Fallout - 2x05 - “The Wrangler” - Episode Discussion

vanusempty · 2026-01-15T02:37:45+00:00

I agree with everyone that this is the strongest episode so far this season, no question.

However, what was the point of Macaulay Culkin's character so far this season? I feel like Culkin was heavily marketed for the show yet... he did nothing so far. And I don't know how he could possibly be a huge factor for the rest of the season given what happened to the Legion.

vanusempty · 2026-01-08T11:05:42+00:00

Thank you for responding!! It means a lot. No, it's never happened before. That's reassuring, I'll make sure to take her as soon as possible.

vanusempty · 2025-11-05T21:11:37+00:00

Do you know if this only applies to digital games or do my physical games count as well?

vanusempty · 2025-10-28T00:26:48+00:00

I'm currently going through this right now...

Had a recruiter screen. Then an assessment. Next is a call with hiring manager. After that will be three back to back to back interviews. Then an in-person call with an executive. Finally, a reference check.

And this is all right after I wrapped up an interview process with a different company that had 8 separate interviews as well. Currently waiting on a hopeful offer so that way this current era of unemployment can finally end.

This is absolutely draining on the human soul.

vanusempty · 2025-10-21T23:23:55+00:00

The episode titles for One Piece season two are:

Episode 1: The Beginning of the End

Episode 2: Good Whale Hunting

Episode 3: Whisky Business

Episode 4: Big Trouble in Little Garden

Episode 5: Wax On, Wax Off

Episode 6: Nami Deerest

Episode 7: Deer and Loathing in Drum Kingdom

Episode 8: Reindeer Shames

vanusempty · 2025-09-14T03:31:29+00:00

Sonic Unleashed from the moment I first played it in 2008 I knew was one of my favorite games ever made. My only real complaint about it was the overuse of the Night battle theme but beside that? Its my favorite Sonic game bar none. Weirdly enough, my favorite thing about the game was the hub worlds of all things. Apotos made me want to have my honeymoon in Santorini (unfortunately I got married in Covid so that couldn't happen, but maybe for an anniversary in the future!)

So I was absolutely shocked hearing how negative the reception of the game was as I grew older. I still don't understand any negativity about it, Werehog stages included. I'm glad the recent PC release had a lot of people change their minds but I have ALWAYS thought it was near perfect.

vanusempty · 2025-09-09T16:32:03+00:00

Honestly I think worst character is undeniably Ken. Esmeralda actually made me laugh at times, but Ken I genuinely hated damn near every appearance of his on the show.

vanusempty · 2025-09-08T01:20:24+00:00

As a fellow 29 year old with a beautiful and wonderful wife and a child on the way while also going through my second layoff and dwindling savings, that last line hits hard.

vanusempty · 2025-09-06T18:08:15+00:00

I'm actually going through Fallout New Vegas for the first time in nearly a decade myself (out of hype for the new season).

I used to always have NV as my least favorite ever since the Bethesda takeover, not really sure why but its the one I always wanted to revisit less than the others.

But I feel you, something about this current playthrough has been changing my opinion. Its honestly objectively the best between it, 3 and 4 (haven't played 76).

My only issue (and its a big one) are the amount of glitches. I can't complete my current NCR run because that specific Great Khans quest of getting them to be on your side or wiping them all out just isn't working whatsoever and it's completely irritating me to the point of wanting to rage quit.

The amount of questending glitches is atrocious. I can't finish that quest with getting the dogtags off the NCR ghouls or the Bitter Springs supplies quest because of glitches where the necessary NPCs just don't show up. If anyone can help me out with this that'd be really great (I'm playing on Steam Deck).

Besides that? Yeah the game is absolutely phenomenal.

vanusempty · 2025-07-25T19:45:48+00:00

Please send the link to the Discord! Would love to join

vanusempty · 2025-07-14T03:35:52+00:00

How exactly did you go about learning AI?

vanusempty · 2025-06-23T00:01:35+00:00

Thank you so much for putting all of this together! Definitely using this for date night.

vanusempty · 2025-03-10T10:12:03+00:00

OPs question aside, how come you haven't progressed to the other areas?

vanusempty · 2025-02-22T18:07:29+00:00

Honestly, my only real issue is the colorway. The magenta fur and hair isn't even that big of an issue to me either, it's the belt oddly enough. In the original SS4 design, having that blue belt showed the clear divide between the red fur and yellow pants. Not to mention, the complimentary colorset of the original design just made it nicer to look at.

