Fallout

So... I enjoyed the show insomuch as it made me want to play the games again. And Goggins is fucking awesome in everything.

That being said, they went Full Retard with the dialogue. Make his penis explode? Really? Anyhow, they went full retard, I said as much, and the wife goes, "Maybe it's all the incest." I married Sherlock Fucking Holmes.

This thread should show how popular the show is.

I don't even know the whole New Vegas meme shit but the downloads for the games is pretty ridiculous. Now theyre trying to push/rush another game insanely quick

No matter how consistent with the lore/idea of a fallout type world the characters may be, watching adults act like children for any length of time gets annoying.

The various factions essentially raising children to be obedient, subservient dumbasses makes sense, but it's not very interesting or compelling to watch those children, as adults, drown in naievete and go through adolescence 10 years too late, over and over and over

TBT-TheBigToe said:

Is it perfect? Fuck no, but it isn't disrespectful to the fans of the game in spite of some of the changes made and that is huge step up from most other adaptations out there.
The only thing that really bothered me was, once again, all white males are portrayed as either evil, morons, and/or cowards. **tiresome.gif** However, it's not overly blatant just noticeable if you notice things like that.

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I'd say thats not actually true.

Norm is shown to be smart, and courageous. if not as outwardly so as Lucy. The cousin that likes Lucy and gets with Steph, is middle of the road. had to be tranqed to prevent from going with her. but then does choose steph and following her. James spader is smart, courageous, and sacrifices himself. Thaddius is shown to be smarter then max, more capable. fairly well rounded. the ghoul could count as white male.

Caliane said:

I'd say thats not actually true.

Norm is shown to be smart, and courageous. if not as outwardly so as Lucy. The cousin that likes Lucy and gets with Steph, is middle of the road. had to be tranqed to prevent from going with her. but then does choose steph and following her. James spader is smart, courageous, and sacrifices himself. Thaddius is shown to be smarter then max, more capable. fairly well rounded. the ghoul could count as white male.

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James Spader?

DickTrickle said:

James Spader?

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michael emerson. I was confusing them.

the head.

Sentry gun missing every shot 10 feet away from its target is pretty lulz.

Caliane said:

Sentry gun missing every shot 10 feet away from its target is pretty lulz.

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It’s probably the sentry you can build in your base Fallout 76 - doesn’t acquire targets, doesn’t kill anything, and super mutants with pipe pistols destroy it

RobXIII said:

Small sample number, but every Prime member I know IRL who watched this snagged the season on bittorrent or something similar since the inclusion of the ads even to us paying members. So the numbers are probably a lot higher. It was good timing as we randomly lost internet that day

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Ad blocker (Ublock Origin) through a PC browser works to block their ads. If you have the ability to cast the computer screen to your main TV, then it's a decent way to get around their shitty choice to add ads.

RobXIII said:

Small sample number, but every Prime member I know IRL who watched this snagged the season on bittorrent or something similar since the inclusion of the ads even to us paying members. So the numbers are probably a lot higher. It was good timing as we randomly lost internet that day

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Oh yeah I forgot I did that too. Waited a few hours to watch opening night til I had all the episodes downloaded.

Just noticed something on rewatch that makes me question the timeline

Lucy mentions the "great plague of 77" as the event that led to her mother dying. The show takes place in 2296, so a 19 year gap. Lucy has faint memories of her mother but not being in the wasteland, so we can presume she is maybe 4 or so in the flashback in the cornfield, so her character would presumably be in her early/mid 20s and Maximus is probably a similar age (maybe a bit older) as a result. However, she presumably is being told the quarantine/plague story and "recalling" that as a 2nd hand memory. The chalk board mentions the fall of Shady Sands was in 77.

New Vegas takes place in 81.

So logical conclusion

1) Hank quarantined people to avoid the general population knowing that his wife (or perhaps others) left the vault. It would also provide a cover to kill off people who knew too much. Hank was the overseer by this time. The computer entry mentions he was elected in 71, so we can presume he was in the vault before then. Since the plague is a "historical event" in the vault, other older people would remember this and support the plague story

2) Since this date would be supported by other vault dwellers, that means that Rose would have left the Vault in 2077 with the kids. While we don't know how long this "plague" story lasted, the fact Shady Sands falls in 2077 is too much of a coincidence when taken into consideration with the plague cover story.

3) Lucy's young age in Shady Sands would explain why she doesn't have clear memories. However, she doesn't remember being taken away from her mother, or a nuke, or anything like that. So unless you're dealing with some type of traumatic repressed memory stuff, we can presume her removal from Shady Sands wasn't traumatic. In the later scenario, Hank showing up and secretly taking the kids could make the most sense.

4) We can assume that Hank nuked the town (or arranged for it) once he and the kids were safely away. The fact that Rose was a feral ghoul means she was probably pretty close to the blast, which means that she was still in the city or extremely close to it at the time of the nuke, which means she either had not noticed the kids were taken or at the very least she had not had a chance to pursue Hank for whatever reason

5) Therefore, we can conclude that Shady Sands was nuked in 2077 or maybe 2078 at the latest, which fucks with the New Vegas timeline

Watched 6 episodes so far. The ghoul guy is by far the best actor look forward to his scenes. And the short dude in vault 33 with his retarded buddy have been entertaining to watch. Everyone else kinda mid to cringe really; I know they were going for ‘campy’ but it comes across stiff and a bit forced, this is what happens when your actors aren’t that talented. Having said that, the writing, atmosphere, and setting are all top notch and really do justice to the source material better than Bethesda’s. Kinda silly to try to stamp out woke fires here, that shits a real problem but you just look crazy and retarded hallucinating for it in every corner and actually does a disservice to efforts to call out legitamate/insidious instances.

Damn, Bluey's a beast.