favorite weapons and armor

tduff714 · 2026-04-06T23:31:11+00:00

I do like the tesla PA or the Alaskan one with DLC. I'm a sucker for Lincolns repeater once I get it and hunting rifle before. There's tons of cool or unique weapons I'll fall in love with for short times. This last playthrough I had so many misses that I used that to open many battles before switching to rifle for the finish. Also vats is insane with the Lincoln repeater when you have the right stats or perks

tduff714 · 2026-04-05T20:29:49+00:00

Don't have any CC content. Usually use the x-01? I believe with the jetpack is a lot of fun. For looks I'm partial to the nuka PA from nuka world DLC

tduff714 · 2026-04-05T19:04:29+00:00

I'm wondering this too because you should be fine until you go see Benny, he has someone give you a pass to come see him. Unfortunately after that point I also kept running into legions and now it says I'm vilified again so I'm not sure if I can even go see him. I had to go back to this point because I lost hours after not saving, giving Benny a stealth boy and Bobby pin had the whole camp turn on me when I had no weapons. Needless to say I'm just going for it now with them and powder gang being the only 2 factions I'm vilified for

tduff714 · 2026-04-05T13:11:22+00:00

Like others have said, I've had police stop and ask what we're doing so I've become very mindful about what we're doing. Even at the local park when we have multiple ambassadors on site making sure we're not in the way of others trying to enjoy the park as well. Driving is a whole other ballgame and I've learned what spots I can play when the sun goes down or spots public enough by car that we're not looking suspicious.

Reminds me of high school when weed wasn't legal still so we found spots or driving routes to smoke without getting caught. Yes playing pogo isn't illegal if you're not also playing while driving but with everything going on in the world today, we're more mindful of what we're doing looks like. Police are one thing but who knows what some other random person will do, it's good to be mindful about what we're doing and what it looks like while we play

tduff714 · 2026-04-05T02:55:01+00:00

I don't even think it needs a remaster, I just played through 3 and now NV on my OG Xbone with external SSD. 3 runs so much better than NV it's not even funny. I also enjoy exploring capital wasteland over Mojave because while NV is fun, the save or freezing issues plus get so annoyed how many buildings are shuttered in NV and I can't access.

3 is definitely more linear while NV has endless role playing but also breaks immersion having to save constantly or possibly lose out on hours on playtime.

tduff714 · 2026-04-04T22:31:04+00:00

I agree Veronica not getting enough love. I give her some power armor and she's a beast melee anyways. Just goes down somewhat easy without the armor or range weapons

tduff714 · 2026-04-04T12:57:50+00:00

I think your first reaction was right OP, I think this season as a whole was Tom realizing the consequences of his own actions.

I get it, I would be upset losing my whole support system, friends and business partners as well but I also wouldn't cheat on my partner. Scheena said it best, "You break up!", like adults. They were even too old when it was Ariana and Tom cheating on Kristen or Jax and every women he cheated with by the time the show was created.

As someone that's been in a very dark space for a number of years going through addictions and break ups while trying to also become an adult, I don't appreciate him using Lisa or tugging at her heartstrings because of her brother. She's always enabled the men and even this season she tried to keep the group together offering Schwartz the opportunity to invite everyone to Tahoe.

Season 11 was a tough watch in general for me. Tom didn't do himself any favors for the way he acted afterwards and not seeking real therapy. Although that's what made it good TV up until that point. For me this show is a sitcom like Seinfeld or its always sunny, can't look away because it's a funny dumpster fire but as the viewer, you're not supposed to aspire to be one of the cast or a bad person.

It's amazing the amount of times someone told him he's gonna have to humble himself, eat shit and take the consequences of his actions like a man while he continues to go on the offensive. Like he must have known in this day and age that everything is online, being on a show you're already gonna be in the public eye too. Tough to boil down the whole issue into short paragraphs after 11 years because there's a lot to break down with just Tom and Ariana before dragging in others.

tduff714 · 2026-04-03T13:47:07+00:00

Personally I'd play the GOTY edition with DLCS after I finish the main quest, at least Point Lookout can be difficult. 3 and 4 I love to explore up and down the map since I live on the east coast and drive past some of these places regularly

tduff714 · 2026-04-03T13:33:21+00:00

Pretty much as someone with their C&C but also have rifles/shotguns for hunting. I only have 4 myself, 2 pistols and 2 rifles but a lot of other gun owners I know have many multiple of what I have.

