MMR April 16 2024 - Stormy

LOL!

This is 🥶

I don't think there are any

"Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son..."

Isn't that something you worry about for 3 year olds? I think an 18 year old understands what "criminal charges" are.

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-supreme-court-effectively-abolishes-the-right-to-mass-protest-in-three-us-states/ar-BB1lEPev

If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all  

Rob Schneider is being cancelled. Again. This time from the right. He just can't catch a break. Maybe stop licking that rightwing shithouse tank. Comedy is funny when it reflects a certain nature; when you dig into BS and talkingpoints it stops being funny.

Fascism is fun ain't it?

If you haven't watched the Fallout show, based on the game, you should. It is basically an alternative timeline about resource wars, where America after winning WW2 got really Militaristic in exerting dominance over the worlds resources. This ended with a war with China and resulting Armageddon.

It appears some features have changed and I'm not sure I care for them, but overall they've done a great job in painting the story of Fallout.



Some of the changes (and I suggest you don't read any more if you are about to watch it) seems to be the role of the government.

In Fallout you have the remnants of the government called the Enclave. They together with big corporations like Vault-Tec set up a program to build all these underground vault where the best and brightest could survive in the case of nuclear armageddon. And in the game, you often play a snot nosed naive vault dweller, ignorant of the world above that for one reason or another leave it. Be it because of a raid, or just sent on a mission. The very first game have 'you' (and each game in the franchise paints the picture of a different protagonist) go forth and find a waterchip, because the water filtering system is failing.

What is part of the game is that the world, when it ended, had the style of the 50's, set in 2077. So much of the world has the architecture of how people in the 50's imagined a future with computers and modernity's. The show do highlight the brands and styles perfectly, even if some other stuff has 'changed'. Some of these changes are a little annoying. Since the first game it has always been the case that the world went under in a nuclear exchange between the red (China) and US and of course also the rest of the world.

In the show however the point to it maybe being a corporate plot where corporations in order to preserve their dominance and profits somehow devised this end of the world since they fear there would be no more vaults built if there were peace negotiations and the other big corporations were somehow in on it too.

In the games the government hired Vault-Tec to build these vaults, and there were these social experiments going on in most of them to study the effect on isolated populations in the case they were faced with adversities. It was the government, that eventually became the Enclave, that set these experiments up as they were planning to possibly leave the planet. They also experimented with people turning them into super mutants and other grotesque monsters to fight the red, but this is more shown in the series as generally just the different corporations wanting to do it.

And that to me is so corny. Yes, powerful corporations do things to preserve their dominance, but that the government was behind this made sense in the games. After all, the government wanted to control the population and produce better soldiers. There would be little incentive for corporations to BLOW up the existing world and consumers as the consumption of goods was dependent on it. The idea that Vault-Tex would convince other corporations to destroy the world because reasons seems stupid. And why would one corporation want to perform experiments on basically a population that no longer functionally consumed anything other then what was already stored or grown in these vaults.

That part shifted it from a fascist dominant government locked in a resource war to a bunch of super powerful corporations acting like sociopaths. In the game, patriotism, or false patriotism is kind of a hallmark. Here all this gets thrown out in favor of a very weird plot to 'preserve' these corporations. And given that the whole world is basically set to a scavenger society of raiders, cannibals, mutated creatures and scattered barebones societies in rusted up remnants of destroyed cities, the plot hole itself is massive.

One thing that is also different is the role of the Brotherhood of Steel. That faction in the game isn't always 'nice', but it basic mission is to preserve old world technology in a fairly 'medieval' structure of a faction. They're not specifically genocidal. In the game, and sure there are splinter groups all over North America, they come across as a hyper militarized organization full of indifferent dicks. If you have played all games (and I have), that's generally not the case. Yes, their moral based, mission oriented system can be harsh, but they don't just murder everyone, or mistreat themselves in the process. In this show the squire, attached to the knight, are less then abused cannon fodder. It is true that in the games the knight (in heavy power armor) has far more prestige than say the squire or grunts, but it works more like a military organization with layers of leadership. Where as in the show the knights are entirely indifferent assholes, the leaders and bloodthirsty lunatics, the squires are scheming dickholes and they're pretty incompetent at even basic warfare. Even for an organization that have these massive power armor


Finally, Ghouls are these humans that have turned into radiated survivalist, that can live for hundreds of years. Radiation as so fundamentally changed them that they look like noseless, leatherfaced almost walking dead, but they're just as alive as anyone, just time and the environment can't kill them.

In the show they're almost impossible to kill, which is not true in the games at all. Feral ghouls exist, which are ghouls that has lost all their humanity and can be considered primal killing machines, but in the show, this is due to not being able to score this mysterious concoction, so they turn feral. Throughout the show the main ghoul protagonist/antagonist keep having to inhale this drug or else he start turning.

That is never the case in the games at all. Or the near impossible way to kill them. Which is ironic since at one point a bunch of feral ghouls get lose and attack these organ harvesters and they could shoot and kill them just fine (in fact in the game it is harder since they're so primal they barely feel pain and just charge at you). But earlier in the show the main ghoul guy gets shot several times in the back and manage to shrug it off. 

These inconsistences are annoying, particularly since Bethesda is behind the show (owner of the franchise and have released most of the games). I'm not sure why they are pivoting these things as it makes it perhaps dumber, as suppose to in line with the game(s). 

Whatever is the case. I liked the show and I look forward to Season 2. And - I am also thinking about playing all of the games again, starting with Fallout 1, even if it was released in 1997 and the resolution is piss poor.

Did she even graduate? She has failed upward ever since her ex husband showed his ding dong.