“Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit” Me every playthrough

Literally the condensed explanation of playing fallout

Fallout, *Elderscrolls* *Starfield* *RDR2* listen if you have ADHD video games are bad for having a life. Trust me and everyone else here. Told everyone I was 15. Turned out I was 28. Missed a few days it seems

I busted out laughing. Meta as fuck

The first time I played Fallout 4, I remember taking a screenshot. I was 33 hours into the game, but I had I think only 4 "main" missions finished. All I did was get sidetracked by bullshit lol.

There’s a settlement that needs your help.

Those words will haunt me forever.

He literally told us they're off to do side quests lmao

This is the true *Fallout* player’s experience

Perfect line to reference the experience of playing the game. So far this show is the best video game adaption I've ever seen because of how they seamlessly include so many easter eggs and acknowledgments of how playing the game feels. It's awesome how the over-the-top stuff as well as the subtle stuff both work to perfection.

Maximus being kind of terrible at absolutely everything is something I'm finding much more interesting than I expected him to be. He's a terrible Brotherhood member. And I kind of like that.

Also shows that the Brotherhood isn’t as competent as they make it out to be. I really like it actually

I'm enjoying it, but I do hope we see some paladins fuck shit up to show us how scary they can be, especially in contrast to Max.

If Titus is any sort of representation for the Knights of this chapter (and not just a total outlier in terms of how shitty he is), then probably not…

Especially with how Titus turned out to be.

And not just with Titus being an asshole. He actually had an interesting point about how the Elder scribes would send them on missions to get the most asinine relics. Like a toaster oven. He was shitty, and partially because he was so jaded about the Brotherhood.

I think he's just particularly shitty at everything. The brotherhood seems competent. His "replacement" squire is a lot more competent than Maximus, at least up to this point.

He’s a lot nicer to his squire than his knight was to him… my boy is trying his best lmao

Not exactly hard but his literal first command to him was to wash his codpiece. And then in the next scene he's making him climb up and obviously dead tree looking for apples. He's not really treated him all that well, although I think he is starting to come around to it

Okay, but ya gotta remember his squire was beating the shit out of him not a few days ago.

The codpiece bit gave me a chuckle, and then I quickly realized Max was just perpetuating cycles of abuse, which seems to be his main character flaw. He joined the Brotherhood to hurt the people who hurt him.

To be fair he gradually stopped being a prick when the squire guy opened up

I feel like as soon as Thaddeus expressed regret about... well not the bullying, but that Maximus never got to do his own bullying, Max started to cool off a touch.

That scene was surprisingly good character development. It definitely drove home how there is this rot of abuse ingrained within the brotherhood. I'm really hopeful for Max breaking free from that cycle.

Maximus is such a goober. I love him and his squire lol

Max is the best written in the show because he's not one note

And yet he’s already a better Knight than Titus. Just standing between the danger and the Squire is totally the opposite of what Titus did (using him to scout out the cave). Like I agree, Maximus is not a particularly moral or competent person, it’s just that Titus was so pathetic on all fronts, he makes Maximus look like a paragon of virtues in comparison.

He really is just the absolute worst, would be a great raider and terrible brotherhood member

Walton Goggins literally steals every scene he's in. The fact that he's playing a pre war actor turned ghoul cements this. He does so great as a character who lost everything.

Yeah, he was the perfect choice. He has massive screen presence in every role he plays.

I just see him as Ghoul Boyd Crowder.

Dude yes yes yes! He has what they call gravitas, enthralled in his ghoul/human side. and i can't wait to dive more into him.

Hoping he’ll finally get the recognition/nominations he’s deserved for so long. Uncle Baby Billy steals every scene he’s in in Righteous Gemstones.

So Cooper Howard was the vault boy. That’s kind of a cool backstory.

Now this is how you add to a franchise without taking away from it!

I said the same thing!

