Fallout Shelter - Fallout Free

[@canadianragin]

Based on the rate Jon is going through the games, I predict a Fallout BoS playthrough sometime around 2035

[@TitanDarwin]

I'd love to see him doa full Fallout: Tactics playthrough.

[@jidk6565]

He doesn't deserve that No one deserves that...mess

[@thnecromaniac]

What makes you think that wasn't the game he was hinting at at the end?

[@GodNoodle_]

i'm still sitting on my hands waiting for this madlad to play mass effect 3 on the channel.

[@joshuacooper770]

Just in time for fallout 5

[@hannahalice1000]

"Man with long hair" - insert obligatory "Jon's perception" joke

[@craniusdominus8234]

"How much store room do we really need? Ah screw that" Oh, do I have news for you :D

[@slimek20]

FORESHADOWING

[@MrGhosta5]

my vault ended up being about 80% storage rooms.

[@davidpereira5969]

Endgame vaults: *You have no power here!*

[@trogdor8764]

Jon doesn't even realize he's selling the things he's clicking on when explorers return.

[@1JOHNTY1]

Trogdor I can’t believe I didn’t know that...

[@talonhowe8131]

It hurts...

[@ToTheGAMES]

Jon: Ooh a Laser Pistol, thats not bad! > Sells the item

[@PaladinWilhelm]

"-there are Fallout games in the world that I simply haven't played." *Sweats in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel*

[@jidk6565]

*glances at the thing worse than 76*

[@dadshirt6681]

@@jidk6565 people actually play and enjoy 76 weep bitch

[@mrcheesemunch]

@@dadshirt6681 He literally said it's worse than 76...

[@Usernamewhatever1443]

@@dadshirt6681 people also eat and really quite enjoy some really revolting things, that doesn't make them good

[@Ocelot-ng2jb]

Would rather play Brotherhood of Steel than 76. A completed game is still better than a cash grab.

[@asbestosfish_]

Fallout Free* *Short for Freemium, originating from the Latin meaning “Not Really”

[@ManyATrueNerd]

It's a rare TRIPLE pun. It's a free game. Homonym for Fallout 3 It's Fallout-free, in the sense it lacks many of the expected components of a Fallout game. I AM VERY PROUD OF THE TRIPLE PUN.

[@mopsauce]

@@ManyATrueNerd yes

[@tiedeman39]

@@ManyATrueNerd Ngl, that's a beautiful triple pun

[@couldntmixapotnoodle]

Fallout diet: piss weak edition

[@t.j.fountain3414]

@@ManyATrueNerd We love you, Jon.

[@DasReverend]

You may better know Joe Mitchell by the nickname he went by later in life. "Doc"

[@sbsftw4232]

Is this canon?

[@dangevin]

@@michaelzefanya8296 This is artful but purely coincidental. No FNV lore exists in this game, everything is from either FO3 or FO4. All of the non-Legendary dweller surname/family names are just randomly chosen from a list of common North American names.

[@liberalideas8224]

When it was first released, the micro transactions were mostly non existent. It was just a simple fun little fallout game on your phone. However, it got more content and became much more monetized after it super blew up upon release. For what its worth, I never spent a penny and wasted my fair share of time with it.

[@dangevin]

Lunchboxes were available from the start, though, and this quickly became the #2 grossing game (bumping Candy Crush Saga for a brief time) and a huge revenue generator. It paved the way (for better or worse) for TES: Blades. You might credit the lack of any outside advertisement (since the game itself was a living ad for FO4), or the nostalgic use of iconography and lore items...but really, it just proves that loot crates are an efficient way to print money.

[@liberalideas8224]

@@dangevin Fair points, that's why I said mostly non existent. The lunch boxes at the time were nothing but short cuts, and not great ones at that since it was mostly just food and power ect. They didn't start smashing out unique drops and changing the layout of the game to be much more lunch centric until after the release and the amazing amount of downloads it generated.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

Even when he's playing Fallout Shelter, Jon's still arranging for the king to impregnate several women. King Connor would be proud!

[@davidstrickland1850]

Dude I laughed way to hard at this, I just rewatched that ck2 play through last week and lost it when I remembered how Connors line basically took over the dynasty

[@sotnosen95]

"I need to keep all the women pregnant! More daughters means more babies!" I think Jon slipped into Crusader Kings 2 mode there...

