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I love the "They ate them." entry in Randall's computer, I like to imagine Randall sat there for what seemed like ages just thinking of what to type, eventually just typing "They ate them." then leaving filled with anger and disgust.

My favorite thing about Lonesome Road is that there's a point where, with a high enough Perception, you might notice a NPC tick on the compass. If you look in its direction with binoculars or a scope you can briefly catch Ulysses watching you from a destroyed building before he leaves. It absolutely blew my mind.

Ulysses' final line at the end of Lonesome Road is genuinely the perfect thing to end on in any Fallout Game. From Fallout 1 beginning with the line "War, War never changes", Ulysses caps off New Vegas with the banger "If War doesn't change, then men must change, through the roads they walk"

It feels like the moral at the end of the story, the point that this whole series has built towards. Like... that's it, close curtains. After that line, the second battle of hoover dam is almost just a formality to end the game.

"Make no mistake. God willing, you will not leave this valley"

Obsidian is a genius they cut the budget of the animations but you never nitpick it cause how amazing they write characters damn.

Saying Joshua carried that DLC is the least controversial thing I've heard come from a New Vegas review.

I've played New Vegas for nearly 14 years. I had no idea about the bomb collar victim in Freeside or the the conversation with Sarah about it... Mind Blown!

Regarding the Sierra Madre taking your items but Elijah still having his belongings:

I believe it's because Dog dragged you there, while Elijah found his own way in, presumably bypassing the security check entirely. This also goes for Christine who also found her own way to the Sierra Madre and therefore wears her own gear.
Elijah relies on Dog to bring people to the Madre, and Dog takes the simplest, expected route where he encounters the security system.

Anyone who properly played Old World Blues would know 0's name is Dr. Zero, with a slash through it

The Sierra Madre vending machines are molecular printers. If you've played Subnautica, they're basically the same kind of principle as the fabricators in that game. The chips you feed it are the raw materials it uses to convert into other elements

Guys I think he might like fallout new Vegas

I like that every New Vegas' DLC is having the same theme, letting go.

11:43 II hate how everybody refuses to mention that this only happens if you don't have Veronica with you.

My read on Ulysses is that he's Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now, in that he's just rambling the whole time desperately trying to make sense of everything he's seen an done. In the end when Willard kills Kurtz, he has his epiphany, which is that he can't make sense of it, it's all just horror. His final lines are the only ones that actually mean anything. Ulysses is similarly grasping for an epiphany, and over the course of his rambling podcasts he tries to come to terms with the destruction of the Divide. He believes is home couldn't have possibly been destroyed by a random accident, it HAS to mean something. He seems to take a pessimistic view that the world is doomed to keep repeating the same cycles of destruction. Society tried to rebuild and it rebuilt wrong, and it's best to just get the next apocalypse over with. You can choose to either kill him, in which case he dies believing the world is doomed and it's all just horror, like Kurtz, or you can talk him down and he finally has his epiphany for his final podcast recording, "if war doesn't change, men must change."

5:27 - Fun fact: If you have Power Armor training from the Brotherhood of Steel, you can also call out Ricky's BS regarding the t-45b and its helmet design when he says he killed one of them.
I had no idea that was a thing until the last few years.

I don't think that's the intended takeaway from Lonesome Road at all. I doubt it was trying to make you feel guilty or bad at all—Ulysses' anger is meant to be so very irrational. Almost ridiculous; he's a character that uses so many big words and yet is driven by such a petty and primal emotion and is unable to look at the fact of reality. I might be misremembering but I don't even think there's a way to agree with him and try and make amends and apologize—only to make him realize HOW irrational he is being.

There was something else thematic that I appreciated that wasn't mentioned, a small thing. As the DLCs progress you sort of "prove you're trustworthy", and so the gameplay gives you more freedom and flexibility with how you move forward. Dead Money takes everything away and force you to play how it wants you to, Honest Hearts lets you take some stuff, but not that much, you need to mind that weight limit. Big Mountain lets you take everything, but once you're in, you can't leave until you finish things. Then lastly Lonesome Road, take whatever you want, and you can even leave and come back later if you don't feel ready yet, so take your time and make sure you can handle the Divide properly.

As the DLCs happen and you learn more about the story, it gives you more freedom because it trusts "If you've gotten this far, you don't need to be forced to pay attention anymore".

Which really is a shame Dead Money had such a brutal start... All the DLCs are links in a chain, building atop the story and themes from the previous DLC. But Dead Money being how it is, you either rush through and start off on a bad foot, or save it for last and miss the entire thematic foundation it sets, people are too damn stuck in the past, unable AND unwilling to move forward into the future. Honest Hearts then showed you who Ulysses is via Joshua, an angry and pained man desperately trying to find something to take his rage out on, and a way to justify that outburst. Old World Blues shows you how far delusions can lead people, and the lengths of cruelty that can be excused away as "for a good cause", before finally bringing it together in Lonesome Road. An angry and hurt man, unable to look beyond the mistakes of past, both his own and those of others, and now has decided the only option is to simply stop playing the game and break it all.

For as much as Deus Ex Human Revolution gets praised for having "dialog boss battles", this DLC deserves that reptuation far more. I had the option for the 100 speech check, and chose not to take it because I felt like I learned who Ulysses was, what he thought, and knew how to show him where he was messing up. That feeling of actually talking him down and getting him to understand his error, accept it, and move aside because he realized he isn't the type of man to be making this kind of choice, it was something else...

I fucking adore Joshua. Man has the Terrifying Presence perk and uses it on YOU

One thing I love about the DLC’s is that the first three can be played in any order almost. If you play Old World blues before Dead Money then it really feels like you’re following the trail on Elijah or if you play it after you can see how long Christine has been on the watch for him.