CARP SAYS I HAVE TO INCLUDE A LINE SAYING HE SAID NO DON'T DO THIS IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA

That's right, the S*X badge. Awarded for the worst thing that two users of rdrama can do - have s*x. Since I genuinely don't want anyone to ever claim this badge, there are strict requirements and process to claim it...

• both users MUST be above the age of 18 and be willing to prove that they are over 18. Obviously.

• both users must have >1000 TS. No having your girlfriend/boyfriend/husband/wife make an rdrama account for the sole purpose of getting the badge (although that would be so humiliating I'm tempted to allow it)

In order to claim the badge, BOTH claimaints must submit:

• A time/namestamped picture of their state-issued photo ID. You can cover up the name and day of the year, I just need to see that the year of birth indicates that the user is older than 18. It must be clear that the owner of the photo ID is the same as the person in the next picture, so that probably means I need to see your face.

• A picture of both users holding a name/datestamp, indicating that they actually met up

• A picture of both users in some sort of intimate situation. It must be obvious that both users are the same people as in the previous picture and that they are "more than friends"

Q. HEYMOON THESE RESTRICTIONS ARE TOO STRICT WTF

A. That's the point. Lord willing, no one will ever claim this badge.

Q. If you don't want anyone to claim the badge, why did you make it?

A. The drama.

Q. Will the images I submit be associated with the badge?

A. Nope, the badge will link to the other user who you had s*x with.

Q. Can I really trust the admins with my PII?

A. Probably not.

Q. Will an admin jerk off to these pictures?

A. Depends on how hot you are.

Q. Have you considered the ethical implications of creating this badge?

A. No.

Q. This is a genuinely terrible idea.

A. I know and I'm very sorry.

Q. This will ruin rdrama.

A. Hopefully!

Q. Does cybersex count?

A. No, r-slur. I genuinely cannot believe modern soys that talk about "cybersex". Ooooh wow you sat in front of a computer screen and jerked your dingdong while looking at a woman shaking her tits. No I don't care about muh long distance relationships. Holy shit go outside!

Q. Does Gay S*x count?

A. Absolutely.

CARP SAYS I HAVE TO INCLUDE A LINE SAYING HE SAID NO DON'T DO THIS IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA

So the show has released, and as expected by anyone with a brain, it sucks. However it seems to have sucked more than anyone could have predicted. This might legitimately darn Bethesda lmao.

First, here is a comment from this thread explaining how they absolutely butchered world building (this show is canon btw):

So, in summary, if I understand correctly, these are the major changes:

- Shady Sands got cratered in 2277

- NCR vertibird downed on the strip

- The Strip barricades are gone

- Vault Tec seemed to have caused the Great War

- The Boneyard is no longer a thing

- Shady Sands is in place of the Boneyard

- NCR Rangers are gone

- Aradesh is no longer the founder of Shady Sands (more speculatory)

- Somehow the Brotherhood seemed to have overran the NCR in 2277

What I can't believe is that they actually retconned the original two Fallout games and that nobody won New Vegas. Even more egregious is the lore change with the BoS-NCR war, which retcons THE ENTIRETY OF F:NV. This has to be a new timeline at this point.

TL:DR is they literally retconned the 3 games they didn't make, and then replaced the factions from those games with very special factions they made from the 2 games they developed themselves. This is like a bad fanfiction lol.

People predicably, are mad. Some seethe:

Jesus. I genuinely can't believe I was actually letting myself be excited for the future of this franchise before this release. Completely retconning the original games is genuinely fricking so sad man.

When is it said aradesh is no longer the founder of shady sands?

Also when do we see the ncr vertibird crashed on the strip?

It's never said by Moldaver, but it seems to be implied that she founded Shady Sands in addition to being the remaining NCR leader. This is speculation, and it probably shouldn't be listed as an actual change.

Vertibird: https://i.imgur.com/a/5ygLxmK

So even though it's been established that Shady Sands is in an entirely different state of the new california Republic from the boneyard, they just slapped it right into los angeles, and then they nuked it, why???