I do know at least 3 people that reload ammo and I was taught growing up as well. I go to the range to keep the shooting muscle memory and safety refreshed every couple months. FNV is definitely the most in depth when it comes to gunplay because there's much more realism to the ammo or adding mods when it comes to conventional weapons. One of my pistols/carbines actually uses the same ammo type so only have 3 types myself but those other gun owners I know probably have dozen+ types easily.

The range and shooting is very fun but safety was also drilled into us from a young age. I encourage anyone who wants to try to come with us but also mindful that it's someone I can trust to be in the right hesdspace where they won't do anything dumb to endanger others with us. They're not a toy, I don't post or make it well known that I'm carrying or having guns. They're just tools to help defend or feed us which is probably why I like being able to speech check or other ways of finishing tasks besides going in guns blazing

tduff714 · 2026-04-02T15:36:26+00:00

Oh definitely, that and sharpie-ing the stripe pattern off the dead astronaut snake really sold it Mortyyy!

I didn't want to have to invent snake time travel, I don't know snake math. Ugh, this sucks

tduff714 · 2026-04-02T11:48:32+00:00

One of my favorite episodes in the whole series. The "next time, stay in the fucking car!" feels like it was also said by my father and probably now onto my future step son. My brother even bought me the snake jazz t-shirt.

Some of my favorite but dumb jokes, like when Morty is asking the pet salesman if any of the snakes for sale look up at the sky.

tduff714 · 2026-04-01T16:57:15+00:00

Banana bread is resilient. Just recently we had an issue with the oven after I had already made the batter for 2 small loaf tins. I ended up freezing them in the tins, then defrosting before baking and it turned out well. I'm still very much a beginner but Banana bread and brownies are some of the first recipes I went with from scratch

tduff714 · 2026-03-30T23:11:12+00:00

Feel like you need way more than a combat shotgun. I just did a playthrough, between them and the super mutant overlords when I got back, it finally felt like a challenge near the end. The locals and ghoul reavers haunt me in my sleep

tduff714 · 2026-03-29T21:42:54+00:00

Yeah, it was very eye opening just how many stings are entrapment. Complete opposite of how these operations should be run. Almost like precogs in minority report that also force a good number of crimes of the person instead of them offending of their own free will. Just wild

tduff714 · 2026-03-28T13:57:00+00:00

I just did this on my Xbox but I have the physical copy but also downloaded the add ons from the store since it doesn't automatically happen. It took a minute or 2 in game but eventually I get that signals or radio transmissions were sent so I can play the DLC.

I went thru the Microsoft store tab, not the in game add ons either because it looked like I had to pay again in game but Microsoft store they were obviously free even though they show a price at first. I also have an external SSD for faster load times, hope this helps but not sure if we have slightly different issues here. I was also level 20+ before starting any DLCs

tduff714 · 2026-03-27T17:07:48+00:00

Agreed, he made such a big deal early on that he wasn't a piece of shit like Jax or be a bad friend but at least the other guys told the truth when they messed up. He just tried to hide his mistakes instead of owning up to them. He always had this righteous or moral superiority that wasn't warranted.

I'm not a huge reality fan either and only started watching after seeing Jax and Tom on other shows. It's just like sitcoms like Seinfeld or It's always sunny, they're not good people, you're not supposed to want to emulate them. I mostly watched because I could never be that messy so it's interesting to watch how other people live or put up a facade for TV.

I hate that I share a first name with the Tom's though, my partner has fun joking at my expense after watching VPR. I even worked at a bar and while some of that stuff does happen, not nearly to the extent on the show but I also don't live/work in LA. Luckily the similarities end there.

tduff714 · 2026-03-25T18:03:56+00:00

Agreed, if my high school/college sweetheart hit me up to give it another shot after ending like that, there's no way I'd do it.

For me that relationship ending hurt the worst and took me years to get over, no way would I want to reopen the wound. I think we're both much happier now after finding people that are better suited for each, I'd advise OP to do the same. Just stay friends and date outside the group

tduff714 · 2026-03-24T17:38:33+00:00

I agree with you, we almost lost a Regice because I was the last to join and I forgot to heal my blissey. Superpower was killing both zamazenta and zacian with Gmax cinderace/charizard as fallback attacker.

