#institute\

[gageisahomeboi]

Another one

[r0yal-guardian]

Wanted to try my hand at making some propaganda posters for the Minutemen.

[mim70]

Residential building on the Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences

Koltusi (Keltto), near Vsevolozhsk, Saint Petersburg region

[falloutsgraygarden]

Nick Valentine is the best

[abraxo-official]

Thoughts on the railroad run (so far)

I forgot that you had to do the whole ‘betray the brotherhood thing’ for the institute and got really worried when they started shooting at me

Like I don’t wanna kill you guys!! You are my weird group of racist cousins! Stop it :(((

Also forgot that in mass fusion that you have to kill 2 assultrons and also a legendary sentry bot? Like??? How???

What type of company owns 50 different types of killing machines??

I . Am so good at drugs. The best, even.

I am also really good at freaking out and taking 50 stinpaks at once

Why can you just??? Take??? The core?? Like??? That feels so wrong??

It also only 4 pounds. I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t be that light

the scientist lady just snatches from you immediately. No thoguhts just grabbers

More people need to talk about how you can just ask the only dude in the commonwealth with braincells (apparently) if he’s ok be kidnapped

Also really really glad I didn’t even try to do anything with the minutemen because I forgot how boring that storyline is compared to this one

Borderline zoned out while the board of directors was talking and just pressed random buttons

Also the speech you give to the commonwealth records your pauses when you are trying to choose what to say. Like wow you really need to put my social anxiety in the game too Bethesda?

Immediately got cutscene jumpscared by just some synth telling me that I need to go tell dez that everyone is going to die and ligit almost pissed my pants

Glory :(((((((((

Nevermind I’m not sad about hurting the brotherhood thing anymore

Btw if you invite Brandis back to the brotherhood in his quest, he shows up at the church and tries to kill you which isn’t the most fun ending to that storyline

Dez either rejects grief as a concept due to loosing so many and is forced to do the same for glory in fear of releasing any other floodgates or she cannot accept her death and instead buries it until she falls into the grave she’s digging and both make me really sad

Tinker Tom does not want to be in a virtibird under any circumstances and I respect him so much for that

Tom does not know how to fly ANYTHING what do you mean ‘he’s the only one who has the skills to do so’???????

Actually now I really want to just. Try to see if the companions know how to drive a car. Or a bike. Or anything.

Yeah, dez. I’m fine with sneaking into the police station where I first met my boyfriend so that I can undermine the very thing he was willing to give his own life for. Yeah that’s cool. I’m down.

*walks into Cambridge police station:* uhh hi guys I’m mister uh *checks hand* not a spy. At all. Yeah, that’s my full name. I like armor? And dislike ghouls? Totally. Uh….. yeah. So, about that helicopter- *dies from humiliation damage*

[ann-admirer4]

Ann, object of study at The Institute.

(A continuation of a fantasy...)

Today it was a female doctor studying me, but really once they started, I forgot all about her... When I asked her afterward, she simply smiled and said she would send me her report in a little while. Here it is.

Ann is such good research material for the Institute. Since bringing her here, we are learning she has just the erotic potential we are looking for. Today we again wanted to study several aspects of her sexual nature, especially her mechanisms of arousal and her relationship with her own orgasms. After several days here, and prior to that her several days in captivity, she is becoming more compliant. When I told her she would have to undress, she did so immediately, as if it was the most natural thing. She is not shy about her body, and I think that here at the Institute she has actually enjoyed our interest in it. But of course it's the mind that rules, and her mind easily moves in sexual directions, it seems. When told we wanted her to lie down and just keep her arms above her head, so that we wouldn't have to tie her down, she simply said, "I don't mind if you tie me down." But we said let's try it with you just doing as we say. "No problem," she said. So we began. Soon after we attached the various electric patches she closed her eyes and her arousal began. Once she is aroused, she loses all inhibitions. She is a natural. Her first orgasm occurred quickly, almost as soon as we had the instruments ready (lucky for us), and it was very intense. But as we already know, she is sexually resilient. Before a couple of minutes are up, she is beginning a new wave of arousal. By now the sheet under her vagina is soaking wet, and her sounds are getting louder. I don't think it's the result of the formula, she has a strong inner resource of sexual responses. Eventually, she became too drained, her eyes open but totally unfocused as her orgasms blew through her. Once she recovered her senses, I told her that the Director wanted to work with her himself, and that she would be meeting him tomorrow, and that someone would come and prepare her. It is quite an honor to be worked on by the Director himself.

