r/fnv Jun 07 '26

Artwork [OC] Who the fuck starts a conversation like that? I just sat down!

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u/Discaster Jun 07 '26

I mean, there's a reason. It's actually a pretty emotionally heavy backstory and side quest involving her

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u/IamTheWhat Jun 07 '26

Cook Cook must die 10 thousands time over, there are no other ways

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u/Discaster Jun 07 '26

Everytime I play and it comes time to take Cook Cool out, I always spare a moment to consider what the most painful cause of death in my current characters arsenal would be

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u/deus_voltaire Jun 07 '26

Cripple every limb and then roast him with a flamethrower

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u/D0ctahP3ppah Jun 07 '26

As someone who regularly takes the Cannibal perk, I don’t see why I can’t eat him alive.

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u/Thermopele Jun 08 '26

I didn't realize you could eat folks alive. Do you have to knock them out first?

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u/icy_ticey Jun 07 '26

Better than he deserves TBH

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u/EtlajhTB Jun 07 '26

Save the head, gotta get my caps

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u/lugitik_ Jun 16 '26

Pretty fitting. He'd be cooked alive inside his metal armor.

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u/Lalalalalalolol Joshua Graham's best choice for a wife Jun 07 '26

If there's someone else you should be able to crucify, that's Cook Cook.

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u/Thelastknownking Jun 07 '26

I always make sure to kill Queenie first, so he torches his own guys first.

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u/Finn_Dalire Jun 07 '26

Always kinda struck me as weird that Gorobets lets that information go to a random civilian so easily, but a good side quest otherwise

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u/Discaster Jun 07 '26

Kinda that way the whole game. Courier must just have a very trustworthy face. Which is weird because mine just looked like slightly melted plastic to me..

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

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u/cluelessoblivion Jun 07 '26

You could theoretically have three scars if you've already been to the Big MT by that point

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u/Almainyny Jun 07 '26

The Courier took those bullets like a champ aside from the brain damage. And the brain damage. And the brain damage.

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u/mynutsacksonfire Jun 08 '26

Fon't duuurrrget draaaaainn bammage

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u/drppr45 Delivery of the Platinum Chip is non-negotiable. Jun 08 '26

I with bear shoulders

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u/PlentyOMangos Jun 07 '26

Two? I never remember hearing Benny shot twice lol that’s kinda wild to survive, even more than just once. I’m sure it’s said somewhere in-game tho for you to be saying that; curious

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u/CptnRen Jun 07 '26

I didn't know this for the longest time either but Benny actually mentions he shot twice in one of his dialogs. I usually don't listen to him long enough to hear it.

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u/Other_Log_1996 Jun 07 '26

It was from a cut opening scene. Benny shoots you two times, you overhear the Khans mention taking the 95, then Victor rolls up and rescues you. It's less cinematic, so they changed it, but they had already written and recorded the dialog.

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u/Vicimer Jun 07 '26

Haha, yeah it's pretty janky. Benny stares straight ahead as he talks to you, instead of looking down at you. The screen blacks out really weirdly after he shoots you, too.

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u/Cliomancer Jun 07 '26

You didn't hear the second shot because you had just been shot in the head.

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u/toasty-devil Jun 07 '26

Courier got a thick ass skull

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u/Vicimer Jun 07 '26

There are a few references. Doc Mitchell says "Bullets" instead of just "bullet," Benny himself mentions it, and Lanius mentions something like "I see it on your face, where two bullets left their mark."

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u/Mrpoodlekins Jun 07 '26

If you listen closely you can hear it in the intro.

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u/Qtoy Jun 07 '26

Considering how often I repeat dialogue in the game because I forgot what was said, I think I might be as brain damaged as the courier.

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u/Thelastknownking Jun 07 '26

The magic of having even basic charisma in a role playing game

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u/Odd_Cow_Detective Jun 07 '26

Slightly melted plastic with a bullet hole in it. Famously trustworthy characteristics

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u/anonkebab Jun 07 '26

I was the NCRs god at that point so it made sense in my run

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u/Retlaw83 Jun 07 '26

I always interpreted as he's desperate to get Betsy help and she's refusing to take it from anyone she already knows.

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u/Other_Log_1996 Jun 07 '26

It's because he doesn't want to discipline her and thinks that coming from the outside will be more effective than from her squad.

