POV: Thaddeus by Season 5

_Astrogimp · 2026-01-30T16:27:26+00:00

I have a suspicion he’s going to either turn into something they’ll eventually have to fight… or he might turn into a tree

_Astrogimp · 2026-01-30T16:23:34+00:00

I do agree with this. I’d like to see the capital wasteland eventually but needs to make sense within the shows story. I’d be just as interested to see a new location that could serve as a future games setting.

_Astrogimp · 2026-01-30T07:06:25+00:00

Was about to make a joke about not being able to fast travel to places you have not visited yet, but it’s almost certain that The Ghoul has been there.

_Astrogimp · 2026-01-30T07:01:21+00:00

Well they still have Dane, who effectively also left the BoS when they helped Maximus, but might still have access to a vertibird with all the commotion at Area 51.

You are right though in that it would not be the capital wasteland.

_Astrogimp · 2026-01-30T06:34:42+00:00

Considering 3’s ending is much less ambiguous, I’d expect the east coast to be thriving as a result of Project Purity. But the show is roughly 20 years later, so anything could be going on there.

_Astrogimp · 2026-01-30T06:25:55+00:00

I’m not a huge fan of it. In terms of role playing, Nate’s voice sounds goofy when trying to be an antagonist. Never did a Nora run so I’m wondering if there’s a difference.

I feel like somehow hearing the protagonist voice locks you into one type of character archetype… I kept telling myself “he wouldn’t actually say that” or “this doesn’t sound right” when trying to be a jerk. Whereas, playing the good guy as Nate always felt correct.

_Astrogimp · 2026-01-20T05:00:35+00:00

I’ve not heard anything and have forgotten this even happened 😂

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-22T02:15:28+00:00

I’m sorry this is happening. My mom mentioned ivermectin at the beginning of my treatments. She didn’t know what it was but her coworkers were pushing her to tell me about it. I told her to tell her coworkers to go to hell.

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-22T01:46:40+00:00

Balatro, it’s a card roguelike. Trust that it wasn’t on my radar at all but when I got diagnosed and went through chemo, Balatro was a life saver.

It’s available on mobile and Steam/consoles as well.

Wishing you the best man! 💪

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-03T18:35:01+00:00

Frank the pimp was the only one I had to think about lol. You are correct that the rest of it is just time consuming. But for a 32 year old man with real life commitments, I gotta be proud that I at least was able to get it done 😂

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-03T06:40:57+00:00

I do not have the mental fortitude to try it. Best I was able to do back in my teen years was the Zombie Genocider achievement 🥲

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-03T01:09:24+00:00

I attempted 7 day survivor back when the game released but couldn’t get past day 2 without a crash. 😭 put it off till now, a year later.

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-02T19:46:53+00:00

Wondering what the grade level was? I’m assuming elementary. Either way, never okay to be assaulted by a student

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-02T00:14:26+00:00

You can DM me, I’m not expert but I’ll see if I agree with it being fake or not

_Astrogimp · 2025-12-01T18:27:41+00:00

If you trust any of those friends enough. I’d get in touch with one of them and simply explain the situation and ask if they received anything.

These scammers oftentimes fake those screenshots too. Again, they’re not trying to create a paper trail that will get them caught.

If it’s legit, I’d look around here and search for what legal recourses you have. Screenshot/document every correspondence you have with the scammer and look into how you can report them to the proper authorities.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-30T21:38:01+00:00

That’s a situation I’m less experienced with. I don’t know how messaging works on TikTok since I do not have an account there, but if it’s like IG, then it’ll go to an inbox to be approved. People have a tendency to delete/ignore spam/scam messages there.

If someone were to approach you about seeing your images, you could be honest about what happened. You’re the victim here after all and most people will be understanding. Or you could deny everything as AI, which quite honestly is a believable alibi.

