Hot take Idiocracy is a Fallout movie
Hotter take Idiocracy is a better modern take on Fallout than actual Fallout, even though it came out 14 years ago.
Outer Worlds is too though I think the space travel is too optimistic, and they didn't bite Amazon in the satire anywhere near hard enough
Outer Worlds is too though I think the space travel is too optimistic, and they didn't bite Amazon in the satire anywhere near hard enough
Fallout is a game about the world forgetting and losing context of the past, about how ridiculous it is to fetishize the post-war economic boom off the 50s while living in a post-war holocaust.
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I'm talking about the original Fallout here. I don't think the Bethesda-made ones are interested in riffing on the concept, they're just video games that take place in the "Fallout Universe." Not dunking on them, that's just reality.
What I'm saying is that Fallout as a concept was mirroring some very real fears of what the future would bring, and used nukes as a backdrop. While nukes didn't go away, it's not the specific fear we all share anymore, so it has lost its context and become an aesthetic.
...did I will this into existence yesterday
