[CC] Crazy Postman explains how a Brain-Damaged Postman talked him out of launching nukes

[@sealsaregood5146]

As with all my Fallout memes, I recommend switching on captions for this one.

[@alex-f8t8s]

thank you, the description is more than enough

[@CT_Taylor]

the bear and the bull... something something seemingly profound... bull and bear.

[@ConsueloWubba]

You lost Karma for that

[@carcosian]

"The Courier is mindless, perhaps. But so is a nuclear blast." The most metal way I've seen low Int Courier described. Also the most accurate.

[@dm121984]

The Courier as a force of nature isn't far off a high level character.

[@PeterOak]

I really need the Courier's Brain at the Big MT next. Courier: [INT 1][Science 100]"If brainy be in big jar, brainy like jar juice too much, brainy forget, like television jars. Then what do?" Courier's Brain: [Success]"What do indeed?"

[@sneezingidiot301]

Yes please

[@MisterBenprodemo]

I NEEEED THISSS

[@free_at_last8141]

But you - of all people - dare to come here and stand before me, the mighty Caesar. What were you thinking? "Sergeant Cuddles needs a hat."

[@DraccoXX]

"robot is like us, he is postman" honestly probably would have made Ulysses feel something

[@Grensid]

Courier 6: What do? Everyone who parley with Courier 6: What do indeed?

[@qwelas5466]

"me struck dumb, the corrier just dumb" 🤣

[@commissarkordoshky219]

I knew where it was going the moment he said struck dumb lmao

[@nixel1324]

"I regained my senses, the Courier never given that chance."

[@Yung_Void]

This is possibly the most cohesive take on Lonesome Road's message I've ever seen, including the game itself. Well done.

[@CT_Taylor]

Something something profound sounding bear and the bull

[@barryfraser831]

I love that the Courier is actually pretty wise in this. He may be an idiot, but he also makes some really good point.

[@CordyCordyCordyCordy]

Wisdom and Intelligence being different stats in games makes perfect sense if you use this video as an example

[@ComradeOgilvy369]

​@@CordyCordyCordyCordyknowledge: simply knowing data Wisdom: using it appropriately

[@stm7810]

also it's just a common problem in stroke victims to still be smart but have damaged vocabulary, still understanding all this information.

[@hawaiianhippogryph]

"Crazy Grandad explains how a Brain-Damaged Postman trapped him in a gold vault."

[@clumsykitsune8054]

Omg pleeeease 😂

[@hoagie911]

[1 Intelligence & 100 Speechcraft] "Now what do?" [Succeeded] "What do indeed." This garnishes my omelette

[@EasilyAmewsed]

More syllables then brain cells, is perhaps the best line ever.

[@tibersulla2305]

"But at least they didn't wear corpse of symbol they killed" Damn, destroyed was indeed...

[@bigyoshi5170]

Ulysses has the perfect voice to go asleep to, goodnight everyone.

[@Ulikecookies]

Sucks cause it's 11am in the middle of my work day. But I can't help it.

[@chesterstevens8870]

Ulysses and Dagoth Ur are the perfect sleep aid.

[@Z03155]

Its insane how in character these are

[@PlebNC]

Lanius: You can't stop the Legion? Courier: What do? Lanius: Guess I'm retreating now.

[@jtroopa]

It's like Xavier Renegade Angel, except it was rewritten by Shadow the hedgehog and also he's been smoking for 30 years

[@qwefg3]

I love how innocent, stupid, yet dangerously smart and vicious he described the courier especially when it came.to the teddy bear. The fact he killed so many members of the legion assassin members and took their outfits to rework it to make an accurate costume for his teddy bear. Terrfying

[@athath2010]

ironically, doesn't that mean that the courier is himself using the symbols of the enemies he's killed?

[@Vanessomatic]

​@athath2010 well yes but also no because the teddy can't be naked.

