Did a Benny look for part of my birthday celebrations in a crowd that for sure would not get the reference 😅 so I’m here to hopefully get a laugh from folks who will 😇😂

I’m playing Dead Money for the first time right now and holy shiii I just want to get out of here 😭
The atmosphere is so unsettling. The constant beeping from my collar, the ghost people, the fog, and just how creepy and depressing everything is

I feel trapped here and I hate it Lol.
I’ve never wanted to leave an area in a Fallout game so badly. I miss the Mojave. I miss the sun. I miss being able to explore without feeling like I’m about to die every five seconds!!! 😭super cool story and RIP my companions 😭 but I am so stressed playing this dlc

Lore accurate btw.

Who should not have been included

-The NCR Misfits

They're minor characters that don't have too much impact on the story or outcome of the final events of the game, while other slides focus on courier companion and more significant cities, towns, groups and people to how the Mojave turns out as a whole.

Who I think should have been included

-President Kimball

I think the game should have had more content related to him in general. You mean to tell me that we get to choose whether the president of the largest faction in the game lives or dies and we only see him during one quest and he isn't mentioned in the ending slides? Seems like a missed opportunity to me.

-Secondary faction leaders like Vulpes Inculta, Legate Lanius, Hsu, Moore and Oliver

Unlike the Yes Man and Mr House endings where there is just one leader and one right hand person, fleshing out these characters and their power struggles within their organizations through quests and ending slides would have been interesting to see

I was thinking about do a second mr house route
This time with a perfect and good karma decisions,the first time I played I chooses primm slim as sheriff, but now I think that meyers is a better option,more fast and obviously,the “human” factor besides primm slim

Haven’t had luck hitting up my Local Walmart’s here in Southern California but Amazon might just saved me! Good luck to those who are able to pre order them!😭

I do think he's a piece of shit, and I do dislike him.

But war, war never changes.

He's out there patrolling the Mojave, and we know what that makes you wish for.

He seems to be an upstanding member of the town, surely his shop brings in whatever people wander by, looking for supplies, he keeps his shop tidy and neat, always sweeping and willing to wake up late to do business with a cheery smile.

He simply didn't agree to fight insane convicts, on the run, who are armed with an unknown amount of dynamite sticks and very little else.

Can you fuckin blame him?

He doesn't even know Ringo, why should his fate be tied up with some random drifter after so many diligent years of hard work and vigilance?

Know what I think? Fuck Ringo, well okay no not fuck Ringo, hope Ringo survives, but Chet doesn't owe him shit.

It's taken me many years to accept Chet but now I've started to like him. I no longer ask him for armor for the gunfight with Joe Cobb.

Chet chooses to abstain from pointless unwinnable wars, and I salute him.

I’m doing a crime boss play through as don salvatore, and i wanna do evil stuff and rack evil karma, also I’m doing an independent ending with yes man

Basically limping around surviving on blood sausages and red paste, 2 or more Ghost People jumping me every turn chucking spears and gas bombs at me. I'm on hardcore and my perks aren't the best either.

Hey guys I’ve never done a legion play through and I when I play I try to be “as realistic as possible” to whoever I side with and I was wondering is there a companion somewhere in the legion I can invite to come with me or who would make the most sense to invite for a legion play through

A translation of a Russian comment made on the youtube video of "I got spurs that jingle jangle", is more poetic than the original

First three photos were taken at PAX this year and the last one is from last Sunday when we were just out filming some stuff.

For the speech 100 check I remembered this dialogue from Caesar

"(from a) nomadic army to a standing military force that protects its citizens, {finality}and the power of its dictator." - Caesar

So the legion will become a standing army. A standing army is an army that recruits its citizens by conscription or volunteer. So once the NCR is taken the legion will evolve and recruits will be conscripted (or volunteer) from the citizen classes from the empire.
Lanius seems to have no idea about this.

TLDR: Caesar seems to have a means of increasing his manpower to rule the west and east. Lanius does not seem to know about this.

For the barter 100 check
What made me think of this was a specific dialogue from Joshua Graham. One where he talks about Caesar's excellent logistics capabilities while decrying Lanius's.

