VIN etching, wheel locks, door edge guards, maybe mud guards, and don’t forget the Tru-Coat. That’s at least $5K right there. /s

Other than New Vegas, which game’s protagonists weren’t vault dwellers? I don’t remember Fallout 2, but 1, 3, 4, and 76 were all vault dwellers.

The salesman never left his desk during the sale because he didn’t want the buyer to see the massive boner he had the whole time. 

The car’s “owner” will probably sue the shop and make $100K which they will use for a downpayment on a million dollar house... financed at 17.5%

Definitely part of it.

That’s several hundred dollars per month more than the monthly mortgage payment (incoming tax and insurance escrow) for my lovely 2 story brick home in the suburbs. For a Kia. That’s bonkers

Yep.

Roddenberry’s diminishing influence was a big factor, but there were other behind-the-scenes changes that really shaped TNG at that point. The big changes from seasons 2-3 included showrunner Maurice Hurley’s departure (he was, by all accounts, a super toxic influence on the early seasons and the reason for Gates…

“Oh, remote was miserable for me! I couldn’t spend minutes talking to co-workers throughout the day, and I wasn’t able to get through my podcast backlog because I wasn’t languishing in traffic!”

His vision also evolved quite a bit, even if nobody wants to admit it. The original idea of an interracial, multi-national crew was legitimately progressive for the time, but Kirk, Spock, and Bones are the only ones with personalities for a while, and they were constantly bickering. But my guess is that fans told him f…

You can make an argument for TNG but Voyager, really? 

Defying orders from immoral, corrupt, compromised, incompetent, or inept superiors was not only fertile ground for some of the best Star Trek material, but it also happened under Roddenberry’s watch. In TOS, Kirk retook command of the Enterprise in The Deadly Years after he was relieved of duty because the acting…

I’m a much bigger Star Trek fan than Star Wars, but Roddenberry was problematic as hell and shouldn’t be remembered half as fondly as he is.

I’ll take The Motion Picture over The Final Frontier every day of the week.

It just lets you know which movie he watched last week.

People seem to forget that Roddenberry was quite a horndog. Might be why he hired Rick Berman, lol

Huge respect to Roddenberry for kicking off Star Trek. But TNG didn’t get really good until they kicked Roddenberry to the curb, so I don’t see his “vision” as necessarily being all that great. And, by all accounts, he didn’t like Wrath of Khan, so his tastes are questionable.

The biggest issue that I find with fandom are creatives that are unwilling to do anything more than please the fans, and the fans themselves who don’t want anything different and just want the same shit repackaged in a slightly different way.

The chief example is Star Wars, a show that is stuck regurgitating the same…

Like the thing about Fallout specifically is that “pleasing the fans” depends a lot on “which fans”. A whole lot of people like Fallout and their entry to the series was Fallout 3. A smaller, but no less vocal, proportion of Fallout fans *hate* Fallout 3 and have only softened on it because they hate Fallout 4 more.

So is making statements like that. Why say anything at all if you’re just trying to annoy people?