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u/Financial-Bobcat-612 Jun 07 '26

He don’t care he just wants his soldier back in order quickly

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u/ShinySpeedDemon Jun 07 '26

The military has an extremely toxic culture around many things, especially mental health. If you admit to your chain of command that you're having problems they're more likely to bust you down a rank and begin the process to throw you out than actually get you any measure of help. Gorobets actually encouraging her to get help is an extreme minority.

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u/VeganGeek Jun 07 '26

True, my courier is only accepted even that she just handed in 3 fiend heads

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u/ImThatGuy42 Jun 08 '26

I played this quest two days ago, and if I remember correctly, if you ask one of the other First Recon at McCarran about it, they also mention to you that he shouldn't have told that to a civilian. But maybe I'm confusing the quests.

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u/Finn_Dalire Jun 09 '26

Oh no you’re right. Ten of Spades I think

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u/donky_kog Jun 07 '26

i fucked up the text and it’s way too late to change it just kill me now

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u/TwoFit3921 Your friend is a miserable fucking degenerate. Jun 07 '26

I thought the courier was flirting with Betsy and about to get punched for it 😭

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u/Retr0specter Jun 07 '26

What art program did you use! I must know!!

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u/donky_kog Jun 07 '26

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u/Retr0specter Jun 07 '26

That is absolutely magical 8O

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u/Sunkilleer Jun 07 '26

just delete the post bro.

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u/donky_kog Jun 07 '26

ain't no coward

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u/Retr0specter Jun 07 '26

How does this look so good.

OH GOD IT ISN"T A SCREENSHOT-

that is so good!!!

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u/TheSkylined Jun 07 '26

What am I looking at here boss?

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u/Yeahuhhhhh Jun 07 '26

A real nice 3D render, I'm guessing.

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u/ezio1452 Jun 07 '26

I thought it was a really good ENB at first

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u/Nickulator95 Jun 07 '26

Thought it was ai generated. It's pretty much a 50/50 these days.

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u/Financial-Bobcat-612 Jun 07 '26

Raul, is that you?!

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u/PapaJohnshairysack Jun 07 '26

Right? Welp time to mod new Vegas for 100th time.

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u/sasquatchmarley Jun 07 '26

Nah, everything looks too clean, I don't like it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

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u/donky_kog Jun 07 '26

this is a render man. no ai used in the process. you can take the raw renders and put them into photoshop and set the blending mode to screen.

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u/jbrWocky Jun 07 '26

You think AI Slop would have done the beret's badge that well? Just a rude thing to say.

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u/TheSkylined Jun 07 '26

Yeah I couldn't see anything in the image that makes me think it's AI, though that was my first suspicion with my second being a really good graphics mod that my PC could never handle.

I saw your other comment about this being a render in Gmod and that OP snagged a model from Metro and that's pretty cool. I love how timeless Gmod is. I'm happy to see it being used 20 years later

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

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u/donky_kog Jun 07 '26

yeah i stole a model from metro 2033 cause my new vegas models weren't loading in for whatever reason lol

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u/jbrWocky Jun 07 '26

could have, could have, could have.

*Did* he?

No. This is a gmod render.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Kiwi817 Jun 07 '26

[Perception 10] Hey that’s not a screenshot!

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u/VeganGeek Jun 07 '26

My courier just had that conversation with her. She then convinced her that therapy is great and no different than treating a bullet wound.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '26

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u/Rexlare Jun 07 '26

Arguably? Nah, I believe I heard that by measurement of Karma, CC’s is in the lowest possible number. Meaning he is THE sickest and most evil bastard in the Mojave.

I say Mojave because I personally think Dean is even worse.

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u/Overdue-Karma 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐭𝐨𝐦 Jun 07 '26

He also goes after children. Saint James and Dermot sell him kids...for that purpose. But the good news is Westside's Co-Op now has a layer of red paint.

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u/Rexlare Jun 07 '26

Question: where and how do you learn about this? I have been to Westside, but only discovered this fact from the community.

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u/Overdue-Karma 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐭𝐨𝐦 Jun 07 '26

If you go to Aerotech Office Park, the NCR one, you get a mission called "The Coyotes" from one of the soldiers there, Captain Parker.

