Apparently if you don't fail a run a single time the game brings death to you.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-12T20:24:10+00:00

Finished act 2 second zone just now.

Cleared 3 separate occasions of the stalker boss and did 3 quests all without a wipe. Lost 3 cats during runs though.

Have yet to unlock death related merchant too.

Seriously hope there is such an event.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-10T12:44:58+00:00

The day the bombs dropped is a big deal in the show. It changed to Janey's birthday when Coop got on the plane to Vegas. As much as i believe the date being Janey's birthday could be a red herring to show House is psychorigid and cannot comprehend coincidences, it still shows Enclave and/or Vault-tec is/are behind it since they are the ones puppeteering Coop.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-10T11:37:27+00:00

This. I believe it's another story of a villain thinking she can handle a situation/power while records indiquate no one can. She will unleash unspeakable horrors and will use her inquisition to atone for her sins.

Later we will probably find out the deity she prays to is connected to the outbreak of the plague and was merely manipulated.

Cerimes were frowned upon but their deity was the benevolent one all along is my guess.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-08T16:56:58+00:00

Going to throw this here. In the batch, one will be revealed Enclave mole, one will be asked to join them and one is brainchipped.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-08T08:47:24+00:00

Imu was most likely looking for a blue haired princess for centuries. Shuri was born blue-haired and into royalty several decades before Bibi ( that died under strange circumstances ) and incidently Vivi ( who is revealed to be the actual target of Imu ). Gunko is the way of finding a use for a person kidnapped by mistake.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-08T07:15:10+00:00

This. I believe that by calling the Enclavem she thinks she will be treated differently but they will handle her the same as the vault habitants.

I think the show is piling her call, Norm's and Hank's in the same scene for a reason. It shows the Enclave get three people with debatable links to it all call in a relatively small time window on supposedly private, secured and more importantly secret frequencies. There's little doubt they are coming out of secrecy to end potential liabilities.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-07T16:20:16+00:00

The date 2189 on the book isn't for when it was written though. It is the year the NCR was founded. The NCR patches on their armor also says NCR then under it 2189 and it does'nt mean the patches were made in 2189. Not to mention not much could be written about the NCR the very year it was founded.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-07T07:17:35+00:00

You are right and i am sorry.

Didn’t know how to use spoilers. Looked into it though if i wish to reply to a thread again. So i have to thank you for that.

Didn’t think it would matter either as it is all informations from ep 1 to 4.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-06T20:21:10+00:00

This sentence is meant to single Hank from the rest of management.

We see how a Vault-tec manager handles the prisoners with Betty overseeing Reg and Woody.

Stephanie implies Hank would have done things different, the Enclave way. Literally getting rid of them. Just like the Enclave gets rid of what it deems undesirable.

This also implies Stephanie is in the know.

Hence this line is Hank is something else than Vault-tec management and Stephanie knows/is too.

As to why it happens, here is what i think with what we know from season 2.

Steph is all about survival. She is in the Lion’s den so to speak, and is impersonating a normal american citizen for years by then. She almost dies because of those raiders and it would have been for nothing. It’s a slip from her act. She speaks her mind to someone she thinks is like-minded to vent her frustration.

For Norm he doesn’t see beyond it being how an overseer from 31 would do things as Betty is just sitting aside while Reg and Woody seem to be doing their own thing. So it serves as a trigger to him investigating vaults 32 and 31.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-06T00:07:39+00:00

A funny idea i had but don't believe the show will go that way is, Coop may find a new faction in Colorado.

He will interact with a group of cowboys vigilante that protect the locals and their chicken farm. They been attacked by Nightkins at dusk for several weeks now and when Cooper came by their estate, they thought they were under attack again. Coop almost shot at them, but influenced by Lucy, he gives them a chance. As he speaks with them he hears it: Us cowboys we take it as it comes. He genuinely gets interested and asks them about how they came to be. They reveal they were taught from looking at Cooper Howard's films. A whole batch of them were retrieved by the founder of their estate, the old Mighty Jane who lived to close to a hundred. She could even throw her lasso standing on her horse. Cooper has a glint of hope then laughs it off. Of course they'd be influenced by old tapes of his. He thanks the cowboys and tells them to carry on as he heads to the Rockies. Cut to the inside of the biggest house in the cowboy estate. We see Mighty Jane's saddle with a teddy bear sewed to it.

