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    The sun rises and you walk into your apartment wearing the same clothes you had on the night before. Your roommate asks"Netflix and chill?". You nod. “How was it?”, they ask. “It…it…was earth shattering” you reply with the face of someone who genuinely feels like life will never be the same. “Holy shit! Was the sex that good?!?” asks you roommate. As you shake your head you answer, “no sex”. Bewildered your roommate asks, “No sex?!? Then what the hell did you guys do all night that’s left you like this?”. In a distant voice you say, “we binged Arcane”.

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        Can confirm other opinions:

        • Did not know anything about League
        • Enjoyed Arcane

        The game and the show aren’t really related at all. AFAIK, if you’ve played the game, you just get to be like “Oh hey that’s one of the characters you can choose” once in awhile… But there’s no overlapping plot or anything.

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          It has overlapping plot in the same way Overwatch does. Technically the characters all have backgrounds, and that’s what Arcane shows some of. The game may use that to give character to the heroes, but the game itself doesn’t really add anything to it. The game is probably improved by the existence of the show (I assume, I never cared for it I’m general), but the show really doesn’t depend on the game.

          (Technically I think there are multiple games in this universe now. I can’t tell you much more, but I think there’s an action game with some pirate character at least. That may have more story, but it doesn’t matter for Arcane.)

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      Is that the League of Legends show? Is it good even if you’ve never played the game?

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        Oh my god yes. Watch it. You’ll be so happy you did. Riot did a fantastic job relaying such raw emotions through animation. If you know the game, then you’ll know some of the characters but it truly doesn’t matter if you do or don’t.

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          Riot did a fantastic job relaying such raw emotions through animation.

          Dude you weren’t kidding. I’m less than 3 minutes deep in the first episode and it’s already messing me up. Jeez.

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          Alright, thanks for that reassurance. It’s hard to explain to people why they should watch a show you love, I know that through experience. I can tell you really loved this show, so I’ll make sure to check it out. 👊🙂 Respect!

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      She has giant eyes. That’s honestly something I really like about her, but yeah it sometimes turns into Gollum in some pictures.

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        Whilst I don’t agree with that (but I do like ppl making weird faces, eg the sort Danielle Panabaker is constantly making), … I almost had to check who the actress is or did just Lizzy Caplan age backwards:

        Or Natalie Morales (just as an association):

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      She switches between Gollum and pretty a lot. But I don’t mind, it honestly adds to the show.

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    For people who have watched the show is it good or bad ?

    I don’t know if I want to watch it

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      I’ve played every fallout including Tactics. I enjoy good drama. The lore blips don’t really matter to me as drama is about people interacting based on their circumstances and relationships, not about whether a specific numbered year matches up to another specific numbered year in a fictional universe. For the purposes of what makes drama work I would say it was a 7/10. Maybe a 7.5 because it had cool fallout stuff in it.

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      It’s good, but it doesn’t care about the lore so people got mad for a while. Just like what bethesda does.

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        The only lore it changes is shady sands and the year could just be a production error so there’s a chance nothing got retconned at all

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          It assumes the BoS ending from fallout 4 because the airship is named the same and power armor jetpacks.

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            I feel like the institute ending most likely was the canon ending primarily because shaun is the sole survivors son among other things, even though the institute is not exactly morally right (really only the railroad and the minutemen can come close to that moniker). I feel most people let feelings come before true morals and that includes their love for family, which means that the sole survivor would at the very least not destroy the institute even though shaun is a manipulative POS who only sees his father as a tool to accomplish a means to a cause.

            If not the institute ending, then probably the minutemen or railroad endings would be canon, as the sole survivor definitely comes off as a person who would, without a doubt, try to keep doing the right thing heavily into consideration.

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        From what I 've seen the lore is more than acceptable. If people got mad over that, they have some serious issues in their lives.

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      I thought it was a 8/10, and I played all the games. Lore seems accurate.

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      I really enjoyed it, and I usually have a hard time getting sucked into tv shows. That said I probably only have about 15 hours across all the fallout games I’ve played (3,4,NV) because I get stressed out about rads and weapon decay lol

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      I’m really enjoying it so far! I’ve never been into the fallout games but I have dabbled with 3 for a few hours. I can tell that if feels like they really care about the source material. They captured the look and feel of bringing a video game to TV. The cinematography and set designs are absolutely fantastic!

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    The fallout show is liked because it plays into the male fantasy Just like the games