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grobbo posted:I counted four instances, I think? the corpse in Vault 32, Dane, Wilzig, and Thaddeus. Yeah, it's good fun. how else do you get the players to your final set piece?
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Rabid Snake posted:I’m glad you don’t work in television but you post in cspam like the rest of us They only have theoretical degrees
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_C0gNjaiw EDIT: Apparently forum doesn't want to embed. Tim Cain made a video about the tv show.
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I think it's very easy to overestimate our own capabilities to learn and understand too. Take for instance, like all of our computer hardware from the 50s is basically forgotten knowledge at this point. The people that know how to repair or work on it are dead or long retired. We have manuals and theoretical understanding of how it works but put even the most highly educated computer scientist in a room with a cray and say "figure out how to make this do something useful" and see how little would get done. Now plop on top a world setting where education basically doesn't exist, the only reference material is books that may have survived, and ghouls, super mutants, etc. and other warring factions are constantly at your door step trying to break whatever it is you're working on for the fun of breaking it and murdering you and... it makes sense why we remain relatively stagnant. It's not just that we got bombed back to pre-agrarian society, but that we're also no longer the alpha predators in that world and there's literally no power structures that can maintain an equilibrium long enough to let anyone start building anything substantial outside of extremely secluded environments. Even the enclave, the vaults, and the brotherhood are at best limited to the remnants of the old world tech that still work and have no interest in sharing that with anyone outside of their bubbles
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Megazver posted:EDIT: Apparently forum doesn't want to embed. Tim Cain made a video about the tv show. Embeded for me? Also two minutes in and he's talking about getting freaked out by a robot vacum cleaner with a name tag "oscar" at the hotel he went to to get to the premier. Haha.
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I guess i'm just not seeing how the NCR's collapse isn't shown. It's literally shown on screen in flashbacks, as well as explained in exposition, and the final death blow is the big action sequence of the final episode. On top of that, the next season seems to be in the same area, so it's not like they've forever memory holed the NCR or something. Lucy and Maximus both lived in Shady Sands and were young when it was blown up, they're probably going to have some questions.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Now plop on top a world setting where education basically doesn't exist, Weeping for the Followers of the Apocalypse.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I think it's very easy to overestimate our own capabilities to learn and understand too. Take for instance, like all of our computer hardware from the 50s is basically forgotten knowledge at this point. The people that know how to repair or work on it are dead or long retired. We have manuals and theoretical understanding of how it works but put even the most highly educated computer scientist in a room with a cray and say "figure out how to make this do something useful" and see how little would get done. Yes I understand but education and society was rebuilt with the NCR and everything 220 years after the bombs fell. Maybe you won’t relearn things like COBOL but I mean you should know things like Industrial Revolution
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Arc Hammer posted:Weeping for the Followers of the Apocalypse. I'm sure they're fine.... right? Right??? They're probably just off screen somewhere...
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The Brotherhood education system is also in a rough spot compared to their heyday.dr_rat posted:I'm sure they're fine.... right? Right??? They're probably up in Wyoming with the Khans learning to tame wild Rad Stallions.
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Wonder how they are going to deal with the self sufficient gun runners in the show.
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Rabid Snake posted:Wonder how they are going to deal with the self sufficient gun runners in the show. There were literal lead farmers in one episode using metal detectors to comb for bullets. I doubt the Gun Runners will show up. There was a distinct lack of energy weapons in the show. No lasers, plasma or even gamma guns.
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dr_rat posted:I'm sure they're fine.... right? Right??? Ma June's logbook prominently carries a FoA-adjacent icon of four crosses and a circle, which I assumed was an indication that her doctor wife was or had been one. (I think we actually also saw a couple of Great Khans as Lucy enters the marketplace outside Filly?) grobbo fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Arc Hammer posted:I wish you'd go yell at the people on Twitter instead because it feels like you have literally nothing else on your mind besides projecting dumbass takes over there onto everyone else here. yeah lets talk about the puppets and head explosions then. Half the people here literally think its spiteful that the biggest tinseltown adaptation of their franchise takes place in the original area.
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Arc Hammer posted:There were literal lead farmers in one episode using metal detectors to comb for bullets. I doubt the Gun Runners will show up. The Adam A laser weapons are in the show.
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the laser weapons are in the show. Its just that nearly none of the protagonists use them. The enclave has it as a standard service weapon
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Megazver posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_C0gNjaiw I love that Tim tries his best to humanize people and be fair - I have a hard time believing that people are still going after Brian Fargo. Gamers.. never change.
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Splorange posted:I love that Tim tries his best to humanize people and be fair - I have a hard time believing that people are still going after Brian Fargo. Gamers.. never change. They do, they get worse.