What even is a Shady Sands? Has anyone else wondered why they named the first game Fallout 3 by the way? Wacky Bethesda xD

That's not a nuke crater, that's a "Borg scooped up the settlement" crater. This is dumb.

I knee it.

I just knew it.

I prayed it wasnt the case but at any opportunity they had, Bethesda tried to retcon New Vegas and now their efforts... went nuclear.

Hate it. HATE IT. HATE IT.

New Vegas is the Canon version of events. Not some Amazon show.

I fricking knew Todd would frick it over to create their version of Fallout artificially. I fricking hate it. I was fine with a scenario where the NCR loses in Vegas, but to just extensively rewrite the lore of Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas to jerk off the BoS even more? Fricking dead to me.

Says you, but Bethesda owns the franchise and this is the direction they took. They entirely retconned the fallout games they did not make, and they've succeeded. Next season they'll go and show New Vegas as a dead husk bereft of anything that made it special. Enjoy!

Also, they do not care anymore. They are owned by Microsoft now and exist to make xbox and live games.

Look, I am very good at that. My Canon Star Wars are the old Comic books with sea dragons and Jaxxon the green rabbit. I literally ignored anything that came after that.

So I will need to ignore Bethesda to keep the correct Canon? Boo f#₪#^ hoo. They didnt get even a passable game out in the last 12 years!

I walked the Divide for the NCR, I can ignore Bethesda for them as well.

Haven't watched the show yet as I sail the high seas but this ending sounds very, very annoying. Seems like the show starts off well though but if what I'm seeing here is the case I'll be pretty fricking ticked that they essentially made the West the same as the East in terms of development and that they made NV mean nothing.

NV was entirely retconned. The casinos are literally husks and the city is dead. NCR died when Shady Sands (located in the wrong place) was blown up by one guy.

Christ alive 🤦🏿‍♂️. They should've atleast had some obsidian writers and lorekeepers there to keep things consistent. This is just laziness. I'm not one of those people who thinks Bethesda despises obsidian but like cmon.

It's not laziness. It was a deliberate choice.

Resetting to a status quo of “muh wasteland” absolutely is laziness

Its funny because there is a meme that Bethesda is spite driven because obsidian made a better fallout game than bethesda and the metacritic score 83, 85 thing FNV being retconned is funny knowing the meme

I hate it all.

The NCR was written out as a society entirely. The writers I guess just learned about shady sands and went 'oh its the capital so if we blow it up then the NCR will collapse.'

The NCR was such a good faction, it was the only one that actually grew, that had a familiar functioning postwar society. And what did they do? They nuked them out of existence to show off the brotherhood and a dead, empty New Vegas.

Why, why would they do this.. they could have made it right after the nuking not decades after. They pissed all over the legacy of my favourite game.

I blame Lonesome Road and Chris Avellone.

I can't hold him responsible for this, he had enough sense to know how big the NCR was and how the game world worked. That's why Ulysses wanted to destroy the Long 15 and block them from reaching the Mojave.

To me, Fallout stood apart for being a post-post-apocalyptic story. Just nuking the NCR not only strips away one of the most interesting aspects of the setting but does it, to my eyes, entirely unnecessarily. If you wanted to tell a wasteland story, you could have:

• Set it between Fallout 1 and 2, or even before Fallout 1

• Set it in one of the vast regions of America that are untouched by the games thus far

But no. Fricking why?

I knew this would happen the moment I've heard the name Todd Howard.

It really feels like they asked BETHESDA for the lore, and they said 'oh well you got the Brotherhood of Steel who have this big airship and vertibirds and huge machine guns that can only be wielded in power armor.'

then went 'oh there's this group called the NCR, I think they're from shady sands or something, you can blow them up for shock value it'll be fine. There's also this big place called New Vegas you can turn into a dump too who cares lmao.'

"heh heh heh that'll teach 'em to like obsidian's game more than ours*

Honestly I am becoming one of those people more and more by the minute, especially if their plans for New Vegas next season are what they seem to be.

somehow palpatine returned

So what did house predict then if it was vault tec who dropped the bombs. So Mr house knew the nukes where coming and still couldn't shoot them down or get the plat chip

Also it says shady shands fell in 2277 but new vegas is set in 2281 ?

I guess NV is just entirely retconned in the show? NV is dead, empty. The only places that exist are a half dozen towns outside of the city itself. The casinos are gutted entirely aside from the Lucky 38 which I guess House lives in still? He would be waking up just as the NCR was probing into NV, Caesar's Legion would be on it's way as well. Big MT is still abducting people.. The Brotherhod wouldn't have lost at Helios One but also now have infinite energy so why would they even care?

The entirity of FNV was fought over a dam, water and power.. Now the BOS has infinite clean and renewable fusion.. the NCR doesn't exist either.

So they're using the facade of 1, 2 and NV as a backdrop for more BoS shenanigans from Bethesda's mainline games.

Maaaaan

This is what I was afraid of. A good show based in world building that I think is fundamentally uninteresting.

I'm probably just gonna separate it out as its own thing in my head, no matter how canon Todd says it is.

This is what everyone paying attention was afraid of, but they got shot down as alarmist for daring to suggest the brilliant creative minds behind Starfield might provide a shite backdrop for worldbuilding.

He was in a meeting to know exactly when it would happen and was wrong.. somehow.

Did he not read the memo?

Fallout new vegas mr house : I was able to almost accurately predict a nuclear war and I have set the pieces for my rise to power after I come back online

Tv show Mr House : Shieeeeeeeet I ain't reading all that I'm just gonna pretend I read this

To everyone saying the NCR is totally collapsed.

I highly doubt it. It seems after Shady Sands was nuked the NCR was a bit scrappy but pulling itself together to keep everything afloat, with the BOS destroying the HQ and the view of the NCR leader using the Cold Fusion to power the entire city at once, it shows the civilians of the NCR are still existing at least throughout the entire ruins in some way.

I imagine next season, we're gonna see the BoS biting way more than it can Chew, and something with New Vegas as well, and with the father constantly mentioning something about "Meeting your Creators." How much you wanna bet Mr House is technically still alive? Just New Vegas went into dormancy??

Im excited to see potentially the NCR Regrouping or like Scrappy NCR rebels, and Desert Rangers in the Mojave. I highly doubt the NCR is done and over with from what we saw.

Whatever your opinions on it, retconning NV out of the timeline (which is exactly what they've done) frickin sucks.

Yeah.. But at least it isn't like a straight full on they don't even exist kind of retcon. Seems more like a soft reboot

Hello fellow spoiler fiends who went straight to the end and saw the New Vegas tease. Also, from what I gathered skipping around, the MC's father was a Vault Tec guy who nuked Shady Sands because her mother went there and was having a great time (missed a bunch of dialogue skipping through so that might not be right). The Brotherhood has cold fusion now and the guy in charge seems like a peepee so presumably they will butt up against whoever is now in charge of House's technology.

Dude wtf happened to the NCR? Didn't they say they had most of California pretty much colonized? I'm only on episode 4 but complete radio silence while it takes place near the boneyard and dayglow??

Episode 8 covers it.

It's not pretty.

About 5 years after New Vegas, Lucy's Mom left vault 33 to see if life was back on the surface, taking Lucy and her brother with her, and made her way to Shady Sands, which teleported to LA at some point. Her dad, who was a Vault-Tec executive came after them, stole the kids back, and use Vault-Tec's secret supply of nuclear weapons (The ones they launched to start the great war) to destroy the NCR, as they were a competitor to Vault-Tec.

Also, the ending credits show a destroyed New Vegas, with empty streets full of shattered Secuiritrons and a destroyed NCR Vertibird.

I also wanted to mention this specific comment, because I found it funny:

They also technically retconned FO4 since Kellogg mentions the NCR election.

Note that I'm not cherry picking comments here, basically everyone hates this garbage. Of course the critics love it, but the actual Fallout fans think it's terrible.

As one of the comments already mentioned, they really shouldn't have set this in the West Coast. They should have set it somewhere new for numerous reasons:

• New factions and threats to add a sense of tension and mystery as the viewer wouldn't know anything more than the main character

• Avoid having to retcon or step on the toes of the games

• Keep it in a region that is less advanced so you can have your apocalypse fantasy

• Set the show up as a prequel for Fallout 5, building hype for it even if it's years away.

Expect this thread to be updated as more seethe is posted, this is developing drama. In a few hours we will probably see the hitpieces from journ*lists calling the haters bigots, so keep an eye out for that.

Edit: here are more threads with tons of seethe in them:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fotv/comments/1bt7fzx/fallout_spoiler_master_thread/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fotv/comments/1bt7fzx/fallout_spoiler_master_thread/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/1c17tyn/spoilers_about_the_ncr/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/1c17mrr/discussion_about_the_ncr_in_the_tv_show/?sort=controversial

dear god this one is maximum cope: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fotv/comments/1c185mn/my_theories_for_season_2_and_possible/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fotv/comments/1c15tey/so_does_the_show_take_place_in_an_alternate/?sort=controversial

Woman posts data about her exes online. I have no fricking clue what the percentages represent, but

First of all, a quick shoutout to the autists in the audience who look at this and think

who the frick puts ordinal data in a donut chart

this r-slur put time-series data right-to-left on a data subreddit

These colour choices lmao. We've all worked with a foid like this, word to Pizzashill

hey anon I know i took three weeks, but here's that report you asked for

I HATE THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT

Onto the sneed:

Looks like the whole of Caucasian Maryland has been "intimate" with you, except for anyone bald. It's scary looking at these numbers and wondering how many girls have lived their lives just sleeping around town. Decent, ordinary guys don't even know what they're up against with these numbers.

bald lives matter

People wonder why I don't wanna date in my 30s

If you're dating in your thirties, it might be time to consider Canadian Healthcare.

How does the number of peepees a person sucked before you changes your opinion of them? Is it insecurity? Do you think that they're going to cheat on you?

How does the number of miles on this car change your opinion of it? Are you too insecure to own my 2003 Toyota Camry? Not enough of a man?

Found the incel

I've been happily married for almost a decade and have 3 children.

boombooms can't stop winning

Cue the men coming out of the woodwork to shame a woman for having an active s*x life and doing whatever and whoever the frick she wants.

To all the dudes raging about bodycount, consider this - if one is sexually active around 15 and then sleeps with 5 people on average a year, for 20 years, that's 100 people. 5 people/year is less than a person every 2 months. That's not at all hard to achieve for the average person at all

Uh yeah maybe in prison, what the frick?

No more Holly Willoughby. This is a Lana Stan Account now

blame carp

ok so my coworker from PA says that when you're in a roundabout, you should signal IN the roundabout to show which exit you're taking, if that makes sense. but i've NEVER done that, and neither have my other two coworkers. if you have roundabouts where you live, what do you do?

!animalposters !birdposters !biofoids (for visibility)

Today my husband and I were shopping with our newborn and 5-year-old. He was dancing to the music while I was holding and feeding the newborn and listening to the five-year-old incessantly whine about a toy she wanted us to buy. I sighed heavily and my husband smiled and said "Lighten up- dance with me."

And another man walking by said, "Yea, lighten up and dance, mom."

It must be nice to be so carefree. To just shut off your brain and enjoy the music in the background of the store. I used to be "fun" like that. I used to dance to random songs on the loudspeaker.

But now? Now my husband gets to relax and dance while I tackle the worries of parenthood. I'm the one feeding the newborn and calming the five-year-old and gathering everything from the shopping list and thinking through the meal plan for the week- and I'm tired because I (and only I) was the one up all night. And my boobs hurt from breastfeeding. My whole body hurts from just... all the demands of parenthood.

