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Saturday, August 12, 2023 8:44 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Was the Steele Dossier Used to Obtain a FISA Warrant Against Trump’s Campaign?


of course it was.

Will GOP-dominated House investigate this?
Prolly not.

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As of now, there was, and is, no House investigation into the Steele dossier or FISA abuses.

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Saturday, August 12, 2023 8:47 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Signym predicts Ukraine will "fold like a cheap suit".
And it will. But just like THUGR's "timeless" predictions, I didn't say WHEN, did I?

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Saturday, August 12, 2023 9:07 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


How Women Became The Real Victims Of Australia's Deadly Gambling Epidemic

https://www.marieclaire.com.au/gambling-epidemic-australia

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Americans have bet $245bn on sporting events since restrictions were loosened in 2018. But many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming



Worst ...not sure if correct but

Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Finland...maybe. The USA has issues but it is not the worst 'Problem Gambling Country'. I don't know why Australia is so bad.

Australia urged to ban online gambling ads to curb growing addiction
https://www.reuters.com/article/australia-gambling/australia-urged-to-
ban-online-gambling-ads-to-curb-growing-addiction-idUSL1N38K0AX


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Saturday, August 19, 2023 9:00 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


2024 will be another bad year for box office movies

There will be people watching 'News' instead of cinema, maybe following all the political Democrat vs Republican or Nu-Conservative vs Neo-Liberal or watching Biden vs Trump crap on tv, there will probably be a surge of islamo bombings jihad shootings somewhere, maybe Europe or Middle East or maybe USA or India and done to also try influence US elections

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Monday, September 18, 2023 9:28 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Victor Davis Hanson: How Biden Will Circle the Wagons - As impeachment becomes inevitable, the President's defense schemes are predictable

https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/18/how-biden-will-circle-the-wagons/

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 6:26 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk Says Starship Is Ready To Fly Again

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/09/06/elon-musk-says-starsh
ip-is-ready-to-fly-again
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'A 2024 Trump-Biden Rematch Isn’t Boring. It’s Something Entirely New.'
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-biden-2024-rematch_n_64f0
e22ae4b0e2c4bd6b7d8d


Critics say Biden is old and tired. But so is his most likely opponent, Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/30/biden-trump-age-
presidential-election-2024


Married couples in space...it already happened?
https://twitter.com/Robotbeat/status/1704356214446973420

Artificial Art creation from AI, from a video or image reference and text descriptions
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1704423079647027388

NYC Council Advances Bid That Could Yank Monuments Honoring Washington, Jefferson, Columbus
https://www.amren.com/news/2023/09/nyc-council-advances-bid-that-could
-yank-monuments-honoring-washington-jefferson-columbus
/


Americans Are Being Led By a Lying Media and Corrupt Political Class

https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/americans-are-being-led-by-a-lying-media-
and-corrupt-political-class
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Brigitte Gabriel Joins Newsmax to Discuss Rising Crime Rates


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Tuesday, October 10, 2023 7:35 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Who could have predicted conflict in the Middle East?

The never ending Israel-Palestine nonsense is back

260 dead bodies found in desert. Systematic execution of teenagers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12607891/Israeli-festivalgoer
s-siren-hamas-open-fire-medic-istrael-palestine.html


'Isis level savagery' by Hamas killed 11 Americans, says US
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67056761

The U.S. military plans to deploy U.S. Navy ships and military aircraft closer to Israel as a demonstration of support
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1711062324788744202

Israel-Palestine war: Israeli airstrikes continue to hit Gaza as residents flee homes
https://www.wionews.com/videos/israel-palestine-war-israeli-airstrikes
-continue-to-hit-gaza-as-residents-flee-homes-644941



Police publish footage showing Border Police officers battling Hamas terrorists in southern Israel and rescuing wounded soldiers
https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1711657566990684478

Palestine mohammedans and pet dogs in Israel

ransack the homes and set them on fire.

https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1711590468331753953



Hamas releases what can only be described as a hype video, showing how terrorists trained and rehearsed a deadly paraglider attack on Israeli civilians.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1711453980461850736
How did this happen without Israeli intelligence knowing?


