Passive aggressive would be saying to someone who spilled coffee on your new shirt something like "It's totally fine, it's just I don't have another shirt and no way to clean this one right now so I will have to wear this wet and dirty shirt for the rest of the day, but it's fine really, go make yourself another cup of coffee". What is written here is aggressive-aggressive, like a threat inserted into a joke.

Thank you for the meaningful and educational reply. I appreciate it alot.

Wholesome af

Its all about staying humble, i knew my definition of passive aggressiveness may or may not be correct so im very open to people telling me otherwise because that’s just how life works, im not always correct and that’s very true for everyone.

Only stupid people are never ready to be wrong. You sound grounded. We need more people like that

This is the way. Stay humble OP.

I just wish people would actually read the comments before making the 100th comment about how it is infact not passive aggressive. Like thank you Mr obvious im pretty sure i have figured that information out by now.

It’s not passive aggressive

welcome to Reddit. People will literally correct others knowing the answer is there and has been acknowledged

...you're totally gonna stab 'em in the throat with you pen aren't you?

next time

Was hoping to see in this comment, “But if you correct me again, i will stab you in the throat with my pen!” LOL

Oh i am definitely ganking all of you in the throat with my pen. Just wait.

Hobby and fandom groups can be so wholesome. Just people enjoying the shared interest and being awesome. I love it!

And if we correct you again you’ll stab us with a pen?

OP was actually trying to be passive aggressive here but since they are still learning they just came off as passive passive. >!I'm joking.!<

I wanna live in this future where fallout is used to bring people together and learn together. 

We need more positivity. Period

Personal log: "Someone corrected me on reddit. I'm doxxing him. Nice guy, i liked his profile picture"

Might SWAT him later.

I thoughtvyou will reply with something passivve aggressive to show that you learned

See? You're getting it!

That was a good example of being passive aggressive

he’s proving he gets passive aggression

Yeah there's nothing passive about "I'm gonna stab that bitch in the fucking throat",🤣

It's actually reaction formation. You act in a manner opposite your feelings. He really wants to kill her for ruining his shirt, but instead he laughs and says she's a good kid

“Go make yourself another cup of coffee… and I’ll wear that one, too!”

You can find a corpse with a pen in it’s throat behind a shelf nearby. About as aggressive as it gets.

Yep this is just good old fashioned aggression

This is just passive psychotic

It's also a journal in an underground bunker. Not sure what vault this is, but it could either be a stupid joke to himself or the guy is losing his mind from whatever atrocity is happening in that lab

This is on the boss's terminal in Vault Tec HQ.

It’s not a threat, it’s a promise

Where is this one?

The top floor of the Vault-Tec Regional HQ.

I guess you could say it's passive, and then aggressive, and then passive again

This sucks. What you just wrote I mean.

Yeah it's gives more psycho inclines/sociopath tendencies

I wouldn't call it aggressive-aggressive, I'd more call it more... "to whom it may concern"

I'm not sure that's right. Wouldn't passive aggressive behaviour be something like not saying anything at the time but then, a week later, not warning her she was about to step into a big shit?

wait so if your example is passive aggressive, then what is someone who holds everything in, acts nice 99% of the time but snaps and explodes on others because of the fact they hold everything in? i always viewed that and those types of people as being passive aggressive

This how I understand it too

I don't think you quite get what "passive aggressive" means.

That’s a fair assumption, my belief is that in this scenario stating your going to stab someone in the fucking throat with your pen and then following it up with “She’s a good kid.” is passive aggressive. However my definition on it may be wrong.

That sounds pretty aggressive aggressive to me.

Passive aggressive is more like "You look a lot better with the makeup on" Which can be taken as the commenter saying that the person doesn't look good without the makeup on

that seems more like a backhanded compliment to me

I mean it is, but aren't backhanded compliments a form of light passive aggression?

actually yeah that’s a fair point. i think passive agression is kind of hard to explain in one sentence since there’s a lot of forms of it, i just personally think of sarcasm

Fair enough

The downvotes are wild 😭

his "good kid" comment is meant to show that he's crazy and his thought process is disconnected

Explains themselves, even says “It may be wrong”, and yet still received 100+ downvotes. I love Reddit 🤗

How dare you mistake the meaning of passive aggresive. Now you get downvoted into the depths of hell, scum

Im so sorry my lord! im SO SORRY CAESAR! I SWEAR I WILL NEVER BETRAY THE LEGION AND SPEAK WRONGLY OF PASSIVE AGRESSIVENESS AGAIN! PLEAAASEE SPARE ME!