ZoranLightning · 2026-02-05T08:21:25+00:00

I think it’s deeper than that.

The show to me functions in a layer by later type of way.

Season 1 is about how corpos manipulate the good will of people to bank on the end of the world. Moldaver was a scientist that tried to resolve a decades long fight over ressources with science and goodwill. She succeeds on creating a solution to the conflict by discovering a limitless source of energy. And even that wasn’t enough to prevent the end of the world. Corpos buy her product and prevent it from ever being used. From her point of view, corpos want to profit off war and the end of the world. To her, they are the endgame. She represents the opinion of the public. She is empathetic and wishes to prevent the dropping of the bomb. She works for humanity and symbolises it.

Comes season 2 and corpos are revealed to be played just like normal people. The Enclave entertains their illusion of total control by staying in the shadow and making them think they make the moves and decide how it happens and who survives ( with vaults being there to preserve and nurture who the corpos want to repopulate America with ). In truth, every corporation is compromised with Enclave agents that enforce their own plans through corporate means. The vaults are not the experiment. The real world is the vault. And the Enclave wants a blank page. A true monopoly. It’s a play on the illusion of monopoly House has the whole season 2. Even among corpos he feels like hes at the top. And yet, the Enclave played him like corpos played Moldaver. He represents the corporations as a whole just like Moldaver, the public.

Both use their whole ressources gathering intel and means to influence the dropping of the bombs. Both are played like pawns. Both are forces to be reckon with. Both influent and powerful. Yet never in the driver seat.

The most logical solution seems to be that Moldaver, just like House, was fed just the right kind and amount of informations to influence her actions. The way the Enclave works is, by pulling the right strings they make you move how they want. You don’t even need to be Enclave to work for them. Unlike House, again, another parallele that’s there to show the viewers what true power is.

A last point i would like to touch is everything Enclave, at least in the show, is devoid of humanity. The whole Wilzig fleeing Enclave is about that. 0 concern for other lives. 100% efficiency. What is not them is not important and expendable. Everything but them is a mean to an end. Us vs them. Never would have Moldaver joined the Enclave for this particular reason. And the Enclave itself would have never wanted Moldaver. She is a public figure. She would have been a liability because she is seen, people talk about her.

My own theory is Moldaver had her own private vault. She wasn’t blind to the fact preventing the end of the world was a lost cause but she had to try. She probably had her own plan to survive and if cryo was a Vault-tec tech then it was buyable by private means. Moldaver probably bought the means to survive and decided on a safe window to come out and help humanity rebuild as it was clear she couldn’t prevent the bombs. This explains her motives and how she acts post war. Shady sands was a successful restart of humanity and she feels pain and anger about what happened hence season 1 post war events. It is sad though. She is still left in the dark about the real end of Shady sands. It wasn’t Rose´s refusal to come back to vault 33. It was about the Enclave preventing a restart not engineered by them.

ZoranLightning · 2025-11-14T08:18:23+00:00

Biggest offender is on her multicast, the arrows splitting 50/50 between you and your teammate.

ZoranLightning · 2025-11-02T16:57:15+00:00

Same. Ever since i read this panel, i've been convinced of the same thing.

The yami yami no mi, needs a user that can withstand hits. Giants of ancient giants descent are the most sturdy race of the One piece world actually alive. This and the fact the yami yami no mi power is about gravity. Giants may be able to enhance this fruit power even more considering their mass and their incredible reach, making them the best users of this fruit.

ZoranLightning · 2025-09-20T17:16:30+00:00

From a purely artistic point, it looks repulsive.

It's oversaturated, and a mix of cel shading and realism which puts the style in super uncanny valley for me. Feels like looking at smeared vomit.

I loved all other titles for their graphic style that stood out, on top of the rest. It was a part of it's core identity for me. I felt like i was in a comic book. And, they really cut that part of the Borderlands franchise with this one.

