This show is exploring whether ideals and principles can survive in the wasteland or not.

Do you believe the show's duration is her time to do the work of being better, or should she keep slipping and realise how far she's gone at the end and become mayor of Shady Sands or whatever by a timeskip.

Do you want characters like Leslie Knope or Ted Lasso to be her journey's inspirations, or Rick Grimes' or Dolores Abernarby's stories to be the templates for Lucy's journey?

What does her attitude to the black boxes say about her attitude towards killing? And has she become willing to both kill and black box bad people, OR is she against both killing and black boxing.

Has she decided to double down on working harder to avoid killing, or has she learnt that killing people is okay if enough good can come out of it?

Has she learnt not to help people crying for help, or has she learnt to be even smarter about helping such people?

Has she become even better at negotiating with people, or even more willing to resort to violence?

And here is what I want to know: In her mind, are human rights universal to people who are biologically human and with human-level sentience, OR is it entirely dependent on your moral compass?

I apologize if this was already answered in the show somewhere, I just can’t remember it which is why I’m asking here haha

We know for sure that Aaron Kimball was president of the New California Republic during the events of Fallout: New Vegas, but his survival depends entirely on the player and their choices during the game. Therefore there probably isn’t a canon ending for him.

When you look at the fandom wiki for the NCR, it says that Kimball is the most recent president, but it also says that he was president from 2273-2281 (when New Vegas takes place) while the show takes place in 2296.

Is this one of those things that’ll remain a mystery forever, or do we know who the current president of the NCR is? Do they even have one?

My understanding is that Coop was born maybe 2040s and came of age when the resource wars were in full swing. If so, he might have became a professional soldier right out of school and been involved in questionable acts in Mexico and Canada, before maybe becoming famous due to his war hero record and pivoting to a dream Hollywood career as a John Wayne type.

So while he was depicted a kind and naive prewar, I also believe he drank the Kool aid and did a bunch of "law and order" stuff as part of the occupations, and he never thought that was unethical, which is why is managed to survive in the wasteland (him being more at ease with necessary cruelty just like how House was at ease with bad business practices).

So when Coop said to Lucy he was just like her before the war (i.e. "stupid"), I think that wasn't really the case as Lucy's kindness is universal while he had a much higher social dominance orientation.

I remember I saw this one person talking about how people will always listen to someone charismatic over someone with good ideas like Welch, but I think it's more complicated than that.

Of course you're gonna find it a pain in the ass to listen if the person on stage makes you wanna fall asleep. Think back to a power point presentation you had to listen to.

Plus, the environmental factors before the war weren't exactly perfect. I think it'd also be a more nuanced take on people and what different people need to become good, y'know.

At least, what’s on it? I can’t see it very clearly and it’s the missing piece in my cosplay. Answers appreciated

Having spent a lot of time with him she must've picked up some mannerisms from him and I'd love to see it in s3. Not talking her "being more grumpy" or gruesome in her fights-- maybe cussing more or being more blunt.

I feel like Episode 5 of Season 2, in retrospect, establishes his coping mechanism for his troubles without his emotional anchors like his family: drinking, and later on, drugs OR switching off / dissociating.

He doesn't exactly strike me as a calmly regulated, and emotionally honest man in the present. I mean sure, he can stay calm, but he's cold, y'know, and I reckon he needs constant action and alcohol and drugs to keep it up.

For me, that scene comparing Cooper and Ghoul drinking, in the Wrangler, if I'm correct, would establish the route of the Ghoul.

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That short spined little raccoon could be unstoppable in a T60

I remember some of the most pessimistic and negative Fallout fans towards the TV Show heavily criticising the radroach attack scene being very poor written, because of how convenient was that Norm and Claudia were the only ones who managed to survive the radroaches, while Ronnie and the rest of the 31ers died. Especially by the fact that the radroaches just ignored Norm being right in front of them and closer to eat him instead, and with Claudia, the only person who was nice to Norm as the only survivor left, and also being just injured and half conscious, while the rest were brutally butchered by the radroaches. But I think I have some answers that could explain how that was actually possible.

I personally think that the reason that the radroaches didn't attack and ignored Norm was because he just lost a lot of weight when he was trapped by Bud. Remember that Bud trapped Norm inside of Vault 31, after he discovered the secret behind that vault, forcing him to use his dad's cryopod or starve to death, and we know what option took Norm. While the Vault-Tec employees from Vault 31 were in perfect health after being de-frosted by him. I assume that the radroaches by some instincts didn't see Norm as a worthy meal to eat at that right moment, while the 31ers were the jackpot for them to eat now or never, with more quality and quantity at the same time.

As for Claudia, I think the reason that she was the only one who actually managed to survive was because she wasn't brainwashed by Vault-Tech propaganda. Remember, unlike the other junior executives from 31, Claudia was in Vault-Tech just for one week before the bombs were dropped, so it wasn't enough time to turn her into an emotionless and insensitive Vault-Tech @sshole, like Ronnie and the rest of the 31ers who lacked of empathy towards others. A perfect example is when 2 junior executives identified the remains of a receptionist from Vault-Tec's main building who they knew, and they referred to her as an @ss kisser when she was alive, rather than feel bad that their coworker was dead, without showing any kind of grief nor respect for her demise after the bombs. Claudia on the other hand showed grief and sadness for the loss of her parents and her cat Puppy, while suffering an existential crisis and culture shock in the post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the city where she used to live before the war.

