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Dread Birate Roberts🏴‍☠️

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I love watching documentaries about amusement park accidents because all of the park officials are saying, "Oh, dear god, none of us could have anticipated that the roller coaster car would detach, this is a freak accident, an act of god!" and then the narrator is like "The Dicktwister 9000 was a known safety hazard and rabies vector since its inception. It was designed by disgraced Cirque du Soleil clown John Roosters, who had never seen a math textbook."

The best part of this post is watching other amusement park enthusiasts reply to this with "It's okay, you can say (name of infamously problematic ride)," but every single one is saying the name of a different attraction

One of the most uninteresting part of modern Fallout is the Raiders. Generic bad guys wearing armor made of scrap who you kill on sight no matter what. It’s good for the open world shooter that many fallout games go for but it’s terrible for actual roleplay. What if there was a fallout game that focused in on raiders as realistic gangs/factions?

The setting is the borderland between two expanding wasteland powers (yes fallout new Vegas style whatever) neither has yet been able to take control of the region, as while it is strategically valuable it’s not really worth enough to directly send in the troops and start a war over. So instead they arm these “raider” groups to make sure that the other side can’t have it.

Now important is that you *cant* directly join those wasteland powers, frankly, they think they’re better than you. (And anyway, do you really want to sit in a fort all day occasionally giving out bullets to your clients?) But you can join the various “raider” factions, as the people of those powers generally call anyone who lives here. We can call the protagonist…The Outcast.

Despite all being called the same thing, these factions have a lot of variety. Most importantly, they’re all from *somewhere* they don’t appear out of the ether to try and kill you

- The militia of a settlement protecting their families (sometimes by robbing someone else’s)

- A mercenary company working for one side making deep forays to take what they can

- Vault dwellers that have run out of supplies justifying their actions with pre-war American exceptionalism

- a protection racket that exploits the settlements they operate in in exchange for keeping other groups out of their territory

-a Tribe (fallout is often weird about indigineity but I think there is a way to do it right) who have been in this region (at least) since the bombs dropped, and aren’t pleased with any of the newcomers

- Religious fanatics trying to establish the kingdom of their god and make war on heretics

- Slavers who sell people of this region to more “civilized” parts of the wasteland

- A group of ghouls from all over who’ve made a refuge here…but it does have to be defended sometimes offensively

-and maybe more!

Some of these factions might already be aligned with one of the great powers, most are probably neutral. All of them have rivalries and alliances with each other, and becoming friendly with one often requires you to become very unfriendly with another. By doing so you can decide how this conflict will end.

Which will it be Outcast? Will you be an outsider agent of one of the great powers to push out the other side? Will you bring one “raider” faction to primacy in the process and let them take retribution over their rivals? Or can you walk the tightrope, and bring the region together, independent, united, reviled in “civilized” lands as The Raider King? If you do, who is left out of your kingdom?

if you're transgender and need name ideas, may I direct you toward the nato alphabet because like. delta? november?? echo?? romeo is like the butchest name. please consider foxtrot. being named whiskey would be cool as hell. I know multiple transmascs who were a bit too into english lit and are named victor now. I've met people named sierra who were trans in every direction. maybe don't name yourself golf

don't listen to op. name yourself golf.

people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

“Lift with your legs you idiot!”

“I have a BROKEN TIBIA! That needs support and time to recover!”

ADHD, also known as Can't Put Your Mind To Things Disease,

Don’t leave these in the tags

One of the most uninteresting part of modern Fallout is the Raiders. Generic bad guys wearing armor made of scrap who you kill on sight no matter what. It’s good for the open world shooter that many fallout games go for but it’s terrible for actual roleplay. What if there was a fallout game that focused in on raiders as realistic gangs/factions?

The setting is the borderland between two expanding wasteland powers (yes fallout new Vegas style whatever) neither has yet been able to take control of the region, as while it is strategically valuable it’s not really worth enough to directly send in the troops and start a war over. So instead they arm these “raider” groups to make sure that the other side can’t have it.

Now important is that you *cant* directly join those wasteland powers, frankly, they think they’re better than you. (And anyway, do you really want to sit in a fort all day occasionally giving out bullets to your clients?) But you can join the various “raider” factions, as the people of those powers generally call anyone who lives here. We can call the protagonist…The Outcast.

