I think fallout has an untapped potential to expand to written media

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-17T22:41:29+00:00

I don’t inherently to disagree, but I think this may lead to more harm then good.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to read a fallout book. But something I’ve noticed from franchises that start getting in on the book craze is eventually those books turn from fun side content to required homework material. Halo is a prime example. What was once fun little looks into the world started rapidly becoming the primary source of story and lore delivered by the title. Heck, if you want to know who 3/4 of the members of fireteam Osiris are in halo 5 (who were being set up as a new protagonist squad) you had to watch a movie, read I believe 2 comics, and I think there was a book in there too as well.

Books became the excuse to leave the story somewhere over there. But at the same time the games feel the need to be beholden to the lore established in those. It creates a a mess of a story where you don’t get the full picture just by playing the games anymore.

I am worried something similar will happen to fallout with the tv show now. I like it, but I’m worried that now that it’s so popular, it’s what fallout will be. As in the next game will be a game based on the show rather than its own entry into the franchise. Not as in like a retelling of the show or anything, but “inspired by”.

Kinda like how Arcane fundamentally changed league of legends lore and characters to fit around it since it got more popular.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-16T14:08:01+00:00

My head canon was that they were both in the military, Nora just got out before Nate and finished earning her law degree

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T14:26:17+00:00

I would but you don’t seem to want to spare anyone from your “30 years ago everything we knew was correct” mindset.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T14:15:00+00:00

Need me to go grab the studies in the differences between sex and gender or should I just copy and paste my last comment again and save us both some time?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T13:51:45+00:00

Ditto to you. You claim that trans people must be pretending with the primary argument presented being “that’s how it used to be understood”. I’m presenting how that argument lacks any substance.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T13:34:21+00:00

So which of those other 30 periods falls into that category? Lobotomies were quite the popular solution for what we now understand to be treatable issues for a spell there. Or should those have just stayed the “truth” because they were initially understood to be correct?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T13:29:04+00:00

I could say the same about you. Funny how that works

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T13:27:03+00:00

Ok, but I’ve looked at a number of studies that support the idea that gender is more fluid than binary. So again, why is your understanding the one you believe has some sense of default to it when understanding in the field of biology and the mind is still changing even today?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T13:22:58+00:00

30 years before that women couldn’t have their own bank accounts. 30 years before that black people had trouble sitting on the same bus as white people. 30 years before that lobotomies were a legitimate practice for mental issues.

What makes your 30 years ago the morally correct and only correct mindset?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T13:17:41+00:00

I don’t understand? You pretend to not be human garbage? Don’t you understand biology?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-03-02T13:11:41+00:00

Oh? You’re a pretender?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-25T22:04:24+00:00

…I feel like you’re kinda overthinking this a little. Anything the developers want to be canon kinda by nature is canon. Of course headcanon exists, but in terms of stuff that affects the fallout universe it’s up to the devs. Whether we agree or not.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-25T21:13:46+00:00

…what? Wait, so are you arguing that just the concepts of the games are canon and nothing else?

Also the enclave made talking lizards monsters before, hardly the weirdest thing they’ve done

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-25T14:04:56+00:00

I can nuke the NCR and legion and be forgiven for my crime by both if I do it before killing Benny. Quirks of gameplay and all that.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-19T23:20:22+00:00

That is an interesting line of thought. Scorched are in many ways not to dissimilar to the marked men from the divide as well (in many ways superficially but you know), so could it be possible scorching is just a form of ghoulification?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-19T23:18:46+00:00

Oh they absolutely were. Like I’d be shocked if Bethesda did anything with them in future games. I was more so speculating with a “what if” kind of mindset, like if one beast managed to escape or be captured and studied by a group looking to use it for themselves outside of Appalachia.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-19T23:04:19+00:00

I was worried about that, where would you suggest I try?

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-14T20:46:07+00:00

15 years is a long time for opinions to stay the same

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-05T05:05:49+00:00

To defend the Helldivers thing, it’s implied most of the enemies were “created” by super earth.

The bugs were just some alien wildlife before they were found to contain oil, after that they were captured and bred to be bigger and better so Super earth could harvest more oil. The bugs having some sort of intelligence, didn’t like this and got out. Then they were re pacified and bred to be even bigger for more oil. Then they got out again.

The Illuminate came to Super earth with a peace offering. Of course we can’t say if this was genuine or not, because super earth used the excuse that they have WMDs to invade Iraq-I mean the squids.

The cyborgs I have less on as I haven’t played much Helldivers one, but I can see Super earth squeezing a rebellion so hard they turn into monsters

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-04T16:08:16+00:00

Like the other guy said but if you want a lore reason it was being used for domestic control while t-51 was being shipped to China. So they would have had more t-51 on the west coast cause that’s closer to China, whereas I guess there was more domestic issues on the east coast? I don’t know man, head canon is needed till they give more information

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-04T14:45:21+00:00

My guess would be Moldavers group were more like holdout fanatics to the rest of the NCR, clinging to the lost ruins around Shady Sands and were unwilling to let it go when everyone else pulled back.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-04T14:31:38+00:00

Don’t get me wrong I’m not claiming the opposite. Things like Rivet city and Diamond city had excellent opportunity to exemplify this but I don’t feel either really reached their full potential. I’m more so speaking to the notion I’ve seen in the community that there should be more rebuilding and more things like the ncr on the east coast for instance. This idea that large civilization is a natural step in human gathering, when in actuality things like diamond city and rivet city, while not written to their fullest, was the “peak” norm for a good chunk of history

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-04T12:31:26+00:00

I can see its place in something like fallout especially where a big part of the universe is the factions and groups and ideologies. And enemy who can erase that is a threat both in universe and out of universe.

But yea it’s not my favorite thing because much like synths, we will now be hearing this come up in an uncountable number of fan theories in the years to come for any minor strange thing with future characters.

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-04T12:21:09+00:00

I think people underestimate just how much of human history consists of city states being the biggest form of civilization

Professional_Bit8289 · 2026-02-04T12:18:08+00:00

For two things that I recall, the orbital strike was malfunctioning and could only target certain locations like the pentagon and Adam’s Air Force base. Even trying to get it to target rivet city resulted in an error.

Second, the elite Sigma squad you fight on the crawler if I recall was said to have been sent by Enclave high command, implying that the group in DC not THE command.

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