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Other countries/locations in the Fallout universe
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Anybody ever heard of Socotra? It's a small island archipelago off the coast of Yemen that houses with a relatively modest population of people, but also hosts one of the strangest and most alien looking ecosystems on the planet. The plants and trees in particular are utterly unique and found nowhere else, in either the Middle East or anywhere else on the planet. An example of the islands strangely bulbous Desert Blooms, adapted to living on rocky and infertile ground. An alien looking Dragons Blood Tree, endemic to Socotra and a peculiar species of what I assume is a cactus. Being an isolated island, the local wildlife is utterly unique too, according to quote sourced from an Alan Burdick article a scientific survey of Socotra in the 1990's concluded that it housed "nearly 700 endemic species, found nowhere else on earth; only Hawaii, New Caledonia, and the Galápagos Islands have more impressive numbers". This includes a large number of native bird species, peculiar reptiles such as legless lizards, geckos and chameleons, few mammalian species aside from bats and introduced domestic animals such as cats and goats, many insects including large crickets and whip spiders, and even a coral reef inhabited by plenty of aquatic invertebrates and fish. The ecological traits of the island aren't the only things of note however. It's home to several caves (search for either Halah or Hoq cave for some fancy geology) that explorers have found carved graffiti from numerous visitors throughout history and rendered in a wide array of languages. The island and it's attendant neighbouring islets are composed of coastal plains and deserts, numerous giant rocks off the coast housing populations of seabirds, as well as chaotic mountainous terrain. In amongst this ancient Gondwanan landscape are examples of Yemen's picturesque traditional towns and villages, clustered onto lumpen features of the area like limpets on rocks. ^ I'll admit that most photos of Socotra are pretty idealistic, these two were the most post-apocalyptic I could find. With a "real life" historical background of the Socotran sultanate using diplomacy to fend off much of the previous centuries colonial machinations, and a diverse ethnic makeup of Mehri, Somali, Arabs, Black Africans and Indians, a Fallout: Socotra could make for an interesting place to explore. If you can suspend your disbelief for a moment and subscribe to a scenario in which the islands unique and independent culture held on, despite the destruction of nuclear holocaust, and that from the ashes of the disaster arose an ecosystem that mutated unaccountably and went absolutely wild. Imagine the potential enemies and power groups that could exist in such a place, the sort of communities that might arise in it. DISCLAIMER: Please note that I'll probably ignore any and all posts relating to how "ermahgerd only da Amerikas was sufifed afta da wor" and thusly anywhere in Africa, Europe or Asia (despite each being enormous and unfathomably diverse continents) would be totally devoid of anything interesting because of boring and unimaginative lore bias. No offence. EDIT: Meanwhile, in Venezuela. An environmental sapient slime monster biding it's time? :3 -
??? You're scaring me, BTG...
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I've never actually played it, but I've seen several reviews and watched AlChestbreach's absurd playthrough of it. To be fair, casual objectification of women beside, you actually have to look at her mammaries in order to check on your life.
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Velvet Pillow by Cremation Lily
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Because I'm not really in the mood for an in-depth description of a potential mind series but because I think this thread deserves an overdue bump, here's my half-arsed list of games I reckon might make great Freeman-esque shows... The new 2016 Doom. Doomguy Redux? Layers of Fear. Ideally voiced by some angry but logical comedian like David Mitchell or Richard Ayoade. It would be fairly short. Of Light And Darkness: The Prophecy, the millennial apocalyptic first-person FMV adventure game that supposedly killed Interplay. The protagonist is both unseen and mute. The Forest, the only real issue I can see here is having to name your faceless anonymous protagonist. "My Plane Crashed Into A Forest And Now I'm Surrounded My Naked Inbreds" Guy's Mind? Chivalry Medieval Warfare, which is actually a horrible idea given that it's an online game. Sir Diesalot's Mind. Any of the Paperboy games. Your little guy is mute as he goes about breaking people's windows and generally hating his fellow man. You could even cast Freeman in the part and just explain that he had a paper route as a young lad. Trespasser, the 1998 computer game tie-in for Jurassic Park with its notorious feature which allowed players to look down and oggle the female protagonists breasts. E.Ψ.Ǝ: Divine Cybermancy, partly because nobody has heard of it and partly cus' E.Ψ.Ǝ Monk's Mind sounds rad as balls. Elder Scrolls: Battlespire, if only because from what I've heard and seen about it, you can talk to anyone or anything you come across in game. Chex Quest?
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If I wasn't such a natural procrastinator I'm sure I could find some online guide to resolve it. In regards to computers I'm a little bit like new media equivalent of a doudy jowly-faced petty-aristocratic duchess lifted from an Agatha Christie novel.
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Thanks ladies and gentlemen! I've had a surprising amount of presents from Birthday Santa today, and discovering this thread makes me feel warm and fuzzy in my happy parts.
