It was fun the first time (very 1980s cyberpunk; a bit like Interplay’s own Neuromancer game from the 1980s), but yes, the memory puzzles got old quickly.

If it’s the weak main story that you dislike from Fallout 4 rather than the engine, I’d recommend checking out the DLCs. They are of a higher quality than the main game.

Yeah, because there really is a moral choice to be made — the various factions in Far Harbor have all good and bad sides. Which is rare for these games — mostly you either get to pick the obvious good guys or the bad guys. (New Vegas at least had a third/fourth choice with Mr. House/replacing Mr. House, but still, it…

That’s because they are salamanders, or rather their ancestors were. Pretty much all Fallout monsters are mutated real-world animals of some kind or another.

Okay, yes, that one does. But in general, the whole “war never changes” monologue isn’t about a current war in the games, but rather that war from the era of cavemen to nuclear weapons only changed tools but that the underlying motivations were the same.

That’s their dress uniform and not what they generally wear, but yes. The Mounties these days serve as basically Canada’s FBI.

Not really in the games either (although you can find ghoulified Chinese soldiers that don’t know the war ended centuries ago). Like in the show, the war is the backstory for how the world got the way it is.

Not really. It may have had progressive tendencies, but it always promoted the woo-woo bullshit stuff about modern medicine being bad and other newage sewage.

I haven’t seen her before (didn’t watch Yellowjackets) but I was struck how much she looks like a younger Rashida Jones.

Or sleeping in a bed

Is he really 5'9"? I’m 5'9" and never have been called short. Not tall, certainly, but pretty average. But the way people talk about Cruise you’d think he was barely taller than Peter Dinklage.

I remember in high school English we had to write a fictional conversation between two characters in works we had read that year. My English teacher was not amused that I picked Bartleby as one of the characters.

Proust was also mentioned in several Monty Python sketches. And on an unrelated note, Deacon, the Railroad-associated companion NPC in Fallout 4 mentions that he reads Proust in one of his dialogues.

The frightening thing is people used to like it as a “so bad it’s good” movie, but I’ve heard apparently unironic takes lately that praise it as an actual good movie!

People are confusing landlords with capitalists. They are both into money, but they are different. Monopoly (or rather “The Landlords Game”) was criticizing landlords who charge people rent on property, not capitalists who make money by owning the means of production and employing workers to run it, and who make a…

I’m not the biggest Bethesda fan out there, but I’m baffled about your complaint that Fallout 3 was “inaccessible”. How so? If anything, the problem with Bethesda games is that they are too accessible, with ridiculous amounts of hand-holding that make knowing what to do and where to go trivial because you just follow…

That’s like saying you can’t call nearly half of the American public idiots/racists/deplorables because they want Trump to be president again.

But if you win the Nobel, you’re given a free pass to rip off the hack idea of clones grown for their organs as Ishiguro did with his “Never Let Me Go”. The simple fact is, if you have the technology to clone whole people you have the tech to clone organs, and growing whole people, besides the ethical issues, is just…

With a lot of changes. You never get why the city of Lyon hated Barbie so.

I really like NSNA myself, but apparently among serious Bond fans that is the “wrong opinion”.