[@danielbarros2072]

@@athath2010 yes but do remember this instance is an insult, as opposed to the other two

[@vicenteabalosdominguez5257]

​@@athath2010 the courier wore the symbols of the men he killed, but Ulysses wore the corpse of the symbol he killed. The courier outright denies carrying the simbol of the Bear, showing how he has a much better Bear wirh him, while Ulysses claims to stand for something he actively works against.

[@martyrsaint]

@@athath2010Yes but Ulysses actively boasted about America whilst destroying it’s remnants. He’s an unknowing hypocrit. The courier in this scenario is simply picking loot off the corpses of his enemies and using them to make a funny costume for a teddy bear.

[@Uforianer]

Thanks for making more courier content.

[@Trelmayas21]

Legit great writing here melding the humor of the 1 Int Courier with genuine reason that would sway Ulysses. Very well done.

[@radonstone]

Had me laughing with the lead in his head being the only contents of his to almost shedding a tear with "robot like me and you".

[@cyberninjazero5659]

This is just hilarious. Even though I can see a lot of the punchlines coming, they still get me

[@RasberryMochaFR]

"wut do?" Indeed

[@Alex_FRD]

Translation: "Somehow, the most mentally incompetent creature in all of creation managed to destroy three entire countries with nothing but luck."

[@Vanessomatic]

1 int 10 charisma 10 luck

[@ATxPrime]

I prefer the interpretation that it was NOT luck; that somehow this Absolute Unit was doing this intentionally, even lacking the intelligence to understand. To use a DnD analogy (editing for minimum speech requirements, with thanks and credit for correction to @r3dp9): 6 Int, 18 Wisdom

[@r3dp9]

@@ATxPrime At least 6 int, that's usually the minimum for basic speech and tool use. 3 int or less is the domain of plants. The common kobold, for instance, is 8 int.

[@fearedjames]

What I like about this mini series is you get the real sense of characters in a stroy finally acknowledging that a videogame protagonist being messed with is like choosing to piss off John Wick, and thus no matter how stupid what he says, you kinda have to listen to him.

[@sinistertwister686]

@@r3dp9 wrong game, pal

[@nice3333333333]

“And when the bear bullies the bull, bull bears bullying bear bulls bulbs, bear witnesses the beer bear bearing bull beers but barely beared bulls bullies.” -Stoned guy at the rave, wearing a gasmask for some reason

[@emmettgideon8266]

I hope someone makes this a mod for an alternate way to stop Ulysses using these voice lines

[@enzoofelba]

I can’t even bear to listen to this guy. Just sounds like a bunch of bull.

[@adamm2091]

A bunch of bear?

[@r3dp9]

It took me longer than I'd like to admit to understand this comment.

[@YasugoLiehu]

“And so, Courier Six shot Ulysses in the head, threw his body off of the Hoover Damn, and wandered into the wasteland, leaving the allure of New Vegas behind them. No-one knows why this brain-damaged postperson walked away, but some people say they could hear them muttering about Bovine and Ursine tormenters in their head, never allowing them to rest. Most assume that the second battle of Hoover Dam traumatized the courier, and that they could no-longer stomach a land embroiled in battle. But the courier didn't realize that they'll never find the peace they seek, because war… war never changes…”

[@enzoofelba]

@@YasugoLiehu The true canonical ending

[@King.-Arthur]

“Bear Bull, Bear, Bull, Bear Bull Bear Bull. Do you feel bad yet courier?”

[@joesmutz9287]

I can't wait until he discovers Ace Combat This style of humor is perfect for that series

[@mistertaz94]

I NEED a detailed discussion between Pixy from Zero and Crimson from Project Wingman on the advantages and disadvantages of borders 😂

[@Intse]

Just started another modded playthrough, so perfect timing. Also, this is how I imagine people react to low int, high charisma courier.

[@acev337]

Real nice job on this.

[@dravenocklost4253]

"How can you moderate a death blow" is so hard

[@nagger8216]

I love this. Tribal courier with English as a second language vs mentally challenged courier, which one will sound the closest to speaking a normal sentence?

[@Tazter25]

YESSS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SUCH BEAUTIFUL SOUNDS

[@Tazter25]

To hear such articulate people come into contact with true 1 int 100 speech is so fucking funny, lost my shit at never given a chance 😂🤣

[@Tazter25]

Plz let me know how the brains where dumbfounded in the Big MT!

[@merkn1ght]

The Bull and the Bear, The Bull and the Bear, The Bull and the Bear, The Bull and the Bear, The Bull and the Bear, The Bull and the Bear...............

[@BigBossStatus1]

We must not forget how the Bear treats it's citizens 3:32

[@Jehovahs_Thickness]

This is GOLD, Love the CC you added too

[@ПетрПетров-о6ъ9н]

"Bear bull bear bull bear bull hurrrr, couriers and the roads they walk in the shadows of the Giants of the Divide, bear bull bear bull" Such depth, such subtlety of writing. Greatest character ever written for a video game. Perhaps, the greatest character in fiction ever. Bravo, Avellone. Bravo.

[@r3dp9]

To be fair, pretty much everyone in that entire region is insane.

[@ПетрПетров-о6ъ9н]

@@r3dp9 Nobody in the entire game, no, in the entire Fallout franchise, talks anything like Ulysses. He acts like he's from Planescape Torment, not post-war America. Can you imagine him doing his job (delivering mail)? I can't.

[@CopeSeethorntin]

​​​@@ПетрПетров-о6ъ9н *(!Warning! im about to yap beyond imagination so brace yoursel)* To be fair Ulysses tribe were more or less small pockets of survivors who due to America being De populated ended up developing there own cultures, population's and small pockets of meuroding tribes. Though it's likley the twisted hairs spoke some English they were only officially taught how to by the legion when the joined in exchange of not getting Annihilated. Hence why Ulysses has to over explain himself due to not knowing simple consistent English terminologies. This isn't after 3 decades after the world ended where you still imagin everyone to be reminiscing how great it used to be to visit a Costco. But straight up 200 years where nearly everything beyond the west Coast was destroyed due to there not being a megalomaniacle billionaire to save and entire region beyond the Mojavie. If anything Mr House was a lucky 1 off who was able to prevent an entire state from getting to De populated gureenting that enough people remembered old America, culture and languages to be passed down past the apocalypse. We also gotta take in to account the NCRs original population was made up of vault dwellers who might as well come from old America hance the NCRs attempts to emulate it. Litraly everything beyond the East is practicaly dead and what ever Culture the inhibitors would attempt to inherent from the old world like the NCR and Legion frankly doesn't exist, or everyone was to busy surviving to really care much about the old world. leading to them developing there own Cultures and create there own English dialects to better reflect the wasteland. We have proof of this because when you go talk to Dr klein who spoke with Ulysses before brain wiping his mind. He described *"A strange individual with a strange name who spoke a language he never heard before"* that's not a 1 on 1 account but that's basicly a gist of it. It's also likely Ulysses Tribe were oral traditionalists, we can at least be able to pin point this by the fact he only records his journal entries to Holo tapes and frankly never really writes anything beyond *"You can go home Courier"* scribbled on the walls of the Ashton missle Silo. And it's likley everyone lost the ability to write meaning most of there history was passed orally. Hance his practically obligated to yap on and all as every detail needed to be shoved down your throat and recorded as more saw a force of habit than him purposely trying to be edgy, and cuppold with his obsession with history than you just end up getting Ullysses. The loss of writing is surprisingly pretty common when civilisation breaks down. We can see this from the end of the fall of the bronze age, to the fall of Rome, with this inability to write persistently through out the dark age with the only people who still knew how to read mostly being midevil kings. So it's likely most the tribes Caesar and hid legion subjugated were all illiterate prior to being re introduced to writing. I might just be over reaching, since i practicaly have a hobby for anthropology and Ulysses case is a particularly interesting one from his ideals and the idea of a grand story. That might just be the product of his tribale upbringing with most tribale folk lore usuly portraying the grand narrative of a grand Hero who moves the sands of history with Ulysses likley seeing himself as a grand Villain. Hence the whole *"individuals can change history"* perspective he carries. But take what I'm saying with a grain of salt😅

