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TulliusCicero posted:My theory is he got his daughter in the vault but due to conflict with his wife, was denied entry himself, and got blasted by the heatwave outside Yeah, that makes sense. It appears almost for sure that the initial bombs weren’t responsible for ghouling him just based on this plot thread.
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TulliusCicero posted:Also, I think that Thaddeus is not a Ghoul, but becoming a Super mutant, I think the Reddit doctor injected him with FEV, and that explains his resilience and regeneration abilities. I did notice that the effects were careful to show that it healed up, but with a bit of scarring around it. Wonder if that indicates one or the other.
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Did anyone else feel Thaddeus's crippled limb walk through the desert, dragging all the gear? I felt that
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TulliusCicero posted:I think Vault-Tec DID have a plan for it to happen their way, maybe even the day after, but Life and their escalation of the Geopolitical conflict came at them fast, and they themselves were caught off guard. Yeah I think this is right. They discussed it but then it happened naturally so they didn't have to do anything. Might also explain why Hank had access to a nuke. They never got to use it.
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Arc Hammer posted:It would be funnier if all these Vault-Tec contingency plans were put in place but they've all been dismantled or repurposed by surface societies before VT could put them into action. I mean, that is hilarious and absolutely possible in the Fallout world. Would explain their bitterness towards the NCR's stability in particular, since they are the closest to a Pre-War democracy, which they DON'T want, but an Oligarchy run by "Management" .
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TulliusCicero posted:Did anyone else feel Thaddeus's crippled limb walk through the desert, dragging all the gear? I must've looked away earlier in the episode because I had no idea what happened to dude's foot in the first place and when he took his boots off I was very confused
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TulliusCicero posted:Did anyone else feel Thaddeus's crippled limb walk through the desert, dragging all the gear? Yeah that foot was gnarly as hell, I was wincing through out that.
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TontoCorazon posted:I must've looked away earlier in the episode because I had no idea what happened to dude's foot in the first place and when he took his boots off I was very confused Maximus stepped on it when they had their little scuffle and then he walked on it for however long lugging that massive bag.
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TontoCorazon posted:I must've looked away earlier in the episode because I had no idea what happened to dude's foot in the first place and when he took his boots off I was very confused Max stepped on it. EFB
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thebardyspoon posted:Maximus stepped on it when they had their little scuffle and then he walked on it for however long lugging that massive bag. That's what I figured happened
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TulliusCicero posted:My theory is he got his daughter in the vault but due to conflict with his wife, was denied entry himself, and got blasted by the heatwave outside
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TulliusCicero posted:Did anyone else feel Thaddeus's crippled limb walk through the desert, dragging all the gear? Honestly, he made it way too far. He tried to sell the agony, and pretty well, but in practice he’s done for. But it’s a show, stuff needs to happen!
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Enderzero posted:Honestly, he made it way too far. He tried to sell the agony, and pretty well, but in practice he’s done for. But it’s a show, stuff needs to happen! Eh, I imagine he had a shitload of Med X and stimpacks as a squire, and he used it for all it was worth. In his mind all he had to do was bring back the head the Brotherhood and be a hero, he just needs to make it there. Adrenaline will do a lot
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Yes, he arrived with his own comically huge duffel bag of fresh supplies.
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Grand Fromage posted:When you play the originals you're going to see a lot of stuff Fallout was either the first game to do or at least the first successful game to do. It's one of those games like Deus Ex that influenced every game of its type afterward. DarkLich posted:The author does a good job of arguing for his preference, but it misses a bigger aspect of the Fallout setting. Every studio that's contributed to it has had different mediums and different motives. Fallout isn't some immaculate egg of canon, it's a hodgepodge of creative efforts over decades with various owners. Grand Fromage posted:Yeah I think this is right. They discussed it but then it happened naturally so they didn't have to do anything. Might also explain why Hank had access to a nuke. They never got to use it. 2house2fly fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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TulliusCicero posted:Did anyone else feel Thaddeus's crippled limb walk through the desert, dragging all the gear? The damage people take in this was so over the top comical that it kind of took me out of it, I assume it's all just a reference to the bloody mess perk. Realistically Thaddeus isn't going anywhere on that foot. Ben Linus' situation was ever more absurd, using that hybrid replacement foot/meat grinder thing to walk on is beyond cartoon levels of violence and its harder to empathize with due to it's absurdity. He would have been passed out by then. MedX exists but it's never mentioned anyone has any, we don't even see them use stimpacks, despite stimpacks getting used in several other situations.
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In the very first ep we see a character literally stimpak away a stomach knife wound, so from there on i just rolled with everything being Video Game Logic. Surprised as hell that it works here though, because I can't think of another game adaption where it does
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TulliusCicero posted:Eh, I imagine he had a shitload of Med X and stimpacks as a squire, and he used it for all it was worth. Seems like stim-paks would have improved the situation massively, so based on what we see I didn’t think he had them. In the real world that kind of injury is crippling - you can still haul yourself around with a torso injury. But that one is tough for making distance. It’s really fine, it’s a sorta comic book world!
