Epic Nuka Cola Machine

[tugrik]

We dressed up the old Vendo96 for the party.

Mad props to shatterstripes for the Illustrator work and smackjackal for the fine Vanna White work. :)

(If you want to share this page, Digg it on the standalone page and not my journal, please: http://digg.com/d3zAUY Or direct-link to http://nuka.fbrtech.com Thanks!)

Comments

[midwestcougar.livejournal.com]

Hah, awesome! I use to watch my boyfriend play that game all the time.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Ok, now that's awesome. n.n

[selasphorus.livejournal.com]

Very very awesome. <3

[jecook]

That is just huge amounts of pure AWESOME.

[niiku.livejournal.com]

Hahaha best thing I've seen all week.

[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

Is there an LED hidden under the bottle, a blacklight, or is that liquid really glowing? };>

-Deuce

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

IMMORTALITY

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

The World May Never Know. :)

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

So what's the best way to spread this to gamer sites? :)

[braxus.livejournal.com]

haha some of my friends just got a real kick out of it. Awesome stuff. I'll pop a couple coins to get something out of that vintage machine. :D

[tsuyoto.livejournal.com]

My hat is still off to you for making an awesome, functioning game prop.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not sure! I'm not really into the Fallout community, that'd be the first place to start would be Fallout forums. Maybe Kotaku?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

That came out awesome.

If you want to post the AI source on the page, feel free!

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

I suspect the machine would be unhappy if you fed it bottle caps, though.

[vanst.livejournal.com]

DUDE.

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

MMmmm. Ice-cold! :-) And absolutely awesome.

[reveille-d.livejournal.com]

Bad...Ass...

[twentythoughts.livejournal.com]

Kotaku is a good bet. They post stuff like this all the time, and they're fairly popular.

[marian333.livejournal.com]

I just found the pics through stumble, then the photo stream they were in and tracked them back to here. I just had to tell you how incredibly awesome that looks. The graphics on the machine are incredible (as is the PipBoy!) and the glowing nuke cola...pure awesome. I'm assuming there's an LED hidden at the base? Really great work! :)

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the kind words! Where were they on stumble? (I don't use the service so I'm not sure how it works...)

The Nuka-Cola Quantum is actually a Mikes Hard Lemonade with a new label and an aquamarine Nichia LED taped against the base for the photo. It worked out far better than we'd hoped! :)

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

Whu-hah? How did you make it glow? Is that an actual drinkable soda or did you toss a bunch of luminescent/phosphorescent/ultraviolet junk in a bottle? Dude, if I had a recipe for a drink that glowed and tasted good I'd be a multi-millionare overnight...

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

Another way to do a Nuka-Cola Quantum (I have one on my mantel): tonic water. It has enough quinine in it to glow really nicely blue when right in front of a blacklight. Alternately, you could use a UV LED taped to the bottle, too. Best part is that you can mix tonic water with regular drinks and they glow too, though a bit less so.

I just need to print out one of those Quantum labels for the bottle sometime. :-}

[feren.livejournal.com]

I thought hte graphics work and glowing soda was awesome, but had to google to find out WTF Nuka Cola actually was.

I fail at game reference.

[jell-0.livejournal.com]

This party might just require me to 50's out...Oh who am I kidding, I'll use any excuse to dress up.

[kingfox.livejournal.com]

That is pure awesome, nice work!

Yes, I know it's mixing game metaphors... but still...

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Must fight urge to use Nerf(tm) crowbar...

[bahumat.livejournal.com]

Cola. Cola never changes.

The end of the cola wars ended pretty much as we expected it.

Too much fructose, not enough cane sugar. The tyranny of the franchised plants extended their dominion across all the world; and off brands fell like grass before their fires.

The world was bathed clean in a sparkling, refreshing holocaust; the taste of lemon-lime became synonomous with death. The bitter tang of aspartame, all that remained.

In the past, a great man once arose. A Doctor, Pepper. He travelled the world healing the sick tastebuds. But in time, even he too, was corrupted. He became a tool for the tyrannical, another weapon in their arsenal.

Your father.

Now, your village grows thirsty. The orange groves that sustained them have withered and died. Beyond the village walls lies a wasteland of barbarians, Fruitopians, and corn syrup.

The gates sweep open for you, Mr. Pibb.

What will you do?

[simbalion.livejournal.com]

that is _fantastic_.

[rah-bop.livejournal.com]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF your icon!

I think I love you.

[rah-bop.livejournal.com]

I'm not really familiar with Fallout but I still think this turned out looking totally awesome. It appeared on Reddit today. I've been watching it slowly gain momentum. :D

Good work, guys!

[reveille-d.livejournal.com]

Banana Man is love! <3

[zeeth_kyrah]

I recognized it from the Pip Boy.

[tilmitt.livejournal.com]

That's such a great idea, awesome job!

[nemetfox.livejournal.com]

Your machine made the top of Digg's gaming industry page, thanks to Kotaku.
I knew it was Diggworthy.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

Did, FYI! :)

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

*fuzzles you gently* Sorry I wigged out on you about all that the other day. Partystress + not really knowing what 'digg' was at the time. I need to make it up to ya if I can.

[nemetfox.livejournal.com]

No you don't, you big silly bloo.
To be honest, the situation was remedied the moment you friend-locked the post.
Nobody's interested in a broken Digg link.

[theassassinnox.livejournal.com]

Massively late reply. Michael is currently playing Fallout 3, and I had something tickling the back of my mind. Where have I seen this before.

...and then I remembered.


Brilliant!