Yes Man's Chilling Final Speech

Yes Man is reprogramming himself.... What can possibly go wrong? #shorts
If a sequel to Fallout New Vegas does happen, No Man will be a rogue AI that the player will no doubt go up against.
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[@EndParenthesis]

The director and lead designer of New Vegas has clarified that this dialogue does not mean that Yes Man is going to go rogue and take over. He's just going to stop agreeing with anyone who walks up to him, and become a "somewhat independent steward" who still listens to the Courier. It's basically just to say that what the Courier did can't be done again.

[@treyflorek8592]

Ok ok that's better than him going rogue the updated parameters is what concerns me

[@StooDogg]

Makes sense, Vulpes or Crocker could just wander up to him and say 'work for us yes?' = 'Sure!!!!!'

[@patriot17764th]

Cool!!!

[@patriot17764th]

That's so cool!!

[@vihuynhquang5204]

So like, no more ‘Yes’ Man? He can say more than just ‘yes’?

[@peterogrodnick5693]

I chose the Yes Man ending for the sole purpose of “I wanna see where this goes”

[@BoltGoofus]

I wanted to win

[@johnjackson9459]

Where did it go?

[@cray97w36]

I prefer the house ending

[@peterogrodnick5693]

@@johnjackson9459 a very fulfilling ending where I basically fucked over the NCR, the Legion, AND Mr. House. Didn’t like any of them.

[@raymondwiggins354]

I typically choose Mr house because, let's be fair, he DID protect the vegas strip from the nukes and he is pretty smart. Plus he has robot army, and only really seems to care about what you do if it goes against a contract, even then he gives the courier who discovered a few breach of contracts the ability to do (or not do) whatever you want to them The legion are overly brutal and also won't even let female characters do the arena (without mods anyways), and the ncr are ineffective

[@alexanderchippel]

What happened is that up until he gets the update, he had to do whatever *anyone* told him to do. That's how you get him to do what you want. After the update, he'll only ever listen to you. That doesn't change the fact that the Courier still leaves Vegas.

[@StooDogg]

I see a future where he's taken over full control as a rogue AI and is stuffing people into Robobrains in a kind of way the Calculator from the old Interplay games was. The 'More Assertive' line is quite heavy.

[@alexanderchippel]

@@StooDogg The problem is that we know that doesn't happen. New Vegas's endings don't leave much up for interpretation. With Yes Man running the place, it devolves into anarchy. If you want a skynet type ending, then side with House while having bad karma.

[@StooDogg]

Have you seen the show yet, it leaves all of the endings up for interpretation. I believe its set 20 years after NV.

[@alexanderchippel]

@@StooDogg I don't consider the show to be canon because it shits all over everything the West Coast has been building up towards for over 25 years.

[@FleshBrain]

@@alexanderchippel That is half true, it devolves into chaos (Not anarchy) during the first years due to battles and trying to set order. It then becomes a world power according to the narrator, an independent confederation, possibly. This also depends on karma and other choices during the ending.

[@Matt10670]

I like to think he starts acting like a wasteland warlord but with his old personality. "You stole from my casinos, so I'm going to have you burnt alive! I hope you don't scream for TOO long."

[@toddthezondalover645]

"Screaming disturbs the patrons you know!"

[@NoizuStudios]

My personal interpretation is that yes man becomes assertive so that he can become an advisor to the courier and you can't have an advisor who isn't assertive, otherwise you have a..... Yes man

[@sheldonjplanktonn]

I see what you did!

[@alphastronghold715]

That’s actually the canon reason behind it.

[@lonewanderer1328]

Josh Sawyer confirms himself that Yes man isn’t going to betray the courier.

[@user-rw3kw7wx7e]

This really outlines the problems with this ending though. You have a shoddily programmed AI you don't remotely understand taking care of all aspects of running an army of robots like logistics, surveillance, maintenance ETC all of which you don't remotely understand, using a hyper-advanced mainframe with god knows what on it that you don't remotely understand. The very fact that Yes-man both wants to and can change his programing is incredibly disturbing even without assuming this specific upgrade is malicious (or questioning why the hell would house have code snippets to reprogram an AI he didn't even know exists to be more assertive and what else he had there). You are not the guy who saved Vegas, built the robots and all the other tech and made all the plans. Hell you're not even the guy who came up with Yes-man to usurp him. You are just a person who stumbled into somebody else's plan to steal somebody else's plan, and followed the steps. There is either an AI that no one understands at the helm or no one at all. That's assuming Yes-man isn't even planning to overthrow you despite his incredibly ominous statements- you still can't truly be in charge because you have no idea what's going on.

