I have that with Ada…? Or something. Anyway, that robot bugged me to talk to her so much that I sent her to the settlement I visit least, just to stop hearing from her. I really don't think they scripted the behavior, of course, but it did amuse me a bit as an example of emergent gameplay.

It's so simple but it really holds together well for what it is.

I do something similar, with the added step that if I think there's actually any danger (like a deathclaw or something), I'll sprinkle a couple of mines around first. Silenced snipering gets boring after awhile, actually.

I like Piper as a character - well-written, and an interesting addition to the action at hand - but everyone I've traveled with has no outside clue how to do stealth. I'm sitting in a nice dark nook picking guys off with a sniper rifle, and then Piper just runs up and gets into a handgun fight. Every. Time. Sigh…

Heh, that one I knew. I didn't have what I needed to fix up a banged up settlement, so I left on a supply run, and when I came back, lo and behold, the place was fine. Kind of silly, really. (On the other hand, the idea that I'd need to constantly run around fixing settlements sounds awful, so I'm actually thankful…

Ooo, I hadn't thought of that. Thank you kindly. I had actually started out breaking down stuff like crap guns pretty religiously early on, but then quit because I just didn't need springs any more. I should keep my eyes open for what I can break down, though.

I started enjoying it when I started going for bonkers with it. I have a vaguely Eschersque home base at Sanctuary Hills that runs on the "up not out" motif pretty heavily. Otherwise, I'm all pragmatism on those.

Hah! The idea appeals to me more than slightly, but how do you get all the circuit boards for the machine guns? Or did you just pile barracades everywhere? (Actually, I might do that anyway regardless of what you answer now that I think about it. That's just a funny idea.)

I should build a robot, but I dumped perk points into Lone Wanderer and I don't want to lose that.

The endless-sidequests thing is actually what got me back on moving the game forward again. I was pretty happy just helping settlements and collecting an amazing pile of junk for awhile there, but two things happened: I realized the sidequests were literally endless, and I leveled up to the point where the "raiders…

Fallout 4 - Still digging it. I just finished the trek into the glowing sea, which was appropriately eerie and memorable. Yep, still good.

Ooo, Buy All The Things! My brother and I once pulled off the Steam achievement "Under A Hundred Bucks" by raiding Amish estate auctions in Kansas (literally), but we did not have a classy sort of setup there. Like, at all.

That irks me, too. My family owned some totally-undeveloped land in a reasonably remote stretch of the Rocky Mountains for awhile, and I loved it there. It had bears, wolverines, a mountain lion nest and rattlesnakes, and the only time any of us was in real trouble out there was when a drunk idiot from the city…

Word for word what went through my head too.

I… took Jojen paste as the truth? We really didn't hear from him, and Jojen really did tell us how greenseeing was passed along… It's such a nasty idea, but it is certainly thematically consistent (which, much agreed with your point there, too.)

That's been weird for me, because a) the show's much, much neater than the books, but b) it seems inevitable that even the books will turn into a more conventional fantasy at some point—or else there will be literally nobody left alive by the end, when winter comes and all the storehouses are empty and burned and the…

It's funny, somehow I never framed "Dany in Meereen" as "America in Iraq" before. (That probably tells you something about when I gave up on following the metacommentary in the community.) I quite liked that Martin gave the vile slavers a legitimate point, just like he gave the mutineers at the Wall a wide variety…

You're right! I should leave flaying-blood-magic babyfat vampire Roose Bolton alone! He keeps to himself, right? He didn't ask for this!

Replying as a second upvote. He used that sense of escalating dread (as sung by a choir of a hundred voices) several times, to massive effect. I didn't see the Red Wedding coming, exactly, but I knew something was up for sure, and I did see Nedd Stark's execution coming from a mile away.

I don't think it's tremendously spoiler-y of me to point out that since it's called a Song of Ice and Fire, I assume that the "real" story at work is Jon and Dany's courtship. If that's true, then the "heroes winning" outcome is where this was headed from the first page, and the question is how we get there.