All posts by MadMikeRyan

• Synths aren't people.

• Dogs are food, not friends.

• The karma system never should have existed in the first place.

• The Brotherhood of Steel are never the bad guys.

• That West Virginia song is incredibly annoying.

I look at all the Meme Monday threads, I just don't have any material for them. If I can I prefer to use my own original ideas, I don't normally share around memes that I found.

Who's idea of better or worse is the question. My idea of better is even more power armor and demoting Todd Howard to a grunt level programmer who doesn't get a say in any decisions and gets whipped every time the game crashes, though knowing Todd he'd almost certainly enjoy it and beg for more.

I would pay five dollars for the bundle and not a penny more, which is actually a doable arrangement if you wait for a good sale, I've seen them from time to time.

Courier Six would complete every main quest before even starting them officially without even realizing it just by dicking around. I could totally picture the Courier standing over the radioactive crater where the Institute used to be and saying to themselves "Yup, I'm pretty sure Benny wasn't there. On to the next town!" Then just buggering off back into the wastes.

I suppose you didn't figure that she just went to a pre-war newspaper's printing office and loaded up on all the leftover paper? I imagine there's quite a lot of it still there, really who else is even gonna touch it? Other people are scrounging for food, medicine, bullets and clothing, meanwhile Piper is ripping the Boston Bugle's Ghoul infested office apart loading up on paper. That's on brand for her and makes perfect sense. No need to overthink it.

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Even if you complete the quest that enables Doctor Henry to eventually find a cure for schizophrenia, Lily doesn't have an ending slide that reflects this outcome. Therefore we have to entertain the notion that Lily is never cured and continues living with her condition. And in which case, regardless of the Courier's actions, that in every possible scenario it is a mathematical certainty that, provided Lily lives long enough, she will either stop taking her medication or find herself in some set of circumstances where she doesn't have regular or any access to her medication and will inevitably be overtaken by her schizophrenia. So it doesn't matter what ending the player chooses for her, they all lead to the same place in the end, only the journey there is different.

I need more information: if I go with my Gatling Laser am I using fusion cores or EC Packs? Because if it's the fusion core variant then I can carry a pack with more of my equipment. And if it's the fusion core variant, can I choose not to carry other weapons and just bring a couple of extra cores? Also if I'm using my Gatling can I go in my power armor too? And am I using my old set of armor that doesn't need fusion cores or my Quantum armor? Because if it's my Quantum armor I can sling a rucksack over my shoulder and carry even more cores in it and lash some more canvas bags to my suit to carry more supplies, and if it's my old armor I hope it's not the EC Gatling I'm using because I have to carry the pack and then I wouldn't be able to carry any equipment or supplies with me so have to drop it and opt for a Laser Rifle instead. And if I'm not using my power armor than I can't effectively carry my Gatling so also have to pick up a Laser Rifle.

Typically I just let them go back to their default locations rather than send them to a settlement so that they don't count towards my population limit. After all, shouldn't Piper be going home to check in on her sister every once in a while? Preston is the only exception, I leave him at the Castle, most appropriate location for him.

There's nothing written about it in-game to draw further information from. Going off of previous games, it may have been of Enclave origins but isn't quite so robust as Tesla suits seen in the past. More likely it's just a simple case of a Rust Devil with some talent for engineering splicing a few electrodes into the circuitry of a T-60 suit they salvaged. If that were the case, the end result looks pretty good considering most raider modifications are haphazardly cobbled together from whatever pieces of reclaimed metal and electronic components they're able to repurpose and restore to working condition.

If memory serves me, I think there's a line in the game where Deacon mentions seeing the SS leave the vault. Can't figure out why he was camping out up there watching the sealed vault to begin with on the off chance that someone was coming out for a stroll today. This man needs a hobby.

I don't recommend that you ever buy any creation club content, it's all a racket to get you to spend more money and exploit your fear of missing out to do it. But if your mind is made up than I say don't pay any money for the handmade shotgun, wait until one of those deals that come around every once in awhile where they list it for free for a few days than you grab it. It's not worth spending on.

@Insomnia Macabre There's no need to mouth off to them. They were only venting after all.

@CISDidNothingWrong I voted against allowing anon editing back in March, the irony being that I'm one of those cretins you mentioned that only participates in discussions on Nukapedia yet still participates in votes every once in awhile. I suppose I know where we stand then. That aside, my reasoning for voting against anons isn't totally in line with your own.

I'm coming up on 13 years on Fandom next month, and with that experience I have to say that it's as true now as it was when I joined up that allowing anon editing is just not good practice on large wikis like this one. From all that I've seen, all it's ever done is invite trouble. Almost every anon edit I've seen in my tenure was either vandalic, edit warring, or something that was incomprehensible and of such low quality that I questioned whether or not it was vandalism or just poor use of language. The few good faith edits I've seen briefly restore my faith in humanity for about five seconds, but then it gets snuffed out again wen I resume scrolling. Others have argued that disabling anon editing just to get rid of bad actors isn't worth also locking out the handful of good faith anons that did nothing wrong, I beg to differ, those good faith anons are a minority that are few and far between, I say it's the inverse of that point we should focus on: that allowing just the few good apples in isn't worth buying up the entire rotten batch.

Now on the topic of wanting recognition for your work, it's understandable, it's human nature, but it's in poor taste on Fandom. Wikis are a dynamically evolving collaborative project, they're not for one person to insist upon their own take or for anyone to claim credit for. If you see someone make grammar corrections to a page that you were just working on for hours, that's not at all something to get in a fuss about, and if it's one of your chief reasons for being against anon editing then that's a very arbitrary stance. If you want the gratification of knowing that you did good work no matter what anybody else says, your edit history is proof enough of that. That's how I've rationalized having my own work butchered or undone in the past. There's no sense in being bitter about it. Sometimes I go back to my earliest edits on Fandom and compare them to the current articles, most of the time it's unrecognizable, but when I see fragments or even full paragraphs of what I wrote over a decade ago still being used as the meat of an article it gives me that small bit of validation that I need to known that my efforts were worth it. I don't care if they corrected my use of weather and whether or then and than, and I shouldn't.

Me who bought the digital version: ...

It would have taken less time for you to scroll to the top and click unfollow than it did to type out your response. It's really not a big deal.

My headcanon is that Ron turned into a ghoul, spent the next 200 years wandering the wasteland while documenting the numerous events that transpired like a chronicler, and the entire Fallout franchise is actually just him narrating the story to a bunch of children of the new world. But his brain is slowly melting from ghoulification and his memory is shot, so that's why the ending is always different each time he tells the story, and all of the game crashes are what happens when he loses the plot and totally getting derailed like grandpa Simpson.

You're assuming that the Minutemen have an organized ranking structure, they most likely don't. They're a militia, it's a completely volunteer organization, they take orders from whoever seems like they know what they're talking about and they're not going to follow somebody who they don't trust or who they think is a moron. They're not soldiers, they're just a couple of ordinary guys working together, and if they think they can't work with someone then they don't. There is no dogmatic adherence to rank and seniority.

Colonel's are probably just local leaders that the volunteers from the settlements in that area chose to listen to. Below that maybe you have a few people who are team leaders or the closest thing to them because the rest of the group trusts them enough to let them make the decisions. Case in point, Preston is only a leader because the job fell into his lap, and out of everyone else in his group who the hell else is gonna do the job? It'll just have to be him, nobody else is capable. That's generally how volunteer groups of any kind work out the leadership question.

"Press START to open the menu."