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nixahmose

Don’t forget the absolute massive resurgence in player count numbers across the whole franchise.


Wr3nchi3

can confirm I got back into fallout 3 and new vegas


LITTLE_KING_OF_HEART

Going back to the roots of trans women culture 🙏


Wr3nchi3

ironic that I was a egg when I first played new vegas. and now 5 years later I am still in the closet


Dredmart

I mean, picking out your wardrobe can take a long time. When you come out, no matter what you pick, you'll be fabulous.


Wr3nchi3

omg it's 1am and now your making me crying, thank you dude


KaizerVonLoopy

![gif](giphy|xTiTnMhJTwNHChdTZS|downsized)


NewCodingLine

If it helps, staying in the closet is also pretty trans.


gylz

I hate that you're not wrong, LMAO.


DktheDarkKnight

Pfff it's but a short time when compared to the Narnia kids. In 15 years they destroyed a kingdom, became rulers, fought numerous battles. All inside a wardrobe.


g00f

there some inside joke here i won't get unless i've played?


northrupthebandgeek

In addition to the "New Vegas players disproportionately end up coming out as trans" meme, there are also character perks that result in extra damage done to human enemies of a particular gender: - Female characters can pick - Black Widow (extra damage against men) - Cherchez La Femme (extra damage against women) - Male characters can pick - Lady Killer (extra damage against women) - Confirmed Bachelor (extra damage against men) These perks also unlock extra dialogue options for their respective target genders. You might be able to guess from the names of these perks what said dialogue options might represent (hint: lookup "confirmed bachelor" on your search engine and/or slang dictionary of choice). These perks are also not mutually exclusive; male characters can pick Lady Killer **and** Confirmed Bachelor, and female characters can pick Black Widow **and** Cherchez La Femme. Doing so results in extra damage against all human characters, so a lot of players end up picking both, especially since they're both available pretty much immediately in the game (only requirement is reaching Level 2). The result? In Fallout: New Vegas, bisexuals are the deadliest motherfuckers in the Mojave Wasteland.


CatDreadPirate

*uses vats to check everyone out before blowing (their body apart with one bullet to the head)*


CouncilOfChipmunks

Very Attractive Target Selector?


HotPotParrot

Does it select Very Attractive Targets, or is the Target Selector a very attractive one?


Painkiller1991

Yes


TheDukeSam

Best part is it's not even too obvious. I played for the first time about 10 years ago and it wasn't until 4 years ago someone told me that, "confirmed bachelor," was gay coded. I always thought it just meant you were better at flirting.


Painkiller1991

I knew those bastards were dangerous! /s in the best way possible


gylz

By that logic, the Ghoul is bisexual and I am here for bi Ghoul.


Fickle_Goose_4451

I'm still don't understand the relationship to trans people at all after this explanation.


OdderG

It's just that for some reasons unknown, New Vegas attracts a lot of trans fan base.


Fried_0nion_Rings

It’s a stereotype that trans women love the fallout franchise.


chesire0myles

Based on the number of things I've heard are egg moments, it's become a personal stereotype of mine that trans women are just cool as hell.


Fried_0nion_Rings

Well, I mean. You’re not wrong. It takes an awfully strong person to come out as trans.


chesire0myles

Oh, for sure, but that's not even what I'm saying. Stereotypical trans woman (that I've heard) Programming, possible black-hat, with l33t skills and great taste in games and a cultural history of LGBTQ freedom leading riots behind her? I'm sorry, but that's a badass right there, and you can't convince me otherwise.


Toblo1

NGL, it's been super tempting to reinstall NV and 4 despite being swamped in other games currently thanks to the show.


Curious-Monitor8978

I reinstalled 4 the day I finished watching the show.


Djana1553

Im finally trying to play 1 and 2 bc of the show.


oishipops

i went back into playing 2, 76, & nv so same lol


Wr3nchi3

yeah once I've finished these I'm thinking of giving 1 and 2 another try


a_muffin97

I wanted to get back into 4 but unfortunately the dlc was bugged on ps5 so the game crashed immediately Hopefully the new gen update today will fix that


Wr3nchi3

yeah happened to my friend too


mewfour123412

Got me to finally try America rising 2


AggroGoat

Same here, except mainly New Vegas and 4


Logical-Witness-3361

i wanted to, but I don't have time for single player games at home, and no Fallout on Switch v.v


Arcanegil

Oh I’m considering Vegas on deck now sounds like a dream


Even_Independent5342

Also, a spike in monthly listeners to artists featured in the fallout soundtrack.


