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So, I binge-watched Fallout Season Two over the weekend.*

I wasn't the biggest fan of the first season. It was okay, but I
disagreed with some of the tone, and found it waaaay too heavy with
the fan service. But with this second season my opinion has changed
to: I'm not really a fan of the tone, and think there's waaaaay too
much fan-service.

It's not a bad show, no. Certainly there have been recent shows I've
enjoyed a lot less (<cough cough "Stranger Things Season 5" cough>),
and shows based on video games that I thought were far worse. You can
see the Bezos- and Microsoft-money poured into this project, and with
that sort of cash, it's hard to make a true stinker.

But I really have to wonder how well this season played with people
who /aren't/ familiar with the games. Who are wondering why, all of
sudden, there are Roman legions wandering about, or why there's a
computer AI emulation of Howard Hughes. This second season riffs
heavily off of the plot of "Fallout: New Vegas" but gives little
detail to what happened in that game, so a lot of the background just
goes unexplained. Myself, having played the game, I can fill in a lot
of the details. But if you haven't played the game (or just don't
remember what the fuck happened), I have to wonder if any of it will
make any sense... or will it all just seem like some sort of
post-apocalyptic fever dream?

I'll say this much: the protagonists are a bit less annoying this
time, even if their characterizations are even flatter and
archetypical. They're not very realistic, but they are more bearable,
and the overall tone of the series was a bit more hopeful. The
villains were awful, though; evil for evil's sake, but not in a fun
way.

One area the series still fails is in its SFX. Some of the sets look
nice --if a bit artificial-- but others --especially the shots of New
Vegas-- look like something out of a bad SyFy made-for-TV movie. The
monsters and battle-armor weren't that good either; they felt stiff
and didn't integrate well with the scenery. Again, it's not that it
was all terrible... but given the pricetag of these shows, I expected
better.

If you're a fan of the games, the show's fine. It's got a bit more of
a plot, and I'm intrigued to see where the narrative and characters
are going if there's ever a third season. But for non-fans? I really
have a hard time imagining this is something they can follow, much
less show interest in.


Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?







* actually, I first binge-watched season 1 last weekend, then followed
up with season 2 this weekend ;-)


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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote in news:cr2kokpebbgkloqo2jea083s7valq4tavs@4ax.com:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an
unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.

Spot the source ;-þ~
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On 2/9/2026 8:48 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

So, I binge-watched Fallout Season Two over the weekend.*

I wasn't the biggest fan of the first season. It was okay, but I
disagreed with some of the tone, and found it waaaay too heavy with
the fan service. But with this second season my opinion has changed
to: I'm not really a fan of the tone, and think there's waaaaay too
much fan-service.

Old person is old.

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

I loved season 1, my wife even watched it with me and enjoyed it.

Season 2 I haven't even finished yet, and my wife wasn't even interested minutes (seconds) into it and hasn't watched anything more than that.
Even with some NV play, I still don't entirely remember everything and
find season 2 more confusing, and definitely lackluster. I don't really
care about any of the protagonists now. Maybe a tad bit about Lucy.
I'm more interested in the vault dwellers, and Norm and his squad of
middle managers.

I didn't care for the 'before the bombs' parts in either, with the
exception of the intro of the deathclaw in the flashback within a
flashback (flashback within a flashback suck in general though.)

I'm sure I'll finish watching it at some point, but I'd rather read or
play video games at this point.
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 17:45:16 -0000 (UTC), "Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> said this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote in >news:cr2kokpebbgkloqo2jea083s7valq4tavs@4ax.com:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an
unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.

I'm pretty sure it was something they said on the television. ;-)













(Specifically, the TV-series "Babylon 5", although I can't quite
remember who said it. Probably one of the baddies.)

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"Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> writes:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote in news:cr2kokpebbgkloqo2jea083s7valq4tavs@4ax.com:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an
unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.