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That would make for a great band name. Not really sure what genre though. To me it sounds like some ironically fascist idiot-baiting hardcore punk or grindcore band, similar to the obviously contentious-for-conservatives Reagan Youth or Fearless Iranians From Hell.
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That one game you love that everyone else hates
Selfsurprise replied to Psychotic Ninja's topic in Gaming in general
I guess that was to put you in a tense and vulnerable psychological state, Isaac's movements are quite awkward and clumsy too - at least compared to the necromorphs themselves. It really ramped up the "ohgodohgodohgodohgod!" aspect for me, especially during distressingly close-quarter combat. -
Having had a nice long conversation about the pros and cons of the Resident Evil franchise with an acquaintance today, I do like the particular "real world" setting-niche it occupies. The series isn't exactly above standard 90's corniness in regards to the cast and narrative, but there is something immeasurably cool about an alternative world where biological warfare has advanced to a state that the world's corporate power groups have nefarious paradigm-shifting agendas and the capacity to engineer horrific and unnatural monsters as weaponry.
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I don't suppose this is in any way related to Donald Trump's inauspicious rise to power? :3
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This sounds like a program that would turn all in-game characters into Ross, irrespective of their gender or even species.
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#competitive lightbulb replacement
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Pleasure Corpse by Sutcliffe Jügend
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I voted to remain, for all the good it did. I checked out the ratio of in/out votes for Tamworth and it was kind of embarrassing, I think it was something along the lines 68% leave versus 33% remain. Truth be told I wasn't overwhelmingly surprised by my town's response, Tamworth is a moderate though very white part of a rather more diverse and metropolitan region. What did surprise me was the leave bias for the Midlands in general though, resulting in a substantial backing for Brexit - and that includes Birmingham no less! Birmingham has a hugely multicultural demographic and has one of the youngest populations of any city in Europe, I honestly didn't see that result coming. I can only assume that young midlanders either felt too estranged from the tedious "party politics" that have characterised this whole campaign (were we having an election, Britain?) or else a lot of anti-authoritarian sentiment resulted in "protest votes" aiming at upsetting Cameron's agenda. Truth be told I'm feeling mildly anxious but largely ambivalent about the referendums results. I worry about the ugly and increasingly mainstream politics that have emerged from under the troll bridge during all of this, and I feel a great deal of empathy for EU migrants who are here for the time being.
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Well, I can give you a game set in the early 1950's! It also has a cool setting I like: Historical wars that have been mostly forgotten. The game is called 7554 and is set during the First Indochina War. You play as a Vietnamese soldier fighting the French (07.05.1954 was the date of the last major battle, which explains the weird name). So that's another thing that you sadly don't see in a lot of games: A major western country as the enemy. Sometimes I just get tired of fighting the filthy communists, what if I want to fight against the capitalist oppressors for once? The closest thing I can think of are all those slightly dodgy game replacer mods for Half-Life made by Russians, the kind A Jolly Wanker tends to feature on his channel.
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Excellent video Mr. Scott. I have to confess I've been feeling rather ambivalent about virtual reality, but your angry logic did make me care about the dodgy practices of both tech developers and the gaming media. I'm not one for conspiracy mongering but it's becoming increasingly harder to dismiss the notion that there is self-serving and systematic collusion going on between gaming journalism and gaming producers. I like how it escalates into full-blown Soran madness at the end of the video, and that closing dejection when you compare virtual reality to Romeo & Juliet...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Bell De Benneville "Bert" Bell (February 25, 1895 – October 11, 1959) was the National Football League (NFL) commissioner from 1945 until his death in 1959. As commissioner, he introduced competitive parity into the NFL to improve the league's commercial viability and promote its popularity, and he helped make the NFL the most financially sound sports enterprise and preeminent sports attraction in the United States (US). He was posthumously inducted into the charter class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You know, despite reading the entirety of that paragraph twice, I can honestly say I've learned nothing here. I can't even remember Bert Bell's name. Sports!
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Sedate
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7/10 - Ska isn't something I'd go out of my way to listen to, and I personally find the chorus slightly "meh", but this kind of music can't help but bring a smile to my stupid miserable face. eCCAhRXYOso
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About £500/£600, but I'm not one to upgrade to a better model without having a good and compelling reason to do so. Would you like to come inside and have a nice cup of tea?
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6/10, I'm not such a big anime buff. The kind of anime I like tends to involves improbably sized weapons and horrible blobby-faced monsters.
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6/10, I've read that quote often before and it honestly still baffles me. Which isn't to say that it's a bad quote per se, but I'm afraid it doesn't quite achieve higher marks from me because rather than being impressed by the brevity of Churchill's wit, the part of my brain that demands explanations simply responds with an internal "wut?". "Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step." - Alain Finkielkraut