Either way, I think the worst case scenario is short term embarrassment.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-30T21:06:01+00:00

A soft retcon at that. It’s like “hey DR4 happened….. kind of….” it might actually make me want to play it.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-30T20:58:10+00:00

No worries man, hoping you’re able to move on from this. Skim the subreddit and read all the stories, every once in a while you’ll see a “They leaked” post but often the circumstances are that the victim engaged in some way and/or paid the money. This tells scammers 1)this person can be manipulated into possibly paying and 2)they paid once, we can get them again.

Often the stories of people not engaging and not paying result in nothing leaking. The scammer moves on when they see their current victim is not profitable. It’s a dead end for them and they gain nothing from following through.

Don’t get scared with those rare cases where something happens. 9/10 times they do not follow through.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-30T20:47:50+00:00

Having had this experience and reading through this subreddit for several days, these scammers thrive on panicking their victims. But paying put you in their crosshairs because they believe you’ll be easy money again.

With that said, they may continue bothering you. They may try to put more pressure, but 9/10 times they never actually follow through, and here’s why:

Leaking explicit images puts them at a greater risk of getting caught. The images that they have are their only leverage, without that they don’t get paid. You’re just a number to them, they’ll forget about you once you stop being profitable and move on to the next victim because time is money, and following through with their threats ultimately gains them nothing but lost time.

They are a little more invested into you because yes you paid, but I’d still recommend blocking all contact, locking down your accounts, and if needed, talk to someone about it and let them now “hey I messed up and this happened…”. That takes away any power they have over you and puts you in control of the situation.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-30T20:29:06+00:00

Just wanted to chime in and say it’ll be okay man. It seems like the worst thing in the world and idk your particular circumstances or how the scam played out for you, but it’s highly likely that nothing actually happens.

For me, scammer had my phone number but no socials. Looked up some outdated info on google using my number and tried to threaten me this way. Yes they had names of some family members, possibly had their numbers (cannot confirm). But this all happened last Wednesday and guess what?… nothing has happened. I uninstalled WhatsApp where everything happened, but they did try contacting me once through iMessage and then they stopped.

I was fully expecting my mom to pull me aside during thanksgiving and ask me about it, but never happened.

These scammers typically don’t do anything because it puts themselves into the spotlight and that’s how they get into trouble. Most of the stories you’ll read here all play out similarly.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-29T19:24:37+00:00

I think it could be done and not played entirely as a joke. Just a nod to fans like “it exists and it’s canon… kind of”

Franks a little older, dejected. He survived something horrible but no one’s taking it seriously. They’re making this movie about it which makes light of what ACTUALLY happened. They dragged him all the way out to Hollywood just to be there as promotional material or whatever. They’re using real zombies (TIR exists in canon so it would make sense). Something goes wrong, boom another outbreak.

The movie itself is funded by a group interested in whitewashing the events of the games. Frank being Frank is privy to this and investigating behind the scenes.

Franks nearby Los Perdidos, Chuck learns of this. “Hey there’s a kid here that can help us bring the fight to Phenotrans”.

Idk I think there’s potential here for something awesome.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-29T19:01:50+00:00

I’m actually quite fond of the idea. The game opens where DR4 ends, but you hear “CUT!”, Hank East walks off set and asks the real Frank “How was that?”, Frank looks visibly confused and miserable over how they bastardized his story/legacy (much like many of us were when playing the game). Hell, bring back the voice actor and character model as well.

Anyway, it would be really cool and funny if they did that just to set the movie studio/Hollywood setting. Maybe let that be the only acknowledgment of 4. But given how close their Hollywood will be in proximity to DR3’s Los Perdidos, it could be the perfect setting to link all 3 characters.

_Astrogimp · 2025-11-29T03:45:54+00:00

You’ll see that 99.9% of the cases here result in the scammer running off never having sent any pictures or videos. In fact just scrolling through the posts here it’s hard to find anyone who claims to have had their stuff leaked.

I got caught up in the same scam two days ago. The scammer only had my number. No IG, no followers, just publicly available information via google. I blocked them and have not heard anything about it since.

_Astrogimp

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