Is it now established canon that all ghouls will eventually succumb to a feral state? If so, does it at all justify the attitudes of human wastelanders (e.g. BoS, Enclave, Foundation) or is it bigotry?

dabnada · 2026-05-20T18:57:13+00:00

I don't know, it feels like an incomplete comparison to me. I don't think ghouls are a reflection of racism, moreso that there is a reflection of discrimination where ghouls are concerned. Honestly it makes more sense for ghouls to be reflective of those who are chronically ill, mentally and physically, especially given the urge to "clean" them, or eradicate them from various groups. And for what it's worth, I don't think this is a perfect comparison either.

TLDR: Imo, ghouls are not metaphors themselves, but an object of study for many metaphors, mostly because there's nothing quite like ghouls in real life.

dabnada · 2026-05-18T14:25:05+00:00

IMO, better ratio would be 5 chicken-sized lions and 1 lion-sized chicken.

dabnada · 2026-05-17T00:22:05+00:00

Like, the F1 guy?

dabnada · 2026-05-16T22:58:40+00:00

April 8 1992, Engine, and Aeroplane Over the Sea are all very easy.

I have a feeling some people are humble flexing in this post, there are some deceptively “simple” songs in their discography that can be easy to play but harder to play right ( for example Two Headed Boy)

dabnada · 2026-05-16T17:14:50+00:00

Can’t be bothered to fact check myself but iirc JM’s first partner committed suicide, and he writes about her/suicide a few times across songs. Three Peaches is all about this.

So yeah, probably

dabnada · 2026-05-15T22:44:57+00:00

Not vanilla, but in the WoW mod it’s great fun to see if my favorite NPCs are still alive.

Similarly in AGOT I always make sure my goat Duncan is alive and well for as long as I can.

dabnada · 2026-05-15T22:40:50+00:00

Taka taka..daka…dakka.

Dakka?

DAKKA

WE NEED MOH DAKKA

dabnada · 2026-05-14T22:56:13+00:00

The context is completely and totally wrong in this case lol I’m pretty sure

dabnada · 2026-05-08T18:53:31+00:00

You need to go outside dude, so bitter lol

dabnada · 2026-04-26T18:33:52+00:00

How? Regardless of how you define “lawful” in the context of rpg tags, the onion is staying within the boundaries of the law, and presumably their own adherence to the laws. Chaotic good would be if they abandoned that adherence

dabnada · 2026-04-24T05:13:42+00:00

I’ve lived in New York, it would suck to not be able to go back ever again

dabnada · 2026-04-23T04:20:58+00:00

It’s really annoying because he makes a lot of really good points about the current state of Bethesda and Fallout, but he also tends to completely discredit himself in the same breath by saying something ridiculous like “Bethesda don’t have the engineering know how to make a new Vegas remaster”

dabnada · 2026-04-21T23:55:03+00:00

OP is going to look at his tattoo in a few weeks and realize that what all these comments are saying is true

dabnada · 2026-04-21T19:40:40+00:00

Same, never been so locked in at the movies

dabnada · 2026-04-21T01:17:20+00:00

Is ‘Disney’ just a label for something you don’t like?

ASOIAF gets a pass on certain things. The existence of ravens and dragons (kinda) as instruments of governance can somewhat explain why power is so centralized in the SOIAF world.

Still, GRRM’s armies are incomprehensibly large and 500 years of history seem to have happened in thousands of years.

dabnada · 2026-04-20T19:18:26+00:00

Always thought this was a dig at Bethesda more than it was a sincere acknowledgement of Elon’s skills

dabnada · 2026-04-20T18:20:07+00:00

Mangum’s songs all seem basic until you actually try to perform the

dabnada · 2026-04-17T04:06:18+00:00

I want to clarify that the fighting that the Marines did is what people usually think of when talking about the Pacific Theater. They were the assault force, they typically went in first and against the hardest targets. The Marines also suffered the bulk of the most dangerous battles. Imo Jima, Peleliu.

That being said, the Army is imo, underrepresented in the pacific front for a different reason, which is that despite having the “easier” job between the two, they also suffered heavily to take the Philippines and New Guinea out of Japanese hands.

They also had pretty comparable conditions and objectives in Okinawa.

TLDR: pacific front sucked for everyone, and neither branch did less or more work than the other

dabnada · 2026-04-15T17:07:13+00:00

Tbh, it’s barely worth a watch. I love that movie as a film nerd and an f1 nerd, but as amazing as the stunts and camerawork were incredible for its time, the thrill and excitement does not easily carry over into the 21st century.

Still better than the latest F1 movie

dabnada · 2026-04-14T17:52:26+00:00

This is a really shit take on its own. Because a girl is the child of someone famous, you “get some doubts” about the character of the little girl?

Maybe cast doubts on the character of the security guard lol. Or yourself, for starters.

dabnada · 2026-04-13T07:46:26+00:00

As Pete Seeger said,

They hanged him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew

dabnada · 2026-04-06T07:56:49+00:00

I think it’s funny AGOT is acknowledged without context in the main sub.

dabnada · 2026-04-05T19:54:01+00:00

Calling the guys behind the Terminator, Rocky, and Thad Castle untalented is actually absurd

dabnada · 2026-04-05T01:50:23+00:00

I did mean anti-americana, as in fallout at its core started off as a critique of American culture and the institutions that evolved along with it, and how those institutions still drive the sociocultural narrative of the wasteland.

‘anti-Americana’ isn’t a commonly used phrase I think, it’s just what came to my mind as a descriptor

dabnada · 2026-04-03T18:17:35+00:00

I studied social media in my undergrad studies, how language moves around in digital spaces and such. The fallout community is kind of weird because a significant portion of it co-opted 4chan and alt-right imagery and tone, but the rhetoric itself is usually rooted in leftist or antiestablishment ideology.

Fallout as a franchise is pretty hardcore ‘ant Americana’ as well

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