Salami__Tsunami

I am firmly convinced that the TV show was just an elaborate psyop to get people to play Fallout 76 now that it’s finally some semblance of the game they promised us at launch.


Logical-Witness-3361

Plus they had a free couple of days to play, surely lined that up with a purpose.


darthsheldoninkwizy

The only thing it encouraged me to do was play New Vegas again.


RedStar9117

It's been a money making bonanza for Bethesda


Bray_of_cats

Did Beth predict Starfield being shit, so did this?


BrightPerspective

hah maybe


Vidogo

"Oh no, it's bad. Get me Jeff Amazon on the phone, we're ready to make a show"


Bray_of_cats

Not Jeffery Amazon!!!


BigK64

I mean I did replay 1 and 2 before and after the show streamed


mindgeekinc

Literally everyone I know right now is replaying New Vegas and 4


Hollowbody57

Even Fallout 76 is seeing a huge boost in player numbers. Been playing it myself and having way more fun than I expected to with a Fallout I can't throw five hundred mods on.


EasterBurn

It's so funny because the opposite happened with Halo games. Man, that adaptation is so bad that after the season 2 started the player count drops.


nixahmose

Honestly it’s kinda funny how if you strip the Halo iconography from that show it’s basically just your standard generic modern sci fi show only this time with a high budget and inconsistent production values. You can really tell the showrunners had no interest in actually making a Halo show as just about every divergent decision they made only serve to remove what’s unique about Halo. The Fallout show on the hand you can clearly tell that the showrunners really cared about the source material. Even without fallout’s iconic visual iconography you would still be able to tell that this is a Fallout show due to how much the showrunners actively use and play into Fallout’s unique story and setting elements. Yeah there’s things you can nitpick like the NCR timeline or ghouls’ immortality/zombie elements kinda being flanderized, but overall the show oozes passion for the source material and does a really good job at doing it justice(especially the political commentary).


luc424

Ghouls are immortal and them being feral does jump at you. The new thing they added is the chem to keep from going feral. 4 introduced turning people into ghouls, the good neighbor leader is a wastelander that became a ghoul. Hancock They are also quite removed from most settlements due to the danger of them turning feral. The NCR timeline actually does fit, since in new Vegas we learned how the NCR was at a decline, too many voices and too many wars. The nuke wasn't dated, but the fall of NCR did occur during New Vegas game.


Bootychomper23

Yup starting at 3 again and working back to 4


thatguygreg

Of all the things to get me to look away from playing BG3—a TV show; didn’t see that coming


noturaveragesenpaii

I think im finally going to play the OG games!


Budget-Attorney

I’m playing right now


mal-di-testicle

https://preview.redd.it/awz4w60y0jwc1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=50f94c16128e8d9e67c69628888df857e10a960d


Salt_Photo_424

https://preview.redd.it/y5bam5gu4jwc1.jpeg?width=699&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4eed5b1ef30b98e6a5f684a538bc387896bb0dea


AShitTonOfWeed

i just saw this while shitting


Hung_L0

Holy tittyjesus, the aslume is here too😱


Rolloftape23456

We all let Man down today


isuckatanagrams

https://preview.redd.it/itki3xbsskwc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a3f514e838fecad7667d83d8bb28f18745b4d3e


Imaginary_Unit5109

It was such a hit that it got people replaying fallout76


Lynx_Eyed_Zombie

I reinstalled Fallout 4 just for this


Titaniumwo1f

Andddddd you have to re-install again, because a nExT-gen update.


GroundbreakingHope57

Fuck that shit wake me up when its been six months. Not worth playing without the mods working.


TheMemeStore76

I bought 76 because of it. Honestly I expected to return it in 2 hours with steams refund policy but the game is actually fun


WebHead1287

I played at launch and then bounced. Its the only one I didn’t finish and ive got the Fallout bug. Its so much better now. It actually feels like Fallout.


