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  • Ah right!

    I thought that Veronica was lesbian, but I couldn’t 100% remember if that was corrrect, so I didn’t include it in my other post.

    Now, we are getting into fan canon territory at this point but:

    https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/84272

    Tale of Two Wastelands (FO3+NV) modmod, allows an alternate ending for Veronica.

    ~~https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/62173~~

    Adds Christine as a fully realized companion/follower.

    https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/74426

    Erp, that one’s deprecated and has been rolled into this modpack, that adds a bunch of DLC characters as full companions.

    Christine

    … If you speak to her in the vicinity of Veronica, there will be some special dialogue and a unique perk granted

    I’ve not actually used these (aw fuck, here I go playing New Vegas again), but these may scratch your itch.

    Also… there are a fair deal of romance overhaul /expansion mods, I don’t know if any of them do anything specifically with Courier + Veronica or Veronica + Christine off the top of my head.

    And finally… there are a series of essentially … lets say XXX rated and/or fairly to highly problematic mods for New Vegas on LoversLab.

    It… might be possible to configure them to work with these other mods, or they might just do something somewhat analagous, or… they might grant you the ability to put Veronica into a breast milking contraption, while you are busy crafting a cure for the STD you picked up by raw dogging a fiend who did not succesfully ambush you.

    Hazard Suit On before you look into any of those mods lol.



  • Fascists don’t use language the way normal people do.

    They don’t believe in ‘truth’ or ‘reality’ as most people understand it.

    They believe that things just are the way they say they are, because they said so.

    They primarily use rhetoric, and pathos.

    Logos, logic, actually being correct or truthful… they only employ these things to the extent that they can aid either a rhetorical or emotional appeal.

    Their entire strategy is ‘create a collective delusion / cult that appeals to the weak and gullible’.

    Trying to evaluate the things they say, logically, is generally a waste of time.

    The proper way to converse with a fascist is by breaking their jaw with a baseball bat, to disarm them of their weaponized nonsense projection machines.

    Fascists believe language is a weapon, not a means of having a discussion.

    Their real language is violence, so you must commincate with them in their native tongue, to succesfully convey any ‘meaning’ to them.


  • Literally:

    Facebook spent approximately half the amount of money that it took to develop and construct the International Space Station… to fail at creating VRChat, a game that already existed when they decided to rename and reorient the company around the Metaverse…as well as create some low-tier VR headsets.

    These are literally some of the most incompetent morons in the history of the planet, the most succesful wasters/destroyers of economic capital.

    You should absolutely treat anyone involved in this as a contemptible, evil, idiot clown.

    Meanwhile, in roughly the same time period, Valve similarly funded and developed their own VR hardware, and just, you know, let people play other games made by other people with it, or maybe their unmatched, tour-de-force VR game, Half Life Alyx.






  • I mean, developing cancer of some kind is just broadly more likely as you age.

    If you’re ~60+, the chances of cancer being what kills you go up significantly

    So, the general idea of wanting to not have cancer, and trying to do things that will make it more likely you will not develop cancer, is not particularly odd or specific in itself.

    Of course… soda consumption as a means of doing this is dubious, it would make much more sense to basically develop a healthy diet, and stick to that, as a means of staving off cancer.

    Trump is notoriously a bit of a germaphobe, and also famously doesn’t drink. Or at least he says he doesn’t drink.

    He’s just generally concerned about his health… but he’s a fucking idiot, he so does that by way of essentially superstitions.

    EDIT:

    Oh!

    You mean… he thinks it ‘kills’ cancer in the sense of ‘he already has cancer, so it must be elimated from within him’.

    Yeah ok so this is hard to explain factually, but basically, if you know older Boomers or Silent Gen, they very often just use ‘kills’ in that context to functionally mean ‘keep you clean inside’ or ‘prevent’.

    Its… kind of a muddled and not totally literal use of the word.






  • They’re really going with ‘lets pick a moral fight with the Pope’.

    … I actually have trouble comprehending this, because it is so obviously a politically stupid thing to do.

    JD is apparently considerably more lost in the sauce than I thought, has od’d on his own fart sniffing.

    It really is wild how immesenly hubristic this all is, but it does serve as a very useful illustration to the rest of the world to drive home the idea that American Christians ™ quite literally think they speak with the authority of God himself, which is broadly regarded as insane heresy by most other Christians in most of the world.

    They’re idiot fascists to the core, and its like 30% of the country that is this way.