil.

All of this so I could see my settler do this:

Fallout 4.

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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

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FALLOUT OC EMOJI ASKS!

I wanted to make one of these based off of ones I’ve seen before but with some more fallout centered questions since that’s my thing. There’s A LOT here, so enjoy!

smileys & people

👶 BABY - what is their age / age range? do they get mistaken for another age?

👁 EYE - what is their eye color? do their eyes change color?

💇‍♀️ HAIRCUT - what is their hair color / length? how do they like their hair styled?

💪 FLEXED ARM - what is their build / shape?

🧔‍♂️ BEARDED MAN - do they have any facial hair? (if so) do they prefer to grow it unruly or keep it trimmed / clean?

🧏‍♀️ DEAF SIGNING GIRL - do they have any disabilities? (if so) what are they?

👨‍👨‍👦 FAMILY - what is their family like? what is their relationship to their family? do they have any siblings?

clothes

👓 GLASSES - do they wear glasses?

🧢 HAT - do they have designated / prominent headwear?

👖 JEANS - what is their most iconic outfit?

👜 PURSE - what other accessories do they wear (jewelry, backpacks, belts, etc)?

animals & nature

🐶 DOG - do they have any pets?

🍁 MAPLE LEAF - do they have a favorite season? what is it and why?

🦉 OWL - are they an early riser or a night owl?

✨ SPARKLES - do they have any prominent features (freckles, moles, dimples, etc)?

🪨 ROCK - do they make friends easily? (if not) why?

🔥 FIRE - what angers them easily? how do they handle their anger?

☀️ SUN - what can easily make them happy or brighten their day?

☁️ CLOUD - what is their biggest dream / wish?

🌵 CACTUS - what is a sore subject for them?

🕷 SPIDER - what is / are their biggest fear(s)?

🍀 CLOVER - do they believe in luck? are they lucky?

food & drink

🍦 ICE CREAM - what is their favorite treat?

🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE - when is their birthday? do they like to celebrate it?

🧀 CHEESE - do they have a favorite joke? (if so) what is it?

🍾 CHAMPAGNE - how do they like to celebrate after a big accomplishment?

🍿 POPCORN - do they like being the center of attention or more in the shadows?

🍲 SOUP - do they like to cook? are they good at it?

🍺 BEER - do they drink / use chems?

activity

🥊 BOXING GLOVE - what is their go-to fighting style (hand-to-hand, short range, long range, etc)?

🏀 BASKETBALL - do they know any pre-war sports? do they like to play any?

🏊‍♂️ SWIMMING - do they know how to swim? are they afraid of water?

💃 DANCING - do they know how to dance? do they like to dance?

🎤 MICROPHONE - do they like to sing? are they good at it?

🎬 ACTING - are they a good liar? what are giveaways when they are lying?

🎸 GUITAR - do they know how to play any instruments?

✏️ PENCIL - do they like writing / drawing? do they write / draw often?

travel & places

🗽 STATUE OF LIBERY - do they travel? have they traveled? would they ever travel?

🎢 ROLLER COASTER - what types of entertainment do they like?

🚆 TRAIN - what is their answer to the trolley problem?

🏠 HOME - where are they originally from? do they live there now?

🏝 ISLAND - if they could go anywhere, where would they go and why?

objects

📏 RULER - what is their height / height range?

🎞 FILM - what is their greatest / happiest memory?

🧲 MAGNET - do people find them attractive?

🪓 AXE - what is their go-to weapon?

🩹 BANDAID - do they have any prominent scars? (if so) how did they get them? do they try to keep them covered?

🖊 PEN - do they have tattoos? (if so) what and where are they?

🧹 BROOM - how clean or messy are they usually? do their cleaning habits (or the opposite) annoy the people around them?

🧸 TEDDY BEAR - what are their thoughts on children? do they have any / would they ever have any and home many?

🪞 MIRROR - do they like the person that they are? do they have any regrets?

📚 BOOKS - do they know any other languages? (if so) what are they?

📖 OPEN BOOK - do they open up easily to others? (if not) why?

symbols & hearts

☢️ RADIOACTIVE - are they ghoulified?

✝️ CROSS - are they religious?

♍️ VIRGO - what is their zodiac?

🏳️‍🌈 PRIDE FLAG - what is their sexuality?

💍 RING - are they in a relationship? (if so) with who?

❤️ RED HEART- are they easy to love? (if not) what makes them so difficult?

💛 YELLOW HEART - what do they seek in a relationship?

💚 GREEN HEART - how do they know they love someone? what usually are the signs for them?

💙 BLUE HEART - what is / are their love language(s)?

❤️‍🩹 INJURED HEART - what could their partner do that would hurt them?

💔 BROKEN HEART - do they have any past relationships?

❤️‍🔥 FLAMING HEART - what are their turn-ons / turn-offs?

💓 BEATING HEART - what gets their heart racing?

random

🦷 TOOTH - do they have straight or crooked teeth? do they like to keep them well-maintained?

🧶 YARN - do they know how to sew? can they patch clothes?

🦖 TREX - what is the biggest creature they have ever seen?

🐍 SNAKE - have they ever been stabbed in the back or stabbed anyone else in the back?

🍒 CHERRIES - a random sweet headcanon.

🧼 SOAP - are they clean? do they try to shower often?

💎 DIAMOND - are they rich?

🚬 CIGARETTE - do they smoke?

🧨 DYNAMITE - a random angsty headcanon.

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YOU CAN ACTUALLY CALL THE VAULT NUMBER???

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I think some people would strongly disagree, Fallout Fan Wiki.

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holy shit i got fallout 4 to work on a fresh install THE FIRST TIME???

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honestly you cant tell me pipboys dont have a cigarette lighter function. this is culturally cold war americana. everything was made with smoking in mind because the cigarette lobby had the government by the balls. pipboys would 100% have a part whose sole function was constantly being hot as balls so you can light a cig on it. and yes it would be extremely easy to burn yourself on.