Samantha Tyler

all the new god portraits (so far) in hades 2 !!!

the classic trope of "what if you went to a town and it was weird" never fails

If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

Soon enough the day passes and you don’t remember it was their birthday. Clothes from special occasions are just clothes. Their favourite snacks now another product on the shelf. Flowers are walked past, salted caramel ignored. Life goes on

Anastasia Trusova, “Dust” Acrylic on canvas / 70 x 80 cm / 2022

fallout new vegas: These Strip factions are all former raider/tribal/fiend groups who House rehabilitated. They all have significant members who want to return to the old ways.

fnv fans: nodding

fallout new vegas: House is the only thing keeping Vegas together, with help from NCR dollars and support on the outside.

fnv fans: nodding

fallout new vegas: In our game, many of you choose to do an independent ending. Your courier kills House and the president of the NCR.

fnv fans: nodding

fallout show: So now Vegas and the NCR have degraded significantly.

fnv fans:

Shout out to the Bethesda dev who looked at all the furious talk about the Fallout TV show, and decided to add "fun easter egg: the male protagonist of Fallout 4 is a war criminal" to the mix

apparently this is controversial but fallout tv show good actually

Thinking about how each protagonist in the Fallout TV show believes themselves to be the last true American because each of them is a different kind of American myth. Is being an American all about getting to be the lone gunslinger who exists in a world without rules or limitations? Is it about being controlled by a corporation in a hyper-consumptive society that only gives you the illusion of free choice? Is it about being in control of such overwhelmingly dominant military technology that you believe your power grants you the responsibility of being the world's moral authority? Let's do some drugs about it.

It's pretty fun to think about what perks SPECIAL build Lucy, Maximus, and The Ghoul have since it feels like the writers had that as character reference, even though it varies in implementation from game to game.

I'd say the obvious is The Ghoul has level 10 Charisma, Lucy somewhere in the middle, and Maximus though I love him has 1 or 2 since he isn't passing any speech skill checks. Where Maximus really shines is with Strength and Endurance since he takes a lot of hits that he can keep fighting through. Lucy seems to be spread with a few points in a lot of categories from her introductory pitch but a focus on Intelligence and Charisma, which reminded me of my first character where I did a few points in a lot of categories which then made combat very hard. Overall considering how all three characters finish the show alive with all limbs (re)attached they must have a decent Luck stat.

As for perks:

The Ghoul - it's pretty obvious he has Bloody Mess: "Increased damage with all weapons, and enemies can explode upon death." There's 2 big fight scenes where it's him vs multiple enemies and it with how many shots he gets off, it seems like he has Grim Reaper's Sprint: which returns action points when killing an enemy. Then we see him cut up Roger the ghoul for meat so he also has the Cannibal perk. I'm not sure whether the game would class him as Chem Resistant with how he shrugs off Lucy's dart, or if that would fall under addiction mechanics.

Lucy - an obvious guess is the FO3 perk Daddy's Girl: "Just like dear old Dad, you’ve devoted your time to intellectual pursuits. You gain an additional 5 points to both the Science and Medicine skills." Her rewiring of Mr Handy suggests Robotics Expert. I might be reading too much into the random encounters she has, but she has a number of them so something like Wild Wasteland makes sense.

Maximus - Toughness: which reduces damage threshold/damage taken is an obvious one. He notably doesn't have power armor repair skills, but in older games a perk like Power Armor Training was needed to use it. There's a few different melee attack perks in the games but Fo4 Big Leagues fits well

Can we talk about this woman? She is a sex positive weirdo on the spectrum that can cut someone's head off and still refuses to swear. She wants to be a polite neighbor but will shoot you full of poison if she has to. She will fuck this random Knight because she is locked in a room and bored, after giving a sex ed lesson to the same Knight.

She is delightfully surprising and it is wonderful.

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard in Fallout (2024-)

logging onto tumblr dot com to see what the freaks have to say about the ghoul in fallout

Never before have I identified with a tv character so much.

I love the ghoul bc badass corpselike cowboy makes my brain go brrrrrrrrrrr but at the same time. AT THE SAME TIME! he’s a two hundred fifty year old man who survived the attempted eradication of civilization by the corporation he endorsed bc his wife asked him to (the same wife he loved. the same wife he wire tapped and listened to her suggest to a room full of capitalists they bomb the world) but sacrificed his humanity & became a “monster” in the process — not just in looks and status, but morality. he ( who didn’t even like the his characters he played as an actor to be cruel) embraced everything he once stood against. the radiation didn’t just poison his body but also his gentle soul. became not just a ghoul but THE ghoul. a perpetually impassive jaded bounty hunter who never flinches. an urban legend that haunts the wasteland. brutal skilled dangerously intelligent and borderline impossible to stop once he has a goal in mind. who doesn’t discriminate who he kills. a famous western actor who played the “good guy” turned murderous fallout outlaw. who denies there’s any good left in him but, despite this, hasn’t turned feral or ended his life. because he still has reasons (and hope. maybe a tiny itty bit of hope)

@caitmayart and/or anyone else responsible for all the glorious Arthur Agueforts

I LOVE you