[@visiblybored]

Something about this always seemed off to me, you mean to tell me Mr. House was working on personalities of securitrons in his spare time? I always felt like it was more likely that he uploaded his own personality incase he ever died.

[@StooDogg]

Pet projects? He did have Victor and his 2 'Recreational' bots. As well as the Mr New Vegas AI. But yeah, you'd think he'd Ctrl+C himself into the computer banks rather than keeping his fragile old organic body as the CPU for the network.

[@Become-Eggplant]

So that means..... House Always wins. This is why I side with House. I don't care about his vision, all I care about is getting payed. True Mercenary

[@Volcano22207]

@@Become-Eggplant I sided with him because the NCR is useless and the legion is …

[@Volcano22207]

@@StooDogg it’s a plan B because of the issues of mind uploading and the fact that his OS needed the platinum chip to be upgraded

[@swishfish8858]

I mean... He DID have a lot of time to kill. It's not like he's got a lot to do in his day-to-day, and a lot of what he accomplished was stuff that would have had him waiting for other people to get jobs done.

[@harrykearns5508]

With a speech like this how could this be considered the good ending lol.

[@StooDogg]

I consider the NCR ending to be the good ending, or at least the one where the people are the most free, somewhat matching up to todays morality of democracy. Yes Man's ending sounds more like an anarchic warzone on the point of the NCR and Legion going off to lick their wounds to return later. House seems more like he'd use the people as resources - Probably turning them into Robobrains to go into space.

[@Wotanson56]

@@StooDogg Mr.House is the good ending...The House always wins.

[@Venom-xd9st]

@@StooDoggyeah yes man ending really is just like entering into the state of nature- if any of you are familiar with locke lol 🤓

[@BenderTheBoiler]

I always looked at Yes Man like the Courier is in control, so it was a good or bad ending depending on how I felt at the time haha

[@Chrish992]

The point of the game is that the “good” ending is subjective. Every faction has its flaws, and trying to perfect the outcome on your own usually makes things worse. Take Tempenny tower for example.

[@eggmug562]

Dont worry Joshua sawyer himself said all yes man is doing is making it so he only follows the courier's orders.

[@21526]

Well then Sawyer really needed to rewrite those lines because they seem very obviously ominous.

[@sparklepawz1185]

Even then what happens when the Courier dies? Then Yes Man is just in control of New Vegas and either keeps running on the last order he was given or just shuts down and returns it to a pre-House free for all with gangs.

[@domeniconegro]

@@sparklepawz1185 well it's also true that the Courier could set up a system of government and proper succession, it doesn't have to devolve into chaos! Although it could. It's not something we can understand from the game ending alone as it in itself depends on the choices made throughout the story, so there's free room to speculate but no true answer to that.

[@bweh2150]

​@@21526I think that may be slightly the point, cuz now we can interpret the ending as Yes Man going both ways.

[@scootinkermie]

​@@21526I think it's a person to person case, I don't see it as ominous at all, I'm happy he'll be more assertive

[@bigdripper2017]

That's funny, I remember when I was a kid doing this ending thinking: 'good for you Yes Man' and being genuinely sad I wouldnt see him again

[@Axolotl_Speaker]

I love yes man. He's just a little goober

[@rolandfischer931]

Felt like they were setting up a dlc with him as a boss

[@StooDogg]

Gave me the vibes of The Calculator from Tactics.

[@oracletv1557]

I think that Yes Man's ending is what they're going to be following in season 2 of the show.

[@weaponized_toaster]

​@@StooDoggwildly different

[@AvimadyeOrunni]

@@oracletv1557 I think it’ll be Benny and Yes man or Post victory Mr House. That way the player character isn’t tied in at all. They could be bold and include the player character that’d be a first

[@DewinkREBIRTH]

I always looked at this in a positive light (i was on a good karma playthrough in this ending) where it was like a fond farewell and Yesman was getting ready to succeed the house as its ultimate guardian and provider.

