Is it bad that I consider Bethesda Fallout's power armor to be canon?

Some actual evidence of this would be nice.

Four playthroughs and 250 hours. But fuck you too, Toront.

 

How canon should be:
"Does this fits in this IP's universe?"
Yes - Canon, keep it.
No - Not Canon, retcon it.

How canon has always been:
"Does this fits in this IP's universe?"
Who cares? There's no point in answering that question, most (if not all) will be retconned one day. Only keep the IP's name and some iconic things.
Got to keep it "fresh", and always changing to attract new people to buy it.

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More than just a few do this. Plus i don't consider this the same as hating someone for disagreeing with me.

For the record, i have said plenty of times i don't give a shit what people like as i have not actually given anyone shit for liking anything here except in a joking manner.

 

Yes, you are wrong. But if it makes you feel better you can take solace in the fact that this is all subjective opinion and if anyone’s opinion matters it sure as hell isn’t NMA’s. Bethesda has made sure of that.

 

Nah I’m not accusing you of such. I’m just letting you know my opinion in a tongue-in-cheek way, while at the same time reassuring you that it’s fine to have your own opinion on such a trivial matter. Some Bethesda power armor is kinda cool, I just think after a certain point the series becomes over-saturated with power armor variants

 

From time to time someone shows up and starts a strawman thread like "I was told on Reddit that you hate EVERYONE. Take off your nostalgia goggles! I liked the metro tunnels in 3 and that's why it's a great RPG."

 

Official canon is worthless because they've created lore that contradicts old lore and sometimes even itself.
So what matters is your individual canon. You can decide that you think the power armors are canon if you want to. I just don't understand why you need them to be canon. It's okay to just look at them and go "they're neat". They don't have to be canon. But if you want them to be your personal canon then ok, they are. I'll disagree with that concept of canon but in the end neither of us are authority figures so it doesn't matter who's right or wrong. (my canon is Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (partial), Van Buren and 1.5 (TC mod))

 

When it comes down to it, you have two types of canon. You have the official canon dictated by IP holders, and then you have fan-canon which is just essentially "What I like and what I don't like". Which is fine to me, as audience members we're not beholden to the minutiae of what some company says. It's all fictional anyway and artistic consistency trumps pointless detail.

I tend to view Fallout canon as such: Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Bible, and Fallout: New Vegas. Van Buren and info from J.Sawyer's Fallout tabletop are supplementary semi-canon, filling in gaps and giving detail to areas that aren't contradicted by the primary canon. Fallout 3 and Fallout tactics exist as semi-canon fragments, their events only happen in so much as they're referenced by primary canon (i.e Eastern Enclave and Hellfire Power Armor via Lonesome Road)

Fallout is a closed book to me, a fictional series from the past that's done. For that, nah I don't consider any Bethesda Fallout PA lore canon. They don't really take thier own lore on it seriously: see the Nuka-Cola X-01 or the fact that the only reason the T-60 exists is because they were redesigning T-45 in their new art style and decided the redesign done by that artist was different enough it could be a new model.

For me, PA in Fallout is T-45d, T-51b and the Advanced Power Armor developed post-war by the Enclave.