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[@BxLxOxO]

Soylent green is not from Fallout. It is actually from a 1973 movie called, you're not going to believe this, Soylent Green.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Soylent green is spoilers? I mean, do people even care about spoilers that were a pre-internet meme?

[@BKPrice]

I don't believe it.

[@chaost4544]

She was trolled by people

[@Joe_Lurker]

There is a mod for Fallout 4 that adds it. I've used it, good stuff. Tasty one might say. 😏

[@Joe_Lurker]

@@chaost4544 I may have been one of those people. X^)

[@peadarruane6582]

The universe is in a different timeline where the transistor wasn’t invented and tech developed differently focussing on atomic energy. So it’s basically retro futuristic

[@The..Commenter]

I believe its called Retrofuturism pretty underrated theme

[@moodswinggaming2972]

@@The..Commenter It's also referred to as atompunk too. :)

[@TheOutlineLife]

It is actually the microprocessor

[@aemonbane1398]

@@TheOutlineLife the transistor as well, it comes up in the games that the transistor was developed noticeably later in the fallout universe than it did IRL, that is why so much of the tech in fallout is still using vacuum tubes because even by 2077 the transistor hadn't fully replaced vacuum tubes.

[@peadarruane6582]

@@TheOutlineLife I'm no expert on the lore etc.... Its one of those things that seems hotly debated. Just alot of the tech, does seem to be that vacuum tube type. Basically Transistors, Miniaturization, and the microprocessor are all really part of the same chunk of technologies. that seems either absent or significantly underdeveloped in the fallout universe.

[@operative2136]

Fallout is an alternate history. In their version of the 50's they went full into developing nuclear power, resulting in many nuclear related power advancements (for example, a lot of their vehicles, medicine, and weapons use nuclear power) but they never developed the micro processor, which is why their tech is so much bulkier (ie. the size of their personal computers vs. what we have).

[@invictus7940]

its called uchronism.

[@aaronbourque5494]

It's the future.

[@diegolycos472]

That's right is an alternative future post nuclear bombs and the civilization colapsed in the 50's

[@literallyagalilacegenii7.690]

Also transistors were about to be made. I think in this universe they were about a month or so away from being able to fully mass produce those items

[@Dracobyte]

​@@aaronbourque5494 retrofuturism

[@BigSeth1090]

The pickles. *The pickles.* Salt and vinegar in the open wounds and airway. The levity hides the horror, that's the beauty of Fallout!

[@Dracobyte]

That's gotta hurt!

[@madsquirrelmods3035]

Pickles!

[@Cactura]

Don’t forget the eyes! 👀

[@surlycanadian]

I’m sure he was in such shock that he wasn’t feeling anything from the brine.

[@jonathangonzalez-md8pg]

The bombs fell in the year 2077. The 50s aesthetic is because this is an alternate world where the ideas from the 50's of how the future would be became true. It's retrofuturism.

[@glenbe4026]

Has the lore of Fallout been retconned? Because that was never the original lore.

[@jonathangonzalez-md8pg]

@@glenbe4026 maybe I wasn't clear, sorry, english is not my first language. I'm not talking about lore, I'm talking about the inspiration for the aesthetic, based on 50s vision of what the future would be like.

[@LordLOC]

@@glenbe4026 It's a shame people only really know of the Bethesda Fallout games these days, that more or less popularized the 50s retrofuturism aesthetic. The original games it wasn't that big of a part of the lore.

[@nibblitman]

@@LordLOCThe original ones never showed much of the pre war visually but tech wise they did still have a lot of the big clunky retro future stuff.

[@eclipsegst9419]

@@glenbe4026 The original Fallout design was very Mad Max, and partway thru development someone showed Tim Cain some retro futuristic stuff and he liked it because it fit the nuclear theme of the game so they sprinkled it about in the more complete ruins. F2 followed suit as well as Tactics. F3 leaned into it a bit more, while NV backed off again, but then F4 went all out with it to where there is hardly any Mad Max left besides the fact there are ruined things. It should be a balancing act between the two themes. I feel the show did a decent job here.

[@bigyetter]

It blew me away that Ella Purnell is English. Her American accent is A++.

[@Dracobyte]

She is the voice of Jinx from Arcane.

[@bigyetter]

@@Dracobyte yeah that's why I thought she was American

[@rossmorton7002]

Us Brits tend to be better at American accents then Americans are at British ones, mostly because we're exposed to more of your media than you are to ours.

[@alexanderharris5022]

@@rossmorton7002Ehhh, IDK. I’m a Brit, I do love Doctor Strange but Benedict Cumberbatch does a crap American accent. Even to my ear. Alan Rickman similarly was awful at American accents. German too. And hysterical though they may be, the skits set in America and Canada highlighted that most of Monty Python were rubbish at American accents. Most famously though, David Prowse was so bad at trying to sound intimidating, even while trying an American accent, that George Lucas hired someone else to voice Vader.

[@rossmorton7002]

@@alexanderharris5022 Dude, half of your examples aren't professional actors and are from the 1970's, back when Britain had it's own film industry, only had 3 TV channels and home video wasn't a thing yet. The point still stands.

[@TimSedai]

There's a goofy weapon in-game called the Junk Jet, and it uses random trash you find as ammo. Hence, the baby leg, lol

[@ryanhampson673]

As soon as I saw the dolls leg I yelled “JUNK JET!!!” LOL

[@earendilthemariner5546]

Is that basically Fallout's version of the Wabbajack?