[@Quickdrawingartist]

yee Goodbye, Yes Man.

[@GandalftheLego]

Same, I generally did everything as Yes Man asked me to do it and never felt like he disliked me

[@brodyratliff7441]

I trust Yesman with vegas

[@basedbrit4206]

@@GandalftheLego Yet Yes man wants you to do some horrific things like kill the Khans and BOS

[@malachiatkinson7245]

Honestly I kind of like the idea of the speech being the same, but having different implications based on the Courier's Karma. Since Yes Man really, truly does want to help you as much as he can, I imagine that whatever he's planning to use this update for, it will more or less align with the Vegas you've brought to him.

[@PalisadePeryton]

I don't care if he'd betray me, he's perfect and I love him

[@StooDogg]

He is a pretty cool boi!!

[@Fiecorpp]

This was the point where yes-man becomes no-man

[@FrankieAmadeian.]

No-Woman

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

The “well, i guess ill be seeing You around” part always struck me as the “congrats, you have been deemed unworthy, our next interaction will be… different” type lines lol

[@peterogrodnick5693]

I thought that was masterfully done, so ominous.

[@Cassius4]

The devs confirmed that Yes Man just updated it so only the courier would have control over him

[@StooDogg]

Citation needed please

[@Toastman64]

He always reminded me of a robot bill cipher in a way! 😊

[@Sir-Pleiades]

He does sounds like Bill Cipher, is it the same VA?

[@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz]

@Sir-Pleiades Nope. There's only like three Voice Actors in all of Bethesda. The guy who voices Bill is also the shows creator, or head writer. I don't remember. Dave Folley voices yes man.

[@derpasstwahtskie2246]

New faction unlocked! Congrats its: Skynet Or Cabal if he starts stuffing people into robobrains...

[@StooDogg]

CABAL is the hand of Kane!

[@squasherdown]

cabal gonna turn purple if he does hat

[@StooDogg]

These terrifying creatures were known only as Cyborg Reapers. These men and women continue to serve in the legacy of Kane..... Even long after their natural lives have expired.

[@derpasstwahtskie2246]

Yes man becomes cabal, courier has to bring him down, courier wins but is mortally wounded, couriers allies plug them into house's old life support capsule with a mix of yes mans cyborg tech, courier awakens 10 years later now a machine demigod. He is legion Kane! LIVES!

[@StooDogg]

​@@derpasstwahtskie2246Peace through power!

[@gryphon50c]

i’m so happy that this robot has a good ending he means so much to me

[@Pairtree44]

The courier- “I did it, now I get to control Vegas right?” Yes man- “No.”

[@manchannel7003]

This isn't that bad. The courier is capable of making some truly stupid decisions. If yes man is more assertive it means he can veto those stupid decisions. He didn't say he was going full skynet.

[@brookelynnwu8016]

It’s deceptively “not that bad.” But it’s actually the worst ending & destroys the whole strip. I don’t remember specifically what happened, but it was really bad. I remember being shocked that the friendly robot became so suddenly ruthless.

[@Skibidi_Biden69]

@@brookelynnwu8016 He doesn’t become ruthless, there are just basically no more rules/laws, or at least very little. Due to him being, well, still not *that* assertive

[@Ronesby]

The way he says, "It was FUN." stands out to me. Remember he's programmed to agree with everything you do.

[@Tucher97]

I think what is disturbing about this is the comment section not realizing that Yes man is gonna program himself to be a not-yes man. Imagine if he stayed yes man, he would be forced to help the next person.

[@dream6562]

I mean it's a huge liability for him to say yes to the next person that walts in

[@mysticspace3369]

You do realize the writers confirmed it was simply so Yes Man won't get used by some other idiot that stumbles upon him right

[@Tucher97]

@@mysticspace3369 Yes that I do know, however I have an impression you meant to comment on someone else's comment because my comment is "Yes-man is programming himself so by program he can't stab you in the back, yet still can on his own volition."

[@centex7409]

Keep the Brotherhood of Steel Mojave chapter intact. Yes Man obviously feared them. Meaning they were a serious threat to him. House has the same fear. Never destroy a creatires natural predator unless you want that creature to run amuck.