So that's what happens, that's how it's going for me. I am becoming quite fascinated. I don't think I'm that compliant, but it's true I am thinking less of escaping. The Director! I suppose it is an honor. I do feel special.

(This is a fantasy I have begun but haven't posted about in a while. Some earlier posts are somewhere on my blog if you are motivated to find them.

[pedroam-bang]

“War… War never changes.”

T-60 Power Armor - Fallout 4 (2015)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel

Israeli vintage postcard

[calder]

[theqhreator42]

you can tell Fallout 4 was not written by scientists because this guy expresses surprise that a project has dragged on for months

[theology101]

I’m bored, so I’m rewriting fallout 4. Lets start with the big factions

Part 2

Fallout 4 Enhanced, part 1 - major factions

The Minutemen

So despite trying to uphold the values of Old World America, it’s a military junta made up of disorganized paramilitary troops. My brother in Christ, thats Yugoslavia.

After retaking the Castle, we should have the ability to form a democratic government and perfect the Commonwealth Provisional Government. And then have elections for Governor that the player can run for but also very much can choose not to. If you’re playing an evil Institute run one candidate should be Mayor McDonough as your puppet, but forbidding you from running. If we’re rebuilding America, let’s start with Democracy, eh? I think that the president should be Abigail Finch, but I’ll take Blake Abernathy or Preston Garvey.

Also, I want there to be a continuous through line of the Gunners-Minutemen rivalry. Honestly, once the Institute is gone, I want a big set piece battle against the Gunners in Quincy (maybe destroying the Overpass with Artillery?) and freeing the still captive population of Quincy. Give us a fourth act, semi protracted factional conflict

I think it would actually be fun if this was a multi faction battle, but we’ll get there.

Railroad

The biggest negative for them (besides the brain wiping) is that they put a lot of focus and effort into freeing *only* Synths. Which makes sense, because there are only Synth Slaves in the Commonwealth (besides ones explicitly being removed) - so here is an idea, say that is because of the Railroad. Make them be this famous and legendary group who’s broken up countless slaver groups and factions, and have no turned to the Synth as their latest Crusade.

It’d definitely give them a lot more good will with your average citizen who, even if they don’t like Synths, remembers their story. A large, established network that stretches across the entire East Coast that has the vast resources to fight the Institute on a level, if asymmetric, playing field. Hell, let’s even have a few long-term Brotherhood infiltrators who are leaking secrets to the Railroad (Maybe they’re a vertibird pilot who “throws their trash” and agents pick up the encoded message). They know of the Brotherhood and have agents in the Capital Wasteland, it isn’t impossible. There should be an option to assassinate Maxson and replace him with Danse whos more sympathetic and wont attack them, but also won’t work with them either.

Speaking of, during the Battle of Quincy, they should be freeing slaves. We see massive empty cages when we go in game, have them filled and make it the basis of the Gunner’s new slave trade operation. We convince Desdemona for a joint strike, so while our artillery is firing, a few squads of heavies and infiltrators hit the cages, free the prisoners, and bounce before anyone notices.

Brotherhood of Steel

This one is going to be the most radically changed, because I think the Brotherhood, while cool in principle, felt undercooked. Which is why I think there should be sub-factions within the Brotherhood of Steel - Hard Liners and Sympathizers, split between their view of Synths. Brotherhood Ideology is not monolithic, in fallout 2 there were debates if Super Mutants were bad, or Hostile Super Mutants only, and similar ones about Ghouls exist in Fallout 3. And then there are the ones who are Space Marines fighting for the God Emperor Elder Maxson.

Hard Liners: Kells, Quinlan and Teagen

Sympathetics: Ingram, Cade, Neriah and Madison Li

Maxson himself starts off as a Hardliner, but based off of choices in other questlines, the Brotherhood’s own new quest lines from the characters I just mentioned, and your charisma in dialogue checks, can be changed into being Sympathetic.

