It's all vaginas to me!
Well, I'm not dead. The only thing that happened was that I got the movie I order from Amazon.com on the 13th. Yeah, that was a good suprise, but I was hoping for something alittle dramatic or life changing. Fires, floods, hit and run. That kinda stuff.
As today is the 19th of April, and the new pope has been announced hours ago, I would like to make a prediction right now at 3:25. By the time I get home, grandma will already have a few stories about the new pope. I'm sure she'll have met him somewhere shes never travelled before and talked to him a number of times. In fact, last night before the vote has been cast some news station was talking about the candidate from Africa. Guess who grandma met? Right, Afro Pope. Once I get home, I'll have to fight the urge to say "NO! YOU HAVEN'T MET THE FUCKING NEW POPE. IF I ASKED YOU YESTERDAY ABOUT THIS GUY, YOU'D HAVE TOLD ME YOU NEVER MET HIM!. Of course, she'd just get pissed off at me and tell me I wasn't there so I wouldn't know.
Frustration!
Also on the menu for today is a grand ol' SA forums debate on the origins of ghouls. Which, I'm sure, is a topic interesting to everyone under our yellow sun.
Someone who was playing through the first game asked about ghouls. I went into alittle detail about a lot of radiation and a little FEV being the ingredients for a proper ghoul. Radiation causes some genetic damage, FEV attempts to compensate and results in virtual undead. Simple enough, right?
OH WAIT. No, I'm wrong. Its just radiation. Some fans were like "TIHS GAEM IS BAESD ON SUPAR SCIENCE! ITS GOTA BE RADIATOIN YOU F4GG0T!" And then the guy who was writing the Bibles (Chris Avellone? I don't keep track of all these developer names) pretty much said "Oh, fine. Whatever, radiation it is!" And then everybody jerked it to furry porn.
Seriously, it was totally gross.
No, what really happened was nerds like them everywhere said "Huzzah WE HAEV ONE!" Nerds everywhere like me said ''That doesn't make any sense."
Here's why.
They contend FEV accounts only for super mutants and Harold. Radiation accounts for ghouls and mutated animals.
Well, wait...
Animals exposed to radiation in Fallout grow larger, meaner, and stronger. Humans exposed to radiation get fucked up.
Humans exposed to FEV become mutants. Animals and FEV aren't technically handled in the first game, as the Burrows got cut. From design documents in the Bibles, it seems that animals became smarter and perhaps more "anthromophized" so that Fallout could be easily converted into another furry porn outlet. One where we would get to see Furry Frank Horrigan penetrate young Tandi (who is now a fox with a huge cock and dick nipples) with his furry/mutant/power armor penis.
Ugh...
So, animals get the benefit of any exposure in the wastes. They get big and strong from radiation, smart and "talky" from FEV.
Humans on the other hand get the shaft. FEV makes them strong, dumb (usually), and HUGE. Radiation makes them... almost undead?
The animals thing... okay. Goofy assed "super-science" aside, thats fine. But humans (really) are just animals on two legs. Why do we look like we just crawled out of the grave when animals get to grow to 100 times their regular size? If thats the case, then any monkeys, apes, what have you should be "ghoulie" too, right? Or are humans extra special?
What is the real answer? It's silly to get worked up to any degree over this.
As today is the 19th of April, and the new pope has been announced hours ago, I would like to make a prediction right now at 3:25. By the time I get home, grandma will already have a few stories about the new pope. I'm sure she'll have met him somewhere shes never travelled before and talked to him a number of times. In fact, last night before the vote has been cast some news station was talking about the candidate from Africa. Guess who grandma met? Right, Afro Pope. Once I get home, I'll have to fight the urge to say "NO! YOU HAVEN'T MET THE FUCKING NEW POPE. IF I ASKED YOU YESTERDAY ABOUT THIS GUY, YOU'D HAVE TOLD ME YOU NEVER MET HIM!. Of course, she'd just get pissed off at me and tell me I wasn't there so I wouldn't know.
Frustration!
Also on the menu for today is a grand ol' SA forums debate on the origins of ghouls. Which, I'm sure, is a topic interesting to everyone under our yellow sun.
Someone who was playing through the first game asked about ghouls. I went into alittle detail about a lot of radiation and a little FEV being the ingredients for a proper ghoul. Radiation causes some genetic damage, FEV attempts to compensate and results in virtual undead. Simple enough, right?
OH WAIT. No, I'm wrong. Its just radiation. Some fans were like "TIHS GAEM IS BAESD ON SUPAR SCIENCE! ITS GOTA BE RADIATOIN YOU F4GG0T!" And then the guy who was writing the Bibles (Chris Avellone? I don't keep track of all these developer names) pretty much said "Oh, fine. Whatever, radiation it is!" And then everybody jerked it to furry porn.
Seriously, it was totally gross.
No, what really happened was nerds like them everywhere said "Huzzah WE HAEV ONE!" Nerds everywhere like me said ''That doesn't make any sense."
Here's why.
They contend FEV accounts only for super mutants and Harold. Radiation accounts for ghouls and mutated animals.
Well, wait...
Animals exposed to radiation in Fallout grow larger, meaner, and stronger. Humans exposed to radiation get fucked up.
Humans exposed to FEV become mutants. Animals and FEV aren't technically handled in the first game, as the Burrows got cut. From design documents in the Bibles, it seems that animals became smarter and perhaps more "anthromophized" so that Fallout could be easily converted into another furry porn outlet. One where we would get to see Furry Frank Horrigan penetrate young Tandi (who is now a fox with a huge cock and dick nipples) with his furry/mutant/power armor penis.
Ugh...
So, animals get the benefit of any exposure in the wastes. They get big and strong from radiation, smart and "talky" from FEV.
Humans on the other hand get the shaft. FEV makes them strong, dumb (usually), and HUGE. Radiation makes them... almost undead?
The animals thing... okay. Goofy assed "super-science" aside, thats fine. But humans (really) are just animals on two legs. Why do we look like we just crawled out of the grave when animals get to grow to 100 times their regular size? If thats the case, then any monkeys, apes, what have you should be "ghoulie" too, right? Or are humans extra special?
What is the real answer? It's silly to get worked up to any degree over this.