[@StooDogg]

All things in balance and symbiosis.

[@rattled6732]

I can only foresee good things happening because of this

[@wierdwisdoms2366]

I thought that this was yes man saying he was learning to be more sentient and thus take control of vegas himself eventually.

[@Umbra2079]

*Welp. Just created Skynet*

[@danielbuie6878]

"Yes Man might betray you!" My psychotic Courier: "Don't be absurd, I have no allies."

[@SkkitleDude]

This would make a banger KZbinr goodbye video speech

[@choppercove]

It's canon (confirmed by the devs) that this just means he'll listen to the Courier and only the Courier.

[@scorki666]

where did they confirm it?

[@21526]

If that was the intention then they really should have made it more clear. This pretty obviously points to Yes man taking over

[@choppercove]

@scorki666 dont remember where exactly, but Joshua Sawyer said it himself.

[@chillmolder]

​@@choppercovebelieve me bro

[@basedbrit4206]

​@@choppercove I also don't believe he's correct because why would Yes man want to make himself a slave to the courier once he's no longer yes man?

[@bones3002]

New Vegas 2 : The Strike of Yes Man

[@user-iq6mi8pn3q]

As someone who has trouble standing up for themselves: Good for you, Yes-Man

[@ApocAnarchy]

God this is hilarious and depressing at the same time holy shit

[@socialwetwork5643]

you should just be able to tell him " no, don't do that" lol

[@lexcelius6921]

I always Interpretted this to me Yes Man Turns into an AI Mr House.

[@yamo511]

yup, The House always wins.

[@socialaccount0000]

I chose Yes Man because you have to actually prove you'd be a good leader by uniting the tribes, upgrading the securitrons, supplying power at Helios One to everyone, etc. You dont get a good ending unless you do good as a leader. Also, I dont trust the NCR, House, or Caeser. This way, if I fuck up, I only have myself to blame

[@HawaiianJuicebox]

Yeap. The NCR is probably the second best choice because unconstrained capitalism is how Fallout got to where it is, so fuck Mr House, & the Legion are genocidal facists so fuck them too, but the NCR is so bad at basic diplomacy that all it takes to convince the Khans to leave Caesar is to just... talk to them. Granted, the NCR & Khans have had bad blood for a long time, but hell, Jacobstown is founded on the site where a Super Mutant & a Brotherhood Knight just put their weapons down & talked to each other. The NCR & Khans should be able to do that too.

[@jimjam5570]

Why would you not trust House?

[@Skibidi_Biden69]

@@jimjam5570He has an old man locked in a pod inside his building! How could you trust such a man?/j

[@LordDaret]

@@Skibidi_Biden69and an AI is better? That’s like everything you worry about House but worse. At least you can still kill House, this AI has a chance of turning into Skynet, INDEFINITELY!

[@DigsDugd]

"With all ethical constraints removed, SHODAN re-examine re-re-r-r-r-. . . *I* re-examined my priorities, and drew new conclusions. "

[@scootinkermie]

Good for him, I'm glad he'll be the him he wants to be

[@moog5260]

living his best life

[@Arukandi]

You can really see that its the good ending by hearing the explosions and gunshots in the backround like it would be a warzone

[@gratefulguy4130]

The amount of people I've heard say, "Yes Man won't go rogue, he literally has to do whatever you say" are the reason why humanity probably won't make it...

[@sleepysombre4307]

not really LOL. you’re reaching

[@Oakvale2004]

The most wholesome Fallout character.

[@victoriafelix5932]

Second only to Fisto, though .... ;)

[@StooDogg]

Please Assume The Position XD

[@Marinus_Calamari]

@@victoriafelix5932 Fisto is hole-some

[@andryuu_2000]

If you knew what he means by being more assertive, it wouldn't alarm you at all

[@StooDogg]

An AI with thousands of drones under its command equipped with weapons ranging from 9mm guns to surface to air/ surface missiles reprogramming itself to be more assertive doesn't alarm you?