[@scarletrose8766]

Jessica Källberg but the father can't impregnate thier daughters that's not how it works in this game

[@JonThePrettyOKGuy]

Someone, please do the honorable thing and send this man a copy of Brotherhood of Steel for PS2

[@greatertexanunion8662]

I have two full vaults filled with max stat dwellers. Edit: It pains me to see him building like this. And he sold the good stuff by accident.

[@shotgunshells2]

I suspect he doesn't really care about this game now that the video's published.

[@BenDavisSkydiving]

@@shotgunshells2 Well, he said as much at the end.

[@Pixal_Dragon]

Weird flex but okay

[@elgato1721]

"Hello there, completely unvetted stranger from the wasteland, and welcome to your new job at the nuclear reactor"

[@trogdor8764]

iirc upgrading the vault door doesn't "protect" you from anything, it just makes it take longer for whoever it is to break in, giving you more time to prepare your defense.

[@scarletrose8766]

I just never upgrade mine cause my top floor is where my guards at they have to literally fight as soon as they get in then go into a bar where I have more power armored units and a game room where my strong dwellers would hang out next would be the radio room but I end up maxing them too with good weapons and several empty bedrooms down further if they get any further is the power, food and water room along with the lab and science room the bottom floors are storage and middle floor are my office and crafting rooms

[@younisbesselink6490]

I hope it is gonna be a kill all run.

[@LifelessTooth]

5:11 Jon: invites someone into the vault Jon, 3 seconds later: "Did you just decide to go outside for a walk?"

[@cameronedgerton7704]

LifelessTooth I noticed that to lol

[@sbsftw4232]

Let's just say he won't be working in water production...

[@jonhillman871]

"i'm swimming in guns right now." welcome to america.

[@walnzell9328]

There ain't no background checks in the wasteland.

[@charlesbeavers9771]

Now get out dirty foreigner. Trump 2020😞

[@moneybean]

i played so many hours of fallout shelter when it came out, never expected a video on it

[@MrGhosta5]

you get quantum by the crate full once you build the overseer's office and start completing quest. the radio studio is garbage, you can mass breed your population faster than the radio room can summon new dwellers. summoned dwellers are trash but bred dwellers will inherit their parents special.

[@minniem-ms]

I actually found you through this game Jon!!! There was an article with game tips in it and an article about your Kill Everything series was recommended and I've been watching you ever since!! I can't believe it's already been 5 years!!

[@matthewslentz5481]

Joe Mitchell: On his way Women: Pregnant Hotel: Trivago

[@xbree_]

I really enjoyed this. Your commentary is always on point. I kinda wish this were a series

[@Block_91]

Dude, i started playing Fallout Shelter last week. I found your channel because of it and was watching a lot while playing!! So cool that now you are playing it!

[@MW-pb2gf]

that -1 perception selling items from exploring by accident... oh, jon. never change.

[@MrE03-f6d]

John I love you man, but I've facepalmed so many times watching this video, especially when you rushed the power room that literally had 1 second left until it was done, lol. Never change John, never change.

[@sbsftw4232]

He rushed water when water was full lol

[@DTB180]

"While she is upstairs getting herself pregnant" The most Jon thing to say

[@sbsftw4232]

If Jon ever needs to answer the question "where do babies come from" I'm sure his answer will be along the same lines.

[@re--dacted]

As with most microtransactions, you don't actually have to buy them. Lunchboxes can be found ingame through quests and dailies.

[@trogdor8764]

Disasters aren't that bad, he says. Hoo boy.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

Trogdor right?! X.x

[@vanillachampagne5373]

i have completed almost everything on this game

[@paytonthornberry1382]

Good for you. I'm proud of you.

[@grishemall]

I consider myself a Fallout Shelter veteran, as I had vault with 200 dwellers, everyone had legendary weapons and outfits, and Mr Handys on every floor. But one sad day I lost my savefiles due to SSD failure. Now I have another 200-dweller vault, and I'm working on rebuilding everything I had in my previous one. Oh, this video will be so interesting for me :)

[@alwayscurious3357]

Getting the Legendary Dwellers though is challenging though only got Amata and Sarah Lyons so far.

