I hate Illinois Nazis

The most sensual description of aircraft manufacturing I have ever read

Imagine if someone came into the bar you frequent and said this about you.

The regulars like Spot are what keep them in business.

Good. May they learn to never preorder.

I would chill tf out

Technically we all came from the three sons of Noah and their wives, according to Genesis. You don’t need to think about that one much, though. Probably a lot of cousin marriage.

EDIT: sons, idk why it said songs

I mean that good stuff from Game Xchange

On my way to purchase 17 used copies of Dishonored

So they called nine-eleven, like any piggy would

And they sent out RAAAAAMMMBOOOOO, just as faaassst as they could

Pilotwings 64 - Rocket Pack

I could not even describe this song when I first heard it as a kid. As an adult, I realize this is the funkiest shit ever.

What I’m saying is it doesn’t matter what some other adaptation has done, they need to focus on representing ME in a way that preserves its themes and story, what anyone else has done be damned.

As for Fallout, the acting was great, but no, I don’t think the writers respect the source material. They respect the feel of the source material, for sure. I love the way most of it’s shot, and I really love how the vaults are shown to be much more massive. Leaning into the cultish aspect of the Brotherhood of Steel was an awesome move and I think totally fits the path of their organization.

But, as I said in my last comment, there were a few key points about the Fallout world that they changed without much reason other than to give a new story a familiar setting. And I think that’s just inherently disrespectful in a world where large swaths of land haven’t been touched by the franchise.

It’d be just as easy to set it in Texas, or Illinois, or somewhere without a ton of solidified lore. But they set the show in a location with >135 years of post-war history and post-war development, that was under control of a nation so large it was manufacturing concrete and colonizing new lands. Then they kinda… just said their capital got nuked and they disappeared and the 12 survivors are communist now???

Also worth noting that East Coast Fallout and West Coast Fallout are very different thematically, with East Coast focusing on rebuilding and West Coast focusing on humanity repeating the same mistakes that led to the Great War (War Never Changes…).

The show wears Fallout’s skin, for sure. There’s also many dialogue exchanges that feel like nods to how the world works in-game, and I love that. But that doesn’t make it a great adaptation, because the Bethesda Fallout games also look like Fallout. And they really shirk exploring the franchise themes in favor of making a zany wasteland to explore.

I’m no hater of those East Coast games, I love Fallout 3 and I’ve put a lot of time into Fallout 4. But they do really feel like a totally separate take on the same world. With the show, the lens of that take is applied to the world of the original franchise and they definitely misrepresented how realistically ideology works in this world.

All that said, they left enough open-ended for me to want to watch Season 2. But I really hope they delve more into the actual ideologies at play. Because Fallout is not about a wasteland, it’s about people, what we believe, and how we repeat our mistakes. They’re already halfway there with how the main characters interact, I’m just hoping they apply that writing to the factions.

Longer rant over. Can you tell I’m into Fallout? 😅

I hope they draw inspiration from the Mass Effect games.

Not to be negative, but save for Last of Us Season 1, none of those series are great adaptations.

Fallout had some great dialogue that was very reminiscent of the games at points, but the lore decisions they made were questionable at best. Ghoulification was changed to be less mysterious and more like the process of mutation; the Sino-American war was simplified from a resource war into Capitalism vs Communism; and the NCR, an imperialist nation and I believe the largest in that area, has been all but destroyed by one nuke to their capital. Also all of the survivors of the NCR are communist, for a reason I’m sure.

Maybe I just needed to rant about the Fallout show. Either way, I sincerely hope they get some huge Mass Effect fans on the team for this one that care about the story the games present above all else.

I’m really tired of this attitude that Hollywood has toward adaptations, where they all want to make it their own. You adapt the story to the best of your ability, and the decisions you must make to adapt to a new medium make it your own. Not rewriting what has come previously.

Mini rant over

Holy shit. I saw Pearl Jam and Primus’ drummers quit, but I didn’t realize it was this much of a trend.

I’ve never seen any Star Trek. This is the only bathroom graffiti I have ever done.

Primus Sucks! 🤘

I mean, she’s shown deporting people the whole episode - ICE raids a performance of Dora the Explorer Live.

But the entire credit sequence is her walking into a pet shop and shooting every dog in there.

This new season of South Park seems to be less about roasting authority and more about reaching out to the masses enabling that authority.

In the newest episode, Clyde has a podcast where he spews racism, sexism, and homophobia. Which he explains to Mr. Mackey as an easy way to pay the bills. Mackey gets fired, and joins ICE to do the same. The conclusion they come to after they get invited to Mar-A-Lago is that they need to get out of that shit, and it wasn’t a good idea in the first place.

Insults and satire are really just trimmings to South Park’s very direct messaging.

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Yeah, Road Redemption is great. I wish it had more varied environments, though. I think I just miss Genesis graphix :P

I don’t know if the article mentions this, but she said she didn’t even watch it.

Which makes it funny that she thinks they were only making fun of her looks, because they were overwhelmingly making fun of her for killing puppies.