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I've been wondering why the organ dealers were keeping live ghouls prisoners at the SuperDuper market (who the hell wants to spend good caps on ghoul organs?). It lead me to speculate that someone (the Enclave? Vault Tec?) might be researching ghoulism. After all, if you could solve the problem of ghouls going feral, you're left with people who have very prolonged lifespans, regenerative abilities and resistance to radiation. Find a way of inducing it artificially and get rid of the side effects, and you create an effectively immortal ruling class.

Which also explains the ghoul drug Hancock took in FO4 and Thaddeus got from the snake oil salesman, and the anti-feral drugs Roger and Cooper were taking. Whoever's pulling the strings is testing this stuff in the wild.

(I don't know whether the show will head in this direction, but it would be interesting if it did!)

https://x.com/2204Design/status/1851699566216692127?t=n9ydnyB9U79fffsK9kzxkQ&s=19

It took me about five months but I finally finished my triptych: The Ghoul, Maximus and Lucy MacClean.

Digital art, created in IbisPaintX by TheArtOfBlossoming

Lucy didn’t create Vault-Tec. She isn’t some fancy scientist thats helping with all the experiments. Shes just a girl that got manipulated and lied to by the bigwigs at Vault-Tec, like Cooper (The Ghoul) himself. Why does he treat her so awfully, surely he can recognize she’s innocent in all of this, right? He’s proven he’s not a stupid guy, idk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhH_FWDAalc&feature=youtu.be

If you want to learn more history about the fallout universe, check out this animated video on the Sino-American War that led to the atomic war.

It might end up being nothing, but right now the Snake Oil Salesman has the fusion core he got from Thaddeus and the Ghoul has the core he stole from the observatory after turning out the lights. I've never seen this mentioned anywhere. To have one is a pretty big deal, especially if you're running power armor. Everyone knows that Snake Oil has one but no one seems to have noticed the Ghoul casually pocketing the one from the observatory.

I just finished episode 3, and so far I’m constantly confused by where things are supposed to be because they keep changing shooting locations. According to Wikipedia they did landscape shooting in New York, Utah, and the Namibian desert. In the show you can clearly see the differences because the setting don’t make sense. There’s this unbelievably inhospitable desert wasteland right next to a verdant green forest with beautiful blue water, right next to endless mountain pine forest. The show will jump each scene between desert and forest. One moment Titus and Maximus are walking through pine forests and in the next scene they’re in a Yaoi Guai cave and the next Maximus is in the middle of the desert with absolutely nothing around him. They also keep using the same deserted houses and building over and over just shot from different direction, as if Lucy and s just waking up and down the same strip of sand. I have no sense of where anything is supposed to be. Does this change in the rest of the season?

Edit. Yes, I did play the games and I don’t think the show is very good so far.

So, for months there was this LITTLE detail in Episode 8 in the background that I noticed but never really pointed out before because I was still coming down from the hype of the show and I kinda forgot about it. And since I don't THINK I've seen anyone talk about these, I may as well. So near the beginning when Lucy walks into the observatory to meet Moldaver, there are 2 little NCR posters behind Lucy as she walks into the shot. And they were quite curious because they were quite different from the one we see in Vault 4. These posters were very communist-themed, While the one in Vault 4 were kinda like the ones in New Vegas, bright, patriotic "JOIN THE NCR, TODAY!" etc. While the Moldavor ones were the classic red n' white, some strong fists in the air, some text I can't make out with Aradesh(?)'s face on it.

So, I think Moldavor kinda started her own communist movement in the NCR after spending time there. She at some point lived in Shady Sands and she saw the potential in it/the NCR, but noticed some of the old world problems were still present in this new country. So she tried to start a movement. A movement I am guessing didn't gain traction...UNTIL the nuking of Shady Sands happened. Refugees from Shady Sands began to believe in her ideals due to them being lost and possibly the NCR government didn't really help the survivors of Shady Sands, or they didn't get -enough- help while Maldavor did actually try to help them all. And the reason she is called a "Witch" is because of the promise of unlimited power and that was her rallying call. "I will bring unlimited power to this hurt republic and I will bring it back to glory!" or something to that extent.

And during that time they kinda split off from the rest of the republic while still uniting under the NCR banner. They want to reform the NCR rather than start their own nation. They don't have the NCR government funding or real support. They may be seen as nothing more than a crazy cult still flying the NCR banner.