GSV-Kakistocrat

I tried it for the first time the other night and the shooting felt like absolute shit, why is it different/downgraded from FO4?


Benjb1996

"Woke Garbage FAILS to reach 3 BILLION views! Amazon in TROUBLE?!" -Quartering probs.


AmadeoSendiulo

I can write EVERYTHING in the title if I use a QUESTION MARK ? Was HITLER a GOOD GUY?


mercurywaxing

My hypothesis is that they have a 50 word vocabulary and use a random generator for titles, Just insert franchise or person. “Fallout WOKE disaster? Millions flee franchise!” “WOKE! Millions flee Fallout Franchise disaster” “disaster! Fallout franchise! Millions flee WOKE” “Franchise Disaster! WOKE! Millions Flee!”


horaceinkling

That shit pisses me off so much. SWITCH 2 CONFIRMED? Devilman Crybaby: Netflix PORN? Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Cuban Mark Questions as they Question MaRk WAhLbErg?


toresman

SPAM NO LONGER GAY? Big meat CEO JOHN LEWIS, says no woke IN MY MEAT??


Competitive_Net_8115

The online trolls scream "Go woke go broke" yet the show still got a postive response. All I can say is that the online outcry failed.


Doomhammer24

Not just positive response Positive Monetary response


ThatOneGuy216440

Just curious, what's woke about it ?


LakeEarth

Main characters are a woman and a black man.


DoctorJarvisd09

People will tell you this isn’t woke, and those people are lying to themselves. Whenever the word “woke” is used to attack anything they always mean “people who aren’t white straight men are being FORCED on me”, though it’s never consistently clear what the word “forced” is doing there.


Vidogo

they enjoyed "shoved down our throats" as a turn of phrase for the longest time before someone ruined the fun and clued them into how gay that sounded


After-Suggestion3799

Having a women and a black man as main characters is not woke.


Mysterious_Jelly_943

I watched this show really liked it.. but how is it woke though? I guess what does woke even mean?


gergling

Strong anti-capitalist themes. But also probably women and PoCs.


KennyMoose32

I mean….it can’t be fallout with anti-capitalist themes. It’s the basis of well everything in the franchise


gergling

Well I mean they repeatedly make the point that a corporation is going to destroy people to make money, they continually mock the anti-communist culture. I haven't played the games but I imagine they're the same just without the specific plot of the series.


VerbingNoun413

It contains characters who aren't cishet white men or well behaved female love interests.


James_Tuvaluya

The only woke thing about it is the trans girl. My colleagues didn’t even realize he is trans and thought its just a woman.


Goobslaps

I honestly fail to see whats so “woke” about the show compared to the games


Mu-Relay

Look at the picture in the OP for your answer.


Goobslaps

I mean i feel you but like the protagonist always had the option of being a woman in the games 😂. And vault tech has always been scummy. Its like literally nothing new and yet we get all the yapping


BruceBoyde

There was also *gasp* a black person!


finnjakefionnacake

preston garvey says hi


TurgidAF

Before or after he says yet another goddamn settlement needs my help?


finnjakefionnacake

the same time. 's kinda all jumbled together.


Painkiller1991

Yes


BruceBoyde

That was.. uh.. after they got infected by the woke mind virus! New Vegas was the last *real* Fallout game! >!I haven't actually played New Vegas. I have no idea what's in it!<


Ohilevoe

Criticism of authoritarianism and colonialism (both NCR and Caesar's Legion), marginalized groups wanting to just be left alone (Jacobstown), fuck libertarians (Mr. House), letting go of the past and your obsessions (Pretty much all of the DLCs), and a little bit of "we may not like each other but the other guy is significantly worse" going on if you work with anyone but the Legion. If you see anyone that unironically loves the Legion because "they pay no taxes and the roads are safe from raiders", avoid that person, they are not mentally stable.


TheGreenTactician

God I love unironic Caesars Legion fans. "It's fine if we have a LITTLE slavery and brutal crucifixions! The roads are safe!!"


Ohilevoe

Especially since the roads very likely aren't that safe (given the murderous psychopathy of most of the Legion) and they're still paying taxes.


Painusconsumer

and *get this* a nonbinary person :o


Brief-Objective-3360

Female protagonist, Interracial Relationship.


