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A Mr House video would be phenomenal

A Mr House video would be phenomenal

Just wanted to say that this is one of the finest RUclips channels out there to listen to while walking your dog

Welp. I came here to nourish my Fallout universe hyperfixation, and instead I received a beautifully thought out insight on the show, the human condition, and the global climate. This video warmed my heart and made my day ♥️

I wish the witcher was as good as the fallout show 😢 They really butchered the witcher show 😕

I was interested in the video but the intro lost me

The same 12:52 👍🏽

9:10 "And War.... continues to be invariant." I'm stealing this.

100% agree.

There's a Ghoul doctor in Fallout 3 working on a way to halt/reverse going Feral. It's safe to assume he succeeded, and now his creation is all over the Wasteland. Also, I'm surely not the first person to post this, but Shady Sands was nuked at the end of 2281, almost right after Fallout New Vegas.

NSP!

Oh wow, i love you ❤, the discussion about neurodivergent trauma.... *chef's kiss*

NSP!

I agree.

Excellent analysis! It completely escaped me that Norm was likely being setup the whole time! I caught all of Betty’s ominous expressions but wasn’t sure of the significance other than showing that she was suspicious and up to no good lol. I also really appreciate you sharing all of your knowledge on autism. Even though I don’t have an official diagnosis, I feel like you’ve helped me understand myself better. 💕

I didn't really like MXR--his 'Hurr duh hurr,, boobies' type commentary got on my nerves fast--but I agree, he's great at finding some awesome mods and sharing them! Hearing your words about him does raise my opinion of him. Another edit! My heart goes out to you. I struggle with some of the same things. I get it.

It's a pretty valid take though, thinking that deleting comments = liberal. Colloquial "liberal" of course, not *actual* liberal. Maybe you're not following current (or even not so current) Culture War battlegrounds, but one of them is Free Speech, and the lines have been drawn long ago - this is one of them lines.

War.... continues to be invariant :D

Based

I’ve had some suspicion for a while that I may be autistic. I’ve lived my whole life (38 years) feeling very other. I often explain to my family and friends that I sometimes feel like an alien, studying society like an anthropologist or animal behavioralist. I feel like Jane Goodall. I love humans. I want to understand their behaviors and I try to respect them and participate. But at the end of the day I am not one of them and I know this. Watching this has me feeling seen. You even said the words feeling alien. I intend to bring this up with the doctor soon. But I felt like it’s worth sharing. I’ve enjoyed your video essays!

I’ve had some suspicion for a while that I may be autistic. I’ve lived my whole life (38 years) feeling very other. I often explain to my family and friends that I sometimes feel like an alien, studying society like an anthropologist or animal behavioralist. I feel like Jane Goodall. I love humans. I want to understand their behaviors and I try to respect them and participate. But at the end of the day I am not one of them and I know this. Watching this has me feeling seen. You even said the words feeling alien. I intend to bring this up with the doctor soon. But I felt like it’s worth sharing. I’ve enjoyed your video essays!

Naw fam you're nurturing, just in a different way. My mom treated me the same way. I'm a tomboy and my parents are traditional. Did sports in school, played with the boys until I couldn't, then snuck off and played with the boys and got grounded lol. Then I joined the military, served, and now I just sit behind a desk looking pretty. My mom always forced me into more feminine stuff. It wasn't that I wasn't into some of it, it was that she made it a chore or a punishment.

Never give up on hope. When you give up on hope, all is lost. I live by the golden rule and I have been fucked over most my life. I've now realized how funny it is. I just learned to take care of myself and assume no one will help me, but I always help others, and treat them the way I want to be treated. I know they're acting this way because there's very few Lucys out there. So as long as people like me are kind, and keep being kind, we will eventually, and very slowly, smother humanity with kindness, and maybe then they'll stop being such dickwads. lol

Regarding your comments about non-binary being a non-identity I identify ultimately as consciousness, which I believe a source of infinite potential. I see the spectrum of femininity and masculinity as a whole, and the poles as parts. When a person assigns a label of masculine or feminine, they're denying its opposite. Even if I present his masculine, calling me such would be denying my feminine attributes.

I relate to your gender identification from the other side of the transition. I'm AMAB, nonbinary, and use he/they because I don't want to explain to randos how I relate to gender. Just want to say that I sense the masculine energy from you, and I'm glad you are aware and sovereign in your beliefs about yourself.

i just wanted to say that i got recommended your vids the other week and ive been making my way through them (out of order lol) and MAN!! i LOVE them all. super underrated imo. i LOVE seeing other autistic ppl w special interests in autism and other things just talk about that media and also throw in the obligatory “AUTISM!!!” comment. amazing work!! instant favorite!!!!

