The Neckbeard Challenge

[fоreskin feta]

Build:

• SPECIAL (Not set in stone; change depending on your favored neckbeard
  also not optimized because I made this without testing it in-game)
  5 - 4 - 4 - 1 - 6 - 5 - 9
  
  
• Skills:
  Science
  Melee (the blade)
  Survival (I've read the wikihow articles, in totally prepared!)
  Medicine (same as above)
  
  
• Perks:
  Confirmed Bachelor (hates "chads"; for the "nice guy")
  Lady Killer (using "biology" to justify unusually specific misogyny; for the "MRA")
  Friend of the Night (basement dwelling, impossible with current setup)
  
  
• Traits (pick at least 1):
  Small Frame (scrawny)
  Four Eyes (too much computer)
  Fast Shot (panics at the slightest provocation, poor hand-eye coordination)
  Heavy Handed (flails about with fists and calls it "going all out")
  Loose Cannon (thinks faster is better)

Items:

• Apparel (whatever you do, never take these off unless you find something neckbeardier. A true neckbeard wears his fedora all the time, even indoors when no one can see him):
  A stylish, dapper, or fancy gambler hat (they're all the same)
  Bounty hunter duster (player.additem 0010d8db 2; close enough to a trench coat)
  NCR Ranger Armor (player.additem 00129254 2; it's jeans with a duster, possibly the most neckbeardy combination possible. will lock some factions though)
  
• Weapons:
  Katana: player.additem xx000817 2(definitive neckbeard blade: if you're not willing to buy Gun Runners use a Machete,
  000ce569)
  Lever-action shotgun: player.additem 0008ed0c 2; ammo: player.additem 0013e448 99999 (12 gauge shotguns are edgier, but these are lighter for the neckbeard's fragile frame)
  9mm SMG: player.additem 0008f217 2; ammo: player.additem 0013e43a 99999 (even edgier)
  
• Misc:
  2000 bottle caps at the start (player.additem 000000f 2000; inherited GBP from mommy)

Endings (in order of preference):

• Caesar's Legion: They're Roman roleplayers who take pride in using "authentic" Latin pronunciations and believe that all women (every single individual woman) are biologically inferior to men. They unite under one authoritarian dictator. They crucify people in telephone poles. Obviously a neckbeard would side with these people.
  
• Mr. House: You obtain many riches (you get the Lucky 38 in the ending IIRC) and you get to gamble. You also obey someone you only see as a screen, adding to a "mysterious stranger who follows no one" vibe. There's a fancy pre-war vibe to everything on the strip which neckbeards would love (why else would they wear fedoras popular in the 20s?).
  
• NCR: You get to wear the fancy ranger armor without suffering he consequences of♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥off the Legion, but that's about it.

Special rules/restrictions:

• Kill a men not relevant to the main quest (nice guy; do not combine with MRA)
  
• Kill a women not relevant to the main quest (MRA; do not combine with nice guy, obviously)
  
• All kills have to be with melee unless you are on the brink of death (belief that swords are more honorable or even superior to guns)
  
• Never level Speech past 40. You can only rage and whine with your weapons when a problem arises.
  
• Avoid talking to people who are not relevant to the main quest.
  
• Never unequip your gambler hat.
  
• Steal every Nuka-Cola and pack of potato crisps you see so long as it doesn't affect main quest factions reputation.
  
• On a similar note as to above, spend all your caps on Eat'o'tronics.
  These restrictions become null and void after the prompt before the Battle of Hoover Dam. You can finally take off your gambler hat during the battle or when you decline the prompt.
  
• If you break any of these restrictions before the battle prompt, you must immediately empty out all of your caps and forms of currency elsewhere, whether it be a corpse or a container.

[raubrey]

"Avoid talking to people who are not relevant to the main quest."
Isn't this commonplace with gamers these days?

I have no desire to be a neckbeard but I admire the cleverness of the challenge.
(I also better stop stealing all the Nuka Colas)

[fоreskin feta]

It's more of the stereotype that asocial people will immediately try to avoid and end a conversation whenever it arises.
Nuka-Cola theft similarly falls into the unhealthy person stereotype.

[Mr. Bombastic]

This gave me a good laugh, thanks.

[fоreskin feta]

repost to r/fallout for free karma

[raubrey]

Originally posted by entitled tryhard:

It's more of the stereotype that asocial people will immediately try to avoid and end a conversation whenever it arises.
Nuka-Cola theft similarly falls into the unhealthy person stereotype.

Oh you meant real people...I thought you meant NPCs for side-quests.
You know how people basically speed run a game and then complain they are lost or the RPG stinks or whatever. That's how I read it.

Godz I'm such a gaming "enthusiast" it didn't occur to me...real people conversations, novel thought, that.

[fоreskin feta]

don't worry, I call Las Vegas New Vegas IRL if I don't catch myself
and I've only owned the game for a month or so

[Saturday Morning Lilligant]

Challenge acsepted.