Yeah, I thought that might be the case, hence me mentioning it. I think this time I side with ze though... looks better

Favourite and colour are awesome though.

That's an American English --vs- Queen's English thing.

Civilize, Civilise. Rationalize, Rationalise. Colonize, Colonise.

In school, I used to trip my English teachers up ALL the time with that. Both, you see, are equally and identically correct. Just like neither "grey" nor "gray" is a more-correct spelling.


Oh, and since you just tried to nitpick over spelling? It's canon, not cannon. ONE "n", not two.

However, it is also preferrable to maintain consistent spelling - either spell all words the American way or the British way.

Oh, I did, and generally still do.

It certainly helped that my childhood reading was focussed mostly on British authors - C.S. Lewis & Tolkien, for example.

Strangely, however, I've just never been able to make myself prefer the British spelling of words like "color", "favorite", and so on. *shrug*

Well, if it makes you feel better, Shakespeare didn't use those silent letters in words either . There are some people in Britain who think the American spelling of certain words is actually more 'correct' than the British spelling for that reason... but British spelling hadn't really been standardised at all in Shakespeare's time.

Oh, here's another interesting fact to impress your friends with: The words 'sidewalk' and 'pavement' are the only words that seem to have somehow crossed over between America and Britain.

I think it makes sense, the Enclave was behaving much like the military they were observing what happened then they would come up with protocols for what to do in specific situations, an "Enclave Survivor Guide" so to speak.

And the Xenomorph on board a ship, aka Alien or a rogue crew mate/robot are within the realm of possibilities.

Hmm, but here in the States, "pavement" and "sidewalk" are not synonymous. "Pavement" means a paved surface, which would include a roadway intended for motor vehicles. Indeed, I recall being admonished to "stay off the pavement" in the absence of paved sidewalks, as a child.

Technically this true in Britain as well. But in common everyday usage, when people in Britain say 'pavement' they're usually referring to what you would call a 'sidewalk', which British people never say. Wheras for some completely odd reason it seems it used to be the other way round. 'Side walk' was a British word/phrase, which for some reason fell out of fashion there and was picked up in the US.

so we went from nit picking vault experiments. to nitpicking spelling.... Am I at the right site

Well, if you ask me that whole Penny Arcade thing is non canon as it was just meant to be a funny comic strip as promotion for Fallout 3.

Guys,......a panther.......a multi billion dollar vault for a thousand people just built to house a single man and a crate full of puppets in the end.....come on ! It was just a joke ! Do you really need a Bethesda official to make a offcial confirmation to believe its non-canon fun stuff ? :twirl:

Well, a Vault 77 suit does appear in FO3, with a note referencing the Puppet Man.

Maybe to see what they would do with the panther.....

Its part of the Vault-tec Expierement so nothign about it should make sense.

Yeah but thats just an easteregg.

In Fallout 2 we had similar ones, are they canon too ?

The whale that fell from the sky from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a part of the Fallout universe ? The crashed starfleet shuttle from Star Trek ?

Or the holy handgrenade from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" ? All canon and part of the Fallout universe now ?


No really, Penny Arcade belongs to the easter egg section.

Well, Fallout 2 clearly separated these from the canon parts of the game by putting all the non-canon easter eggs in special encounters. Fallout 3 has no such clear separation and none of the devs said that anything in the game is non-canon.

Heh. Funny. I was bringing up those specific encounters in the new DLC thread today, since they're making aliens as official canon now, instead of easter egg canon. Personally think it's a bad direction to go. Fallout should stick to human stories.