#muteradio

[cy-lindric]

Is there any way for someone to get their hands on/buy your french revolutionary calendar? I missed out on the store in june but would really like to get one if at all possible.

Not for now, unfortunately. I'm hoping to do another round of preorders in autumn, but I don't know yet when ; it'll probably be a one-week sale like last time, but for my work and my partner Cami's specifically. I'll keep you guys updated on here and I'll make an announcement ahead of time once I have a fixed date. Thanks a lot !

[horsewizardart]

I saw your Gamer!Trixie art post and it struck me that Trixie could easily be a twitch streamer like Jerma

two paths lay before Trixie: she either becomes the most popular streamer on twitch or she is permanently banned within a week

[fayelafaye]

hi i am doing a video series to keep myself occupied and one of the topics I want to cover is how people could support Trans, Nonbinary, or Autistic people in their lives better?

And I was wondering if anyone would like to contribute some thoughts to my video. I would cite you, if that is okay. And if not, I would happily say "by anonymous". Thank you.

For my contribution I wish people would be more flamboyant and weird so when I go outside I stick out less like a sore thumb.

If you have an identity that isn't listed above that you'd like better supported, and have a thought about it you'd like to share, I would also very much appreciate that.

Thank you for your time.

[multiversal-pudding]

I think any fear Raz had of his dad in Meat Circus was bleed over from Oleander, since while he was upset and potentially even angry with Augustus from their last conversation before he left, nothing about how it was portrayed before or after Meat Circus implies it caused Raz to be afraid of him. Oleander on the other hand, was definitely afraid of his father, due to the whole bunny ordeal.

I mean, he did claim to Ford he thought his dad wanted him dead at one point in PN1, but like even then he said it was because of how intense his dad was pushing him in his training, trying to get him to focus on being an acrobat instead of a psychic, not him actually thinking his dad was actually gonna hurt him directly

Even when Evil Augustus, the worst possible version of his dad born out of a misunderstanding, shows up in Meat Circus, the danger represented by him is comes from him pushing Raz really hard with his acrobatics or the idea of him being disappointed in him taken up to 11 instead of actual direct threats of harm towards him- which, A) Oleander’s fear of his dad is bleeding in there, B) Evil Augustus himself says (in a really, really warped way) the reason behind him pushing so hard with the acrobatics training was just to keep them all safe from the curse and to give them a chance to defend themselves from danger (which there’s a lot more to talk abt there, but not right now), and C) When Evil Augustus starts getting angry at him for “cheating” the obstacle course (which- note that it’s not him/ him being a psychic directly he’s angry about)

Like, when he sees his real dad, his first instinct is to run to him for protection. He’s not afraid of his dad- he’s just an angry and hurt kid who had some misunderstandings with his dad that led to a big fight. There wasn’t a real Evil Acrobat Monster here- Augustus is just a flawed guy doing his best, and sometimes when imperfect people are in imperfect situations, they fuck up and do or say things they never meant, hurt people in ways they never wanted, and just… yeah…

[papakhan]

You ever think about how Westside and the Great Khans both have an arena to test your might, and how the Great Khans still do business in Westside despite being driven out of the rest of New Vegas? It makes me think that Westside was where the majority of the Great Khans lived before House and the Three Families drove them out.

YESS I DO,, personally I think the Khans held large portions of Vegas before House woke up and started doing things, and I think the North West, the direction they invaded from, was where they were most dense and held onto the longest. I actually wrote a confrontation between Papa Khan and House a while ago that I'm gonna put in my Growing Up Khan fic very later on..

I think there's something in Yes Man's lines about how they held onto north Vegas the longest? And that's where Manny is from? I think that's why North Vegas Square and Westside have been most neglected tho people still kinda view them as Khan loyalists, but Westside kinda embraced that to a degree since their alliance with the Khans something keeping them safe from the Fiends. But yeah I think you're right... Man what if Red Lucy was a former Khan..

[meerlichts]

Do you prefer the clones with or without the control chips when it comes to Order 66 and dramatic storytelling potential? While there is something tragic to being forced against their will to kill their commanders, I prefer the horror of them all having a choice and many, too many, choosing to follow orders. (It also allows for cody to choose not to)

I’ve never heard of a story using the second one, so I don’t think I can properly answer this. But I would choose to believe most of the clones wouldn’t just turn against their generals like that; especially not the ones from the 515th or 212th. (This is obviously different for the ones who were serving under jedi like Krell...)

