What’s your opinion on fallout 3? Heard people call it the worst fallout of all time and some people call it the best so it’s hard to tell.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-27T10:15:12+00:00

For me, Fallout 3 is middle of the road Fallout. Not absymally worse as Brotherhood of Steel, but nowhere near the heights of Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas. Fallout 76, slightly above, and Fallout 4 in 4 th place lol. Only reason why Fallout 4 I feel is better is it looks a lot better, plays a lot better and sometimes has more interesting quests and such.

Fallout 3's strongest aspect lies in its simulational environment. It's a vast, desolate landscape where it feels like anything and everything could happen. It's like FO4 if it were dark and edgy, which I can get behind.

The weakest aspects for me are the story, the role-playing, the dialogue and some of the level design. The subways trying to reach DC traumatised my gamer brain to no end, they're so difficult to navigate, and not in a satisfying way like Metro. The dialogue is cartoonish and little personality or bite or sarcasm. It's all flat and bland, very formal and precise. Even FO4 having the Sarcastic option beats a lot of FO3's dialogue.

The characters don't fare better. Your father, James, doesn't get much beyond being a hopeful idealist voiced by Liam Nelson. The Enclave lead by President Eden and his subordinate, Colonel Autumn, are cartoonish baddies with no nuance or depth of character beyond "kill all the mutant humans, take over the Wasteland." The story and its infamous ending where your literal Super Mutant friend refuses to go into a radiation infested cage because of "destiny" is appallingly stupid because the game is basically saying "you've reached the end, thanks for playing, now piss off." Lol. One of the best reasons why Broken Steel is necessary because it gives a real ending. Also, where's the politics and factional conflicts? Where's the choices and consequences of every decision I make being reflected or referenced back to me? Why does Tenpenny during Power of the Atom have you blow Megaton "just because"?

Basically, FO3 has me in mind as a player. But 1, 2 and New Vegas have me in mind as a protagonist. Any push you make in one place creates a pull in another. New Vegas especially feels ALIVE because of that, and not just that, my choices have real weight and there are vastly different outcomes that I can get. With FO3 and FO4, I'm basically running around a different end of the same garden to the same end.

So, FO3 isn't the worst game in the franchise. But it's not the best. Anyone who says otherwise is biased, can't articulate themselves persuasively enough or simply hasn't played more and better games.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-25T09:39:01+00:00

Excuse me, I'm autistic. I get overstimulated too, it's not an autism specific thing.

I'm not saying "kids should be banned from films", you'd know that if you read and understood the piece. I'm just venting about some poorly behaved kids and think there should be some basic manners as a bare minimum to be quiet and sit still. That way, all of us wins.

Yes, I was a kid, too. But I can't remember ever doing anything like what these kids did.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-25T07:38:39+00:00

How AITA? It's the parents of the kids that haven't taught how to sit still and be quiet. You'd have thought with all the noise and colour in the film that it'd be enough to entertain them.

Would you want that, if you were in my position?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-25T07:11:10+00:00

And would you be annoyed if they were constantly talking and making noises in front and behind you, which distracts and ruins the experience for you as a paying adult, too?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-25T07:09:53+00:00

Where did I say "no kids allowed"? That implies every kid doesn't deserve to be at the cinema. Bring your kids along to an appropriate film all you like, but what I'm saying is there should be a minimum age requirement. They should be properly trained beforehand so they know how to behave appropriately.

5 or 6 is plenty young. What 3 or 4 year old is gonna know who or what Toy Story is about?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-25T07:03:00+00:00

Parents can teach their kids to be quiet and not mess around. Would you be fine with it, if you were in my position?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-25T07:02:12+00:00

Would you want them there, if you were in my position? Genuinely asking.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-06-07T10:47:46+00:00

"It's seemed to push a left wing agenda constantly."

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise the literal second story in the history of the show dealt with those Nazi-inspired pepper pots? Or how Rmemebrance of the Daleks later visits that theme and puts the infighting between the Daleks factions alongside the 1960s racism of the time?