[@ryanhampson673]

@@earendilthemariner5546 Ugh, god I hate Sheogorath LOL. But no, the junk jet is just a handheld cannon that can use anything as its ammmo. What ever you have in your inventory it chucks at the enemy..So, cups, spoons, and of course assorted plastic doll parts.

[@Branwhin]

@@ryanhampson673 Yep - JUNK JET! Never did use the damned thing, noisy as heck and impractical, but, yeah, iconic Fallout-style weapon.

[@blackcatredriver5878]

The dystopian comedy element in the entire Fallout franchise is part of what makes the games so compelling. And the retro-futurism of the world is also important. I'm glad to see that the TV series seems to be trying to capture both of these elements. It's hard to put your finger on it, but something seems to be working.

[@Dracobyte]

Nice balance between black comedy and drama.

[@michaelmcintyre3871]

Todd Howard from Bethesda is actually an executive producer and the TV show story is canonically part of the video game universe along with all the major games.

[@TheRhalf]

@@Dracobyte black comedy sounds like dave chapelle

[@BKPrice]

"Is that an Indiana Jones reference?" Actually, it's a Fallout 4 reference, where the player can find a ghoul child trapped in a refrigerator.

[@felixmurley-anderson5620]

There is also a skeleton with a fedora in an open fridge just outside of Goodsprings in Fallout: New Vegas. They really liked sticking it to Crystal Skull 😂

[@harvesterofeyes8813]

​@@felixmurley-anderson5620Only if you take the Wild Wasteland perk 🤓

[@DeaconBlues117]

Yep, Billy the Kid In the Fridge. He ate the last chocolate pudding over a hundred years ago.

[@Dracobyte]

​@@harvesterofeyes8813yup!

[@Conorp77]

Yeah, and that Fallout 4 reference is itself referencing Indiana Jones 4

[@ExUSSailor]

The Great War between the U.S., and, China happened in 2077. The Fallout universe diverged from ours sometime after WW2. In the Fallout universe, the transistor, and, therefore, the unified circuit, was never invented, so, all electronics still use vacuum tubes.

[@Dracobyte]

Nice plot dump!

[@glenbe4026]

aah, so it has been retconned.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@glenbe4026 retconned? That’s the way it’s worked since at least fallout 3. I don’t think the earlier games made it explicit.

[@Deimos2k5]

F2 introduced a lot of detail about the war, though I don't think about the transistor. I feel that came out in an interview with Feargus Urquart

[@pmpowalisz]

The transistor was invented in the Fallout universe (otherwise there wouldn’t be pip-boys or screen computers), just much, much later.

[@zaqmackraken673]

Coming out of the vault in search of your father = Fallout 3 Foundling recruit in the Brotherhood of Steel going into the field = Fallout Tactics Badass coming out a grave = Fallout New Vegas

[@5Amigos32]

A pre war veteran surviving the bombs falling and still being around 200 years later = fallout 4

[@Dracobyte]

Nice references!

[@SorceressWitch]

People forget about the first two games. Fallout 1 you are a vault dweller from vault 13 sent to find a water chip. Fallout 2 you are the Chosen One sent to find a GECK. Fallout 4 you lived before the war, frozen in time, now looking for your son who was kidnapped.

[@Dracobyte]

@@SorceressWitch that too!

[@fireblast133]

@@SorceressWitch Fallout 1 - I need to find the water chip Fallout 2 - I need to find the Geck Fallout 3 - I need to find my dad Fallout 4 - I need to find my son Fallout NV - WHERE TF IS THAT BASTARD BENNY I'M GONNA TEAR HIS SPINE OUT AND SHOVE IT UP HIS ASSHOLE!

[@BxLxOxO]

27:03 That is actually how the osprey works, which is what the vertibirds are based on.

[@davidperkins6752]

thanks, saved me the trouble!🙂

[@Tattle-by-Tale]

Was about to say the same thing.

[@Dracobyte]

The wonders of VTOL engineering.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Some of this stuff was future tech when Fallout came out, and there’s a lot of zeerust.

[@StinkyBuster]

​@@Justanotherconsumerthe osprey pre-dates the fallout series

[@mrm7058]

@21:00 The series started in 2077 but basically the creators of this franchise picked up futuristic designs and sci-fi ideas from literature and comics from the 1950s, that's why they have this style.

[@thegamingwubba]

You mean the bombs dropped then

[@L_H_Bruh]

Yeah they chose retro futurism as the aesthetic for the games

[@williammobley9634]

"What a crazy conversation to have with your child." I don't know many Gen-X'ers who weren't children having that conversations with their parents, especially if their parents were in the military. I was born at the end of Vietnam, but I grew up in near constant fear of the Bomb. My Dad worked on Nuclear Weapons in the Air Force along with other missile systems as part of Strategic Air Command.

[@Dracobyte]

There are a couple of people in the comments that grew up before the end of the Cold War.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

He resists it at first, then figures the kid might as well know. Shouldn’t have been the last time his claim to fame would come up in conversation.

[@RutabegaNG]

Ah yes, the fun conversation of whether or not we were a prime target for the Ruskies. Do we need to worry about survival, or will we be among the first vaporized? Good times! Damn, no wonder we're so fd up.

[@williammobley9634]

@@RutabegaNG truth

[@marvymarv959]

Born in 75 never had these conversations with my parents. Although my 2nd grade teacher brought it up just a little bit from time to time haha

[@chaost4544]

The razor in the boot scene now makes me look in my shoe every time I put it on. Can't unsee that.