"I think only Caesar can lead the Legion. I've never met anyone who could take his place. I couldn't. I never had a mind for logistics. I don't know Lanius, but from what I've heard, he has no interest in leading anyone unless it's in battle." - Joshua Graham

Lanius also suffers from logistical issues in Denver while in command. If Caesar is logistically talented and Lanius is not, are you just fooling him? We also see when Lanius conquers in the end slides, he conquers things differently than Caesar. He just harvests Vegas.
He also talks about how he will harvest the west. This is very different from Caesar he wants to synthesize the west.

TLDR: Caesar is much better with logistics than Lanius. Lanius appears to be incapable of understanding nation building.

In the end I think this would make some sense from a writing perspective. We do get to hear from Caesar about his solution for manpower when holding the west.

We also get to hear about Lanius’s logistical incompetence from the end game slides, Graham, and Lanius himself.

In past playthroughs I’ve tended to ignore the scattered ruins you can find above Westside and North Vegas Square. Apart from the Wins, there are no residents, and including their home there is but a scattering of houses to enter. In my current one, however, I’ve noticed something interesting.
These photos display a series of intentionally planted crops;

The first seems to be a rudimentary garden bed, with miniaturised versions of Mojave plants directly alongside the front of a boarded up house. Directly to its left, and visible in the next two images, is a field of edible cacti, intentionally grown in rows surrounding a post-war shack. Of note is that several of the prickly pear cacti are already harvested upon discovery, and the contents of the shack, including a Brahmin steak by the smoking fire, indicate that someone has been by recently, and taken some of the fruit. However, as the house has been boarded up, it is unlikely they were the one to inhabit it more recently and plant the many cacti and shrubs in their farm and garden, many of which have shriveled and fail to bear fruit in their owners absence.

The fourth image seems to have, up until fairly recently, been a Brahmin ranch. The fencing here is completely intact, and the carcasses are of rotting Brahmin, not skeletal cattle, a model that does exist within fallout new Vegas. This was a post-war ranch, with recently repaired or constructed (as their intersection with an electrical tower may indicate) fencing - the largest intact fenced area in a single in game area, notably. Once again, the house is boarded up.

Five shows a segment of the vast cornfields that lay around the Horowitz and Tumbleweed farms. There is little to suggest these were seriously cultivated recently in a manner like the previous examples, except for a small section of tilled land visible in the sixth image. This section, and a few others like it, are along the northern edge of the I-15. It may be that pre-war, there had historically been a swathe of cornfields on that site, with them running wild in the years since, and that only recently had more formalised farming been attempted in those cornfields alongside the other attempts in the region.

The final image was the first farm that I noticed, and what led me to make this post. Just out of frame, to the left, is a lit streetlamp, powered by fission battery. This spiked my curiosity, and then I noticed the small cornfield, water tanks and windmill. The biggest mystery surrounding this location are the gaping holes in the sides of the building, enabling access.
It’s entirely possible that after 200 years these parts of the wall simply caved in, but that doesn’t seem like it to me.

North-west Vegas is a remarkably quiet part of the game. Apart from a few coyotes, there was nothing near hostile anywhere near these farmsteads. And yet, they’re nearly all boarded up, and their crops and livestock have been left to rot. The one ‘abandoned house’ location in the region (directly next to the cactus farmstead) is unremarkable, except in its unremarkableness. Besides the basic furniture and a few things in the fridge, there is nothing. The shelves are bare. It’s as if they packed their things and left.

Which raises the question - what happened to this farming community? Clearly up until a little before the game’s start there were several farmsteads operating close by in a quiet part of Vegas, close to trading hubs and other settlements. There’s not a fiend in sight - they’re protected by the buffering walls of Westside.

I got this bad boy (talking about the Pip-Boy here) a while ago, and it's impressive how much the community has helped each other customize it!

So i already killed mr house and i guess i want to keep up with the ncr's fame so i can do undercover stealth quests(monorail for example) but i dont know what to do with the rest of the mojave

I’m sure this has been asked but new Vegas is all about choices. For the major side quests and main quests, what choices do you feel are right and why? I typically do a NCR playthrough that tries to peacefully resolve things with everyone except the legion, NCR is flawed but they are tolerant of ghouls and women, and at least give people the opportunity to make a name for themselves in the NCR, let me know what you guys think?