[@euankenobi3517]

I had James and Sara Lyons

[@grishemall]

@@euankenobi3517 I had quite a few of them: Amata, Preston Harvey, Old Longfellow, James, Three Dog, Sarah Lyons, Mr. Tenpenny, Confessor Cromwell, Colonel Autumn, Piper, Bittercup and Star Paladin Cross. In my current vault I have Eulogy Jones, dr. Li, Three Dog and Preston Harvey so far. And yes, I agree that obtaining dwellers is most difficult, luck based and time consuming of all things you can do in this game :-)

[@scepioquetori1558]

You missed the chance to loot the raider boss on the quest "Can't Stop the Signal"

[@mathieu4204]

Next time, Fallout the miniature wargames where Jon tries to paint miniatures :)

[@BRUXXUS]

I played this on my phone a decent amount when it first came out. It was fun! I didn't FEEL like I needed to spend money on it. I revisited it last summer during a trip with some long flights and I was surprised at how many new features and minigames they'd added. I was also bummed at how much more aggressive the wait timers had become and how those new minigames were added just to get you to spend more money. Needless to say, I didn't play it. I just ended up replaying Little Inferno on my iPad and had a wonderful time.

[@therakshasan8547]

Fall Out Shelter : About every 6 months they reset the servers and you loose your vaults , being forced to restart vaults from the beginning. This will Trigger some people to BUY loot boxes to get back what they lost. PS: Corpses time out. They either have Caps , weapon or armor. Returning Never encounters anything and returns in 1/2 the time. You just click the Next Room and the Dwellers will advance to it. Being SPECIAL STR: extra Dmg. in melee PER: Increased Critical generation END: Total Hit Points [level affects this too] CHR: better Radio/loving INT: Some quests require min stats This affects Med & Sci AGL: Attack faster Luck: Better chance for Critical/Hitting

[@SofaPop.]

That’s hilarious, my first vault in shelter was 77 as well(because one man and a crate of puppets is my favourite vault of all time)

[@Forestxavier20]

So Jon, when can we expect the Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel video?

[@chaserseven2886]

i wonder what happened to my vault i haven't looked at it in years, i checked but nothing interesting happened i think i lost my vaults

[@AnonEyeMouse]

That's a fair point. I played it while we were waiting for 4 to drop. I didn't touch it afterwards. I imagine it they all died. My God... is that what happened with all the vaults?!? The vault tecstaff who were watching the social experiments... They were us and we got bored and they all went to hell. OMG?! WE'RE THE MONSTERS OF THE FALLOUT UNIVERSE!

[@BradTheAmerican]

I'm getting flashbacks to Neopets and all my unfed pets from over 15 years ago

[@Kr0noZ]

I just remembered I played this 3 years ago; went back to steam, downloaded the game and noticed I still had a savegame. Yep, vault is still there, nothing changed. Nothing new, either. So this is going back to the can soon I think ^^

[@austincantswim3383]

Pretty sure there is a limit to how long being gone effects the vault. I think like a week.

[@bumpkin69420]

Many A True Masterpiece

[@theodorepinnock1517]

The Game Show quest (the 14 hour one) is quite fun, becuase it's basically a Fallout Trivia quest.

[@IlrysKadiatu]

Is it weird that watching Fallout Shelter makes me even more eager for Evil Genius 2?

[@lovrosedej7655]

Jon missed a perfectly good "Its good to be the king" moment there with the whole backroom fun and costumes

[@trogdor8764]

There are save editors you can use to give yourself all the quantum and lunchboxes your heart desires. They also let you edit your dwellers stats, inventory, etc.

[@stardogMLB]

Why? The gameplay looks like a drag-n-drop simulator. The fun part of games like this is progression. I guess it's for the same people who cheat on newspaper crosswords by doing them the next day.

[@trogdor8764]

@@stardogMLB I think you and I have very different idea of what constitutes "fun". I would much rather build a cool vault, go on all the quests to experience the story content the game has to offer, then move on and play one of the eleventy bajillion other games out there. There are only, what, 5 different kinds of disasters? The game is meant to give you something to do for 10 minutes while you wait for a bus. It's not exactly a captivating experience.

