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Off Topic / Re: Fallout: Exploding onto your screen April 2024

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 01:01:15 »

Maybe.

Could also be the difference between Lucy (as the Honest Trailers put it, a Speech Specialist who dump-statted Charisma) and Maximus when compared to any of the game protagonists.

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The Inner Sphere / Re: Political instability in the Capellan Confederation?

« Last post by BrianDavion on Today at 00:49:09 »

Gonna have to disagree there. Sun-Tzu being a shrewd politician and him being unable to defeat the Republic are not mutually exclusive.

I dunno, during the Jihad STL did refuse to join the coalition and thus was a result arguably "lost the peace" by not having any influence with the nascient ROTS.

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Off Topic / Re: Fallout: Exploding onto your screen April 2024

« Last post by Liam's Ghost on Today at 00:47:39 »

Yes.  It might have been the limitations of the game engine, but you were still generally safer there than how Filly was portrayed.

Honestly, I don't buy it. I don't think Filly would have been much different than the Den or Goodneighbor if it had been presented in a game rather than in a TV show.

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The Inner Sphere / Re: Political instability in the Capellan Confederation?

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 00:41:14 »

I don't recall Sun-Tzu being thoroughly humbled by Stone.  Though I haven't read any of those books in about a decade.

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Off Topic / Re: Fallout: Exploding onto your screen April 2024

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 00:40:27 »

Yes.  It might have been the limitations of the game engine, but you were still generally safer there than how Filly was portrayed.

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The Inner Sphere / Re: Political instability in the Capellan Confederation?

« Last post by tassa_kay on Today at 00:37:38 »

Until he met Devlin Stone and was humiliated thoroughly. The Confederation at the end of the Jihad was taken down a peg and only with the Dark Age the realm rose again

Gonna have to disagree there. Sun-Tzu being a shrewd politician and him being unable to defeat the Republic are not mutually exclusive.

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Off Topic / Re: Fallout: Exploding onto your screen April 2024

« Last post by Liam's Ghost on Today at 00:36:27 »

You mean the den with the slavers and all the drugs and the random pickpocketing children (and that one area where you can pimp out your wife for extra caps) or New Reno with its impending gang war and the streets lined with drug addicted prostitutes?

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Off Topic / Re: Fallout: Exploding onto your screen April 2024

« Last post by MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on Today at 00:31:34 »

It wasn't a nice universe, but there was actual movement toward recovery.  And large swathes of the regions were actually fairly decent places, like Klamath or Goodsprings.  Even The Den and New Reno in Fallout 2 were portrayed as much more functional than Filly.

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BattleTech Miniatures / Re: Deckard_2049s Battletech stuff

« Last post by Wasteland Warrior on Today at 00:22:30 »

WOW!  That looks fantastic.  And that cockpit is so well done.  Great job

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Off Topic / Re: Fallout: Exploding onto your screen April 2024

« Last post by Liam's Ghost on Today at 00:17:25 »

The "grim and gritty" is actually a bit of a retcon itself.

As was pointed out in Jimquisition's video on the show, the Fallout setting was originally a post apocalyptic setting where humanity was starting to claw its way back into civilization.  Fallout 3 and 4 were originally the weirdos that stuck out for having a setting where it looks like the bombs were dropped only a few months or years ago rather than about two centuries and everyone was still living in squalid, burned out ruins.

I don't know if I completely agree with that. The "just bombed yesterday" aesthetics, sure, but it was still a grim and gritty universe in the first two games. Sure, there was a sign that a slow recovery was coming, but it was very much a wild "tribal/city state" environment rather than the large, relatively organized state that the NCR was by Fallout New Vegas. There's a reason those games were deliberately set away from the actual interior of the NCR.

(I also found out today that Shady Sands was supposed to have been destroyed in Van Buren)