I think the fall of shady sands was meant to represent when the ncr began to fall I think it’s when Tandy died and the fall is a metaphor for how without Tandy the ncr began to rot

I honestly think Lucy just panicked and didn’t know what she was throwing on the doctor, she just knew it was acid afterwards bc it made his skin sizzle

MAGA hats are what makes any meeting creepy.

Hmmmm, Cults, ok because it's up to the individual. Interesting considering there can be proven brainwashing. I'm thinking of Heaven's gate and Jonestown, I'm sure the individuals didn't join thinking I want to be a part of mass suicide.

You know raiders have their own personal struggles and they attack everyone and take what they want to "de stress"....thats not a great way to live. So many are forgetting that and starting to act like a raider.

Woman can be strong....but they dont need to be guys. Nothing more sexy then a strong woman who not "progressive" a woman who will fight bandits with you and have a beer at the end of the day with ya...now thats sexy and strong AF 💪

Norm uses his small frame to squeeze into places he shouldn't be.

Norm does not uphold the norm 😂 I’ll see myself out now 😅

My reading of the overseer’s cutting Lucy’s bonds was not sexual, although I now can understand why it may be interpreted that way. This could be biased due to my being a white male, but my read was that the scene was showcasing how physically weak the overseer is, and that despite his position of power he would not be well adapted in different environments. And, although clearly having undergone some type of explanation, he is not a Super Mutant. In fact, Birdie’s apparent frustration with how long the overseer took led me to question how much power the overseer actually had as opposed to being more of a symbolic figurehead.

Transfem dy*e is how I explain myself.

Caviar is 100% salt and vague essence of fish on the aftertaste. It pops when you bite it.

Thanks for the reminder that we don’t have to agree to be good people. Your videos are awesome cause they make me think about things that might not even occur to me.

love your content but why the elon musk shirt? dude is scummy af and legit calls LGBTQ folks a "woke virus"

I assumed it was because Lucy applied for a "breeder" that she was so disgusted. It probably was less a personal vendetta and more a win win for her hurting Hank on two fronts. She clearly did not hold up her pre war morale values and at this point doesn't care for Hanks kids. Maybe it's wrapped but why would she? She clearly had deeply bonded with Rose and upheld these emotions whilst her being a feral? That is tragic but unhealthy levels of attachment there or rather she couldn't let go of Rose. But Hank McLeans kids? Why would she have any attachment? She was clearly not happy that Lucy looked so much like her mother and just looked at her as collateral. We also don't know how "happy" Rose was with her marriage or what she told Moldaver about it. So yeah I bet she despised Lucy a little for living save and unharmed and selling herself to a breeder like she was a perfect little VaultTec pie :D.

The show also chose to use rainbow "flares" in very specific moments ^^ You see them with Rose and Lee but also once when Max and Lucy shake hands and I believe once with Max on his own.

the vault 4 dwellers are followers of Moldaver, what if she informed the NCR government about the fussion experiment and they turned her down? Or she saw the government trying to side with people like House? To her and her followers, that would be the fall of Shady Sands. It would explain why we dont hear about it in New Vegas, the regular soldiers and citizens wouldn't veiw it as a fall.

Caviar, in my experience, mostly just tastes salty, a bit saline, and it's the kind of thing you eat more for the texture (sort of slippery, if you've had roe it is this but larger) than the taste. The first and last time I ate caviar, I was twelve or so meeting my brother-in-law's parents, who are former soviet citizens. I tried a little bit on bread, and decided I was very fond of it, so I put a whole heap of it on. I was less fond of it. Caviar is best enjoyed in small quantities.