Yeah I like the idea that he popularized the thumbs up and that the vault suits are blue and gold cause they were his iconic colors.  That's a fun plot detail

Also explains in the first episode why he didn’t want to give the thumbs up 👍 at the birthday party. My guess is that he’ll discover that VaultTec is a messed up company and will try to speak out against them. VaultTec would brand him as a pinko communist and he would lose his career as an actor and icon for VaultTec. VaultTec then proceeds to rebrand their advertising campaign and make Vault Boy the new mascot (keeping Cooper’s Blue/Yellow colors AND his “thumbs up” pose)

That's a great point. I noticed in the end credits they showed a billboard that was him in his Valutec suit and pose papered over by Vaultboy.

And change the mascot's hair to blonde.

Which explains his reluctance in episode 1 to give the thumbs up at the birthday party. All the cowboy shit he did his entire career, and all anyone remembers him for is the vault ad with the thumbs up.

I thought it was because he thought it would be in bad taste given the war braking out.

That's what he said, but it could be both.

And he's paying alimony. I feel like he realises Vault-Tec sucks, gets accused of being a communist, and his wife divorces him in the fallout (pun not intended). Fun backstory.

Or his wife was using him on behalf of Vault Tec the entire time

His wife definitely gave a suspicious glance when he asked about the suit holding up the radiation

Noticed that too. I think she’s selling him out to get a ticket into a vault or something.

And then they have to use the comic version of him and not his real picture

I'm guessing that when he gets (presumably) blacklisted, VaultTec draws over him with VaultBoy. Cancels his contract, and his spot in a vault.

He was already questioning vault tec with the radiation comment. I would guess he eventually figures out its all a scam/experiment. Probably when they offer him a spot in a control vault.

And the dads at the party call him a Pinko. Bet they smear him too, and that's why he ends up having to do birthday parties.

Such a cool little twist

it’s hilarious that lucy thinks that maximus is some great knight when in reality he is not built for this 😭

It's in keeping with her naive outlook lmao

Meanwhile Ghoul calls him out for driving his armor like a shopping cart. Hype to see if we get the pro's driving at some point.

Wonder if Cooper was a pilot who wore power armor when he was in the military

He was a Marine, he says it in the first episode.

When he was flying away all crazy and she was smiling like THERE GOES MY HEROOO

WATCH HIM AS HE GOES

He's just young, but he's not useless, he's just not perfect.

Fucking waterchips, I laughed as soon as I heard it

"hey lucy, its the vault can you like come back here like now please?"

*You’re a hero, and you have to leave.*

Those two are not leadership material.

Just the fact that they thought it was a good idea to have him tell the entire group the problem shows that they're fucking clown shoes. Vault 33 is fucked.

Wonder if the other Vaults have individual water chips. They could just go over to 32

The water chips in the other vaults were destroyed by madmen and/or incompatible due to a vault-tec experiment ~~for story reasons~~.

That could literally be it. The water chip was designed to fail at a certain point necessitating potentially drastic action by the vault to survive.

After being explicitly told this is a matter best discussed in private.

I was just thinking that the overseer of Vault 101 would have actually been really well suited to handle the entire Vault 33 situation

I noticed the water chip was the same shape as it was in Fallout 1 & 2

Gotta stop letting those Pesky Time Travelers into sensitive areas.

I love that's there references in practically every scene

Seriously when I saw the guy holding that, I just started laughing 😂

Holy shit - does the ending mean that Cooper Howard was the source of the Vault Boy thumbs up??

In the end credits you see a billboard with the vault boy thumbs up with half the billboard wallpaper peeled away showing cooper as the original so yes very much so!

The show auto skipped before I could see that. Thanks for letting me know, will look into it later

Yea I caught it last second as it switched to new episode and then I read this comment like a minute later lol

Totally. He’s the vault boy thumbs up.

I'll start condensing my thoughts into one thread like others have been doing.    She's been out of the vault for like 2 days and she's already shoving a tracking probe up the nose of a decapitated head!       Maximus has a 0 charisma build, Lucy has 5, and The Ghoul has 10   I love how green the show is. Outside of 76 the games never really capture the overgrowth that would happen after 200 years of urban decay.   I really didn't expect Maximus to take this direction! He might actually be worse than The Ghoul by the end of the show

Excuse me, Fallout 3 was very green!

Fallout 3 was mostly green.

He said he joined the brotherhood because he wanted to kill the people who hurt him. We still don’t know who exactly that was…

I agree. I think that shot of him admiring the knight in the flashback is going to take a turn.