Kells is just a straight military man, also the easiest Hard Liner to convert once you convince him of the military impossibility of trying to actually find Synths, his quest would probably be making an airbase at one of your settlements for the Brotherhood. Quinlan is just a Maxson sycophant and propagandist and has fully bought into whatever Maxson says, even writing his propaganda piece, he also already has quests so he’s good. Teagan is a right bastard and Synth Racist, who will also disapprove of you making democracy if you’re a Minuteman - you have one quest were he sends a squad to intimidate your settlement and they kill the squad and you can either punish them or bring Teagan up on charges of plundering and terrorizing innocents.

Ingram feels a lot of sympathy for the Synths due to her own bio-mechanical nature and thinks that some institute tech can be used for good like agriculture or limb replacement. Her quests should be about finding a way to lessen her work load, maybe with robots, maybe by training and recruiting settlers, maybe by optimizing the Prydwen - her quest ends with her leaving the power armor frame and getting to sleep. Cade is a doctor, he isn’t too interested but since he cant tell a Synth from a Human under tests, he doesn’t really trust the Brotherhood to perform summary executions of them - his quest should just be getting the Covenant research to validate his assumption of ‘dont kill synths.’ Neriah thinks that Institute research in general, especially in bio science, and that Synth researchers with their long lives and rad resistance would be a massive boon for the Brotherhood, she also thinks Synths are similar to Star Paladin Cross and he was fine? - her quest already exists. Madison Li obviously values Synths and the Institute and, one step further, doesn’t want to destroy it either. Hold trials and take over? Sure, but not destroy a perfectly good lab filled with good people

Also, someone on the Sympathetic side is a Railroad agent but idk who, you decide! Not the only one, but definitely the highest ranking

Based off of all these people and their quests, I want a Far Harbor style “Everyone pause and let’s talk about it!” where there is just a full on debate between the leaders of the Brotherhood about wether or not Synths need to be destroyed, or just the method of creating and controlling Synths, allowing them to be free people. Hell, let this happen after Danse runs off but before you go get him. Make a case that the Institute records you stole have him as an escaped slave who then enlisted, of his own free will - while he needs to be taken off the active line of fire while the Institute still has the ability to control him (albeit only up close and if he hears it, so maybe just blast death metal?), let him be the thing that changes Maxson’s policy.

Or if you’re an absolute bastard, instead of doing anything that I just said you encourage everyone’s worst tendencies. Tell Cade that Covenant is almost there and that you let them carry on, get Proctor Ingram believing in conspiracy theories and Teagan an alt-right podcast where they debate whether or not the Brotherhood should have mandatory breeding regulations. I doubt anyone would play it, and all this option would do is lock you out of other stuff (probably preventing or toppling the Commonwealth Provisional Government but hey, at least you get to be Elder of the newly founded Commonwealth Chapter!), but if someone wants to be a bastard and not an unhinged freak who eats corpses, this is how

Let your choices in the story matter.

For the Battle of Quincy, just send a vertibird or two and drop in some guys in power armor and heavy weapons. Land them inside the walls while the Minutemen storm the gates - after the Artillery and Railroad have escaped, of course

The Good Ending

Before we get to the Institute, this is what I call the Good Ending. With the Brotherhood no longer having a desire to take down the Synth, and the Railroad, while powerful, very much lacking the firepower to take down the Institute, are both brought to the Castle for a meeting between Maxson, Desdemona, the Governor, Preston Garvey and you (if you’re not Governor-General). There is shouting, yelling, insults traded (maybe there is even an intermission) but unless you fuck up badly or intentionally screw yourself, you have a joint Minuteman-Railroad-Brotherhood attack force against the Institute.

The Brotherhood still play Pacific Rim, as a distraction, while Railroad operatives sneak through the tunnel system in the Charles. By the time Liberty Prime has blasted a hole into the Earth and Minutemen and Brotherhood troops are storming the base, Loyal and Rebel synths are already fighting on the ground for their freedom. Unlike in game, some of these scientists absolutely would not go down swinging. I can talk those nerds in bioscience or engineering are gonna fight to the Death? SRB sure, but come on. Maybe not all of them are genuine and there is some post game shit with that but with your planning and overwhelming advantage, the Institute falls rather bloodlessly

Now, you can decide to do what Arthur wants you to do and blow it up, or… you can decide to give the Institute to be jointly run by the three factions and the Synths. It’s just a social hub, maybe some act 4 shenanigans (racial conflict)

Oh boy,

The Institute

Hey what’s their goal?