Hamas-run health ministry says 770 killed and 4,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip. IDF says it has killed 1,500 terrorists in Israeli territory.
https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/1711695347955695949#m


Masked Hamas supporters show up at the Israeli embassy in Denmark to throw away flowers left by Danes and Jews that were placed in solidarity with the victims of Hamas’ attacks on Israel.


https://twitter.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1711459043863388216

Israel PM Netanyahu vows to turn Hamas hideouts into "rubble", tells Gaza residents "to leave those places now"
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/273992470/israel-pm-netanyahu-vows
-to-turn-hamas-hideouts-into-rubble-tells-gaza-residents-to-leave-those-places-now

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Thursday, October 26, 2023 9:36 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Movie profits

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I don't imagine that Killers of the Flower Moon are going to hurt it any more than it hurts itself next weekend. Five Nights at Freddies will almost certainly put an end to it the following weekend though. Priscilla (the new Elvis-related biopic about Elvis being a pedophile) probably won't hurt anything the week after that, except possible overlap with the Killers of the Flower Moon audience.


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Friday, October 27, 2023 1:29 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Movie profits

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I don't imagine that Killers of the Flower Moon are going to hurt it any more than it hurts itself next weekend. Five Nights at Freddies will almost certainly put an end to it the following weekend though. Priscilla (the new Elvis-related biopic about Elvis being a pedophile) probably won't hurt anything the week after that, except possible overlap with the Killers of the Flower Moon audience.




The paragraph before that was important...

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The Wokecercist seems to be doing pretty well overseas with over $40 Million of its $85 Million current total. It's made 283% of its production budget back so far, which already means that it's a winner. It's sitting at 21st place now if my previous statements on the top 20 are correct.


I was saying that I didn't think Killers of the Flower Moon was going to eat into the Wokecersist's profits. And it doesn't appear that it did. It only lost 48% last weekend, which is 10% less than the 58% it lost the weekend before.

I also was saying that Five Nights at Freddies was going to basically put an end to the Wokecersist, so I suspect that it will lose a lot more than 48% this coming weekend.

Precilla shouldn't really hurt anything other than possibly stealing some thunder from Killers, but that movie did so bad on opening weekend how could you even tell if that happens?

I think if I were going to put my recent predictions on movies in the movie thread, I would have put where I guessed Killers opening weekend take within $130k and how much I said it was going to ultimately lose for Paramount/Apple, especially because of disinterest by international audiences. (If I recall, I called $132 Million worldwide gross is all it's getting).


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Wednesday, December 6, 2023 12:08 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


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Originally posted by kpo:

Six predicts that Derek Chauvin's guilty convictions will be "appealed and thrown out".






Not sure if he will get out alive

Derek Chauvin back in prison after hospital stay for stabbing – family ‘very concerned’ about his fate
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/04/derek-chauvin-back-in-prison-a
fter-hospital-stay-for-stabbing-family-very-concerned-about-his-fate-1417292
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


Not only has Trump allowed the Democrats and the Media to hang themselves with their own nooses left and right, but he's also working on getting access that was illegally stripped from him on Facebook and YouTube before he gets back on Twitter and his campaign actually begins.

We're two years minus 3 days from the day he'd be inaugurated after winning the 2024 election, and everyone in the media has already counted him out. That's exceedingly easy to do 22 months before an election is set to take place when the person they're talking about doesn't get to say anything that anybody besides the people who are already going to vote for him get to hear.

But what the Media doesn't want anybody to know is that they NEED Trump. FOX and MSNBC are doing really bad compared to 2 years ago, but CNN is basically a dying entity at this point without Trump.


So no... I won't predict he wins 2024 just yet. But what I will predict is that out of the blue you're going to be hearing non-stop from Trump.

I don't know when. There are too many variables at play to make a prediction on the date right now. It could be this summer. It might be in the winter.

But it will happen. And it's going to make things a lot more exciting than they are right now.

And also expect almost ALL news coverage of Ukraine to disappear when it happens too.



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He's still on TruthSocial doesn't seem to have gone back to twitter

as for Ukraine

Lord Cameron vows to 'break the chain of suppliers' to Putin's 'despicable' invasion of Ukraine with new sanctions
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12832443/Lord-Cameron-vows-br
eak-chain-suppliers-Putins-despicable-invasion-Ukraine-new-sanctions.html


but Israel Palestine grabs the latest headlines

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023 12:38 PM

THG


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Originally posted by kpo:


Six predicts that Derek Chauvin's guilty convictions will be "appealed and thrown out".









