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Fallout Monopoly

pjern — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:56:38 -0800

Doing What We Could Because We Can.

The Whelk — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:06:16 -0800

Wayside Creations: the studio that produced the surprisingly high-budget fallout Fan series: Nuka Break (with Dougie Jones!) (previously, previously) have turned their attention to the office politics of our favorite hive of mad science: Aperture R&D.

I understand that you have to take some sponge baths; however...

obscurator — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:11:52 -0800

The year is 1959. A local radio station, in conjunction with Bomb Shelters, Inc. is seeking a newlywed couple to partake of a sheltered honeymoon. Directly after the reception - wedding cake leftovers in tow - the newly minted Mininsons descended into a 12-ft. deep, 6 x 14ft. wide shelter - and the annals of Atomic Pop Culture. On the fifth day of their two-week trial by shelter, Civil Defense Administrator Coleman Wages contacted Melvin and Maria Mininson by phone. CW: I understand that you are having trouble with your can opener MM: We have only one can opener and it is broken, so we have had to use the scissors from the first aid kit to open cans. I cut my hand, so the first aid kit is essential. Note - after test it was determined that can opener operated but couple did not know how to use it.

Can Bruce Dern save mankind from Adam Ant?

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:41:13 -0800

World Gone Wild is a 1988 post-apocalyptic film with English pop singer Adam Ant as the villain. The entire film can be watched on YouTube. Via Armagideon Time.

"Pop Culture Often Mocks My Faith, But Fallout Treated It Right."

Pope Guilty — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:28:12 -0800

Skip Cameron, a Mormon, writes for Kotaku on the respectful treatment of Mormons and Mormonism in Fallout: New Vegas.

Eternal Arcanum

Charlemagne In Sweatpants — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:40:24 -0800

Chris Avellone, a writer and designer who worked on Fallout 2, Fallout New Vegas, Planescape Torment and Neverwinter Nights, plays and comments on the steampunk RPG Arcanum to celebrate raising almost 4 million dollars toward his upcoming RPG, Project Eternity

A bomb, H bomb, Minutemen, the names get more attractive

Mezentian — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:47:52 -0800

In 1961 US president John F Kennedy started the Community Fallout Shelter Program, advising the use of communal and home-based fallout shelters in case relations with the Soviet Union took a turn for the worse. One brave toy company took up the call and released a dolls' house with its own fallout shelter to keep dolly safe. Also on the topic of shelters, the famous Life's 1961 Fallout special and a a CBC news report on life in a fallout shelter. Join the Toronto's McCallum family as they leave their shelter after one week. How did they enjoy confinement? Want to build your own shelter?

Beyond the Vault

Artw — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:52:09 -0800

Gaming made me - RPS writer Patricia Hernandez on how Fallout 2 shaped her world view, her politics and her sexuality.

Can I Drink This? (Nuclear Apocalypse Edition)

Hobo — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:39:06 -0800

Having dealt with the pressing problem of what to do with all the bodies following a nuclear attack and looked into whether the bureaucracy would survive, Restricted Data moves on to the big question: Can Beer Survive A Nuclear Apocalypse?.

Watching You Dance Makes Me Wish For A Nuclear Winter

The Whelk — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:53:24 -0800

Fun With Models Friday: Fallout New Vegas Characters Just Love To Dance.

"I like to feel that it’s my job to instigate the process with a cool drawing that inspires everyone else here into making something really cool, and worth the effort."

restless_nomad — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:59:53 -0800

Adam Adamowicz, concept artist behind the hugely popular video games Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, passed away this week after a long struggle with cancer.

War. War never changes.

absalom — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:56:43 -0800

January of last year, Wayside Creations - a YouTube troupe with a penchant for propmaking - released Nuka Break, a fan film based on Fallout: New Vegas. After the film went viral, the group set up a fundraising drive that quickly attracted almost $30,000 in support, including that of Dracogen Strategic Investments. With the revenue, they filmed a six part webseries that began to roll out last August, with the IGN-sponsored final episode landed today. The Behind the Scenes episodes often focus on the nuts and bolts of the production, including how many the props were developed and created. [Previously]

This cake is not a lie

yellowbinder — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:04:26 -0800

Have you every wanted to try GLaDOS' chocolate cake or S’Jirra’s Famous Potato Bread with a Nirnroot Salad? We've got Starkos straight from the streets of Hillys, and steak skewers prepared in Inaba's finest lunch stops. If you're thirsty we've got some NukaCola Quantum or Lon-Lon Milk, and there's always FK in the coffee. All these recipes and more from your favourite virtual worlds can be found at Gourmet Gaming

DO NOT COLLECT 200 BOTTLECAPS

Legomancer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:56:39 -0800

There are few boardgames that the connoisseurs over at BoardGameGeek hate with as much passion as Monopoly. But many of them are drooling over a custom Monopoly set Elisabeth Redel made for her boyfriend. It's a gorgeous version themed to Bethesda's Fallout 3. Behold, Fallout Monopoly.

