So …, Kathleen Kennedy is so formidable that all Hollywood now bows to her orders? If that’s the case, then sucks to be you. No more TV or movies for men so insecure in their manhood that if a female character says anything other than “I need a man!” His dick falls off.
Corporate profits always supersede public perception. When she is no longer profitable, they will get rid of her.
Something that's always bothered me about Fallout: How come stimpaks are always stored, and presumably originally shipped, with a big fucking exposed needle just sticking out of it? I understand that, given the circumstances, bare needle stimpaks that are otherwise usable would be a thing that exist, the contents would counteract most, if not all, of the consequences of jabbing oneself with a rusty, dull, and probably bent needle, and that it's often the best option available. However, vaults would still probably have them in their original packaging, but the ones in vaults also just sit there with their needles constantly exposed to air that people fart in. I don't care how good of a curative stimpak juice is, I'm not going to be injected with two centuries of fart residue. Also: Holy fucking shit Zombie Cowboy Shane Vendrell and Porn 'Stache Squire called chems the D word!
You can use blood packs in the games that are somehow still fine after 200 years. Science is not at home today.
"There's a lot of money in selling the end of the world." "Well I'm sure there's a lot of money in selling a political ideology that ends in bread lines."
okay, this is bugging me. The two guys in the body parts store look to me like direct homages to a pair of stoners seen in a previous movie (show?) but I can't place it. Someone tell me the obvious answer to this that I can't remember.
It might be because the one actor has portrayed pretty much every "teenager with a minimum wage job" bit part in every TV show and movie for the last handful of years.
the two thoughts aren't exclusive to each other... which kind of goes with the ironies presented in the FO universe. https://apnews.com/article/hungerfoodbanksinflation-4fd5d6fb5879eaecc3000fe2b73df006 https://jacobin.com/2023/05/american-capitalism-breadlines-market-freedom-food-banks https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/23/us-food-banks-pantries-struggle/10671432002/ https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/lines-s...osts-go-up-and-pandemic-aid-expires-1.1917055
I don’t put any stock in the throw-away lines of the games or the series. The story itself is set in a world where the fear and propaganda against communism was at its peak. Of course there’s going to be references to bread lines and how capitalism is better than communism. But like lies, just because someone says it, doesn’t make it the truth.
ESG Investors are the new Globalists are the new Cultural Marxists are the new Judeo Bolsheviks. It all boils down to ‘them’ ‘controlling’ the financial system and cultural institutions in order to ‘destroy’ ‘us’ and ‘our culture’. Time is truly a flat circle with you guys.
We also have real world examples of bread lines and their equivalent under capitalism. See Spaceturkey's post earlier with links to the articles about runs on food banks.
Indeed, it should be pointed out that the show itself makes the point central to its premise that capitalism -- not communism, and not the conflict between the two -- was what led to worldwide nuking. Coop definitely loses the debate in-universe over which is the more ruinous ideology between communism and capitalism long-term. We don't even get shown that the "commies" are in fact people who are calling for a centralized government, redistribution of wealth or any other forms of actual communism. We are just shown that they are suspicious of the corporations amassing power and subordinating the government. The Fallout universe's history proves them to be right to have been so suspicious. Whatever the sins of communism might have been in the Fallout universe, they were probably less than a global apocalypse.
they never seem to follow the logic far enough to explain WHY the shadowy villains would WANT to destroy capitalism or whatever. Like, if I tell you that fossil fuel companies have known about climate change for 50 years and bought off politicians and "experts" to lie to us about it, you might fairly say "Why would they do that?" The answer is PROFITS! If anyone wants their thesis to be taken seriously, they need to answer the "why"
Isn't "profits," "time" and/or "power" the answer that Fallout has given? There's money to be made in the apocalypse business. Vault-Tec and co. went from being a set of marginal companies to the only 10 ones meaningfully in existence. They were better positioned for the apocalypse and now they get to reap the benefits with more time, more resources, less restrictions, less competition than they would have had if they hadn't orchestrated the nuking of the world. They seemingly have stamped out any meaningful threat of either government asserting any regulation on them or the emergence of a communist threat to their power and money. They now have all the time in the world to do whatever they want with minimal restrictions.
