I feel like Stephan from Saturday Night Live, this article has everything! Boston, video games, libraries. I love it when my favorite worlds collide! Erin Blakemore lets us know what the connections are in today’s snippet from Smithsonian.
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At first blush, “library” and “Fallout 4” don’t seem like they should belong in the same sentence. The former is all about reading, while the latter concerns itself with roaming through a hostile, post-apocalyptic Boston overrun by two-headed wild animals. But the two have more in common than you may realize, as Chris Jecks writes for Twinfinite. In the newly-released video game, players are rewarded when they return overdue library books.
Decaying books are strewn throughout the nuclear wasteland of Fallout 4, writes Jecks, but they shouldn’t be overlooked. When players return overdue books to the Boston Public Library, they get tokens that can be traded for everything from bubblegum to a copy of the fictional Massachusetts Surgical Journal. That magazine is an extremely valuable within the game, writes Kristian Wilson for Bustle, because each issue increases the playable character’s strength.
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