Jack never gets anything right.

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023 6:56 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


On the contrary, I usually get everything right.

If Chauvin doesn't win his appeal it's because the FBI asset that stabbed him 22 times on Joe Biden*'s order won't fail the 2nd time.


And if you think Joe Biden*'s polling is bad now, just wait until Trump gets back on Twitter.

He's got zero reason to bother doing it right now until the Primary is over.

Tick Tock



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Sunday, December 10, 2023 9:40 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


The failures of Disney Marvel and the failure of DC / WB and a movie 'Wish'

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
this is going to be another Disney failure for 2023.



Barbie made WB money which would go against SixString's overall prediction, however the final figures for 2023 are not out yet

'Sony' has made money, Mario, Spider-Man No Way Home, Godzilla they also have the other property like Goosebumps, Angry Birds, Bond, Karate Kid, Jumanji, Playstation Gamer and 'Music' properties...a future possibility for profits on 'Bad Boys' was probably killed by the Will Smith slap






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Sunday, December 10, 2023 10:05 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
The failures of Disney Marvel and the failure of DC / WB and a movie 'Wish'

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
this is going to be another Disney failure for 2023.



Barbie made WB money which would go against SixString's overall prediction, however the final figures for 2023 are not out yet



I never said Barbie was going to fail. I just more or less said that I personally thought it looked terrible and I didn't understand why it was going to be a success, and such a massive one at that. There was never a "Failure" thread created for it. They had a hell of a marketing crew on that one. It is the single reason why Warner Bros. isn't joining Disney on the top of the 2023 losers list.

If I'm going to take an "L" on that thread, I'm going to take it for my extreme underestimation of Oppenheimer in the same thread. I did say on more than one occasion that there was no way in hell that Oppenheimer was going to gross close to a Billion and it ended up very close at $953,390,290 worldwide. That movie made more than double what I thought it ever would.

Somebody could probably write a book about the whole Barbieheimer phenomena.

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'Sony' has made money



I haven't updated the charts since October 31st, but for the top 100 grossing Worldwide Movies in 2023*, here's where Sony stood...

Total Combined Production Budgets: $361,000,000
Total Worldwide Gross: $1,429,753,682
Total Profit (Using 2.5 times the Production Budgets): $527,253,682

On October 31st, it was in 3rd place of all the studios behind Universal ($1,452,995,847 Profit), and Warner Bros ($812,438,849 Profit).


*When I say "Top 100", it was any movie that happened to be in the worldwide Top 100 as of the time I updated the lists. More than a handful of those movies have aged off the Worldwide Top 100 list as the year dragged on.

There was also a small handful of movies that I didn't add to the list because there was no production budget or opening weekend data for them. If memory serves, these were only Anime flicks and they may have aged off of the Top 100 by now anyhow.

Because it's only the Top 100 grossing flicks at any point in time when the lists were updated, it likely doesn't paint the full picture for many of these studios. They likely had low budget and/or indie flicks they released that hardly did any business at all. I know this is the case for sure because Disney has had quite a few of them released under their FOX Searchlight banner. They were all financial failures in 2023, at least according to the 2.5xRoT.


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Monday, December 11, 2023 11:21 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


2024?

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Originally posted by kpo:
Yeah, I'm starting to think again about Ivanka myself. Think I'll change my prediction to that she'll be the frontrunner at some point - and then implode (nature abhors a vacuum).


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Thursday, January 4, 2024 6:27 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Not many predicted a sudden escalation of Israel Palestine Terror and War Events


Maine Republicans want to impeach the Secretary of State



speculation of recall not exactly a prediction

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Can ppl in Chicago/ Illinois recall mayor/governor?







Russia Ukraine Europe

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Originally posted by K2PO:


- Europe will get through Russia's energy squeeze this winter ok. (Readjustment costly but necessary. Losing the European market will damage Russia more in the long run.)
- The war won't end this year.
- Russia peaked last summer in terms of its strength in this war relative to Ukraine. Despite their mobilisations they will fight more defensively than offensively this year. They will lose more territory than they gain, but Ukrainian victories won't be as stunning as last year as Russia has more manpower and a shorter front line to defend. Bakhmut will hold. More mobilisations and replacements of top Russian generals wouldn't surprise me - this year, or next.