[@Dracobyte]

New fear unlocked.

[@kampfer3146]

How about the results of getting your foot stepped on by a T-60? Nasty.

[@ferchrissakes]

“Lucy, I love you” “We _all_ know” Just… owwwwwww. That’s the most painful friend-zoning I’ve seen (or cousin-zoning I suppose, which, ew)

[@SeagullOnAFish]

Cousin-zoning

[@Dracobyte]

This shows that, because Vaults are s closed environment, at one point almost everyone was going to be related to everyone. That is why the dwellers of this Vault married people outside their place of birth.

[@davidbergfors6820]

@@Dracobyte *Spoilers* for the further series this vault in particular is designed this way.

[@firecat4529]

Btw, Lucy is played by the woman who voiced Jinx in Arcane and the Ghoul (aka the guy from the beginning of this episode) is played by the guy who voices Cecil in Invincible.

[@The_Scienceboy]

Ella also voices Gwen in Star Trek Prodigy.

[@chrishw44]

Everyone is like that's Cecil from invincible :( i'm like no it's Boyd Crowder from justified

[@OnionTaylorJoy]

⁠For me Walton Goggins will always first and foremost be associated with The Shield, cause I saw him in that amazing show first. But he is always great.

[@Dracobyte]

She is awesome!

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

@@chrishw44Boyd Crowder. One of the most charming criminals to ever grace a screen.

[@FabioLeprechaun]

In the Fallout lore, the bombs were droped in 2077, EVERYTHING is powered by nuclear fusion and the 50's style/designs/culture never went away.

[@wittsullivan8130]

In the Bethesda Fallout games, lead is a crafting ingredient used to make ammo. In the games, lead can be found in pencils (because of old wive's tales and urban legends about pencil "lead"), tin cans (because cans first used lead solder to seal them back in the 1800's), paint cans (because lead was used as a pigment in paint for a long time), and children's toys (lead wasn't regulated in house paint or children's toys until the 70's). I often wonder how much smarter we could have been if we hadn't inhaled lead fumes from leaded gasoline or had increased lead levels from chewing on toys or paint chips back in the day.

[@Dracobyte]

Good to know that.

[@philiparonson8315]

The estimates I’ve read/heard state that leaded gasoline cut at least five IQ points per person on average. It was worse in urban, high exhaust density areas, lower in the countryside. There is an hypothesis that leaded gasoline was one of the factors responsible for the crime epidemic in the 1970s. The statistical results are inconclusive. People forget how high the crime rate was then, folks complain about now, but was significantly worse then.

[@JayIngemar]

The music is not copyrighted, it has passed the expiration date.

[@weldonwin]

You think that's going to stop corporations from copyrighting anyway?

[@trentforent3390]

@@weldonwin can’t copyright strike something in the Creative Commons lol

[@weldonwin]

@@trentforent3390 Like I said, you think that'd stop corporations from trying? Disney tried to copyright a RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY! That's how cartoonishly greedy they can be

[@kvoltti]

All I could think when Lucy's Dad shoved that guy in the pickle barrel was those open wounds would make that death really suck

[@vashsunglasses]

Also, imagine drowning in vinegar brine?

[@kvoltti]

@@vashsunglasses it would sour the experience to be sure

[@davidbergfors6820]

I would have used the word sting...

[@Taliesyn42]

You mentioned the mushroom cloud vs thumb conversation being a crazy one to have with your kid. Keep in mind that Gen X, who was mostly still in their 20's when Fallout 1 was published, regularly held nuclear war drills as part of grade school.

[@Taliesyn42]

To whoever replied that Gen X never did those drills and then deleted their comment: lucky you. I'm Gen X, born in 1970, and my elementary school had them several times a year.

[@Chrysalis-uu5ec]

​@@Taliesyn4275 here and we had them til about 85, 86 i think.

[@benn454]

Us older Millennials, too. Born in 84, had drills in Kindergarten and 1st grade before the Soviet Union collapsed in '91.

[@I.Lostalim]

"is that a baby foot" Yeah, one of those nods for the players - the good old junk gun. Instead of having to find ammo, it will just shoot random loot from your inventory. Theyve really nailed the feel of the setting, and yes the games are almost exclusively: here's sweet life in a vault, something happens, now go outside; beyond that everyrhing else is also spot on, the writing has that dark humour with a sprinkle of social commentary, the visuals and music are both straight from source, even the exploding headshots and impossibly effective stimpacks are little nods to how the gameplay feels, lol. Looking forward to following you two for the rest of this wild ride!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

War may have changed. That bothers me.

[@felixmurley-anderson5620]

I am an absolute nut for the Fallout franchise so this is a particular treat for me. As a big fan I can say that absolutely everything so far is spot on. The weapon that the portly gentleman uses to shoot various debris is called a Junk Jet, and you literally load it with random items in the game. So murderising someone with a doll to the chest is canon 😂

[@Dracobyte]

Junk Jet is basically "Random Bulshit go!: The Weapon".

[@Wonzling0815]

Apparently we have moved beyond teddy bears

[@Justanotherconsumer]

I once played a character called “the mugger” who only used the junk jet with coffee mugs as their only weapon. It got old fast. They were replaced by the “teddy bomber” who did the same thing but with teddy bears.

[@Deimos2k5]

Also a raider takes a hit of actual Jet, which is fun

[@HeliRy]

The way they faithfully recreated the Fallout world is absolutely mind blowing. Easter eggs every in every single shot of every single episode. For a guy that’s played em all a dozen times over, this is how you do fan-service correctly 👌

[@Dracobyte]

Yeah!

