PaxVenire
Vault Dweller
(He doesn't realize Vault-Tec put a nuke in that bunker that's gonna go off in right about now.)
The first Season of the Fallout tv show is out
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Vault Dweller
(He doesn't realize Vault-Tec put a nuke in that bunker that's gonna go off in right about now.)
Yossarrion
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Vault tec invented the nuclear bomb
PaxVenire
Vault Dweller
Oppenheimer was the founder of the Enclave!!
Vault-Tec is secretly behind the Enclave.
PaxVenire
Vault Dweller
If I’m not mistaken he was joking that Vault-Tec was behind the Enclave rather than the other way around, which the show unironically seems to be pushing.
Traeger91
Still Mildly Glowing
Vault Tec being treated as a global threat is hilarious to me. They always came across as one of those companies that springs up overnight and then quickly disappears after a trend has passed. More of a middle man rather than an outright puppeteer.
Yossarrion
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Definitely feels like something the show runners really clamped on to which is weird. West Tek is such a major company in terms of what they did to affect everything and they barely get a seat at the table
Norzan
Half-way Through My Half-life
Sure, you are. Sure, Todd, i believe you.
One of the things I learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor and those 4 hijacked planes that crashed was no one associates dates with traumatic major events. So it was very very logical that not having date of the Shady Sands bomb on the chalkboard was a work of normalcy and anyone associating the date of 2277 with it deserves to be beat up by Batman and thrown into Arkham Asylum because they are so insane. It definitely wasn't the show playing very loose with West Coast lore that Bethesda hates with a burning passion because Fallout 1/2/NV keep getting mentioned ahead of Fallout 3/4.
And that's why I've been sharing this classic video all across Social Media, of Todd Howard's memorable moments to remind people of how great & trustworthy this guy is:
Blastwave Dave
First time out of the vault
So Vault Tek created cold fusion and functionally solved the resource problem, right? Wouldn't you basically just be able to control the world WITHOUT nuking it, if you get to decide who has access to fucking limitless energy?
Hardboiled Android
Vault Fossil
Well of course the 3D Fallouts, with their overreliance on Vaults as starting locations, quest-relevant locations, and generic dungeons has inflated the company's presence and relevance in the minds of a certain set of players. It was a (stupid) inevitability that it would reach the apotheosis of influence that we see in the show.
To be fair WestTek was never really well fleshed-out past Fallout 1. I have always wished more had been done with it.
And that's why I've been sharing this classic video all across Social Media, of Todd Howard's memorable moments to remind people of how great & trustworthy this guy is:
I'll always be fond of this video. Quite well produced. And there's something genuinely artistic about it.
To be fair a similar criticism could be leveled against the vending machine of the Sierra Madre vending machine. There are some interesting ways of looking at it that can, IMO, actually make the vending machines (and I suppose by extension, this cold fusion tech) fit in quite well with the themes of the series, but it's not immediately apparent.
Or if you want to step away from just making things fit as-presented, there was a fan theory (I think suggested by Atomic Postman? Could be mistaken) that the Cloud was created as an inevitable byproduct of the vending machines' transmutation, making them a poisoned chalice. I liked that idea too. Same can't really apply to the cold fusion tech here though.
Iprovidelittlepianos
Vault Senior Citizen
That was actually me, posted it in an Atomic Postman thread though, so I understand your confusion.
Hardboiled Android
Vault Fossil
Ah, apologies for the misattribution. Well I'm sure you'll be happy to see that it made a fair impression on me.
Thinking about it I might have expressed my view of why the vending machines sort of work with the themes of the series in that same thread. Too lazy to check though.
Iprovidelittlepianos
Vault Senior Citizen
https://www.nma-fallout.com/threads/rewriting-fallout-new-vegas.219896/
My curiosity was piqued so I dug up the thread and… you actually didn’t, lol. Must’ve been a different thread. Still, the whole thread is so interesting, and a nice contrast to the thoughtless abomination we’re discussing here.
Hardboiled Android
Vault Fossil
Oh, must have been somewhere else, sorry to send you on a wild goose chase. But that was a great thread.
PaxVenire
Vault Dweller
Yossarrion
It Wandered In From the Wastes
FalloutIsMyDrug
Fo3 Enjoyer(converted) Copium Junkie
That's a good point. They were profiting from the resource wars, could have sold the solution at any price they wanted and make even more money, or they could... destroy the world so they could do science experiments. Character/faction motivations are definitely my biggest problem with the show's writing.