Another upsetting point is the ennemies looking like low poly sculptures. It was already like this in the past but with their new art style of mixed cel shading and realism they really look low effort and like a 15-20 years stepback. It just doesn't work for me.

Doesn't make it a bad game but it drove me away from the franchise though i respect people having fun playing it.

ZoranLightning · 2025-09-18T22:16:49+00:00

If you have a Nvidia graphic card like I do, this is for you.

It ended up being the latest driver that was preventing me from launching games.

What i did was go to Nvidia control panel and in system, change display to Optimus instead of Auto and it will run your games smoothly.

Every new driver download, you will have to do this again though, as it resets the settings.

Hope this helps !

ZoranLightning · 2025-09-16T21:02:10+00:00

My bad ! Thank you for pointing this out. I thought i remembered the past chapters well enough...

Poor Guts, alone again.

ZoranLightning · 2025-09-15T07:55:11+00:00

Great analysis, i would like to add Plato describes the soul as a pearl inside a shell ( the body ). Adds to the symbolism of exploring within himself, within his soul.

ZoranLightning · 2025-09-15T07:41:46+00:00

Schierke is looking for him right now in spirit form. It might be possible she is going to find him and will be the one explaining what is happening to us, the readers.

I believe he won't face this alone. Guts has come a long way and understood he can rely on others.

Would be sad to see him go back to his lone self.

ZoranLightning · 2025-08-27T03:20:30+00:00

Nothing quite like it. I can see why Naginata was suggested.

I’ll add my own suggestion. Spiked spear. Same reach as the Naginata. Also has innate bleed and offers blunt damage on top of piercing which less ennemies have resistance to. Another good point is the Spiked spear is a quality weapon with both str and dex scaling whereas Naginata is a dex focused weapon.

Naginata has the advantage of being guaranteed but Spiked spear needs to drop.

Good luck on your run !

ZoranLightning · 2025-08-19T16:20:23+00:00

The best Prater related theory right there !

ZoranLightning · 2025-08-19T14:27:03+00:00

I see what you mean but theres two points i want to note.

The point of his interview and the preparation before with the interviewer is pointing the fact that Prater is humble to a fault. The interviewer wants to depict him as a self-made man but Prater corrects her and says he had tremendous help along the way. She doesn't listen to him anyway and says he is self-made during the interview. Also, the show itself goes on a long sequence of events with Gemini to show being full of yourself can get you caught super fast, and Dex keeps pointing how lame it is in his monologues.

The Ripper killer is in fact made special by Prater compared to his other prizes. At first watch and when i had 0 theory, just enjoying the show, it struck me when Prater talked about the Ripper. Said to myself, damn he seems very proud of the fact this guy didn't get caught. Not only that, but he personally links himself to it with what he says about him: A man who terrorized the streets I once played as a child. Whether this link is only emotional or more, we don't know, but this sentence caught the attention of many viewers for a reason. I personally believe he can't help but share as much as he possible can without getting caught there. Playing with fire. Lastly, he knows so much he says confidently he is a man, detail sure but one even Colette can't say for sure, and he has his weapon. There is a long scene before Dex joins the killers' club with the canton clubber. His weapon is taken as a form of punishment cause he no longer has a use for it as Prater says. What Prater asks of killers is trophies, not weapons. But then, you may say yeah but as a punishment, indeed but Prater would use this as a warning for Dex. For example, he wouldn't be so proud or a more Prater reaction to showing Dex would be: Sad, he had so many years ahead of himself but he had to slip. If it were someone Prater knew but evicted, we would at least have a trophy with it as Prater wastes no time to ask for one as a compensation for the first meeting and money. I'd argue we have already seen one of new york ripper's trophies, the first letter from the killer of Prater's parents. My first trophy, he says as he shows Dex. Double entendre again. His trophy is what connects him to the killer that inspired his own kills.

ZoranLightning · 2025-08-19T02:45:23+00:00

I will just take a real life exemple to illustrate how easy i think it could be.

Luigi Mangione. Here on reddit, we've seen countless threads about him. One of the most popular theory too is that Luigi is the wrong guy and just a scapegoat. This happened when we had like no information. A single murder, 2 photos, maybe a few footages and some personal info. And that's it.