Despite all being called the same thing, these factions have a lot of variety. Most importantly, they’re all from *somewhere* they don’t appear out of the ether to try and kill you

- The militia of a settlement protecting their families (sometimes by robbing someone else’s)

- A mercenary company working for one side making deep forays to take what they can

- Vault dwellers that have run out of supplies justifying their actions with pre-war American exceptionalism

- a protection racket that exploits the settlements they operate in in exchange for keeping other groups out of their territory

-a Tribe (fallout is often weird about indigineity but I think there is a way to do it right) who have been in this region (at least) since the bombs dropped, and aren’t pleased with any of the newcomers

- Religious fanatics trying to establish the kingdom of their god and make war on heretics

- Slavers who sell people of this region to more “civilized” parts of the wasteland

- A group of ghouls from all over who’ve made a refuge here…but it does have to be defended sometimes offensively

-and maybe more!

Some of these factions might already be aligned with one of the great powers, most are probably neutral. All of them have rivalries and alliances with each other, and becoming friendly with one often requires you to become very unfriendly with another. By doing so you can decide how this conflict will end.

Which will it be Outcast? Will you be an outsider agent of one of the great powers to push out the other side? Will you bring one “raider” faction to primacy in the process and let them take retribution over their rivals? Or can you walk the tightrope, and bring the region together, independent, united, reviled in “civilized” lands as The Raider King? If you do, who is left out of your kingdom?

I'm sorry I'm going fucking insane over trans people in sports issues the anti trans crowd has lost the fucking plot and then has the audacity to act like its the trannies who are ridiculous

I used to be of the "well the sports issue isn't really important to me its w/e I just don't want it to be a gateway into other transphobia" but oh my fucking god we are so far gone. The fencing shit is sending me over the edge. What the fuck.

I can't even articulate my words so I'm just going to tell a story in screenshots

I am so fucking tired of being gaslit about this

I'm also still so fucking pissed that we have to include "ooo the trans fencer only finished in X place" because its a reminder that trans women will never be allowed to excel at anything in the public eye without being cut down. Fuck OFF

Iron Islander voice: Theon you [19 syllable dolphin noise slur] I see you came back WOKE and GAY and a WOMAN from us leaving you as a child prisoner to the guy with an 8 foot sword that makes you drag it around to executions in front of his screaming faced tree gods as a daily reminder that he can and will kill you (a child) just like he killed the rest of your family (some of which were also children). Did you have fun polishing his sword? I’ll bet. Did you write this letter yourself? Knowing there’s a one person literacy limit? Should we call you Theon the Reader, you reading fuck? And standing here in a jean jacket you bought yourself, may as well be sucking dick at old navy. You know who’s NOT woke or gay or a woman? Your sister Asha. Why can’t you be less gay and woke and a woman, like Asha? I bet she could run a democratic election because you know what isn’t gay Theon? Democracy

Democracy still kinda gay tho

good point we should democratically elect an extremely evil tyrant to subjugate everyone else and balance out how gay having an election was. Like some kind of blasphemous one eyed kinslaying freak. That seems unlikely. Does anyone know where we can find a blasphemous one eyed kinslaying freak? Has anyone in westeros ever had an election decided by a blasphemous one eyed kinslaying freak?

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I think people would armchair diagnose bad people with cluster B disorders much less if psychiatric disorders hadn't all been given names by ableists who of course picked the traits most unberarable to "sane" people to name them rather than, you know, the ways it affects the people that have them. It's like, when doctors are all "this disorder gives you extremely low self esteem. and it's called the Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder" or "this disorder makes you want to die so bad. and it's called the Hysteric Bitch Disorder" or "this disorder disconnects you from your peers. and it's called the Insane Evil Cunt Disorder" and so on and so forth, so of course you have people going "oh, this person is a selfish fucking asshole, they MUST have Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder! this further proves that all people with this disorder are like that in the first place!" Do You See It

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The Dungeons & Dragons paladin is objectively the funniest class because at first glance it seems like an artefact of an earlier age of the fantasy genre for which contemporary inspirations are thin on the ground, but then you dig into its thematic core and realise there are contemporary popular media characters who almost perfectly fit the mould, but like 80% of them are deeply unwell teenage lesbians.

Like, oh, you're running Oath of Devotion? So is this like an Adora Princessesofpower thing, or are you shooting more for Gideon Nav?

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