It might result into something like the situation on Umbara when Jesse and Fives were to be executed by their brothers–a few shinies might not want to disobey orders, like Tup in that scene, but most vode would refuse to just kill someone who to their knowledge has done nothing wrong and treated them more human than the rest of the republic has.

(I may be talking a bit more about fanon Obi-wan and by extention jedi here; In tcw he often casts clone deaths aside [insert that one scene at the citadel where they took the time to mourn a fallen jedi but couldn’t spare a single second for the vode that died there] and generally doesn’t seem to care that much; I do think this is just horrible writing. More than half of tcw is just terribly written, lets be real.)

If you have any recommendations for fics that execute this szenario well, I’d love to take a look at them!

[jinglyjangly]

So it's 4 am and I've been doing data figures on the most damage you could possibly do in an in-game second, split between guns and melee/unarmed weapons, to see how many bosses can be one-hit-killed. If you include all the possible relevant perks and a dose of turbo or GRX, the Industrial Hand does 884.57 damage per in-game second and ignores all armor/damage resistance. You can kill a Max level Lanius on a single dose of turbo if you have uninterrupted contact with him during it. (1/2)

(2/2) As impressive as that is, again with the best possible perks and a turbo or GRX, the CZ57 Avenger does a whopping 1618.8 damage in a single in-game second with armor piercing ammo (-25 DT). It only does that little because it will literally shoot all 120 bullets it can hold in that single in-game second, which causes you to reload. You can kill GOJIRA in 9 in-game seconds (with 9 doses of turbo or GRX).

me, a lowly artist who can barely calculate: 

[seethedivide]

Couldn't the institute just teleport the bodies out of there? It can process non-living matter, and if they really need a place to put them topside, giving the supermutants at MIT a constant food supply doesn't seem to bad an idea. (I also really wanna hear about your more morbid ideas for the institute's disposal program)

I guess they could but it would be super inconvenient if someone found a body of neir neighbor, returned home and found him alive and well. But they could dump them in the ocean or something - then there should be no problems, right?

And the morbid ideas... Actually, forget them. I relized that they make zero sense :’)

[tomsretales]

You could always say good evening when you work the sunset hours of the day.

Yes but where’s the fun emotional duress in that

[papakhan]

Swank, Pacer, and Regis are such a great trio for interactions. They're all loyal right hand men, but not only do they live radically different lifestyles, those lifestyles are the result of the different reactions their factions had to House's takeover. Which is definitely the source of lingering grudges between them all. It's the perfect storm of too similar in some ways and too different in others to be able to stand eachother.

You're kinda so right actually yeah... I'd argue in terms of loyality Regis is miles and miles more loyal than both Swank's "Benny's dead? Looks like i'm in charge now ring a ding" and Pacer's "I'm about to prevent you from making a huge mistake [open fires on The King]" but yeah. yeah.

The Khans/Regis hate The Chairmen/Swank because they're the ones who pushed them out of Vegas.

The Kings/Pacer hate The Chairman/Swank because they represent the ruling class that lords over them

The Chairmen/Swank hate The Kings/Pacer because they're harassing gamblers trying to get to the Strip and reducing footfall

The Khans/Regis hate The Kings/Pacer for not standing with them against the Three Families when they were forced out of Vegas

The Kings/Pacer. okay maybe not Pacer personally but Freeside/The King may hate the Khans/Regis for dealing chems to the people of Freeside

The Chairmen/Swank hate The Khans/Regis because they represent everything the chairmen have moved away from and escaped

Would have been fun trying to set aside those sorts of differences for a unified New Vegas tho!

[papakhan]

Man, I'm conflicted about the Khans "good" ending because on the one hand, that post describing it as them finally escaping the cycle of war and revenge in the southwest isn't wrong, but on the other hand it does describe what they go on to build as an Empire, indicating that they would merely continue that cycle elsewhere.

