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These guys could be forklift certified in less than a month.

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I dont know how it took me till you posted that most recent sole survivor art to learn you were a fallout enjoyed, it fills me with joy. Fave companion/storyline?

Of the main companions, I think my favorites are Dogmeat, Nick, and Piper, but I've probably brought Ada along more than anyone.

I really love the character of this robot, built by a band of survivors from spare parts, developing attachments and feelings. I appreciate her trying to square the conflicting input of grief and justice at the point where neither really fixes anything unless the root of that injury is repaired. Ada's friends died because the robots programming was flawed and lacked the ability to see struggling humans as viable, not because Isabel wanted them to kill. At that point, killing her would be cathartic but it punishes her for a mistake she rekt didn't intend and lowers us to the level of the other wasteland factions who perpetuate the broken exterminationist view of conflict. It lets Ada continue to grow as a living being in spite of her loss and status as a robot. It's something I love about Ada in my interpretation that I felt was lacking in my impression of Curie.

The game wants to give us a romanceable female synth who is even less experienced than we are, so porting a robot's memory into a "human" works but that's a bit cheap for my taste. I don't dislike Curie but I would've enjoyed the option to help her realize a human body wasn't strictly necessary to help people. Developing the "humanity" in a machine feels more in line with rebuilding a better world than finding ways to eliminate the anthropocentric limitations of machines in a world where they can be fully sentient.

And yes, I think you should still be able to romance Robot Curie. It seems to work for Mr. Zwicky and Miss Edna! I think that's sweet and let's be play this as a world where people realize joy is precious wherever you find it instead of queueing up Curie's emergent personality. We see plenty of other robots with fully functional autonomous identities. The ability to accept them for who they are and can become in spite of their origins is a wonderful aspect of the world for me.

In general, I like keeping folks around and trying to give them another chance to make a go of it in the Commonwealth without the Institute or the Brotherhood trying to pull the strings from above or below. I try not to kill anyone I know I don't have to unless they're going to keep trying to kill me.

I've destroyed the Prydwen and the Institute every time, but I wish there could've been opportunities to bring a few BOS characters over to my side in the process, Proctor Ingram, in particular. I also like that there are hard choices to make though, that characters you would want to join you can just have incompatible ideology and loyalty.

For the game's sake I back the minutemen and the Railroad, but ideologically, the Atom Cats are my "faction" of choice. They're good people, hacking out a place for themselves, putting their skills to less genocidal use, and trying to bring a bit of light and beauty to their little peninsula. They watch out for their friends and neighbors. They ain't so keen on exterminating anything in particular. They aren't looking to rule over anything in spite of their impressive power armor skills. My favorite outfit these days is the armored AC jacket and modded Mechanist helmet.

Far Harbor has some great missions too. The hotel murder mystery is a hoot and the settlement locations offer a lot to play with. I try to strike a live-and-let-live balance there too, preserving the synth refuge, Far Harbor, and the CoA if I can help it. I never rat them out to the BoS. The memory-retrieval mini game missions are miserable though! It glitched out on my first playthrough and I couldn't finish it before my PS4 died.

Favorite settlements are probably vault 88, the Starlite drive-in (makes a fanatic multistory apartment base), Spectacle Island, Abernathy farm, Egret Tours Marina, the lumber mill, Outpost Zimonja, Greygarden, and the lighthouse. I'm a fan of modding-off the build limits and resource cheats so I can build elaborate apartment blocks out of scaffolding, warehouse bits and vault pieces. I can't get enough of encasing ruined buildings in larger buildings like warehouses or vault atrium assets too. After a while, the settlement building becomes my favorite aspect of the game after the story and world-building.

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Well that's a skill they don't teach in boot camp.

Another take on my first sole survivor, Nora. It's not that she's scared of mirelurks, there's just somthing about that noise they make. 😖

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Ok at least three of these are naturally occurring for me.

Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

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We're friends now, right?

Enjoy my bones.

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Enjoy a few of my favorite Crittertongue background creatures.