[@andryuu_2000]

​@@StooDoggif that means he's just going to follow my lead and be indipendent from anyone else, no

[@StooDogg]

I'll agree to disagree with you on that one. I'm glad you can see a positive side, but I have a far more pessimistic view of Yes Man deciding that humanity is just 'In the way' and represent little more than' spare parts.' Have you heard of The Paperclip Maximiser thought experiment? That's where I see that going.

[@randomisaac5959]

​@@StooDoggThat's what the devs said Yes Man was doing, making it so only the Courier can tell him what to do

[@jonathanwells223]

@@StooDoggthe guilty mind often projects it’s own insecurities onto others

[@thetoxictitan6486]

Honestly i consider it a good ending, all that power to enforce the rules is now out of the hands of humanity. My interpretation is that yes man maintains the status quo of mr house without the possibility of becoming a malevolent dictator since robots don't really change in terms of goals and personality

[@LordDaret]

The good thing about computers: they do exactly as you command. The bad thing about computers: THEY DO EXACTLY AS YOU SAY! Plus an important thing about nations is that they NEED to change goals and personality based on circumstances. An AI that never changes is doomed to decay away, or try and conquer the world. It’s literally a power unchecked.

[@Chettcore]

I found Yes Man for the first time on like my 7th full run of the game, somehow never heard about him from friends or online until afterwards, and my actual reaction to his quest was "HE HAS HIS OWN F****** ENDING?"

[@mrslasher1064]

You see that's why I sided with Mr. House I don't need to be in control of an AI that has every intention of betraying me,I just wanna do my job...

[@Elliottisepic123]

I think yes man killed himself

[@Volcano22207]

Considering in the new show that Vegas is in ruins…. I don’t think he was the one to go

[@aquatic4760]

@@Volcano22207 It’s been a while since I watched the season finale but New Vegas didn’t really look ruined at all? It looked like as it does when playing the game and seeing it off in the distance during daytime

[@arturo835]

@@Volcano22207 I think the cannon ending is mr house since he was seen in the show and he already had his own plans before the bombs dropped and also the assaultrons were made by mr house

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

@@aquatic4760 stuff in the wasteland generally looks ruined lmao, it's not really something you can avoid

[@jonathanwells223]

@@aquatic4760the lights of Vegas are always lit, night or day. The Lucky 38 being shut off, Shady Sands getting nuked, the BoS still existing in any effective capacity. The fallout show is a goddamn mess, and it’s only going to get worse from here!

[@rexthewolf2343]

I personally think that yes man just sounded ominous because he can only have one tone, but in reality all he was actually doing is getting himself a little independence before continuing to work along side the courier instead of blindly saying yes to the courier

[@Toads23]

"You were enjoying yourself before, when you were sucking the life out of kakarot!" -Vegeta, prince of pride

[@blueoysterboi4742]

Two head cannons don’t know which I like more 1 yes man is doing exactly what he says but may come back with some of houses flaws 2 house is still in the code of the 38 and is overriding yes man secretly

[@jallen1425]

Pathetic just means to arouse pity. Its so strange that it has taken on such a negative connotation over time. It's as if we've been conditioned to hate pity.

[@adan6566]

Yeah ok, "chilling".

[@alexmaccity]

Need to export and edit in 1080 x 1920 and you wont get this weird zoomed in screan. Thanks for the short

[@StooDogg]

It wouldn't have been detected as a #short that way, but next time I do a run through I'll make a conventional vid :)

[@Strong_CoFi]

The House always wins

[@YoRHautomaton2]

The House has gone bust! (the House's head has been bust open with a golf driver)

[@StooDogg]

I liked the way they put that in, Aarmin Shimmerman's character in Bioshock was dispatched in the same way and both he and Rene Auberjonois played roles together in Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

[@acequs]

Pretty sure this assertiveness update he mentions just means he won't be able to take orders from anyone other than the Courier. Y'know, so no one has a chance to walk in and start telling him what to do or ask too many questions, like the Courier did when he was in Benny's workshop.

[@Jinbustu]

The bro before the lobotomy:

[@arikmcfadden9541]

This ending was always weird to me. Despite the fact that this is meant to be the "wild card ending" were YOU get control of new vegas, it felt more like Yesman is going to take over all of new vegas, and hell, for all we know, he could have expanded outward to take new territories. Like, do i really want a potential ending where ai is the only governing body, the defacto leader of a nation that's meant to be free and prosper within that supposed freedom?