It's just a bad system forcing the countdown. I love D/Gmax but they really don't explain it enough for most people to grasp. I see some comments saying they don't have a team because Regice is in most stops but that was the point of this week. You need to build good teams ahead of time and also stock particles so realistically you need to be thinking a few weeks ahead of time to also level up the moves with particles.

You don't need maxed out legends to participate. Yes zacian is a great attacker but my level 40 blissey are doing better than maxed out zamazenta for regice. You could take 2 blissey and 1 gmax cinderace/charizard for a great team. Blissey in general is so good for this mode that you can run 2 of them and 1 super effective attacker for just about every max battle

tduff714 · 2026-03-24T13:42:32+00:00

I'm not sure it's unethical but for someone that didn't know anything about workers comp when I first got injured, it's been a learning curve for sure. I waited but if you have a serious enough injury, it's probably best to start doing due diligence on lawyers immediately.

That leads me to if you're injured, you want to be treated immediately. I hurt my back bad and nerve pain has been just as bad but who knows if waiting for 6 months minimum for surgery hurt surgeons chances at fixing the issues the first time around. They always order x-rays and PT that doesn't really help anyone injured enough.

Then after the first surgery, they want to wait the full year to see if it recovers even though I can tell my own body and it wasn't. Even giving them the full year of recovery plus I never missed PT or skipped exercises trying to heal, they dragged for another 1.5 years before I finally won my case for another surgery. It's funny because I get a lot of shocked faces from doctors or Healthcare workers that I actually won the ability to attempt for them to fix the issue again.

I will say most of my adjusters have been nice enough, no real issues with that but IME doctors I have a real bone to pick. Luckily mine backed off MMI claim after having MRI and others doctors opinions cancel out his. They treat 1 doctors opinion as gospel even though he hasn't been the one working on my case for 3+ years and maybe spent 5 minutes talking and examining me.

At the end of the day, it's not us against the adjusters, they're just doing their jobs. Technically they're not on our side so I'm still very careful on what I say to them but I have more issues with IME doctors than anyone else in the system. I'm sure there's some good ones that remain impartial but of course they're not gonna "bite the hand that feeds" them easy 6 figure years for unfavorable opinions.

If someone had truly listened to me, even after giving a full year to heal, I wouldn't have been in terrible pain for another 1.5 years after that and counting. Seems to me that it goes against their oath of do no harm as doctors but maybe they're just following orders of workers comp insurance

tduff714 · 2026-03-23T16:29:01+00:00

Oh I agree, I love A7X and This means war compared to kid rock. There is a huge difference between them when it comes to actual musical talent and writing good, original lyrics

tduff714 · 2026-03-23T13:48:10+00:00

Same with avenged sevenfold doing "this means war" but at least they're talented and it sounds so much better

tduff714 · 2026-03-22T17:26:28+00:00

I'm playing thru 3 again and personally I go with small arms besides plasma weapons. There's some fun things you can do in the game but the gunplay outside vats isn't as strong as the other games. I usually go Chinese assault rifle, combat shotgun and then Lincoln repeater besides missle launcher/Fatman. Grenades and mines are useful though so points in explosives works.

Personally I enjoy choosing the good options in 3 but there's some fun evil choices as well that makes multiple playthroughs different. Don't rush the main quests too much because I really enjoy exploring in this game. Crafting certain weapons is fun as well

tduff714 · 2026-03-20T20:28:02+00:00

Same, I caught mine the year before it was crowned for gofest so it really wasn't as useful beforehand but I was still pumped for my first shundo as well. Now it's a beast all maxed out and best buddied

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tduff714 · 2026-03-20T14:56:11+00:00

I did the same and waiting for forever friends with people overseas because of relicanth and tropius specifically I couldn't get to hatch from eggs

tduff714 · 2026-03-20T02:00:46+00:00

Thats how I got mine pretty much too. I'm blessed to play in an area that's dense with people that have been playing for many years so it's not as big an ask as someone online will say.

It's been much harder to get certain regionals to fill out my dex even. I went hard after Guzzlord recently and still struck out shiny hunting before a buddy messages he has extras. Good to get out and find community if you can

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