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Holidays are a busy time for me, so tomorrow I should be able to finally wrap up the review notes by going back to episode 3.

House doesn't have any ethical objections, all of his concerns are practical. None of the practical issues with the dumbass plan raised by Leon or House are ever satisfied, yet we're left with the impression that they went along with it. Since after all, the Vault-Tec plan IS realized and the...

Man, the Business Plot was a planned coup against the Presidency because American businessmen thought the New Deal was going too far, not a plot to literally destroy capitalism and the entire world. There's no sense of proportionality or context in anything you say.

Do you not understand how this is literally a retcon? New Vegas both predates the TV show and was written by different people with experience from the original games. It has a primary canonicity which the TV show has no claim to, regardless of the law. You might as well be saying the Brian...

It occurs to me that Mr. House is another retcon. Mr. House says in New Vegas that he predicted the Great War was inevitable about a decade ahead of time (with his prediction being off by two years), which still holds true if this conspiracy was shortly before the war. However, if Mr. House was...

The Enclave bouncing back isn't that hard to believe, the problem is that it's lame and we've seen the Enclave before already. ED-E was given coordinates to reach the Enclave base in Navarro, so Enclave members still had details on their base network across the country by the time of Fallout 3...

Yeah it's all a big fat mess. Logical explanations beg reasonable questions with no good answers. I really get the feeling this was a rough draft script if not a first draft. There's no way they did any revisions in the writing room.

Not sure what the details are, but the point still stands. The T-51 also would have had that bad weld if the T-60 still has it.

The weapon most comparable to power armor is the tank, and tanks are infamous for being practically impossible to make invulnerable under any circumstance. Tanks always have shot traps or some other design flaw that presents a weakness, even from front facing, but they use them anyway because...

If the intent with the gulpers was to be an anti-caveman bioweapon they would have said so. I assumed that was the point at first too, but Hawthorne merely says they were crossbreeding humans with radioactive resistant species.

The Triune vaults are in Santa Monica not The Boneyard, but the Master would have found it anyway because it's right along the coastline next to the Santa Monica Pier. - Vault 4's existence is practically impossible. It wasn't in the original Fallout despite having an entrance door sticking out...

Vault 15 wasn't even a control vault. Vault-Tec's plan to be the only faction on the surface included vaults designed to repopulate the surface decades and centuries before the management vaults would open up, with no direction or monitoring from the management vaults. They don't even know about...

This is not a huge stretch for a setting with something like FEV in it. You're still thinking of Fallout as being based in hard scifi and not pulp comics. You can flush your entire body of radiation with an IV drip. No, it breaks the setting because the mere existence of Vault 4 breaks...

It does. Hawthorne is in the last holotape recording that they play for Lucy. Which means the mutant uprising must have happened pretty soon after the Great War.

Cousin Jeb couldn't be trusted around the school kids, so we had to "let him go."

The inherent problem with monopolies is that they're socially unstable. Once you've achieved monopoly power you invite a public correction to break up your assets and redistribute market shares to a status quo ante. If left unchecked, a market monopoly will stagnate an entire sector since there...

It was well known at the time that urban workers were stunted. The average Londonite worker was shorter than your average peasant, who lived in much healthier conditions and could support themselves with personal possessions, produce, and livestock. Raises in wages for urban workers was largely...

I mean, for fuck's sake, Rebel Moon has a better understanding of political economy than Fallout TV. And that's a movie about the 40k imperial guard coming to steal grain from a Skyrim village.

It's not an arbitrary bar, because if there's radioresistant human beings walking around and producing offspring who are also radioresistant, then the wasteland isn't really a threat anymore. The survivalistic tension of the post-apocalypse gets halved and all you're left with is killer...

Finance guys used to talk about Index Funds in the 80s like they were worse than communism, and that's mostly because when index funds take over a sector of the economy they start making corrections for externalities that hurt their other assets - like say, chemical runoff damaging a private...