What do we think this means (other than the fact that de-dollarization is indeed happening)?

            • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩@lemmygrad.ml
              7·
              2 years ago

              they’re still valued at 1… you’d think because they have a (seemingly glowing blue) star on them (and how they’re rare and not easily-found), they’d be more valuable, be worth at the very least 5 or 10 caps, but apparently not

            • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
              9·
              2 years ago

              But in Fallouts where stimpak addiction is a thing, I think the Nuka-Cola is better as a curative lmao

              • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
                81·
                2 years ago

                In the meantime, BoS paladins are taking psycho when guarding inside of base, what could go wrong?

                I also once tried what would happen if i eat 50 buffouts. Answer is basically nothing.

                • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
                  8·
                  2 years ago

                  Valid point, I just hate being privy to addiction in Fallout games. I’m the guy who hoards Fixer and Addictols for a rainy day just because I hate having to break my gameplay loop to open a menu and jam another chem-- these things are ‘pre-firefight, use-once-and-discard’ buffs to me lmao

              • xenautika@lemmygrad.ml
                2·
                2 years ago

                this is why i like logan’s loophole and chemist perks in FNV. you don’t really need a char past lvl 30, removes all addiction, and increases the duration of all consumables

                • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
                  2·
                  2 years ago

                  See, I typically tended to take chemist so I could actually brew up some of the more useful herbals until I had access to the godly Pastes, but Logan’s Loophole at least sounded busted af to me, so I never rolled with it. I’m the type to look at Wild Wasteland as a fun feat tax, though; so I kinda straddle the line between “wanting to enjoy Fallout” and “wanting it to be at least a LITTLE harder on myself” to avoid the temptation of minmaxing.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      21·
      2 years ago

      Good observation! It suggests significant misunderstanding about how this all works, and the usual reactionary talking points aren’t relevant so users have to resort to not-very-witty quips that simply reveal ignorance.

  • Coolguybest@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    There’s a video linked from the thread that I wanted to get other people’s opinions on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

    The video tries to analyze how the cycles of rise and fall of different empires in the past can be used to interpret the present.

    The work has some grounding in reality, though we should question some of the hidden assumptions made behind the work. I feel like this isn’t a complete system, however. He over-simplifies how the myriad states work and only focuses on the world power vs the rest of the world. While there is a focus on how an empire rises and how the systems interconnect, comparatively little is done to question how an empire declines and how those systems break down, only how the latest does.