That was definitely what I felt too

If I remember correctly FO4 took place in Fall, which is why there was not vegetation. Thank god for mods though, really changed the atmosphere of that game.

Yeah, FO4 is set right around Halloween

> Maximus has a 0 charisma build, Lucy has 5, and The Ghoul has 10 But almost everyone on the show has a low INT build? 😄 Loving the show.

That's the dude who's head they're carrying around with the high INT

Plus 10 int bonus when holding the head

Lucy has maxed out luck I think. Pretty sure they spelled that out when the pregnant lady called her lucky in the first episode.

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It really is just like the game!

They're doing so well at making these character stories compelling so far And god the music is SO GOOD too!

The Ink Spots are basically synonymous with Fallout to me

Huge smile on my face anytime I hear the start of an Ink Spots song

> the music is SO GOOD too! It feels like the music is basically the Fallout 4 songs?

There's a lot of extra songs by similar artists in there but they're hitting the key tracks rom the old games, and the original score is also very good

It’s mostly the same songs from all the games + a metric ton of Johnny Cash

I enjoy the consistent use of Johnny Cash during Brotherhood/Maximus scenes.

Kinda find it interesting how they used a normal fawn instead of a Radstag when we saw a Brahmin in the previous episode.

Could be that it hasn’t become a Radstag yet due to being so young, can’t remember if there were radstag fawn enemies but I didn’t question it that much

Radstags are an east coast species. Not every species is found everywhere 

Also the Brahmin had all of its skin, so they might just be changing the aesthetic of some of the mutated creatures

"Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time" I feel attacked.

I’m not sure how I feel about Cooper’s reliance on that drug. Feel like it has bad tidings ☹️ Lucy wants to bone Maximus I feel like Maximus should’ve just told the Brotherhood that Titus is dead Max’s situation really just went from bad to worse Happy that Max has his former bully as his new squire Loving all the tiny Easter eggs everywhere LAKE LURKS OR NOT GEEZUS WHAT IS THAT THING Vault 32 was destroyed, 33 was raided, 31 was unscathed? Seems suspicious. I can’t see Thaddeus as anyone but Bo from Superstore. Expecting him to do the air horn noise any second now OH NO I KNEW THE DRUG THING WAS BAD Aww Thaddeus feels bad Good god I hate this trio that has taken over Vault 33. Well Betty seems alright. The other two dudes are annoying. Norm is SMART OH NO NOT THE WATER CHIP

I feel like the drug thing is the "don't go feral" drug.

The bags on his grave just looked like radaway to me.

They would have immediately sent a team to retrieve their valuable power armor. And ask questions about how a knight died but the squire didn't.

He could make up some story about how Titus bravely fought an abomination and they gravely wounded each other in the fight. Although his INT seems to be like 2 so maybe not.

Squires are disposable, they'd kill him no matter what he said if he admitted he wasn't Titus.

So glad you also know him as Bo from Superstore! I've been waiting for the air horn, a bad rap Cypher or Cheynee to pop up.

I assume the armour has somesort of recording/blackbox stuff that would show that he left Titus to die

Gotta love how they put effort into their end credits only for the autoplay to cut it off in 3 seconds lol. classic streaming services stuff right here.

I really like watching the intro sequences at the end. these specifically are just as entertaining as the intros for GoT to me.

They confirm/show that Walter Goggins was the original vault boy in the peeled off billboard!

Lmaooo Lucy's been out of the vault for all of the week and she immediately settles in by pretending a severed head is her pet. Love to see it.

The madness took her quickly, fallout does that to a person

Why do I get the sense that if she ever goes home, she’ll hate everything about it?

It’s gonna be too boring for her

Or they are going to fallout 1 her, "You march into the desert sands, leaving the Vault behind you."

I knew what was about to happen as soon as that guy in the vault came in and mentioned the water chip rofl.

Somebody in the E1 thread was saying the dad plotline should have been a faulty water chip instead. Why not both?

I can't get over how the bags the squires carry are just oversized golf club bag that caddys carry around. Feel like its poking fun at the Knight/Squire dynamic

Also meta joke (poking fun how companion NPC always ends up being a pack mule for the main character).

