{"id":12928,"date":"2024-10-23T21:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12928"},"modified":"2024-10-23T21:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:26:16","slug":"fallout-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12928","title":{"rendered":"Fallout Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is October 23.<\/p>\n

In my native Hungary, they’re celebrating the 68th anniversary of the failed 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, which began on this day.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the world, this is Fallout Day. In the universe of the Fallout game franchise, the Great War that ended civilization began (and also concluded) on October 23, 2077.<\/p>\n

I asked DALL-E and Midjourney both to produce an image. Midjourney created several images and I loved most of them but in the end, I am opting in favor of this DALL-E image after all. Its serenity captures the atmosphere of the game better: we are, after all, centuries after the catastrophe, in a mostly quiet, abandoned Wasteland.<\/p>\n

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Also, while the famous Power Armor may be an iconic in-game accessory, a wanderer wearing little more than a thin Vault jumpsuit better captures the vulnerability a player feels, especially when entering the Wasteland for the first time.<\/p>\n

I hope sights like this remain firmly in the realm of computer game fiction. Well, as much as possible… some of the sights that we’ve seen from Ukraine in the past two and a half years unfortunately come close.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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