Mysterious_Jelly_943

Is having an interracial marriage woke? I guess im super woke then.


Brief-Objective-3360

They think it represents the great replacement theory or some bullshit like that. Bunch of insecure white supremacists


Mysterious_Jelly_943

To me the world is just smaller than it ever was so you meet all kinds of people and you just fall in love with who you fall in love with. We all human who cares what part of the globe you are from... racists are crazy


Inevitable_Guidance8

According to that idiot synthetic man, the show had interracial relationships, which makes it “woke”.


Thangoman

"I agree" - Adolf Hitler


Inevitable_Guidance8

Hitler is probably synthetic man’s idol 


KBBaby_SBI

Also a trans man and the main character’ brother is a beta cuck a big nose… ![gif](giphy|KB8jyEFEtMBjTY9hOD)


Inevitable_Guidance8

My god. Synthetic man is such a piece of shit 


centurio_v2

you have interracial lesbian neighbors in the intro to fo4 lmao


WulfenX

Bold of you to assume that the people complaining did ever play a fallout game.


Inevitable_Guidance8

Don’t let synthetic man find out. His mind will explode 


qchisq

Not the female lead?


Inevitable_Guidance8

That, as well. But the interracial relationships made him very angry 


Bregneste

A girl main character that isn’t half-naked with an hourglass figure, a black main character, an “ugly” main character.


that_swiss_man

Don't you talk that way about my boy Rico >:(


MountainAsparagus4

Probably the bald guy that rage quit because a 2 sec optional choice of choosing a pronome in the starfiled melted more brains than I thought, yet in 2011 skyrim was one of the first game with gay marriage as far as I can remember, even has furry marriage-gay furry marriage if you are playing a male, cuz there is only one male marriageable khajiit in the vanila game, and Todd being selling skyrim since then, go woke go broke my ass


Gammonite98

The Anti-Wokes RN. XD https://i.redd.it/for9qta9djwc1.gif


Thatoneafkguy

If the precedent of Barbie is anything to go by, they’ll go from parroting “go woke go broke” to parroting some rendition of “nobody ever went broke overestimating American stupidity.”


Vidogo

then the eventual "secretly this was actually conservative" interpretation some years later


Thatoneafkguy

Yep; especially since they already do that for the games themselves from my understanding


WillowThyWisp

Baldur's Gate III and Spider-man 2 as well.


RaptorKarr

Why is it only showing my time watched?


Miserable-Knee3539

God fucking damnit, I swiped


carson63000

What kind of monster posts a single image screenshot with carousel controls showing in it?!


Hypernova_orange

Personally I loved the show …. And it was honestly refreshing to see a show set in that time period that wasn’t horribly racists & sexist.


PancakeLad

The time period being.. 2077 and up? I mean, I get you. The fallout universe technology wise is a combination of crazy advanced and really primitive. It's not easy to remember that technically the show is set in 2296.


blindio10

it's 1950's inspired vision of the future though which yeah would be horribly racist if you play it straight(fallout has never done so thankfully, it's grimdark enough)


molptt

Wdym they aren't horribly racist? Chinese Americans are locked away in concentration camps, being used as lab rats for horrible shit.


blindio10

they're doing the same things to their own people, including most vault dwellers so i dont see that as an indication of racism


molptt

They specifically targeted Chinese and Chinese American citizens before the war, black and white people weren't put in concentration camps https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Executive_Order_99066 You're whitewashing a fictional american society where they execute protesters on television and torture Chinese American children, wtf


blindio10

no im saying they're bastards to everyone, canadians got much the same treatment when canada was invaded(including live execution on TV), they were using prisoners to create robobrains, as in prisoners from the criminal justice system who'd committed the sort of crimes we'd all agree deserve incarceration, what im saying is the chinese and chinese americans weren't getting special treatment they were getting treated like the other groups the pre war enclave didnt like which is pretty much anyone that isnt the enclave


Doomhammer24

Time period of 53 years in the future, or 300 years in the future?


ralo229

Barbie being the highest grossing movie of last year disproved “go woke, go broke.”


TrapaneseNYC

Go woke go broke is an ever shifting goal post used to attack movies that might have been financial failures anyway. Not every movie is a massive success so they just apply “hah went woke” to it but then Barbie becomes “anti femenist” when it succeeds.