[@CopeSeethorntin]

*(!Warning! im about to yap beyond imagination so brace yoursel)* To be fair Ulysses tribe were more or less small pockets of survivors who due to America being De populated ended up developing there own cultures, population's and small pockets of meuroding tribes. Though it's likley the twisted hairs spoke some English they were only officially taught how to by the legion when the joined in exchange of not getting Annihilated. Hence why Ulysses has to over explain himself due to not knowing simple consistent English terminologies. This isn't after 3 decades after the world ended where you still imagin everyone to be reminiscing how great it used to be to visit a Costco. But straight up 200 years where nearly everything beyond the west Coast was destroyed due to there not being a megalomaniacle billionaire to save and entire region beyond the Mojavie. If anything Mr House was a lucky 1 off who was able to prevent an entire state from getting to De populated gureenting that enough people remembered old America, culture and languages to be passed down past the apocalypse. We also gotta take in to account the NCRs original population was made up of vault dwellers who might as well come from old America hance the NCRs attempts to emulate it. Litraly everything beyond the East is practicaly dead and what ever Culture the inhibitors would attempt to inherent from the old world like the NCR and Legion frankly doesn't exist, or everyone was to busy surviving to really care much about the old world. leading to them developing there own Cultures and create there own English dialects to better reflect the wasteland. We have proof of this because when you go talk to Dr klein who spoke with Ulysses before brain wiping his mind. He described *"A strange individual with a strange name who spoke a language he never heard before"* that's not a 1 on 1 account but that's basicly a gist of it. It's also likely Ulysses Tribe were oral traditionalists, we can at least be able to pin point this by the fact he only records his journal entries to Holo tapes and frankly never really writes anything beyond *"You can go home Courier"* scribbled on the walls of the Ashton missle Silo. And it's likley everyone lost the ability to write meaning most of there history was passed orally. Hance his practically obligated to yap on and all as every detail needed to be shoved down your throat and recorded as more saw a force of habit than him purposely trying to be edgy, and cuppold with his obsession with history than you just end up getting Ullysses. The loss of writing is surprisingly pretty common when civilisation breaks down. We can see this from the end of the fall of the bronze age, to the fall of Rome, with this inability to write persistently through out the dark age with the only people who still knew how to read mostly being midevil kings. So it's likely most the tribes Caesar and hid legion subjugated were all illiterate prior to being re introduced to writing. I might just be over reaching, since i practicaly have a hobby for anthropology and Ulysses case is a particularly interesting one from his ideals and the idea of a grand story. That might just be the product of his tribale upbringing with most tribale folk lore usuly portraying the grand narrative of a grand Hero who moves the sands of history with Ulysses likley seeing himself as a grand Villain. Hence the whole *"individuals can change history"* perspective he carries. But take what I'm saying with a grain of salt😅

[@DipSalter]

