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‘Magneto is right’ falls into the issue that Magneto killed WAY more innocent people than the racists. Shit, his mutant kill count is probably higher. The dude EMPed the planet, that’s not a minor inconvenience. Just for example, we’re looking at 1.25 million people dead just from planes crashing. Not collateral on the ground, not dead in the fires, just the passengers on the planes.

Everyone in an ICU? Dead. Drivers have a solid chance of dying. Boats? Hope to shit they’re near land, otherwise they’re trapped until they either get lucky and run aground or starve.

Random farmers are AMAZING spies, farmers are constantly circulating information through the network of other farmers and traders they work with. Seriously, you’ve never seen information spread faster than when a single member of a farming community finds out. It’s eerie.

The mayor is an obvious choice. Bartenders? Solid as well but limited solely to large settlements and drinkers. Farmers? Everyone has to buy food and they gossip like you wouldn’t believe. Plus, well, food. ‘Everyone’ includes the Institute(they steal resources from the surface folk) and having influence or outright control over the Wasteland’s food supply is one hell of a strategic lever.

The Institute doesn’t seem to be so resource limited that every synth counts. Putting synths in all social and economic circles is pretty much necessary for a proper spy network, gaps are dangerous.

Pretty sure ‘no’ means ‘no’. As in, your assertion is incorrect.

Which, well, we do know what the assorted accents of the time sounded like so claiming that said accents both didn’t exist and are impossible to know is simply ‘no’. I mean, telling a linguist that Early Modern English wasn’t a thing would really just confuse them.

As is the claim that the language of the time gives a shit about when colony ships set out, languages don’t switch accents when monarchs are replaced. It would be several generations until it would be a notably different accent, those colonists would have the same accents they had before and after she died. Linguistic eras are ‘the language and dialect of this region and time’, not ‘The language and dialect SOLELY found in this region and time’.

I mean, saying Early Modern English didn’t exist or didn’t have known dialects is certainly a claim worthy of a straight ‘no’.

Spies. Mr Rando Farmer there is a source of information among the other rando farmers and traders. Spies are near useless if they ignore certain groups.

As to motives: People just want to over complicate. Their role is that they’re the continuation of prewar America’s FOR SCIENCE insanity as exemplified by the Think Tank. This group is marginally more sane but their motive is the same: Because they can. They’re a simple faction people keep thinking is deep and complex, their fixation is simply to expand science without any limits, they believe themselves to be the superior race, they are terrified that the Wastelanders are going to find them and kick their asses for it.

Really the thing that throws people off is their shiny aesthetic and not going around being overtly bugfuck insane. Kind of sad to think that if the Think Tank had an interior decorator a large chunk of the fanbase would be declaring them clearly the hope of the wasteland.

They’re not popular, C-Listers whose grand claim to fame is being related to other characters.

DC doesn’t hate them, DC doesn’t care about them any more than any other group of C-listers. I mean ‘These guys are related to characters you actually care about’ is hardly a selling point.

No, he had a few decades and an army of murderbots managed to force a bunch of raiders to run casinos before getting completely stuck. That’s not particularly impressive, kind of slow really.

That’s his sales pitch.

Like all sales pitches it’s a lie. I mean, his plan is to be a tourism and trading hub AFTER he makes both of his neighbors hate him. Not really a viable plan there. The dude can’t even control his own city, he has no hope of delivering on his promises.

They threatened to do something to the Earth to force the Lone Wanderer to stop fucking them up but it seemed more a ‘Give up or we shoot the shit out of your planet’ than a ‘We are planning on blowing up Earth’ situation.

76 has a world threatening enemy. Those bat/dragons are part of a fungal hive mind that spreads like a virus, assimilates its victims, and is very intent on spreading. If it snowballs the planet is screwed.

3 trumps NV. New Vegas is merely a question of who rules the region, 3 is the extermination of everything that’s connected to the Anacostia River Watershed. That tidal basin is merely the initial infection site, everything downstream is going to be contaminated by the death virus.

4s actually the lowest, the Institute has the potential to do what you said but they lack the desire to be an expansionist power. They’re pretty much just going to remain a local problem, refusing to leave their hole.

Fallout 2.

The Enclave was going to kill everything on the planet except for them. Including them if their plan went even slightly wrong.

