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optiwashere · 6 months

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That new Fallout TV show reminded me why I avoid a lot of video game fandoms lol.

Dick jokes in my Fallout? Please ignore the porn star quest line in FO2 or the variety of crude sex jokes in every single game.

Anti-war, anti-fascist, anti-nationalist, and anti-capitalist rhetoric? Well, there's surely no thinly veiled satire in the first... all of the games (other than 3, probably) that deals with the inherent absurdity of capitalism in the face of nuclear war, touching on such topics as genocide, human experimentation, isolationism, and tribalism.

#random fandom thoughts #(I won't even get into the absolutely vile racist shit I've seen)#I thought the show was mostly pretty OK! Way better than I expected #but I love Walton Goggins like I love breathing air #and I was staring completely disrespectfully at Sarita Choudhury every time she appeared #the cast is just generally really strong and I didn't feel like there was one weak link #I originally worried about Ella Purnell's character but then I realized that she was the “pure paragon/good” role after ep1 and yeah #she plays that role exceptionally well #though writing-wise there's a couple moments that felt like her character was ping ponging a bit (a certain head and then jerky)#but like... super minor things that were again more of a writing issue than her acting #I'm most looking forward to seeing what they do with Aaron Moten's character tbh -- he played Maximus perfectly

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