Spot the source ;-~

Babylon 5? At least I remember a line resembling that. And yes it is, I checked.
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote in news:sm0a4xfk4k2.fsf@lakka.kapsi.fi:

I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate
metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal
media elite.

Spot the source ;-~

Babylon 5? At least I remember a line resembling that. And yes it is, I checked.

You win a cookie!
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 17:45:16 -0000 (UTC), "Mark P. Nelson" ><markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> said this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote in >>news:cr2kokpebbgkloqo2jea083s7valq4tavs@4ax.com:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an
unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.

I'm pretty sure it was something they said on the television. ;-)

(Specifically, the TV-series "Babylon 5", although I can't quite
remember who said it. Probably one of the baddies.)

A Guard.

Just another example of the multi-layered reality that was Babylon 5.
Even the random background characters said things you remembered, not
just the main cast.

Xocyll
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

[Looks like this post lingered in my drafts for a while. Better late
than never.]

I do like the Fallout tv show but then I like many things Fallout. I get
goose bumps every time they play that title music from the games (or
some variation thereof). And as ever, I'm really interested in the big
picture since that story has never been told, AFAIK. Season 1 ending was
a little baffling, as in, was it really *those guys* who started the
war? And now it seems it wasn't.

But the other stuff, I don't know. I have no idea what's next for the
Ghoul or Lucy or Maximus. And to be honest, I don't know if I care about
them much at all. Or the vault 31/32/33 stuff and whatever their planned
fate was. Come to think of it, I'm not too keen on the portrayal of the
vault dwellers as inbred idiots. After all, your characters in the game
have been from that lot. Then again, maybe that explains a few things?

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:51:14 +0200, Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> said this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

[Looks like this post lingered in my drafts for a while. Better late
than never.]

I'm appalled, appalled! at this blatant necroposting. Well, maybe not
that appalled. ;-)

I do like the Fallout tv show but then I like many things Fallout. I get >goose bumps every time they play that title music from the games (or
some variation thereof). And as ever, I'm really interested in the big >picture since that story has never been told, AFAIK. Season 1 ending was
a little baffling, as in, was it really *those guys* who started the
war? And now it seems it wasn't.

I sort of dislike the direction its going; the 'evil conspiracy to end
the world because of... reasons' thing. I know that its been
back-n-forthed even in the video games, but the uncertainty you
mentioned allowed me to mostly ignore it. It's just too cartoonishly
evil, and it detracts from the overall setting. It's not as if
destroying the world because of stupid geo-political games isn't awful enough...

But the other stuff, I don't know. I have no idea what's next for the
Ghoul or Lucy or Maximus. And to be honest, I don't know if I care about
them much at all. Or the vault 31/32/33 stuff and whatever their planned
fate was. Come to think of it, I'm not too keen on the portrayal of the
vault dwellers as inbred idiots. After all, your characters in the game
have been from that lot. Then again, maybe that explains a few things?

I get the feeling the series is spreading itself too thing. You have
Lucy's quest, the ghoul's quest (in two timelines!), Max's quest, the
younger brother's quest, the evil father's quest, the goofy guy who
almost got married's "quest", the inbred-yokel's club. It might be
doable in a longer series, but with only 8 episodes it just feels
messy. Your constantly jumping from character to character and don't
ever really learn to care about any of them.

I think I read that Season 3 (assuming it gets finished) intends to
cut back severely on the number of plotlines, probably focusing mostly
on Lucy and Ghoul (with Max tagging along?)




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On 2/20/2026 3:51 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

[Looks like this post lingered in my drafts for a while. Better late
than never.]

I do like the Fallout tv show but then I like many things Fallout. I get goose bumps every time they play that title music from the games (or
some variation thereof). And as ever, I'm really interested in the big picture since that story has never been told, AFAIK. Season 1 ending was
a little baffling, as in, was it really *those guys* who started the
war? And now it seems it wasn't.

