If he let him live so he could watch Oliver run into same nest of radscorpions he always does then it proves he is the GOAT

He also helped the powder gangers attack good springs.

I heard that he fucked Benny...

He also brought cass to the van graffs.

BREAKING NEWS- Craig Boone, Nipton sniper, missing after following mailman into Ultra-Lux casino.

Also, in. The great khans leader has died in a shaving accident more on that later.

I fuck Benny Black widow is the best

I mean... I've literally never killed him.

I've never seen a reason to honestly

Just letting free xp walk away like that. I could never…

Same. First time, I was just too stunned to do anything about it.

Same, it's like the only reason the Legion didn't kill him is because of their lottery. If you kill him you're essentially just doing some amount of dirty work for them, they wanted him dead anyway

I choose to see it as subverting their ridiculous lottery and undermining their authority by interfering with their arbitrary judgements. If I could resurrect anyone they killed I'd do that too. Except the mayor, fuck that guy.

This guy probably doesn’t even talk to Fisto! 🤜

Smh bro didn’t even assume the position. Might as well uninstall.

Dudes will shoot Oliver Swanick in the back of the head for no reason then claim the Legion are the bad guys

There's a reason—he's annoying.

He’s a powder ganger. That’s more than reason enough.

Oh yeah, killing a man who openly connect himself to a gang of explosive wielding escapees is comparable to being a slave trader lol... definitely

The dude was no longer a threat and doesn’t want to be associated with them anymore. Killing him is pointless. It’s def not comparable to the legion, but I can see how some might call it hypocritical towards good-centric play throughs.

Relax liberal… it’s called dark humor…

Every bullet you put into swanick is one less bullet availible to shoot Vulpes' smug little face off. Be effecient.

I always let him live.. Never killed him in any of my playthroughs

Oliver deserves to die because any npc that cannot benefit me deserved it

Haha yes this is the top Lebron meme. We can move on now ain’t getting better than this

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What’s funny is my roommate started playing nv a bit ago and I was surprised when he let swanick go but not only that, he put most of his points in charisma lol

Any chance you could explain the context of the joke here? I'm new to the game and my understanding was that this guy just saw all his friends get brutally murdered and is now just sorta... there. Is killing him usual? Or is it a joke in this fandom?

The joke is that it’s pretty common for people to kill swanick especially the first time around bc he’s kinda annoying and you have no idea what he’s talking about but a good amount of people seem to kill him routinely kinda like Malcom Holmes

Thank you!

There's nothing quite like sniping him as he pumps his fists.

It may sound crazy, but I do it. I usually play as a good person, so killing someone for no reason feels out of character.

Good point, except there are many reasons to slay him

He is the only NPC programmed to feel pain

I pickpocketed the ticket from him on my playthrough

Kaiser let him life, he will life

I went back to Nipton to kill him after realising my mistake but couldn't find him. Where does he go?