These are typically one of the last things I draw on a strip. Most are just doodled in off the top of my head. Some are just shapes with faces (aren't we all) but some really capture my heart. I've probably erased thousands of them over the years for being too dumb or overly complicated. There are a few I might like to bring back or flesh out as characters but the real fun of them for me is filling this place with weird little guys.

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Sally, displaying the correct use of her nigh-unlimited power in today's Crittertongue strip.

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I want to draw her more.

And take six months off to do more Dinosaur Sheriff.

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Smol goat is processing.

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Columbo and I have similar flirting styles.

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Furthermore, who's to say Paladin Danse and Liberty Prime don't make a rad couple? (intentional radiation pun ☢)

"You know, L.P., of all places in the world, I feel safest in the warm, gently humming embrace of your massive steel arms."

Bethesda are cowards. We should be able to romance original robot Curie.

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Crittertongues Past: unsolicited makeover edition

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Sometimes I see the "this post contains filtered tags" card and I'm legit happy that I didn't have to look at a (usually) benign thing that I just find unpleasant.

Things I don't care about for silly reasons have a way of becoming more aggravating the more I see em so heading that feeling off is really nice. It's great to know I'm avoiding that particular twinge of bile I get from scrolling hot takes on twitter or seeing a bunch of posts about a show/game/thing I'm just tired of hearing about.

Instead of inadvertently microdosing outrage adrenaline from things that bug me, it's more like, "I'm glad folks I follow can enjoy OnePiece without me having to look at it anymore. For once, thanks website!" It's like fandom compersion. One of the reasons I appreciate people tagging their fandoms over here, for discovery and avoidance's sake.

Being able to dislike a relatively innocuous thing without the need to shitpost about it feels like a dying art and this place makes that easier for me.

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Second batch of Crittertongue zines are cut and ready to roll.

Roll on, buddies.

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Art school was a bizarre inversion of this for me. I'd always been too reserved for my own good. I drew and read a lot, didn't care about sports or partying, and was considered pretty weird in school. Then I found myself in a class with 30 freshman art students all mooning over DeKooning, Fluxus, Matthew Barney, The Stuationists, and Jeff Koons and feeling like an absolute freak because I own guns, don't care for Jack White, and had to explain who the fuck Gary Larson is.

"Oh comics! You'd love Jim Woodring! He makes comics but they're like Art in the shape of comics. Or Chris Ware! He's like the greatest living comic artist His comics are actually about stuff."

I appreciated the attempt to connect but it sure did make me feel like, "How am I so normal that I'm still kinda of the weird one here?" I mean there were weirder people but they were the kind of weird that makes people think you'll be famous or might be legit unstable. There's being the guy who busts out deeply stoned conceptions of the universe and derails class for 20min then there's the look I got for saying guns are actually a lot of fun and it's not all about violence and masculine overcompensation.

I was not cool weird. But if I'm being honest that did make it feel a little less like my life had been turned inside out by moving away to school. Looking back, it's almost a comforting consistency.

survival horror protagonists

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Art school was a bizarre inversion of this for me. I'd always been too reserved for my own good. I drew and read a lot, didn't care about sports or partying, and was considered pretty weird in school. Then I found myself in a class with 30 freshman art students all mooning over DeKooning, Fluxus, Matthew Barney, The Stuationists, and Jeff Koons and feeling like an absolute freak because I own guns, don't care for Jack White, and had to explain who the fuck Gary Larson is.

"Oh comics! You'd love Jim Woodring! He makes comics but they're like Art in the shape of comics. Or Chris Ware! He's like the greatest living comic artist His comics are actually about stuff."

I appreciated the attempt to connect but it sure did make me feel like, "How am I so normal that I'm still kinda of the weird one here?" I mean there were weirder people but they were the kind of weird that makes people think you'll be famous or might be legit unstable. There's being the guy who busts out deeply stoned conceptions of the universe and derails class for 20min then there's the look I got for saying guns are actually a lot of fun and it's not all about violence and masculine overcompensation.

I was not cool weird. But if I'm being honest that did make it feel a little less like my life had been turned inside out by moving away to school. Looking back, it's almost a comforting consistency.

survival horror protagonists

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This is just what the comic is going to look like now