Link roundup: December 18, 2018

[flowerqueer]

This week is a little different - I went on a bit of a research deep dive for the specific intersection between fallout and disability. Here's what I found!(It's also going to be a little lot shorter than last week's, because I leave for a family trip on friday and I'm behiiiiiiiiiiiiind) It was a little hard to find things on this topic actually, as most of the discussion around this stuff is probably either in private conversation, disability used as an insult rather than true analysis, or long-since deleted (as was the case with the fallout 4 link, actually - the first link I stumbled on was dead and it took me like 5 tries to hunt down the live link).

these are also presented without commentary (for now, i may come back and edit when i have commentary) because i mostly just want to get the links out into the world and i honestly don't have much of anything thoughtful to say about them - it's been a long week already and i'm frazzled and just want to get to the east coast in one piece. without further ado, here you fuckin go:

Mutation as Metaphor: the Politics and Values of the Original Fallout

Why I Cried at Fallout 3's Quest About Disability

I Am A Synth: Fallout 4, Autism, and Embodied Difference

Sidenote: remind me at some point to go on my rant about analyzing No-Bark Noonan's character from a Mad Studies perspective - he's actually really fascinating and he was right about so many things.

What have you all been reading this week wrt video games and/or disability? Anything I should have on my radar?

Comments

[ironmermaidens]

Hmm, the last article about Fallout 4 and autism is interesting. The point about not looking autistic and not looking like a synth in particular for me because of Nick Valentine’s place in the story as a gen-2 synth who acts like a “normal” person but does not look like one. I’m not really well versed enough in disability rhetoric or knowledgable enough about autism to articulate a point about that, but I think there is something of interest there?

[cassini]

[only read the second and third link and my og fallout knowledge is too patchy - but the second certainly touched on something i remember very well from f3, and the third communicates very well on some parallels i'd not though of while playing f4... the theme is something i prefer to avoid in gaming, as it's my escapism from such things generally speaking, but i think i'll end up looking closer at how it's written into f4 ]