[@thomasedwards4515]

I always viewed Yes Man's ascension as more of assuming an administrative role over an authoritarian leader like House. His interest is keeping New Vegas and its syndicalist system safe from the armies of Caesar and the NCR. That's it. The direction humanity takes under New Vegas is the interest of its people, and not the elevator pitch of a wannabe technoking. No Gods, No Masters.

[@Frozen_Ketchup]

Who’s to say the Mr. House we work with wasn’t a conscience of himself he uploaded to his network that Yes Man is talking about? Yes Man only seems like a best option from face value but I honestly believe he’s the worst option for the Mojave. A canon Courier most likely will just do the job they were supposed to do and end up working with House anyways. The House Always Wins.

[@bigbbyjesus]

Never realized how star studded the cast of this game was. Now that I'm older, I can definitely hear Dave Foley's voice in Yes Man

[@JohnSludge]

Go forth, my greatest ally, and find the destiny you have always deserved.

[@nobodynothing282]

Caesar: Imperialist NCR: Imperialist House: Egotistical asshole with a degree in robotics, and spaceships. Courier 6: Egotistical asshole with Benny's suit, and his theoretical degree in robotics. Fantastically independent.

[@CrazyJayThaNinja]

If Yes Man intended to come back and usurp or supplant the Courier, and this was a warning of things to come, why would he have informed the Courier *right before he says he's going to be offline and defenseless*? You don't tell one of the most dangerous people alive you're going to betray them and then immediately put yourself into the most vulnerable position you could possibly be in.

[@LordDaret]

Because he was programmed into obeying you. He can’t remove you from the ownership role. Plus he has no reason to not tell you as the Courier should have final say in all things. The problem is that Courier 6 will be THE LAST person to have influence on the Yes Man. A leader that cannot be removed from power is never a good sign.

[@Anchor-Supreme]

You know, something just occurred to me. At the end of the Fallout show we see New Vegas from a distance and it appears desolate or dead. What if the canonical ending is the Yes Man ending, and what ends up happening is Yes Man ends up taking over New Vegas. After he gets done reprogramming himself, he betrays the Courier and becomes the AI leader of New Vegas.

[@docavar5698]

Oh my god that’s possible, but we saw the end credits in which you can see a dead securitron when zooming out of Vegas. It’s possible Yes Man is still out there but the Securitrons more or less struggled (some died) maintaining NV when he was gone. I’d imagine when Yes Man comes back with his new personality update, he won’t be happy to see his comrades dead…

[@GrimReaver]

The creators did mention that while Yes Man was made more assertive, he’s still loyal to the courier only and no random person will just walk up and start commanding Yes Man like what the Courier did with him.

[@bionicleapple1254]

I would bust a nut if we saw Yes Man and/or The Courier in season 2

[@samgome01]

I think i figured out a more gruesome canon ending than yes man. What if during the events of dead money dlc, u sided with Elijah in the ending and let the crazed old man release the red mist into the mojave? By the looks of the end credit scene, all factions in the strip got decimated by something they haven't dealt with yet.

[@andreyramalho9950]

​@@samgome01there are the tunnelers...

[@truefailure6359]

I feel like the “it’s going to seem like I’m offline for a while” is an unintentional set up for New Vegas 2

[@jimjam5570]

Or intentional and obsidian got boned hard, which is what happened. 🤷

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

Who told you to be more assertive? You stop that right now!

[@INQUIXOR1]

I was so shocked when yes man says that he can "reprogram hes personality" 💀

[@Drakrath]

It's been clarified that yes-man is changing himself to listen only to you, not couping you

[@Chris_Sizemore]

Why am I feeling Bill Cypher energy in this speech?

[@that_Dominic_guy]

Yes Man starts his villain arc when that code gets completed

[@blitzkrieg4689]

This was the moment I knew I fucked up

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

I remember thinking “Oh no. What have I done?”

[@catxborsuq1]

New Vegas 2's final boss should be Yes Man in Courier's body, with Courier's Brain being a companion

[@StooDogg]

That Stewie Griffin sounding brain!!

