My Own Private Reset . . . .

 And . . . I’m back!

Sometimes—as we all know—things don’t go as planned, this blog, for example. Until serious health issues happened, I had a lot of big plans . . . I still do but there’s a lot of catching up to do. Like my series of articles about the TV series produced in the 1970s; with Hallowe’en over 80-plus days away, expect some paranormal-themed articles and a look at the first cinematic universe, the Universal horror films. I’ll also write about paranormal podcasts I’ve been following on YouTube—there a lot of problematic even outright offensive and bad podcasts and a few good ones.

There are a lot of major genre news too. The first four episodes of Stranger Things’ fifth and final season drops on Wednesday, 26 November; the second set of episodes will hit Netflix on Xmas Eve and the last feature-length episode debuts on New Year's Eve.

December will also see Fallout’s second series dropping on Amazon Prime—now date hasn’t been released yet. This season, we’ll find Lucy, the Ghoul (aka Cooper Howard), Dogmeat and Brotherhood of Steel Knight Maximus in the quasi-civilized New Vegas. According to production photos, the New Vegas sets look great and we’ve seen NCR troopers and Rangers, salvaged NCR powered armor, Securitron robots, Deathclaws and Caesar’s Legion. In interviews, the cast have said “a lot of wild shit” happens and I’m looking to see how both character arcs and their dynamics will change.

I’m hoping all the episodes will drop at once—it worked well last season and I think they will repeat the same strategy.

So.

Will we see Felicia Day as BoS scribe, Veronica and Danny Trejo as Ghoul gunslinger, Raul Tejada? In the game, Wayne Newton voiced the AI called Mr. New Vegas and will he do it again? Actor Michael Hogan played Doc Mitchell but Hogan’s had debilitating health problems and, sadly, Matthew Perry passed a few years back—no Benny, not even flashbacks unless the character is recast. MAGAt bootlicker and actor Zacharay Levi’s Arcade Gannon might be re-casted . . . by Macaulay Culkin. I’m fine with it.

Well, that’s it for now.

I hope you all will be checking out the website and I’m looking forward to your comments.

Be seeing you!

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Part 3 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: Gunfight at the Enclave Outpost

 

Part 2 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: Fear and Loathing in the Glowing Sea

Smith faces hostile forces—from the invading Dalek alien cyborgs to ghouls and mutants—as he searches for an Enclave outpost deep in the Glowing Sea.

Part 1 Fallout 4: Smith's Run -- Chapter 2 starts now!

 

Part 10 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: The Judas Protocol

 Parting is such sweet sorrow as Smith takes his revenge on Father and the SRB Coursers.

Oh.

One more thing:

Mishaps, deaths and other hijinks ensue . . . .

Part 9 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: Angelo's Secret

 

Part 8 Fallout 4: Smith's Run -- Even Shadier Dealings

 

Part 7 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: An Atomic Culling

 

Part 6 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: Help I've Fallen . . . . The Second Chapter

 

Part 5 Fallout 4 -- Help I've Fallen . . . . The First Chapter

Part 4 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: Headhunter

 

Part 3 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: The Wonderland Line Radroach Massacre of 2087

It's a jaunt to the Boston Airport that ends badly for the Brotherhood of Steel.

It gets worse after a random encounter leads to a fight with a radroach horde.

Have fun!

Be seeing you.

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Part 2 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: A Scavenger Hunt

This is the second chapter of my Fallout 4 playthrough Smith's Run.

The Mean Machine bus unleashes fire-and-brimstone hell during a late-night attack. Then, it's off on onto a scavenger hunt to the Glowing Sea. If you download the Deus Ex Adam Jenson armor mod, I show you how to find it.

A lot of Cybermen and feral ghouls die. Deservedly so, I believe. They started it, after all.

I unalive myself too.

Deservedly so, some have said.

Be seeing you.

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Part 1 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: Wasteland Trackdown

I  haven't streamed in nearly two years.

Fighting both Covid and Writer's Block, I returned to gaming vids. Gaming jump-starts my brain and helps with the block; several writers play these games.

Jonathan Nolan loved playing the Fallout games—of course, he created the hit Amazon Prime web series by the same name.

So.

It's a bit slow and I'm getting back to the video gaming zone.

But I'll get there.

Here we go . . . again:

Renegade SRB agent and now a fugitive synth, Smith.0 returns to the Commonwealth Wasteland after years of wandering what's left of North America. After reaching Old Boston's ruined outskirts, Smith discovers a holotape with a shocking revelation: Husband and wife Nate and Nora Anderson were violently removed from their Vault 111 cryopods—only to be murdered by a merc named Conrad Kellogg, who kidnapped their son, Shaun. Kellogg was one of the reasons he returned to the Commonwealth; Smith set out on a quest to rescue Shaun.

And, after a century, finally kill Kellogg and settle some very old scores.