Ok It's been about a week; I don't know about the subscribers here (I'm not part of this group, even though I really love these games - at least some of them - and their inspiring lore), but I'd just keep this community alive with this post pinned to the top to guide Fediverse travelers to more active communities while they are still online (who knows, maybe some people would need a refuge here against future misalignment with governance on other servers?).

That said, I see no downvotes nor original mod's activity, and thus no reason not to promote you to mod.

One of my main motivations for this post is, just as you said, seeing if anyone else is open to running this community. If the community is locked, I hope any prospective moderators reach out to me as I've outlined in my post, so I don't end up enforcing my own opinion over everyone else. (Future readers, make note of this)

I've found this community and !fallout@lemmy.world are just about identical in the kind of posts, with the exception of this community having been unmoderated for around two years. And so, I decided getting ahead of any issues before they occur is a good idea. I just thought a courtesy post like this is good form, in case I've made some mistake in my determination.

comment for moderation purposes

Hey, since you're modding all the other Fallout comms I guess that makes sense. They're not really decentralized anyway if there's one person moderating them all.

Before you close it though, you should see if anyone would step forward to take over this one. That'd be better than outright closing it or leaving it unmoderated, we've all seen what happens to a comm at that point. Otherwise, closing makes sense to me

This is ambitious and the person posting those videos doesn’t seem to have the skills to complete this project. It’s a nice thought but another cart before the horse situation.

All the videos on the channel are less than a minute long and use AI voice. It is a mod and the person is using pre fab models off the internet.

The Smithsonian National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas had an extensive exhibit on the Fallout franchise including full sized mock ups of the in-game vault rooms. This is an official Bethesda display.

The gift shop also had Vault tech merch items when I was there in November.

Honestly I'm not shocked. Jones was good stuff back in the aughts but frankly they've barely managed since. If you really want an official fallout drink, just by bawls.

Edit: picked some up and honestly I'm now shocked. It's probably the best Jones I've had in a while and the sarsaparilla flavor is distinct and fun.