Quick interjection, fusion cells and cores aren’t actually fusion reactions, they’re fission. The labeling is a prewar advertising gimmick.
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DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 months agoIt really isn't hyper realistic at all. It's an alternate reality universe where they had tiny fusion energy cores, exoskeleton power armors, and goofy AI robots in the 1950s. And past the apocalypse you have even more nonsense that really doesn't make sense. In the show we even have magical cold fusion tech, which is apparently different to the fusion cores, which are already so powerful, long lasting and small enough that I don't see too much of a net gain if you don't know how to make more of it anyway since both are proprietary designs and the knowledge behind them lost in both cases.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Aux@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fallout is not set in 1950-s. Its setting doesn’t start before 2050-s. We already have goofy robots, exoskeletons and fission nano reactors. Fusion cores are a marketing gimmick, they are not fusion and don’t last long. You don’t understand the Fallout universe at all.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 months ago
We have nothing that comes even close to those examples I listed.
Aux@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We’re not in 2050-2070-s either.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 months ago
We're like ~50 years behind, but have transistors. In the 2070 we're supposed to have Iter, a massive big regular fusion prototype that is still far away from any sort of commercially viable product. If you really think some 1950s based society developing all this shit is "hyper realistic" when we can't achieve something even resembling it despite our technological advancement, then you're simply delusional.
Zron@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I agree with you, but the prewar era of the game is not the 1950s.
The bombs dropped in 2077. The main divergence of the fallout timeline is that they didn’t discover the transistor until the 2060s or so. Which is why everything has that bulky style to it. The 50s style is also attributed to a kind of cultural renaissance to that era. Kind of like how sometimes hairstyles come back after decades of being out of style, only for an entire time period.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 6 months ago
The diversion isn't just the transistor. From my understanding its that the cold war doesn't happen after ww2. You get instead 50 years of the collaboration as an entire species.
Things only start falling apart when the oil runs out.
Also Bethesda added Aliens manipulating Earth, with overtones that it was them who started "the great war." Also they had been manipulating humanity for at least several hundred years.