Post #3763846

2026-07-12 15:02 UTC

why would it be stupid? this isn’t ‘implied’; that’s literally the story. ignoring that the Fallout TV show is really just an incoherent misanthropic screed which is an extension of Todd’s contempt for New Vegas, Obsidian and Interplay: the resource wars weren’t going to end any time soon, the USian people were getting tired and socialist sympathies were rising. it was established in New Vegas that the US false-flagged themselves in order to justify a nuclear exchange against China in order to cull the population and reënact Manifest Destiny. part of the Enclave’s whole deal is trying to genocide the wastelanders to prepare North America for recolonisation. it’s been my headcanon as far back as Interplay’s Fallout that an Americanist cabal believed the USian people were the US’s true enemy, and that by false-flagging themselves they could force a chosen few into the vaults where they could experiment eugenically with creating the ideal society to inherit the post-apocalyptic world free of foreign adversaries.

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@Zahille7@lemmy.world 2026-07-12 21:56

Uhhh… The show basically confirms your “head canon” in season 2. Also, I’m just gonna say that I absolutely hate how people will still claim that Todd hates New Vegas/Obsidian; he’s gone on record multiple times saying that’s not the case, the entirety of season 2 of the show was literally “New Vegas 2.” The only reason your playthrough/ending of NV isn’t canon is because in lore it’s been about 15+ years since, and we all know nothing is ever permanent in Fallout. I’m getting real tired of people spreading straight-up false information because it makes them feel better about a game they played when they were 10-13.

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@Cypher45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-15 02:19

Woah wait that’s the whole reason? Okay I take back what I said, I thought they killed billions with nukes all so that they could conduct some stupid silly small scale experiments with a few 100 people per vault on whatever last remaining precious humans were left in the vaults. Instead of say, kidnapping people, telling them they are the last survivors or some other bullshit and then experimenting on them. Instead, killing billions to save precious few millions so that they could use the remaining resources, and conducting experiments to make humanity stronger and smarter was an ideal opportunity, but they completely underestimated the amount of time the radiation will remain on the surface which caused almost all the vault tech scientists and suits to die from old age or radiation themselves. Correct?

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