Fallout Confessions

“My heart will forever lie in the Capital Wasteland.New...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:17:20 -0800

“My heart will forever lie in the Capital Wasteland.
New Vegas is nice, but I honestly can’t stand it.”

Fallout Confessions

“Approaching the Oil Rig gives me so many feels. Welcome to...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:19:43 -0800

“Approaching the Oil Rig gives me so many feels.
Welcome to Enclave? They won’t know what hit them.”

Fallout Confessions

“During my first play through of Fallout 3, I never really...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:22:37 -0800

“During my first play through of Fallout 3, I never really appreciated any of the scenery and only explored when I was bored. I just didn’t feel satisfied with the game until my most recent play through where I actually took time and effort to explore the capital wasteland. All of the new sights I keep seeing has made me change my opinion on how great a game Fallout 3 is. “

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“I suffer from quite serious depression and a friend gave...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:24:38 -0800

“I suffer from quite serious depression and a friend gave me New Vegas to play. I ended up falling in love with the game, and in my worst days it really helped me cope. Sometimes, I wish it was real, and I daydream about how things would be. It makes me feel stronger as a person and I realized that if I can survive a deathclaw I can get through today.”

Fallout Confessions

I shamefully like the Enclave… Fallout Confessions

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:26:57 -0800

I shamefully like the Enclave…

Fallout Confessions

“Saying goodbye to Dogmeat at the end of Fallout 3 was by...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:29:11 -0800

“Saying goodbye to Dogmeat at the end of Fallout 3 was by far, one of the most heartbreaking moments in a game I have seen in a long while. Having lost my own dog this year who in a way, was like my own IRL Dogmeat made me love that mutt from the moment I found him in the Scrapyard. He follows you, no matter your karma, he is willing to defend you to the death from Super Mutants, Deathclaws and more. In a way, he is like Eden’s “own dog” as we roam from Megaton to Oasis “carefree and courageous. Irresponsible, and completely inseparable” until it comes to that moment at the end of the game where, if the LW decides to make that final choice, says goodbye to his best friend…”

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“I’m completely in love with Sydney from Fallout 3. Her...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:31:42 -0800

“I’m completely in love with Sydney from Fallout 3. Her personality was so awesome and I wish there was a romance mechanic in the game just so I could date her, not to mention her Ultra SMG is freaking badass.”

Fallout Confessions

“I can’t stand Oliver Swanick, I always kill him before he...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:34:04 -0800

“I can’t stand Oliver Swanick, I always kill him before he gets a chance to talk to me.”

Fallout Confessions

“Fallout 3 taught me not to fear the...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:39:55 -0800

“Fallout 3 taught me not to fear the darkness.”

Fallout Confessions

You do realize that by accepting such stupid confessions in the past, you may have taught readers that's the kind of stuff you want.

psychoticprankster — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:47:19 -0800

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

I understand that you're all very busy with stuff, but could you at least tell us why you haven't updated in a while?

keenincisions — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:30:00 -0800

Alright, I’ll be perfectly honest with you.

Yes, the majority of us are busy with school/college, various jobs, personal issues that demand most of our time and attention, etc etc. However, we also have a slightly more selfish reason for not tending to this blog as much as we should.

This is a confessions blog. Hence the name “Fallout Confessions”. It’s not “Fallout Fanfics” or “Fallout Tales of Woe Around the Wasteland” or “Fallout Comments About How You Bought The Game Last Weekend”. It’s most certainly not “Fallout Fandom’s Place To Beat Each Other Down”.

That being said, this place rarely keeps with the intended theme anymore. In fact, it hasn’t done so for months. We promised to publish anything and everything (except the painfully stupid ones, which Loon and I — wherever he may be; I haven’t seen him on Steam in months — delete), and people seem to have taken that to heart. Half the confessions we receive are a slightly more literate version of “OMGGGZ I LOVE MY BOIFREND CUZ HE BOUGHT ME FALLOUT 3 OMFG <333!!!1!!1!”

We rarely receive actual confessions nowadays. Instead of stating an opinon, they throw some horribly obscure story with absolutely no indication of what sort of picture we could provide. Sure, it might have some correlation to the game, but it reads more like a diary entry than an actual confession. I’ve discussed it with some of the other mods, and they all agree with me.