And my husband will never understand. He tells me to "not worry so much". If I didn't worry, no one would. He can "just not worry", because he knows I'll take care of everything.

Must be nice, to be a heterosexual husband. I also wish I had a wife. Maybe then, I could also "lighten up and dance". I'd have the mental and physical energy to do that.

Some of the comments:

I want to find the asshat that told you to dance with your husband and punch him in the face.

Like really hard.

Wtf is wrong with men??

I detest being called Mom other than by my immediate family. Even with them, most of the time they address me by name or will say to my kid “your mom”. From a stranger it is kind of dehumanizing and totally obnoxious.

YES! I hate being called “mom” in this way from a stranger, my kid’s doctor, or anyone in between. It makes my skin crawl…

Recently my BIL said, in a derogatory way, that I’m “really uptight” since I had kids. Ya think???? I’m responsible for keeping 3 human beings from accidentally killing themselves at your parents’ not AT ALL kid-proofed house while I take time off from the only source of income our family has. Meanwhile BIL married into 4 teenage step kids, which he calls “his kids.” Did you change their diapers? Feed them? Teach them anything? No. You’re the fun step-dad who sees them every other week. STFU. I’m up-tight so your brother doesn’t have to be.

Amen. I have a really good husband, and even with him, I’d trade him places in a heartbeat.

We went to lunch yesterday. He sat, opened the menu, decided what to eat, closed the menu.

I opened the menu. Closed the menu. Passed the kids silverware. Found the missing crayon for the paper placemat. Made sure the kids decided what to eat. Made sure the kids decided what to drink. Fielded questions about decor (this being our first time in this restaurant.) Had to respond “Oh, cool” 17 times while the kids pointed at new things on the menu.

Waitress came to take our order and I asked for another minute. Husband looked confused. Of course he did, because he’d known for 5 minutes what to order, while I literally hadn’t even opened the menu yet. At the same table, and we have two completely polar opposite dining experiences.

Was recently at a restaurant where we sat down and my husband immediately handed the baby my menu to play with and then began to review his to select his order while I managed the children. They're so in their bubbles, it's horrible.

A few months ago we took my mum out for dinner for her birthday. We have a newborn and a 2 year old. The newborn wanted to be fed constantly (bf so all on me) so I had to get my mum to cut my food up for me and eat one handed when it was cold. My husband dealt with the toddler. He still birches about how he had to do everything toddler related while I "just chatted".

Yep! So much of our labor is taken for granted. Who switched out the kids’ wardrobe when it’s a new season? Who takes stock of what they need-5 year old is growing out of his pants and shoes still fit but are starting to get tight? Baby is ready to start solids, who is doing the researching and planning how to introduce him? Scheduling well child checkups, pet vaccines, planning and booking everything for vacation, down to researching and booking pet sitters. So much labor and no one notices until something is forgotten and then everyone blames the mom, but never the dad.

Seeing all the things typed out makes me want to pull my hair out and lay down to cry at the same time

I left my ex a year and a half ago and I still manage his cat’s vet appointments T_T he’s lucky I love that cat

Yep. My husband “helped” today by taking a 2 hour nap “with” the baby (we room share) to make sure if the baby woke up he’d settle him back down. He works out of town Mon - Fri and enjoys uninterrupted sleep while I breastfeed and am up every 2 hrs and deal with a wild 3 year old all by myself.