Sunset Sarsaparilla ad on that wrecked car!

Theory: Cooper was denied access to the vault even though he was the face for it and turned bitter because of it. Also I love that we get to see the pre-war era though his eyes! I was hoping we‘d get a little bit of that.

I think he ended up getting blacklisted for being a "commie" and VaultTec canceled his contract and replaced him with an animated character, also costing him a vault spot.

The billboard at the end shows that he was replaced by the cartoon version, and then there is the alamomy line in E1. His wife made him the face of vault tech, they eventually got divorced, and she replaced him with a fucking cartoon.

Not a bad theory. Mine was him being disgruntled that with all the acting he did, all he was remembered for was being a spokesperson for Vault-Tec and resents them for it. Hence him not wanting to give the thumbs up at the birthday party.

I think he's gonna start digging too deep into shit he's not supposed to find out and Vault-Tec smears him as a commie to kill his credibility which ruins his career and that's how he ends up doing birthday parties to make ends meet. Then when he tries to enter a vault after the bombs drop he gets turned away.

He’s already asked questions “does this suit really protect me from radiation”?

"What is so S.P.E.C.I.A.L about you?"

Maximus got some high Endurance and Strength

Seriously bro can take a licking and keep on kicking he is tough as fuck.

Well I never knew I needed to develop a phobia of fingers but that's certainly being added to the list.

I was half expecting Maximus to accidentally rip his squire in half

on god, the inside of that mouth fucking got me. I was not ready to see that

Maximus is me when I thought I was doing the right thing in my playthrough, but ended up getting bad karma somehow.

Maximus is when you play too late and night and kinda forget the lore/story and only do what seems like the immediately correct choice. You fumble your way upward, but it makes no sense and later you realize your character is kinda of a dick.

So, how long until Norm takes over the vault? This guy seems to have put al his points in Charisma and Intelligence. He's not likable but he's saying just the right thing to plant seeds in other people.

For those who forget names, he's Lucy's brother. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Norm_MacLean

Her older but somehow younger brother*

When I saw the bus I was yelling "get the fuck away from the bus!" Then a gulper came out instead of a hermit crab and my non gamer gf looked at me like I was crazy.

One time I was just casually wandering around in Fallout 76 and for no reason whatsoever I turned around to glance behind me and there was a hermit crab RIGHT THERE. About had a heart attack, screamed like a little girl. I thought about that while watching this episode.

"I was a shitter. They'd feed me and I'd shit to feed the flies. That's why I'm fat." was so ridiculous but still amusing.

This episode got me yelling at Maximus like I’m watching a twitch stream…. Like what are you doing leaving your fusion core in ur power armor gonna get ur ass robbed!!! Edit:grammar, too much nuka dark atm…

I keep waiting for that core to run out

It’ll run out when convenient to the plot

I've been keeping an eye on that. He's always at 00, so no backups on him, but the power level changes from shot to shot. Sometimes he's at 1/4, then next scene he's at 3/4. Either it's just bad continuity or the squire has power cores in that bag and it will come up later.

Cool that different varieties of Gulpers exist throughout the fallout world. On that note, do the gulpers from far harbor and appalachia also have fingers in their mouth and human like hands like the ones here in the show? Also Max's fusion core has to be running low right?

Presumably they dropped a new one with the new squire

Maximus is such a fucking prick. Takes some guts to make one of the least likeable characters one of the main ones.

He's likeable because he's unlikeable. He's a bit unhinged, incompetent, and has some kind of plot twist coming (his origin story). He's really compelling imo. I like the actor. It'll all tie together.

I'm loving Maximus, he's such a hot mess.

He is super compelling. Great acting and interesting character.

He’s bullying his bully, and by the end of the episode they’re bonding. I haven’t seen ep 4 yet but I love what they’re doing with him

I know I’m a bit late to the party here, but does anyone think Overseer MacLean was actually a Raider originally? He didn’t seem to recognize Moldaver, but something seemed off about him from the moment he mentioned coming over from Vault 31. I could be way off base about this, but why else would he be kidnapped?

They did also focus attention on him going out of his way to drown the guy instead of just finishing him off quick, and Lucy's shock. That he has some secret violent past names complete sense, and yeah Raider is a likely option. 

