Every country in the world is squaring off with alliances. Starting to feel very World War I.

Just let me buy one in the States!

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.

I emulate a lot of old games on my Steam Deck. It’s not too hard, but requires some work. I will do the work for non-Steam stores if/when there is something I want to play from one. However, I suspect not releasing your games on Steam will really limit your reach. My guess is that most people won’t go through the effort to get itch.io games work on thier Deck.

She has since asked for the image to no longer be used, “I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too. We can make a simple change today that creates a lasting change for tomorrow. Let’s commit to losing me.”

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/losing-lena-removing-one-image-to-make-millions-of-women-feel-welcome-300960513.html

Reviews have said that it’s good, but not fantastic. 8/10 seems to be about the average of review scores.

I agree.

I do think that the joke is very funny, but only because some people are upset that their favorite faction is gone, which is not in itself a problem. However, it is a symptom of the problem.

Fallout is about a lot of things: it’s a parody of 1950’s American culture, it’s a survive-the-post-apocalypse-using-violence fest, and it’s a reflection on what is America. The first two are fun, cathartic, and easily accessable. This is why Bethesda always brings them to the forefront.

Asking what is America is harder, both to write and consume. The New Vegas factions did a great job of showing how different people would try to rebuild America. Bethesda is only interested in the most villainous in Vault-Tec (who spent centuries experimenting on people) and The Enclave (a group who wants to re-conquer America and run a capitalist, racist, fascist state). The show depicts the New California Republic as a utopia. Whereas in the games it is a deeply flawed democracy. On the one hand, it provided social services, banned slavery, and fought against the brutality of groups like The Enclave and Caesar’s Legion. On the other, it forced independent farmers to become wage slaves and expanded to steal resources while claiming to spread freedom and democracy.

The tagline of Fallout is: “War never changes”. In my opinion, this is supposed to mean that the new countries that arise after the destruction of the USA will just repeat the same mistakes; regardless of what they copy from America’s libertarian, imperial, fascist, or capitalistic tendencies. The bigotry continues. The resource wars continue. The destroying lives for personal profit continues.

Bethesda seems to think that “war never changes” means that the Wasteland never changes. Overturned cars sit in the streets just outside of a city of 35,000 which has thrived for 90 years. As you mentioned, in 200 years no one had built a house fancier than leaning scrap metal. Any counties or city-states created by other writers need a plot reason to no longer exist. That way the world can forever stay in a Walking Dead-esque state filled with monsters and people who became even more monstrous.

What I don’t understand is why Bethesda keeps making each new entry further along in the timeline. If they want to tell the-world-just-ended stories, just set it soon after the bombs fell in a different city. It seems so simple to me and it fixes the nothing-has-changed-in-200-years problem.

A notable difference between the non-Bethesda titles (1, 2, New Vegas) and the Bethesda ones (3, 4, and the show). Is the willingness to allow for large factions/countries the grow and flourish. Fans of the non-Bethesda titles like these countries and factions and that the world is moving forward from the bombs dropping. Bethesda tends to keep the world stuck in a place where only small towns exist.

Fans of the non-Bethesda games are upset about the show sidelining the counties/factions. The post is a joke which shows that in actual history, counties appear and disappear, expand and contract, and thrive and wither all of the time.

Yeah Christians in the 1990s–and a bit after-- got pretty upset about “damn” and “hell”. Kids used to say “H E double hockey sticks”.

The vast majority of South Korean 19 - 34 year olds describe the country as hell.

“The survey found that 79.1% of young women and 72.1% of young men want to leave Korea, that 83.1% of young women and 78.4% of young men consider Korea “hell””

https://asiatimes.com/2019/12/75-of-young-want-to-escape-south-korean-hell/#:~:text=The survey found that 79.1,men consider themselves “losers.”

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Expecting, but glad to see it is confirmed!

I wonder if it will be more bearable than the PS2 version of The Answer. In that version, everything had abilities that let them have high dodge chances against all of their weaknesses. So every battle was just: miss, miss, miss

Hopefully Crunchyroll or someone buys RWBY and finishes the series

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USA! USA! Number one in willfully destroying the world

First time through a Persona game is always have-fun and do-what-you-feel-like time. NG+ is for maxing everything out.

Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!

This is something that I fear as well. However, it is worth remembering that the US has failed in many of its military interventions around the world. No amount of tools and weapons helped the US win in twenty years in Afghanistan. NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine is failing too. These wars show that a dedicated population can beat all of the technology in the world. Revolutionary movements do always have to be vigilant about be surveilled. New technologies provide a lot of surface area for states to monitor resistance groups. However, states have always had a lot of success with the simplist means of surveillance: just paying someone to join a resistance group and report everything they see. I am no expert on any of this and I’m sure someone here knows much more, but it seems to me that the strategy of revolution is the same as in Lenin’s time. However, groups always have to update their tactics to keep up with material conditions and abilities of the state. Don’t give up hope! We can do this!

My company refunds $50 of internet per month if you live too far away from the office to come in. If you live close enough to the office that you could come in, you get nothing.