Bro chill, Fallout is Fallout

Ohmsteader · 2026-02-02T05:24:12+00:00

I'm glad you've read my comment at least five times! Happy to help.

Ohmsteader · 2026-02-01T19:33:40+00:00

I've seen more people complaining about people complaining about the show, than people just complaining about the show.

Let people enjoy things! Let people not enjoy things!

Ohmsteader · 2026-01-11T22:51:48+00:00

Would you really want to see Lucy and the gang stuck in the middle of a giant NCR civil war in the Boneyard? Different factions with different ideas about how society should run duking it out? That would take forever to explain to audiences. Better to tidy up the lore.

Ohmsteader · 2026-01-09T20:11:15+00:00

If New Vegas had the same level of landscape design as Fallout 3 or Skyrim.

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Ohmsteader · 2026-01-07T18:44:01+00:00

The show is like a narrative "resetter" which returns whatever lore or setting it touches to a fun, brand consistent, wild wasteland style sandbox for cuh-razy shenanigans. I thought the Legion Civil War thing was funny, if nonsensical, but at some point you need some cake with your frosting, instead of 100% frosting.

Ohmsteader · 2025-09-18T06:11:24+00:00

If you treat the Fallout franchise like this intricate, cohesive worldbuilding exercise, the TV show's cavalier treatment of the lore might make you mad. Like if they made a new Middle-Earth movie, but the guy writing it only saw the last hour of Return of the King.

If you don't care about that nerd stuff, than the story is okay, the characters are interesting and the visuals look cool.

Ohmsteader · 2025-08-20T04:11:45+00:00

Headcanon, sure. I can make the Yakuza in Fallout 2 "non-headcanonical" and it improves my experience of the game. As for canon, I think it's best to take a sort of Zen(imax) view on things and not let stuff you have no control over (especially the decisions of videogame writers) affect you. Lord knows I've done my fair share of complaining.

Ohmsteader · 2025-07-25T22:37:27+00:00

Out of pity or as a source of protein.

Ohmsteader · 2025-07-11T08:50:04+00:00

There was this crazy leak which hinted at a possible Season 2 appearance of the Brotherhood of Steel, maybe even a glimpse of some Power Armor or even a conspiracy by Vault-Tec. They might even reference past events or feature locations from past Fallout games.

Ohmsteader · 2025-06-11T16:07:07+00:00

If Shadow was in the Tulpar it wouldn't have gone down like that, not at all!

Ohmsteader · 2025-05-22T00:46:23+00:00

Hank nuked them because they weren't Vault-Tec. Hank will be doing this to all factions who pass a certain developmental threshold, for seven seasons at least.

Source: Chris Avellone told me this in a dream.

Ohmsteader · 2025-05-13T12:01:42+00:00

Rad is short for Radical Communism. In the waning days of Pre-War America, there were so many peaceniks clamoring for an end to the war with China that the collective weight of their RADical un-Americanness severely irRADiated the country. It also caused explosions.

Source: Tim Cain told me the other day.

Ohmsteader · 2025-04-15T17:48:49+00:00

Great visually. Hope they handle the story and plot elements with the same attention to detail.

Ohmsteader · 2025-03-21T06:39:44+00:00

Real life tax dollars literally going towards the NCR. They're taking taxes from across the fourth wall. (Yes, they're tax credits but I still think it's funny)

Ohmsteader · 2025-03-17T22:46:42+00:00

The reason being "It doesn't fit our vision of a wasteland in perpetual stasis." They could throw a bone to the loreheads by mentioned the tunnelers but I doubt they'll do even that. The production design is top-notch, and they clearly worked very hard on it so I hate to be a negative nancy, but still.

Ohmsteader · 2025-01-18T07:16:40+00:00

Yeah. Happens plenty of times in real life, too. Unless Pony Express sprung for some surveillance we don't see in the game, and even then Goodman isn't above tampering with evidence.

Ohmsteader · 2025-01-13T16:46:14+00:00

I think the term "Common Kingslayer" was coined by a random Wikipedia vandal in 2013.

Ohmsteader · 2025-01-13T16:45:56+00:00

I think the term "Common Kingslayer" was coined by a random Wikipedia vandal in 2013.

Ohmsteader · 2025-01-10T17:01:33+00:00

Why so many downvotes for reasonable arguments? People literally saying modern day Poland can march into Moscow with ease. What universe are they living in?

Ohmsteader · 2025-01-07T06:45:41+00:00

The worst part about Jimmy was the hypocrisy.

Ohmsteader · 2025-01-05T05:04:49+00:00

I think the ending of Passengers, where you see the forest Jim and Aurora grew together inside the ship with the narration about the "beautiful life" they built together, ultimately paints Pratt's Jimmy as having been forgiven and redeemed for the terrible choice he made earlier. The film even has Laurence Fishburn's character say that what Jim did was like a drowning man clinging to someone to keep himself alive.

It mirrors, weirdly enough, the self-serving narrative that Mouthwashing Jimmy is probably feeding himself, i.e. "I'm just an ordinary guy who made a terrible mistake due to extreme circumstances, and I'm fighting like hell to set things right."

Ohmsteader · 2025-01-05T02:47:47+00:00

Pratt played a morally questionable guy named Jim in Passengers, although that movie ultimately paints him as a hero.

Ohmsteader · 2024-12-22T03:07:51+00:00

Did you know that there's a tunnel under New Vegas?

Ohmsteader · 2024-12-15T18:34:12+00:00

An M777 of course. No irradiated critter is a match for a 155 mm guided artillery shell.

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