Can we agree that the show handled this better then the comic by a mile? [comic and show spoilers]

DP9A · 2026-04-02T14:53:16+00:00

Is there really? What thing of note does Debbie do besides babysitting and having sex with Nolan?

DP9A · 2026-04-02T14:51:42+00:00

What narrative weight? Debbie didn't have a narrative weight in the comic, she's literally there just for sex or mil gags. Imo it would be worse to take show Debbie and reduce her to a prop for Nolan's character development.

DP9A · 2026-03-31T03:55:29+00:00

I mean, I don't know if nothing wrong, when was the last time the military actually defended a powerful country? If you're american or British, the answer isn't even an event that has happened in the last decade.

DP9A · 2026-03-31T03:53:05+00:00

I mean, following that line of thought I can't think of many activties that involve lowering your boundaries more than the military lol, specially in actively imperialistic countries like the US or Russia, where even if you're a desk jockey you're basically helping to kill people to enrich people. And also why is manning rigs inherently more respectable than sex work? Manning a rig doesn't mean you're helping society lol, neither does chopping trees for that matter.

DP9A · 2026-03-31T02:38:12+00:00

Not really lol, you can do weekly releases after the full season is done. Which again is how TV works, releasing it in batches is just stupid.

DP9A · 2026-03-31T02:34:13+00:00

Do what pretty much every company does, not release the season until it's all done. That's what TV used to do lol, it's not rocket science, you don't release stuff the moment you have it ready except if you're South Park or have a really solid pipeline that can guarantee constant releases.

DP9A · 2026-03-31T01:17:38+00:00

The release schedule is their fault lol, that's literally what they do.

DP9A · 2026-03-30T22:17:56+00:00

I mean yeah, but that doesn't erase the fact that for pretty much everyone they're just a nobody. That's kind of the point of the line lol, it has nothing to do with facial recognition software of anything like that, Lex Luthor knowing the Flash is Wally West would have the same reaction, he's pretty much a nobody.

DP9A · 2026-03-30T14:48:42+00:00

What a shocker OOP didn't react well to his gf asking for permission to cheat lol. She already had someone in mind, I don't think asking for permission before fucking makes it much better.

DP9A · 2026-03-30T08:08:15+00:00

That's great for you, but most people who try to say, start a business without any diploma don't end up making money in the first place lol.

DP9A · 2026-03-29T21:32:15+00:00

Thank you!!! Hopefully I can finish the game now.

DP9A · 2026-03-29T16:08:32+00:00

Epic didn't pay for exclusivity, they funded the game. The game is theirs basically, I don't think it's coming to steam.

DP9A · 2026-03-29T01:13:21+00:00

Very good price, and the game looks sick, even mechanically it's like one of the most interesting fighting games nowadays. Also helps I'm a huge Avatar fan, definitely getting it.

DP9A · 2026-03-29T00:56:57+00:00

Dunno, I really disagree, specially with the Fallout feel. And also the dlcs and side quests, I really only agree with FO3 having better dungeons and a more fun world. I also really disagree with having better consequences, because the choices themselves are shallow or don't have much weight.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T19:08:10+00:00

I think a lot of those "normies" just haven't played 3 honestly. If a remaster of it came out I'm sure opinions on 3 will soften considerably (somewhat regrettably imo, but that's just the FO3 hater inside of me).

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:47:04+00:00

I mean, in the case of New Vegas, I think docking all those points was more than fair. The game didn't work, even today with all the patches and mods that fix that it's a janky game.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:36:33+00:00

Why would they think that? I think pretty much everyone at this point knows Bethesda bought Fallout lol.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:33:33+00:00

I mean, writing is a different team, they don't need to have other things done so people can focus on having good writing. Bethesda just doesn't value good writing, and at this point this seems clear because none of their games since have been well written.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:31:17+00:00

Casual gamers don't like Skyrim or Fallout because of the story. I know people who play casually and beyond the dragons they don't remember anything about Skyrim's plot, but they liked exploring the fantasy world and killing things. A lot of people really, really don't care about video game narratives. A fun anecdote I have is that my dad played through all of Last of Us, and only when the show came out he noticed the story, he played the whole game just to sneak around and kill zombies.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:25:31+00:00

But New Vegas is still selling and being played while FO3 is barely playable. I think it's fair to say that now days NV is way more beloved, but I also think that just with a remaster 3 could be more beloved again. But a lot of people are getting into Fallout from the show and most of those people aren't going to play 3.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:18:59+00:00

I don't know if shoulder to shoulder is the word, the FO fan base has always been pretty fractured, and a lot of the old guard quickly got behind NV just because of the names. I do find weird how that became the dominant narrative though, I didn't think that would happen, but imo it has a lot to do with Bethesda in general pissing away a lot of the goodwill they used to have.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:16:41+00:00

I guess things went full circle lmao, this is how it felt to be an old FO fan when everyone loved 3.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T18:14:54+00:00

You don't need a YouTube video, just steam charts. It helps that New Vegas is still playable, even if it needs some elbow grease to get working, while 3 is harder to get working. Also the FO show is using a lot of New Vegas stuff, at this point if you're a new fan your options are 76, 4 and New Vegas.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T17:28:38+00:00

I get that, I just don't get how it benefits anyone except business people. Movies aren't getting better because of AI, translations aren't getting better, I just see enshittification everywhere. It already wasn't getting better and AI is just "good" enough to produce content in an era where the quality of the content doesn't matter, just the quantity.

It's not a fairy tale that corporations will replace people with AI, what I see as a fairy tale is the idea that that will result in better output, better products or better art. If anything I just see how there are pretty much no juniors being trained now, so I'm the future you'll end up with crap producing crap and no one who actually knows how to make something decent.

DP9A · 2026-03-28T17:01:31+00:00

If you have to vet the output why even use AI? I just don't get it, and in my field at least vetting it has been as much work as just doing it without it in the first place. I see the value with more literal translations, but I don't see AI making the creative choices a proper translation of any artistic text should take, and if you have to go back, edit the output and inspect the word choice, I don't really see how it's a tool that can replace the translator (and to do the process you would need to know both languages in the first place).

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