That being said, I honestly think people have run out of genuine things to confess. Considering how many posts we have (this one will mark 5,500), it’s a safe bet to say that every single word that could potentially be spoken about the few characters that the fandom seems to care about has been said. I’m fairly sure there are 40+ variations of “AAAHHH BOONE IS SO HOT; I’D LIKE TO SEE HIS SNIPER RIFLE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN HUEUHEUHUEUHUE” floating around.

In short, this blog has lost its drive. It’s more of a personal ranting blog than an actual confessions blog. Whether it was through our sub-par submission guidelines/expectations/rules, or— … no, actually, that was pretty much it. Well, you see what it’s become.

tl;dr — I suck, I’m a horrible person, etc. I’m sorry. I truly am. But everyone gets tired of the same old thing. A lot of the other mods have disappeared, and I have no idea where they went, but I know they’d feel the same.

— Cybbie

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My two cents: I shall also state that it’s also hard to find motivation during the down time of our busy lives to log on here and find that there are 75+ ‘confessions’ in the inbox. A task that seems extraordinarily daunting when you realize that you may be or are the only active mod on the blog at a given time. It’s not as simple as just throwing some text on an image. [I mean, it could be but I would venture to guess that our followers would be slightly less pleased by the quality of the blog.] I haven’t disappeared, I am very grateful to the admins of this blog for letting me be part of this. I hope to be able to contribute more to this blog in the near future.

-Psy

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… I’ve been without internet for three months (I am alive, just slightly), just got it back within the last week, and it’s also like Cybbie says here. I’ve been looking through the asks whenever I’ve logged on, and it’s extremely non-motivating to keep looking at the same kinds of confessions we’ve seen throughout our times being a mod on here.

=Shiay

“When I first played Fallout 3 I didnt know that bottle...

nauticalamity — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:53:11 -0800

“When I first played Fallout 3 I didnt know that bottle caps were the currency. I constantly threw them away. When I got to Megaton and realized that was the money, I restarted.”

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“Sergeant RL-3 turned me into a robosexual.” Fallout...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:55:36 -0800

“Sergeant RL-3 turned me into a robosexual.”

Fallout Confessions

“My biggest regret with getting New Vegas was pre-ordering...

psychoticprankster — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:58:07 -0800

“My biggest regret with getting New Vegas was pre-ordering it with the Caravan Pack DLC. I got it so I’d start the game with an edge and would feel like a Veteran of the Wasteland rather then just another newbie/stranger Vault Dweller as with other installments. Instead I just felt like a fool since I could barely shoot anything with the confusing and obstructive Iron Sights for the Sturdy Caravan Shotgun, not to mention it doesn’t work with any of the shotgun perks. I sold it to Chet after about 5mins of use.”

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“I’m not complaining about V.A.T.S., but I think it makes...

psychoticprankster — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:02:44 -0800

“I’m not complaining about V.A.T.S., but I think it makes the game a tad too easy. I hope Fallout 4 implements better gameplay, i.e. gunplay and ducking behind cover or something like that. I don’t want it to not have V.A.T.S., but I don’t want to be able to decimate every enemy that I come into contact with! I want the wasteland to be intimidating.”

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“I spent a good sum of money to buy the collector’s...

nauticalamity — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:22:29 -0800

“I spent a good sum of money to buy the collector’s edition of Fallout 3 and I regret nothing.”

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“As a Computer Science major, Mr. House is, in many...

nauticalamity — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:18:57 -0800

“As a Computer Science major, Mr. House is, in many regards (tyranny aside), a figure whom I admire.”

Fallout Confessions

“I cried the first time I did the quest for the Bright...

nauticalamity — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:15:20 -0800

“I cried the first time I did the quest for the Bright Brotherhood. Them leaving the Mojave just made it seem to be a darker place.”

Fallout Confessions

“The most disturbing moment of any of my New...

psychoticprankster — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:05:15 -0800

“The most disturbing moment of any of my New Vegas playthroughs was when I had the Courier seduce Benny into taking her to his bed and then kill him in his sleep. Not because she’d betrayed Benny but because when the screen faded back in Arcade Gannon was staring me right in the face, judging me, at least ED-E had the decency to stay outside the room.”

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“I created a character based on Rex Marksley (a song sung...

psychoticprankster — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:07:49 -0800

“I created a character based on Rex Marksley (a song sung and a character created by Steam Powered Giraffe). He is a messiah of the wastes; expert with marksmanship, repair, and charisma and not too shabby with energy weapons.”

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