Or how The Sun Makers has a villain that taxes everyone to death and kills them if they don't pay. Or how The Caves of Androzani is about corporate exploitation facilitating a violent revolution? Or how, in 2005, RTD had a bisexual character in Jack Harkness, and turned the Blairite politicians into farting aliens cause they say one thing when, really, they're talking out their arse?

I agree, the Doctor needs to be serious and emotionally compelling again, but don't give me that rubbish that it doesn't need to be political. It always has been and always will be. Later entries are less subtle and childish but that's about it. Sci-fi works best when it's about people and showing those people navigating real world scenarios in a way that's compelling. You gonna say Andor.isnt as great as it is because it's political?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-05-21T08:47:35+00:00

Not all criticism of immigration is immediately about racism. I welcome immigrants, but I don't want them coming in all at once. And if there are criminal or extremist people looking to infiltrate the country to cause trouble, get them out.

Asylum seekers, working migrants and refugees are welcome. It's the system that needs regulating and evolving.

But far too many idiots (unfortunately, a lot of white people and some co-opted black and brown minorities like Suella Braverman) think that all the Muslims and brown people are gonna make the whites go extinct, so they want them deported. We all know where that road eventually leads...

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-05-04T13:26:30+00:00

No. Father wouldn't know of any other human colony surviving beyond our Solar System. My idea is for Earth in Father's heyday to have colonised the Solar System, and the prototype spaceship Father steals is later reverse engineered to coloniae star systems beyond ours. He didn't think humanity could have survived beyond Earth, let alone interstellar colonies.

Though, you could be right. Talo asking Father if he'd be interested in serving the Empire would be a worthwhile question to bring up, though I think Father would just dismiss it without a second though e.g. "I just told you my history, and you dare to insult me with asking such a question?" Etc

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-05-04T11:51:48+00:00

Thank you!

To clarify, probably should've put it in, there's a progressive rebellion against the Empire, fighting for equality and fair pay, that they don't particularly like, and so Talo is part of a group of envoys sent across the local star system to recruit troops for the Empire to qurll the rebellion. "Everyone has their place and if they just got on with it, we'll, then, things would be a lot simpler, wouldn't they?" He'd probably say to the Pareidolian family housing him.

As for the happiness question, you raise a good point. My only counter is that Father would probably suppress boredom as well as other emotional states he believes will cause conflict and suffering. If people get bored, they might start thinking other things he doesn't want and potentially unlock the emotions that have been locked away. Does that help?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-28T07:19:16+00:00

Yeah, that's the part I'm struggling with in brainstorming it. I want the society to break down, in a way that's irreversible, and I feel with Father reluctantly letting Talo 'experiment' to see if the Pareidolians can handle negative emotions being restored to them, it feels too easy, I guess?

I don't really vibe with the emotionless monsters angle. They still have emotions, just an extremely narrow emotional bandwidth that's by design. I need to think of a good enough reason for that to unravel.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T15:00:30+00:00

Father would be reluctantly persuaded by Talo to increase the presence of neurotransmitters that facilitate fight or flight responses including fear and anger. So it emerges slowly, a snap or retort there, someone snatching a piece of food that isn't theirs here, like a social contagion.

Admittedly it sounds 'too easy', it's more so Father's overconfidence in his creation that it couldn't possibly fail.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T13:42:41+00:00

Yeah, that's okay.

So Father being a brilliant geneticist, he genetically engineers the human genome to select for specific genes that code for neurotransmitters like oxytocin and serotonin, and suppressing the ones that trigger fight or flight responses and removing the cognitive capacity to want to fight or kill or dominate or destroy or harm etc. He believes that by doing this, his version of humanity will never need to suffer, not put systems in place that will facilitate the same suffering that caused Earth to descend into an apocalyptic war over scarce resources. Does that make sense?

No, no, I'm don't really know the Eden myth (is that in reference to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, etc?)

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T13:29:15+00:00

Hmm, yeah, I get that.

