When I read it, I get a very Brazil vibe but with a more sinister undercurrent.

Eh... I wouldn’t go that far. If anything Southern states are a miniature representation of the US as a whole. A majority of the populations live in the cities. The cities are by and larger liberal. You go to Nashville these days and its a very liberal, LGBT friendly city with world-class food, drink and arts. The…

My favorite story about these guys: The FL attorney that pushed FL to repeal its helmet law died in a motorcycle crash. And it wasn’t even someone else’s fault; he lost control of the bike while slowing down.

I don’t think Ishido intended for Mariko to die. The shinobi were there to kidnap her so that she couldn’t go back to Toronaga or unalive herself. They didn’t try to kill her when the got into the bedroom, they were trying to carry her away.

What on earth is this, “Maybe” is quintessentially Fallout. That the rest of their catalogue was cannibalized for the rest of the series is nowhere near as poignant.

Well like the article says there’s a second letter with the “lol that was a fun prank wasn’t it? Please watch our movie.” Don’t know who thought of that brilliant idea, because I'm sure there were way more people than the one in this story who opened the creepy drawing letter first and got freaked out

This is both hilarious as a marketing campaign gone wrong, and a tragic and frightening state of affairs for where we are now in this country. That people expect political violence by the MAGA crazies. And why wouldn’t they, since the amazingly large mob’s fascist leader is very competitive at the moment for winning…

but with amphibians

And, sure, that’s basically just Old Man Logan but with amphibians

I think my oldness might be showing here - “Maybe” is really central to Fallout 1, playing over that incredible ending, and so it’s the song I most closely associate with the games. “World On Fire” is also a biggie, but “Maybe” will always be THE Fallout song for me. Zur’s soundtrack is a whole other, great thing -…

My terrible, horrible secret is that I don’t like Fallout 4 (which means I only played, what, 80 hours of it) and so I never played the DLC. I missed the Gulper, apologies!

Since the soundtracks are pretty much my favorite thing about the games, I will respectfully disagree.

I also feel like the TLOU and FO shows are taking two entirely different approaches, with TLOU’s being “let’s take this video game premise and tell it as realistically as possible” and Fallout’s being “make a new…

The headline has transposed “teeth” and “fingers”. The Gulper has human fingers instead of teeth. 

This doesn’t have the urgency that TLOU has, the characters are just shells, the 50s soundtrack quickly became grating since it adds nothing to the storytelling, and the whole thing is cartoonish. TLOU was basically the TV event of last year and this isn’t that.

shut the fuck up.

Just terrible. My father died the same way

The ghoul’s gun resembled a gyrojet pistol - a gun that shoots rockets. Not actually in the Fallout games (unless you count mods, which maybe the people behind this series have used!) but it is an oddity firearm from the 1960s so it fits right with the whole vibe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet

They/them not she for Dane.

Ya, the recapper has this wrong. The seppuku was not meant to get his underlings to keep fighting. It was to really, REALLY convince even his own people that he was serious about surrendering and getting their pledge to do so as well. He needs this to convince Ishido and Ochiba as that signed pledge was what was…

Last point, I think Ochiba genuflecting is meant to show that she’s fully bought that Toranaga is surrending and that the plan succeeded. She was being told that she picked the wrong one between Toranaga and Ishido and that Ishido wasn’t cut out to win this war, all while she doesn’t trust Toranaga and assumes he must…