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?

  • Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I thought that it was canon that China used brand new stealth tech to bomb the us back to the stone age.

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      Spoilers for the Fallout TV series

      I remember the TV series having a few scenes with the cowboy’s wife, mr house, etc. discussing that they should do the first strike. I don’t remember whether they were planning to hit China or themselves. Could also be that someone beat them to it.

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        I agree with the other comment. How did you “watch” the show but not pay enough attention to learn characters’ names?

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          I’m finally on Season 6 of Game of Thrones; still can’t remember dragon lady’s name, the old man knight has a crush on her, young sellsword has a crush on her, most of the Stark kids, most of the Night’s Watch.

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            Khaleesi (dumb I know), Ser Jorah Mormont (honestly one of the best characters in the show imo), I don’t remember the merc, Rickon Bran and the youngest doesn’t really matter from what I remember. And the Night’s Watch doesn’t matter except for Sam and Jon.

            Damn, I only watched up to season 6 myself and it’s been a few years since I last watched any of it.

            Fallout has way, way fewer main characters than GoT did even at the very beginning. We follow three main characters in the wasteland: Lucy, Maximus, The Ghoul. Then there’s her brother Norm and the rest of Vaults 31-33, Ghoul’s wife Janie in the flashbacks, and Thaddeus who’s Max’s friend.

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              Yeah, Fallout is much easier.

              Sam and Jon Snow are easy to remember because redhead says his name so much.
              Khaleesi was a title, the wife of a Khal. I know her name starts with a D but she’s one of the most boring characters in the show.

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        I can’t believe how many people here apparently watched the series and didn’t comprehend what happened with the nuke storyline.

        Media literacy is absolutely dead.

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          It’s because people get on their phones and don’t actually watch it.

          I understand if its a comfort show you have seen before that you put on for background noise but no dude they will do it with a brand new show some that they even want to actually watch and they just can’t bring themselves to actually set the phone down and do it.

          Then they have the nerve to ask you what’s going on.

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      Tbh that could be from pre-Bethesda lore. As far as I know the old “Fallout Bible” book is no longer fully canon, but some things still are.

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      Convenientional war started before. Some time during the war Americans started mass producing power armors and that gave a massive advantage. With that advantage, they started invading China.

      That was end of war records in Fallout 2. The implications are obvious I believe.