[@glenbe4026]

I really liked it, but I feel they really made the Vaults come across as really small. Seriously, what is the point of having separate vaults if they are all 100 metres away from each other.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

@@glenbe4026 The reason is "because Vault-Tec", not anything logical or sane.

[@TheGoIsWin21]

​@@glenbe4026if you know anything about fallout you know Vault Tec had very specific reasons for the choices made for any given vault

[@rossmorton7002]

@@glenbe4026 Keep watching, Vaults 31 to 33 are all connected and the reason why is a big part of the story.

[@liamodynsky4871]

So funny thing about the "CGI" robots; they were actually mostly done with practical effect and just touched up with CGI!

[@Dracobyte]

Wow!

[@kawaii33366]

Yeah i find it funny that people rly dont actually have a good eye for seeing CGI.

[@archseer_]

as a fanboy of the whole series, I can say that everything (as in, every little detail, outfit, etc) in the series is taken out from the game. it was such a joy to watch everything coming out from the PC screen to this screen :D

[@davidperkins6752]

facts!

[@Dracobyte]

It is a very good show so far.

[@dreamshakejunya]

Yeah. Clarus got introduced to the atmosphere and elements very similarly to how gamers originally did

[@shroomgoose]

If you were a fan of the "whole" series, you would know that most of the lore and writing in the show is either incorrect or a huge retcon.

[@dreamshakejunya]

@@shroomgoose not most. And we don’t need to be “well actuallied” by lazy takes that have been since debunked

[@FlowNeffets]

"Is it your thumb or mine?" is a one-liner I'll remember for a long time.

[@TevAndo886]

As far as the timeline goes, the bombs dropped in the year 2077 in the Fallout universe, so if this show takes place 219 years later, the show takes place in the year 2296

[@DeaconBlues117]

19 years after Fallout New Vegas, 9 years after Fallout 4. Apparently the Brotherhood managed to get the Prydwen plans back east to Mariposa, so this new airship could be built. (Also the Junk Jet plans, unless someone invented it independently in FO1 or 2, neither one of which I played.)

[@ravensbreedsmyth1367]

@@DeaconBlues117 Well, the Rock-it Launcher in Fallout 3 is similar to the Junk Jet, so it could be a case of simultaneous invention.

[@davidbergfors6820]

isn't that somewhere in the same time frame as the Expanse? and Star Trek? Kinda gives a little perspective.

[@ravensbreedsmyth1367]

@@davidbergfors6820 Expanse is around 2350, and Star Trek: Enterprise is set about the same time, while the Fallout show is set a little before that, 2296.

[@davidbergfors6820]

@@ravensbreedsmyth1367 60 years or so off the mark, not terribly bad. Thanks for the clarification!

[@justarandomveryintelligent8934]

Soylent Green was a Charlton Heston movie. I think it might have been an inspirational element to fallout along with Mad Max because its a wacked out post apocalyptic story and shares the tone of Fallout to an extent but that line "Soylent Green is people" was from that movie and not Fallout.

[@CitiesTurnedToDust]

The president's whereabouts were unknown because he'd already dived into a shelter. So that should have been a huge tip-off that shit was already going down.

[@jamaalgaylord5029]

The refrigerator is in fact an India Jones reference but it's also a common Easter egg in the games so it's also an Easter egg of the fallout games lol

[@Dracobyte]

From Fallout: New Vegas if you have a certain perk.

[@ircjesselee]

Billy the kid in a fridge.

[@trollishmc2920]

It's retro-future. No internet - tech basically didn't progress past the 50s... with the exception umm, robots etc.

[@chaost4544]

The look and design of the world didn't change past the 50's but the Fallout universe did become a lot more technologically advanced in several key aspects such as fusion technology and medical technology. In our timeline we're more advanced on miniaturizing technology and the internet but that's about it.

[@trollishmc2920]

@@chaost4544 Yep - this exactly (stated better than I did)

[@Awol991]

Its the future the 1950's imagined.

[@weldonwin]

Robots, energy weapons, fusion power, powered armour, advanced genetic engineering and processed foods that are non-canned and yet are still edible 200+ years later

[@Dynnen]

Maximus' friend and woman who got her leg cut was Egwene's torturer and Sul'dam

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

Wow! You’re right. As detestable as her Sul’dam character was, she definitely put an earnest yearning into it. It wasn’t just domination. There was a palpable sense of wanting a weird friendship. So, kudos to the actor!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Uses they pronouns, which I find it odd that the Brotherhood would respect. They’re… not that benevolent or kind, though I guess the show isn’t afraid of establishing that.

[@chrissteele5312]

Recognized her voice right off.

[@jkoehler82]

Xelia Mendes-Jones recently came out as male. The brotherhood has female members, I don't think they particularly care about gender politics. There was a lesbian couple (Veronica played by Felicia Day) in New Vegas. There was some controversy over their relationship, but it seemed like it was just that one cleric's thing and not the official doctrine of the Brotherhood. From what I can gather, so long as you fight and follow the tenants, you are just fine.

[@Wromeo13]

​@@jkoehler82 Well, the issue was more that, a lesbian relationship is seen as unviable in a secluded bunker like the one they were in, because no reproduction.

[@sluggardly]

Not the '50s, but knowing the business practices of the 2070s, that paint *definitely* has lead in it.

[@Dracobyte]

Yup!

