'The cherry on the top' for Fallout: London is having the robotic Speaker of the House played by a former Speaker of the House
Bethesda's «next gen» update for Fallout 4 didn't change much about the game itself, but it did manage to cause problems for pretty much every mod out there. The most high-profile casualty was the hotly anticipated Fallout: London, an enormous project that was initially set for release on April 23 (St George's day, of course), but was subsequently delayed while the team set about fixing things.
The good news there is that per the dev team "the end is in sight" (unless you're playing on Epic Games Store), with the mod set to release as soon as the devs and distributor GOG have done their due diligence on the release build. In the runup to release, project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter has been revealing some of the features players can look forward to, and prime among them is a prominent UK politician that, during the Brexit years especially, went viral for his habit of shouting «order» in a manner that sounds more like «OR-DAH!»
I speak of John Bercow, the eloquent former Speaker of the House (2009—2019), who performed one of the crucial roles in the British Parliament. The speaker's job is to maintain order as the various parliamentary parties of the day argue back-and-forth across the house, granting members leave to speak and, where appropriate, censuring their more ill-advised pronouncements.
Bercow's time as speaker happened to coincide with the UK's decision to leave the European Union and, as such, he was in the chair during some of the most spectacularly bad-tempered moments in Parliament's recent history. Britain being Britain, Bercow's put-downs involve saying «you are over-exciteable and need to contain yourself» in immaculately plummy tones to angry red-faced MPs.
Well if you thought Brexit was bad, and Truss somehow worse, get ready for some order in the post-apocalypse. Prilladog has announced that Bercow will be the voice actor for Fallout: London's robotic speaker of the house, and even shared a little clip:
«Imagine being Fallout: London and feeling
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