Like, beyond keeping the surface permanently destabilized (Sabatouging any collective government, fomenting conflict between Goodneighbor and Diamond city, seeding Super Mutants at random to ensure chaos) so it remains their pretty, perfect little petri dish, what are their goals?

I got the idea for this from a youtube video, so I’m just gonna say it “Why did you program them to feel fear?” Like, what purpose does it serve to give the Synths complete, perfect sentience and then enslave them? The Gen 2s seemed to be doing just fine. Okay, maybe you wanted to make perfectly humanoid ones, why arent they all like Coursers? Why, why, why? And no one can give me a damn answer!

So, here’s an idea: Shaun is dying of Cancer, so he had his eyes set on True Immortality. A Gen IV Synth, perfectly capable of human thought and creativity, perfectly human in every biological way only superior - faster, stronger, quicker reflexes - immune to radiation, disease and starvation and, once they reach a certain age, become immortal. And I did say “reach a certain age.” Using biotech and nanomachines, lil Shaun is the first Gen IV Synth, born as an infant in a lab womb and fully capable of spreading as a new Ubermensch i mean, new tomorrow. Shaun was going to wait until the body was in its 20s, but his brain cancer is getting so bad that only fragments of his mind can be copied into the 10 year old body.

This should be an active debate of whether or not this is the next step in Cyborgs and Synths (after all, was Kellog not just a Synth at a certain point?) where as some view it as a gross violation of human dignity. Show me some angry academics, damn you! Regardless, some (especially older people) should be Quite Excited about getting flash copied into a “perfect” Gen IV body. This also, at least to me, explains why they needed to be perfectly human - they wanted a perfectly platform to hold onto their intelligence and not go insane or lose their “soul” like the Necrontyr-Necron. It gives an actual reason for all the weird shit they do

As Director you get to decide wether or not this gets to go ahead or not - also whether or not you should kill and replace people with Synths. Give me moral consequences, damn it, there is NO WAY Piper isnt getting replaced in an Institute Victory and you the player should have to carry that burden.

Also i want assassination missions where I replace people with Synths. I think it would be a fun stealth segment to get NPCs alone and either kill em or teleport em. We’re a shadowy cabal, we should be able to end all the faction disputes quietly. Send the brotherhood home, break apart the railroad in a single night. Right proper evil stuff. Or, if you want to play terminator, you role up with an army of death bots and destroy everything for the Gen IV Synth Army!

End Notes

Fallout 4 needed a fourth act. After the Institute is gone, nothing changes. I just blew up a solid chunk of cambridge and am i high ranking leader in two military governments and im a secret agent, and that’s it? No interaction with each other beyond killing? No “crossing idealogical boundaries for the greater good?” I don’t want to fanboy for New Vegas but there, I could cross boundaries and convince people to join their enemies for their own safety and betterment. Preston Garvey is just like “Hey, we can blow up the Blimp if you wanna. Danse is cool, and I know there are kids on board, but I don’t want them breathing down our neck.” Like, motherfucker I’m their Sentinel - no.

The point of the series is “War Never Changes, so Men Must Change.” There’s no change in Fallout 4. There is no seeing the bigger picture and reaching peace. Once the Institute blows up, most factions could probably just go home because the only reason they’d bother to do anything is to kill each other. And that’s deeply boring to me.

Next episode, the minor factions - Gunners, Children of Atom, Raider Gangs, and Super Mutants

[amazinglyegg]

Nick tries to explain what trees are to DiMA

+ DiMA's drawing he made after that conversation (Nick's not too good at explaining things...)

Okay now for my silly little headcanons I need to write down before I explode

DiMA has blue eyes so the scientists can differentiate him from the rest of the synths!

I picked blue specifically because his entire Acadia room is blue with all the computers and such, which is a nice contrast to Nick's warm color scheme.