[@BxLxOxO]

From what I can find online, it appears that Fallout had an overall budget of $153 million.

[@Dracobyte]

So less than a modern Marvel movie?

[@charlie53echo]

Soylent Green is from...(drumroll please)...the film "Soylent Green."

[@steriopticon2687]

Make Room! Make Room!

[@Virusz1]

😂😂 she was trolled so bad lol

[@murciadoxial8056]

i thought it was from people

[@charlie53echo]

@@murciadoxial8056 close...it IS people.

[@Haegemon]

@@charlie53echo Shush....who said anything about decrepid men...it's algae people, extracted directly from the deepest depths of the ocean and because of that is green.

[@wittsullivan8130]

As a person born in 1970...reading the Watchmen for the first time right before the movie came out pretty near gave me PTSD flashbacks because we lived under the threat of nuclear war until the wall came down..and when the wall came down (I was 19) I was freaking out thinking the Russians would push the button as a big "Fuck you" to the world. I got better. :) On 9/11, I was convinced for a good ten minutes that it was the Chinese about to start invading, Red Dawn style, so I started loaded magazines. You don't do that to people who grew up under the threat of nuclear war during their formative years.

[@Dracobyte]

That must have been awful!

[@RutabegaNG]

Can confirm. Also 1970 baby.

[@mikenjenn72]

the baby doll leg was fired from a junk jet. in any good open world game you pick up a lot of garbage. the junk jet allows you to shoot people with any and all junk. one of the tips says something like "you haven't lived until you've killed someone with a teddy bear. "

[@SnowmanBiggz]

Fun fact, the power armor is an actual costume with the actor inside. It's not cgi.

[@axisjack7]

There are a few actors in this epsiode that threw me for a loop when I realized. Bubba Gump played Honcho, Blind Al from Deadpool was one of the assembly members, and Renna from Wheel of Time played Dane. Great reaction, y'all!❤

[@iitu2]

When I saw thumbnail of this video, I wondered why Clarus was wearing a wedding dress. The white chair looked like a gown and paired with the white shirt... I need get glass prescription checked😂

[@sookendestroy1]

Its kind of interesting the vaults they chose for the show, the one the protagonist is from is a set of vaults next to eachother set up as essentially nations meant to have democracy and trade to see how it would happen in the circumstances.

[@Dracobyte]

It also shows how unique each Vault is, which is something that defines the Vaults in the games.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

@@Dracobyte and that the vaults were never meant to save anyone, just to screw with people in twisted social experiments that would make Mengele smile.

[@youngrootv]

The most egregious thing in this episode is the Overseer drowning that guy in the pickles. Pickles are a valuable food and resource man and I would be so mad if they were all gone because of what he did 😅

[@illuminati1618]

The opening cutscene in Fallout 1 is so iconic for me. The game is amazing and I think it is one of the major reasons I love RPG games so much. The show hits very well. I am about halfway through and really enjoyed it so far.

[@RaoulKunz1]

Just watched this Episode and it is...*so* Fallout! Just for context I played Fallout 1 and 2 and then proceeding to the "new" franchise in step with Elder Scrolls and this show feels so much like "Fallout New Vegas" felt to me. And they hit the cynical humour and the retro-futurism so well, so *exact* it's almost scary - but hey, listen up IP-adapting producers: RPGs are the genre you want to make more passive media from, not jump and runs!🤣 Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

[@Nocturnal85]

In Fallout the bombs fell in 2077 and the current year the show is set in is 2296 which means it takes place after all of the video games.

[@wittsullivan8130]

The world of Fallout is an alternate history where we had a cold war with China instead of Russia, nuclear technology was more advanced (which led to robots, power armor, and cars that ran on fusion power packs), and we still had art deco styling cues way past the 50's.

[@Cornberry]

You know, there is actually a real Indiana Jones fridge reference in the Fallout 4 game. A kid hides in the fridge to save himself from the bombs, and he's just been stuck in there for over 200 years. You find him and see that he's become a ghoul, which is why he was able to stay in there alive for that long. Luckily, his family also became ghouls and they live a little ways off, so you're able to unite them after all that time.

[@Phanthief95]

Same in New Vegas. If you have the Wild Wasteland trait picked, you’ll find a skeleton with a fedora in a refrigerator when you head south of Goodsprings.

[@abetterfuture4787]

Hey just curious what software that you're using which allows you to record Amazon Prime videos?

[@AugustEverywhere]

I have played the hell outta Fallout 4, and played more when the preview it hit. Watched the first episode and loved the vibe, the acting and story. You should do the game, Nerdy, it's pretty sweet. Update: The baby leg is fired from game weapon called the junk gun, which you fill with whatever ammo and it propels it at deadly speed.

[@fullmetalb5241]

Fallout 4 lol

[@hawkthorn33]

They actually show a junk Jet in next episode, but you have to be quick to see it.

[@SorceressWitch]

​@@fullmetalb5241They're allowed to play it if they want.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

​@@fullmetalb5241fallout 4 is good. Don't try to gatekeep.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

​@@hawkthorn33yup, one in Ma June's store.

[@wompa70]

I don't think they could have gotten a better actor that Walter to play that part. You remember him from Hannah Montana. I remember him as Bonzo from Ender's Game. The music in this show is absolutely on point. Both the score and the songs used. That's not how helicopters work, true. But those aren't helicopters. They are tiltrotor aircraft. And that's more or less how they work.

[@markmcintyre5280]

The door scene actually made me deja vu to leaving the vault in Fallout 4. They did so well with the look and feel being like the game.