SixString

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My Ukrainian Prediction for 2023 is that Ukraine still won't matter at all to any American Citizen's interest, just as it never had, and even though the Republicans took the house and talk a big game they're just going to keep signing off on funding the war machine because there are too many NeoCons that still need to be removed from office before this country gets fixed.




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Thursday, March 7, 2024 5:21 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Can musicians force Trump to stop using their songs? It’s complicated, legal experts say

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article28628188
5.html



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Saturday, April 13, 2024 12:24 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


the Middle East, somebody called it

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Originally posted by rue:
Netanyahu Expected To Win Unprecedented Fifth Term As Israeli Prime Minister






Fallout?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


After seeing what Netflix did to Resident Evil, (and the disaster that was The Rings of Power by Amazon) I'm not thrilled about this at all.

There's zero doubt in my mind that they ruin it.

Why can't some hungry independent creators get their hands on the rights for once? Don't bother answering that... I already know that it's because the branding is so expensive only assholes like Bezos can afford them anymore.


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Saturday, April 13, 2024 10:27 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
the Middle East, somebody called it

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Originally posted by rue:
Netanyahu Expected To Win Unprecedented Fifth Term As Israeli Prime Minister






Fallout?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


After seeing what Netflix did to Resident Evil, (and the disaster that was The Rings of Power by Amazon) I'm not thrilled about this at all.

There's zero doubt in my mind that they ruin it.

Why can't some hungry independent creators get their hands on the rights for once? Don't bother answering that... I already know that it's because the branding is so expensive only assholes like Bezos can afford them anymore.




You can't blame me for making that prediction given their track record.

I haven't seen it yet, but I will be watching it soon. I do believe I may have been wrong here. All of the right people are saying it's good. And by "right people" I mean people who actually love video games and the Fallout series in particular. I don't give a shit what somebody like the Twitter weirdos on one side or the Critical Drinker on the other side have to say about it.

I'll give it a watch and let you know what I think. I'm probably the closest thing we've got to a Fallout Universe expert in these forums, so if I give it the go-ahead I think you can safely watch it without worrying you're going to hate it.



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Friday, April 19, 2024 7:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
the Middle East, somebody called it

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Originally posted by rue:
Netanyahu Expected To Win Unprecedented Fifth Term As Israeli Prime Minister






Fallout?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


After seeing what Netflix did to Resident Evil, (and the disaster that was The Rings of Power by Amazon) I'm not thrilled about this at all.

There's zero doubt in my mind that they ruin it.

Why can't some hungry independent creators get their hands on the rights for once? Don't bother answering that... I already know that it's because the branding is so expensive only assholes like Bezos can afford them anymore.




You can't blame me for making that prediction given their track record.

I haven't seen it yet, but I will be watching it soon. I do believe I may have been wrong here. All of the right people are saying it's good. And by "right people" I mean people who actually love video games and the Fallout series in particular. I don't give a shit what somebody like the Twitter weirdos on one side or the Critical Drinker on the other side have to say about it.

I'll give it a watch and let you know what I think. I'm probably the closest thing we've got to a Fallout Universe expert in these forums, so if I give it the go-ahead I think you can safely watch it without worrying you're going to hate it.



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I still have not watched it. I did, however, show my old man the trailer for it when he was here last week, telling him I was very hopeful that it was actually going to be a worthwhile watch, especially for long time fans of the games.

I think the last game he ever played games was probably Dig-Dug or Centipede. He wouldn't have known Fallout was based off a video game unless somebody told him.

He loved the trailer. In fact, I wasn't even able to convince him to wait on watching it until the next time I went with him to visit my brother. I think if I pushed really hard I could have gotten him to wait, but I could tell he was looking forward to seeing it and I didn't want to make him wait on it.

They had one more episode left to watch when I talked to him today. They love it. Not a single complaint after being 7 episodes in.



This news makes me happy.

It looks like they finally might have gotten the best people for a job together to tell their own story while respecting the universe it spawned from.

My dad and I have had a lot of overlapping interests over the years. Some of our favorite TV shows are each other's favorite TV shows as are quite a few of our favorite movies and books. It's always been cool to share a common interest like that and be able to watch movies together and either really enjoy them, or see how similar our reactions are when all we want to do is just tear down a crappy movie we just watched.