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This^ It's Fallout medicine. In their world he could have pulled it off, because their world is goofily removed from ours anyway
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Eason the Fifth posted:In the very first ep we see a character literally stimpak away a stomach knife wound, so from there on i just rolled with everything being Video Game Logic. Yeah, I was fine with all that, as the show pretty clearly sets up that it's set in a slightly cartoonish heightened reality. If it was trying to play as serious drama I would've had an issue with it, but for me it was all fine for the tone it set. And with a lot of the goofy poo poo in the Fallout universe you'd have to do a lot of work, or just out right ignore a lot of stuff to play it as a serious drama.
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Crippled limbs don’t kill you, they just drastically slow you down!
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Bussamove posted:Crippled limbs don’t kill you, they just drastically slow you down! Thaddeus complaining about how he can't fast travel and doesn't have the point to put in Strong Back.
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The stimpack does a lot to establish right away that this is operating under video game logic and it works well.
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I laughed every time I saw someone carrying that loving bag. And the fact that IIRC no one ever used any of the giant pile of poo poo they were hauling around. Great gag.
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Bussamove posted:Crippled limbs don’t kill you, they just drastically slow you down! Totally! I’m just saying that plus encumbered could have meant a death sentence. Instead it worked perfectly building the universe a lil. I was in on this show as soon as I heard Nolan and Joy were producing. It is right up their alley.
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I just hope it doesn't Westworld. Season 1 was a perfectly fine babby's first cyberpunk then season 2 was such diarrhea I stopped watching halfway through.
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Grand Fromage posted:I just hope it doesn't Westworld. Season 1 was a perfectly fine babby's first cyberpunk then season 2 was such diarrhea I stopped watching halfway through. Yeah. I’m hopeful that there’s enough story and lore that they can crib from that and it will be fine; Westworld was almost completely invented and how could you top that first season?
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Grand Fromage posted:I laughed every time I saw someone carrying that loving bag. And the fact that IIRC no one ever used any of the giant pile of poo poo they were hauling around. Great gag. I remember that one time when Michael Rapaport charcter asked Maximus for a gun, don't remember any others. I just love how much of a lovely hazing type thing carrying the bag obviously was. Like in power amour, carrying the bag would've been trivial, but they still make the squires struggle to carry it, even for really short distance like to the vertibird. Funnier still, it's just a lovely one strap thing, it's not even a proper backpack. Like that sort of weight over long distances, over one shoulder, that's seriously gonna gently caress up your back. It was just one of those nice subtle details that went into showing how poo poo at every level the Brotherhood of Steel is in this period.
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TulliusCicero posted:Also, I think that Thaddeus is not a Ghoul, but becoming a Super mutant, I think the Reddit doctor injected him with FEV, and that explains his resilience and regeneration abilities. I was actually shocked that the chicken loving snakeoil salesman doctor actually had working remedies even if they also turn people into ghouls
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dr_rat posted:Funnier still, it's just a lovely one strap thing, it's not even a proper backpack. Like that sort of weight over long distances, over one shoulder, that's seriously gonna gently caress up your back. It was just one of those nice subtle details that went into showing how poo poo at every level the Brotherhood of Steel is in this period. They look like golf caddies chasing after some rich rear end in a top hat
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Grand Fromage posted:I just hope it doesn't Westworld. Season 1 was a perfectly fine babby's first cyberpunk then season 2 was such diarrhea I stopped watching halfway through. Well, ideally the showrunners for fallout dont have their heards up their asses like westworld did. Westworlds plot swung wildly because the showrunners got mad at the internet for guessing the big twists so early in the show and the eventual plot points of season 2, so they rewrote it.
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AmbientParadox posted:Well, ideally the showrunners for fallout dont have their heards up their asses like westworld did. Westworlds plot swung wildly because the showrunners got mad at the internet for guessing the big twists so early in the show and the eventual plot points of season 2, so they rewrote it. Even if they do the show doesn't seem to be very "big twists" heavy. Like maybe (last ep) The dad nuking Shady Sands which did change things, but the heart of the show seems to be very focused on the characters, and "omg twist" doesn't seem to be a propriety, thank god. A twist here and there keeps shows interesting, but oh god I hate shows that just feel the need to put in twist all over the place when they still have a bunch of unresolved stuff they promptly forget. Just bad writing by writers who are either instructed to do shove in twist all the time or feel really uncertain of themselves and feel they need to put them in to keep people interested.
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TulliusCicero posted:Did anyone else feel Thaddeus's crippled limb walk through the desert, dragging all the gear? I really enjoyed how many times in the season it felt like it should pop up "You are overencumbered and cannot run!"
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counterfeitsaint posted:I did appreciate the time honored Bethesda tradition of overloading your companions with all your crap. And Lucy did only had 1 companion at any given time...
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Steve Yun posted:It does explain why Cooper was basically a bullet sponge he just ate that food and got HP back.
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Massive_Idiot posted:I am one of those people who came out of the gate fomenting bile for exec producer Todd Howard and his management of the series but the reality is the show is fun and good. I do feel this article best summarizes some of my thoughts on storytelling and agency, change, in the fallout setting and the concerns I’d have with becoming too invested in it in future titles or media. wait, didn't NV say that all the stability of the NCR was built on sand and things were falling apart back home?
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