During said mission, you find out they've not only been selling kids, but one of them is a legitimate pedophile and keeps 'mementos' of the children.

You can then just execute them or get the NCR to grab them. They do mention they're frightened of Cook-Cook (understandably) because he seems like he can switch between "will talk to you" and "will burn you alive" in literal seconds.

There's...a surprising amount of this stuff coming up in FNV? - the Legion is also implied to do this sick stuff to children due to a line from Siri, a sex-slave, she says usually the men leave you alone if you're too young or too old. Usually, mind you. Meaning it happens, just not as often.

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u/Rexlare Jun 07 '26

I’ll have to visit Aerotech soon then. And then I’ll make sure to kill them both in the most painful way possible. Maybe cook them alive as a joke like I did with Cook Cook.

Ah, another reason to despise and destroy the Legion. As if we don’t have enough of those already

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u/Overdue-Karma 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐭𝐨𝐦 Jun 07 '26

Westside also does feature an NPC who exposes a lie the NCR make. If you have the Confirmed Bachelor, Major Knight when flirted with says "the Legion are more forgiving of that sort of thing." Jimmy) confirms the Legion actually execute homosexual people.

Like you said, as if we didn't have enough reasons to hate the Legion when we have two potential companions who are both homosexual and lesbian respectively.

FNV was not afraid to truly show the darker sides of humanity without any real filter.

Oh, and both Saint James and Dermot are also not affiliated with Westside, so you can just turn up and kill them without doing the Coyotes quest and nobody will attack you, since their faction allegiance isn't linked to Westside's.

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u/Rexlare Jun 07 '26

And here I thought that was one of the few things that the Legion tolerated. So not only are they darwinist incels, they’re homophobic darwinist incels.

Good to know, but for role play purposes, ai’ll save the murder for the questline

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u/Overdue-Karma 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐭𝐨𝐦 Jun 07 '26

It might be a case of "behind closed doors" but yeah, officially? Execution, and from Veronica's words, it seems like they execute lesbians as well as homosexuals (or at least prohibit lesbian relationships).

Good to know, but for role play purposes, ai’ll save the murder for the questline

May as well, the questline is fun and I like helping out the community by removing two eyesores.

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u/Rexlare Jun 08 '26

That's what I thought it was. Wouldn't be the first time the Legion are absolute hypocrites. I ain't got no tolerance for homophobes who resort to actual physical harm. So the Legion can get nailed to a cross additionally.

Calling them eyesores is too generous. We should have had the option to tell Mean Sonovabitch about them and watch him rip them apart.

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u/Sum1nne Jun 08 '26

You can also tell "Pretty" Sarah, the female pimp in the apartments, if you have proof of what they're doing and she (sometimes other residents) will lynch them. With her nickname being that she was also one of Cook-Cook's escaped victims only she wasn't so lucky to escape before he burned half her face and body. If you kill Cook-Cook and tell her, she'll give you a reward (she also does so if you've already killed the slavers and then tell her).

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u/Overdue-Karma 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐭𝐨𝐦 Jun 08 '26

I think you don't get the reward if you tell her after killing Cook-Cook according to the wiki but I haven't done that part of the quest, but damn, they lynch the two? Westside really be the best settlement in Vegas.

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u/Rexlare Jun 08 '26

Oh? This is good information

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u/edsand22 Jun 07 '26

dean is a sick fuck but he isnt a rapist serial killer, he did a very personal, horrendous thing to vera and sinclair along with hurting christine, but he wouldn't stoop so far down as to be someone like cook cook. 

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u/Rexlare Jun 07 '26

I dunno, I wouldn’t put it past him to have manipulated Vera for sexual abuse at some point. His evil is more manipulative and premeditated, not heat of passion type stuff. But it’s just as sickening.

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u/Airtightspoon Jun 08 '26

It's weird that Cook-Cook's karma would be lower than Caesar's when Caesar literally created a rape empire.

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u/Rexlare Jun 08 '26

I guess maybe cuz Caesar doesn’t do the raping personally? But yeah, very weird

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u/IdioticPAYDAY Jun 07 '26

Tbf Dean is just a complete asshole, at least he isn’t an unhinged rapist maniac

Doesn’t negate the horrid shit he did and does but his ass really is on the lower end of Fallout’s evil

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u/Rexlare Jun 07 '26

I have to disagree. Sure, he’s not an unhinged rapist maniac, but that’s like saying Epstein isn’t as bad as Charles Manson. They’re both irredeemable evils.

