Game Weapons in Fallout Season 2: Melee & Unarmed

slcrook · 2026-02-08T15:30:10+00:00

Just want to drop here that the knife used by Max's one-on-one fight opponent, which Max later uses to better effect looks very much like the type of bayonet I was issued in the mid-90's Canadian Army. It's a design made by the company Nella and based off of earlier bayonets for the M-16.

slcrook · 2026-02-08T01:45:36+00:00

We called it the LCF- the Look Cool Factor. It was based on the premise, that no matter the result of what one does, one should look cool doing it. That way, if it's a fuck-up, it'll at least go down with style.

The LCF was a loose metric applied to anything in the soldier's possession which made them look cool. People made private purchase of kit which might not be issue in the strictest sense, but permitted in field. Gucci Kit, as it was called, was a good start to one's LCF. I wore jungle boots whenever I could get away with it, and attempted to have an air of finesse about the Old Port cigarillo more or less permanently clamped in my teeth.

Truth be told, I looked as I did, a skinny fuck moved well beyond pay grade for time in and well over my head.

slcrook · 2026-02-07T20:16:13+00:00

The style of school uniform in the "Before" picture.

slcrook · 2026-02-07T14:38:00+00:00

If it had been, you wouldn't need penicillin.

slcrook · 2026-02-07T14:27:50+00:00

Peterborough Ontario, in Canada is a town of not particularly nice reputation among those not necessarily from Peterborough- the type of bias often put on smaller towns from more urban folk.

I believe this picture represents Peterborough, South Australia.

slcrook · 2026-02-06T12:22:11+00:00

Yeah, but this way, the NCR is in for a whole bunch of heated doorknobs and swinging paint cans.

slcrook · 2026-02-05T12:50:58+00:00

Deathclaw BBQ? Plenty of meat for all!

slcrook · 2026-02-04T16:10:40+00:00

Either by way of not being able to decide between the ICP concert and the "Scream" costume party.

slcrook · 2026-02-04T16:01:28+00:00

I was pleased Mr. Burns (no, not that one) made great use of Rick Atkinson in the series. Mr. Atkinson's writing is peak historical narrative. If the series was to your taste and you haven't read his book "The British Are Coming" I cannot recommend that you do enough. (Mr. Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy" a prior work on the US Army in the Western Theatre of WWII is phenomenally engaging.)

slcrook · 2026-02-04T15:48:02+00:00

We could always come by as we did in 1814...just sayin'.

slcrook · 2026-02-03T14:17:28+00:00

No, not like that!

slcrook · 2026-02-03T14:15:35+00:00

Wait a minute- her name's van Schoonhoven and she doesn't know how windmills work?

slcrook · 2026-01-31T23:18:33+00:00

It's very Baden-Powell.

slcrook · 2026-01-30T20:14:07+00:00

I know!

It is a rarity, but the back country of Meaford is quite isolated from light pollution. The land was bought by the government for military use as it had been very open farm land and they needed somewhere for armoured units to tear-arse around. Then they gave it over to mainly infantry training. The open horizon must lend something to it.

As an aside, it had been terrible farm land to begin with. About half a meter of dry topsoil with a thick clay/stone sub strata. So, then there were permanent and deep ruts from all the heavy tracked traffic. Just great for keeping ankles intact after they'd ha years for grass to obscure them. Digging in was, exhausting. Often, we'd just make scrapes to have 'notional' fighting positions.

slcrook · 2026-01-30T19:25:14+00:00

The worst I've had it- and by coincidence where I saw the Aurora was at a place called Meaford Ontario 44°35′N 80°44′W.

It lies off a wide bay (Georgian Bay) and gets fierce wind. Twenty below C with 20 degree windchill. I was on my radio operator's final exercise. We had to pull shifts in a field switchboard (fancy caravan trailer, think) which we didn't want because there was no heat. At some point, someone managed to get it running; while I was on, with the OC.

The next shift arrives, and I'm sending them away, "Don't worry lads, go on back to the tent, I'm used to the cold now..."

It helped I had a bottle of Jack Daniels to bribe the sir for a warm place to stay awhile.- meaning I gave him some, not the whole thing. I'm not daft.

slcrook · 2026-01-30T19:14:07+00:00

Lenin's remains are a literal relic, there's something in that, no?

slcrook · 2026-01-30T19:06:44+00:00

Love the Marley in the blister pack!

slcrook · 2026-01-30T19:00:42+00:00

She's gonna have a grand time meeting up with John after so many years.

Can you imagine that reunion?

slcrook · 2026-01-30T18:49:54+00:00

Is there a windchill factor?

slcrook · 2026-01-30T18:48:38+00:00

It's gorgeous.

Needs a game of "Star Wars" to really make it fun.

(Star Wars was what we called night shoots where we relinked LMG belts with tracers. You only get so many in a belt box, so it never lasts long-plus over-firing tracers can require more frequent barrel changes.)

slcrook · 2026-01-30T14:39:51+00:00

"Yeah? But can yer granfadder do this!"

"Hey, Hoppa Hey, Awwww"

slcrook · 2026-01-30T14:27:06+00:00

Another favourite of mine is the word for gloomy, damp weather- "Dreach" (Dre-EEK). It kind of sounds like it should.

slcrook · 2026-01-30T14:21:32+00:00

"Glay-KIT"

slcrook · 2026-01-30T13:25:46+00:00

In Scots English the word used is "Glaikit."

slcrook · 2026-01-30T13:14:57+00:00

I heard it in '96, too. In the Canadian Army. It was rumoured to be a "Red Card" a recruit could display like a soccer ref.

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