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Sharkopath posted:They don't do much. Whole lot of people should of invested more skill points in energy weapons. 
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Arc Hammer posted:There were literal lead farmers in one episode using metal detectors to comb for bullets. I doubt the Gun Runners will show up. Yeah this sucks. I don’t want to come off as a “Bethesda = Bad” fan when it comes to fallout. The tv show was enjoyable it just sucks that they keep going back to square one with the franchise. I really liked the political themes that was going on.
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I mean moldaver has a laser pistol in her hands in the trailer and some laser rifle props too, i guess but I didn't see one beam or plasma goop shot. Lots if bullets though.
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Megazver posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_C0gNjaiw It's really cool that Todd still flies Tim out to L.A. for most major fallout premiere events, even after all these years. It's respectful.
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Arc Hammer posted:I mean moldaver has a laser pistol in her hands in the trailer and some laser rifle props too, i guess but I didn't see one beam or plasma goop shot. Lots if bullets though. Betting the big season 2 trailer moment will be someone getting dusted by a laser rifle. Can't show off all the fun toys right away.
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Bloody Pom posted:Betting the big season 2 trailer moment will be someone getting dusted by a laser rifle. Can't show off all the fun toys right away. Gonna have to wait till season 5 till we see someone get got by a fatman.
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Megazver posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_C0gNjaiw I am liking the mental picture of maximus' being terrorized by a roomba named oscar.
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dr_rat posted:Gonna have to wait till season 5 till we see someone get got by a fatman. Maybe by then we see a faction like the Gun Runners in season 5
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What also sucks is the 'race realist' othering of Ghouls. [Episode 2 onwards spoilers]How ghouls becoming 'feral' is codified and inevitable, except for use of the undetailed drug. We've seen Bethesda turn Super Mutants into the blandest 'orcs' possible, and now they're finishing the job with ghouls. Vault 15 was meant to fail, supposedly, due to its diverse inhabitants but, while it was a rocky journey, they created one of the better settlements, especially compared to the deeply flawed Vault 8/Vault City. The show is overly cynical, denouncing and destroying near-every attempt of humans and meta-humans to exist as societies, while trying to 'hello fellow kids' with their vague criticism of corporate America. While being distributed by one of the biggest corporations in America.
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Tankbuster posted:I am liking the mental picture of maximus' being terrorized by a roomba named oscar. I also like how he just automatically goes to as someone saw another big boy roomba named oscar on the floor above it knows how to use elevators now.
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LashLightning posted:What also sucks is the 'race realist' othering of Ghouls. [Episode 2 onwards spoilers]How ghouls becoming 'feral' is codified and inevitable, except for use of the undetailed drug. Do you think that writing that was a mandate by bethesda instead of something the showrunners wanted to explore? The 'hello fellow kids' argument is as far as capitalist critique goes in the world unless you are part of an actually existing socialist project.
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Shutting up about NCR for a second, I'm really loving how all the vault dwellers are dipshits and how everyone who gets the voice modulator still sounds like an incredible idiot. The whole thing's just entertaining to watch.
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RBA Starblade posted:Shutting up about NCR for a second, I'm really loving how all the vault dwellers are dipshits... The whole thing's just entertaining to watch. It just makes a lot of sense, as yeah a lot of vault dwellers are going to be naive weirdos to wastelanders, and yeah fun to see. The lead just waking in to that first town with her bright super clean clothes and backpack, and being super suprised no one cares about the random poo poo she's asking them about.
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dr_rat posted:Gonna have to wait till season 5 till we see someone get got by a fatman. I did like we got to see a Junk Jet in action very early on.
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Wee Bairns posted:I did like we got to see a Junk Jet in action very early on. That's what that was! I thought it was a Rock-It Launcher.
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Wee Bairns posted:I did like we got to see a Junk Jet in action very early on. E: Oh, and the voice actor who sold his vocal rights was a fun bit.
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Finished it last night. Enjoyed it a lot. There's a little bit of a problem with plot armor but I think the point of the show is more comedic and character driven than trying to be brutal. I'm not great with fallout lore or recognizing points of interest so at the end what was the town that Henry approached after running away? Was it New Vegas?
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Doltos posted:Finished it last night. Enjoyed it a lot. There's a little bit of a problem with plot armor but I think the point of the show is more comedic and character driven than trying to be brutal. Yeah.
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Wee Bairns posted:E: Oh, and the voice actor who sold his vocal rights was a fun bit. Matt Berry is great in everything. Just the best. Really liked with that (ep like 6 I think) about hating how he's agent with out his knowledge got him one of the handy man robots as part of he's fee so when ever he goes into his kitchen in the morning he's greeted by the robot in his own voice.
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