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Ex-Bethesda lead reveals handwritten origins of Fallout's strange text and iconic "F*** You": "I was honestly expecting them to tell me to delete it"
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Ashley Bardhan
2025-12-19
Purkeypile recently said on Bluesky, "It never stops being weird seeing my own handwriting being used for stuff I didn't write haha," after the developer added his handwriting as a font for Fallout 76. By comparison, that fat "FUCK YOU" was "just a single mesh that can only say 'Fuck you.' One of my greatest artistic achievements." He explains to us, "I did a lot of handwritten signs in Fallout 4 also, but each one was unique in that case. For 76, I knew we'd need a lot of random stuff so I just made [my handwriting] into the font." Ludicrous Fallout: New Vegas meme becomes a reality thanks to Fallout season 2 advertising on the Las Vegas sphere Explore the history of the Fallout games with some of the devs who helped bring the iconic RPG franchise to life Fallout: New Vegas fans uncover an early build for the iconic RPG, featuring the original Mr House design and a steamy romance to go alongside it Of course then there's also this classic, but that's just a single mesh that can only say "Fuck you" One of my greatest artistic achievements.— @npurkeypile.bsky.social (@npurkeypile.bsky.social.bsky.social) 2025-12-19T16:51:25.216Z Of course then there's also this classic, but that's just a single mesh that can only say "Fuck you" One of my greatest artistic achievements. "I just did it on a whim," he continues – a perk of being lead artist on Fallout 76. "I just wrote the whole alphabet out using a tablet into Photoshop on one big texture. I then put that whole texture on just a plane in Blender and chopped it up until it was all a bunch of individual models with just one letter." In 2008, though, "I just wrote 'Fuck You' and made that into a single model. I was honestly expecting them to tell me to delete it. I never had an art task to make a 'Fuck You' graffiti, it was just part of a Vault that was taken over and went to hell and I thought it would be funny." It's good that Bethesda preserved it. Now, reading that intimidating slime-green text feels like seeing a 1,700-year-old drawing of a dick on walls of the Colosseum. "I think that 'Fuck You' made an impact on a lot of people," Purkeypile reflects. Ludicrous Fallout: New Vegas meme becomes a reality thanks to Fallout season 2 advertising on the Las Vegas sphere: "They made my f*****g meme real holy s**t."
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sleepyToast
Jan 01, 10:11 PM
this is fun. right on
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chill.panda
Dec 27, 03:41 AM
I threw it away. Great replay value. That's it, okay. ugh, so many bugs.
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toasterDreams
Dec 23, 12:11 AM
#Quite challenging.
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#hot Bad multiplayer.
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