But the other stuff, I don't know. I have no idea what's next for the
Ghoul or Lucy or Maximus. And to be honest, I don't know if I care about
them much at all. Or the vault 31/32/33 stuff and whatever their planned
fate was. Come to think of it, I'm not too keen on the portrayal of the
vault dwellers as inbred idiots. After all, your characters in the game
have been from that lot. Then again, maybe that explains a few things?

Re "inbred idiots". Wasn't it revealed in one of the games that the
Vaults were sociological experiments? Vault 13 was deliberately short
of parts for its water supply, another vault had many times the amount
of some other parts while short of others, etc. Maybe this is more of
that kind of thing. (I haven't watched the show.)
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:07:01 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> said this thing:

On 2/20/2026 3:51 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

[Looks like this post lingered in my drafts for a while. Better late
than never.]

I do like the Fallout tv show but then I like many things Fallout. I get
goose bumps every time they play that title music from the games (or
some variation thereof). And as ever, I'm really interested in the big
picture since that story has never been told, AFAIK. Season 1 ending was
a little baffling, as in, was it really *those guys* who started the
war? And now it seems it wasn't.

But the other stuff, I don't know. I have no idea what's next for the
Ghoul or Lucy or Maximus. And to be honest, I don't know if I care about
them much at all. Or the vault 31/32/33 stuff and whatever their planned
fate was. Come to think of it, I'm not too keen on the portrayal of the
vault dwellers as inbred idiots. After all, your characters in the game
have been from that lot. Then again, maybe that explains a few things?

Re "inbred idiots". Wasn't it revealed in one of the games that the
Vaults were sociological experiments? Vault 13 was deliberately short
of parts for its water supply, another vault had many times the amount
of some other parts while short of others, etc. Maybe this is more of
that kind of thing. (I haven't watched the show.)

True, and a definite possibility. However, there was, I believe, a
throw-away line (by Lucy's father, I think) who said something along
the lines that there were certain vaults that were exempt from the
testing, intended only to be used as actual shelters rather than
experiements, and the ones featured in the show were part of this
group. Of course he could have been mistaken...

It's not like any of the characters in the other vaults are any less
idiotic... even before the bombs fell.


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On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:48:49 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

I am glad that they brought in Mr. House. I think the lack of context for
the social groups is fine, because there was no context in New Vegas
either and we all just rolled with it. You were introduced to the law
(NCR), you were introduced to the freedom faction, and for some reason
the freedom faction had a Caesar (and Roman armor out of thin air) and we
all just rolled with it.

By the way, I literally killed the whole Legion encampment at the
beginning of the game (first and only runthrough), right up to Caesar
himself, because they annoyed me so much. Which is what makes New Vegas
such a great game, even if it functionally broke the plot which carried
on as if the Legion was still a thing.

I think the plot points of the TV series are over-the-top and make
Fallout meaningless. Fallout was always to me about humanity: The human condition. How it reacts and behaves in a controlled, bountiful
environment, and how it reacts and behaves in a scarcity ridden
free-for-all. The first game pointed out that humans from each world
might not get along, and gave a plausible picture of what they might
become. The comfy became weak, and the uncomfy became strong. The comfy
were repressed, the uncomfy didn't have time for that. You, the player,
were made very uncomfy right off the bat, and adjusted quickly. Or, time
to reload.

I haven't finished watching the season yet (I'm still on ep 2), but
spoilers ahead. It didn't go over well, but I will watch the rest.
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This whole thing they added with a cabal of "management types"
deliberately launching a nuclear war, experimenting with mind-control
chips, annihilating survivor populations because they can't control them,
etc. is just over-the-top heavy handed and loses my attention fast. The
game series was about how these two worlds *didn't* interact and couldn't
get along, and the show is about one of them willinging interacting and
trying to dominate the other, while the other somehow remains totally
oblivious to their attempts. People's heads exploding is hard to ignore.

