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I've got this Nick!

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CONFIRMED BACHELORS!

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Danse's backstory about growing up as a scrap-picking orphan entirely alone in the Capital Wasteland until he was able to save up enough caps to open his own junk stand in Rivet City perfectly pairs with the classic American Bootstrap Myth (where someone was born into hardship and through hard work and perseverance, they're able to overcome their obstacles and open their own small business).

The fact that it all turns out to be fabricated in the end is kind of perfect .

In fact, despite being born (created?) over 200 years after the destruction of the United States in the Fallout universe, he's the character that most earnestly upheld what can be seen as "traditional American values" just to have it all crashing down around him (a less charitable way of viewing it would be that the leopards ate his face). The very thing that he fought so hard to uphold was the very thing that set him up to fail catastrophically.

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you know how some people sleep with guns or knives under their pillows for protection? KEEP YOUR KNIGHT IN YOUR BED INSTEAD!! FOR SAFETY REASONS!! THAT'S YOUR LIVING WEAPON!!!! #mylivingweapon

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Playing Fallout 4 on survival difficulty is interesting in that it makes the story significantly better through emergent gameplay. It took me roughly two in-game weeks of scavenging and scrounging every available resource before I was able to get out of Sanctuary alive. My first human contact was with a raider at an unmarked hovel north of the island who sicced a German Shepard on me without warning, and then nothing until Concord. I lost two shootouts with the bloatflies by the bridge. Fighting my way south to Diamond City was a jumpy, touch-and-go odyssey, and I was stuck in Diamond City for easily another three in-game weeks scraping together the resources necessary to punch through to Park Street station. Rinse and repeat for going after Kellogg, for punching through to Goodneighbor, for punching through the glowing sea to find Virgil. I actually had to plan shit out! For everything!

An inability to fast travel and a protagonist made of tissue paper turns every paperthin "moral compromise" present in the base game into a genuine nailbiter simply because you don't have the typical assurance that you'll be able to survive pursuing the dudley-do-right option. Covenant is a pointed example of this; attempting to take a stand against their kidnapping program is genuinely dangerous and impactful in a way it isn't in the base game, since you do it from within the belly of the beast and it converts a badly-needed stopover point into an inconveniently positioned, hard-to-assault nest of gunmen out for your blood. Extensive settlement building with the Minutemen goes from a bizarre, dissonant digression from the significantly more pressing business of finding your son, to a forward-thinking and practical measure taken to facilitate living long enough to find your son. The Brotherhood might be incipient technofeudalists but fuck it if they don't provide on-call airlifts. The Institute might be a totalitarian technocracy with a slave-based internal economy but they've got teleporters, running water, and if you threw in with them you'd never have to deal with any of this bullshit on the surface ever again. All of that's true in the base game, from a thematic perspective, but Survival mode makes you feel it. Finally, I understand the convention of NPCs farming out even the most basic fetch quests to the player; you're experiencing what the narrative has always been claiming would happen if they tried to do any of this themselves.

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Theresa Treadwell was a producer and writer who worked at Obsidian Entertainment on Fallout: New Vegas. When asked about her work on the game, she spoke about making a "conscious effort" regarding LGBT content and her perspective as a lesbian in relation to the project. She stated that Fallout: New Vegas is "one of best games out there" in the treatment of homosexuality, adding that it was an intentional decision.

We certainly didn’t intend for New Vegas to change anyone’s outlook on life, but if it did so for the better, then we’re happy for them – for you. Although I’ve been out for a very long time, I made a conscious effort to be out with relation to this project, as I wanted to be visible as a lesbian in the game industry. New Vegas itself is, I think, one of (if not the) best games out there in how we treat homosexuality – and all of that is very intentional. If my work on FNV, if my being out has helped even one gay person, then I have succeeded.

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go ahead atheists... would you hit him out of the park for a million dollars?

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Big fan of romances that revolve around two very strange individuals weirdo maxxing together

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Kent Connolly for a Ko-fi tipper!

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Post-Apocalyptic Suburbs

Concept art for Fallout 4

Art by Ilya Nazarov

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my kingdom for a world in which female characters who are brusque, blunt, and don't care very much about other people's feelings are written without either being softened into kind and nurturing figures or demonized into monsters and instead are just allowed to be kind of not interested in other people's feelings or somehow responsible for their peers' emotions

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thinking about how fallout 4 is 1000% geared towards men but what is more devastating than a new mother who has lost her husband and her child in a single day. what is more powerful than a woman in a completely new world fighting anyone and anything to get her child back. what is more painful than having to destroy the very son you've been desperate to return to. female sole survivor will forever be on top because we've all seen the male war veteran loses his family story. what about the new-mother lawyer who's never experienced war waging it across a world she doesn't even recognize anymore to get her family back together. what about that

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There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white

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Take it from your old man, the man in the fashionable glasses.

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ahah i'm so funny Was it an excuse to draw what I drew?

Maybe

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"depiction is not automatically glorification" can and should coexist with "some depiction is glorification and you need to be able to tell the difference"