Its so sad the ending sets up for so much more cool things to happen. So much world building I can only hope some day some how we will get more of this amazing game. But if not then im glad with what we got.
He not even the real nate hes a synth shaun made to play out a fantasy of his dad/mom kicking down the door to come and save him, it in far harbour in a convo with dema nate cant rememberanythingbefore the day the bombs dropped. Sean grew up alone in the institute he never mentioned adoption or any particular person who raised him. He is in his 60s and he is still a lonely child who wants to be saved and have a family.
That's why Bethesda can't write shit - because they have done this in F3 too (although there it was SOMEHOW logical) but they can't think of anything else but "main hero looks for family member". Indeed in a logical world, Shaun would save his parent from slumber and bring him immediately into Institute, which would make fucking sense. For all he knew, his parent would literally kill themselves upon exiting the Vault.
“You’re crazy”? Shaun was influenced by the place he grew up in, he believes in the institute because he hasn’t seen inside the other entirely, due to unfortunate place he grew up in, he was negatively influenced.
It's funny that Iosef hates Rene so much. Because, despite being on complete opposite political spectrums, in essence they're the same: Bitter old men full of resentment and hatred for all those people who moved on. War destroyed them in every possible aspect.
It's a fucking shame we're not getting a sequel. Everything was settled up so well in this ending, making all of what happened here nothing but a premise of what's to come
"Few of us can begin to imagine the horror of you - with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass. Eternal damnation" Dear youtube comments, I sobbed
@@wilgenz2938 Bolt of Gransax is great for this, but you need a lot of DEX to wield it. Giantsflame Take Thee is great for the Avatar cos it's weak to fire. Any weapon with any flame art will also work great. Be sure to use Golden Vow and either Blackflame Protection (physical negation) or Lord's Divine Fortification (holy negation). I think for phases 1 and 2 physical resist is important and for phase 3 holy resist is important.
@@Rohlix Yeah I was going full faith caster this run so I’m trying to supplement the lack in physical damage stats like STR and DEX with a different weapon but seeing as I have mostly fire incantations, I think I can be fine
The delivery of the line "We are legion" cuts like a razor. He manages to sound smug, haughty, but also just like he's delivering a cold hard fact. I'm sad to say this is where the horror of the Reapers peaked. From here it's all downhill.
After 20 something years of playing video games I gotta say this one moment is the most beautiful of them all. Your life is a mess, your world is a mess, everyone either actively hates you for your actions or have given up on you because you've disappointed them too many times. But you solve the case, depending on how you play you might even become a better person than you were before, Kim trusts you with this life. And then you find this beautiful magical creature that no one believed in and it validates you, it makes you realize that despite being a mess you still keep pushing forward. It respects you, it will honor you after your passing, there is a bit of love and admiration in it's demeanor. It calls you the miracle because despite being a raging inferno of conflicting emotions in a volatile simian nervous system you still live through the pain. In the words of volition, The urge is strong but you are stronger.
Funny how the difference in which faction is the good guy depends on whether or not the player has an education, basically. If you know how AI works and you understand that as convincing as they are, synths are no more "real" than chat.gpt, then everything the institute does makes sense. If you go into it like a child thinking that the AI is a real person, then yeah, it makes sense why you might try to "save" them. There's nothing to save. They aren't alive.
@@KiiBon That's actually exactly my point, Nick doesn't care. He hasn't been around for 200 years. The synth programmed to act like Nick doesn't have preferences, it has programming. It can and has been reset many times. Although I get it, in the fictional world, Bethesda probably does intend for synths to be alive. Which I guess they can do since they already added aliens, elder gods, and literal magic, so why not living robots.
There’s no need to be pedantic, even more so when it is not at all obvious that you are right. What does it mean for an AI to be « not real » ? That it is devoid of real intelligence ? Most researchers in the field will tell you that they don’t know, really. It’s funny that you mention ChatGPT, because recent works show that it is not merely a so-called stochastic parrot. When using the prompt to make ChatGPT play chess or othello, it has been shown by probing the network’s internal state that it has an internal representation of the game it’s playing, despite being a « simple » LLM. Source : Kenneth Li et al. « Emergent World Representations: Exploring a Sequence Model Trained on a Synthetic Task », and Adam Karvonen « Emergent World Models and Latent Variable Estimation in Chess-Playing Language Models ». Even more recently, AnthropicAI has been able to map the « mind » of Claude 3 Sonnet, allowing us to match neuron activation patterns with different words. To quote the paper : « This shows that the internal organization of concepts in the AI model corresponds, at least somewhat, to our human notions of similarity. This might be the origin of Claude's excellent ability to make analogies and metaphors. » Source : Templeton, et al., "Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet", Transformer Circuits Thread, 2024. So there is more going on under the hood than simply predicting the most likely words. In fact, we have no idea how far the capabilities of e.g ChatGPT go because, in the space of all possible prompts, we have explored a tiny fraction. Saying that machines can’t have intelligence or self-awareness because they are machines is a tautological argument, which relies on (quite outdated) vitalism. Even if AIs were in fact self-aware and intelligent, we would have no idea how to test it, because we can not distinguish them from other machines merely faking it. Philosophers have known this for a long time : we can’t even prove you have your own experience of the world, let alone a machine. Now I agree that in principle, AIs are just a bunch of interconnected weights tuned by optimising a loss function, but so is our brain, roughly speaking. It’s just a bunch of neurones firing whenever they receive the signal to. If there is no functional difference between our brains’ capabilities and AIs, and we are just beginning to see what’s in the black box, it is highly présomptuous to declare that AIs can not, by essence, have intelligence as we know it (although it has yet to be defined…). The question of AI intelligence is far more interesting than meets the eye. Édit: spelling
