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Inceltown posted:I've never played a fallout game and know who vault boy is. If that is anything other than marketing please explain how. I'm trying to tell you that the Interplay fallout and the Bethesda fallout are two different things, and it definetly wasnt a marketing thing under Interplay. The goofy vaccum tube logo was, though.
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Larry Parrish posted:I'm trying to tell you that the Interplay fallout and the Bethesda fallout are two different things, and it definetly wasnt a marketing thing under Interplay. The goofy vaccum tube logo was, though. 
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the best thing about this subscription thing is that nothing works. there's two features that the 3 players still playing have been asking for for ages: "create private server" thing doesn't create a new server, people who create private servers see npcs killed and boxes looted already. also not really private, since other people can still join any server as long as any friend of theirs is playing on it. "big inventory box" that's supposed to help you hoard poo poo since of course the basic game doesn't have a loving box, you have to subscribe for it. except the box just eats any items you throw into it, and are just gone lmao
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Truga posted:the best thing about this subscription thing is that nothing works. there's two features that the 3 players still playing have been asking for for ages: It was sold as a full price game at launch too. Pretty incredible grift from the people that bought you horse armour.
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I stopped playing those games for ages but I think the vault boy was an in game advertising design to parody 50s cartoons, bioshock employed the same design for some of its in game material, it got popular and when Bethesda bought the franchise they learned the wrong lessons and marketed the hell out of vault boy. There is even a mobile phone game purely based on the character alone
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Or a lesson learned too well, depending on how you put it.
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Truga posted:
This is actually a clever reference to the car in Fallout 2 that would make any items placed in the trunk disappear.
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Oct 25, 2019 12:45
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 except for basically anything shared between classic and new fallout you care to mention, basically. Todd Howard has a child's brain, or zenimax does, not that it makes a difference
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Oct 25, 2019 12:47
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autism ZX spectrum posted:This is actually a clever reference to the car in Fallout 2 that would make any items placed in the trunk disappear. i don't think the items disappeared. The whole drat trunk disappeared and you'd be driving around a sick coupe
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this makes me wish i was dead
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Schneider Inside Her posted:i don't think the items disappeared. The whole drat trunk disappeared and you'd be driving around a sick coupe Fallout 2 had the most amazing bugs.
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Panfilo posted:I'm always wary of people that treat their business as a 'hobby' since they'll be like a kid who gets a pony - quickly grow tired of the actual work that involves caring and supporting a living thing and neglect it while barring anyone else from making meaningful improvements in its existence. My last job was at a company that was basically a rich dude's hobby, but he was very invested in it because it was his entire identity and how he squared "I grew up rich and never had to do real work" with "I am a successful person". It helped that his brother was way more successful than him so he constantly felt inadequate.
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Inceltown posted:I've never played a fallout game and know who vault boy is. If that is anything other than marketing please explain how. the vault boy was a set of goofy little sketches on the character sheet in the original Fallouts, and IIRC appeared nowhere else. This would be an utterly bizarre definition of marketing. That he got repurposed as an irony-brand Mickey Mouse after the IP got bought is precisely what people are talking about, here.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:the vault boy was a set of goofy little sketches on the character sheet in the original Fallouts, and IIRC appeared nowhere else. This would be an utterly bizarre definition of marketing. He's the player representation for perks and skills. It's not that bizarre for the player stand-in to become the face of a game series with faceless PCs. Byzantine has issued a correction as of 18:17 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Larry Parrish posted:I'm trying to tell you that the Interplay fallout and the Bethesda fallout are two different things, and it definetly wasnt a marketing thing under Interplay. The goofy vaccum tube logo was, though. yepppp this is from fallout 2  and this was cut from 2  it was supposed to be the icon for the "child killer" status so yeah interplay was p obviously not using him for marketing
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Oct 25, 2019 18:17
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I love pip boy
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Byzantine posted:He's the player representation for perks and skills. It's not that bizarre for the player stand-in to become the face of a game series with faceless PCs. This has literally nothing to do with advertising. I may identify with any random sentence describing Ignatius J. Reilly, this does not mean every word of A Confederacy of Dunces is now a commercial.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I love pip boy And gosh darnit, pip boy loves you
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foobardog posted:And gosh darnit, pip boy loves you 
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foobardog posted:And gosh darnit, pip boy loves you Love to enjoy this good quality brand engagement
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Rarity posted:Love to enjoy this good quality brand engagement I got that line from an old rear end Toomba 2 ad I saw in high school. Marketing is evil.