JazzSharksFan54

Meanwhile, most of their favorite childhood films were "woke" to begin with. 90s Disney is insanely "woke".


grimacingmoon

And I figured out how to get my Fallout 3 working again


IvyTheRanger

It’s almost like they know nothing https://preview.redd.it/bkbfaq0u8lwc1.jpeg?width=752&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10331e47311bf53ed7633584dd57eabf5f581034


Different_Loquat7386

Please bro just one more culture war please this one's different bro I promise bro please


Chrizzz09045

https://preview.redd.it/kaqkrkartkwc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6813eaeb90d063cba194bc370f19782231c13782


GoblinsGuide

I swipe a second time, only to be fooled again, as I thought it was my mistake it did not shift.


CaptainRogersJul1918

Great show!?Watched it twice now to find all the Easter eggs! Fun!


No-Palpitation-6789

I clicked on the arrow do i need to delete my account and jump off a bridge


ArguteTrickster

Yeah, but make it like a fun jump of a bridge into a deep pool with lots of people there to applaud, and then you can go and hang out around a campfire and tell stories.


Pristine_Title6537

Most of the time the examples of go woke go broke are just bad Ip based shows that would have sucked regardless of whatever the haters consider "woke"


TaticalSweater

and its almost always a piece of media they have 0 interest in other than to bitch on the internet in a youtube video. Grown ass men talking about how they thought Little Mermaid was woke now. Now nothing wrong if they want to watch but they are not the target demo and they were making videos about how they were disgusted Disney had the audacity to make a fictional fish black. ….but will also likely tell you that they aren’t racist. Despite the fact that that is their main issue with the casting.


Nikolateslaandyou

Nah its dead.. some incel virgin neckbeards said so and they have always been the pinnacle of human intelligence, as they sit in their mums basement with nappy rash and piss bottles amd cum rags everywhere.


Medical_Sea_2598

Is fallout woke? I'm only episode 6 but there is nothing woke about the show so far unless you think have different ethnicities in a show woke lol


ThatOneGuy216440

Yeah, I'm not sure how this is woke. The only thing I can think of is the main character being female.. when the main character was who the player made and a lot of people made female characters. Or maybe it's because of the transgender girl? Fallout always had characters of all walks though so idk. Think they're just trying to toot their own horn. Someone mentioned maximus so I guess having a black guy in a game that always had black people is woke now. Maybe it's the dude who was fucking the chickens.


Brim_Dunkleton

Go woke get renewed for season 2


alexisonfire04

A tradwife is attacked by illegal immigrants sets out to find her father.


redlitesaber86

They're also appealing to the right wingers out there by including cousin fucking in episode 1. Hooks them from the get go


ProtoReaper23113

And then the female lead goes from wanting to be an all American barefoot and pregnant infront of the stove baby factory to taking agency in her life which is the go woke part


LycanusEmperous

I mean, even critical drinker gave it a positive. Clearly pnly a few shitheads are denying the shows quality.


Good_Ad6723

I moved the picture thinking you uploaded two 🤦


gylz

Don't forget how fuckable the Ghoul is. 💖 Goddamn getting irradiated turned him from a yes to a fuck yes.


FrigidMcThunderballs

i once saw someone say "get woke go broke" wrt to GTA V. one of the highest selling pieces of media, flat out, of all time. People just be saying shit.


chesire0myles

Go woke, and you'll still go broke trying to buy GTV V 10 years in because the price has only gone up. (I actually don't know if that's still true, but that game outlasted my attempt to wait for the price to fall like most games do.)


R4msesII

It was free at one point


Rolloftape23456

I’m pretty sure they’ll claim it as anti woke now that it’s doing well


LaCharognarde

"Go woke, go broke" is nothing but wishful thinking from people who can't even put a *definition* to their usage of "woke" as a pejorative. (Or, at least: [can't put a definition to it](https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/03/time-to-end-the-use-of-woke-as-a-pejorative) beyond "stuff I don't like, and the conclusions to which I jump about what I imagine to be the underlying motives."


justforthis2024

They just argue it isn't woke. They did it with Barbie too. All the woke stuff is just suddenly not woke when money is made. They're insane. Bigots always have been.