I think it would be more interesting to see how the Khans would be a part of the post-independent ending Mojave tbh. (Though that's mainly my desire of an Independent ending that explores the challenges of creating a coalition strong enough to fight off the NCR and the Legion)

Yeah I think about this a lot while tinkering with my tabletop fallout Wyoming story idea, though I do think it's interesting to note that the end slide says that the knowledge the Khan's utilised from ancient Mongolia was "Economics, governance and transportation" which is kinda interesting considering both what the Mongol empire and the Khans are imfamous for. You could just chalk it up to "The Followers didn't wanna tell them about the warfare and raiding" which could lead into a whole thing about moralising censorship of pre war information at the hands of the Followers, but I'd like to think they wouldn't do that. Papa Khan clearly desires conquest in his final lines but he can be swayed, especially if someone were to tell him that he'd be just another Caesar or Kimball if he did take the north by force, but who knows. I just enjoy the concept of then becoming more powerful than the NCR and swinging on them conceptually 😩

I do also think you're right about Khans in an independent Vegas as well though! I think the Khans being a powerful pre-House force in Vegas is super underutilised in general. I think if my maths is right they were a major player in Vegas for like 9 years? That's a seriously long time by wasteland standards. I was thinking in my Sasha House run that the fact that the Khans may have Conquered Vegas at one point and could absolutely tell a more major power how to do it again would be more of a problem to House, though my hcs about the Khan's previous "rule" over Vegas is a tangled mess and I've already rambled a lot here.

The Great Khans do have skill when it comes to governance though, with law enforcement and advisers. I think they could be pretty useful to talk to about making Vegas an independent state, and an interesting driving force behind the Followers if the two groups can be convinced to not undermine eachother (khan's more so than the followers of course). Basically I think the Khan's could make the Followers have more of a backbone while the Followers soften the Khans :)

[papakhan]

Oscar Velasco's "Flails of God" line is a reference to a Genghis Khan quote, "I am the flail of god. Had you not created great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you." Not sure how accurate it is, but it's popularly attributed to him.

Ooohhhh that makes a lot more sense thank you for telling me!

tfw Oscar Velasco knows enough about Genghis Khan to quote him while Papa Khan doesn't know anything until you get him a book

[papakhan]

I always took the corpse in the higway patrol station to be a victim of engine limitations, the note indicates the giant mantises around them killed them, but there's usually only a handful or two. I like to imagine there's a few dozen or so, and the vipers/jakals opened that room once, before swiftly closing it.

STOP THATS SO FUNNY The Jackals really said "no no. That's the mantis' room now 😔"

That or they threw some poor hapless raid victim into a cage of mantises because "it'll be fun to watch" and swiftly decided that it wasn't fun at all and just left

[papakhan]

I think New Vegas has an issue with how it wants the Khans to be viewed, based on unconscious/conscious anti-native racism and its short development time. It simultaneously wants them to be victims of NCR aggression and raiders who got what they deserved. For them to have a strong enough culture to survive multiple attempts to wipe them out, but still need the followers to teach them something as basic as reading and writing.

oh for sure i absolutely agree. i think we all know how badly new vegas’ writers tend to treat/frame actual indigenous people either as non-existent or wooby messes a la honest hearts. that getting shifted onto the Khans is a huge problem, both because we Know that they have a violent history that shouldn’t be aligned to indigenous people and also because their leadership is 4/5 white, with Melissa Lewis as the only character of colour in a position of leadership. 

it’s all kinda wack and honestly? raiders learning that their way of life isn’t the right one is way more engaging than a whitewashed native allegory. 

I think an easy fix for at least the writing being unable to decide if they’re victims or perpetrators is more of a commitment to “The NCR constantly lies in their propaganda”,, and i’ve mentioned before but I'm fairly certain not even people on the writing team could agree if they wanted the khans to come off as Okay or Evil, that’s the trouble with writing a neutral faction tho i guess. like i said, they got their redemption whether it’s deserved or not!

I also do think that the point of Papa Khan and the Khans in general knowing when to ask for help from outside groups is one of the things that set them apart. Papa Khan was willing to show a slither of his own weakness and humility and ask for help, which is something the Khans, especially their leaders, would never have dreamt of doing in fo1 and 2

But i would never agree that massacring the Khan’s children, sick and elders was “what they deserved”