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As he swigged the syrupy liquid, he thought about inflation and what had happened to the price of soda pop. Son of a bitch, he thought. It wasn’t so long ago that a Pepsi only cost forty-five cents. It was part of what it meant to him to be Mexican, sharing in the general bitching over the rise in prices, the cost of tortillas, increased in bus fares, pulling his hair out over the TV news, cursing the police and government corruption. Cursing the whole sad state of affairs, the great national garbage dump Mexico had become. For Héctor it was a matter of solidarity, of brotherhood, the share complaints, the shared disgust, the shared pride. Earning the ride to call himself un mexicano, guarding himself against the curse of starlets like Marisa Ferrer. It kept him in touch with his people. -- An Easy Thing, Paco Ignacio Taibo II

I don’t think Raul is in as bad a condition as he says he is, honestly. I think he’s old and a little creaky, but also loves to complain about ailments to get people around him to make one very critical mistake: they start to underestimate him. Raul Tejada is a very sharp guy, he knows what he’s about. If he plays dumb and weak, people by and large will leave him alone. I think if he was actually falling apart/ailing, he’d have told the Courier to fuck off when asked to travel with them. That’s not to say he doesn’t have his share of issues, be they physical or otherwise, but I think many people have tried to pull a fast one on Raul Tejada since the bombs fell, and the vast majority of them didn’t survive the encounter.

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“What if the reason we never heard from Kellogg in Valentine's head outside of that first time was because Valentine is a cool toaster grampa and figured out how to get rid of Kellogg on his own? He's capable of that, right?” I proclaim loudly.

People start booing. They know that Valentine would never do this for the same reason that he has not collected more than one holotape of ten over the course of several decades: Nick Valentine refuses to do anything if he is the only person who would benefit from it. The people, in their righteous anger, begin throwing things. A tato-like plant product collides with my face, and I topple lifelessly to the floor. This reveals a figure standing behind the spot I was moments ago.

Todd howard is puppeting my dead corpse. He notices that he is being stared at, and scuttles away, ashamed only for having been caught.

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I love how I've been gone off this website since 2017, and by looking at the tags and RB's we're still at a place where we can't have nuanced and critical discourse without devolving into moral judgement. This isn't on the OP btw, this is my observation of the RB's and tags. It is possible to recognize the many failings of this show and other forms of media, without ascribing moral judgement to individuals. LIKE, people in the west, specifically the united states lack such a sense of self because they need corporations to SELL it to them. They take things regarding IP's SO personally that they THREATEN other people. If that isn't the biggest level of meta-contextual irony I don't know what is.

So, I saw an interview with the show’s writers and it gave me a lot of thoughts regarding fallout, narrative themes, and colonialism.

First off, I consider myself pretty misanthropic, but even I know “people are evil and innately bad and destructive” isn’t the theme of fallout. That’s doing a lot to lift the blame off of American imperialism and how *that* is the great evil the series warns us about, not “everyone is like this”. The first game opens with us seeing American soldiers executing prisoners of war as America annexes Canada to take petroleum and uranium: it’s clearly about American evil and military/imperial evil, not something innate to all people.

Second, fallout is unique *because* you see “civilization” in a post-apocalyptic setting. Tim Cain has a quote about fallout 1 where he said “my concern in this story is the ethics of life in the aftermath of nuclear war, not building a better laser gun”, and that’s pretty central to fallout. Rather than stagnating, it tries to show us how life would adapt and move on from the apocalypse. The world will change, yes, but it will change in that the apocalypse will become more distant. The future won’t look much like the day the bombs dropped.

Third, what a colonial view to have! “Where’s civilization? Where’s *everything*?” is what you got from westerns? You think railroads and churches being built in recently stolen territory (as is common in Wild West stories) is “civilization”? Wanna tell us what you think America was pre-colonization, Wagner?

It shows this perspective that doesn’t truly want to admit the flaws of America, either willfully or (more likely) due to ignorance. It’s a sheltered perspective, one that doesn’t know history, one that doesn’t know other cultures, one that doesn’t even know the themes of the story it’s writing for���

Edit: this next quote doesn’t have anything to do with those points, it just feels wrong to me to write so spitefully for a series…

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~what are you going to do with a liberal arts degree?~

spend hours researching and writing niche meta posts on a microblogging platform that the internet at large believes to be dead, evidently

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IT BEGINS

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Hey guys, I have a priority fundraiser rotation for you:

Fadi & Shahed: 2,044 USD out of 62.5k

Sana'a & Sujood: 12,016 £ out of 50k

Mahmoud Qassas: 9,994$ out of 200k

Ezzideen Shehab: 10,296€ out of 32.5k.

Hussam Aburamadan: 16,374€ out of 148k.

Hamdi Hijazi: 1,511$ out of 25k.

Suheir Hojok: 16,897 AUD out of 70k.

Madleen Abu Jayyab: 29,005$ out of 70k.

I have personally verified every one of these campaigns listed here.

As Mona's campaign nears completion I'm preparing for you this list so we can show these families the same amazing and unbelievable support we showed Mona and her family. The invasion of Rafah grows nearer everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.

Version date: April 25th 2024.

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raul's MTG art

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Honestly, if Raul came across Cooper Howard I think within two minutes he’d be like ‘hey, aren’t you that gringo who did all those shitty cowboy movies?’ and then it would just be two old ghoul men fighting. Which is beautiful, but they’re both too old for that shit no matter how many chems Coop takes on the daily. Besides, Raul would win.

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Mac. He's such a cutie. I got nothin' else to say.

Thanks @omkdear for your help with the color palette 💚

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i want this bald old fucker so carnally, you draw him so fucking good @happyhappysparkle!!

Oh look, it’s been about ten minutes since we had a doodle of That Old Man.

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Deacon and Bullseye, man. Love this sorta-cyanotype color palette.

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More than just a little in love with my human version of Nick Valentine, okay? Don't come for me.

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Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) dir. Alain Resnais

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

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Pedro Pascal - TUWOMT (2022) Deleted Scene "Chit Chat"