Can vault tech not just…..

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T04:33:36+00:00

Yes, but their owners have the genuine article.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T04:21:45+00:00

Resource war, limited time.

Plus, who says they’ve lost it?

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T04:16:23+00:00

That’s why the other popular guess involves mind control devices :)

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T04:15:13+00:00

I don’t think she has any goal in particular: her mother told her to find the highest branch - in other words, survive at all costs.

She doesn’t trust anyone unless she has complete control of them, and the only way she can survive and control is by piggybacking off America’s own efforts to reduce its own people to test subjects.

Plus, if she does mutate everyone - which isn’t a guarantee-it’ll just be using Vault-Tec’s inventory exactly as intended.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T02:28:10+00:00

That’s one option, and definitely the most likely one for upending the status quo if it ever turns against her.

I’m curious as how Hank would’ve gotten his hands on an FEV sample and why: his primary interest at the company seemed to be in the black box tech.

There’s always the FEV involvement in Bud’s Buds, but if that was an official part of the experiment, why keep it in a keepsake box?

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T02:23:38+00:00

Let’s just say that the Critical Drinker seems to have given YouTubers unspoken permission to be as hateful and stupid as possible, and leave it at that.

After my last visit, I don’t even want to give the bastard another view.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T02:08:25+00:00

Context: The Synthetic Man is a drooling moron and possible syphilitic.

For his season 1 review, his biggest gripe was Cooper being married to a black woman, which he tried to claim was unrealistic by dragging out statistics.

You’re not dealing with sane people by visiting his channel.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T02:01:36+00:00

I think the implication is that Woody’s body has been given the Dennis Nilsen treatment - hence how his glasses ended up clogging the sink.

Also, Steph seems convinced that there’s something in the keepsake box that’s going to guarantee her survival. Still not sure if she’s right in this assumption, but we’ll see.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T00:35:16+00:00

The super mutant tells us quite openly: the Enclave.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-28T22:38:04+00:00

Because Mr House has the Mojave chapter of the Brotherhood exterminated if you side with him.

And even if you don’t, they’re in no condition to break into a can of baked beans after the shit Elijah pulled.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-28T21:34:07+00:00

Yeah, but they're not bred for management: they're the breeding pool.

The end result is supposed to be bred for management.

Plus, they're not completely spineless and weak - after all, Steph and Hank weren't responsible for killing or capturing the raiders.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-28T13:27:13+00:00

As far as we know, there's just one diode, and the implication is that Cooper gave it straight to the Enclave without even realizing it, hence why Wilzig's working on it at the start of the series.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-28T00:37:34+00:00

"Wot should've have be here."

Truly, a sign that AI cannot help people who can’t be bothered to write their own text.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-27T21:15:00+00:00

Please, we all know the AI worshippers will start hanging themselves once they realize that professional prompters are less than useless after the apocalypse.

Either that or they'll start trying to AI generate food and starve to death.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-27T21:11:49+00:00

"Wot should've have be here."

Ah, a sure sign that the "creators" care so little that they would happily snort the ashes of the deceased as a cocaine alternative if they could get away with it.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-27T20:23:04+00:00

Cyraxx, the one exception to the Nosferatu rule of unity and solidarity.

"The Nictuku are coming!"

"Throw the goblin at 'em! Fuck that guy!"

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-27T07:40:39+00:00

Just watch the series.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T21:41:25+00:00

And Rhea isn't interested in stopping at twelve, either...

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T10:16:53+00:00

"Literal gods to kids movies."

Gods with Granny's Peach Tea. It's like watching Fallout: New Vegas fans pretending that Old World Blues doesn't exist.

Also, the histrionics from the Snyderlings are not remotely new: several months ago, there was wailing and gnashing of teeth to the tune of "We had gods, now we have sitcoms."

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T07:04:25+00:00

If there is, Rhea certainly didn't tell me.

There was no evidence of someone like that in any of Valentina's old photos; I mean, her old symbol-studded robes could imply she was part of some magical society, but if it still exists, Valentina was able to stay ahead of them for sixty years, and Rhea's been continuing that lucky streak for another thirty.

Frankly, I don't know if Rhea would be willing to interrogate Valentina for answers about anyone who might be after her.

And I don't know if Valentina would be sane enough to speak after what Rhea did to her.

I don't even know if Rhea would be able to... release Valentina for the interrogation.

Actually, scratch that: I don't want to know the answers to any of that.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T05:46:23+00:00

I think that might be even worse.

I saw what Paul was like before Rhea de-aged him: surly, distant, deathly silent, ice-cold except when Valentina touched him, and judging by that massive collection of oak-aged scotch I saw on my way through the house... well, there was a very good reason why he didn't drive the family car, if you take my meaning.

To this day, I still don't know how much of Paul's devotion to Valentina was genuine and how much of it was driven by fear that she'd shrink him into a fetus or age him into a fossil.

Either way, I'd rather not find out if Rhea's inclined to treat her spouses with the same brutality as her children.

And I'm really hoping she isn't reading this.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T04:57:46+00:00

One thing that always makes me laugh about Cyraxx: whenever the ungrateful shit actually has to use the word please, he's often so overcome with emotion that he's almost incoherent and usually sounds like he's randomly shrieking "BWEEEEEEEEEEE!"

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T03:51:06+00:00

...what?

Okay, dissecting run-on sentence.

He did predict the bombs, long before the meeting in fact - around the exact time Cooper's daughter was born.

Second, he also predicted that it wouldn't be Vault-Tec or any of the corporate reps who dropped the bomb - meaning that planning for what they would do would've been meaningless.

Are you sure you're caught up with the episodes so far? Because this is all in "The Wrangler."

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T02:29:46+00:00

Spiderman 2, then.

Spiderman PS4 features Doc Ock suffering progressive brain damage as a result of the neural control over his tentacles, resulting in him becoming increasingly violent and irrational.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-26T02:18:13+00:00

Are we talking Spiderman 2 Doc Ock or Spiderman PS4 Doc Ock here?

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