Solar Storm: Book 1 by Baileigh Higgins

“Higgins combines the fragility of modern US infrastructure with the resilience of humans creating a story that is both an engaging action-thriller and an exploration of how communities survive.”

More thoughts: https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/solar-storm-book-1-by-baileigh-higgins/

#PostApocalyptic #ScienceFiction #Adventure

With #ImmersiveWasteland2 #SurvivalMode it took all week to get my character to Level 20 and into a suit of X-01 power armor with a badass combat shotgun to go full Ghoul Slayer on Croup Manor, instead of being able to do it leisurely in one sitting like vanilla

#Fallout4 #ModCollections #GameModding #Gaming #SciFi #PostApocalyptic #Screenshots

I’m still not sure how I feel about the #ImmersiveWasteland2 mod collection

On one hand, it was clearly not made for me as a gamer

On the other hand:
- it completely reinvents gameplay
- massively increases difficulty in a meaningful way while practically eliminating obnoxious nuisances
- paces progression differently, so you really have to work on building your character
- makes #SurvivalMode playable and enjoyable without replacing it with a full Fallout 76 style overhaul like Advanced Needs 76
- has a consistent, gloomy style more in keeping with the theme, setting, and tone of the franchise
- replaces all textures with grittier, older looking ones, which reinforces the style
- takes forever and a metric shit-ton of caps to get into your first suit of power armor, and all the additional differences that makes to how you strategize and survive
- comes with 20–30x the nuclear fire straight out of the tin compared to “A StoryWealth”, and a solid 100x compared to vanilla
- provides a wholly novel experience to a game I’ve played to death
- and makes for great screenshots, WTAF

So I guess I both love it and hate it equally, although it troubles me further that I can qualify exactly what I love about it, but can’t qualify the hate

#Fallout4 #ModCollections #GameModding #Gaming #SciFi #PostApocalyptic

Was having a hell of a time just getting #FalloutNewVegas to run straight from Steam on the latest #Windows11 updates

But then I modded the shit out of it and it just works again

Well... With one important, ongoing caveat that’s hardly news to anyone: I still haven’t found a single working solution to the Bluetooth audio problems (unless you count not-using-Bluetooth-audio a solution)

#Gaming #SciFi #PostApocalyptic #GameModding #Fallout #NewVegas

"Feature Presentation", my first illustrated adventure for Glowburn & Radscars has gotten a minor update-- a fancy new cover!

https://bread-wiz.itch.io/feature-presentation

#ttrpg #postapocalyptic #osr #cairn #gammaworld #dungeonsAndDragons

Downfall (Downfall #1) by Justin Bell
Release Date February 20, 2026
#Thriller #PostApocalyptic

https://www.risingshadow.net/book/82945-downfall

GREENLAND REVEALED — Part I: The Long Unravelling
https://www.hodgepocalypse.com/2026/02/greenland-part-1-chronicle-of-north.html
Pandemic years, climate collapse, resource wars, the Green Sky Event—and the discovery beneath the ice. This is how the world broke without ending, and why Greenland mattered when it did.

#ttrpg #worldbuilding #postapocalyptic #weirdfiction #indieRPG

🤖 2B NieR: Automata

📦 PATREON / BOOSTY: Full series and exclusive variants.

🏷️ #2B #NierAutomata #NieR #YoRHa #Android #Gaming #SciFi #PostApocalyptic #VirtuousTreaty #Contemplation