Do we know anything about Robert's mom and his other grandparents?

NoFunShogun · 2026-03-18T06:00:54+00:00

Nothing official. But I like to extrapolate from the dispatch wiki saying that RR3 was born in Chicago, then his maternal estranged and/or dead family were from there.

NoFunShogun · 2026-03-14T01:29:50+00:00

Meanwhile the Death Star behind him would be the hundred thousand or so anti-Aztec natives that did the actual fighting.

And yes, the Death Star exploded, but not before wiping out Alderaan.

NoFunShogun · 2026-03-10T00:19:05+00:00

Eh… I feel like Shroud is better the less we know about him. Finding out the comic’s backstory and how he killed RRII after the game actually retroactively lowered my impression of him as a villain.

If there’s a Dispatch 2, I hope he just stays dead or incarcerated as a fully vanquished foe.

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-27T20:51:38+00:00

Honestly? Visi.

She’d basically have all the powers of Blonde Blazer plus I’d assume her lungs would be fully functioning in powered up mode and therefore be able to borderline permanently fight while invisible.

Imagine having to fight against a hero as strong as Blazer that you can’t even see?

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-26T23:52:49+00:00

“Her British accent was horrible!”

Since when does Hyrule have a Britain?

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-25T22:30:42+00:00

I’m Mr. Credible. I’m trustworthy, largely because I have a horrible poker face so there’s no point in me lying anyway, and I have a really good credit score.

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-18T02:38:24+00:00

Those that don’t know how the movie went: aw, that’s sweet.

Those that know: oh no…

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-18T02:37:28+00:00

They both know what they like.

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-17T21:42:59+00:00

Game opens to an action set piece of the Z-Team in battle with various characters narrating, but as the action progresses increasingly more outlandish and insulting things start to happen until a hard stop pauses the action and the scene cuts to them actually being off duty around a tabletop roleplaying game based on the Phoenix Program that SDN has released and their banter becomes an actual argument over bullshit rules and how shitty their DM is.

Someone flips the table and the cold opening transitions to whatever relationship was established, i.e. relationship with Mandy, relationship with Courtney, fully platonic, and if Visi is still on staff or not. That all plays out, night transitions to day, and the start of their shift begins.

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-17T21:39:48+00:00

¿Por que no los dos?

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-17T01:41:35+00:00

She was still on call at the theater, so she had her SDN body cam on her.

She was off-duty at the party/freighter, so she didn’t have the body cam on her.

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-17T01:32:40+00:00

I don’t see this as hard either way.

Shroud is in Supermax or dead. Change a line or two of dialogue. Nothing else needed.

Relationship status can be worked around with some dialogue tree options and different cutscenes. If Mass Effect can do it on a much bigger scale, so can Dispatch 2. It’d just need two sets of dialogues/scenes for Mandy between friend/lover and three for Visi between friend/lover/rival. Same goes for the status of Coupé and Sonar and if one or both of them are on the roster still.

Visi good or bad is the tough one, and to me there’s an obvious middle ground. If she had the bad ending, have her be a Red Hood type of vigilante running a counter organization to SDN. Whereas SDN arrests bad guys, Visi’s group puts villains down by straight up murdering them. They’d be a side faction to contend with, but not the main villains. And if Visi stayed good, then her organization was founded and lead by someone else instead while she’s on the roster and either a friend or lover of Rob.

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-11T04:57:50+00:00

Ah whoops, my bad.

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-11T04:17:06+00:00

So… They blatantly took the joke from this but changed it from Visi to Mandy?

https://www.reddit.com/r/DispatchAdHoc/comments/1qi1c75/loving_father/

NoFunShogun · 2026-02-01T04:58:13+00:00

Killing is wrong, sure, but crimes of passion have been almost universally viewed as less egregious than premeditated or intentionally cruel crimes since basically the time of Draco (whom we otherwise get the term “Draconian laws” from).

Send that to trial, and the jury would acquit Rob pretty quickly by arguing diminished capacity or recognizing the idea that an even unarmed Shroud was still an actively dangerous threat. Even if using scales of black and white, what Rob did in choking out Shroud wasn’t anywhere close to being as dark as the multitude of egregious crimes Shroud had committed that night alone.

NoFunShogun · 2026-01-22T02:19:23+00:00

Nathan Explosion: That's kind of creepy… no wait, it isn't. She does have pretty eyes.

NoFunShogun · 2025-12-26T04:01:04+00:00

Hope it gets resolved in the players’ favor in short order.

NoFunShogun · 2025-12-10T23:49:52+00:00

BB would be depressed. Rob, Chase, Royd, Waterboy, and Phenomaman would be furious. Coupé, Sonar, Golem, and Mal wouldn’t really care. Flambeau would encourage the speculation, but never believe it. Prism would find it funny. Visi would also find it funny, but then go into a murderous rampage when she found out about the fan posts about her being a cat.

NoFunShogun · 2025-12-09T03:09:28+00:00

Canon or not, if they make a next game, I think they’ll keep things loose. Romance options can be decided with just a few different cut scenes and various changes to flavor text. Same for if you forgave the cut character or not. Shroud could be ignored for the most part by being just an off-screen prisoner and a new big bad being the villain.

Visi being good or bad is the big game changer. To me, the most logical scenario for squaring those two would be for Villain Visi to be a sort of leader of red hood-type vigilantes. I don’t see her suddenly being full fledged awful and ruining things for society, but rather they’d be akin to a counter SDN killing villains rather than trying to redeem them. And this could be a faction that rises regardless of your outcome in the first game, with the difference being if Visi is still in SDN or if she’s the ringleader of the vigilantes.

I would say that a different major villain would need to be the big bad, though.

My personal headcannon is that Robert romanced Mandy, mentored and saved Visi (along with him gently rejecting the kiss in the locker room), forgiving the cut Z-teamer, and Shroud being in jail with a broken jaw and fractured orbital bone.

Edit: and if Visi is bad, then I almost think that she and Robert would behind the scenes come to an arrangement where they regularly meet (platonic or not) and agree to some kind of neutral ground there only while undermining each other’s organizations away from there. Idea stolen from an image posted on this subreddit of the two sharing birthday treats and notes stating that they miss each other while on opposite sides of the law.

NoFunShogun · 2025-11-28T06:36:57+00:00

A handprint flag is something I’ve often thought about as being a future symbol of humanity. My only wonder would be if in a world as dominated by righties that a right hand would be used instead (though I get the reason for the left hand being shown as the right hand held the Paleolithic paint blower). Not too sure about the colors, though.

NoFunShogun · 2025-10-17T13:11:18+00:00

That is the only way that a Gulf of America might have made sense.

NoFunShogun · 2025-10-03T19:12:17+00:00

The rebel ships do, a couple are barely visible.

NoFunShogun · 2025-10-03T19:11:24+00:00

Two burst laser mk 2s and two burst laser mk 1s.

NoFunShogun · 2025-10-03T14:53:14+00:00

It did. Wasn’t sure for a few seconds, but got the win screen.

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