#fnv spoilers

[fizzymilkcan]

[chuckees]

I cannot understate how much whoever wrote Arcade Gannon understood the kind of person he was so dearly because the fact he kills himself after being sold to Caesar and being made into his debate bro is so insanely real

[sawsily]

playing fnv for the first time and i put all my points into unarmed and just ran straight for the strip and got yes man in lucky 38 in the span of like 3 hours

the person helping me play keeps getting frustrated with me over how im getting through everything despite being level 6

[jojojooo33]

Muggy!!

[crazysodomite]

i spent too much time on this pic so here it is. whatsapp is serious to me

[yucca-moth]

I'm doing a new playthrough and it's getting me thinking about stuff. I find it incredibly harrowing that Victor basically has a dead guy's brain copied into him and has to do whatever House tells him to do.

Trudy is telling me how 'it's' hiding something, and doesn't trust Victor at all. Easy Pete telling me how he's harmless and "a broken down relic with no place to be."

Got me thinking again about how Victor's just been rolling around every so often in Goodsprings (while I'm assuming every so often switching consciousness to another robot). Why? Why keep watch over Goodsprings? It's not like it's instrumental to the strip or House at all to hang around there for 10 years.

Which leads me to the deeper questions like how much humanity remains in him? How much of the person he's based on remains specifically? Does he still think like a human, or are all the processes now... hmm filtered through machine like reasoning?

What got me thinking about Victor in this way again was suddenlyremembering how I asked him to help us defend Goodsprings in my first playthrough, and he didn't show up. Feeling disappointed. Then I think I used science skill when I next saw him to determine 'someone' (obv House in retrospect) had shut him down to prevent him showing up to help.

Incredibly horrifying to think that someone who owns you could shut you down like that, no matter their relationship when he was human. If House can shut him down, and gets him to do things like follow me around but not get involved, then how much free will does he have over his actions? Has Victor changed in the last 200 years? Or is he stuck exactly as he was when his brain was scanned, except that he has no choice in what he does now if House doesn't like it. Does he get to die if he wants to? Or is he too useful to House to be allowed that? Can House mess around with his artificial brain or just simply manipulate him into doing what he wants the old fashioned way? Is his compliance with House out of habit from when he was human, choice because he still agrees with House's ideas, or is there no choice for him?

I vaguely remember the explanations he gave me in the Lucky 38 in a previous playthrough making me sad. I can't even remember what he said exactly about himself, but I remember lots of questions feeling left unanswered. Which is part of the fnv experience of course... But, in this case I just couldn't even look at Victor standing outside the Lucky 38 without feeling bad. And now seeing him rolling around Goodsprings it's bringing back some of the sadness

I know part of the fun of FNV is creating your own ideas, roleplaying, deciding how to take situations where it isn't fully fleshed out or the constraints of the game are showing. So idk, I hope maybe I'm thinking about it all in a certain way, and maybe I come across or reason out another way to think about these Victor questions in my current playthrough. But for now he's a bunch of unanswered questions to me.

[robotgirlfoxears]

Yeah well he’s MY tortured antagonist driven to do something he knows is evil by his own grief

[amygobrrr]

I finished the 'dead money' new vegas expansion for the first time last night (look, I got just the basegame originally and never bothered to upgrade until recently), and I was incredibly disappointed with how they treated christine at the end

this whole big buildup to her mission to kill father elijah and then once you go down in the vault she just…disappears? like if you go back up to her room afterwards, she's just gone

and the ending slideshow says she "stayed as the protector of the sierra madre," can't bring her back to the mojave (away from all the horrible trauma she experienced in the villa at the hands of dean domino (which btw finally shooting him in the face was satisfying, fuck him)), can't reunite her with veronica, can't even TELL HER THAT YOU KNOW VERONICA. ugh.

I liked the expansion up until the end part, but that left a really bad taste in my mouth

fortunately there's a mod that lets you bring her back to veronica! obviously doesn't really have any new writing aside from a couple reused voice lines, but hey it lets me pretend 😊

[hedona]

I have just finished Honest Hearts, and, gotta say this as a previous atheist and current satanist, Joshua Graham fucking kicks ass and i love every single bit of his existence.

Also fuck Caesar. It took every single cell in my body to not shoot him on sight because i wanna see what happens if you arent a dick to House first

[gay-caesar-truther]

Gabe's relationships with the compainions is going to be... tenuous at best, at least until reasonably late game.

However, I think his friendship with Arcade is going to be... intresting. Arcade kinda reminds Gabe of his father, he's smart, he's hopeful, he cares deeply about the people, etc. Which is probably why Gabriel even bothers talking to him in the first place.

However, with the Grand Reveal in Arcades quest Gabriel is going to loose him mind on a pretty astronomical level, which SUCKS for Arcade whose already got issues opening up to people, Arcade'll probably consider leaving the Mojave, convinced Gabriel ran off to sell him out to the NCR. Luckily Gabriel catches up to him before he can, and kinda vaguely explains his past with the Enclave. Their friendship is... strained for a while after that.

He's going to consider killing the remnants, I don't think that idea ever gets completely written off. However, who would it help? Killing a bunch of old folks? Killing what remains of his friends family? Arcade never asked to be born in the Enclave. Who would killing them serve? Not him, and Not Arcade. So he bites his tongue, stays his hand. He lets Arcade do the talking, he's here to support Arcade, that's it.

He loves Arcade more than he hates the Enclave.

[tannnnblogs]

"Aw, shhh, don't cry."

[stoat-party]

[obliviongate]

ah yes, my favourite fallout new vegas character

[lacking-artdration]

please Bethesda please pleaaase please what if what if

[jojojooo33]

If the king were prone to getting his head stuck in Kleenex boxes (or captured by enemies)

(this also applies to The Courier when they fuck things up)

[crazysodomite]

I NEED TO BE LOCKED AWAY.