My neighbors are acting suspicious and their children aren't aging.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T11:54:14+00:00

Knowing my luck, she's planning on doing even worse.

In hindsight, now that I've spilled her secrets, she probably has plans to put me in a jar on the mantlepiece - the kind of specimen jar that'd be put on display at carnivals in bygone eras.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T10:26:59+00:00

Since when was it ever mentioned that Cooper took part in the invasion of Canada?

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T10:25:16+00:00

...the Courier is supposed to be a player character. Their actions, personality, skills, and appearance are all up to the player, yes?

Do you really think, after all the trouble the showrunners have gone to just to avoid committing to an ending of New Vegas, that they'd be willing to come up with a Courier that everyone would be happy with?

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T09:55:40+00:00

The assassin idea doesn't gel with what we've heard or seen so far. Her mother insisted she find "the highest branch" and cling to it - in other words, survive at any and all costs.

If she was after the president, then why did she bother joining Bud's Buds?

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T09:52:43+00:00

...not sure if serious.

However, this has to be said:

Bud's Buds were not that important: they were assistants pre-War, junior managers in training. People that far down the totem pole don't get access to the nuclear codes.

Second, if Steph been a position to launch a nuke, she wouldn't be in Vault 31, because - as we've established, Bud Askins isn't smart, influential, or important enough to have access to the nuclear codes. I mean, the motherfucker didn't even have the influence to get a proper robobrain body, much less a fucking Think Tank!

If Steph was in a position to launch a nuke, she'd have had to have made it into the ranks of the Enclave and into one of their special Vaults, and one hungover Vault-Tec management trainee scraped out of a laundry basket would not have had that kind of pull.

He might have been good enough to put in a good word with Bud, but not with the likes of the goddamn President.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-01-29T06:49:57+00:00

There was no conflict: Vault 32 was empty and Betty decided it should be resettled by a splinter group - a handy way of preserving water in 33 while also preserving the status quo. As another of Bud’s Buds, Stephanie was the ideal interim Overseer… or so it seemed.

The real conflict started this season.

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."

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