*(!Warning! im about to yap beyond imagination so brace yoursel)* To be fair Ulysses tribe were more or less small pockets of survivors who due to America being De populated ended up developing there own cultures, population's and small pockets of meuroding tribes. Though it's likley the twisted hairs spoke some English they were only officially taught how to by the legion when the joined in exchange of not getting Annihilated. Hence why Ulysses has to over explain himself due to not knowing simple consistent English terminologies. This isn't after 3 decades after the world ended where you still imagin everyone to be reminiscing how great it used to be to visit a Costco. But straight up 200 years where nearly everything beyond the west Coast was destroyed due to there not being a megalomaniacle billionaire to save and entire region beyond the Mojavie. If anything Mr House was a lucky 1 off who was able to prevent an entire state from getting to De populated gureenting that enough people remembered old America, culture and languages to be passed down past the apocalypse. We also gotta take in to account the NCRs original population was made up of vault dwellers who might as well come from old America hance the NCRs attempts to emulate it. Litraly everything beyond the East is practicaly dead and what ever Culture the inhibitors would attempt to inherent from the old world like the NCR and Legion frankly doesn't exist, or everyone was to busy surviving to really care much about the old world. leading to them developing there own Cultures and create there own English dialects to better reflect the wasteland. We have proof of this because when you go talk to Dr klein who spoke with Ulysses before brain wiping his mind. He described *"A strange individual with a strange name who spoke a language he never heard before"* that's not a 1 on 1 account but that's basicly a gist of it. It's also likely Ulysses Tribe were oral traditionalists, we can at least be able to pin point this by the fact he only records his journal entries to Holo tapes and frankly never really writes anything beyond *"You can go home Courier"* scribbled on the walls of the Ashton missle Silo. And it's likley everyone lost the ability to write meaning most of there history was passed orally. Hance his practically obligated to yap on and all as every detail needed to be shoved down your throat and recorded as more saw a force of habit than him purposely trying to be edgy, and cuppold with his obsession with history than you just end up getting Ullysses. The loss of writing is surprisingly pretty common when civilisation breaks down. We can see this from the end of the fall of the bronze age, to the fall of Rome, with this inability to write persistently through out the dark age with the only people who still knew how to read mostly being midevil kings. So it's likely most the tribes Caesar and hid legion subjugated were all illiterate prior to being re introduced to writing. I might just be over reaching, since i practicaly have a hobby for anthropology and Ulysses case is a particularly interesting one from his ideals and the idea of a grand story. That might just be the product of his tribale upbringing with most tribale folk lore usuly portraying the grand narrative of a grand Hero who moves the sands of history with Ulysses likley seeing himself as a grand Villain. Hence the whole *"individuals can change history"* perspective he carries. But take what I'm saying with a grain of salt😅

[@punishedvenomsnake716]

Great, now I have to play New Vegas again 😅

[@hansolo235]

Do the Think Tank next!

[@cropathfinder]

I want someone to mod in ALL of these ideas for low IQ couriers xD

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

I wish they gave us the option to nuke the Legion and the NCR in the main game world with the weapons from Lonesome Road.

[@Liam_Phoenix]

PLEEEEEASE do one of him arguing with his own brain and the think tank!!

[@SH4D0W0733]

What do indeed.

[@scottycheesecake]

Ulysses barely makes sense at the best of time so I'm looking forward to watching this

[@sneezingidiot301]

Why isn't this the fallout TV show?

[@theodor3gabriel]

God, I wish I had someone I could share this video with.

[@maa3563]

Pls make more big vids! They are amazing!!!!

[@yoface2537]

Of course just as I start watching more fallout videos as I get more into new vegas this man uploads a FNV video

[@darknephilim3248]

He believes correctly. It is not a replacement, nor a retelling. It simply took the same core componants and rather than creating a pure bar of gold like the original, made a rough yet adored platinum ingot.

[@BigBossStatus1]

6:19 6:23 6:31 6:35 yes, I understand your pain my friend 7:18 🧡

[@The_Kaminist]

It just so happens that I'm playing through Lonesome Road currently.

[@audaxriberinho]

OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO PERFECT

[@BigBossStatus1]

7:09 rest U. Please we'll play our chess again.

[@QwertyIOU-1]

God damn, this was good. As good if not better than Joshua’s

[@tacticalmanatee]

this channel is wonderful

[@Issatay-o8p]

I waited for "now what do" and "what do indeed" Amazing video

[@webkarma9654]

Now let’s go gambling!

[@lazrustosadow5880]

Courier: I may not not know much...

[@Archdukeofswol]

“The lead pumped in his brain being the only structure it had probably known” 😂

[@Maximillian_Space]

You a fan of NV as well? Okay, I officialy claim you a nerd.

[@r3dp9]

Nah, not a nerd just for being a fan. Writing fan fiction that's accurate to the New Vegas lore while also expanding upon it in a realistic matter? Now that's more like it.

[@Maximillian_Space]

@@r3dp9 He does stuff for anime, games and SW, what you mean he isn't a nerd?

[@josephgatts1679]

...sounds like BurialGoods.

[@cannibaletiquette5038]

kept waiting for a line where the courier initiated a point in the conversation where they sniffed eachothers fingers.

