Dan Harmon on Fallout 4

i can't remember because i've been pretty drunk um a lot lately i've been overserved uh in these in these shows a lot so i know i've been talking about fallout 4. i've been replaying fallout 4. but have i talked about the preston garvey issue in fallout 4. no i don't think so preston garvey is a man that you meet early in the game he's uh he belongs to in the post-apocalyptic wasteland uh uh he he's uh he's part of a a now virtually extinct uh group of uh militia men called the minutemen and they're kind of like they they borrow their culture from like the the revolutionary uh minutemen and uh they represent like the hope for the future in this wasteland um uh he happens to be african-american and yes that is an important part of this story why are you looking at spencer uh yeah what the [ __ ] man so all of these characters like fallout 4 is very very they i'm sure it's got lots of awards but it really needs like special awards because it has these like the way that it handles this concept of romance you can play as either gender and that's not me signing off on there being two genders thank you very much according to this video game apparently you got a soldier pepper but uh but you you you can you can play as one of two uh genders and and but it doesn't it doesn't like flip all the other genders like which means that basically they're like okay so you might be gay in playing the game you might be straight you might be a man you might be a woman any combination of all the above so they had to like they had to create these characters that you hook you you you you encounter and then they're your companions and they follow you around and then they they will if you if they really get attached to you they start you know they start gaining affinity for you and then you're experiencing that through these conversations and within these conversations like they had to keep in mind that you this might be a man talking to a man who is not interested in male male sex like so but on the other hand but it might also simultaneously be a man talking to a a woman a straight woman that's playing that's like really like hello sugar sugar man like like when she when she sees this guy the first time you know yes it's good like and it's just it's kind of it's it's really this masterpiece because i'm looking at this 45 year old man i'm replaying fallout 4 and i'm like you know these female characters that they then they go like oh it's me my name's a piper and i'm a journalist and i'm like oh i'm i majored in journalism and and like hey like like and it kind of like automatically like locked into this thing of like it like like every time she she goes like hey can i tell you something about my backstory and all this stuff and then there will be a button that says flirt and then event and it'll build to a button that says romance wow so you can play it however you want but i just think the most interesting thing is because i started playing the game long enough that now all the guys are doing this too so here's the just the amazing thing about that that i'm learning about sexual projection is that the women characters when they say uh hey can i talk to you about something for a second uh you know we've been traveling for a long time and i never knew how to trust anybody uh but you're really like traveling with you has really made me realize i need to get over my defense mechanisms and and trust people and i just wanted to let you know i really i really trust you and you're really special to me and like when it's a when it's a woman you and then there's the the there's the button that comes up that says flirt so you you retroactively go oh she's hitting on me that's what i do i don't know why i'm saying you i'm like i like i i got and then but then when when when it's a guy and he goes like hey could i talk to you for a second you know when i uh first met you i wasn't sure i thought you were a tub of guts but uh the universal brotherhood of steel needs uh everything they've got and i just got to say you've given this old tin can soldier a new lisa in life and then and then one and then the flirt button comes up and you're like whoa but it's it's really fascinating it's like an actual kind of an educational tool because it's like they had this i mean because you're the game isn't the game is simply saying these are people who are growing fond of you and then it's up to you to project on to it any any way you want and the and and i am ashamed to say as a as a modern liberal uh playing this video game with that i still i haven't i haven't i haven't gone there with a dude yet and yet i have been so unfaithful in all of the female relationships i just keep i just keep like i'll max them out until i get all their combat bonuses and then i'll assign them to a supply line with cattle or something or all like i'll i'll put them in a field because i'm like well i got their combat bonuses and now i'm like no no i'm with now i'm with what's her name and and like so there's no shame about that there was a little bit of there was there was a little bit of difficulty with it but clearly i got over it but i will not i still won't [ __ ] do it no one's watching me i know i know the the game isn't gonna punish me or reward me in any particular way it's not gonna make my character gay and like change my weapons uh it's it it i know that the only thing that's going to happen is the conclusion of a [ __ ] like algorithm and i still don't do it shame on me i should be [ __ ] everyone in the apocalyptic wasteland true sure you might have more valuable value in that community you might rise to a king because you met a dude and you guys fell in love and because the way you you set your [ __ ] up you you got to be the president it would be a man so here's this is why i brought this up so this is why it's important that preston garvey is african-american right so preston garvey is one of these male characters who the the so his is particularly it's it's legitimately like it's it's crazy like he he when he gets to the peak where it's time to either hit romance or not he says hey can i talk to you about something um you know something i i know that's how he sounds uh you know what do you want me to do he's not he he doesn't have big headphones on and roller skates he's not like hey i mean you earlier did say something about confronting your fears on stage are we cool this this this guy this guy he's he's he sounds like you he's he's he's an unmissed he's an unmistakably black man but there's no impression to do of him he's not like oh i'm an italian chef you know like and you're not like yo blood like uh you're you're branded i don't think i don't think you know i'm not it's like like and and and uh so he's he's a gentleman he's like he likes to dress up he he he i don't i don't mean to derail you and so and he's deep he's a deep thinker and he's an emotionally available uh friend and so he comes up to you when you're playing this game when you get up to the to the peak levels with him when he's been and he and he what he says is he goes um can i tell you something well you know i already told you about how um you know it's really important that you uh uh uh [ __ ] i'm sorry it's important that he has this like even keel because it's a voice actor reading a script into a microphone so that's what's also creepy about it is that he's not there is no like hemming and hawing about it he's just like saying these things i already told you about how when i first met you i wasn't sure you were a natural leader and then i was inspired by you but there's one more thing i haven't told you before i met you uh i lost so much hope that i wasn't sure if i wanted to live anymore i often thought about ending it all i'm i've never told anyone that before but i thought about ending it all all the time and just before i met you i was really thinking about ending it all and i really wanted to let you know that and then you have four buttons and one says like flirt like i don't i don't know like i won't even save my place and just see what that is like is it is it do do we go like well if you ended it all that would mean a couple less drinks on me uh uh i don't know what that button is but then the then one is like hey let's keep this professional or something like that and then one is like the one i would hit in real life which is like thank you for being honest with me i appreciate how hard that must be to you because you're telling what you're telling me is you can't you you don't tell anybody about this uh so thank you so that's like that's penultimate so then what happens is with these characters if you it turns out if you don't friend zone them if you don't actively friend zone them with the b button if you don't there's a button that basically says like [ __ ] chill like like keep it keep it above the belt and like rock on and i won't press that either so not only am i homophobic i'm also like a crazy like codependent hunter like i like i just farm these guys that are like when i walk through uh my my my settlement these men who are all these men are all saying like hey can we talk now and and and i'll get i'll get cornered by them and i'll go uh-huh and then and then and then preston's like his whole thing is he goes like he keeps he keeps doing it it's on a loop now and here's the thing it's like okay he's first is it now he's african-american he's dressed like a revolutionary soldier and through no selection of my own he is working on crops like he like that's the default that happens so he's a a black man dressed like 1700 soldier in a tri-corner hat digging in dirt who when i walk by he pops out of a bushes that he's like cultivating and goes like is now is a good time for that talk and and i go maybe he's asking you to help him out and one of the uh well i always i stop and i go because and one of the buttons is like i thought we already talked about this i swear that one of the buttons is like we taught we i already already heard you and when you press that he says okay cool because i just never told anybody that before and then and then one of the buttons says romance so you and then one of the buttons says keep it professional and i never press it and then one of the buttons says thank you for sharing say that i keep pressing it what am i doing and why don't i assign him to a different job it's uncomfortable like or put them in a different outfit dress them as a spaceman at least like it's very it's a weird mind [ __ ] there's also there's other guys there's guys that are like george clooney's and like like armor and like like i don't know if the uh i don't know if the robots eventually come on to you but but and then again the point is they don't come on to you they they might they they're they're designed to just say i have i i trust you and okay that's it so anyways there's a lot of [ __ ] going on i want you to rescue this dude because he had to work for the military and he has some beans that he's growing with his hands maybe listen to him next time and see what he is i listen to him every time i'm trying to tell you i listen to him every time i'm caught in this crazy [ __ ] hamster wheel like maybe what if that's what if we're just seeing a low five version of the simulation that is real life what if my relationship with these people is like is that like i keep hitting the a button on like like well do you do you need approval uh or do you want to be yourself and then i keep hitting this like this middle line option where i'm like i appreciate you coming to the show like and and then that they keep hitting this button that's like man i'm a big fan of yours and we're just like like like we're never gonna like keep it professional nor are we gonna flirt you know like we're not gonna like max our combat bonuses um anyways uh yeah i i i'm really enjoying my fallout 4 [ __ ] that's a rich game it's a real good game the settlement aspect like like you gotta check it out that's for a different episode i'll be talking about fallout 4 for the next six episodes

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Length: 13min 5sec (785 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 30 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/d0fabur5st]

Yes I and probably most people have always found it awkward to flirt with straight males when im playing a straight male in fo4.

[u/_kelsadilla_]

Two of my favorites in one video, thank you for sharing (:

[u/trigunnerd]

I mean, my main file is an asexual dude. He hasn't flirted with anyone. My second character is a straight woman. I don't feel obligated to explore female relationships. In this roleplay game, I roleplay as a straight woman. Why feel ashamed about playing a role?

But regarding Preston, absolutely! Such a poor opportunity to romance him lol

[u/ScottBrownInc4]

Is Fallout 4 just a Waifu, Base Waifu, and Gun Waifu simulator? I mean you can date anyone, customize all the weapons, and build a base like you're on HG TV; but what about the RPG stuff with branching plots?

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I mean they managed to make a sandbox, they got that part down right.