In an age where conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen, I find the secret lizard people theory more plausible than an upper C-suite hegemony
deliberately destroying the entire world so they could curate and control
what rose up. Because, somehow, they didn't have enough already. It's
just... breathtakingly stupid. Just as dumb as SPECTRE. Villains are just
not believable when they don't have a sympathetic, if twisted, POV and
are just twirling their moustaches being archetypically evil like they're
war propaganda. It doesn't hold my interest.

That said, I'm glad they brought back Mr. House, but they've made much
more of him than he deserves. The NCR vs. Legion stuff is just NV
fan-service and serves no purpose. The Ghoul is just meaninglessly cruel without any real explanation as to why. The Vault Dweller has stayed
naive for far too long. In the game, if you stayed that way for that
long, you had to reload, because you were very dead.

So she should have died ages ago, and anyone with a shred of humanity
left should be hunting the Ghoul in a posse and taking him off the planet because you can't leave that kind of thing around. And I do mean "thing," because he's not a character, he's a cut-out carboard figure.

So, utterly ambivalent. I'll watch it. I'll enjoy the fan service. I'll
roll my eyes at the plot if they don't go somewhere *real* with what
looks like a bunch of poppycock.

Maybe you will warn me off, Spalls? Do they go anywhere insightful with
this?
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and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:45:46 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:48:49 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

Maybe you will warn me off, Spalls? Do they go anywhere insightful with
this?

Ehn. I may not be the best person to ask, being ambivalent of the
whole series from the start. There were some bits I enjoyed (mostly Maximillian's story), and --as a player of the games-- I got a kick
out of some of the fan-service references.

I can say that thought the first season was better, if only because
it had a coherent storyline; it was a traditional quest-structure.
Season 2 felt a lot messier, didn't really end conclusively, and
bounced around between too many storylines. It really felt more like
it was setting up the story for next season than actually saying
anything interesting itself.

So is it worth watching? Well, if you asked me, 'hey, you wanna watch
season 2 again' I'd probably say no. It didn't appeal to me that much.
But it appealed to me just enough that I'll probably watch season 3.

Sorry if I couldn't be more definitive. ;-)


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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:45:46 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:48:49 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

Maybe you will warn me off, Spalls? Do they go anywhere insightful with
this?

Ehn. I may not be the best person to ask, being ambivalent of the
whole series from the start. There were some bits I enjoyed (mostly Maximillian's story), and --as a player of the games-- I got a kick
out of some of the fan-service references.

I can say that thought the first season was better, if only because
it had a coherent storyline; it was a traditional quest-structure.
Season 2 felt a lot messier, didn't really end conclusively, and
bounced around between too many storylines. It really felt more like
it was setting up the story for next season than actually saying
anything interesting itself.

So is it worth watching? Well, if you asked me, 'hey, you wanna watch
season 2 again' I'd probably say no. It didn't appeal to me that much.
But it appealed to me just enough that I'll probably watch season 3.

Sorry if I couldn't be more definitive. ;-)

Adding OT for this TV show.
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:51:14 +0200, Anssi Saari ><anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> said this thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

Did you watch the show? What did you think of it?

[Looks like this post lingered in my drafts for a while. Better late
than never.]

I'm appalled, appalled! at this blatant necroposting. Well, maybe not
that appalled. ;-)

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Xocyll
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I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this
thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the >entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

I'm appalled, appalled! at this blatant necroposting. Well, maybe not
that appalled. ;-)

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Anti-Spalled? Do you know what sort of explosion that would cause if
it came into contact with the regular Spalls? You could take out half
of Detroit!




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On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:54:08 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this
thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the >>entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

I'm appalled, appalled! at this blatant necroposting. Well, maybe not >>>that appalled. ;-)

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Anti-Spalled? Do you know what sort of explosion that would cause if
it came into contact with the regular Spalls? You could take out half
of Detroit!

Emperor Palpatine voice:

DO IT!
--
Zag

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:32:30 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:54:08 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this >>thing:

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Anti-Spalled? Do you know what sort of explosion that would cause if
it came into contact with the regular Spalls? You could take out half
of Detroit!

