Drives me insane when people analyze videogames and movies like that are real…
The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games
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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Mango@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are you a fan of no kind of story?
Aux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, surprisingly, Fallout is hyper realistic. All the tech described is based on known to us science, etc. In this instance it’s very interesting to analyse the lore.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 months ago
It 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.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fallout is hyper realistic
Ah, yes, stim-pacs have saved my life numerous times, and I also experience time dilation at my own whim!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not hyper realistic. But it’s extremely entertaining.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I have some big issues with the final Dr Strangelove scene.
For one, big companies don’t like competition at all, Amazon should know all about that.
For another, once the bombs fall, the sales stop. You can’t tell me vault life would be preferable to their current ultra-billionaire lifestyle.
For a third, none of the people in that room would be even remotely hurt if their companies folded. That only applies to small business owners, not billionaires.
So they have zero incentive to drop the bombs. That’s just ridiculous.
fishpen0@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]brlemworld@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They also did social experiments in each of the vaults. It’s kinda more like the books/TV show Wool/Silo.
Cort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t think we’re considering all the possibilities for this revelation. Like China may have dropped the first bombs on the US after vault Tek dropped a bomb on China
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Tldr:
Article says Vault tec saying they would drop bombs first means they did.
Which doesn’t make sense. Because the people in that meeting weren’t prepared to launch first.
The guy who created fallout has said since the first game that China launched first. Everything still points to China launching first despite Vault tec being willing to because they thought China wouldn’t.
Maybe China just did it out of the blue, maybe China heard Vault tec was doing it.
natural_motions@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 months ago
I'm fairly convinced that Cooper's 200 year long revenge that they mentioned in I think episode 6 or 7 or whatever is targeted towards his I assume ex-wife. Her being the one who suggested to launch the nukes likely destroyed the entire relationship and he decided not to go with her into one of the vaults. She likely did not have much control over the launch anymore at that point either and, being safe herself, ended up nuking him and her daughter basically.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not just her.
Almost all the people in that room were important in one game or another. They all knew it was going to happen eventually, even “soon”. But not a single one was prepared when the bombs dropped.
It makes sense someone beat them to the punch, and that someone has to be China. Unless some rouge vault like 4 that was already in place did something to start it to ensure their vault would “win”.
All they’d have to do is give China a heads up, they wouldn’t have to launch any nukes themselves
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 months ago
Considering that all the employees in vault 31 are in cryo or little brain robots I'm not so sure about that. It kinda implies that they were very much ready.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Eh, you don’t put 100s of people in cryo overnight.
Like, wasn’t that F4? Some people had went into cyro early to be safe, but the PC has to sprint last second to make it in?
Even among the general population, people seemed to know it was coming soon, just not that day.