Incessant babbling and the need to fill every second with words is why I can't watch almost all Let's Plays or video game videos.

Yes, can't some people just let gameplay or whichever speak for itself for a few seconds? I blame it partly on the "me too"-ism that sprung up after some of these Wacky Zany Youtube videogame reviewers became popular, so many people aren't even doing it because they think they'll become the next AVGN or whoever or that they're comedic geniuses, they're just filling up every second with babble because it's what they think is expected of them.

Even more annoying than the constant voice Let's Play people are the one who stick their webcam in picture, because constant voice isn't enough you need constant reaction shots too.

This dude is the most annoying example of that I've seen. I'd bet good money he's a theater major.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOztnsBPrAA

How did I KNOW you were linking to Markiplier?

I think that he says it took him 7 months so it would seem like he also has a life that kept him from playing it for 2 weeks straight.

Also: no mods for killing lamplight kids, should have docked a star.

and some of those lamplight kids need a killing so badly

The sad thing is I can see where in sci-fi and post-apoc, a child "civilization" has traditional roots. It just didn't belong in Fallout, and it certainly didn't belong in the form they presented it.

Now that I think about it, a place where you never actually saw the kids and could only talk to them through re-wired drive-in-movie speakers or something (even if you gained their trust) would've been better. Any hostility meant you (like all the corpses before you) would have to run a gauntlet through Lamplight Caverns to get to Vault 87 where unseen kids shot you, activated traps, dumped radioactive waste on you, etc.

Think "Tucker's Kobolds" if you're familiar with D&D.

Killing the Lamplight kids doesn't even require a mod, IIRC. It can all be done via console coding the SetEssential flag (or whatever it was in F3).

Anyway, Lamplight was absolutely infuriating, and they should have either A) given you the option to kill the little buggers in the vanilla game, or B) just left it out. The argument that was tossed around on the forums, that "Ooooh, Bethesda can't let you kill kids, because they're *insert positive euphemism for spineless little bitches here*", that argument really didn't hold up to scrutiny. Elsewhere in Lamplight, they let you kidnap a little girl and sell her as a sex slave.

If you setessential=0 for thelamplight kids they have no corpses. The mod was to add gibs and such and make them do anthing other than disappear or turn into a weird half-textured artifact version of itself.

Also this has no console, as it is on a console.

There are people out there still howling over the fact Doom exists. If a game lets you kill a kid in a gory fountain of blood, you can bet there'd be a media shitstorm for a while and Bethsoft wisely decided not to mess with it.

That said, the funny thing is, you CAN kill a few kids in vanilla Fallout. The two children in Megaton die if you nuke the town.

And while you can sell kids into slavery, it's never explicitly stated they're sex slaves, so that's A-OK with the Fox News types who'd be all over this thing normally.

It's also odd where kids AREN'T in the game. Like Tenpenny Tower. A lot of that place doesn't make sense, but it implies that nobody there is having kids. Giving Tenpenny a snotty little heir would've been perfect, especially in this age of Geoffry Baratheon.

Fallout 3, I hated almost everyone and wound up killing most people out of spite anyway.

But I imagine I'd have a hard time killing Bittercup and Clover.

It's really hard to kill everyone in F3, since nearly everyone you'd want to kill has effing plot armor. You can't kill Elder Lyons without nuking the Citadel, Doctor Li leaves the game after you finish Project Purity (and is essential, so unkillable), your dumb Dad offs himself, etc.