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*cools ur dashboard down*

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"Next on Scientific Marvels... a Vault‑Tec representative joins us to discuss the 'logic' behind their goals. Join us live, for a conversation we’re assured is entirely cooperative!"

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i really like fallout because, unlike a lot of media that uses retrofuturism as just a cool aesthetic, fallout’s obsession with 1950s americana actually means something. it’s not just chrome fins and googie diners, it’s weaponized optimism. it’s that sickly-sweet propaganda sheen slathered over nuclear terror, where smiling mascots tell you to duck and cover while the government quietly preps for the end of the world. it’s about a country that believed so hard in its own greatness it signed its death warrant in cursive.

fallout takes that warped, post-war idealism, the “gee whiz!” charm of suburbia on lithium. and drags it through the dirt, showing us what happens after all the white picket fences melt into radioactive slag. in a world shaped by that specific brand of McCarthyist exceptionalism, the future isn’t flying cars and robot butlers, it’s a dinky holotape of your last moments before the bombs hit, looping forever. like vault 11, the one where the final recording plays after everyone’s already dead, revealing the whole “sacrifice one person every year or everyone dies” mandate was a lie. a loyalty test. a sick joke. and the vault passed, right before it failed, because paranoia and desperation had already eaten them alive.

that’s fallout. not just the end of the world, but the punchline that comes after the moral.

and honestly? that hits way harder than any sleek utopia. because fallout remembers: beneath all that pastel patriotism and canned laughter, something was always rotting.

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my favorite securitron!!!

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Honestly I could see a fallout vault(s) where somebody at vault tec wanted to prove communism wouldn’t work by putting it and a capitalist vault in the same connected system with the same amount of resources only the overseer of the capitalist vault is tasked to sabotage the communist vault at every opportunity metatextually showing how communism historically only fails due to capitalist interference and how that even the “experiment” was rigged due to capitalisms hostility to cooperation. Only Todd Howard would never want to do actually anti capitalist messaging in a fallout game

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maccready when the sole survivor brags about being a war veteran or whatever 😒

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Half-Life but instead of G-Man it's Yes-Man

"Hey, Good morning!! Mr. Freeman, right? WOW! You've been gone a while! Not that you've been sleeping on the job, haha, you earned it! But I guess now it's time to get back out there and show the world what you're made of! The right man makes all the difference you know!"

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im gonna start my chell playthrough

thank god i still have her saves for face ripper

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Finished a Yes Man x Courier 6 comm the other day

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wehhhh

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now if i could get the fffUCKING GAME TO WORK AGAIN

wish i knew how to make custom scars (file-wise) but this is like.. pretty close

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WENT THROUGH ALL THAT ONLY FOR THE FUCKING ELEVATOR TO NOT WORK

been trying to get the synth parts in lmcc to work when i realized I DONT NEED THEM FOR THIS CHARACTER ANYWAY

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wish i knew how to make custom scars (file-wise) but this is like.. pretty close

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ok idk how i did it but NOW i got lmcc fully working?? the fuck

been trying to get the synth parts in lmcc to work when i realized I DONT NEED THEM FOR THIS CHARACTER ANYWAY

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been trying to get the synth parts in lmcc to work when i realized I DONT NEED THEM FOR THIS CHARACTER ANYWAY

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hmmm should i start my chell au playthrough or daisy au playthrough next,,

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btw idk if there's still a lot of people playing but like

would anyone be interested in making a group discord?? maybe for rp/chatting/playing together?