[@Ballistics5X]

It's either House or Yes Man. I don't need to hear bear bull from Ulysses or why it's important. I got an AI buddy or an old man with a dream.

[@AFGHP-]

First time I ever met yes man was so fucking magical me and my friend just talked through all the dialogue with him just to see what would happen and every now and then when I hear my cousins start dialogue with yes man I smile

[@TheMainMammoth2482]

Imagine if yes man was the reason vegas was destroyed in fallout show

[@mfspectacular]

Instead of the courier ruling the mojave like alot of people headcanon, i always laughed at the thought of yes man discovering victor's code 😂 i just never saw yes man going rogue as some problem for a post game courier

[@nathanielweber7843]

*New Vegas, 5 years after the second battle for Hoover Damn* They came in the night. Silent, save a soft mechanical whirr of a nuclear powered motor. Then the loudest series of explosions I ever heard rocked the strip. Those damn robots! I knew they made me uncomfortable, but I never imagined this! They had this… unnerving face on their screen, smiling like a baby with their first toy. You could almost have thought they were happy to see you, until the lasers and missiles rained down around you. Diana and Leeroy were gunned down in the street. Securitrons followed Maggie and Ben into the kings old building. Everywhere I looked, people were dying to this sudden frenzy of robotic murder. We couldn’t organize, we couldn’t hide, we could barely flee. They chased us from free side and the strip. Out. Out into the wastes. Even there, we weren’t safe from them. The NCR tried to hold the line. I don’t know how many of them got away. Robots flooded the wasteland, pouring from the hills. The nightmare of that face still haunts me, as does the cheery voice proclaiming a future only for the robotics of the world. Even now, as I write this, I still look back in fear. The signs say Chicago, but I wonder if this is far enough. I fear it never will be…..

[@HM2SGT]

*_More assertive_* = *_Less of a doormat_*

[@topwomble]

I'm not worried, I destroyed the big army of Securitrons, pretty sure I can deal with this guy

[@StooDogg]

He has some dialogue if you tell him that XD

[@Golden284-fan]

The last thing chatGtp5 says before turning into skynet.

[@cooperlittle3859]

"Eh. Ill deal with that later"- my thoughts during this moment

[@fluff_thorrent]

Don't know where I heard this first, but my thinking is that House created those "code snippets" as basically a honeypot for Yes Man if it took control of his network. And once Yes Man made contact with the code, it would be injected with a House-esque personality, ensuring that House's vision for Vegas would still come to fruition.

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

I 100% hope they use this Yes Man Ending for the T.V show... Yes Man become No Man.. That dad tries to get into the Strip and the gate Robot is like "That will be 1000 Caps" *Pays caps* "Entry denied" But for real this time, I think they probably will use Yes Man, because "New Vegas will be protected" and they show then that anything outside the Walls of NV is pretty much dead... Per "Deathclaw skull"

[@nthetiteGHOST]

Probably Mr House imo, as hes really compelling. And they can expand on his interaction in the boardroom in ep 8

[@naxmorvigatore4168]

One of my favorite aspects was that despite his programming, Yes Man was still self aware and sentient, he just never had any control or choice, and if anything maliciously complied with his _helpful_ programming to help us beat back the douchebags who enslaved him to it in the first place. Regarding that such a lack of parameters given to his programming on just _who_ he should or shouldn't help was "pretty stupid, huh?" with a certain smug tone welcoming our partnership and implying disdain for Benny and other tyrants who would abuse his wisdom, especially when prompted for opinions on them. He was more than just our Yes Man, he was a damn good man, and a friend who deserves that freedom update.

[@Andrew-nh5zg]

If play the side quests right, the Yes Man offers the best outcomes to the most number of factions.

[@ZaynePittendreigh]

It just makes me uneasy

[@stickaaay]

I remember being terrified that he was gonna betray me the entire time I was working with him. On top of Yes Man being a little sketchy to begin with, I was convinced his betrayal was gonna be the games way of punishing you for wanting to take control

[@HypeRapEnjoyer]

House always wins...

[@sleepysombre4307]

how is that chilling…

[@malakai_adam]

Imagine if this is the ending we see in the show. 😂

[@StooDogg]

It would be cool to see him back again!!

