For a bit of added context to this: All three of them used their real names and appeared as “themselves” in that first film, and they’ve struggled with the fact that their personal identities are, essentially, franchise IP. I believe that Heather Donahue has fully changed her name to Rei Hance because of this fact.

In Fallout 4 one settlement is a mansion, where the owners survived in basement. All of them were ghoulefied, and the youngest son who apparently knew to expect this was initially stoked because he figured it meant they would all survive the post-nuclear world. However, while he retained his faculties, his family went…

Every right-wing blowhard says some variation of ‘If someone can say they’re a gender, then I’m x’ and think it’s the most mind-blowing, Voltairian, definitive takedown of modern gender ideas and the greatest piece of satire that the world has ever seen, when instead it merely demonstrates why there aren’t more…

That seems my read as well, a real ends-justifies-the-means type. It occurred to me while reading this article that Moldaver may have used the raiders instead of NCR peeps because she didn’t think the civilized folk would go along with her plan.  Or because she didn’t want to “corrupt” them, like she probably feels…

Best reaction from a friend: “I tried playing. I went the wrong way and got killed by some giant bug before I even had a weapon. Like, five times. I can’t stop watching the show.”

Two hypotheses: 1) there’s a wider spectrum of ghouls in the show universe than what the games have shown us; 2) we can presume Moldaver has had her captive since whenever she went feral (unlikely she just went out into the wild and found her now), so maybe she’s been unfed and wasting away to nothing. It would be…

With a bit more reflection than might be possible in the moment, Moldaver isn’t nearly as much the good guy in this as the twist seems to want her to be, and I really wish it was more clear whether that’s intentional. For all her supposed devotion to Rose, she sure seemed perfectly fine with a revenge plan that…

Thanks for a nice set of recaps/reactions—some of the best and most actually thoughtful writing I’ve seen on this site in ages, and from someone who actually has history with the Fallout franchise, even.

pretty good show, man. lots of little things they can improve in season 2, but for a first season with that kind of baggage i think the team did a tremendous job.

Useless fact! Hanks authorisation code is 101097 , the date that Fallout 1 was released!.

Apparently the really wacky parts of Scientology (Xenu, thetans, and other sci-fi nonsense that Hubbard got from his time as a pulp writer) that have entered pop-culture due to defectors leaking the “sacred texts” are only told to actual Scientologists after they’ve been in for years (and given the “church” tens of…

It can have technical legal merit and still be objectively frivolous. Claiming you have suffered significant harm, going to court over $8 and a few hours of your time is, by any measure that doesn’t require a lawyer to define, frivolous.

But genocide is acceptable?

I’d argue this was the episode where Maximus as a character goes from being a bit tedious to one that fits quite well within what they’re trying to do, and Moten’s performance is a big part of that.

I struggle to understand what possible reason her opinions matter in this issue at all.

I understand the need to SEO seed the articles, but goddamn stop giving fascists like Raichick any oxygen at all (literally and figuratively)

Julian Assange is currently in the UK, you’re thinking of Snowden who leaked the NSA’s mass surveillance of US citizens.

But this is, once you rub at the veneer a bit, a pretty basic “protagonists come to a creepy little community” story, and the very familiar “are they creepy-nice or creepy-murderers?” tension can only do so much.

I am truly enjoying Aaron Moten’s performance as an immature, impulsive weirdo who’s stumbled into a hero’s journey. Or at least a lead character’s journey.

i’m by no means an Assange fan, but I have to admit that the work the guy did was really important and opened a lot of folks eyes to the scope of mass civilian killing we were doing in Iraq, and the sociopathy of US soldiers doing the killing.