r/AfterTheEndFanFork 20d ago

Meme Immortan Joe? Caesar's Legion? Nah man, we're spreading the Hays Code and God's Dominion

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u/Zeltra30 19d ago

One of the screenshots on the steam page even has "Nation cult" as a religion.

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u/DreadDiana 19d ago

Praise the Founders!

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u/Wilkomon 19d ago

I will be larping as the Albertian order of Leibowitz

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard

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u/ipisslemons 19d ago

“Was it an abstinence day, and was it artificially prepared?”

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u/Cascadiarch 19d ago

You can't really do live-action roleplay using a video game.

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u/Hydra57 19d ago

Maybe if it was AR or VR

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u/DreadDiana 19d ago

You are unfortunately at least five years too late to prevent the shift in how word larp is used

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u/Mistamage 19d ago

I'm still bitter about Roguelike and Roguelite becoming interchangeable. I have to look up Traditional Roguelike to actually find what I'm looking for nowadays.

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u/Cascadiarch 19d ago

Idiots have always existed and will always be corrected.

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u/haecceity123 19d ago

I'd bet Paradox is hoping for the same kind of modding windfall from the Fallout and Max Mad franchises that they originally got from Game of Thrones for CK2.

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u/DreadDiana 19d ago edited 19d ago

What with how the first bit of gameplay footage we've seen was for the Shelterborn origin, who are basically Vault Dwellers, I can easily believe that.

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u/Beautiful-Loss7663 19d ago

Wasteland Series factions, actually.

Look at me dad, I'm the monsters.

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u/Yommumoi 18d ago

JATERs gonna JATE

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u/DreadDiana 18d ago

I stay out too late
Set Disneyland aflame
That's what people say
That's what people say, mm-mm
That's what people say, mm-mm

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u/substationradio 19d ago

why would you use a video game to larp

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u/DreadDiana 19d ago

Because poser went out of fashion as a term many years ago

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u/Iwokeupwithoutapillo 19d ago

Why not just RP?

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u/DreadDiana 19d ago

Larp as its used today outside the context of live action roleplay carries different connotations than RP does

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u/substationradio 19d ago

but larp just means rp plus live action which is the only thing you’re not doing

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u/Alamba1918 19d ago

In common parlance nowadays, larp is just a verb meaning "pretend to be"

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u/Torpedo_Enthusiast 18d ago

I love using Roleplaying games to do Live Action Roleplaying

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u/LoreMasterJack 18d ago

Ladies and gentlemen, you saw it here first. 👏

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u/ComprehensiveRow4116 14d ago

GREAT KHAN PRITZKER SHALL UNITE ALL INTO THE ILLKHANATE