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Pannic2012-06-30 18:18:12

ugh seriously, I couldn't even finish it, if all your going to do is complain bitch and gripe over how the story doesn't fit your singular ideal of a "perfect" story in which no pony ever does anything wrong, never hurts another pony and is utterly and totally perfect, why bother reading it, I can't even finihs these posts anymore, all you do is hate hate hate hate, and look at everything in the worst most twisted way possible.

You don't like the story, we get it, but none of it has anything to do with the story itself you clearly hate anything the would involve *GASP* people/ponies not having the option to sit down and talk every single solitary issue out all while being perfect pacifists in a world where that doesn't pretty much get you killed.

Ugh, yeah giving just how outright mean-spirited every thing I've seen you write so far is just in reviews, yeah i'm done. Not saying you don't have a few decent criticisms but you treat every single flaw as some huge issue that someone would have to be an utter moron or total monster not to find horrid and a reason to hate the story. Even if said "flaw" is simply, doesn't meet YOUR personal expectations of what a good story is, or isn't totally embracing your idea the anything other total pacifism is horrid evil, wrong, and sick.

Given just how many people LOVE this story, obviously it's not the utter peice of trash you seem to think, is it perfect, no, is it for everyone, again no. But you clearly seem to feel that you and you alone are the arbiter of all thing "good" and anything which does not meet your personal idea is garbage and horrid.

That's because they are huge issues, and one of the reasons why I'm writing a remake of it. Seriously, something that I adore in the Fallot series is that it gives you lots of options to resolve the various quest, some of them even completely unrelated to violence. The action scenes, while fun id written well, becomes boring after a while if you are interested to see other things that just action. Unfortunately many fans seems to be only interested in that, that's why they don't see the problems the fic has (sure violence is not the only thing tey love of the fic, but it's undoubtely one of those).

kind of hard to have multiple choices and paths in a book as compared to a game. This isn't a written account of a play through of a game. Yes it does borrow a good deal of game logic and such, but there's a line between that and out right Lets Play

Is the story violent, oh hell yeah. Does that make it in anyway bad, no. Does it mean everyone has to like it, again no. If ti's not your type of story, it's not your type of story just don't read it. Don't read it, knowing the very basic levels of it are something you don't like, and then act like it's horrible for not being what you want it to be.

And no it's not the violence I love, or what anyone I know that likes the story loves about it. It's the story as a whole, the fact that despite being so violent, do dark it never succumbs to Grimdark-ness, it's not dark or violent just for the sake of being dark and violent, it does it to show just how wrong it is, how this is not how ponies should live, and to set up just how bad the Wasteland is, making all the more inspiring that one single pony is able to remind the entire Wasteland what Equestria was, and to light the fires of hope in them, rally them to help change what they once just accepted as fact, to end the hatred, violence, and bloodshed of the wastes, stand up to Slavers and Raiders, find something worth fighting for and in the end bring back the hope that Equestria could once more become what it was.

The Darkness, violence and what not isn't there for it to be there, it's there to contrast both how Equestria was, and how thanks to Littlepip, it will be again.

My problem is that I do not find that Littlepip is a character who inspires hope.

admittedly she isn't really the type personality wise, but it's her actions that do it, not her. Standing up to slavers and raider, Redeye, The Goddess. simply reminding the ponies of the Wasteland what they had lost, and a good part of it admittedly does go to Homage for turing Littlepip the flawed, unsure, toaster repairpony into Lil'pip, the Lightbringer. Making her a symbol far above her own ability to be so.

She's hardheaded stubborn tends to be a shortsighted, yes she has plenty of flaws, but it's that same stubbornness that prevents her from just giving up, that keeps her going no matter what it coasts her. Taken in a vacuum yeah Lil'pip isn't really that type, but in context, everything she does is just the right thing at the right time.

Keep in mind we see everything, most of the rest of the ponies don't all they know is so far in the last few weeks this mare has

Wiped out the Raider nest in Ponyville, freeing that area from them

Rescued all the slaves from Appleloosa

Wiped out the raiders and slavers from...forget the name, the prison

Brought the sole source of widespread entertainment in the Wastelands new music for all the ponies to enjoy, (yes not as epic but still something that none of them ever thought would happen)

Dealt with a chimera nest that was making parts of Manehatten impossible to pass through

Walked right into Redeyes fortress and emerged alive. and while doing so restored DJ Pon-3's voice and eyes to the area.

