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How Geopolitically Realistic is Fallout's Great War?
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Minor SPOILER WARNING for the Fallout TV Show and the Fallout Series as a Whole!
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I was walking along, minding my business, when out of an orange colored sky… Flash, Bam, Alakazam! The Fallout TV show came by!
And it got me thinking, well, just how realistic is Fallout anyway? Humans don’t turn into ghouls when exposed to too much radiation and nuclear bombs tend to be a bit more destructive than portrayed… sure. But what about the geopolitics and history of the Fallout universe?
In this video, we’re going to explore the geopolitics of the Great War and see whether or not such a war is possible in our own timeline! Now, we won’t be able to cover every aspect of Sino-American politics (I won’t be getting into trade relations, for example), but what we can do is look at Fallout’s timeline of the Great War, and do a play-by-play, to see if we’ll also be crawling out through the falling out before long!
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
04:19 - The Great War Timeline
15:29 - Sino-American Relations at the Time of Fallout's Inception
22:38 - The Resource Wars
29:18 - Peak Oil and Global Reserves
36:02 - Vaults, Experiments, and Nuclear Warfare Doctrine
44:10 - Conclusion
46:29 - Credit's Gag; Silly Songs with Moony
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Komentáře

  • @cdk2309
    @cdk2309 Před 28 minutami

    very well made video, i enjoyed the whole hour and a half

  • @ZackTheGiant
    @ZackTheGiant Před hodinou

    00:17:10

  • @stopmotiongarage220
    @stopmotiongarage220 Před 2 hodinami

    Fallout is always an enjoyable topic, and I know I'm always down for a good fallout video

  • @TadanoCandy
    @TadanoCandy Před 3 hodinami

    I’m gonna watch the vid rn but I wanna see how my understanding is altered before and after. I was under the impression that society either consciously or unconsciously sees girls as inferior to boys, so a girl engaging in “boy activities” isn’t looked down upon in the same way that boys are if they engage in “girl activities”. Therefore investing in technology and manpower to create games for boys is more profitable because you can target the boys and the substantial portion of not-like-other-girls girls that play boy games. Games for girls aren’t as profitable because you’re targeting 99.9% girls with them cause very few boys would play a girls game (there’s not many not-like-other-boys boys)

  • @holey5065
    @holey5065 Před 3 hodinami

    another moony upload, another banger video

  • @amputant
    @amputant Před 3 hodinami

    What the fuck am I watching at 1 am

  • @fademusic1980
    @fademusic1980 Před 3 hodinami

    this did not need to be a 49 minute video with 7 minutes of filler at the beginning

  • @icedragonair
    @icedragonair Před 3 hodinami

    I prefer less content, less frequently at the great quality it is right now.

  • @retroman7581
    @retroman7581 Před 4 hodinami

    Im absolutely stunned by the quality of this 2 part series Respect, you did a really good job at explaining the modern social dynamic in South Korea Much appreciation <3

  • @pbpixil417
    @pbpixil417 Před 4 hodinami

    More feelout content please

  • @uiopuiop3472
    @uiopuiop3472 Před 5 hodinami

    before watching this video: fully. the answer is fully

  • @pbpixil417
    @pbpixil417 Před 5 hodinami

    Comment tribute

  • @moon-channel
    @moon-channel Před 5 hodinami

    Ditch your dull browser, and download one that sings! Get Opera GX for FREE by going to www.operagx.gg/moonchannel.

    • @tienshan9819
      @tienshan9819 Před 4 hodinami

      I always thought it was ... counter intuitive at best to have an oil rig in the *Pacific* be the evac point for the shadow government. Even if it's still within the aegis of the US, wouldn't it be safer to find a hideaway somewhere in the Atlantic?

    • @Brakvash
      @Brakvash Před 3 hodinami

      Please don't have Opera browser as a sponsor - it's a closed-source browser (users can't see what's going on behind the hood) owned by a chinese consortium.

