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[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 3: Nuka Cocktail

Were you previously aware that Fallout 3 has an unused asset for a Nuka Cocktail?

The craftable Nuka-Grenade still has many references that refer to it as the Nuka Cocktail internally.

You can check out the page for the Nuka Cocktail here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Nuka_Cocktail

[skeletondremmer]

bro caesar in the whip

[lordsammichsilas]

I've been working on some comic stuff and decided to take a moment to write another piece about my favorite tin can soldier.

I've noticed a lot has been made about how Danse's vocabulary and how he speaks. A lot of fan wikis online attribute it to his being a synth. Piper even mentions it after the initial conversation with Maxson at the beginning of Blind Betrayal. MacCready will mention Danse is about as emotional as a bag of hammers, assuming it's due to Danse's synth nature.

The thing is, his being a synth isn't the reason he's like that. It's the Brotherhood.

Think about the other synths in Fallout 4. Nick, Sturges, and Magnolia for example. They speak like regular people. It's because they live among regular people of the Commonwealth. The only synths who speak in a robotic fashion are gen 1 and 2 synths. Gen 3 synths are indistinguishable from humans and get socialized as such.

Danse was in the Brotherhood where he had been a paladin for at least a decade. The most recent years of that are in Maxson's Brotherhood. Arthur Maxson and most of those loyal to him do not like outsiders and do not want the Brotherhood fraternizing with outsiders. Fiction and entertainment are contraband on the Prydwen, something that alienates soldiers from the people of the Commonwealth even more. It's the reason Danse calls movies a “moving picture show” and comics “illustrated manuscripts”. The Brotherhood is what alienates him from humanity, not his being a synth. If you only know existence as a soldier and you don't take interest in human things with other humans, you end up speaking like that. (Think about a lot of right wing weirdoes online talking about the objects of their moral panics and how they sound.)

Edit: another point I want to add here is that not only is he isolated from the rest of the populace due to being in the Brotherhood, but there’s a chance he’s isolated from the lower rank soldiers in the Brotherhood itself. In a structure with a strict hierarchy, I wouldn’t be surprised if high ranking officers fraternizing with knights and initiates is discouraged. You get the feeling that he’s never confided in anyone since Cutler died when speaking to him as the Sole Survivor.

Danse held a fairly high rank in the organization. One could expect him to be pretty literate and have a decent vocabulary. (There's also the common critique that the military is a cult in its own right and just mindlessly following orders turns you into a soulless robot to a certain extent). Danse is intelligent, but not particularly charismatic. He will openly admit he's not good at talking to people on a personal level because he has no experience with it. Also being a field commander of soldiers and being responsible for their lives requires you to keep a level head and not show emotions.

What I find interesting are the reactions all of the companions have to his being a synth. Even though he was kind of a dick to everyone during companion swap scenes, all of the non-humans (except Strong) are not only against executing him but seem all but willing to throw hands on his behalf. He was horribly rude to Nick and Hancock in particular, however Nick goes out of his way to empathize with Danse and Hancock basically tells Maxson to go do it himself.

With the human companions, MacCready and Cait support executing him. Piper is sympathetic, but still leans on a stereotype to make a comment about how he talks. Preston and even Deacon are against killing Danse, but their commentary after that scene are more about the nature of the Brotherhood itself rather than Danse's wellbeing.

This just goes to another reason I find the writing for FO 4 incredibly frustrating because the storytelling here is excellent. There's a lot of nuances and you actually learn things about the other companions and the world they live in from doing an entirely different companion's story. The solidarity the nonhuman characters show for a synth that was part of an organization that wants to eradicate them and he himself was pretty rude to them while the human characters' reactions are far more mixed is something we need to talk about more.

I'm not normally a huge supporter of redemption arcs mostly because I think they've become a bit overused and not every character necessarily deserves one. I think Danse does because he is someone who means well and fell in with the wrong group in the process. This could have been the start of a really satisfying character arc, but instead all development just stops after your last affinity conversation with him.

[auntiemurdoc]

Star Caps Are a Girl's Best Friend feat. Courier Six Stella and cut securitron Marilyn

[akiradachi]

As a certified Dean Domino Enjoyer™ I'm still kind of sad we don't actually get to hear dean sing

like we get 'Something's Gotta Give' playing at the Tampico and all. but that's already a song that's used on Radio New Vegas, and is confirmed to still be a Bing Crosby song in universe

But then the holotape used for that performance is called 'Saw Her Yesterday', and depending on your dialogue choices in the following conversation with Dean he references this title (and probably the lyrics too)

Add to that the fact that his voice actor Barry Dennen performed in the stage productions of both Jesus Christ Superstar and Cabaret, and was very much used to singing in character. As well as how we also get a canon Vera Keyes' song in 'Begin Again'.

It gives the impression like it might've been the plan to have an original song for Dean as well, and it got cut for budget or time.

IDK it just makes me sad at the lost potential there...

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

it is a CRIME these pubbies got cut from 3

what do you MEEEEEEAAAANN

[bennymaxxing]

was drawing ulysses as a quick warm up and maybe got carried away oops

[fallout-drabbles-n-stuff]

What do you think Vault 120's experiment was supposed to be(it's that vault that was cut from Fallout 4, that is underwater and was supposedly supposed to be like a "bioshock" inspired kinda vault iirc)?

I actually didn’t know too much about this one! Knowing vault-tec it was something absolutely atrocious. Maybe the sentient giant squid has something to do with it? Like maybe some kind of freaky genetic experimentation thing? Idk it would be neat if they were attempting to force some trait into human DNA like advanced eye sight from squid genes are something like that but who knows? Any theories would be appreciated.

[gray76]

I will never ever forgive Bethesda for cutting the underwater vault 120 from Fallout 4 it sounds like it would’ve been such a cool addition to the game

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout: New Vegas: Avenge Pahrump

Were you previously aware that Fallout: New Vegas has an unused graffiti model that says “Avenge Pahrump?”

In the real world, Pahrump is an unincorporated town in Nevada located west of Mount Charleston (Jacobstown in-game).

You can check out our page for graffiti in Fallout: New Vegas here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_graffiti

[gaming-thoughts-by-an-idiot]

So, I got this mod on that takes away the 'shop' you get when you talk to Gage, and change it out to the standard "what are you thinking about?"

And the dialogues are already voiced by the dude already, so we were really robbed from this...

So I took some screenshots

Can you guess which one I'm always running away from? I just hear the beginning and go NOPE

[baddieladdie]

love this line

running: ignoring agent deacon subroutine resuming mission briefing

[purkinje-effect]

Has anyone been able to unlock this dialogue with Del Lawson yet? I haven't been able to trigger it.

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

man the oceans in fallout have gotta be so fucked up

[badxwolf]

Far Harbor is so scary to me aaughh I will literally hold any bug irl with no fear but just looking at spooky underwater creatures??? Especially angler fish?????? Even in a video game? No thank you. Only the specialist of interests could get me to play a DLC like this. Todd better appreciate the things I do for him.

[spooky-donut-ghost-house]

Sighssssssssssssssssssss

CRAWLING IN MY SKIN-