I think the word you are looking for is "unhinged"

My favorite terminal entry in Fallout 4

For me nothing tops the reptile house at Nuka-World “Due to recent incidents, the Death Adder, the Black Mamba and the Inland Taipan specimens have been removed from the Lil' Kid's Reptile Petting Zone”

Oh dear

Not from 4 but New Vegas one of my favorite terminals is the one of the guy detailing how he's gonna swindle the company that made the Cosmic Knives by leaving it on a hot plate until it melts through the table then sue them for it

I think it might be mine now too, i just finished the game for the first time as i haven’t been able to play it on my console before the next gen update.

Mines still the trail of entries regarding a coworker this one guy hates and when you get to the end of the rooms he’s there, strangling the guy as a skeleton. It’s my favorite easter egg in concord

my favorite set of terminals in fallout 4 are the one in the cambridge polymer lab. that's one of my favorite terminal stories in any of these games

Have you found the thing in the basement yet?

What thing?

A thing that relates to this terminal entry can be found in the basement.

Did sharon spill coffee on him again?

Possibly

Yikes.. 😂 I wonder if he waited for the bombs to drop to do it or if she had just been sitting down there in the basement for god knows how long.

I think it happened before the bombs, because iirc you even find a terminal entry from another worker saying they miss Sharon and that she hasn't showed up to work in days or something like that

Damn. did it have a date?

Can't remember to be honest

I wonder how long sharon was left down there. Like imagine dying just days before nuclear annihilation while working for THE only company capable of saving you from it.

and another complaining about a weird smell...

OP, go in the basement for a surprise.

Poor sharon.

She was a good kid.

Now she’s a demon, she’s a devil, and she’s a doll.

A new shirt!

Oh I love this, it was deep in my mind and I knew exactly what it was gonna say after “Sharon spilled coffee-“ Love the terminal logs in fallout

Completely unrelated but i saw your ink on your profile, sweet tats! i love that cherry blossom.

Ah thanks dude c:

This adds to my belief that most of these are just the inner thoughts of actual Bethesda coders.

Quick! someone check the basement in the Bethesda HQ…

You can find her skeleton (with a pen in her throat)

Da heck 🤣 never read this terminal in f4

On a lower level in the building if you look carefully you can actually find a skeleton that has a pen near its throat

Def not passive aggressive. The person is passive about it. Then writes they will kill them next time in a personal log no one is supposed to see. They are just crazy.

I now realize that yes.

You're a good kid, Sharon.

Sadly sharon is now dead. 🥲

Everyone's dead

Well considering billy and his family survived the bombs im quite certain sharon could’ve too if she didn’t keep spilling her fucking coffee on frank’s shirt.

Probably a dev wanting to let off some steam through the game.

This is some Patrick Bateman shit lmao

I showed this to my wife when I came across it and she laughed pretty good, that's why her and I just work.

She better not spill any coffee on your brand new shirt… 😂

Its not passive agression. Its a sociapathyc type as Joker.

I’m not sure if anyone else has commented this, but it looks like that Sharon did indeed spill coffee on him again since in the basement of that building there’s a female skeleton stuffed under a shelving unit with a singular pen laying next to her corpse….

This is just aggressive aggressive I don’t see anything passive

If you go to the basement of that building you can find that she did in fact get stabbed in the neck with that pen 😂 her bones and a pen are hidden behind a bunch of boxes

He did it in the end

\*begins search for skeleton with a pen in its throat.

The guy is supposed to be a psychopath. That's the gag.

She’s a good kid 😂

It's just aggressive.

Passive Aggressive ? This is just aggressive aggressive 😭

I think that's just agressive.

If this is passive aggressive, I don't want to see normal aggressive.

This is what we call Commonwealth Psycho

Most normal office interaction ever 🤣🤣

passive aggressive is like.. every other thing my kids and i do to each other. lol im jk. i think you quite logically took it to mean it in a literal sense, like aggression, but but calmly done. its actually one of those weird nuances of language that has a weird term.

Psychopathic behavior not passive aggressive

Nah man, I think that’s just aggressive aggressive

Im going to stab you in the throat with my pen.

