It is always time to rewatch MegaMind!

I honestly wasn’t going to switch, but him being backed up by the official account was iffy. Even still, I wasn’t necessarily making moves to switch. But I tried to use a new card to pay for my Proton subscription, and it wouldn’t verify. I eventually had to make a Paypal just to pay my bill and avoid losing access to my account. So I kinda decided, “fuck it, they can’t be that shitty of a company and get my money still.”

I was kinda planning to switch, just not urgently. But now, I hope to be fully moved over to Tuta Mail in the next few weeks.

Okay Megamind says trans rights? I knew this would be the case.

Listen man, you’re hanging out in the desert with a bunch of donkeys and horses, you’re gonna see some shit.

Yeah I was gonna hop in here and say Fallout. New Vegas has all the themes of the classic series with the easier to play gameplay of the 3D era. That said though, I really don’t think you can start wherever with that series - IF you want a clear picture of what it’s about. I started with Fallout 3, and that definitely muddies the series themes a bit. Fallout 4 comes around and the realistic themes of humanity’s repetitive follies are all but thrown out the window to focus on the scifi, retrofuturism, and apocalyptic aspects of the series. Fallout 1, 2, and NV are the continued story of society rebuilding and making the same mistakes we always make as a species. Only the first one is a post apocalyptic game, 2 and NV are post-post apocalyptic with large communities and states starting to form.

No hate on the fun there is to be had exploring bombed out ruins, I still love Fallout 3 and I put in a good bit of time with Fallout 4. But while the West Coast tells the story of society rebuilding, with people making adobe houses reasonably soon after the bombs fell and eventually manufacturing concrete, the East Coast is full of convoluted reasons for why society hasn’t rebuilt yet in 200 years and everyone still lives in scrap metal shacks. Not that Fallout games are all realism, but I think the Bethesda games sacrifice the realism of how humanity functions to add more scifi components - and that’s just not what Fallout’s all about.

I should probably say an actual game series I think you can pick up at any game though, and I’ll have to go with Metal Gear Solid. Fantastic story that’s convoluted and told out of order. It doesn’t matter where you start, you’re always going to have fun! I recommend MGS1 for anybody with a day job, and MGS5 for anyone who wants to sink some hours into a sandbox.

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Every time.

If they give me the No Tip option, I usually tip a little bit. But fuck off with this idea that you should be tipped. It helps no one.

What’s that in the weeds? It’s a baby, awesome!

Loved all of these as a kid but I think 2 is my favorite ;P.

I feel obligated to post this, despite the hate it will bring.

I feel like the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg is the classic in this genre.

A farmer and his wife wake up one day to find their goose has laid an egg of solid gold. The next day, they wake and find another golden egg.

This continues every day for months and brings them unimagineable wealth. They build a bigger house, buy a bigger herd of livestock, and dress themselves in finer garments. Soon, their goose is known around the country for its remarkable talent.

The farmer, now fully aware of the luxuries he had been missing out on, studied the goose with greed in his eyes. He figured that if the goose laid golden eggs every day, its innards must be filled with more gold than he could imagine.

Deciding that one measly golden egg a day wouldn’t be enough for much longer, the farmer took an axe to the goose, cleaving her in twain. As he dove into the goose’s innards to find the hidden gold, he realized quickly that this goose was the same as all other geese on the inside, and the goose that laid the golden egg was no more.

It’s short and you can’t miss the moral if you try. Aesop was writing that real shit.

No matter how many times I see this, “A 101.5 ‘The Hammer’ FM of Moths” makes me giggle every time.

Now this is the content I come online to see! Keep it up!

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Fucking awesome quote. I’m going to keep that one in my back pocket.

Turns out they were always asking, “What is a woman?” because they had no idea either.

“drink up”

Too true. Bethesda really peaked with Oblivion and Fallout 3.

That’s just my opinion, though. I know the Morrowind fans are having a good chuckle at what I just said 😅

Some genuinely nice men who are socially awkward/autistic might see this and take it to heart that they are bad at their core.

It’s my favorite way to play New Vegas, though maybe only because I think vanilla is waaaayyyyyy too easy.

But New Vegas is the frontier, it’s still largely unsettled. Of course there’s still abandoned stuff, the only superpower in the area for a while only cared about the Vegas city limits. The “clashing of aesthetics” is deliberate here. People still live in somewhat disarray, and an advanced state with manufacturing abilities is moving in. Even in New Vegas, The Strip is in luxury and the rest is destroyed. It highlights part of the class struggle present in the game’s world.

New Vegas’s (and classic Fallout’s) thesis about the apocalypse is “Yes, there was an apocalypse. Nuclear bombs were how the world ended, but it wasn’t because of nuclear bombs, it was because of the behavior of humanity.” And then you get to see those same behaviors play out again and again, even after the apocalypse. Constant resource struggle, faction alignment, pushing ideologies. “War never changes,” etc. There is no shame in preferring a cool wasteland that you get to explore, like in Fallout 3 and 4, but I think it’s a tad unfair to point to the clashing of aesthetics like it’s a flaw when the main factions of the game are Romans vs WWII America. It’s pretty intentional for the story.

And I’m sorry but it is a video game at the end of the day. I’m not fond of wandering for hours with nothing to do or see in my free time. New Vegas has plenty of empty space as it is, in my opinion. It’s actually a downgrade (exploration-wise) imo from the awesome worldspace of Fallout 3. Whatever you like is whatever you like, but this has got to be the first time I’ve ever heard someone say game worlds are better when they’re less dense.

Fallout 4 is the worse Fallout 3, imo.

The shooter gameplay is definitely better in 4, the crafting system is pretty neat too. The story is like a weird reversal of the Fallout 3 story, with stakes that don’t feel as real as Fallout 3.

None of that matters, though. It’s a Bethesda game, and people don’t really play those for the main story. Here’s what really matters. The world of Fallout 3 is so dense, the side quests so memorable, that if you’re the type of player who loves seeing what’s over that next hill I think it would be a disservice to NOT recommend Fallout 3 to you.

This is kinda what I see from most people that dislike New Vegas. It’s definitely not a post apocalyptic game.

In fact, before Fallout 3, 1 was the only real post apocalyptic game in the series imo. Fallout 2 is a continuation of the world’s lore, so all the tribal villages have developed into societies. New Vegas expands upon this, with the societies becoming imperialist states.

So yeah, if you like exploring rubble then New Vegas is NOT the game for that, and Fallout 3 does that much better.

But, if you’re more interested in how society would develop after the apocalypse, New Vegas definitely tackles that question head-on.

Fallout 3 was my first, and I do love all the insane shit you can find in the wasteland. It will always have a special place in my heart. But to me, the NPCs are what really give RPGs life, and New Vegas has some of the most well-written, realistically motivated people I’ve ever seen in video game format. While the Battle of Hoover Dam may not be as grandiose (even though you can put in the legwork to make it fucking awesome) as the Liberty Prime antics in 3, it feels like the culmination of decades of real conflict. It’s not good guys vs bad guys, it’s 4 distinct groups that all believe they have the best plan to carry humanity to the point at which it existed before the war. I love it for that.