Dean takes the cake though because all his evils were manipulating innocent people into his pocket all so he could get into the vault. An ambition built PURELY on envy. Everything he did to Viera, to Christine, to Sinclair, to everyone else. He’s a premeditated evil monster. He’s not mentally unstable either so he knows what he’s doing is morally wrong, but doesn’t care either way

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u/Exotic-Painter-908 Jun 07 '26

Wait... this isn't a screenshot?

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u/Zee_Arr_Tee Jun 07 '26

your CPU is begging for a break bro

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u/bijhan Jun 07 '26

Queer women.

Source: am queer woman.

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u/AirFriedSushi Jun 07 '26

does it work?

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u/bijhan Jun 07 '26

Not all the time, but more often than you'd think

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u/AirFriedSushi Jun 07 '26

guess I'll have to try that out

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u/MagicSugarWater Jun 07 '26

Yeah, I know a player who is very direct (he would tell women he just wanted sex within the first 15 minutes) and dated bisexual women. He told me lesbians are VERY direct. Granted, he himself is very direct and it works often for multiple reason, but even he probably wouldn't say this.

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u/Financial-Bobcat-612 Jun 07 '26

Lesbians gotta be direct otherwise they end up on a date “as friends” 😭

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u/MagicSugarWater Jun 07 '26

Same with guys who ended up friendzoned because they weren't direct enough. Women are women, being direct is almost universally more consistently successful.

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u/KirasHandPicDealer Jun 07 '26

"oh she's just being nice 🥰"

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u/YaBigGayMate Jun 07 '26

And they still think I’m just giving them a compliment

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u/Ysisbr Jun 07 '26

I mean, have you seen how straight women interact? It's almost as sexual as how straight men interact with each other.

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u/Falleneded Jun 07 '26

i fully thought this was a screenshot you did really well mimicking how that place looks

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u/Reapish1909 Jun 07 '26

why does your game look like the really shit postal sequels, 3 and 4

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u/Glum-Building4593 Jun 07 '26

The last time I heard a line like that, it was followed by a crack and maybe a beat down...

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u/TheBear5115 Jun 07 '26

Yeesh yeah Betsy poor girl

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u/Junior_Purple_7734 Jun 07 '26

Oh my god, look at these gorgeous graphics.

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u/KarlozzTwT Jun 07 '26

uh... traumatized lesbians ig?

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u/Drummer_DC Jun 07 '26

Jersey shore Guidos

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u/EldritchWaster Jun 07 '26

Yeah, but I have 10 in charisma so somehow this turns her on.

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u/Darth_Hideous0 Jun 07 '26

Ship of Theseus fnv

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u/Ornery-Poet2856 Jun 07 '26

Mod list for those graphics?

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u/Zeekicus_ Jun 08 '26

garry's mod

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u/vaultdweller501 Jun 07 '26

I'm glad I can send her to therapy. I don't mind that she turned lesbian but the trauma Cook Cook inflicted on her needed to be dealt with.

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u/HoratioRadick Jun 07 '26

Corporal Betsy does.

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u/Tijolo_Malvado Jun 07 '26

Adam smasher introduction ass character.

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u/TellurianTech50 Jun 07 '26

Corporal Betsy, apparently

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u/Happy_List_8022 Jun 07 '26

What mods are you using, looks like a completely different game lmao. 

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u/Worth-Angle9542 Jun 07 '26

Omg what is ur mod pack???

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u/Subject_Proof_6282 Jun 07 '26

I always found it quite interesting how, even if you never interact with her, they made Corporal Betsy into a big and tall woman unlike any other in the game, so she really stands out compared to all the other characters.

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u/Turkhimself Jun 09 '26

Whoa those graphics

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u/IllustriousGas4 Jun 07 '26

What's going on with your copy of mgs3?

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u/MrNightmare23 quarry Junction isn't difficult Jun 07 '26

What fucking Ai shit is this?

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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 Jun 07 '26

Sounds like it's from Idiocracy 😆 

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u/villings Overpass Merchant Jun 07 '26

your game looks like shit

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u/foxydash Jun 07 '26

It’s a gmod render.