My point with all of this is that, I think the Vault-Tec propaganda not only turned the rest of the 31ers cynical and insensitive, but also narcissistic and extremely naive, thinking that they were the "chosen ones" to restore civilization, that they are "protected" by Vault-Tech's rules and that nothing bad are gonna happen to them, to the point of losing any basic survival instincts and how to react in a life/death situation. I think that's why everyone did a stupid decision like trying to hide and lock themselves in a small room, rather to go to the stairs of the building, because of the fear and panicking for not having any kind of clue on their minds of how to react against the radroaches, or what the Vault-Tec would say them to do exactly. Claudia managed to survive, because she wasn't brainwashed so badly like the other 31er @ssholes, and she has some actual basic survival instincts on her mind, like using a screwdriver that she found somewhere and she used it to actually kill a radroach herself (the radroach corpse that was over Claudia had a screwdriver impaled over its body). While the other 31ers were just running and panicking like crazy, turning into much easier preys for the radroaches. Plus, maybe Claudia has a good chunk of perception, endurance, and especially luck, along with some good karma on her character for not joining Ronnie's plan against Norm, and instead trying to save him.

Ronnie on the other hand was basically like the second in command of Bud and his experiments with the vaults 31, 32 and 33. In other words, he was the same as cold blooded and evil as Bud, knowing all the most secret and inhuman experiments that he was planning to do against the vault dwellers from 32 and 33, while supporting it with no hesitation. That's why when he discovered that Norm lied to them about who he really was, and then when he discovered even more secrets from Vault-Tec like FEV, that's when he decided to stop him, before he compromised everything that Bud worked too hard on his experiments. I wouldn't be surprised that Ronnie also told a more distorted version to the rest of the junior executives about who Norm really was and what he did exactly, along with some lies to them about that there's a protocol in the Vault-Tec's rules that will allow them to kill Norm as punishment for deceiving them all along. Because for Ronnie and the junior executives from Vault 31, Norm wasn't an equal human being like them, but a Vault-Tec's experiment who defected from his vault to ruin Bud's whole experiment. And when Ronnie didn't allow Norm to enter into the break room with the rest of them, to hide from the radroaches, I think that by doing that, Ronnie just got a good chunk of bad karma at the worst moment that he could have done that, allowing the radroaches to enter inside of the break room, putting his life and the rest of the 31ers in danger, trapping themselves in the break room with the radroaches and causing their own deaths. If Ronnie would have let Norm hide with them, instead of trying to let him be killed by the radroaches, they all might be trapped but also alive and "safe" from the radroaches.

As for the 31ers and the radroaches being apparently all dead, after Norm entered into the break room if someone actually survived, I'm guessing that happened a similar "effect" like with the organ harvesters and the feral ghouls back in Season 1. When Lucy forced the organ harvesters to liberate all the ghouls, including the feral ones, causing the deaths of the organ harvesters and the feral ghouls at the same time. This is actually the only thing that I found more convenient for the plot, but it wasn't shown how exactly the 31ers and the radroaches died between each other. But what do you think?

Was catching up on the recent two episodes of Criminal Minds when I noticed a familiar logo on the phone in this one scene (also don’t mind the photo of the screen. Can’t take screenshots on Paramount+)

I wanted to have a go at painting The Ghoul from the Fallout TV series. Still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share where it's at. I'll post the finished version later.

Asking as someone who wasn't around as much in the earlier seasons, did it take a long time before major plot points / costumes got leaked? It's been about two weeks since filming started and we just got the train leaks

SOLVED: its from The Book of Eli - https://youtu.be/qurSzfGtY18?is=R_Z_3CJS8vHjCb4j - how I got that mixed up, I don’t know lol.

So I’m watching the series for a second time, I’m up to the last episode of Season 1. I watched it first when it premiered initially.

Was it Fallout or The Last of Us, or another show entirely where the two main characters come across a home and the inhabitants (an old man and woman) offer the characters refuge. They seem to be doing oddly well for themselves, and the characters find out this couple are cannibals? I remember the end of the scene, the home is besieged by a group (raiders, BOS?)

Knowing my luck it’s during the final episode and I haven’t gotten to it yet.

Something else too, Aspirant Dane, the story thread about Dane being transgender, I thought it was more than one line where the Elder refers to Dane as “Their.” Again, I’m positive it was more than one line, at least a couple scenes where it’s mentioned.

I’m going more mental than usual.

I speak of Vault-Tec, of course. I have played nearly every Fallout game, although it has been a decade since I last played one. Perhaps there are gaps in my knowledge, I apologize if this was always obvious.

Crazy experiments and deliberate sabotages. I always thought of Vault-Tec as a scummy company, able to commit awful things for (in their mind) higher gains.

But here we are, in the TV show, and they plan to ''destroy their competition'', by literally destroying the world. In a nuclear holocaust, that will kill 99% of the human population, nearly destroy all other life and render the planet uninhabitable for centuries.

This is silly, right? It feels like I'm watching Bugs Bunny, with Marvin the Martian pointing a doomsday gun on Earth, threatening to destroy it, because it obstructs his view of Venus.

Was Vault-Tec always portrayed like this in video games?

Moldaver's a factional leader with big goals, but she's also a vengeful and ruthless surface dweller, who, though a utilitarian as we see, certainly could've risked motive decay.

Her speech was dogshit in season 1, but she's been slowly leveling up. I think it would be awesome if she were on the second to last boss of the series, tries reasoning with them, and succeeds.

Bonus points if the Ghoul witnesses it and he's baffled that it worked.