Anyone else notice Vasquez Rocks in the first episode?
Yep. I used to climb all over them when I was a kid - we used to go up there on weekends.
I’m watching right now and I literally did the “Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV screen” reaction when I saw them.
Mr. House has definitely been given a major heel turn here. New Vegas definitely portrayed him as calculating and authoritarian, but tricking blue-collar workers into becoming guinea pigs for mind control experiments is a whole new level of evil.
Novac is now Khans territory, so I’m guessing that however the Battle of Hoover Dam ended, the ensuing peace didn’t last for long. Lucy (with some awesome VATS shots) and Cooper slaughtering them to the tune of “Big Iron” was pure fanservice.
The “meanwhile in the past” segments still feel a little clunky to me. We already know Moldaver’s going to die, so why they keep drawing out the mystery of how she survived the war escapes me for now. As someone who grew up in a broken home, the scene of Cooper telling his daughter to pick “your three best outfits and your favorite toy” before they fled the house hit me really hard.
The scene with Hank strolling into Vault-Tec headquarters looked awful. It’s just so blatantly CGI on a green screen, and probably AI-generated to boot. These kind of graphics were acceptable in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, but 20 years on they really ought to be able to do better. Kyle MacLachlan, however, is GREAT. The way he talks about completing the project and getting promoted as if it were still 200 years ago is some great dark comedy.
It looks like the players took the Bloody Mess trait.
As someone who has taken this trait/perk since Fallout 1 (where it didn’t give you any bonuses, it just made everything more gory) I heartily aprove.
Bloody Mess does change the ending in the first game (murder the Overseer instead of walking away).
I didn’t like it as much in the later games as it sometimes made corpse container retrieval harder.
I almost feel like the opposite is true, because you could loot an entire inventory off of any shred of gore 
More like when you gib several guys and you keep searching the same guy on every chunk of meat.
So that’s why I killed the bastard!, I approve even more.