Hello. Since my own channel somehow evolved over time into me describing the esoteric meaning behind media, I think I can explain some of the symbolism behind the Vault 4 ritual. I don't have access to streaming media so I am going off the images and your description of the ritual rather than the scene itself, but there's enough information for me to explain at least some of the symbolic language used by the ritual. If there's more information that you think would bring greater clarity to the description, please let me know. First, as you likely already know, communal rituals are designed to provide a feeling of membership within a group by reinforcing the symbolism core to the ideological core of the group. This is true for both the Vault 4 and communist book club scenes. Each ritual's setting, script, symbolic tools, and lecture is centered around the core beliefs of the group or in the case of the Vault 4 ritual, subgroup as the ritual is described to apply primarily to the outsiders who weren't added to Vault's population recently enough to be considered truly native. The Vault 4 ritual is recreation of an animistic fertility ritual. Animism is the earliest and longest held form of spiritual belief that centers on the belief of the abstract lifeforce and spiritual nature of the world without personifying that belief into concrete symbols such as gods or detailed mythological narrative. The use of this more generalized form of worship was likely a deliberate choice to avoid contradicting any prior beliefs held by recent citizens of the Vault. The centering of the ritual around the concept of fertility is important that even with the Vault's technological assets, food production is critical in the apocalyptic environment of the Wasteland. Despite the technological environments they live in, the Vault dwellers exist with a tight tribal structure that by necessity must be self-sufficient. By reinforcing that food production requires a communal effort that isn't always clean or sterile but is necessary, the ritual and attached systems of belief mentally and emotionally prepare the celebrants for those tasks. I would hazard a guess first generation former wastelanders of that society are primarily focused in the general labor and security positions in the Vault due to less technical skill requirements of those roles and the ritual reinforces the importance of those roles within the Vault 4 society. Now the symbols. Two of the most basic symbols in animastic rituals are fire and blood as the symbolic representatives of lifeforce. Blood of course the simplest and easiest to understand symbol of biological lifeforce. It is literally the medium that sustains life and retains this symbolical connection to lifeforce to this day. Just look at the symbolism it retains in vampiric fiction and esoteric practices. "The blood is the life". The sharing of a chalice of blood or fluid such as milk, ergot laced fermented wheat infusions or grape juice, is symbolic of joining the celebrants into a shared link of life force, to be symbolic blood siblings. Fire is the symbol of humanity's first manifestation of mastery over their environment and the power generated by fire is the core of human civilization. From fashioning fire-hardened ends on the end of sticks to form better spears, to the heat-based nuclear reactions fueling nuclear power - including fusion - the generation of combustion is the core of human temporal power. While this is best embodied in ritual in large open fires one could dance around, candles serve as a more indoor friendly substitute. In addition, each person individually bringing a candle to then lay on a communal altar together also reinforces the communal link. The light within one individual added to the tribe to provide greater collective illumination. Linking the blood and fire represents the fusion of immaterial spiritual (blood) and material mastery of humanity (fire) merging together to provide the power the tribe need to survive. While it's being used for fertility ritual here, the symbolism is easily converted into battle rituals to prepare the tribe for conflict. As for the other symbols, the fruits and vegetable on the altar are representative of the fruits of the earth. The fertility of the earth is nurtured by blood - or more accurately decaying biological material - and the fires of the sun. This symbolism reinforces the fruits of the tribe's labors being manifested. Both literally as the fruits of the fields, and metaphorically the greater rewards communal as opposed to individual efforts can provide them all. Breasts of course represent maternal fertility as their primary purpose is to provide milk for infants. This is why breasts are so prominent on the sacred images of feminine fertility deities. More than that, including the nature of Bernie's speech, I can't comment on as I don't have any more information. I do hope the information I provided was helpful for you. While making an episode based on ritual would be interesting, I don't have access to the primary source material and my own production schedule is pretty full. As an aside, I also researched Teal Swan and came to similar conclusion you did: "mostly harmless". I don't think Bernie is a direct homage to Ms. Swan but both she and the character draw off the same archetype for their persona.

Whooohooo!

“She had a regulated nervous system” I am so jealous of her

Communism is very different from Soviet or Chinese communism. In fact the idealistic nature of communism calls for the state to "wither away" because people won't need them once they get used to sharing resources. Except that we're selfish s%$#ts and it just doesn't work. Sure real communism is more altruistic but it's impossible to implement (at least with humans). I was taught all this in college in the 80s but when people hear the word now, they are thinking mostly of the Soviet Union. If a former game show host got elected US president and turned it into a dictatorship and called it democracy, at some point in the future, that might be what people thought of when they heard "DEMOCRACY". And that is hard for a word like communism to get around. People say the same thing about TOS Star Trek's Federation (that it is too altruistic to really exist) which is why the current rights holders have thoroughly tried to destroy the very idea that the Federation is a working system.

As for your evolving recording set up I think neon lines or sign in the background would help fill in that black negative space well with color and not be bright enough to distract from your primary light source.

No, exploring the forbidden level is the fact that they were mousetrapped into the vault AND almost everyone in Fallout has some horrible secret you need to know. Go look up Andale from Fallout 3. Really you NEED to know about those dark secrets. I'd venture to say that there IS no peaceful settlement without a horrible secret in all of Fallout 3, 4, and NV. There are messy settlements (Megaton for instance) with apparent problems, but all the ones that really seem like they "have it together" are all monsters.

This is one of the most thoughtful Fallout analyses I've seen in a while and to be honest in this community that's pretty refreshing, subscribed and looking forward to the next one!