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

codacorolla — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:35:49 -0800

" ... there is a depth of field technique with a controllable aspect called 'bokeh,' which describes a certain quality of blur that we often notice in the more luminous parts of a film’s background and that varies considerably with lens and camera type. Bokeh is a photography term derived from the Japanese boké- blur, haze ... When implemented in games the technique encapsulates a certain kind of second-order removal from reality. We are simulating not the way things look, but how they look after they have been filtered through the eye of a camera." Independent game developer Mathew Burns takes a look at how video games reflect reality in his account of the 2011 Game Developer's Conference. Burns also writes the blog Magical Wasteland. Burns writes about games from the perspective of a big studio developer turned independent (interview):

Four Capital Cities of the United States; examines how D.C. is recreated in games, compared to how it exists in Burns' memory.
The Way to a Man's Heart; how food in games can change a player's experience.
One Experiment, Four Theories; GLaDOS as game designer in Portal and Portal 2 (mild spoilers).

Burns is currently working at Shade Grown Games in the development of an experimental music game Planck v.1 _{The Borges story mentioned in the article. Found via this thread at the saltw.net game design forums.}

"There IS a thing called competitive birdwatching..." The decade-long buzz of The Big Year

jessamyn — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:06:24 -0800

In 1998 three birders--Sandy Komito, Al Levantin and Greg Miller--had their big year attempt chronicled in 2004 in a book of the same name by Mark Obmascik. Due to a few fortuitous circumstances including some spectacular fallout on Attu, a remote Alaskan Island, Komito's 1998 record of 745 species has never been surpassed. Their friendly yearlong rivalry is being documented further in a motion picture featuring Owen Wilson, Steve Martin and Jack Black coming out later this year. Steve Martin, incidentally, has an album of banjo music out called Rare Bird Alert based on an actual birder alert system detailed heavily in the book. Reviews of The Big Year: Powell's, SFGate, Asian Review of Books Movie Buzz about The Big Year: Birder's Forum discusses leaked photos, Greg Miller's page on the movie, Steve Martin discusses the movie on Conan (about 6 min. in), Birdchick's blog updates, report on some of the filming in the Osoyoos BC local paper

On Fallout: We had a time travel [setting] with dinosaurs for a while

ersatz — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 06:00:30 -0800

Matt Barton's Matt Chat started as a series of discussions on classic video games from Elite to System Shock 2. It now features interviews with the likes of Chris Avellone (Planescape Torment), Tim Cain (Fallout pt.1, pt.2); Arcanum, Brian Fargo (The Fall of Interplay, Waste land and Fallout, Bard's Tale and Wizardry), John Romero (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake and the infamous Daikatana) and Al Lowe (Leasure Suite Larry pt.1 and pt.2). Max Payne with Scott Miller. Duke Nukem 3D with a side dose of Carmack, Romero and thoughts on Duke Nukem Forever with Scott Miller. Nancy Drew with Jessica Chiang. Ralph Baer, inventor of Magnavox Odyssey. History of Cinemaware (Defender of the Crown etc.) with Bob Jacob. Syndicate with Sean Cooper. Rebecca Heineman, a fourt-part interview. There are also some interviews on the early days of these creators, as well as discussions of gaming classics.

They say the sun don't rise in Vegas.

Lovecraft In Brooklyn — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:39:12 -0800

Chris Worth did a tour of the real-life locations that that appeared in Fallout: New Vegas and compared them with their videogame counterparts. He explains more about the project in a newspaper interview.

"Please don't sue us. We don't have any money. Really, like none. On a side note, Fallout: New Vegas is out. Check it out!"

jbickers — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:18:45 -0800

Fallout: Nuka Break is a short fan-made film set in the Fallout universe. Written by Brian Clevenger from a story by lead actor Zack Finfrock, it tells the story of Twig, desperately scouring the wasteland in search of a bottle of Nuka-Cola.

"FUBAR" cannot be expressed as a numeric output

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:42:38 -0800

The nuclear weapons simulator at CarlosLabs (previously) has been updated to include fallout wind drift, pressure and thermal events to evaluate the impact of everything from a suitcase nuke to the Tsar Bomba on your city. The Missile Range Tool can show if you are in the vicinity of any delivery systems currently in service, or compare your location to the range of those used historically, such as the V2. For the effects of the cosmic collisions of asteroids and comets (and featuring rather more science) there's the Earth Impact Effects Program.

Natural Born Killer - Genocide of the Fallout 3 World

slimepuppy — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:12:03 -0800

I'm on a mission - not to praise Jesus or ensure that every child in Namibia has a netbook, but to kill every single living vaguely human-like character in Fallout 3. ... everyone ... no matter how friendly, helpful, or beneficial to my completion of the game, must be put into the ground. "Natural Born Killer", an experiment in virtual genocide, parts One, Two and Three.

Yes, I'd say that was unusual.

empath — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:28:05 -0800

Paintings of President Obama, Naked with Unicorns (SFW)

1983: The Brink of Apocalypse

empath — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:22:13 -0800

1983: The Brink of Apocalypse -- In 1983 the NATO war exercise Able Archer almost started a nuclear war. Unknown to NATO, just a few months earlier a false alarm had already put the Soviet leadership on edge, and the exercise triggered preparations for a counter attack in the Soviet military. Only a few double agents on each side may have saved the world from nuclear armageddon. Bonus MAD Documentary: The Brink of Eternity (2, 3, 4, 5). Of course, if more world leaders listened to Matthew Broderick, none of this would of happened.

... Do not look to the horizon of the eye drops.

permafrost — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:44:08 -0800

Pictures from an epic Russian Fallout LARP. English translation via Google.

Homo Superior!

dunkadunc — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:45:11 -0800

How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race. The excellent Modern Mechanix brings us Mechanix Illustrated's uninformed 1953 article on the effects of nuclear fallout.
But why, then, don't we have our superintelligent bobblehead beagles?