Samuel Roberts

“He doesn’t have a heart, but he has heartstrings”: The making of Nick Valentine, Fallout’s best-loved companion Fallout 4 lead designer Emil Pagliarulo digs deep into Nick Valentine, the game's fan-favourite private eye companion

I interviewed Bethesda’s Emil Pagliarulo about the surprisingly personal roots of Fallout 4’s fan favourite gumshoe. Really pleased with this one. www.rockpapershotgun.com/he-doesnt-ha...

Ugh God this is so watchable. TV is always better when it's not a full hour long.

I felt very represented by the main bloke from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms when he walked into a tavern and ordered two dinners.

I can't wait to go to bed in 4 hours.

A pleasure to play a small role in bringing this great piece on the creation of Nick Valentine from Fallout 4 to life!

That spirited up-and-comer Jeremy Peel: he's really got a future in this business.

Everyone is fixated on the visual design of this game (which I've come around on, and I'm a font sicko, so hey) but the sound team has gone to town. Maps are pretty atmospheric.

Three hours of Marathon. Does it have the juice? Confirmed. Does it have the sauce? Quite possibly. Does it have the gravy? To be determined.

Reading Batman comics and watching Scrubs again. Fuck, I've regressed back to 17.

Everyone says the Martian Manhunter is the best one. I've bought all of them – might read them on a cycle and pretend I buy monthly comics again (which I miss quite a lot but is just too expensive).

Batman cover where he's beaten up loads of blokes

Finally reading the Absolute DC comics, starting with Batman. Incredibly entertaining – and a smart play for manga readers. In the first issue he slices a lad's hand off. Great stuff.

I've been served *so* many ads for Samson: A Tyndalston Story. The cookies they must have on my ass, to highlight a game capturing the 7/10 energy of the Xbox 360 era open world genre.

Good advice, cheers.

Bulbasaur is evolving

Bulbasaur evolved into Ivysaur

Fml this is the biggest downgrade in history 😪

Re9 comic Grace and Leon on opposites site of a gate Leon: Don't worry, you'll be fine Leon: You know how to suplex a guy, right? Grace: umm... no... Leon: oh... but you can parry a chainsaw, yeah? Grace: what?! no!!! Leon, walking away concerned: "oh... well, good luck anyway" Grace looks very sad and pathetic

smh what are they teaching kids these days? 😕 #re9

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) 💜

Will be nice to give it a go after having it sat on my shelf for a couple of years...oh dear. 💀

I am at a loose end with games. I think I will finally play...Returnal.

What would never happen now is me caring about it either way (I was at peak superhero interest when DOFP came out, though).

That's your solution to everything.

There's a nice lad over repairing my thermostat, but the longer he's here, the more I can tell it's dawning on him what a fucking weirdo I am.

Lies

BioShock, GTA 4, Uncharted 2, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Hitman 2016, Metal Gear Solid V, Breath of the Wild, Sekiro

And here's the illegal games media onwards one:

Sonic 2, Link's Awakening, Red Alert, GTA 3, Halo, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 3, Resident Evil 4, Shadow of the Colossus

These. Pre-games media.

That's 100% it. I don't think I've thought about it since 2009.

Quite a few normies I follow on Instagram liked those Firefly posts. Dunno how people have the energy for some of these narratives.

Everyone has spent too much time in a terminally online hell world and lost their minds.

Pokémon LeafGreen/FireRed should let you take on the Viridian City gym straight away, so the rest of the game is about recovering from the PTSD of Giovanni annihilating your level 8 Bulbasaur.

Going to hell for this:

Watched The Testament of Ann Lee. At the end of the film, a bit of text says she had 6000 followers at her peak. My podcast has about 7000 weekly listeners.

Am I a minor religious figure?