[@CJusticeHappen21]

There's no shame in being bested in a battle of wits by a genius. But to lose to an idiot, that's gotta sting.

[@BatteryPoweredGorillas]

Anakin full thesis isn't uploaded, now what do?

[@adamm2091]

what do, indeed

[@stm7810]

Courier 6 isn't stupid, she's just linguistically impaired, also she spent too long in the divide without her estrogen. many people who survived strokes or have other disabilities struggle with language even if very smart in other areas.

[@varogoth]

Bear bull bear bull

[@jeffparris5243]

Wait this guy wouldn’t let the nukes fly if Bloopy robot were to sacrifice himself it’d be one of his greatest loses

[@sealsaregood5146]

I actually had a the scene where Ulysses recalled that Courier Six broke down crying when Bloopy robot sacrificed himself because it felt like kind of a downer and made the video end weirdly. The general idea was that Courier Six said farewell to ED-E by resting his head on ED-E, tearfully saying "Bloopy robot say-" before cutting himself off because he's crying. ED-E sadly does the "beep beep" part of their quote, before nudging the Courier to keep moving and then sacrificing himself to stop the missiles. Ulysses then comments it was the weirdest thing he'd ever seen.

[@jeffparris5243]

@@sealsaregood5146 beautiful

[@LordOfHades]

Wow, your writing skills are incredible. How long did it take for you to complete the script for this?

[@sealsaregood5146]

Thank you! And I spent a good chunk of my free time last week on it

[@destrik4115]

Im not sure about the type but like the one that the baby seal looks like a small ball of bright white fluff with giant black eyes

[@sealsaregood5146]

Sounds like a baby harp seal, which is an excellent choice

[@destrik4115]

@@sealsaregood5146 you are absolutely correct, i just googled to confirm it. They are just so insanely cute. Their proportions as a baby (like most babies) are absurd and so cute. I hope i delivered no disrespect in my lack of knowledge. There are a lot of cool seals.

[@Prvt-Eyes]

With your writing talent I wanna see what you do with the dead money dlc

[@chickenbacon5197]

Bear bull indeed, but what of Bull Bear?

[@CHCrux]

My nose hurts. I really should know better than to be drinking before I hit play.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

My theory is: the Courier is a super-genius trying to explain 4D concepts to everyone else's 2D brains and that's the closest thing to making himself understood by them. For if he were to speak in his true voice and express his real thoughts they wouldn't understand. The Courier is merely adapting to the audience. Take Caesar, for example. He has lower intelligence than Snuffles (INT 4 vs INT 5... no joke, look it up, these are their stats). Caesar thinks Hegelian dialectics is peak philosophy. How can the Courier explain to these people the geometry of time, the concept of spacetime continuum and physics of interdimensional travel, without using Sergeant Cuddles?

[@lollypopalopicus]

I almost always go max int and charisma. But this makes me want to do 1 int 10 cha run.

[@TheVoidIsCold]

I am confused about what I just watched, but it was highly entertaining nevertheless. Very nice, can someone explain why this dude wanted to do some nuking or something, and why he decided to not nuke anymore?

[@sealsaregood5146]