[@lostsunrise5392]

Blue character from Lootboxes are randomly generated dweller with higher stats. Then there's legendary dweller that you can get from lootboxes or more commonly from quest, those are mostly fallout 3 character like Eulogy Jones, Colonel autumns or Amata. Also the percentage of risk when rushing is equal to the amount of cap you'll get if you succeed. Btw you just missed the mysterious stranger who spawn randomly in the vault, clicking on it will give you ton of caps.

[@thenortherncampaign6474]

"I've spent the last 20 minutes wondering why King Walter wasn't getting this woman pregnant. I finally figured out this is a man with long hair" Ah, there's that -1 Perception we all know and love.

[@Smeghead76]

0:24 Stop talking about games that don't exist 5:55 "Disasters aren't really that bad" Yeah, wait until your Vault gets a bit bigger. Then the game starts throwing ever nastier things at you. Such as Deathclaws, and not the cuddly Fallout 3 Deathclaws, either 7:22 For the moment, yes. But very much worth it later on 17:00 Don't discount the random walk-ins, though 18:00 You can discard objectives to get new ones if nothing you have appeals 34:19 For all of the complaining about microtransactions, this game is actually fairly generous when it comes to letting you get them without actually spending money. To be honest, the only thing that buying lunch boxes with money does is speed things up, which has no real effect on a single-player game 57:00 That's because this isn't a game that's meant to be played for long stretches at a time but rather in shorter bursts with fairly long breaks in between play sessions 57:56 That's a bit of an unfair comparison, to be honest 58:35 No... there's no need to subject yourself to that *thing,* Jon

[@stevechilds1547]

I've spent months on this game when it came out and still have it on my phone, but as Jon alludes to, it gets very samey, very grindy, very quickly. The survival mode is down right slam-the-phone-on-the-floor rage inducing at times, the UI is hit and miss when detecting taps when you drag people around and as many have said, requires the user to have a degree of perception to pick up on features & how the game works. Its a decent mobile game, but why they released it on non-mobile devices is simply down to being a money grab. But its been successful and to be honest, if it funds a decent Fallout 5, I don't care! Its a decent mobile game, but it should have stayed there.

[@miscellaneous_man756]

Fallout new Vegas is not spin off, my head exploded when that came out of his mouth

[@paytonthornberry1382]

YES!!! If anything 3 and 4 are the spin offs while NV keeps the lore from the originals.

[@wiictvchannel1112]

He probably meant for Bethesda. But either way Black Isles/Obsidian didn't make the engine or modern Fallout and we wouldn't even have New Vegas if it wasn't for FO3.

[@StarB0rne]

I've been playing this for the past 2 years and seeing a fresh new beggining terrifies me .

[@jameskerridge5034]

Joe Mitchell is a randomly gentered character with good stats and clothing but not a npc from any fallout games

[@USAirsoft1]

James Kerridge ”doc” Mitchell?!?

[@butidigress13]

I love watching Jon play most fallout games, but this has been difficult at times due to his perception. lol. Keep at it!

[@worsethanyouthink]

He says he is doing a one off on a idle game which means he is either gonna do a meta series or we will rarely if ever see him play this again

[@legion999]

It's kind of icky when you call it "the breeding program"

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

legion999 Well, what do you even want to call it? Breeding program is very appropriate given the way that mechanic works in-game. Pair any male to a female and a baby is on its way. I even lost track whose kid is whose in the game. So, might have some accidental incest going on (though I think the game doesn’t punish you for that).

[@falafelranger9393]

I dont think anyone else knows this but the "merc gear" is the riot gear from lonesome road

[@alwayscurious3357]

The outfits there are a reference to Fallout New Vegas. The formal wear, Wasteland gear looks like those from Dead Money, and the merc gears do come from new vegas

[@calebbarrett5081]

Anyone else think it would be cool to see him play fallout 4 again?

[@zuzoscorner]

Funny thing about Shelter, they never patched it so that you cant just maniuplate your Comptuer date/time to time travel int the future. Boht on mobile and PC you can just alter yoru time a few hours int hfuture reopen your game and boom it suddnely several hours later.

[@maximthemagnificent]

It's no 60 Seconds, that's for sure.

[@mrglayden1690]

If theres an enemy corpse lying around, click it for goodies, if a container is glowing, click it for goodies, seen you miss loads already Also, raids always happen left to right top to bottom, so give people in the first few rooms the best weapons and they kill the attackers faster

[@WarNvrChanges]

I just want to go with Joe Mitchell to explore the wasteland.

