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Introduction           Fallout 4 really amazes me for the retro 1950s-60s futuristic style that it incorporates into the lore. Much of the history of the era gets carried on into the lore as well, and I am fascinated with the game's stories about the pre-war U.S. military and its constant "neo-Cold War" with communist China, until the world gets destroyed by nuclear weapons in 2077. All games in the Fallout franchise focus on a character and their journey through the apocalyptic wasteland full of strange creatures and factions. Fallout 4 is based around Boston, Massachusetts. The map stretches from Concord to Natick in the west, to Spectacle Island and Quincy in the southeast.          One of the lesser known pieces of lore in Fallout 4 is associated with the Sentinel Site Prescott, a military installation in the shape of a pyramid in the Glowing Sea, a portion of the map covered in radiation where ground zero was. The Fallout Wiki ...

        This post was written before I watched Once Upon a Snowman (2020), an 8 minute short film about how Olaf became sentient and how he learned about summer during the events of Frozen I. My previous thoughts have been mostly unaltered but the short film gave me some answers. Enjoy! Introduction            Olaf is a little snowman built by Anna and Elsa when they were kids. Unfortunately, after Anna is accidentally struck by Elsa's ice and they get separated by their parents, the magical moments together all seem lost. After Elsa's coronation and disaster, Anna rushes after her to find her and bring her back to Arendelle. Elsa seeks refuge on the North Mountain, where she builds a new Olaf, who becomes sentient. Along the way, Anna and her companions Kristoff and Sven stumble across Olaf in the middle of the woods. They discover that Olaf has come to life and he can talk. Olaf is a sweet and adorable character in the franchise, ...

Introduction         My family is very old-fashioned. I am the youngest in my immediate family. As long as I can remember, we have always been subscribed to the movie channels on TV, like HBO, so I grew up watching movies on cable TV instead of on streaming services, that has become the norm in the U.S. As my siblings moved on with their lives, during my early teenage years, I still had one brother at home with my parents, who I was never that close to. I naturally made it a habit to go watch TV in his room with him every night because he was always watching something and I wanted to catch what was going on, and we eventually grew really close. He always liked to watch action movies, and they do a lot of 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s action and sci-fi movies on the movie channels. I began to find out about movies and I started to like action and sci-fi movies too. I learned about famous actors and actresses and noticed certain trends in movies from the different decades. ...

Introduction The Baba Yaga, the legendary assassin, John Wick, is the last thing men ever see before they die. He once killed three men in a bar with a pencil. Everything you hear about that man has been watered down. However, by the events of John Wick (2014), John Wick enjoys his life in retirement for a few years with his wife after getting out of his Russian mobster family in New York City. All seems to be going well, but a sudden turn of events brings him back to the treacherous life he left behind, which is why the terrifying John Wick can be very closely comparable to… a Disney Princess (she's not an official Princess, actually)?          In Frozen (2013), Elsa is the eldest daughter of King Agnarr and Queen Iduna of Arendelle. After angrily revealing her ice powers at her coronation, Queen Elsa escapes to the North Mountain where she decides that isolation is her best option to prevent another frozen disaster. She builds herself a glamourous ice palace...