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This entire Megaton quest is Fallout 3 in a nutshell: An arbitrary moral choice that makes no sense and doesn’t advance anyone’s goals, but which makes for hilarious gameplay and spectacle.

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In the original airing of this series, the drinking game didn’t appear until episode 17. But the series is more fun with it, so let’s retcon things and introduce the game here in episode 2. Rutskarn originally devised the drinking game, which he promised would be extremely entertaining.*

While watching Spoiler Warning, take a drink whenever…

• Josh opens his inventory and consumes 3 or more things in the middle of combat.
• Anyone uses the phrase “in the Original Fallout…”
• Reginald becomes addicted to anything.
• A new overpowered weapon or item is acquired.
• An obvious bug or glitch is encountered.
• All three of us are talking at the same time.
• Josh tries ineffectually to kill bad guys with f-bombs.
• The phrase “200 years” is spoken.
• “STOP SHOOTING ME!”
• Reginald dies.

It would be interesting to see a heat map of drinks per episode. My impression is that this number would gradually increase over time, spiking near the end. On the other hand, #5 is a bit of a wildcard. It’s probably low (by the standards of the game) when doing central story missions, and comes more into play when doing side missions or [especially] DLC. On the gripping hand, we had plenty of glitches here in episode 2, which is still part of the tutorial and ought to be the most polished section of the game.

* Specifically, he said, “It will be very entertaining when hundreds of viewers die of alcohol poisoning.”

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It's the 1st episode. Of Spoiler Warning season 2. Playing Fallout 3. And suddenly Spoiler Warning is transformed into the show we know and tolerate today. Okay, this episode began a bit wobbly, but by the end we’d settled into the now-familiar rhythm.

I don’t know if it was Randy leaving the show, Josh taking over as player, our accumulated experience, or the addition of Rutkarn, but this show feels more like our current episodes than the ones directly preceding it.

I’m really glad to see these episodes again. Happy nuke year!

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.