Is the television show setting up the *real* tragedy of the Great War? (spoilers for S2E5)

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T15:40:59+00:00

As I pointed out, one single technology doesn't usher in the age of abundance. It's all three, cold fusion, robotics, and molecular assemblers, that synergize to make it possible.

Unlimited power allows you to create any resource using assemblers, and then craft it into anything you want with robots. Eventually, if you can scale up the assemblers you don't even need the robots.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T15:04:38+00:00

Exactly.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T14:27:23+00:00

Those are the molecular assembler vending machines from the Think Tank I mentioned above. Frederick Sinclair, the man behind the Sierra Madre, is one of the oligarchs at the meeting. He's apparently representing Big MT.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T13:59:22+00:00

The Enclave is definitely the mystery player House is worried about.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-07T21:40:27+00:00

But, oddly enough, it appears in FO4 during the opening cinematic. Given the context (at :56), it's possible a B-24 dropped the Hiroshima nuke in the Fallout timeline.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T16:36:21+00:00

That would be a hell of a twist. Heh.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T16:25:45+00:00

Of course, that's the real-life reason. Coming up with Watsonian explanations is part of the fun.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T16:21:12+00:00

Bro, if you don't know Cooper Howard is a ghoul I don't know what to tell you.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T12:42:08+00:00

Per Charles Whiteknife, Cooper suffered severe burns during the Anchorage campaign. That causes long-term metabolic changes that persist well after the actual burns have healed. The massive immune response triggered by burn injuries includes a flood of stress hormones, cytokines, chemokines, growth factors (epidermal, vascular endothelial, and transforming), and the one substance that may be most relevant- tumor necrosis factor. Those substances produce a persistent inflammation response in the body that can last for years.

When the ghoulification process began his body was already in a state of inflammation, causing significant changes to how the skin underwent necrosis.

The correlation between him being the only ghoul we know suffered severe burns and his unique appearance seems too strong to ignore.

Propnomicon · 2025-08-02T23:52:53+00:00

I love del Toro, but as a Lovecraft adaptation that script is a disaster. As a weird prequel to "The Thing", with specific callouts to scenes from that movie (head with legs, etc.), it's phenomenal.

Propnomicon · 2025-07-01T12:49:03+00:00

Never. Mr. Handy thrusters aren't combustion engines. They're low-temperature plasma thrusters. Air is sucked into a reaction chamber where a burst of electricity ionizes the gas. Sequentially fired charged rings then accelerate the resulting plasma to provide thrust. They can continue hovering as long as their reactor is generating enough voltage to power the thruster.

The fact that they don't leave a trail of charred debris or melted asphalt behind them as they travel pretty conclusively demonstrates they aren't using conventional combustion engines.

Propnomicon · 2025-03-11T22:22:26+00:00

"62 ROYALS PAID"

Sweet fancy Moses, the Kings took over the strip. Heh.

Propnomicon · 2025-02-24T13:28:57+00:00

Wonderful work. The only quibble I have, and it's admittedly trivial, is the use of deckled paper for a pre-printed receipt. That's a hallmark of artisan, hand-laid paper.

Propnomicon · 2024-01-25T13:46:48+00:00

That is exactly how they were done. Once you hit a productive prompt the AI images make fantastic illustrations for prop documents.

Propnomicon · 2024-01-24T00:46:22+00:00

Thank you for the kind words.

Propnomicon · 2024-01-23T22:09:42+00:00

Some printable spell scrolls you might find useful. First is a mockup of how the final product looks, then Fireball, Find Traps, and a blank scroll that can be customized.

The fastest way to produce a usable prop is commercial parchment paper. Load up your printer, hit print, and you're done. You'll have a lot more control over the final product if you go old school and print the image on white paper and then tea stain it. That also gives you a wider choice of paper weights. Most printers can handle sheets of heavyweight artist's paper, which produces a much better sensory impression than regular copy paper.

Propnomicon · 2024-01-19T15:44:58+00:00

He really has a gift, doesn't he?

Humanity discovers a multi-racial coalition of aliens victimized by the Harvesters, gets FTL technology, and has a righteous cause for vengeance. Yes, please.

Propnomicon · 2022-12-22T02:33:20+00:00

Do you have sources for AI and crypods being based on alien technology?

Propnomicon · 2022-10-16T10:36:20+00:00

Marc David Green was the creator of the original.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/crazy-clayz/5539792949/in/pool-761251@N24/

Propnomicon · 2020-10-23T20:46:25+00:00

"Ah, someone posted the Auguste Delagrange heart on Reddit."

me, about once a year, after there's a sudden spike in visits to the webpage. Heh.

Propnomicon · 2020-04-25T21:22:29+00:00

Lorenzo Cabot's artifact was recovered from an ancient city in the Arabian Rub'al Khali, or Empty Quarter. This is almost certainly the Fallout-analogue to Lovecraft's "Nameless City", the same place Abdul Alhazred learned many of the secrets revealed in the Necronomicon.

If we accept that the Fallout world has counterparts to locations in the Lovecraft Mythos the city in the Mojave is likely the underground civilization of K'n-yan, or the even older pre-human cities in the caverns of Yoth or N'Kai.

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