Fallout 4 rehash

 I wrote this already, I swear, and there's an incredible urge to skip tons because of that, and it's an old game, and because I cannot re-order these blogs (this would be on the bottom of last year)

Well let's start with Player's kid, who starts out as a baby in, uhm, 2077, a few years from now.

She seeks him out, finds him at ten-years-old, discovers it's a really fancy robot, and her son is really an old man now.

What year is it?
210 years away from 2077.
65 years (roughly) from when her son was kidnapped.

Has the human race gone so retrograde that we all pretend to live in the fifties?

Oh sure, we can do teleportation and we've done marvelous things with lasers...

1946, 1958, waaaitasec. We've got nuclear-powered cars!! Or we did.

So ... the conservatives won??

Whoa, it's a topic!!
*I* only wondered if I was using "retrograde" correctly.

The bombastic explanation why civilization froze in time, exists but I will only quote a very small part.

MAGA won.

New word of the day:"Pluralism" which in the game is kind of a farce-fantasy, unless I've got the way-wrong definition.

If the different flavors of Human tried to live together, with their different societal structures,
That (I think) would be pluralism.
But the reality is that everyone everywhere all the time try to kill player.

Super-mutants can be cured, a single scientist knows it, but no one ever takes advantage of the fact.
What about (insert definition here) zombies?
Are ALL raiders assholes?
Makes you all cynical after a few hours.
No, buck up, you're on a mission-from-God to kill all deviants everywhere.
I get the feeling they had meetings and decided how to mess with Player's mind.
The one where your companion disappears then runs towards you full speed?
The one where they jump right in front of you firing at some enemy?

The endless raiders taunts.

Curie's incessant nagging "This is too violent"

Well anyway

They can build mini nuclear bombs and flame throwers, but no one can make a roof with no holes, unless it's concrete. 

Concrete buildings are ugly and claustrophobic, but the alternatives are hole-y shacks.

I only learned today that some of those shacks might not qualify as "Sheltered" (for beds) because of the holes, but I can't believe it until I find out for myself.
The game might say a person has enough settlement-beds, but not qualify for happiness because of holes in the roof, which they designed (it doesn't make a lot of sense, if true)

The part about unsheltered bunkbeds is total insanity

This whole train of thought came from that large settlement called "sunshine tidings."

They have really run-down cabins with bodies of dead people and gigantic bug-corpses, but the game people (aka, "NPC's) would rather live in the shacks than in the large buildings, or in anything that I would build.
I finally got off my butt to understand why.

So far it's all rumor passed down.

My preliminary thinking is that any preexisting building that has what used to be bedrooms, is preferable to anything I could build, But I haven't proven it.
Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe they patched patches and the old rules don't apply.

Speaking of Curie (or Piper, or whoever) 

Was I staring too long at her skin-tight uniform?
Waddabout the "Nuka-Cola" space-lady, I wasn't really staring at her gun.
Admit to these faux-pas and get put on a list, you were built to destroy.

It galls slightly that players online mock other players for wanting to romance this or that character, and g-rated musicals from the late thirties and forties allow kissing,

 but not in any fallout games.

You can literally turn people into hamburger, just don't kiss them (or hold hands)

See "Gwen Macnamara" or "Doctor Amari" 

Curie isn't actually human, more of an android, 

so the morality-police give her more romantic lines, 

and the built-in game allows you to say, 

"I love you" to her.

Having said that, many solutions to getting characters out of being stuck is to shoot them in the head.

Those people online I was talking about. 

lose interest after they reach a plateau of achievement.

It gets old, killing and hamburger-making.

My train of thought drifted towards asexual teens, but I'm positive I'm using the wrong word.
I...just...well, go read the reddit thread.

"we are Super-Mutants!!" Another subject I'd like to research (when I'm too bored to play)

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Anyway, the world being upside down like it is, makes me wonder what the hell you all watch.

ersatz 1940's Musical

Here:

I can honestly say I don't know a single title in that picture.
People's points of view might be very different, depending upon what they stream.

OTA might deteriorate into selling knives, coins and PBS, but that would be all right with me.
(Although who buys TV's anymore?)