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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 38 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Who the fuck wrote that headline?

House is not an anti-hero.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

The word "gaming" in gaming journalist is often a caveat not a qualifier.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I just wanna say, that I absolutely hate the Vegas Sphere for all it is and stands for. Thank you.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don’t hate everything about it but this is the most idiotic thing to start a fundraiser for.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well I'm not talking about the fundraiser specifically. Just the Vegas Sphere in general.

Apart form it being a total eyesore. It is nothing but a colossal, all enveloping ad. That's all it is and can ever be. A total mocking display of current day capitalism. I feel so bad for all the people being forced every night to view this glorified neon-billboard.

[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the sphere, before they put that monstrosity up Vegas was a shining beacon of anti consumption, fighting the tenets of capitalism one casino at a time. Definitely a current day thing, no history of anything of this sort in Vegas.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Alright touché. But I much rather have an ad working from the inside (aka a casino) than an ad working from the outside. Bottom line: Las Vegas, once again, just a got a little worse to live in.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What does it stand for? I've been to Vegas quite a bit in the past couple years and have seen it plenty of times.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The inequality of wealth for the American people. Who needs this giant 24/7 neon advertiser? Each year it's getting more difficult to make ends meet. Especially for a city in a desert you would think a better investment ought to go to water or poverty instances.

But no, look at the pretty lights, isn't that cool for about an hour? Well have fun looking at this shit from your single-room poverty apartment for as long as you can still live in Vegas.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

it stands for "fuck your eyes"

[–] zelifcam@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Whatever happened to linking to actual source content?

[–] Octavus@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

It even looks like a snowglobe. House indeed always wins.

[–] metaphortune@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Genuinely, this could be good marketing for the TV show that Amazon could do - would just have to make it clear somehow that Mr. House wasn't involved in the show.

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This thread contains spoilers for The fallout TV show. Stop reading now. If you haven't seen the show, this is your warning.

I mean he literally was in the show though, and seeing that the teaser for season 2 is literally New Vegas... Well, the current state of the NCR says that they probably didn't win at Hoover dam. And the fact that there's still lights on say that it's probably not Caesar's legion that won either.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Bethesda and the show runners themselves have said that Shady Sands destruction came only months after the war for the Dam which the NCR won. The show itself also mentions that Shady Sands was basically revenge for them winning the Hoover Dam. But we know not which faction nuked 'em. Enclave? Brotherhood? The Legion (which would be weird since they don't use technology)? House? Possibly even Benny/Yes Man/player protagonist character.

Edit: Oh man... They could even write it as a gigantic joke; Shady Sands coincidentally was wiped off the map shortly after the events of NV by Fantastic when he accidentally activated the Archimedes II orbital cannon inside Helios One.

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Unless I misunderstood the show, it was very directly stated that the overseer had nuked shady sands as an act of fuck you to his ex-wife.

Basically, how dare you find a functional community outside of my control. I will reduce it to ashes that way I am the only option.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My understanding was that but it wasn't because of his ex more so that any successful civ would undermine the concept of his vault recolonizing the world.

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I agree with your sentiment, but I think it's about 50% of each. Though honestly, it's really bothered me this entire time that shady sands is literally a vault community. It's vault. 13. Literally vault wellers having a reclamation day and rebuilding the surface.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

yeah but the ncr includes regular surface dwellers too. probably the idea is more like that of the enclave in fallout 3; wipe out all the "mutants" and repopulate from there

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lucy's dad? I might have zoned out through that... I watched it all in one long go so the last few episodes are hazy. 😅

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah some justification that he needed to do it so eventually him and the rest of the ceos from the vault could take over and half that he was vindictive prick and wanted his wife ( the ghoul Lucy mercy kills that's chained to the table at the end) to have nothing and to be without any respite now that she had forsaken his control and the vault

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This needs a spoiler alert

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If you can tell me what to do to do that I will edit it. Unfortunately, I never learned how to do spoiler tags

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem is the tags don't actually seem to translate through apps and the Fediverse so I've just been going old school and saying SPOILERS AHEAD

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 4 points 6 months ago
[–] Silvia@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago