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*** Someone at Hyperion quietly deleted him so that when he died, the company would be able to move on without a monomaniacal dictator at the helm. We already know Blake is willing to go against the grain (such as when he "bragged" to TK Baha about the assassins sent to kill him...which coincidentally gave him time to escape), so maybe it was him or someone like him.

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*** Someone at Hyperion quietly deleted him so that when he died, the company would be able to move on without a monomaniacal megamaniacal dictator at the helm. We already know Blake is willing to go against the grain (such as when he "bragged" to TK Baha about the assassins sent to kill him...which coincidentally gave him time to escape), so maybe it was him or someone like him.
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*** Jack is ''ridiculously'' dishonest. Just because his preferred method is manipulation than outright lying doesn't mean he never lies when it could benefit him. (Consider that he spends the first act of the game trying to kill you and/or telling you you should die [[spoiler:when his master plan relies on your survival and infiltration of Sanctuary]].)

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*** Jack is ''ridiculously'' dishonest. Just because his preferred method is manipulation than outright lying doesn't mean he never lies when it could benefit him. (Consider that he spends the first act of the game trying to kill you and/or telling you you should die [[spoiler:when his master plan relies on your survival and infiltration of Sanctuary]]. Or lying to his boss about why he's dispatched a Hyperion satelite to Pandora.)
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*** Jack is ''ridiculously'' dishonest. Just because his preferred method is manipulation than outright lying doesn't mean he never lies when it could benefit him. (Consider that he spends the first act of the game trying to kill you and/or telling you you should die [[spoiler:when his master plan relies on your survival and infiltration of Sanctuary]].)
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** According to the Official Guide, Tediore's guns were never meant to explode. Here is the full quote from the guide ""Tediore, being the high-profit, low-consumer safety corporation they are, didn't have time to fully perfect the technology for their disposable weaponry, so all tediore weapons explode when reloaded. The Tediore corporation, ever optimistic, declared this a "feature" rather than a "glaring safety hazard" and saw their stock shoot up 50 percent overnight."

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** According to the Official Guide, Tediore's guns were never meant to explode. Here is the full quote from the guide ""Tediore, "Tediore, being the high-profit, low-consumer safety corporation they are, didn't have time to fully perfect the technology for their disposable weaponry, so all tediore weapons explode when reloaded. The Tediore corporation, ever optimistic, declared this a "feature" rather than a "glaring safety hazard" and saw their stock shoot up 50 percent overnight."

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** According to the Official Guide, Tediore's guns were not meant to explode, it was just an obvious safety hazard that they reclassified as a feature to stave off lawsuits and increase sales at the same time.

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** According to the Official Guide, Tediore's guns were not never meant to explode, it was just an obvious explode. Here is the full quote from the guide ""Tediore, being the high-profit, low-consumer safety hazard that corporation they reclassified as a feature are, didn't have time to stave off lawsuits fully perfect the technology for their disposable weaponry, so all tediore weapons explode when reloaded. The Tediore corporation, ever optimistic, declared this a "feature" rather than a "glaring safety hazard" and increase sales at the same time.saw their stock shoot up 50 percent overnight."
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** During the Angel fight, she does mention that he likes using guilt.

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** And about New U respan module Why Jack isn't in the system ?

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And about New U respan module Why Jack why isn't Jack in the system ?system?
** There are a number of possible answers to that one. From (approximately) most likely to least likely:
*** Someone at Hyperion quietly deleted him so that when he died, the company would be able to move on without a monomaniacal dictator at the helm. We already know Blake is willing to go against the grain (such as when he "bragged" to TK Baha about the assassins sent to kill him...which coincidentally gave him time to escape), so maybe it was him or someone like him.
*** Lilith's super-charged Siren powers kept the respawn from working. Slight asspull, plus she's not necessarily the one who kills him, so that's another strike against it.
*** Jack is so rich that the New-U station broke when trying to calculate its cut. Silly in addition to being unlikely.
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** I assumed Jack killed her. She may have been trying to free Angel when he did it, so Jack blames Angel in a "now look what you made me do" kind of way. He's just deluded himself.
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** And about New U respan module Why Jack isn't in the system ?
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**According to the Official Guide, Tediore's guns were not meant to explode, it was just an obvious safety hazard that they reclassified as a feature to stave off lawsuits and increase sales at the same time.
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** Jack is actually not that dishonest. When he says something, he almost always actually means exactly that. He may distort the truth, but the only point in the game where I've seen him outright ''lie'' is when he told Pierce he would let her go if she told him how she got scarred. So Jack's story is likely legitimate.
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* So what ''really'' happened to Handsome Jack's wife? [[spoiler:He says that Angel accidentally killed her with her Siren powers, but Jack is a liar and manipulator with severe MoralDissonance. An audio log alludes to her "disappearance" and objection to using Angel as a WetwareCPU. So did Handsome Jack kill her to seize control of Angel? Did she leave Jack? Or did Angel really kill her after all]]?

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* So what ''really'' happened to Handsome Jack's wife? [[spoiler:He He says that Angel accidentally killed her with her Siren powers, but Jack is a liar and manipulator with severe MoralDissonance. An audio log alludes to her "disappearance" and objection to using Angel as a WetwareCPU. So did Handsome Jack kill her to seize control of Angel? Did she leave Jack? Or did Angel really kill her after all]]?
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* So what ''really'' happened to Handsome Jack's wife? [[spoiler:He says that Angel accidentally killed her with her Siren powers, but Jack is a liar and manipulator with severe MoralDissonance. An audio log alludes to her "disappearance" and objection to using Angel as a WetwareCPU. So did Handsome Jack kill her to seize control of Angel? Did she leave Jack? Or did Angel really kill her after all]]?
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*** He must notice eventually that they work for you, considering the side-quest he gives you to kill yourself despite knowing you'll resurrect. One way or another, I think the idea that Angel did something to the system that prevents him from removing the new Vault Hunters from it even after her death is the most likely explanation.
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** The gun's name is not indicative of its purpose. After all, Vladof's guns are named for a glorious anti-capitalist revolution, but that sure as hell isn't going to be happening. Tediore just named them that way to be unique from other competitors.
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** Judging by their advertisements (one of their spokesmen claims not to have thumbs), they're going more for casual users who might not know how to reload a gun. Considering that in the first game, the guns were normal, they probably sell non-exploding versions too. This is just their niche on Pandora.
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* Judging from the name of the guns (Sportsman, Target Ace, Home Security]], Tediore make guns for non-military uses such as hunting, target shooting, or self-defense. If that so, then why their guns have to be reloaded by throwing them, at which point the gun explodes?

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* Judging from the name of the guns (Sportsman, Target Ace, Home Security]], Security), Tediore make guns for non-military uses such as hunting, target shooting, or self-defense. If that so, then why their guns have to be reloaded by throwing them, at which point the gun explodes?
explodes? Wouldn't this this can cause unintentional injuries or even deaths?
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* Judging from the name of the guns (Sportsman, Target Ace, Home Security]], Tediore make guns for non-military uses such as hunting, target shooting, or self-defense. If that so, then why their guns have to be reloaded by throwing them, at which point the gun explodes?
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** Also, up to a certain point, he didn't think you were capable of affecting his plans, so he was more than content to let you repeatedly die horrible while adding to his coffers. After that certain point, he didn't want anyone else to kill you but him.
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** They're making a profit off of charging you fees for respawning. The New-U stations even state this explicitly. Also, since Angel has access to pretty much anything using Hyperion tech, she may have hacked the New-U stations so that even if Jack tried to stop you from resurrecting, it wouldn't work. In fact, he might actually think that they don't work on you, since he seems to think that just killing you will actually stop you.
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* Hyperion makes the New-U stations that allow the player to respawn by taking a genetic sample and digistructing a new body from that. But Handsome Jack owns Hyperion. Why dosen't he just take your genetic sample off the network?
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** There hasn't been any detail on how FTL travel works in this 'verse, but considering everything else, we can assume it's the standard sci-fi "really fast plane" model. I doubt there's any time dilation involved. Though cold sleep is possible, the simplest solution is that it's a typo. I'm going to pretend it's ''Roland's'' typo, rather than Gearbox's.
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** I thought about this for awhile. Then I heard Lilith mention that Jack was advertising to everyone in "The Six Galaxies" to move to Opportunity. I can only assume this means that Pandora is far enough away from Earth it can be 26-something on Earth and 5257 on Pandora at the same time.
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** That's either some sort of oversight by the writers, or a hint that the "The series is recursive" theory is true.
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* So... [[http://i48.tinypic.com/evbak9.jpg if Roland was homeschooled in 1659]] just how old is he?

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* So... [[http://i48.tinypic.com/evbak9.jpg if Roland was homeschooled in 1659]] 2659]] just how old is he?
he? Game's set in 5257.
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*So... [[http://i48.tinypic.com/evbak9.jpg if Roland was homeschooled in 1659]] just how old is he?
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** Actually, both of them show up as background characters (MonicaRial shows up as the paranoid Santuary Citizen voice). I'd say they probably did.
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* So...did Gearbox contract {{Funimation}} for the voice acting, or what? Because like 90% of the voices are anime regulars, who generally don't do video games. Sure, ColleenClinkenbeard was in the first one, but we've also got LuciChristian, RobertMcCollum, ChristopherSabat, JamieMarchi...I think the only ones I didn't hear were people like MicahSolusad and MonicaRial, who are probably busy with ''ACertainMagicalIndex''. I'm not complaining, just...what?

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* So...did Gearbox contract {{Funimation}} for the voice acting, or what? Because like 90% of the voices are anime regulars, who generally don't do video games. Sure, ColleenClinkenbeard was in the first one, but we've also got LuciChristian, RobertMcCollum, ChristopherSabat, JamieMarchi...I think the only ones I didn't hear were people like MicahSolusad MicahSolusod and MonicaRial, who are probably busy with ''ACertainMagicalIndex''. I'm not complaining, just...what?
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* So...did Gearbox contract {{Funimation}} for the voice acting, or what? Because like 90% of the voices are anime regulars, who generally don't do video games. Sure, ColleenClinkenbeard was in the first one, but we've also got LuciChristian, RobertMcCollum, ChristopherSabat, JamieMarchi...I think the only ones I didn't hear were people like MicahSolusad and MonicaRial, who are probably busy with ''ACertainMagicalIndex''. I'm not complaining, just...what?

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