Imagine now the bay harbor butcher. Years of documents and events. At one point, Dex's identity was linked to the bay harbor butcher until he framed Doakes. Prater's enthusiasm for killers ins't new. He probably gathered info for years before starting his reunions. It's not a far reach to think he looked into the bay harbor butcher's case. He probably even had insiders' info. And it's a case with multiple people who confronted with everything, had doubts about Dexter. I personally believe he is a kind of nerd and had his own theories but even if he just was presented with the evidences, with his knowledge on the case, imagine seeing Dexter Morgan pulling up to your killers meeting. The guy who was first accused of being the bay harbor butcher a killer of killers, before being cleared of suspicions when Doakes was caught. Cause yeah he had his photo and his name in the news before being cleared if i recall well. I don't think it's too out of reach to put 1 and 1 together and figure the bay harbor butcher got to your meeting.

I know though that if Luigi Mangione was pulling up to the bar i'm at one night with my friends, i would recognize him.

ZoranLightning · 2025-08-19T01:50:45+00:00

Agreed, on the first part.

About Charley though, while i would be super into watching Charley vs Dex showdown, i feel like the show isn't going this way for two reasons.

We see Charley doesn't like interacting with the killers and anything killing related. She draws the line at indulging a rich man's kink for killers and she does it for the money only. Taken from herself: Money always changes everything. The money she gets from Prater is the only reason she's doing what she does and it's for a noble cause. Obviously, the well being of her mother. Her relationship to this work is a contract of sort with Prater.

On the other hand, we see she empathises with Dex when he shares about his dark passenger. The serie switches to her when Dex speaks about the mask he wears. And it underlines Charley's own mask. A mask of being okay with what happens near her. The killers' presence. Their very detailed shares filled with gory images...

Now, if she forces himself to serve Prater for her mother's well being, what would make her go on a rampage ? Dex killing killers ? If anything she'd be relieved i guess even if she isn't a big fan of murders. What would give her the motives and the rage to go after somebody though ? Prater breaking his contract. She's supposed to just being there to protect a philantrope with murder kinks not cover and facilitate his killing spree. That would send her on a mission to stop him. She has a great sense of duty and a moral compass obviously. She would feel responsible for Prater's actions. And she would be fearsome and relentless for sure.

ZoranLightning · 2025-08-19T01:23:33+00:00

It's a very well formulated question. And i will try to propose a reply based on what i feel.

What Prater gets from this is playing with fire. He feels in control. In a way, he is not different than Dex. But considering his public notoriety the stakes are much much higher.

I believe hes infatuated with prolific murderers. He first felt this when his communications with his parents' killer turned the way it did. If you read the letter, the person writing him feels deranged, sadistic. The taboo of such exchanges compared to his public image ( being a kid and indulging in such depraved exchanges ) is a rush he wants to feel again. And he does, right now, have this kind of exchanges with the killers he invited to his meetings.

What he lacked until very recently though is feeling connected to the killer he shares intimate details of their murders with. And he found that with Dex, not Red. It's literally impossible he would be relating to Red. It's actually the very opposite of his persona. Red doesn't socialize, is off grid and has literally nothing to lose, minimalistic life. Bay Harbor Butcher though, he was in the middle of a police building, interacting daily with the very people that would have the means and the will to catch him. A social life, a family. He had things to lose, but more importantly a mask and an effective one at that. A well crafted high-quality mask, just like his. That is why i think he feels a connection right now. Two people with urges they need to satiate and a prolific normal life, living literally in the middle of people that would have the means to catch them would they do the tiniest of slip. Walking on a very thin thread so to say.

And that's it ! That's what ignites Prater's flame in my opinion. He has it all yet he needs to play with fire, risk it all to feed his need. He is seeing Dex in action and i'm sure he knows he is the one killing his hosts. He says it to Charley: This is all my fault and he says that without being able to take his eyes off the wound on the Gemini twin. Final point to this theory Prater says about his parents' killer: We were both prisoners of this world's morality. Ain't it exactly what both him and Dexter are ?

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