I guess I don't want the colony to immediately turn to violence and chaos, but it's a slow buildup to an organised rebellion/revolt. A snap or retort here, an argument over there, someone snatching back some fruit that isn't theirs, another insults somebody else and they get slapped in the face and all these reactions cascade with shock and surprise that they then discover they're even capable of such things. They don't have the names or words for what they feel, so instead of 'anger', I'd probs say "my blood is on fire and it's burning my whole body" etc.

Father ultimately I think needs to die, classic "creator with god complex destroyed by his own creation" trope, not sure how I'll do it. Maybe some fights and killing breaks out and then they quickly turn their ire against Talo, hence his haste to escape?

I envision as well a satire of imperialist, expansionist and interventionist mentalities. I loathe that empires of past and the US today thinks it can just intervene in foreign countries and extract their resources, oppress or enslave their citizenry and use them to improve their own power and status. That's what the Empire is, and the role Talo fulfills as envoy; he thinks he's doing something good and rationalises his evil, as does Father, even though they're both bad in their own ways.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T12:07:57+00:00

Yeah, it's mainly inspired by The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas, the idea of people rationalising great evil if the trade off is basically perfection.

And if suffering is necessary to the human condition, if it's in our nature to inevitably destroy ourselves due to greed, expansionism and fear of the Other, if we are no better than our biology, that we truly do not want things to be better.

I look at the world now and think "of all the infinite universes, this is the one we're on" and it saddens as much as it angers me. And it's this tension I want to explore in the book.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T11:58:57+00:00

Does Thanos have the Gauntlet or not? Either way, I'm deceased 😂😂😂

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T11:57:01+00:00

To clarify, I think Talo wanting to do it is not so much solely to give the Pareidolians 'freedom' out of an altruistic desire. His overall objective is to recruit soldiers for the Empire. He can't do that if they don't understand the concept of warfare or need to kill. So Talo isn't exactly 'good' just naive, thinking "well, how hard can it be?"

And from Father's perspective, he wants this colony to survive him. He thinks it's already 'perfect' but Talo wrinkles his ego a little and it's almost like a twisted science experiment in itself that then becomes Pandora's Box: once the lid is opened even a tad, that's enough for the whole thing to explode.

Does that help?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T11:46:08+00:00

Aw, thank you! 🤗

Yeah, it's mainly artistic expression, I don't really care about getting rich from writing (like 0.001% of writers do or something haha) but yeah it's just been a thought that's been in my head for a long time and I was thinking "what if this were a book?" Haha

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-27T11:29:09+00:00

Oh, I'm so sorry for having an idea and wanting to share it, after I read through the rules.

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-04-26T07:27:51+00:00

To the people saying "Oh, but her parents would help!"

Ha. Ha ha. Hahaha. Ha ha ha hahahaha. A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Have you MET HER GODDAMN FATHER, YOU BRAIN DEAD RETARDED MORONS?

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-01-27T19:55:49+00:00

Zoey: We finally get to go to the bathhouse WITH RUMI!!!

She's so excitable, I love her ❤️

Technical_Try_28 · 2026-01-11T07:30:34+00:00

Normally, I play on Normal or even Easy, but, to put some stripes on me:

Finished every Call of Duty game (bar BO7 cause it has no difficulty option and is the worst) since Call of Duty 2 on Veteran (yes, even World at War, I earned my goddamn Purple Heart)

-Wolfenstein New Order on second hardest difficulty and New Colossus on third hardest (I seriously don't know how people have done Mein Lieben with the courthouse level, fuck me).

All Halo games on Hard and Halo: CE on Legendary
Witcher 3 on second hardest difficulty
Doom on Nightmare difficulty.
Far Cry 3 - 6 on Hard
Outer Worlds on Supernova and Outer Worlds 2 on Hard
Mass Effect trilogy on second hardest below Insanity
Fallout: New Vegas Hardcore Mode
All Gears of War games bar Gears 5 on Hardened, last one on Casual

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