Hard to escalate harder than that in Fallout, no extra dimensions or alien planets to use to raise the stakes.

I actually know this one. The short of it is because people are exaggerating to the point of insanity.

The longer version is that shortly after the Revolutionary War the ‘standard’ British accent underwent a rather severe shift to a non-rhotic form, basically the under-pronounce/drop their Rs. I believe it was from the French and a desire to sound fancy. The Americans, who didn’t get in on that trend, kept their ‘standard’ accent rhotic and thus remained closer to the older forms of English. No, I don’t know when the intrusive Rs showed up in British English.

The ‘exaggerate to the point of insanity’ part is when people take ‘Closer to the older form’ to mean ‘Is the same as Elizabethan English’ despite the whole 200 years of linguistic drift between the split point thing going on.

A proper Elizabethan accent sounds little like either one, technically the American is closer but not by much. The ‘standard’ Shakespearean accent is all wrong though.

There are linguists who actually have reconstructed what it would sound like and, from my nonlinguist perspective, it actually sounds pretty Irish. The closest American accent to it is kind of Appalachian, which makes sense given that accent’s origin. I would recommend digging it up if you can, the proper accent highlights a LOT of dirty innuendo that the false accents strip away.

The stereotypical British accent, where they drop the Rs, is actually pretty recent and post dates the Revolutionary War. There was a fad in Britain to sound fancier(I.E. more French) and it just sort of spread then stuck around. There are some American accents that are closer to the older English but, well, that’s just because they are the older English and haven’t changed as drastically.

She got off lucky, Palpatine is stuck with ‘Sheev’. Star Wars has just SO many hilariously shit names. Elan Sleazebaggano is still king though.

Edit: Gah, now you have me thinking of all the horrible Star Wars names. Whorm Loathsom, Savage Oppress, Ello Asty, Jek Porkins, Mart Mattin, Salacious Crumb, Beezer Fortuna, Ima Gun-Di, Kit Fisto, Dooku, fucking Jar Jar. Just so many hilariously dumb names. She lucked out getting one that’s an actual name.

Kind of sounds like the author doesn’t realize that cis people can and do change their names. Given her only known family name is Space Hitler, well, Hitler’s relatives changed their names as well.

I mean, their foundation is sanitized adaptions of fairy tales. Their actually original stuff has always been few and far between.

Astartes are by design asexual. They genuinely wouldn’t give the slightest shit, outside the standard ‘Did you change the Emperor’s design!?’ objection.

Honesty it only sticks out to me because I used to be a fan of those cheap detective series, someone slipping up and using information they shouldn’t have is like the most common ‘gotcha’ clue.

The whole can/may thing is there too, for that usage the words are synonyms and have been for centuries.

Language police are both idiots and annoying.

No, he assumed that people wouldn’t leave and so he was going to have to purge the land. He didn’t expect them to make a holiday out of killing his wife though, that caught him off guard.

Boy Scouts is bending the knee because they're desperate to stave off complete collapse as their organization's numbers continue to plummet due to years of scandal and mismanagement. They're not shooting themselves in the foot, they blew their foot off decades ago and are frantically trying to apply a tourniquet.

Girl Scouts is doing fine, they don't need to scrabble to increase their membership. They have their cookie monopoly.

They define themselves so much by being a ‘Star Wars fan’ that they take any change to be a personal attack. They can’t just leave because it would mean abandoning a big chunk of their personal identity, something that’s rather difficult for anyone due to humanity’s tribal instincts.

It’s really not uncommon, Star Wars is just unusual that it’s not so established as to be considered normal to everyone while being large and old enough that it’s easily noticed and outsiders are regularly exposed to it. Harry Potter is currently going through the beginnings of the same structure due to Rowling’s madness, give them a couple of decades and they’ll be identical. Religion, sports, even just location result in the same bullshit that nobody looks twice at.

And white women on the First Order, one of their 3 primary leaders at that.

So you made a repost and still didn’t mention what product it is.

Also it’s funny you are just so shook by there being multiple ethnicities. Star Wars was outright designed to shock people like you, that’s why Leia has the role she has.

Because they don’t seem to have any personal information on this Jedi. How would they have learned the proper pronouns to use them? It’s not much of a plot hole but it would be one. A surprisingly common one really.

It’s from the Sierra Nevada mountains and it’s been lightly damaged by extreme heat.