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You know what feels odd? Outliving your idols.
Admit it, at the back of your head, you didn't think it would happen to you. I mean, look at me, big David Bowie fan. Has the concept that someday I will be watching his memorial on TV while the tossers who couldn't give two fucks about him while he was alive rush out and snap up every one of his CDs they can get crossed my mind?
Not really. Like everyone else this generation, I always assumed I was living at the end of history, and I won't outlive any of the people I admired growing up because we're all going to be wiped out together by nuclear fire, a flaming meteor or giant crabs invading the Earth.
Which reminds me. Things I would like to see in either Fallout: New Vegas or Fallout 4:
1 - Horses. I've talked about this one before. When it comes to traversing huge, sprawling in-game landscapes, Shadow Of The Colossus-style transport is the way to go. Considering the wild west style they were going for, equines were somewhat conspicious by their absence.
2 - And/or vehicles. Which no post-apocalyptic movie is complete without. I don't necessarily mean turn the wasteland into Liberty City. On the contrary, I was thinking something more like Jak & Daxter 3, where the vehicles (mostly buggies and jeeps) were few on the ground but all the more handy because of it. I'm not thinking of Mad Max's V8 Interceptor here (as jaw-droppingly awesome as that would be), but something more along the lines of the Landmasters from Damnation Alley or the aforementioned off-roaders from Jak & Daxter.
3 - Weather. Just to add an extra element of danger to the environment. In other games, weather is just incidental. An innovative feature would be to make the player not only aware of the weather but have to take it into consideration when journeying. Acid rain that can burn, radioactive ash falling like snow, or a heatwave that could make you pass out if you're not stocking enough water.
4 - More radio stations. And the ability to import some of your own tracks wouldn't go unappreciated either.
5 - Cross-platform online multiplayer. Speaks for itself, really.
6 - Rockets. One thing that I only recently noticed. Despite the amount of retro-futurist 50's nostalgia, apart from the lunar lander in a museum, the space program (and the optimism surrounding it throughout the 50's and 60's) didn't get much of a look in. It'd be interesting if there were a mission where you had to help a bunch of armchair astronauts scrounge up the materials required to get one of those old retro-looking rockets spaceworthy, then sitting back and watching lift-off.
And now I better do this, in case it looks like I forgot. Five words given to me by Sabrina are:
Motorbikes.
Blasphemy to say when you not only come from a family of mechanics but also work in a garage, but I just think bikes are cooler. And better for someone like me who doesn't have a family to feed and/or play taxi to. I think there's a giant glaring difference in the number of people who have a car and the number of people who need a car.
Genesis
I'm going to assume she meant the band and not the book of metaphors. Phil Collins-era Genesis I've been listening to since before I can remember. My dad was into them, and in those long, boring Sunday drives when I was a kid, I'd just sit and look out the car window while the fantastic and otherworldly music kickstarted my imagination. Peter Gabriel-era, I discovered on my own. My Dad had none of the stuff from that era, and I actually discovered Gabriel's solo stuff long before I ventured into his Genesis days.
What's surprising is how different they sound. Surprising, because these days when someone goes solo, their stuff sounds IDENTICAL to when they were part of a group. Mostly because going solo these days just means someone's already swollen ego needs room to expand, so they just pretty much continue to be the band without the band. I mean, look at Beyonce Knowles. There's no difference to the shite she's churning out now and the shite she was churning out with Destiny's Child. Ditto Justin Timberlake. All that happened was their egos got too big to allow them to share a spotlight with anyone.
But there is a distinct difference between Gabriel's Genesis stuff and his solo stuff. His Genesis stuff was more experimental and showy, with songs inspired by his dreams. His solo stuff was extremely personal, less experimental and more refined.
Flag
Some people think the Stars & Stripes on my userinfo is either a silly joke or bitter sarcasm. I've said it before and I'll say it again, nobody ever believes anything I say except for the things I don't mean. Personally, I believe the Pledge of Allegiance (and the "under God" part of the Pledge) should be optional. I just choose the option to have it. In college, I got a lot of shit from idiots who had the thing confused with a swastika. I could have just taken the thing down and bent over for someone else's misconceptions. Which is pretty much the opposite of what the flag stands for, so no thanks.
The Irish flag, not much I can actually say about it. It features two of the ugliest colors in the spectrum and is usually only seen being waved by fuckwits up north or those rare occasions there's a World Cup on we're actually in.
Oh, and with a red pen, a blue pen and a ruler, I had so much fun pissing off armchair fuckwits in school by drawing the Union Jack. Not for any particular love for Britain, but if you can't physically fight someone, the least you can do is ruin their mood.
Hair
You know, I'm reasonably sure that if women went bald, we'd have a cure. Kinda like how if men could give birth we'd have (A) an epidural that actually worked and (B) much bragging about never taking one, not even that time we had quintuplets. I know some women do lose their hair, but not on the scale that would produce an effective treatment by the weekend.
I would hate to lose mine. I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for it.
Leather.
One of the few materials I actually feel comfortable in. Denim, cotton and leather. That's usually about it, really. And it's not a bad list. It looks good, it feels good, it's sexy, and sometimes makes hilarious noises under the proper circumstances.
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