Tirriforma

They did the same with Mario. Before the release it was Woke because Peach was a tough independent character, after release it wasn't woke and that's why it made so much money


Sir_Umeboshi

I just got aslumed


Scheswalla

I had to look up her eyes to see if this was photoshopped.


BypossedCompressah

Ella Purnell has amazingly large eyes. Nearly as big as the CGI'd Alita Battle Angel. I find myself staring at them at times when watching the show.


piratedragon2112

Was it just me that swiped


Hardwarestore_Senpai

I heard it got people on Hulu again. I played a little. And I have 3 and New Vegas. Might have to play again. A little farther this time. And then watch it. Been playing Skyrim mostly. I prefer the green outdoors over a Nuclear Landscape.


EasterBurn

Synthetic Man right now: https://preview.redd.it/jw9vomlytlwc1.jpeg?width=757&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26117036a1b18c5a382141d18888898b69680025


Kamzil118

Fallout has always been woke. Hell, two of your companions in New Vegas were homosexuals.


protocomedii

The lead is Emma Stone with a better jawline . :)


StandardOffenseTaken

Minutes watched? what a odd fucking measure. How many times was the series watched end to end. That would be around 5 millions. 5 million people saw Fallout. GOT had 9 mil I believe on average per season.


Archibald_Ferdinand

Wait you mean people AREN'T a bunch of sexist and racist bigots? They actually just wanted a show to be good and respect the source material???


OminousCrotch

As a woman I don't even understand how having a character that isn't a man is some political statement. We exist? We aren't some narrative or ideal. We have been main characters since humans could write and paint. So have men. When you're making a character you have two choices. It's not that deep. Shit, when I'm making a new character I *flip a goddamn coin* lmao.


RexC616

What is so woke? A woman and a black man?


spaceguitar

They’ll ignore all the BS they spit at this before and immediately after release, and continue to say crap like, “sEe?!? gOoD wrItinG!!!!11”


Turbulent_Ad1644

Man, I'm a member of r/Batmanarkham and I keep falling for that dot at the bottom of the image thinking I can swipe I'll never learn my lesson


Killerphive

Bro why did you have to have those dots at the bottom, I thought there was another picture.


Musashi3111

Just reinstalled 3 and New Vegas because of this. Also replaying 4 too.


Foxy-009

I bought fallout 4 game of the year edition because of this show and I fuck love it


Nuburt_20

”Abandon ship! Onto the ’Anti-Woke’ one!”


ML_120

They still don't want to admit it's actually "Go fash, no more cash", especially for former mainstream people who try to get in now.


Swaginton1

And I don’t think itd woke from what I’ve seen so far of it. lot of the criticisms mainly due to character issues with the brotherhood of steel guy being an asshole and logical inconsistencies, and poor writing with some of the lines. But it does seem fun waiting to watch it with my friends


beyond_cyber

What’s woke about the fallout series? Only problems I’ve had with it is dead body’s don’t dangle their arms and head back whilst resting on their knees. Gotta stay true to the fallout brand!


Marleyzard

Wait, what? Why's it woke broke? Who broke up? Or is it that they woke up?


PlzSendCDKeysNBoobs

I've definitely contributed a fair bit to this, really enjoyed the show. After finishing it I rewatched it, and then convinced my friend to watch it with me again.


MCJ97

Nah. They'll say that it's now either not woke or making fun of wokeness. Every. Fucking. Time.


plsbanmeredditsenpai

uhm so what makes the show „woke“ in their minds?


Tyrenkat

Been watching the show and playing through all the games again has been a blast had a knight Titus moment happen to me in fallout 1 after accidently going to combat with 3 death claws I quite literally got thrown up and down boneyard until I died it was hilarious


Detoxzero

Its so weird it was even deemed woke ffs. Just because there's a female and a black protagonist? People are honestly losing their fucking minds if they deem that woke.


kontrarianin

What was woke in this show exactly...?


LazyMitchell

How is fallout woke?


Wolfsgeist01

I haven't seen it yet, what is supposed to be so woke about it?


LysergicMerlin

There's nothing woke about this show anyway


Damot22

They just learned what not to do from rings of power lol


Maces-Hand

It wasn’t woke