[@movingparts6270]

Ah yes, the game that kept me from getting an A in Real Analysis... undergrad was a time.

[@TheRubberMatch]

Moving Parts lmaooo bro I relate to this so much, not the fallout shelter part but just gaming in general

[@sbsftw4232]

Don't you mean Rel Nlysis?

[@IlaMedlin]

*starts out by making the living quarters the first place intruders go, maximizing the amount of time resources are drained when intruders come Me: well, that sounds like an added challenge on accident..(has played far too much fos)

[@T4silly]

You never played this until now? Oh this will he interesting. I haven't played it in at least a year. Joy joy joy.

[@derpdiamonduniverse1523]

Jon: the only person who accounts fetishes in his video games

[@polishenglish8356]

Strange and harshly monetized..but I am glad Jon gave it a try! :)

[@ReplicatorFifth]

Polish English not really. It’s not as monetized as most mobile games. You can earn most lunchboxes easily by doing tasks.

[@pedronalesso1464]

Jon you can alter your computer clock to advance faster, also put endurance armor before lvling up, that way you get more HP

[@soulsearcher9620]

Oh my.... 😊 I can't wait for that game to appear on the channel

[@trogdor8764]

... Jon mistook a man for a woman because long hair. Nevermind that his name is Daniel or that, y'know, the body shape is completely different...

[@jacobellinger8027]

well Daniel can be a women's name too.

[@burntbybrighteyes]

Jacob Ellinger no Danielle is a woman’s name. Daniel is not.

[@jordonnichols546]

Just so you know I have a Jon Claire and tabby Matnerd in my vault Jon is my door guard and Claire runs my medic bay

[@WarsunGames]

You can right click on what room you want to move your dwellers when on an adventure instead of dragging them.

[@frozendefender]

you can migitate wait times by using save file editor and slap any number of quantums to your inventory.

[@AragonBattleBorn]

Just be warned. once you get 70 vault dwellers that triggers Deathclaw attacks. Train your dwellers and give them all at least blue quality weapons before you go past that. especially on survival.

[@elgato1721]

also, 12:55 - are we gonna ignore the fact that Joe Mitchell wrestled a bear to death with his bare hands

[@TheBlueArmageddon]

39:10 Jon did not notice the Mysterious Stranger music cue

[@JamiePRose]

I played this game a lot years ago. I reached max everything; caps, resources, population. It took a long time, but I filled up every square of the vault.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

The best part of Fallout Shelter is going on adventures :) I now build an Overseer Office as soon as I can when I start a new Vault

[@patboudreaux960]

You definitely need to keep playing. I love your walk throughs.

[@lonewandererdan]

I’ve been watching your fallout 4 videos all day and I’ve noticed that you’ve haven’t done a fallout 4 you only live once, give it a shot!

[@Ninosai]

The way he sets up his shelter triggers me so much lol

[@mr.potato1049]

When I played this game I had 100 dwellers and around 80 of them had the same Dad, he was worshipped like a God

[@jansenart0]

Fatal Karouser just added episode 8 of his Fallout BoS playthrough.

[@zeroday5441]

I was very happy when you played subnautica & So I'll give you tips on how to make your gameplay better It'll be spoiler free, since it'll be based of what you currently discovered So you can actually put more solar panels to increase the power capacity, also whenever you discover a wreck try to search the area both inside& outside VERY thoroughly Also you're missing a VERY important building piece which you'll discover later on, next up that bioreactor will be handy as you can put ANYTHING organic to create power because solar panels require sunlight Remember, that in the last video, you thought about turning that huge wreck into titanium but you couldn't; Usually in that spot you can find some useful tech like beacons (Used to mark locations)& gravity trap (used usually for fishing) That scanner room will be REALLY useful as you can use it to scan for things& remember that it can REALLY sap your base's power if left running (when you search, it will show the items as red/orange on the holographic map) Also, Scan EVERYTHING even the trashbin has some use (although it doesn't affect gameplay to a significant degree), but nevertheless scan EVERYTHING And that laser cutter tool will be handy to cut open doors (not all doors though) & I think you can get a Rebreather from the fabricator

[@copperhamster]

For this kind of game, the delays and free goodies are incredibly good by comparison. I spent about half an hour before work and poked while I was making dinner and found I made excellent progress and I never spent a dime. Ended up with the entire vault built up with top of the line rooms. It was something to do. to pass time.

