everytime i replay fo3 and get to do point lookout again, these ones in particular are so heart wrenching and break my heart into tiny little idiot sad pieces...... :( poor lw.
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sorry i wanna complain about the show's macguffin for a second but like. what a fuckin useless nonsensical item. i can handwave the existence of cold fusion because a lot of shit exists in the fallout universe; why not. the question remains: who the fuck is this for? power is useful, yeah, but only if you have the infrastructure to do anything with it. that shot of all the lights coming on at the end...even pretending that all that stuff would have survived the bombs dropping + over 200 years without maintenance, is there even anyone living in that area? hooray, the lights are on, we're still starving and drinking irradiated water. the water chip and the geck are both macguffins that have very immediate application to people's survival. the hoover dam is also about water, and is allowed to also be about power because there are very obviously large locations in the mojave in need of power. something has to keep all those neon lights on and casinos going. who's going to spearhead a huge civil engineering project with the ncr remnants to recreate a power grid for the area. if they hadn't destroyed the ncr this would be a much more feasible goal of theirs. you could even tie it in with new vegas - the ncr lost the dam and are scrambling for a separate power source. you can't establish a classic wasteland with everyone fighting over scraps and then declare electricity is going to save everyone. but none of that matters anyway because the brotherhood yoinked it i guess.
I'm sorry but I CANNOT handwave cold fusion and I must scream about it.
You wanna know why? Because the Fallout universe barely even had regular nuclear fusion figured out before the bombs fell!
Doesn't make sense? Listen along for a bit while I explain...
Fusion power in the fallout world is a big fat lie. Almost nothing is actually powered by fusion - it's all fission, or something else entirely.
"Oh, but what about fusion cells and fusion cores? They're all over the place!"
They are a lie. Fusion cells and cores are made by Mass Fusion. They are named after their company! Not their technology!
You see, Mass Fusion marketed itself as attempting to bring forth cleaner and better power by way of nuclear fusion, starting out in the 2050's during the Resource Wars by placing 'fusion distribution boxes' around Massechusetts. In reality, these were just lead-lined plutonium (fission) wells that were not at all as safe as the company repeatedly claimed.
They started out with a lie. And they kept lying.
The next thing they brought out was the deceptively named Fusion Cells, about a decade later in 2066. Like the 'clean fusion box' before them, the Fusion cell was brought out during the Resource Wars, a time where America, and largely the rest of the world, was running out of basically everything. So they started making everything last to compensate - their food, their clothes, their power.
Now, in the first two Fallout games this item comes with this description: "A medium sized energy production unit. Self-contained fusion plant". But... that last part doesn't seem right to me. A nuclear core could be that small, maybe, but the smallest nuclear plants are still much larger than people. No, these are just batteries - Atomic Batteries.
Atomic batteries aren't plants, but rather use the heat from decaying radioactive materials to create electrical currents by way of the Seebeck effect. They have an extremely long shelf life and are able to work in harsh environments with no maintenance due to having no moving parts, which means they are commonly used for things like spacecrafts, remote scientific endeavours such as arctic lighthouses, and military purposes. Considering most pre-war fusion cells and cores are used by the military this makes a perfect fit.
So again, no fusion.
The Fallout world only got true fusion technology in 2077. The same year the bombs fell. Mass Fusion finally made good on their decades of promises and deceptions by creating the Beryllium Agitator - that thing the Brotherhood and Institute fight over to either power Liberty Prime or their future projects. Meaning that there were very limited sources of actual fusion energy both before the bombs fell and after! Its existence wasn't even common knowledge until the events of Fallout 4 over 200 years later!
And yet we are supposed to believe that Moldaver's completely unrelated company was not only able to recreate this technology on their own, but also excel it into cold fusion and miniaturise it to the size of a vitamin pill?! In less than a year?!!!
Sorry, but I don't buy it.
This is what happens when we get a show made by a group of people who don't know their own lore, and are openly proud of that fact...
He gets angrier when activating Archimedes than when you literally sell him into slavery. The difference between his fake-nice "Hi! Did you always mean to sell me to Caesar or was that a spur-of-the-moment thing?" And him screaming "YOU ACTIVATED ARCHIMEDES!? WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!?" is SO FUNNY.
ALSO WHY CAN YOU DO THAT?? WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT THE FACT YOU CAN SELL HIM TO CAESAR???
How nice he is to a low-int Courier. He feels responsible for you and tags along to make sure you don't die. There's a low-int dialog option when he remarks on ED-E also, where the player can say they don't know what an EMP grenade is and he responds: "It's... a thing. A science thing. It hurts robots. Don't worry about it. Silly Arcade's just telling magnetic field jokes for his own amusement" (the only time he's rude to the low-int Courier is when they turn on Archimedes, and even then, he just calls them a moron.)
You can make him a follower by (as prev mentioned) being stupid, charismatic, a good friend of his organization, or gay as a daisy. Male couriers flirt with him ONCE and he abandons everything. Idiot couriers stumble over their words and he feels a horrible amount of sympathy for them, to the point he simply cannot let them walk off and die bc of something stupid.
He is, to his core, an idealist. This does not work in his favor in most of his endings.
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