But I feel like since she was actually telling the truth. The NCR government (If there still is any) may reconsider. Even more so since the BOS now has their grubby PA greased hands on such a powerful device.

EDIT: Or maybe her formation of the movement was a RESPONSE to the nuking of Shady Sands. And it was created shortly after it's destruction

Observatory

Vault 4

I've tried so many different ways, clicking on the episode resumes it literally seconds before where it skips to the next episode, there's so much shit on the screen that I can't press play or that automatically jumps to the next episode. When I try to pause and rewind, it lags too much pulling up the "did you like this series?" "next episode" crap that it doesn't register the pause key before it skips to the next episode. Pushing "start over" from the title screen only starts over the last episode you watched so it keeps restarting episode 2, I've literally been fighting with this for 5 minutes does anyone know what's up?? It's on a roku tv is that matters

I’ve been pondering ways to explain the fallout tv show with some of the endings it decided to choose for the games.

I had an idea though, theoretically could the fallout tv show had an alternative ending to games that wasn’t an option for our player.

For example in fallout 4(using this because I know the lore a bit more than others) instead of choosing that we had sided with the brotherhood of steel in some way and that’s why the prydwen showed up in the tv show, it’s possible there’s an ending we never got to play through as the player. Something that maybe ending with the brotherhood of steel retreating out of the commonwealth before the destruction of it.

I’d love to hear people’s ideas, I have millions of ideas but I’m bad at putting them into words.

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Not a single energy weapon was fired in season 1 and yet they were shown in the hands of the NCR.

At a glance it doesn’t look like he’s doing anything but… was he?

Nothing too exciting I imagine. Only thing I have thought of is that he’s in some way helping Chet get the elevator moving.

I mean was he just trying to take a Nuka Cola? Was he intended to be the distraction? Was he accidentally the distraction?

Idk why this small moment gets me thinking so much 😂

https://screenrant.com/fallout-season-2-filming-start-month-revealed-leslie-uggams/

Leslie Uggams(Betty) confirmed filming will begin in November allegedly!

It seems the script is finished for that to be the case.

Still expecting Season 2 to be in 2026 tho imo...

Just wanted to share that I saw Jonathan Nolan giving a talk in Dublin today, and he said filming on Season 2 starts in 4 weeks

Also it sounded like he won't be directing any of the episodes

Early 2026 release date likely then 🙏

Potential roadmap for season 2

Imagine if we get to meet the Chosen Ones son here that’d be so cool

As the title says. I think the showrunners will take the safe option and not state who won the second battle of Hoover Dam, but interestingly enough, there are bits that work in favour of the following:

House:

You could argue that they wouldn't set up Rafi Silver's character and not do more with him. Plus, the House ending is basically the status quo and could be a reason behind the post-credit battle scenes (NCR tried to take the city out of desperation, maybe?).

Independent:

Vegas doesn't seem to be in the best of shape, so perhaps the Courier and Yes Man couldn't keep things steady for long? Anarchy and violence do seem to pop up several times in the Independent slides (e.g., the Followers of the Apocalypse can't keep up). You actually see evidence in-game of Independent not being as effective at times if you made the wrong choices (e.g., if you don't kill the Fiend leaders, Independent Vegas does nothing to wipe out the Fiends even with a full Securitron army).

It could be that an Independent Vegas went downhill after the NCR declined after Hank's nuking. After all, Vegas was still reliant on the NCR even if under House or Independent.

NCR:

The pilot script for The End states that Maximus is 19 in the present, and 6 when he climbed out of the fridge. That places the nuking in 2283, which is well after the second battle of Hoover Dam (most likely in 2282).

Interestingly enough, the picture used for Kimball in the cult memorial seems to be of him as a president. This doesn't mean that it's his latest picture (it could be the only one the cultists could find or wanted to use), but if it does turn out that Kimball was still president when he died in the nuking, then it only makes sense in the NCR ending (otherwise he's out of office by then).

There isn't much, if anything, to speculate canon Legion. If they had to choose, I seriously doubt the showrunners would make the Courier canonically support rape and slavery. That risks more backlash than with any of the other three endings.

We already have the Prydwen being shown on-screen, which supports the idea that the Institute (the most evil main-faction in 4) is gone, and since the Legion is basically the worst faction in NV, they'll likely be defeated as well.

I still think they'll either leave things vague or maybe lean towards House (if they want to have him alive in the present but without making it an asspull). I'd be fine with anything except the Legion.