[@namavoid3266]

Oh no a fallout shelter video...

[@arv1n_kenn3x]

This one is close to my heart. Thank you for the playthrough!

[@sweedy6647]

Having played far past the endgame of maxing out and since been lunchbox hoarding into the 1000s, it's such a surreal experience seeing what the early game looks like. Like a deja vu of a much better time when I didn't waste my nights away trying to complete objectives that reset at midnight, or staring at the idle vault willing for a wasteland quest to pop up after 40 minutes.

[@Zentenski]

I can't help but notice that they used the Skyrim quest update sound at 35:04. If only there was a more appropriately themed game that has plenty of such sounds they could use. Oh well.

[@Zentenski]

@@CassidyCope Pretty sure that is the Skyrim "dun-dun..." quest update sound.

[@alwayscurious3357]

Sometimes, I was wondering what's Vault Tec's experiment on the Fallout Shelter Vaults? Could the experiment be on the overseer and his/her management skills? Or a vault that is somewhat "open" because you can "sell" your stuff and do quests and also attract wastelanders too. And almost every dweller needs to be armed because of incidents.

[@knicksprop]

I can’t believe you’ve played a Fallout this long and never heard of a Joe Mitchell! Ugh I can’t even...

[@tedladbury5304]

Jon: you know what Fallout I’m in about Me with literally no idea what fallout he’s on about

[@carsonfulbright6109]

Fallout:Brotherhood of steel, the game that retconned nuka cola into an advertisement for some random soft drink that paid for product placement

[@trogdor8764]

I'm pretty sure he's referring to either Fallout Tactics or Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. Probably the latter, though the former is a dumpster fire, too.

[@ReplicatorFifth]

Carson Fulbright Blasphemy! :( I didn’t know haha What if there was a place with all the zip of Nuka Cola ^.^

[@selorkiith4461]

@@trogdor8764 Ey... Tactics was a good... well Squad-Based Tactics game and was actually the first Fallout Game I ever played.

[@kylep5506]

i went back starting with fallout 1 and plan on getting my hands on them all. Easy to understand how we have so many sequels and spinoffs, the originals were so well done.

[@Goatcha_M]

There are two types of dwellers from Lunchboxes; Some are from the games, they tend to be Legendary, some are from a pool of npcs created for Fallout Shelter that have slightly better starting stats and equipment than randoms out of the wasteland.

[@Usedtohavemyrealnameonhere]

"Daniel, you're terrible at everything." Yeah? Well...nyeh.

[@LegateGiles]

When this game first came out it really wasn't bad with the microtransactions. There were lunchboxes, but they were easy enough to get without paying for them. Then they added quests that you needed Nuka Cola Quantum for, and pets, and crafting and who knows what else now.

[@Rrusch2025]

Another fun Fallout game, Jon. Thanks for working so hard for our entertainment. Ignore any game hacks or cheats, most everyone can get through the majority of this fun, FREE, game relatively easy. Of course, I say that after a Deathclaw attacked my vault, followed by raiders, radroaches, and a complete loss of power. Enjoy.

[@fatnonkers]

My vault had about 70 people but then there was a deathclaw attack so I closed the game down and when I came back there were only 31 people.

[@harpoonlobotomy]

I downloaded Shelter maybe 6 months after it came out, and didn't realise how long it'd been since I've thoguht about it - the Overseer/quests are all new to me, which made it even funnier that those were the only redeeming features Jon could find in the game. The video would have been scathing if it'd come out on the release version.

[@Supa_Pants]

Little helpful tip/exploit Unsure if this works on PC or console, but if you set your time ahead, you can skip wait times,daily challenges and collect resources quickly.

[@_general_error]

It will be a while until we get Fallout 5. Bethesda is out of ammo and the ghouls are eating it's skirimisque corpse right now. And in case we actually get it, it's going to be called "Oblivion: Fallout".

[@BatsofPrey]

I cant believe you spent like no time reading the instructions. I lost it when you wouldnt loot the bodies

[@psychonautcentral7924]

How did Jon's fallout shelter vault become so dystopian so fast?