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Byzantine posted:He's the player representation for perks and skills. It's not that bizarre for the player stand-in to become the face of a game series with faceless PCs. Sure, I think all people are saying is that it happened later (especially once they got bought) rather than designed that way from the beginning.
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in the early days, and even through 3 and New Vegas to an extent, power armor was much more the face of the franchise. that Fallout 2 title screen with the Enclave Tesla armor is probably the most iconic image of the series in the minds of older players. Fallout 3 started focusing more on Vault Boy and then Fallout 4 and Fallout Shelter went all-in on him.
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Shame Boy posted:Sure, I think all people are saying is that it happened later (especially once they got bought) rather than designed that way from the beginning. Yeah this is as straightforward as someone observing that Rambo was originally a story about the government loving kids up in pointless wars and leaving them to die before it got turned into an Army recruitment ad, and a bunch of guys who only ever watched the 2008 one rushing in to inform everyone that well actually Rambo is a prowar franchise A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 21:21 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Inceltown posted:I've never played a fallout game and know who vault boy is. If that is anything other than marketing please explain how. I know who the Girl with a Pearl Earring is What an example of shameless marketing
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Oct 25, 2019 21:44
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Too lazy to do a distracted boyfriend meme with "decent pay and hours" and "free coffee"
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https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/1187784998449008642
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They misheard their employees complaining about having to grind every day and thought they wanted a barista
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autism ZX spectrum posted:This is actually a clever reference to the car in Fallout 2 that would make any items placed in the trunk disappear. I got that bug. And the fix for it required you to loving restart the game because it made your save game completely incompatible. The did include a trainer with the patch though so you’d start back at the village as level 20 or whatever and get to redo the hours and hours of newbie quests and poo poo you’d already done but you could at least do them faster because you could one shot the ants and fire geckos.
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ikanreed posted:Too lazy to do a distracted boyfriend meme with "decent pay and hours" and "free coffee" Not gonna lie, free coffee will go a long way with me. The coffee is probably trash though, and I'm not the kind of computer toucher they're looking for.
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CIG has a 20,000 dollar espresso machine and a barista and once a week Chris Robberts will stop by your desk and disapprove the last 4 characters you you created making you redo 3 months of work.
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And his wife will call you a pussy if you happen to run into her after hours when she’s using the company AV equipment and space to do stuff with her theater troupe.
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bird with big dick posted:CIG has a 20,000 dollar espresso machine and a barista and once a week Chris Robberts will stop by your desk and disapprove the last 4 characters you you created making you redo 3 months of work. https://twitter.com/Lukas_Genever/status/1187388510963150849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw also the star citizen convention is next month get fuckin hype!!!
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Oh poo poo I haven't even noticed it's the vaporware company. Must be great being paid to work on random crap for your later portfolio after the jig is ultimately up, if you can stomach the internal politics
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I mean that probably left a lower atmospheric carbon footprint than just burning it would have, checkmate environmentailures 
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Shame Boy posted:I mean that probably left a lower atmospheric carbon footprint than just burning it would have, checkmate environmentailures give this corporate person a nobel peace prize
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is that really something you can promise it could happen to you at any time
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It looks like the latest Cali fire may have been caused by the power company not doing maintenance. Again. It's so nice that the Cali and NSW fire seasons now just blur into one. You literally haven't gotten out of the "poo poo, everything is on fire now it's summer" before we here in Australia hit the "poo poo, everything is on fire now it's summer" phase. At least our fires are arson and stuff rather than just straight up Burn Grandma Millie
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