I have Curie with me everywhere except for the Glowing Sea because she's a top tier waifu and Grade A Wife Material her perk is ******* amazing and her default laser rifle is solid, plus I don't have to worry about her burning through my ammo

agree.
i am fully a lone wanderer and there is no romance your hand option.

Where'd you get your profile picture? I know its from shadman but ive never seen it colored

Think it's on the very first picture of vault meat, at the bottom there's a colored version.

Gracias mate

Anytime mate.

The key word there is if, why bother if I can just go alone?

Literally google it. People have vids and i've even tried it myself

Packmule.

not really
I have Curie a gauss rifle, she likes occasionally shooting me in the back with it

My Curie is currently carrying a special plasma rifle and a full set of power armor.

Sauce is stickied on my profile

All Curie did for me was help super mutants and raiders detect me easier.

I'm not the sneaky breaky type, so I bring Caith because she has the second highest strength for companions, and she doesn't dislike me for hacking and picking locks
they just carry my **** , and I like having to outfit a companion, and now I can give her all the useless .38 ammo

I wasn't on my first playthrough either and I had fun giving piper a full set of power armor and a rocket launcher, but that's where it ends.
Aside from being called blue she does nothing for me on my second playthrough.
Only set off mines and carry a gun or two every now and then.
Which I'll forget to sell anyway.

I meant basic weapons and armour
so they're capable to take out low level enemies, not overpowered and taking the fun from my game by killing everything

**** Piper and her stupid nickname for you

But so can I, quite easily in fact.
Besides, I'm at that level right now where most things won't even find me unless I'm using my loud as **** sniper or right in their face.
I kinda liked being called Blue.

"blue"? how many people actually still wore the vault suit all the way to Diamond City?

I did.

ah yes, because energy and poison protection is more useful than energy defense at pretty much any point in the game, right?
army fatigues all the way, not only do you get more end and agi, you can upgrade that when you get to the railroad to have up to 108 regular and energy protection