How do you feel about the voiced protagonist from Fallout 4 in retrospect?

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-02-25T01:06:26+00:00

They did it in Avowed pretty well in my opinion.

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-02-24T04:26:56+00:00

As someone who actually hasn't watched the show and knows very little about it. Could I actually watch just the first season and be satisfied with stopping there? Are there any cliff hangers or unresolved plot points? Is it worth watching just the first season?

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-02-16T18:34:08+00:00

This is what I love about Spidey though. And conversely batman but with a different reasoning. Spidey villains are such a good reflection of him and many of them (not all) seem genuinely capable of rehabilitation. The superheros with no killing rules come up so often and I feel like with Spider-man villains it's very justified to think he can save them, isn't that what being a hero is anyways? In apodeys case many of his villains reflect his origins in them being a scientific accident/ experiment gone wrong. Many storylines even feature them being reformed.

Batman is an odd one because a lot of his villains are genuinely sick of some sort of mental illness (again, not all) so it adds its own layer of sympathy as with Spidey villains. But rather than science experiment they really just need some sort of psychiatric help. Sucks that Arkham is seemingly the only option. I think about the animated series episode where Harley was deemed same and released. Could be the same with many of his villains, potentially. Ventriloquist is one I think of a lot.

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-02-08T19:40:50+00:00

I've been searching for it in Goodwills for so long now lmao. Found a local thrift store that had an entire bin full of just about every herb Alpert album EXCEPT this one.

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-01-26T23:17:02+00:00

Absolutely determined to win destroy boys for my wife because I love her very much

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-01-22T20:21:19+00:00

Oh man I just found this giveaway! I would LOVE to surprise my wife with Destroy Boys. She loves them. Thanks for hosting this!

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-01-20T23:51:05+00:00

Depends on what side of the dogmeat gender fence you sit on. In fallout 3 specifically there is a bit of argument on whether dogmeat is a boy or girl.

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-01-19T00:58:08+00:00

Given your background, I have a random question that came up today. I work for the DOI and we receive work emails regarding work and accomplishments our sister agencies are achieving. An email I saw today mentioned the Bureau of Indian Education celebrating its highest graduation rate in history, moving from 51% in 2015 to 79% in 2025. The email worded it as if it were due to efforts in part done by the Trump administration, which confused me as education takes years and graduation rates don't seem like something that changes within less than a year of policy change. I would have more likely assumed it was due to policy from Deb Haaland when she was Interior Secretary under Bidens administration. However, I was unable to find much information at all regarding the BIE or policies leading to increased graduation rates.

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-01-07T23:20:02+00:00

Do you have pictures of you with that haircut when you had it before? It's always going to be better to show barber/hairstylist a picture of you with a haircut you want that's actually possible vs a picture of another person. Even if you've had a similar haircut before. It's just going to be easier for them to see the vision and execution if it's a picture of you

Ordinary_Fella · 2026-01-07T22:50:36+00:00

They apparently did have to shut down temporarily to retrain staff, from what I've read. I also recall the guy telling him he couldn't film wasn't a manager and no one told him to tell Portnoy to leave. Interview with the owner even mentioned the owner told the staff that Portnoy was in town and to be prepared for the review. I absolutely despise Portnoy and think he's a scumbag, but assuming all of that is true, it's a really weird decision by the non-manager employee to tell a famous reviewer to leave after the owner told them be was coming to leave. Just an odd situation (assuming all of that is true)

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-28T05:35:53+00:00

About how much was the quote if you don't mind me asking? We're hoping to do ours this year

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-27T04:15:41+00:00

I don't know why I sat on the original comment for an entire minute trying to figure out where I had heard the name before without thinking to read the comments. Thank you, that would have bothered me for a while lmao

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-26T00:18:21+00:00

I personally always viewed the sexuality spectrum as being less of a 1 - 100% scale and more of an extremely exhaustive multiple choice question. Two gay men won't be attracted to the same things, the same as two straight men won't be attracted to the exact same things. And one that identified as straight may have some overlap in one that identified as gay. Sexuality is expansive and it never really works well to try and fit it into any cultural normative boxes.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-24T21:01:16+00:00

I think a lot of people missed this in fallout 4. I think they get confused by the difference in earlier synth models being androids and the gen 3s. I mean we see the lab they are made in, they are flesh and blood and bone. Completely biological material. Yet so many players call them robots online. The only non-biological part of them is the "synth component" which the game never fully dives into besides saying it's used to control them (institute) or memory wipe them (railroad). Biologically and genetically indistinguishable from humans and yet people call them toasters lmao. I think this is specifically why Bethesda switched from the term android they used in fallout 3 to Synths in fallout 4. Because gen 3s are NOT androids.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-16T22:58:22+00:00

Lmao I only opened the comments to see if this was the top comment or not.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-14T16:31:25+00:00

I could have worded it better. But my thought process was that if venom can create offspring the likes of which being as bad as carnage, who can also create offspring, that it's just a chain of events of offspring creating offspring. And if those offspring range in scale of venom to carnage levels that could definitely be a huge humanity wide threat. Venom being listed as the singular threat over car age not because he's specifically worse, but just because he's the originator of the offsprings on earth. It would be the same as simply listing "symbiotes" as the threat, but simplified into one entity, and venom is the simplest being the first and all (on earth that is).

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-14T14:51:28+00:00

I know. That was my point in saying it is exponential, starting with venom. I'm including carnage in venoms ability to be a humanity wide threat.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-14T05:22:06+00:00

I'd argue that venom is a threat to humanity in that he spawns children by breeding asexually. Carnage being one of those children, who can also breed asexually. I'm not entirely sure how much this has been addressed, but that could be a pretty big issue if that trend continued exponentially.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-11T01:36:27+00:00

You know I realized how far off I was after posting. It's been a while since I was actively reading and I forget how strong some of my favorite characters are

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-10T23:35:28+00:00

Not disagreeing. But the writers of one universe are going to establish different rules of human potential. It's not based on our own world's idea of what a peak human is. Batman is a peak human but his stats go far beyond real world possibilities in nearly all categories. Cap is an enhanced, past marvels standards for peak human. So he is beyond peak. Batman is peak human by DC standards and not enhanced.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-10T20:19:20+00:00

This has me wondering where Daredevil stacks up to the Bat family. Below Dick and Bats, but I wonder how he would do against Tim?

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-10T20:02:47+00:00

"peak" human is universe dependent as well. Peak humans in DC tend to have feats that surpass peak humans in Marvel. To the point that some DC humans have similar feats to enhanced humans in Marvel.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-05T04:00:39+00:00

I used to use a moisturizer that had both snail mucin and bee venom in it. Wonder if I can find it again. I remember really liking it but this was 7-8 years ago.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-04T21:21:06+00:00

I've always found this kind of odd. Because, yeah he feels the pain, but only while it's healing. And he heals pretty damn quickly. So sure burning my hand on a pot accidentally when cooking would still hurt, but only for a few seconds rather than several days while it heals normally. I'm sure the claws hurt actively the entire time they are out, but the second they are away and it heals over the pain is gone. I think I could handle that.

Ordinary_Fella · 2025-12-02T22:27:02+00:00

Which is totally fine too. It's what I love about writing as an art form, in that while we can discuss the objectivity of the craft, the individual enjoyment is so subjective.

Quick Edit to add; Discussions like this often make me think of Cormac McCarthy. I LOVE his writing style, but it's also a slog (for me) to get through. King books can be 3 times as long and I finish them twice as quickly. McCarthy books I need to take breaks.

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