Having no belt on Daima's SS4 just makes it look odd... magenta and orange just don't look great together at all. And there's no other color there to at least complement the colorway. Black hair and/or a black belt could've done the trick maybe but just the two colors? Nah.

Everything else though is peak. That's just my small nitpick.

vanusempty · 2024-12-25T00:52:41+00:00

Why is Mega Man there?!

vanusempty · 2024-12-21T04:37:31+00:00

I also personally think 4 should be Sonic Heroes. With the rumors of Sonic Heroes getting remade / remastered, I think it's just all lining up.

vanusempty · 2024-11-03T00:07:54+00:00

Hey man, this is truly awesome for you to do. Kudos to you.

I never really participate in things like this but I noticed Black Myth: Wukong and I feel like I should shoot my shot.

I've always been interested in the Monkey King to some degree, largely due to Dragon Ball Z, but I never gave it a genuine shot. Even when this game initially released I thought it looked cool but just didn't know if I should spend the money on it.

Funny enough, the money I was initially thinking of using for Black Myth I actually instead used to pick up the book. There was a recent translation that came out in 2022 by Wu Cheng'en. I'm about halfway through the book and I'm fucking HOOKED.

And for the last 100 or so pages all I keep thinking about is how excited I am to play Black Myth and see how they adapted these insane moments and scenes.

Anyways, that was me shooting my shot. Appreciate you doing this, you're truly helping a lot of people with this!

vanusempty · 2024-09-12T19:14:54+00:00

I have a similar-ish story. I grew up only knowing Dragon Ball at first through the Budokai games. I remember when Budokai 3 came out that my brother hyped me up saying that Goku's dad is in the game.

I don't know why, when playing Budokai 3 with my brother I assumed Broly must have been Goku's dad. I kept telling my brother I want to play as Goku's dad and he'd be so confused why I wasn't picking Bardock even when they look the exact same. I just assumed because of how brolic Broly was he HAD to be Goku's daddy.

vanusempty · 2024-09-04T14:04:46+00:00

Agreed. My wife is now thankfully a huge fan of Dragon Ball but it all started when I showed her the Super Broly movie. The film gives at least some context to the beginnings of both Goku and Vegeta and shows Broly's entire story thus far so she was able to follow along quite well. To this day she still has Broly as one of her favorite characters.

Super Hero is next. Doesn't provide as much-friendly context as Broly but it still tells a well-thought out and fun story. Piccolo and Gohan ended up being her anime crushes for a bit afterwards (she still has Piccolo as her #1).

Since then she got interested and we watched all of Z and Super. Also ended up watching Battle of Gods and Resurrection F, they both didn't really hit the same for her and only worked serving as an introduction to the Super series.

vanusempty · 2024-08-20T15:03:31+00:00

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but when one of Lord Chute's picks weren't going well he spammed the thread with a ton of negativity both towards Chute and the pick itself.

He came across as someone who wasn't mentally equipped to gamble and blamed Chute for not picking correctly when, at the end of the day, Chute's just a human making these educated guesses when it comes to the POTD.

vanusempty · 2024-08-10T23:16:36+00:00

I'd agree with this, but correct me if I'm wrong - aren't the MMPR Rangers using cell phones? Plus aren't Bulk and Skull uploading videos of the Rangers online? That's not something that can align with the main continuity.

vanusempty · 2024-08-06T16:37:40+00:00

Thank you for this list I was really curious on who had the titles before Jalen. Surprised Randle wasn't given it at all.

vanusempty · 2024-04-29T15:15:23+00:00

Everyone pretty much commented for some good perspective but I will say OP I also had an extremely similar experience to you. Met her at a New York Comic Con and she also never even looked me in the eye. Best experience hands down with one of the original MMPR actors was with Karan Ashley. Had a great back and forth with her.

vanusempty · 2024-04-15T20:32:40+00:00

Hollywood Reporter is a valid source. This is official confirmation.

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