They were both tests to see how personalities would work on gen 2's - Nick being a preset personality and DiMA being left to his own devices to "naturally create" a personality of his own.

A small detail in Detroit: Become Human is that at the beginning of the game ("Waiting for Hank...") Connor sits very stiffly on his chair, but by the end of the game ("Last Chance Connor") he sits casually and a lot more naturally on the table instead

That's how I imagine DiMA to be - very stiff and awkward at first, but starts to mimic those around him (especially Nick) as time goes on

After enough time he starts to pick up on basically everything Nick does. Sighing, drumming his fingers on the table, even his accent!

He was practically a child without the whole "underdeveloped brain" part

So basically an information sponge who asks "why?" every three seconds

Nick found it annoying sometimes, but DiMA was the only person he could talk to so he always caved eventually.

Plus, trying to explain everyday things to him helped keep his mind off their situation.

Like, imagine having to explain to someone what the color purple looks like. Or what a dog looks like when they've never seen any animal except for humans before!

Nick was actually very cold to him at first, and continued to be every time he got his memories wiped and reset, but he would inevitably warm back up to DiMA every time

(except for the few times where he got his memories wiped several times a day, or even several times an hour... which was extremely stressful for both of them)

That being said, Nick's memory wipes were always a traumatic situation for him, and he'd have to re-learn who and where he was every single time

Through trial and error DiMA started to figure out the right way to comfort him and bring him down from any violent outbursts or panic attacks he had

Trying to escape the Institute was almost like a timeloop puzzle in the sense that DiMA had to re-explain everything to Nick and just hope they had enough time to figure something out before Nick got taken away and reset again

On a lighter note, DiMA loves drawing and would try and draw whatever Nick tells him about in the dust on the floor or on the wall - nothing could stop this man from creating art!

He also writes in nearly perfect font because he has perfect hand-eye coordination (and copied the font from the papers the scientists print off)

ALSO tiny detail, he drew his eyes yellow like Nick's because he had never seen his own eyes at that point, and assumed he looked the same as Nick <3

Okay that's enough for now I think!! Hope you enjoyed it!!

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for December 16, 2017; #151.

Slowdive “Star Roving”

Fazerdaze “Lucky Girl (Little Uneasy)"

Hundredth “Hole (Visual)”

Bike Thiefs “Destination Wedding”

Gingerlys “Turtledoves”

Ariel Pink “Feels Like Heaven”

Girlpool “1…2…3…”

Deerhoof “Singalong Junk”

Lee Ranaldo “Circular (Right As Rain)”

Diet Cig “Tummy Ache”

Courtneys, The “Silver Velvet”

Daddy Issues “I’m Not”

Priests “No Big Bang”

Current Affairs “Eyes”

Dame “Lines”

Breakfast Muff “R U A Feminist”

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Mr. Beat”

Cende “Don’t Want To”

Idles “Mother”

Naomi Punk “Cardboard”

Protomartyr “A Private Understanding”

Pissed Jeans “Bar Is Low, The”

Institute “Powerstation”

Japandroids “No Known Drink Or Drug”

Sorority Noise “No Halo”

Tasty “La-Dee-Dah”

Taiwan Housing Project “Veblen Death Mask”

Metz “Mr. Plague”

RMBLR “Name Game”

Suspirians “Nocturne”

Downtown Boys “Somos Chulas (No Somos Pendejas)”

Wolf Alice “Yuk Foo”

War Brides “Thyme”

Unstoppable Death Machines “City Lights”

Tunic “Eye Contact”

Unsane “Aberration”

First of two Winners Of '17 broadcasts.

[veryflirtytransportalate]

"So uh... what's uh... your, um, uh, you still, you, you still going by, Shawn? Your name, is still that? Is still Shawn?"

"My constituents refer to me as Father."

"I... oof. Oof. Wow. Well uh, good for, you."

"Well. Um. Thank you... mother."

"Shut the fuck up you piece of... sorry. Sorry. Got a little heated there! But seriously don't call me that."

"Sorry."

"Sorry."

...

[falloutsgraygarden]

Commonwealth a wonderin' 🌸 Selfies in front of Graygarden