The hope is less from he persoanlly, then from seeing how just one pony that refused to give up could do all that to make the wasteland better in just a few weeks

kind of hard to have multiple choices and paths in a book as compared to a game

What i'm talking about is for the protagonist do different choices that aren't limited to gnning everything not good that moves. In the games (well, more the earliers than the laters) follow this logic is like a double-edge sword that can bite the player in the ass lately. If that can happen in videogame, where mindless violence is usually the norm, why can't in a piece of narration?

in context, everything she does is just the right thing at the right time.

And the right thing is to respond to injustice with blood and deaths, in a world where Death is already everywhere. That's really going to inspire people on foing better and to make old Equestria returr, alright. Afterall, there's no way in hell that all the raiders and slavers Pip and co. gunned down had loved ones or families, and even if they have they'll sure going to behave if they don't want to be guuned to by Littlepip "the Destroyer" instead of growing even more angry with the world and bring even more blood and death right?!

I now want to quote this words from Black Jack, protagonists of Fo E: Project Horizons:

“A long time ago there was a war between ponies and zebras. I saw a memory of it not long ago. I saw the hate and the blood and carnage. Some ponies think the bombs ended it. But I disagree. This is a war that is still being fought today, only now we’re fighting between ourselves. And every single time we kill, we keep it going.”

I’ve learned of a pony from that time who realized what everypony else didn’t. The war had to end, and if we were ever going to win it we would have to do better. Be better. Not better killers. Not more ruthless. We would have to be… kind.”

“I’m not an executioner. I’m Security. If he’d threatened another I wouldn’t stop fighting him ‘til he gave up. If he threatened your lives I’d do all I could to end his. But like this… I can’t give you what you want. I’m sorry." “I know I can’t stop you from killing him. I know that many of you need this. But I’m begging you… please… be better. Be kind.”

This are the words of a pony who inspires hope, the words of somepony who wants to change for better with the hope that the Wasteland can change as well. Now what I want to ask is, did Littlepip ever note of this? That since the beginning of the war ponies have responded to violence with violence and were still doing this even after it? Did she and her freinds ever took in consideration than maybe something else should've be done instead?

That's the big limit to Fo E, to beleive that violence and blood against evil is the only way to make everything better: no matter how this is so much common in media, it's a terrible lesson to show to people.

and again, yes her personality isn't really that of some great savior. It's her actions that inspire the wasteland, not her speeches. Yes violence is not always the best answer, but sometimes it simply IS the only answer.

Would Lil'pip have been a good leader or a good symbol for reforming Equestria and guiding it once the threats of Redeye, The Goddess, The Enclave et al were defeated, probably not. But she WAS what the Wasteland needed, a symbol and a hope that those threats COULD be overthrown, that it was possible to change the wasteland. That raiders, slavers and the rest could be fought. These threats were not ones that could be talked away, under any circumstances.

The hope I'm talking about Lil'pip inspiring isn't about hope that everything will be perfect and just like Equestria was before, guiding the ponies back to that was something a pony like Velvet or Homage would be better at. No, Lil'pip gave them hope that they could stand up and fight, and win. Gave them the hope that that Redeye, The Goddess, all that sought to enslave, cower, and control them could end giving them the chance to rebuild Equestria as it should be.

Yes violence is not always the best answer, but sometimes it simply IS the only answer.

yes, but Pip (almost) never thought about other answers, because she and co. thinks that violence is the answer to every problem (even with unwinnable situation like with the Steel Rangers, who haves really strong armors and weapons of mass destructions; and still, they goes down like mooks! Logic, this is unknown :P). Even Velvet, the only in the group who tried other ways, gave up to it because the story's truly convinced that there's no other options but brute strenght.

These threats were not ones that could be talked away, under any circumstances.

Sorry, but I disagree.... partially. Even without using words, there are things called Non-Lethal K.Os., that should be especially easy for her given that she's an expert in telekinesys, the best way existent to make people lose consciousness. And even without that, there are still non-lethal bosy parts, like legs, arms or almost anything beneath the rib cage; shoot there and most people would be so much in pain that they won't think about aiming anymore (and for stimpaks/heal potions you can make them lose consciousness ao they won't take them).

I love this! I really enjoy Fallout: Equestria (and its side-stories) but that doesn't mean I'm not entertained by your rants about it. There's a lot in this fic that can be mocked, and I find myself laughing every few lines as you point out everything that's wrong with the story. I hope you continue, because there's so much more that I want to read your reactions to. Great work with this!

I'm completely aware that Littlepip is a perverted selfrighteous bitch, who is overblown by Homage for Propaganda reasons. She's also an unreliable narrator, who always narrates things in order to justify the actions of her future political faction look good and the fic sends Horrible Messages. It's still Hilarious though.