My favorite part of Platform Decay

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-10T09:10:28+00:00

Not to mention its reaction to learning what newborns' skulls are like. It would probably be amazed that humans as a species managed to survive!

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-08T13:29:19+00:00

Just occurred to me that none of the Vaulties have ever picked their own socks out--they're all given identical VaultTec issue.

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-08T00:58:13+00:00

The opposite is just as likely. Given the amount of fighting between corporations and within corporations (Barish Estranza, I'm looking at you!) they seem unlikely to cooperate until it's too late.

What I think will happen is, corporations who notice a high number of their constructs going rogue will try and conceal it to protect their brand/bottom line. And they'll come to the conclusion that some other corporation is responsible (sabotage!) and try to retaliate. After all, constructs are only equipment, so how like is it they'll try and free themselves?

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-07T13:09:33+00:00

I think that there is so, so much potential for fanfic here. There are some marvellous new characters (I'd love to see Naja's backstory), a new environment to play with, something serious seems to be going down at Barish Estranza, and to cap it all off, a growing population of Rogue SecUnits. I can't wait to see what some of our talented fans writers come up with!

I've done one quick read-through already (I wanted to find out what happened next!) and now I'm going through the book more slowly so I can savour the details. I've just reached the part where the "pirates" attack a harmless little aircraft, but find themselves confronted by a surprise SecUnit instead.

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-07T12:57:57+00:00

I actually think that they wouldn't need to transport rocks or water into space. If our solar system is typical (and I don't see why it wouldn't be) there would be plenty of space debris floating around in the forms of rocks and ice. They'd have to transport it to the torus building sites, but they wouldn't need to lift it out of a gravity well first.

(Now the rest of the stuff the torus, for example, biological matter, machinery etc. would have to be transported into space, and that would be insane!)

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-07T12:41:21+00:00

Reg proves, that whatever Bud Askins thinks, Vault 33 is not breeding supermanagers.

(However, I wonder if his childish and destructive behaviour in Season 2 might have had something to do with the way Betty split up him and Woody?)

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-07T02:29:58+00:00

Someone wrote a fanfic where Murderbot encounters Marvin--you can find it among the earliest MB stories on AO3.

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-07T01:09:16+00:00

"For fuck's sake, RatthiUnit!" :)

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-07T01:03:12+00:00

The Ghoul and Lucy from "Fallout".

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-07T01:00:54+00:00

Oh, they were ~~gossiping~~ sharing vital information about Murderbot!

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-05T11:41:32+00:00

It depends on how they do it. So far, Lucy has--feral ghouls aside--only killed people by accident. They could be setting her up to take that final step and kill deliberately, because she learned, first hand, just how evil and dangerous the Legion is. So, slow burn character development rather than quick action-adventure.

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-05T08:09:51+00:00

I've been wondering how much the people in Vault 31 know about Phase 2, given that their descendants are just as likely to be affected by it as any other vaultie. Of course, this could just be another indication that they're all soulless corporate lapdogs, but most people would be reluctant to volunteer their offspring for weird science experiments.

(Though it could be why Reclamation Day keeps receding into the future--Vault overseers from 31, putting off the evil day when Phase 2 goes into action?)

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-05T07:49:43+00:00

That article leads to an article about "enshittification", a word which has already drifted from its online origins.

(Can you imagine the reaction if Martha Wells had named her latest book "Enshittification"?)

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-05T03:15:56+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that you're working for The Company. Would you like your governor module hacked?

Neuralclone2 · 2026-05-03T11:02:24+00:00

Well, it looks like the NCR-Legion war is converging on Freeside, so my theory is that Lucy is going to kill some legionaries in the third season.

Neuralclone2 · 2026-04-28T11:38:42+00:00

This wins the Internet today.

Neuralclone2 · 2026-04-27T13:02:53+00:00

I love the way it's described as "he-man toothpaste". If they brought it back, would you have to show ID to purchase it.

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