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So… Fallout has aliens? (lemmy.world)
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I saw a video in which some characters of the Fallout tv show open a fridge and find an alien and just toss it out because they want the working fridge. I’ve never understood (or really bothered with) why Fallout had the nuclear “event” which triggered the use of the shelters. Was it an alien invasion?

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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I read a comment online saying the Fallout TV series implies that Vault Tec started WW3 and let the apocalypse begin all because they wanted to conduct vault experiments, I really hope that's not the actual reason, cuz that would be really stupid.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You're right, that would be really stupid, just like Americans fighting over guns in a zombie apocalypse (ammo and medicine are the real limited supplies, especially if you suck at fighting zombies), or killing off a couple percent of your population because wearing masks is uncomfortable. So it seems very plausible.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't really know anything about the zombie apocalypse stuff, but starting World War 3 is a chain of nuking that will kill billions and all of that for a bunch of Vault experiments? Come on!

    Vault Tech's got enough money that they can easily conduct these experiments in isolated villages/towns or something without nuking the entire world.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yes, but if you don't nuke everyone else to the stone age, or inches away from it, they could stop you. And why are you worried that a few billion people who don't matter will die? Everyone who matters, those with the money and power and those that are to be experimented on, are all in vaults, and will have no desire to leave for the nuclear wasteland.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

    why would it be stupid? this isn't 'implied'; that's literally the story. ignoring that the Fallout TV show is really just an incoherent misanthropic screed which is an extension of Todd's contempt for New Vegas, Obsidian and Interplay:

    the resource wars weren't going to end any time soon, the USian people were getting tired and socialist sympathies were rising. it was established in New Vegas that the US false-flagged themselves in order to justify a nuclear exchange against China in order to cull the population and reënact Manifest Destiny. part of the Enclave's whole deal is trying to genocide the wastelanders to prepare North America for recolonisation.

    it’s been my headcanon as far back as Interplay’s Fallout that an Americanist cabal believed the USian people were the US’s true enemy, and that by false-flagging themselves they could force a chosen few into the vaults where they could experiment eugenically with creating the ideal society to inherit the post-apocalyptic world free of foreign adversaries.

    VaultTec's product is the end of the world, so they sold the end of the world.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    Uhhh... The show basically confirms your "head canon" in season 2.

    Also, I'm just gonna say that I absolutely hate how people will still claim that Todd hates New Vegas/Obsidian; he's gone on record multiple times saying that's not the case, the entirety of season 2 of the show was literally "New Vegas 2." The only reason your playthrough/ending of NV isn't canon is because in lore it's been about 15+ years since, and we all know nothing is ever permanent in Fallout.

    I'm getting real tired of people spreading straight-up false information because it makes them feel better about a game they played when they were 10-13.

    Edit: just gonna leave this article here for folks to read.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    … a game they played when they were 10-13.

    Hey there, I’ll have you know I played it like 5 times when I was 10-13 and then consistently every few years until my 20s and then again a few years ago at 25 thank you very much.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Lol so did I, and I love New Vegas, I'm just tired of the ridiculous fanboys always bandwagoning with their fingers stuck in their ears refusing to believe reality.

    They're the NeoCons of video games.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Woah wait that's the whole reason?

    Okay I take back what I said, I thought they killed billions with nukes all so that they could conduct some stupid silly small scale experiments with a few 100 people per vault on whatever last remaining precious humans were left in the vaults.

    Instead of say, kidnapping people, telling them they are the last survivors or some other bullshit and then experimenting on them.

    Instead, killing billions to save precious few millions so that they could use the remaining resources, and conducting experiments to make humanity stronger and smarter was an ideal opportunity, but they completely underestimated the amount of time the radiation will remain on the surface which caused almost all the vault tech scientists and suits to die from old age or radiation themselves.

    Correct?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Correct?

    more or less

    they underestimated how much life would survive on the surface; they couldn't have predicted the Forced Evolutionary Virus; the Enclave (US rump state) is too fractured and horrifically incompetent to reënact Manifest Destiny; and most of the vault experiments failed catastrophically (if they weren't cut short by mechanical failures, deliberately or not).

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