XiaCobolt [she/her]

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Cake day: July 15th, 2021
  • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025English
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah I’m hate-watching the show too.

    The brotherhood thing is really silly. The only thing that helps, is that they showed one of those ships at the start of season 2 in the past. If the US military already had airships and the BoS just found them and refitted them that’s slightly more possible I guess. It would have to retcon Fallout 4 where they said they built the airship but honestly that was pretty silly too. I like that the BoS seems to suck and is full of chuds even more in this season though.

    Re: the NCR this my headcanon that I'm sure they'll decide to obliterate at some point to spite me

    I think the only way to fit all the games and the TV show into the same continuity is for the NCR to have renamed the LA Boneyard to Shady Sands between Fallout 2 and New Vegas.

    The original NCR was Shady Sands, the Hub, the Boneyard, Dayglow and Maxson. We see that the NCR is expanding Northward by the time of Fallout 2, Vault 15, New Reno, Redding and Vault City all join in various endings. This probably brings along Klamath, Modoc, the Den, Gecko etc all the other smaller communities. Plus there’s the community that the Chosen One founded. As well as the Shi Empire in San Francisco that are probably autonomous.

    By Fallout 2 no one is calling the city that used to be Shady Sands that anymore. President Tandi I think brings it up if you talk to her, they just call it the NCR. That city is on a similar latitude to San Francisco. It’s the furthest South in Fallout 2 and the most North in Fallout 1. It’s basically the border of the NCR and the new Frontier.

    By New Vegas however they are talking about “Shady Sands” again. In the intervening time the NCR has secured the Hoover Dam which is sending power back to California. Most likely to the LA area. We also know the Shi have Biofuel, and there are functional ships in Fallout 2. So maybe they move from pragmatic reasons of having power and access to shipping on the coast, as well as political, moving institutional power back to the South where the original NCR bureaucracy was from and away from proximity to rival power centres in the Shi and Vault City (which had the Gecko Power Plant up and running).

    They decide they can’t be living in “the Boneyard” though so they rename LA “Shady Sands” after the original Northern settlement, and also make it the first formal capital of the NCR, which explains the sign. Like cities change their name in history and sometimes they have the same name like Thebes. This is the Shady Sands that is referenced by Fallout New Vegas.

    Then when the nuke goes off I can see the Hub dwindling because the old shady sands is diminished and far North, the New Shady Sands/old boneyard is gone, Maxson is gone from the NCR-BoS war and Dayglow probably wasn’t that big. So those who can up and retreat north. The rest collapses. The NCR at the Hoover Dam retreat because what is the point? If the power is going no where.

    I imagine there is a rump NCR hanging on higher North, but the political elite of Vault City, New Reno and the Shi probably don’t or can’t care that much for things that are South outside of Moldaver’s little project.

  • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.nettotraaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@hexbear.net•Capacitors -Trans Megathread from week 1/12/2026 to 1/18/2026English
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve read all the Dorley Hall that is out so far. So I have started on When You Fell From Heaven. The cheerleader book. I had been surprised when others on BlueSky and here said it was possibly better than Dorley Hall. But I definitely see that.

    Vague Spoilers as I'm halfway through the first book

    It’s such a good pastiche of early 2000s teenage film. It feels like it belongs with Bring It On (which canonically did happen in their universe) and other films like that. It’s also a really good period piece, capturing how homophobic things were.

    Also that there is enough pop cultural awareness of crossdressing and drag culture, but not of trans people, that supporting characters knowing about tucking or fake breasts but not of the concept of HRT or gender dysphoria etc. They even reference To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar which is film about Drag and gender but that is itself kind of confused between what is a trans woman and a drag queen.

    All of the decisions that lead to Max being feminized make sense in the moment, yet gain momentum and keep domino-ing so the charade has to continue. The fact that Max goes along with things that another “male” character would outright refuse, is blindly obvious to us now, because she is simply a trans girl and these are giving her euphoria.

  • XiaCobolt [she/her]@hexbear.nettoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Kim Jong-Un - Novo General Megathread for the 8th-14th of January 2025English
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    9 hours ago

    I’ve said before that I think Fallout 4’s storyline, factions and setting would work better if it was a prequel to all the other games (like they actually did with 76). It explains the primitive survivor settlements and the rich loot opportunities. The Gunners could be the children of Freikorp like former US soldiers who seized a Vault at gunpoint. The triggermen being lead by ghoul Mob bosses from the pre-war etc

    But yesterday I was thinking, and I’d swap the BoS with the Enclave. It makes sense that they’d let the Soul Survivor join as he or she is pureblooded pre-war American. That fits their genocidal motivations. I would tweak it that Nora was some sort of military intelligence to complement Nate being a war hero, so they have reasons to recruit them.

    Them having incredible technology and resources fits with what we see in Fallout 2 (and Fallout 3 bleh). They could know about the Institute because it was part of their plans but went rogue. The brotherhood airships (from Fallout tactics, Fallout 3) could be derived from military airships the US was using, that makes more sense than them being invented whole cloth out of nowhere.

    If you side with them (a bad ending like the Institute) you’re basically advancing their plans in Fallout 2. If you defeat them, they retreat to Raven Rock and the Oil Rig etc. Then the whole storyline is also about choosing to recreate the fascism of the old world (Institute, Enclave), versus trying to make something better but imperfect (Railroad, Minutemen)