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My ideas for a New Vegas remake:

The Fallout 4 theme plays whenever the NCR is onscreen for some reason

Boone says “yeah it’s been pretty hard for me ever since my entire family in shady sands exploded four years ago. and now this?”

House breaks into maniacal giggling every so often, specifically when discussing human tragedy. Like ten seconds straight of giggling.

The Forecaster has an extra prediction option for the far future but he just shakes his head silently and gives you your money back.

When Joshua discusses the Dam he goes “With their capital city AND the trade route to the Mojave both being destroyed, we definitely never thought the NCR would fight for the Dam, let alone win. I guess we were just literally that incompetent.”

Dean is actually a valiant hero trying to stop the Brotherhood cult and get revenge on Sinclair for the unimaginable amount of suffering he apparently intentionally caused. He did torture a woman for weeks, though.

Caesar or Kimball or anyone mentions how the NCR has abandoned the entirety of Southern California and their seat of government is now 150 people in an observatory.

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I think they’re right ❤️

thought abt this quote too much so now you have to

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AHEAD OF THE United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution. In 2012, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution granting Palestine the status of a non-member observer state. The diplomatic cables detail pressure being applied to members of the Security Council, including Malta, the rotating president of the council this month. Ecuador in particular is being asked to lobby Malta and other nations, including France, to oppose U.N. recognition. The State Department’s justification is that normalizing relations between Israel and Arab states is the fastest and most effective way to achieve an enduring and productive statehood. While clarifying that President Joe Biden has worked vigorously to support “Palestinian aspirations for statehood” within the context “of a comprehensive peace that would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” a diplomatic cable dated April 12 details U.S. talking points against a U.N. vote for Palestinian statehood. The cable says that Security Council members must be persuaded to reject any proposal for Palestinian statehood — and thereby its recognition as a sovereign nation — before the council’s open debate on the Middle East, scheduled for April 18. “It remains the U.S. view that the most expeditious path toward a political horizon for the Palestinian people is in the context of a normalization agreement between Israel and its neighbors,” the cable reads. “We believe this approach can tangibly advance Palestinian goals in a meaningful and enduring way.” “We therefore urge you not to support any potential Security Council resolution recommending the admission of ‘Palestine’ as a U.N. member state, should such a resolution be presented to the Security Council for a decision in the coming days and weeks.”

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My last comment to her was: “if I can tolerate furries I can be okay with ghoul fuckers, lord have mercy on my soul”

I love all of you weirdos 🫂

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BEES

glad to see those spreading the truth

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“Fallout TV show retconned New Vegas-“

Stop. Listen to me. Look me in the eyes. “Canon” isn’t real. I’m completely serious. It’s whatever you want it to be. This franchise is rooted in games where you literally choose what ending you want based on your actions. Please, please for the love of god tell me that this whole time some of you have not been deciding that in games with multiple endings there is actually one “real” ending and all the others are “not canon.” If you really want my opinion half the fun of this whole series is that EVERY SEQUENCE OF EVENTS IS EQUALLY “VALID.” It’s time to kill the Todd Howard in your head and realize that literally no one is stopping you from choosing what to believe is part of this series. Incorporate every game, including the ones that never got made and only exist as details on the wiki. Or don’t. Decide that only the first two games and New Vegas are real and pretend 3 & 4 don’t exist. Create a new timeline in your head where EVERYTHING happens BUT Fallout 3 and yet Fallout 4 still fucking happens. Incorporate the fan theories you like and disregard the ones you don’t. Add your headcanons. Just MAKE SHIT UP. It doesn’t fucking matter! And that’s beautiful!!!! War never changes but goddamn canon sure will, but only if you believe!!

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Guys it's okay that the fallout show retconned fnv! It just means New Vegas is from an alternative universe where fallout games are good :)

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Genuinely, what is the point of setting the Fallout show on the west coast if it was just going to invalidate everything that happened in the West Coast Trilogy. Shady Sands has fallen, the NCR is a memory, New Vegas is a crater in the ground. The New California Republic, Caesar's Legion, The Enclave, Mr. House, all brushed to the side for a wasteland with no semblance of human society beyond shanty-towns; with no semblance of the legitimate cities of Fallouts 2 and New Vegas. All to what end? To allow the Brotherhood of Steel to make an undeserved comeback?

If anything, I think the series should be the final nail in the coffin that Bethesda fundamentally misunderstands Fallout. In a franchise whose very nature is defined by the Atom Bomb and how it was used as a means to an end by a corrupt Capitalist system; how humanity rose from the ashes of a broken world with the dream of building something better; how our only hope for the future is to learn from our past mistakes and create a world where they can never be made again; Bethesda seems determined to keep us stuck in the past. That we should never advance past the ideals of the nation that led us to this nuclear landscape in the first place, that we should never try to make something new atop the ashes of what came before. That we should just forever stay rats scurrying in the wastes, amongst the shattered visage of Ozymandias and the fruits of his labor, looking up to what he left behind as an example of the kind of existence we should strive to create. Very telling indeed.

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The following is a Google translation of the article

The international media is not there yet but the local media in Israel has acknowledged that it lost the war in Gaza and Israel is now a pariah state. This is what everyone told them would happen if they initiated a ground invasion. Israel didn't listen.

This military defeat coupled with a collapse in support for Israel globally due to the genocide and economic woes means we're closer than ever to the end of the occupation.

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Story time: a couple years ago at my local farmers market I met a ‘nice’ older couple & we talked about my work, art in general, and Alaska. As a lifelong Alaskan settler, I am used to seeing many people come up and decide it’s a great place (in spite of the awful winters) and then, in turn, settling there.

(Note: I have written about my feelings & knowledge on AK settler colonialism, which I am v. much apart of. You can read that here, in response to some NYer asshat Zionist. This isn’t to bring attn to myself, but to preemptively shut down Zionists attempts to derail discourse/ activism w/ what-aboutisms.)

I asked where the couple was from originally, and they said “South Africa!” and I could NOT control my DAFUQ face.

What’s the point of this story? i surely don’t know, except maybe that none of is immune from history. None of us stands apart from it. We are all living it, everyday.

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Lama Jamous via translatedgaza

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All prayers to Rafah today, April 8, because the Red Line (imposed by POTUS, ignored by i$R43L) was crossed after troops withdrew. They have endured heavy bombing in the last habitable spaces of Gaza.

April 4, 2024. Palestinian artists paint a mural in the center of Rafah as part of activities commemorating International Al-Quds Day.

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The 2024 US presidential election isn't the Trolley Problem. It's the Prisoner's Dilemma, and liberals are determined to take the snitch option.

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is this beautiful solidarity too much for you, anon?

(also, i feel bad for you.)