But that didn't follow on up into adulthood with video games. At some point I kept playing them and the parents didn't play them anymore. Then a couple generations go by and we've got real cinematography and writing and directing and voice acting in games. They aren't exactly on the level of Hollywood films in presentation yet, but they give you something that no other traditional media can give you. Agency in the world that the story is presenting to you.

But I was never going to get my dad to play a video game. Maybe I could ask him if he wants to play 2 players on Dig-Dug, or HAL's Hole in One Golf for a brief nostalgia drip, but getting my dad to sit down for many hours to play an interactive story with enough interesting things going on under the hood to pad out the time between story progression? Never.

But now, he gets to see a world that we otherwise never would have shared for himself, and honestly I'm thrilled that he's enjoying it.

I think I might even fire up the old XBox 360, assuming it still even works, and see if I can get my old man to sit down and watch me play a bit from the beginning of New Vegas just to show him where the whole Fallout concept came from.



So I still haven't seen it, but I'm confident that if I go in with an open mind I'm going to enjoy it. Just wanted to say that I was wrong and that I wanted to thank Amazon for making something out of Fallout that wouldn't immediately turn away anyone who wasn't familiar with the source material with lousy, agenda riddled writing. It appears that you may have actually pulled off the impossible, which is to add to a video game franchise's reach and also retain the core audience.

Has this ever happened before?

Short of the Super Mario Bros $1.4 Billion worldwide take last year, I can't think of an example. And it's different with Super Mario Bros because pretty much anybody in the world who has seen a TV screen in their life knows who the Super Mario Brothers are. A successful Fallout TV show could lead to another game in the works (that fixes mistakes made in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76) and it could end up seeing a lot more sales than the franchise ever made before. This is all a possibility now if this show does well.



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Thursday, May 2, 2024 1:49 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I posted about Fallout in the Sci-Fi thread last night after watching the 1st episode and said that if it keeps up the same quality it will be the best video game adaptation ever made and nothing else is even close.

I'm now halfway through Season 1 and I'm thrilled to report that nothing has changed. In fact, by now I'm even more engaged and I can't wait to see what comes next. I'm already feeling sad that there are only 4 episodes remaining and it might be a year or more before I get to see what comes after that.

Forget video games for a moment. This is the most engaged I've been in a TV show since I first started watching Black Mirror almost a decade ago.


Some might have a problem with the fact that none of these events happening are directly from any of the games, but I haven't heard those complaints and they wouldn't be valid anyway. Fallout is a vast universe, spanning hundreds of years, with almost limitless storytelling potential. As long as they don't do anything that would ret-con or otherwise destroy other parts of the story that have already been told, they can tell any story they want to within the world.

A lesson learned from Kathleen Kennedy's failures at Lucasfilm/Disney, perhaps?

I noticed during the credits that Todd Howard is involved and it shows. And though there's always been mixed feelings about Todd among the Fallout fandom for certain choices they made with the later games, Fallout 4 and Fallout '76 in particular, I don't think he's going to allow anybody to screw up canon.

The sets are AMAZING. The vaults look exactly like real-life versions of what is in the games. I noticed little details like in the chamber where the door to the outside world is located they even took the time and effort to put rust all over the walls, showing that even if an almost limitless amount of money from rich people went into constructing them with the best tech available at the time, when over 200 years pass, things aren't going to look as pretty as they did when they were first built if they aren't maintained. None of the living spaces once you get beyond the chamber have any rust and are well maintained.

There are so many little details to be found all around. As a fan of the games I bet you could rewatch this 10 times and still see easter eggs and other nods to the game that you didn't notice before.


The entire cast is EXCELLENT and Walton Goggins in particular was perfect casting. As I assumed from the trailer, he appears to be the anti-hero. I didn't realize just how much of a bad guy he was going to be from the start, but by episode 4 I'm starting to see cracks in that and I think he's got a huge redemption arc coming his way. But it would never have happened if he hadn't met Ella Purnell's Lucy first and been reminded that there actually is good left in the world.



Fallout isn't just the best video game adaptation ever made. If they keep this up until the show finally ends, it could end up being one of the best TV shows I've ever seen.

Thanks to everyone involved for doing it justice.


I really feel bad for fan communities for things like Resident Evil and Lord of the Rings. Those projects were made before the venture capital dried up and were run by DEI staff that hated the source material and so they were ruined by The Message despite the gorgeous sets and the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on them.

They got Fallout right though.



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