Emperor Palpatine voice:
DO IT!

Fine, I did it. And now look at Detroit! That's all on you now ;-)

I wonder how many games were ever set in "Detroit".

The 1994 automobile-industry management game, "Detroit", obviously
(even if the city itself didn't really feature in the games). And the
various Robocop games, naturally. Any others that come to mind?



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On 2/24/2026 6:42 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:32:30 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:54:08 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this
thing:

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Anti-Spalled? Do you know what sort of explosion that would cause if
it came into contact with the regular Spalls? You could take out half
of Detroit!

Emperor Palpatine voice:
DO IT!

Fine, I did it. And now look at Detroit! That's all on you now ;-)

I wonder how many games were ever set in "Detroit".

The 1994 automobile-industry management game, "Detroit", obviously
(even if the city itself didn't really feature in the games). And the
various Robocop games, naturally. Any others that come to mind?

I think there's one about android police set in Detroit. "Becoming
Human" or something like that.
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:32:30 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:54:08 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this
thing:

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Anti-Spalled? Do you know what sort of explosion that would cause if
it came into contact with the regular Spalls? You could take out half
of Detroit!

Emperor Palpatine voice:
DO IT!

Fine, I did it. And now look at Detroit! That's all on you now ;-)

I wonder how many games were ever set in "Detroit".

The 1994 automobile-industry management game, "Detroit", obviously
(even if the city itself didn't really feature in the games). And the
various Robocop games, naturally. Any others that come to mind?

Gung Ho.
--
Through you we push down our foes;
through your name we tread down
those who rise up
against us.
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Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 2/24/2026 6:42 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:32:30 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:54:08 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this
thing:

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Anti-Spalled? Do you know what sort of explosion that would cause if
it came into contact with the regular Spalls? You could take out half
of Detroit!

Emperor Palpatine voice:
DO IT!

Fine, I did it. And now look at Detroit! That's all on you now ;-)

I wonder how many games were ever set in "Detroit".

The 1994 automobile-industry management game, "Detroit", obviously
(even if the city itself didn't really feature in the games). And the
various Robocop games, naturally. Any others that come to mind?

I think there's one about android police set in Detroit.  "Becoming
Human" or something like that.

No there isn't. Keep the fiction to your poetry groups.
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:53:46 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> said this thing:

On 2/24/2026 6:42 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:32:30 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
said this thing:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:54:08 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:24:37 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this
thing:

Shouldn't you be aSpalled?

Anti-Spalled? Do you know what sort of explosion that would cause if
it came into contact with the regular Spalls? You could take out half
of Detroit!

Emperor Palpatine voice:
DO IT!

Fine, I did it. And now look at Detroit! That's all on you now ;-)

I wonder how many games were ever set in "Detroit".

The 1994 automobile-industry management game, "Detroit", obviously
(even if the city itself didn't really feature in the games). And the
various Robocop games, naturally. Any others that come to mind?

I think there's one about android police set in Detroit. "Becoming
Human" or something like that.

Duh, of course. The actual title of the game you mentioned is, in
fact: "Detroit: Becoming Human". But no, the first game I think of is
from 1994 ;-)

Even more embarrassingly, I also forgot about "Deus Ex: Human
Revolution", which has its primary hub set in a futuristic Detroit.
Facepalm time. (Should I hand in my gamer's badge now, or can I send
it back via mail?)

Beyond that, there are numerous other racing games which feature one
or more tracks in the city (I'm not remembering these; there's a
wiki-page* on the topic, which I could have checked earlier),
including the various "Grid" games ("Race Driver: Grid", "Grid
Autosport", "Grid 2"), "Midnight Club 2" and the "Asphalt" series of
racers which appeared on mobile. The wiki-page also lists 1989's
"SimCity" which had, IIRC, a pre-built scenario where you were
expected to help the city out of its economic malaise.

So there are a few games that use that location.















* citations needed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_in_Detroit


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