He couldn’t comprehend why I was upset. I would kill for a 2 hour uninterrupted nap. His response was that he didn’t sleep great anyway.

ust reading that you’re alone with the baby and toddler M-F made my eye twitch. And he needs a NAP!?! I would kill for a 2 hour uninterrupted nap with my 1 year old. That’s sadly a break because there’s no toddler to watch also. But he’s actually parenting by kind of watching the baby while they both nap so it seems like a lot to him 😒 so annoying, especially when they get defensive instead of acknowledging any kind of rest that you might need edit: spelling

That’s not a husband. That’s a third child.

slept through my Michelin res last night and have no regrets bc I avoided a man who behaves like this pic.twitter.com/o8a7coEdYF

— cc (@bossbratbimbo) June 3, 2023

Context

A girlboss begrudgingly accepts a date from a Scrote and ends up sleeping through the date because she was tired. The scrote then complains to the girlboss that she cost him $70 due to cancelation fee. Girlboss then says it's his fault for poor planning and he should have taken into accoint her needs

More from our girlboss:

like bro I told u I hadn’t slept in 40 hours bc of work and u still pushed for a date, then made 11pm reservations it’s not my fault I fell asleep

Scrotes should understand a Queen needs her sleep

there are men cussing me out over this in my dms and all I can say to that is I would never date any of you so this is not your problem 😂

two types of people angry at me over this - men who have never taken a woman to a Michelin restaurant and women who have never been asked out to a Michelin restaurant. no need to be mad at me, this doesn’t concern you in anyway and never will

honestly he should be happy he only had to spend $70 to find out we’re incompatible bc if I had shown up I would’ve eaten $500 in food and we’d still be incompatible

Drama

Lmaoooo he doesn’t feel like a loser for even brining that up?

that’s what I mean!!!

You both are way to ugly to be acting like this, do better

you’re gross

I’d never frick you so no worries

B-word is ugly asf talking like she’s a catch. Twitter is wild man

Is that really all you bring to the table?

Disgusting talk. What a nasty woman.

this is why my first dates are at taco bell

Desperate white tech nerds have gassed these Asian 5.5/10s up way way way too much

@HailVictory1776

@Landlord_Messiah

@sirpingsalot

@TheOverSeether

Yeah I just name pinged 4 users get over it

Is this accurate method towards fighting Democrat socialism? !commies has our secret plan be revealed? Is it over?

@Poj took this before leaving for chad in the uk !friendsofpizzashill !incels !truecels

Post shoe size to receive the appropriate badge once I’m home on Saturday or Sunday and make them.

!badgemaxxers

BREAKING: the Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN President Biden's student-debt-relief plan by a 6-3 vote. The plan is not authorized by the HEROES Act—the law relied upon by Biden's education secretary.

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) June 30, 2023

It's been many years since I'm part of the community, and I see how you rationalize the world, and what social developments you see as the danger and want to stop them. Yet you still haven't managed to convince me that your opinion is the correct one. You have so much advantage here tho, you have way more people seeking out all the bad things leftists/liberals/queers whatever minorities did to post, and more people who represent your side can come up with arguments. Despite this, all your arguments sound so weak, your worldview abhorent and obsolete, your representatives ludicrous. Despite your intentions to brainwash me and others into your joke of an ideology, every minute I spend here I just become even more confident, that the liberals are the more reasonable side, and rightoids like you the danger to the future. You never even manage to even just challange my convictions, and your attempts are so laughingly pathetic. It's like you're not even trying, but instead you're just playing a parody of yourself, but apparently these fragile and brittle beliefs you have is genuine.

There are 715 comments and counting all along the lines of “masturbation is healthy and normal and I have no problem with it, but this specific situation is disrespectful”

Is this another aberration that's unique to Reddit and Twitter? Or have things changed so much in 15 years that it really is the norm?

I'm not even sure why I'm asking here given that rDrama is 100% Redditors but I see threads like this on the regular and it just really weirds me out

Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers. In an internal “state of the business” Microsoft presentation from June 2022, Microsoft discuses building on “Windows 365 to enable a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device.”

The presentation has been revealed as part of the ongoing FTC v. Microsoft hearing, as it includes Microsoft’s overall gaming strategy and how that relates to other parts of the company’s businesses. Moving “Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud” is identified as a long-term opportunity in Microsoft’s “Modern Life” consumer space, including using “the power of the cloud and client to enable improved AI-powered services and full roaming of people’s digital experience.”