[@timgreenwald1043]

27:00 there are planes now that function like that. They're referred to as VTOL: Vertical Take Off and Landing. Best example is the CV-22 Osprey.

[@johnguillemette1969]

The implication seems that "cousin stuff" referred to kissing, mutual masturbation, etc, but not vaginal. 1950s card tables can easily handle that. I grew up with one in the house. They ARE a lot heavier than moder ones. She's right, surviving a nuclear blast in a refrigerator WAS an intentional throw-back to Indiana Jones 4. The gun was the "junk gun".

[@giglomesh123]

Not gonna get in your way if you want to stream Fallout 1 but Fallout 3 is really where things changed a lot

[@piratetv1]

Lucy's intro is what fallout calls S.P.E.C.I.A.L. it's where you choose how you want your character to be. Her interview for the exchange is basically the G.O.A.T. exam. Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test. It's your high school final exam and sets more character preferences.

[@massacrestarts1673]

So glad you didn't wait a few years to react to this! (Expanse) 😉

[@cadencedeacon5906]

In the fallout lore, the nukes weren't build for huge huge direct damage. Normally a nuke would be blinding, but these don't have that much energy. These bombs are only focused on insane insane amounts of radiation, instead of giant clouds.

[@ryanhampson673]

As a long time fan of the fallout series they completely nailed it with this series. The atmosphere, the horror, the quirky humor and soooo many details. One example, the picture hanging above Lucy’s bed of the water Lillie’s, that’s a picture in Fallout 4 you can collect to decorate your base. They didn’t have to go into such depth but they did and I’m all for it. The series doesn’t follow any of the games directly, it’s more of a stand alone story but set in the same setting. The bombs fell in the year 2077 but the universe is set in a what would people in the 1950’s think the future would be.

[@wittsullivan8130]

Fallout New Vegas has an Indy in the fridge joke where you find an old refrigerator with a skeleton wearing a Fedora, which you can wear. But you have to pick the Wasteland Mysteries Perk to have weird stuff pop up during the game. It even plays a unique sound when you come upon weird stuff. The Brotherhood of Steel and Enclave use Power Armor and Vertibirds (tilt rotor aircraft). The dude got shot with a Junk Cannon, which you load with junk for ammo. Ain't nothing like killing Raiders with a Junk cannon loaded with teddy bears.

[@WheresWaldo05]

That game waa unplayable. There was a glitch where when your game save file go so big (about 1/4 of the way into the game) you basically could not do anything. Tried it many many times and could never get past the same point in the game. Gotta love Obsedian games for ruining a perfectly good franchise and game with their inferior methods of game creation.

[@Wromeo13]

​@@WheresWaldo05Bruv, they had to use the game engine they were handed... I guarantee that if you played it through now, that issue would be fixed, or you could mod it if *somehow* it's still a thing for you.

[@friendzky4136]

in fallout universe they never invented transistor , instead invented fully cappable nuclear source, and refenrece from 1950's book about retrofuturism

[@Dyerdon]

War. War never changes. Fun fact, this show is actual canon to the games, taking place years (maybe decades?) after Fallout: New Vegas. The odd weapon the one guy had that shot the baby leg, is called a Rock-It Launcher, and shoots whatever junk you decide to put into it. I tend to load it with silverware, plates, and random toys (teddy bears, basketballs, etc.)

[@ElKamaleon777]

This series takes place in 2196/2197

[@KBRoller]

The budget was $153 million, according to Google, since you asked 🙂 The bombs dropped in 2077. It's just an alternate history where technological progress was more focused on nuclear tech for war, so transistors and other semiconductor electronics were never invented. That's why you have futuristic tech, but using the components and styles of the 40s-60s. And great, your discussion of CILFs has got "The Loophole" by Garfunkel and Oates stuck in my head 😂 By the way, you mentioned the Power Armor looking "a little CGI" -- from all the press and things the cast, crew, and creators of the show have said, the Power Armor is almost entirely practical. It's just designed to look how it does in the games.

[@jjkcharlie]

The guy with the wierd mustacahe from SuperStore, is the Aspirant in the BoS.

[@kellymoses8566]

The gene pools in the vaults are pretty small so they have to be VERY careful about preventing inbreeding.

[@Dracobyte]

Indeed!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Likely a design choice for these particular vaults to see how people would react. They weren’t built to save people, just to experiment on them.

[@goldenburger836]

Most of what you see in the world is pulled directly from the games. The weapons, costumes, settings, tone, comedy etcc. The only thing that is new for fallout fans is the story. A new story within the fallout universe. It's helped massively by the fact that Todd Howard, who created the fallout games, was directly involved with this show

[@VainRain69]

The total budget was $153 million. It's amazing what they did with that budget compared to what other shows and movies with much larger budgets did.

[@bruney74]

In Fallout, they miniaturized atomic energy, which made focus on computing unnecessary. Basically why refine things when you have raw power to do the lifting. So no fine computing. So everything is 50s style. Yet miniaturized energy sources are available with a reactor in every car. (Energy cell)

[@wittsullivan8130]

Some time ago, the governor of New York took his wife to a family reunion after they had been married for a while. When they were there, she recognized a lot of the same people...as it turned out, they were first cousins and didn't know it. Her family broke off relations and they met in college and got married, but had no kids...Oops. So it's not just an Alabama thing. Or at least in Alabama, you know it's your cousin. :)

[@Dracobyte]

I did not know that.