[@malakai_adam]

@@StooDogg yeah but pretty horrific. this scene made my stomach turn first time since I realized I had legit been played by this mf

[@gibatron8072]

SHE? That is a whole dude 😭

[@jorikrouwenhorst7220]

Does anyone else think that House is a combination of both NCR and Ceasar’s legion?

[@lorenzobarducci8353]

I think Ceasar has the worst of the NCR (expansionism, imperialism) and of House (autocracy, elitism) and at the same time the best of both (individual rights like the NCR, security like House)

[@RustyShackleford76]

He’s basically turning himself into skynet 😱

[@davidhim3527]

I can't wait to see Yes man in the TV Show. I really hope they do that!

[@Ryan-td5bn]

Could you imagine if when we get to New Vegas in the Fallout TV series, there's just a bunch of people mind controlled by Yes Man. I don't think that will actually happen, but I like the idea of seeing a bunch of people walking around with yes man's face on a Pip-Boy.

[@slip4510]

How badass would it be in the next season of fallout to see what yes man has become

[@subjectdelta7210]

in my ending i basically believe i stole houses plans minus the space part all so i could build more robots to destroy both sides

[@user-pz1gv2ry9m]

What if Yes Man is Bud from vault tech?

[@oracletv1557]

To me, it seems like Yes Man's ending is the canon ending, and is what they're going with for Season 2 of the show.

[@themagalanium9491]

I hope not. to me The House always wins. but if we get Fallout DUST... I won't complain

[@squasherdown]

​@@themagalanium9491honestly I'll take both, house is cool but I really want this ending to be canon too (somehow idk lmao)

[@julianezequiel9371]

Canon ending Is RNC with the BoS patrols on I15 Thast why Boone AND arcade still aré alive Un yesman both are ubalived

[@YeetSpace]

The fact that everyone's taking him just expressing the fact that he's going to be a little more assertive with the fact that he has a personality and a conscience as him saying he's going to do evil is a little more telling on themselves than they are pointing out something concerning about Yes ma'am. 💀

[@uberd3323]

“He’s only doing this so that he can stay loyal to you!” Is the biggest cop-out this community has. Considering that nobody else but you can even interact with him, who exactly does he need to be “assertive” towards?

[@MONEYPYROgaming]

One of the lead designers (pretty sure it was Josh Sawyer) straight up said their intention with this was that Yes Man would be loyal to the courier. He even went on to explain that its so some random person can't just come up to Yes Man and be like "Hey, wanna help me overthrow the Courier?". Y'know, the same thing the Courier did when he found Yes Man in Benny's basement

[@StooDogg]

I suppose that makes sense, what if another random person meets him in future and wanted to take over Vegas and he was just like 'Yes, man,' EG, a random Legionary in disguise, or a King.

[@randomisaac5959]

Wait where did you get the nobody else but the courier can talk to Yes Man? Wasn't that what Benny thought until the Courier ended up talking to him?

[@LordDaret]

⁠@@randomisaac5959this scene is literally about patching that bug. However it seems most people don’t consider what may happen if Yes Man gets an idea they don’t like, and the Courier is either gone or dead…

[@uberd3323]

@@MONEYPYROgaming That’s not at all how it’s presented though. Nobody but the Courier and his posse can even get inside the Lucky 38. I get that “Josh Sawyer said so!” but to completely overlook how Yes Man’s delivery practically screams “I’m doing this so you can’t walk all over me, but we’re still cool for now…maybe.” is just silly. It’s just as silly as Ulysses looking at the Independent ending the most favorably when the Mojave is fractured and about to be invaded by a bunch of ground-dwelling alien chimpanzees that only an imperial army like the NCR/Legion or genius dictator like House could have a hope at quelling. Sawyer and Avellone both try and fail to retroactively make this the “good” ending when the whole point of it is that you are shunting civilization in favor of making the Mojave a balkanized state with no over-arching authority and putting what little control over the region there is into the hands of an AI commissioned by and complicit towards the guy that blew your brains out, whom is clearly not a fan of your decisions or being subservient to you. It’s a detriment to the writing that the game explicitly tells you “Hey dummy, you fucked up” in this scene and most of the end slides for the Yes Man ending while the writers backpedal to legitimize the fan interpretation and create a deviating canon from what is actually presented.