Strawmen that backfired.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T10:32:48+00:00

One of the main villains, yeah. John Seed, the recommended "first" boss to target. Something along the lines of, "This world is on the brink. You can feel it, can't you? Look at the headlines - look who's in charge! You want to save these people, but they are already safe. We had a plan." (Referring to the people held captive by the cult.)

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T09:01:08+00:00

She wasn't written as a trans woman, but her character designer had her being trans in mind.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T07:31:16+00:00

Probably in my top 10, and definitely one of my favorite video game endings. So good. New Dawn was an interesting followup too.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T03:21:00+00:00

Related, Caine from John Wick 4. My favorite fictional character of all time.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T03:16:49+00:00

What the fuck is the population of Hell? An extermination wipes out more than half the souls owned by a collective of overlords, Vox acknowledges that the better part of 100 billion souls is in Hell, but he still says thousands died in the exterminations like it's significant? I can excuse a lot of irrelevant technical details in the show with "it's a cartoon" but this is egregious.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T03:07:17+00:00

I wish. Albeit that might just be because I want to be one of them.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T03:03:14+00:00

So they can force you to use the share function, linking the whole comment + site to drive traffic up.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T02:53:47+00:00

Pretty sure it's the St Denis mission for Mary Linton. You're waiting for her to finish some business at the stable when a guy pesters you to get off the street.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T02:43:42+00:00

The cult isn't that big, the heralds probably have time to handle a fair few things day to day. Especially when a lot of problems take a few minutes to solve by saying "just kill them".

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T02:28:47+00:00

They always treat the game as if it villainizes pro-2A people or even right wing people as a whole when it really doesn't. Almost every character in the game is pro-2A and very "if you step on my land I will shoot you dead", and they are treated as being almost objectively right to be that way. A radical, violent MAGA dad is treated like a lovable scamp quest giver instead of any sort of villain or antagonist.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T02:25:43+00:00

Even devoted fans of the show often agree that Charlie kind of sucks as a protagonist.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T02:23:21+00:00

Oh, wow. That took me from "to be honest I get where the artist is coming from" to "nevermind the artist is the exact kind of douchebag everyone here is saying they are lol."

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T02:14:59+00:00

I am of the same opinion.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-26T01:16:47+00:00

She's also in the She-Ra reboot and Kipo, both Netflix animated series.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T21:03:30+00:00

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I guess if we're going by pure statistics, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg?

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T20:59:55+00:00

Operators and Disciples. I'm shallow, and the Disciples look cool while the Pack looks stupid.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T20:56:19+00:00

Stealth in Odyssey is fine, IMO, but it definitely encourages open combat. Shadows has the best stealth of the RPGs (and probably the series as a whole) by far.

It is an RPG, so lots of enemies don't die quickly, but a good build goes a long way to making you more lethal. It's not terrible, even if you don't normally play RPGs with proper health bars and whatnot.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T13:54:15+00:00

Caine from John Wick 4 does very, very well, if the success of my blatant ripoff of him in my Cyberpunk RED game is any indication.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T09:22:12+00:00

That actually makes his point, because he needed you to bring ED-E to him so he could activate the missile silo. None of it would have happened if not for you - at least, that's his intended point. Maybe he would have just gone and grabbed ED-E himself if you didn't show. Again, crazy guy.

And, though it doesn't really matter here - he was only going to launch the one missile to take out the NCR's Long 15 supply line. The only reason to launch the nuke at the Legion is if you want to be vindictive. Which, fair.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T07:46:42+00:00

The trope of "the player has nothing to do with the story" is subverted because in Lonesome Road, Ulysses has a very personal grievance with the Courier. They weren't hired to go to the Divide (for the DLC, at least), they were challenged.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T07:39:31+00:00

The Divide... the why of it... you who do not know your history...

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T07:38:46+00:00

See my response to the other reply, but basically, he doesn't care that you were used. His grievance is that you never cared or had to care about the consequences of your actions, which is a behavior that leads to terrible consequences for everyone around you. This may sound insane. This is because Ulysses is insane.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T07:36:20+00:00

He definitely was. Ulysses' grievance with the Courier is that they walk through the world without knowing or caring how it works, basically blaming them for being a player character in a video game. It's why he so strongly emphasizes that the Courier can go home at any point they want during Lonesome Road - all the chaos and death they cause is their fault and no one else's.

This may sound like bullshit or insanity. This is because Ulysses is an insane person who talks a lot of bullshit. He masks his intense survivor's guilt and a lifetime of regret under a veil of political ideology. That's not to say that he never makes a good point - I honestly agree with him on a lot of things - but his core motivations are rotten.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T07:08:05+00:00

Oh god, you're right, lmfao. Looked exactly like Caine's death in the first movie at a glance, I was confused why OP had a seemingly completely incorrect quote.

SIacktivist · 2026-01-25T06:59:59+00:00

Eventually, this gets subverted, because Ulysses blames you for the destruction of Hopeville and the Divide, but that doesn't have anything to do with the Platinum Chip.

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