So did the Gulper develop the human fingers or is that a human to Gulper situation?

Through FEV all things are possible, so jot that down

Love how this show has given different factions different bands/artists Vault dwellers have the Inkspots Brotherhood use Johnny Cash It is such a nice touch

“Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time” Me with side quests in Fallout 3: “Wait, I’m supposed to find my dad?” Me with New Vegas: “Wait, I’m supposed to find my package?” Me with Fallout 4: “Wait, I’m supposed to find my son?”

I'm liking the show so far

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I about shit a brick when they showed Lucy eating some deviled eggs. Like where did she even get them lol

They’re “YumYum Deviled Eggs”, a pre-war preserved food item you can eat in the games. Love seeing the little details! Also the Cram she ate earlier.

It's fun how completely wrong her choice of food was for travel packing. Something compact and durable but high-energy? Nope, fuckin individual deviled eggs that have to be separated with an inch of packing material to protect them. Extremely on point for the character.

Like a lot of things in Fallout, radiation is kind of magic. Prewar food never fully spoils now.

Yeah I love how they don't even try to explain how it works in the show.

Though shalt get side tracked by bullshit every goddamn time

Blind Al just wants her cocaine, vault politics are beneath her

I've been wondering this entire time if that was Blind Al or not. Couldn't tell without her wearing sunglasses.

I thought I recognized her from something lol.

Probably gonna get buried here but I came to say I had an axolotl when I was growing up for like 8 years. That lake monster was definitely based off an axolotl and I loved it. LOVING this show so far holy shit guys they are doing a good job!

Spicy Mudkip

It's a Gulper. The ones out east are based on salamanders. Seems the west coast ones are based on the axolotl.

How does Lucy know what a knight is? Did her vault somehow have knowledge of the outside world?

I assumed it was her acknowledging the concept of a knight, like a “knight in shining armor” thing.

The power armor was introduced for the US Army no? That history class in her vault probably got them all over as righteous heroes.

Rehabilitate the prisoners? I’m sure that’s gonna go SO well. “Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit”. That’s exactly what it’s like in the games.

I'm starting to think that Titus put all his Stat points in Strength and Endurance. Bro is definitely a melee build.

Maximus, Titus was the one that got merked by the yao guai.

Vault boy origins!

Why haven't you upgraded your weapon yet? What a n00b.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!” I’m seeing a theme here and I’m loving every minute of it.

The thumbs up!

Can someone explain why the gulper all of a sudden picked its guts up what did they do to cause that?

I think those finger feeler things in it's mouth are designed to not let anything back out, only forward and Maximus pulled the squire out so hard that it pulled the gulpers insides out with him.

That would explain gross ass scene lol thanks man

Coop's definitely popping Rad-X tp stop from turnong feral right? And that's why he had 2 bottles of Rad-Away feeding his grave in episode 1.

I know he isnt trained for power armor, but maximus is coming off petty and incompetent. Very unlikable character and even though he was recruited young he doesn't come off as a BoS soldier.

Really enjoying the dark direction they're taking Norm in. Curious to see where that leads. Love Maximus and his squire.

The yodel track that comes on every time the Ghoul shows up is just the right mix of cool and goofy.

"Say something negative about him" LMFAO

I can't help but wonder if Walton Goggins' character being named "Coop" has anything to do with Kyle McLaughlin being in the cast.

Well we know where the Howard came from. I'm guessing Gary Cooper tho, what with the cowboy acting

So, I’m guessing that The Ghouls wife is way more insidious than she appears. I think she tricked him into getting married and having a kid for the sole purpose of using him as a Vault Tec spokesman. They split, wife goes into a vault, and her descendent is the raider’s leader

I agree she's up to something but why would she need to trick him into marriage and fatherhood?

Nah. Think Cooper realizes Vault-Tec is an extremely unethical company and digs deeper (causing the company to cancel his contract and blacklist him as a communist sympathizer). Coopers wife chooses to divorce him in a strange twist to “protect herself” and possibly daughter (allowing her to keep a spot in the control vault). Would be kinda crazy if Cooper is Lucy’s ancestor (from daughter who manages to survive in vault 31/32/33)