3,002 actually, but whatever.
To celebrate, I feel sorry for social justice warriors.
(Fallout 4)
Modder Spotlight: Niero
I’m going to start off by saying that Niero is, hands down, one of my favourite modders for Fallout 4. His mods are mostly clothing and weaponry, steeped in lore that somehow fit into the wasteland, and stand out at the same time. His work all looks like it was put together by a team of professionals, instead of one solitary person. The models are beautiful, the UV maps are flawless, and the clothing rigging looks natural. The pieces from each outfit mesh fabulously with pieces from other outfits, and I’m usually wearing parts from at least four of these mods, simultaneously. Also, almost all of these items come with unique mods and/or headlamps which cast shadows.
I think one of my favourite things about the Niero mods is that all of them come with a couple colours, but he provides, for free, 4K skin packs on his Gumroad page or his Patreon. Providing them on an external site speeds up your downloads too!
Niero mods never clash with any other mods I’m using, and they seem to be happy anywhere in my load order. I don’t even test new ones anymore, because I’m comfortable dumping a new Niero mod into an existing play through without worrying about breaking my save. I can’t not use Niero mods in my play throughs.
My one single only tiny iiitty bitty gripe is that Niero needs to use more purple. I’m very sad there is no purple of any sort in the Stridgudae gear. I need me some purple. But I kinda want everything everywhere to be purple all the time. Perhaps the lack of purple is good for me.
This is going to be long. Strap in.
Children of Ug-Qualtoth
This mod…
I grew up on horror. I was reading Stephen King at 11. I can watch gore horror like SAW and Hostel without even being remotely phased. Pennywise is kinda cute. I have zombie “nightmares” where literally everyone else on the planet is dead, aside from myself and handful of people and I love them. I have fallen asleep during hour 3 of the 6 hour Shining miniseries, woken up when Jack is stalking the house, covered in blood and insane, trying to kill Danny, and fallen asleep again in the middle of it. Point is, I don’t scare easily. I have considered that there might be something pathologically wrong with me.
Photos from the Wasteland 2: Headshots
Fallout, You Know Me So Well
Now, if you know me in person, you know that I have the cooking skills of a blind, deaf, child with no tongue. I neither read recipes nor listen to instructions from real people, so I can feed myself extremely basic things: spaghetti, jello, cheese on toast, cereal. I’m fine with this, because I don’t care how they taste. Cooking for other people? No. I don’t want to. That’s a lot of effort, and I would probably end up making someone sick.
I just got a rolling pin as a drop. A rolling pin. So I can beat people to death with a rolling pin? Seems unlikely that I’d kill anyone with a kitchen implement, but it’s in keeping with my own personal life lore, so I’ll bite.
Oh, It’s a legendary drop? That seems like a bit of a stupid waste of a legendary drop. Does it roll fancy patterns on their faces? Does it poison them, so I don’t have to wait for my cooking to do it? Does it set things on fire, like I’ve done to my kitchen before? Does it do double damage, like my cooking that’s boring AND might make you sick? Does it just sit in my cupboard and do nothing?
Wait, what? It actually poisons people? I was kidding. Oh, Bethesda, you troll, I love you. I will probably never use this thing, but I’m definitely going to put it on display. I actually laughed out loud when I saw this thing. Thanks, Bethesda <3
Photos From the Wasteland 1: Fallout 4 Reviewish Ongoing Series
So, as you know, I got a new laptop, and a rather nice boy I know got me a present before it even shipped. Fallout 4.
The fallout games have always been dear to me, because they combine elements of things I love, with things that I like but am terrible at, so they help me learn. I’m terrible at FPS. Truly terrible. When something jumps me, I freak out, flail, and die. It’s embarrassing. Fallout has an FPS element, but it’s not all shooting, and if there’s a foe I just cant deal with, there’s VATS to help out. I’ve become something of a skilled sharpshooter though, which is nice.