I'm using the thing! That makes words! · 1:47am Oct 18th, 2013
Hi and stuff!
This week, I'm going to be doing something a little different, namely:
Stuff from Fallout that makes me say "Huh?"
The immediate issue I'm thinking of is the fact that Arroyo (Doomed hometown from FO2) is a primitive tribe. Personally, I find that this doesn't make sense. The village is only like...80 years old, and it was settled by men and women from Vault 13, AKA, not-tribals with pre-war values and knowledge. One would think that they would pass this stuff to their children, and they to theirs. Did the original settlers say one day that they were going to pretend that the last 5000 never happened, and immediately put on loincloths, grab their spears, adopt wonky superstitions, and going "DE SPIRITS MON!"? Apparently, it was already primitive when the Vault Dweller was still alive. It was never stated when the memoirs were written, but I'd guess 50-60 years after FO1. That is way too fast for a community to go from "Settled by educated vault dwellers" to well...that.
And about him...how did his story and that of Vault 13 get so heavily distorted in such a short period of time? In a small, tightly-knit community, one would think that it would take much longer than 80 years for stories to go from "The legendary hero who saved the day, hailing from vault 13," to "Ooga booga sacred sacred sacred! Holy 13!". They speak of him as if he were a legendary figure that lived a very long time ago, not someone who could have very well have still been alive when they were children. The village elder? She's his daughter. She probably knew the guy!
Unless he was completely tight-lipped about it, they would have known his story...especially since the whole thing was written down in his memoirs.
...lastly, what's with the random temple of doom right next to the town? I know that the devs were forced to add a tutorial level (a terrible one, at that), but still...
Enough of my befuddlement, but I would have thought that it would have made more sense if Arroyo was more along the lines of a frontier community populated by individuals that were hardened by the wear and tear of the wastes, armed with knowledge passed down from their parents. Things like spears and tents are used simply because they lack resources.
K, I'm pretty much done for now. No ponybutts for you, today.
Have something sort-of-relevant to my story: aka chubby!Twilight.
And something silly.
Oh Explodium, whenever I see one of your blogs I always know I'm in for some fat horses and Fallout-related nonsense. The highlight of my day, right here.
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Don't forget Commander Shepard.
1429652 Read the wiki, the vaulters that the Vault Dweller set up Arroyo with were outcasts from the Vault, they were inspired by his example, and left it, he found them just barely alive, and taught them all how to survive in the wastes.
Then came Arroyo.
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Yeah, but they were still vault dwellers. The village was founded by vaulties, they didn't forget everything in that time.
And I don't seem to recall them being outcasts in the "GTFO" sense, but the "Screw you guys, we're out of here" way.
EDIT: I just looked it up.
Arroyo was founded 3 years after FO1.
The Vault Dweller wrote his memoirs and disappeared/died a mere 46 years after the end of Fallout 1.
The point I was trying to make is that that is far too little time for a village founded by vault dwellers to well...go full on tribal.
1429699 I'm not saying I disagree but my wife went out of town for a weekend and I built a fort out of Styrofoam I brought home from work and declared myself grand emperor of foam-land. I made little crowns for my animal subjects. Alcohol may have been involved...
Anyway, just saying, that was 2 days, so 46 years....eh....
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Twilight's not that fat in your story... Right?
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Maybe. Maybe not. You must look inside and search for your true self to learn the answer!
Hee hee, I'm deliberately being silly.
...Besides, don't you get the urge to rub and blow raspberries on that belly and tickle her sides?
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Actually, I'm more put off that the artist made her a full-on landwhale instead of just adorably chubby.
I'm reminded of the time I went to a con with my friends and an absurdly fat chick tackled one into a hug (because apparently their respective cosplay characters knew each other), breaking a rib and dislocating his right knee. He walks with a cane now. I really wish I was joking, because he lost his sports scholarship.
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Heh, if you think that this is "landwhale" territory, your head would probably explode if you saw some of this artist's other work.
Guess we are just of different opinions...
Edit: Another thing to add is that this particular artist whose "Normal" ponies already look stout, so "chubby" ends up looking fat.
Like this is an example of a "normal" pony from this artist.
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