I don't know if you've played Fallout: New Vegas and the DLC Lonesome Road, if you're liable to then you might want to avoid spoilers, which are below: Basically Ulysses, (the guy talking in the video) wants to murder Courier 6 (the player character in the game) because Courier 6 delivered a package to a place Ulysses lived that served as his new home. That package carried an activated detonator that sent a signal to underground ICBM missiles and wiped out the community Ulysses had found for himself. His plan was to use Courier 6 to bring him ED-E (an advanced robot) to get launch codes and use them to nuke the Mojave, which he hopes will kill the NCR and Legion, in their current forms, and force the development of something new, while learning from the mistakes of history. Why Ulysses wants to do this is, put simply, he's a crazy guy who blames you for bringing a detonator to bombs that blew up his home, even though you had no idea what was in the package. Put less simply, Ulysses is a man who is utterly obsessed with symbols and symbolism, what they mean and how they impact peoples and cultures. A central conflict of Fallout: New Vegas is that two major factions, the NCR (New California Republic, which is basically trying to resurrect America as best it can, but are fundamentally flawed in Ulysses' view, riven by internal divisions and a comprehensive failure to learn from history) and the Legion (who kind of model themselves on Rome which is, obviously, also a state which ended up collapsing.) Ulysses is originally part of the Legion and is the one who reports sighting Hoover dam to Caesar (head of the Legion.) This basically kick-starts an invasion and to a large extent the tensions between the Legion and NCR. Ulysses blames himself for this (in parallel for blaming you for bringing a package to a community and wiping it out) even though neither of you could possibly know what you actions would do. Ulysses wanders for a while, eventually coming across Hopeville, a place far removed from both the NCR and Legion and basically doing its own thing. Ulysses sees this place, likes it and decides to settle there. Then you bring the package then destroys everything. Ulysses found a home there and just like that, it's gone. So Ulysses decides to recreate the scenario that allowed Hopeville to exist, ironically mimicking the event that killed it. In his mind, the NCR and Legion are too stuck in the past, both married to deeply flawed ideologies doomed to fail. Instead, he's going to destroy both, and in so doing he wants them to break up into smaller societies to ensure something like the Divide rises again. He decided not to nuke, because, as mentioned previously, he's kind of obsessed with symbols and symbolism, and he wears the flag of pre-war America, which was the symbol of Hopeville. He wears it as a penance and a reminder of what Courier 6 did. Courier 6 basically pointed out that Ulysses claims he hates those who wear symbols without understanding their meaning and considers it an insult (using an experience Ulysses had wherein he trained a tribe called the White Legs to use weapons to aid in an upcoming battle, and they ended up copying his hair, styled in the way of Ulysses' former tribe, the Twisted Hairs. They intended this as reverence, but he considered this an insult, because the knots the Twisted Hairs used held meaning and significance, whereas the White Legs had no idea of this and their knots where essentially gibberish. In his eyes, they were defiling a symbol.) Meanwhile, Ulysses is wearing a flag of a nation that he killed by stopping ED-E doing its job, something he had no idea about. Put simply, Ulysses is defiling the symbol in the same way the White Legs had, but worse because the White Legs weren't the group who annihilated the Twisted Hairs. Courier 6 follows this up by offering Ulysses hope. "Now what do?" Sure, Ulysses has done the very thing he hates most, but that doesn't have to be his final realisation. Ulysses doesn't have to die here, the symbol of America dying with him, a symbol he defiled. Instead, he had options open to him, he can ensure the symbol of America lives. In short, he realises: "What do indeed?" I could go significantly more in-depth, and I apologise for the layman's surface level summary, as I've glossed over some key nuances, but that's the gist of it.

[@sabinasabino141]

@@sealsaregood5146 I love that you took the time to explain. Lonesome Road, despite it`s flaws, is peak New Vegas. Also, not glossing over the fact that Ulysses is batshit crazy.

[@athath2010]

@@sealsaregood5146 shouldn't ulysses be pissed at the courier for dressing his teddy bear in legion garb, then?

[@georgemurdock7670]

@@sealsaregood5146i like that you use your smarts for making me laugh and nv analysis and not for curing cancer or smth like that

[@TheVoidIsCold]

@@sealsaregood5146 Interesting. I have Fallout New Vegas, but I played about 48 minutes of it before deciding I'm not too interested in it, so this all sounds pretty cool

[@mycastephens4987]

I want the courier to explain his adventure.

[@lelouchvibritannia7809]

Will you ever make an ATLA short where Azula confronts Zuko and Iroh to talk about Anakin's Thesis causing Iroh to tell Zuko that she's crazy and needs to go down

[@sealsaregood5146]

@lelouchvibritannia7809 I do have plans for an Avatar one with Azula's own thesis on why the Fire Nation is justified, but I've got a different Avatar one planned next week first

[@ThisHandleIsDefinatelyTaken]

bbeularl

[@oppositeofwhatisay1982]

First

[@MisterBenprodemo]

What do indeed.