[@cosmicphoto05]

I've seen a trajectory in the sci-fi TV genre: The Battlestar Galactica reboot moved sci-fi out of the realm of a low-budget, campy niche for nerds, and demanded to be taken seriously as real human drama. The visuals were next-level, the story was tight and intense, and the stakes were really really high. My only personal issue was that it was a little too dark and depressing-the "gritty reboot". But, BSG opened the door for sci-fi TV to be legit human drama; not just "pew-pew" laser fights and unmotivated action sequences. "The Expanse" took things to the next level by adding scientific realism, dark humor, deeply engaging characters, and complex morality. That series paved the way for character-driven sci-fi like "The Last of Us" and now "Fallout".

[@JohnSmith-dc3jt]

21:30 these are the high quality discussions I am watching your channel for :D

[@snarflcat6187]

You can play ANY song presented in this show. They use ONLY 70+ yr old songs…they are ALL out of copyright in the US.

[@vRED13vTTV]

the bombs did drop in 2077 in the Fallout universe, but because of the different evolution of technology, as others have mentioned, the setting is retro-futuristic; basically what people in the 1950's imagined the future to look like i binged the entire series in 1 day, and want more, it is brilliant Clarus, you said that high fantasy is your thing; ive always viewed the Fallout series as being "science-fantasy"

[@dampersand]

Oh nice, looking forward to watching you play Fallout 1. That's one of my favorite games of all time!

[@Dracobyte]

Is it true that you are in a rush / pressured to complete the msin mission?

[@dampersand]

@@Dracobyte There is a 150 day time limit to complete the mission you are given at the start of the game (which is not the full main mission of the game). I think there used to be a time limit to complete the entire game, but that was patched out at some point.

[@Kamenari37]

So within the Fallout universe, the bombs fell in October of 2077. The Fallout universe is one in which the style and esthetic of things never really evolved beyond that of the 1950's. Music, clothing, technology, and even visions of sci-fi sort of circled around a black hole of influence and got stuck there. It was considered a special time after all, and with the ongoing battle against communism America stuck to very traditional values, hence why everything is sci-fi, and runs on atomic energy, but also looks like a showcase of the 50's. The show actually uses the music tracks found throughout the games when listening to your Pipboy's radio. I myself after so many hours of conditioning from playing the games am now on edge whenever Christmas time comes around. If I stay in a retail space for too long, hearing that old time Christmas music on the PA, I start getting antsy about raiders. Also, that gun that shoots "random" stuff is known as the Junk Jet. A nice little way for the player to utilize all of the junk and random crap they have picked up in the Wasteland as an offensive tool rather than just taking up space. It literally uses the junk in your inventory as ammunition to kill stuff and it's great.

[@swissarmyknight4306]

"Soylent Green" is a reference to "Soylent Green". There's tons of references in the games to old scifi that inspired it. "A Boy and His Dog", "Forbidden Planet", "Them!", "The Lost Boys", "Soylent Green", "Mad Max/The Road Warrior", and dozens more.

[@RutabegaNG]

That opening scene is unnerving. But then my generation was inundated with movies and television shows and everything else where the big bad was the Soviet Union, and at any minute the world could end. There's a reason most of us didn't expect to see 30. 😏 I'm familiar with the basic lore of fallout, My only direct experience is the mobile game Fallout Shelter, but it was enough to have some idea what was going on.

[@aaronbourque5494]

Fallout basically posits what would happen if (within, like, a hundred years or less) the USA goes back to 1950s values SO HARD it basically causes a nuclear war. A couple centuries later, the games (and apparently, this show) happen.

[@rawkmode6315]

This isn't the '50s. The world ended in 2077 when the Sino-American war went nuclear. The reason why everything looks the way it does is because in this timeline nobody ever discovered the transistor, and thus it was never possible to advance electronics technology into the digital age. That doesn't mean things are less advanced though, they're just different. They have power armor, laser weapons, nuclear powered cars....well, nuclear powered everything, really...advanced stealth technology, both personal and military robots, etc. Also, the origin of Maximus being in a fridge is a reference to the a side quest in Fallout 4, involving helping a boy who is trapped in an old refrigerator. The squires carrying big bags of weapons is a reference to the fact that when you're wandering around in power armor there is no visible way for you to be carrying your huge ass inventory. So, in the show, it turns out you have a squire carrying all your crap for you.

[@criticalchai]

so.... was the three chapters... the good the bad and the ugly...??? It so feels like they had that in mind.

[@koga711]

I felt a kinship with you, I saw the scene with the pickles and said, out loud, "That's a waste of perfectly good pickles! Just strangle the man, it's less wasteful!" and I gotta say, seeing it again I am still infuriated by the waste of good pickles lol

[@gork8468]

Started a millionth run through FO4 pretty much as soon as I finished watching Episode 1. Being the most recent game, so MUCH is taken feel wise and visually from FO4. I can get behind that. New Vegas is a superior game, of course, but it's also the one that feels the most different because you don't actually start as a Vault Dweller (or decedent of, in the case of FO2).

[@user-ft5xh4tc8l]

Yeah but to be fair, while the vaults and stuff are designed like the ones in Fallout 4, the show deffintely has a New Vegas feel to it also. As a long time Fallout fan I'm really enjoying the show so far, was expecting it to be terrible.

[@jasonharrison601]

@28:22 they were both in Justified but not sure if they ever shared a scene

[@eno6712]

Even if its retrofuturism from the 50s, thing like identifing how Lead is Toxic should also be figured out even in a split timeline .