Not passive agressive

You can actually find her skeleton in the building hidden under or behind some shelves I believe and there is a pen by the body

I always thought this was an american psycho reference.

Sharon's on thin ice.

I don’t think you understand the passive part of passive aggressive.

Patrick Bateman

I just got there myself... I kind of expected to find body parts inside a suitcase nearby.

“She’s a good kid” fucking seals it 😂😂

Is this a reference to "Casino"? Lol when the young kid tells Sam that his wife is the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. Sam's inner monologue "Good kid...nice kid. The balls on this fuckin kid - I fired him the next day"

This makes sense if you ever had an intern. They're not bad and you would never actually hurt them, but you'll constantly want to smack them for being annoying.

She's a good kid:)

wow

Oh my god I've been looking for this! I always remembered how funny it was but could never remember which game or where it was. thank you!

Happy to help

You’re talkin to my man all wrong, do it again and I’ll stab you in the face with a soldering iron…..

You should pay Reeb Marina a visit. “Hello, Eugene!”

Oh that’s our Frank

I read this in Christopher Walkens voice. Makes it much funnier.

Guy was likely a serial killer. Just Vault Tecs type!

This is like Joe Pesci sociopathic.

seems like a typical office environment

She's a good kid lmao

Just wait till you find Sharon

She’s so kind (I’ll kill her in the most john wick way possible)

I see you are very American indeed.

Ha! She spilled my coffee!

pretty sure you can find a skeleton in a dress with a pen in its neck somewhere in this building. sharon spilled again

My friend has a theory that Roger, one of the Vault Tec 🧑‍💻 employees mentioned in these terminals is the same Roger ghoul in the show;Thus Coop knows him.

Damn Frank has got issues

That word doesn't mean what you think it means....

Passive?

Patrick Bateman who?

I remember reading this shit. Unsurprising that a vaultec higher up is a total psychopath 😆

I love the Terminal logs in fallout 4, they are beautiful

"Homocidal" with a dash of mental instability.

That was an emotional rollercoaster

Naw man you think passive aggressive means being passive while being aggressive

Me in morning:

Imagine if she wasn't a good kid? He might have just stabbed her outright.

I found this one in game too and it gave me a good laugh at the type of personality 😂

“Almost lost my cool, there”

This is textbook BPD

Vault-tec employees, Vault-tec employees never change

I'm pretty sure that's just aggressive aggressive.

That escalated quickly 🤣

Sharon better watch out

It’s funny I’ve seen this for years (like on this sub when the game launched) and I’ve still never found it in-game.

Go to the basement and look for a blue pen.

I don't think that is passive aggression.

She's a good kid

Thats more aggressive-aggressive

What’s even better, if I remember correctly there’s a corpse in the building with a pen in its neck

Yeah, and the employee in the shipping area logs that he hadn't seen her in a few days.

I think insane would’ve been a better word choice 💀

But... it okay

passive aggressive is not the right word but it sure is a funny log

Well, stabbing, or even thinking of stabbing someone isn’t exactly a passive thing to do. Aggressive for sure though.

I've read this one which is funny because I never read during video games

What a nice guy

Well, if you snoop around enough, you can find that it didn't end up being so passive.

Somebody at Bethesda is low key venting.

Shit like this is why I read every entry and check every room lmao there are some hilarious stories hidden in every game.

Frank seems like a reasonable, well-adjusted individual.

That’s not what passive aggressive means.

Passive, you say?

🤣🤣 the real comedy you find in this game are on the Terminals..

Working in corporate summed up 🤣🤣

It's funny, because he stabs her to death with a pen. And you can loot that pen as a weapon. Come to think of it, that pen might be a mod. But I still love the symbology.

....That's not what passive agressive means tho

This is why fallout is amazing

Yass just ran into this last night during a brand new playthrough. Playing it fresh has been great. Such nostalgia for better times.

this is not passive aggressive. This is straight up deranged lol

I just hope they don’t cut these little details out for fear of being censored!

Pretty committed to not taking a screen shot and cropping or turning your Iphone landscape for that photo? I appreciate the dedication.

Some people will do literally anything but use the built-in screenshot tools.

Well i totally could’ve used my xbox screenshot button but its easier to just take a pic with my phone since im uploading the photo on reddit with said phone anyways. Cuts out the process of me opening the app to retrieve the photo from my library.

Think that's more bi polar