[@RutabegaNG]

We knew asbestos was toxic some several decades before it was no longer allowed to be used.

[@UserName-vb4lg]

I had the same reaction. That I had no idea about the story or world but I’m absolutely invested after one episode. I also agree it’s fun to do a weekly release, it’s fun to have that community experience waiting for the next episode.

[@pauloskinner]

The music is straight from the games. The show gets the Fallout 4 game feeling very well. Everything looks like the games.

[@whymthrad]

24:42 Yeah! Its also referenced in Fallout New Vegas if you have the Wild Wasteland Perk.

[@mattp6089]

The world of Fallout depicts the aftermath of a nuclear war in a version of 2077 that is envisaged as what people in the 1950s thought the future was going to be like. Which is why you still have a 50s aesthetic combined with some crazy advanced things, and some things that are still the same as the 50s.

[@Superdummy803]

My favorite part is the music. Every song is taken directly from the game. I know them all from hundreds of hours playing. This is the best video game adaptation I've ever seen. As far as a game adaptations go, it does it even better than TLOU. Because it feels like the game has come to life. Every gamer that plays great RPGs has at some point has the same thought. "I wish this world really existed, and I could go there." and no matter how blinged out your computer is, it still just looks like a computer game. It's never really real. For the first time ever, I feel like the world of Fallout has come to life. That's the brilliancy of this show. The fact that it also has a great story is just the cherry on top.

[@m.e.3862]

The violence is graphic yet very appropriate. On my first play through of fallout 3 I beheaded a raider with a knife when I left the vault so it’s really in line with the game!

[@tortiecatman]

After the 'cousin stuff' line, I backed it up and turned on subtitles. Damn they are subtle at times.

[@wittsullivan8130]

This version of Fallout has a different experiment for these vaults than usual. The vaults are spread out to increase the occupants chances for survival and genetic diversity. I assume they're on birth control until they're allowed to wed or there would be a population explosion and rampant inbreeding. It's common in post apocalyptic multi-generational shelters or ARK style colony ships that the residents track their relations closely to prevent birth defects.

[@laigron7884]

Considering there were somewhat good experiments even in games then not that different.

[@johnblackham3552]

If the games are like fully, comprehensively canon, then the paint does have lead in it. I say from the many hours of crafting and farming lead.

[@anashiedler6926]

Just as i thought, for people not familiar with fallout there was not enough explaination about the alternate timeline. There needs to be a pre-episode for this show, where all that is explained where their timeline split from the actual timeline after ww2. (like how its done in the fallout4 game)

[@trentforent3390]

Yup, they’re focused on surface blasts to kick up as much radioactive fallout as possible

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

FWIW, Fallout was created because Interplay couldn't get the rights to produce a sequel to Wasteland, a 1988 CRPG, so it's sometimes regarded as a 'spiritual sequel' to that game. Eventually - through Kickstarter - Wasteland got a couple of official sequels in 2014 and 2020, both isometric, turn-based games like the first 2 Fallout titles. Very similar kind of dark humour, and I quite enjoyed them. Also, Bethesda are apparently going to release the 'next gen' patch for Fallout 4 towards the end of this month, so if you're playing modded, it'll probably break all the mods. But it is going to give better support for ultrawide and other resolutions over 1080p.

[@Dracobyte]

And now Xbox owns Bethesda (Fallout 3, 4 and 76), Obsidian (Fallout: New Vegas, The Outer Worlds) and InExhile (Wasteland).

[@neonseas]

I will say that the aesthetic of this is closer to Fallout 4 and 76 than it is to Fallout 1 or 2... if you are looking for THIS LOOK Fallout, 4 is probably the go-to. 1 and 2 are isometric and VERY different in-game style than the rest of the series. and the game aesthetic tends further toward dieselpunk than the rest of the series' retrofuturism The Fandom Favorite is New Vegas, but to me, the sand-colored color-grading over the entire game is a massive turn-off. and the gunplay is pretty clunky, but it has some great storytelling. Don't let old news about 76 turn you off of it if you are considering it. It's come a LONG way since launch and the community is one of the friendliest of pretty much any multiplayer game I've played.

[@jamied7391]

This was the comment I was hoping to find. Play FO4 for the lore and game play, then F76 for fun after with friends.

[@SorceressWitch]

I would only recommend 76 for people who want an online Fallout. What is considered main Fallout is the single player ones. Fallout 1 Fallout 2 Fallout 3 Fallout 4 Then there are some other spin offs. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Fallout: New Vegas Fallout Shelter Fallout Shelter Online Fallout Pinball Fallout 76 The only spin-off people really should play is New Vegas as it's very similar to Fallout 3 in terms of gameplay. It's got the open world RPG style that the series is known for. It's also important to note the person in this video doesn't know that you don't have to play the games in order, since you start a different character in each game and in different locations, in different timelines. Fallout 1 & 2 are very different to the newer games and have turn based style combat. Newer ones have a first person style gameplay, you can switch to 3rd person as well. The combat is real time combat, so it's easier. New Vegas included.

[@MangoMann072]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[@Dracobyte]

There is something in the air, and it isn't the gamma radiation...

[@apt707nola]

The games are set in an alternate universe. The bombs went off in 2077. Some of the technology is more advanced than ours, while other aspects of technology is behind ours due to some of our technology never being invented in the games universe.

[@vincentm.7462]

Kid in a fridge IS an Indiana Jones reference. It’s also a quest in Fallout 4. You were right