  • @ivorydove
    @ivorydove Před 5 hodinami

    I would like to disagree with this idea that the east has some sort of monopoly on metaphor. I acknowledge you won't see much metaphor in your next marvel movie or bethesda game, because those are trying to be products with the most mass market appeal as opposed to good art, but thats not the only thing we've got. I also won't deny the direct social comentary of Bioshock, Disco Elysium, certain Fallout games, certain episodes of dr who. However, we also have the dark gods in Night in the Woods, the ghosts in Oxenfree, the body snatching of Get Out, the zombies murderers and aliens of the cornetto trilogy. Hell, if you really want a gut punch google what spoke to Hoawrd Ashman about Beauty and the Beast. You can find metaphor in our pop art, you don't have to reach back into the literary or dramatic canon, although you can, Moby Dick, the Crucible, Frankenstein, Waiting for Godot, the list goes on. Personally, as an English major, I chafe at this vaguely orientalist idea that the art if the west (like its people) is all direct and loud and in your face while the art of the east (like its people) is all subtle and mysterious and holding its tongue for fear of losing it honor. Otherwise a great video, I do hope that we can slay the false god of capitalism before it slays the Earth.

  • @insertnamehere1398
    @insertnamehere1398 Před 6 hodinami

    I never thought that I would be cheering on the government and supreme court.... a brocken clock is right twice a day I guess

  • @MightyMurloc
    @MightyMurloc Před 6 hodinami

    Came for the explanation of Calvinistic Protestantism, withheld my comment till the end due to games with the "Christian Aesthetic" which you thoroughly addressed, very well-informed video.

  • @MasterAlarad
    @MasterAlarad Před 6 hodinami

    I loved the parody song at the end And the rest of the video too :P

  • @ndouglas120
    @ndouglas120 Před 6 hodinami

    Rsource wars are likely to occur. Just not over oil. It will be over water.

  • @O_Alentejano
    @O_Alentejano Před 6 hodinami

    made for american consumption? funny, cause most people still consuming fallout 1 and 2 are either european or asian

  • @malshuri
    @malshuri Před 7 hodinami

    im so happy to see something about fallout from you! the way you interlock real world history with whatever youre talking about has always been fascinating. fallout has always been an alltime favourite franchise for me, so seeing you cover it really made my day, and hell - whole week really. if theres more fallout where that came from im very excited!

  • @xcrackervolleyx
    @xcrackervolleyx Před 7 hodinami

    I do want a Big Mountain episode because I do want a full explanation of MK Ultra since I still don’t fully understand what actions the CIA actually did to ruin so many people.

  • @mattias969
    @mattias969 Před 7 hodinami

    Abraxas enter our world through gaias womb open the door for jabaldaoth!

  • @thecompareablezombie
    @thecompareablezombie Před 7 hodinami

    That outro song was and is wonderful, well sung.

  • @wondermenel2811
    @wondermenel2811 Před 7 hodinami

    what makes you more powerfull then killing a god thats right, nothing

  • @BismarckDidNothingWrong
    @BismarckDidNothingWrong Před 8 hodinami

    I'm kind of surprised you never mentioned the deep, deep and systemic xenophobia that's endemic to this version of japanese "religion"

  • @QuantumIceCube
    @QuantumIceCube Před 9 hodinami

    This is the video that made me discover your channel.

  • @charlescrocco7896
    @charlescrocco7896 Před 9 hodinami

    Nice use of TTW in the ad read!

  • @minesimusic1447
    @minesimusic1447 Před 9 hodinami

    Honestly that singing at the end was really good

  • @ZackTheGiant
    @ZackTheGiant Před 9 hodinami

    28:50

  • @abrahamrutschke638
    @abrahamrutschke638 Před 9 hodinami

    Goddamn make the whole video a ad bro

  • @mr.cauliflower3536
    @mr.cauliflower3536 Před 10 hodinami

    Vault tec may have launched the first nuke.

  • @sirdigbychickencaesar71
    @sirdigbychickencaesar71 Před 10 hodinami

    Not so fun fact, if all the Nukes in the world were launched and aimed to land so the blast radius are side by side with each other it would only cover a land mass the size of India. so total world destruction that is depicted in most media is totally impossible. not that it would be a fun time but humanity would survive we wouldnt even be brought anywhere near extinction levels. The Idea of the world being totally destroyed is another American fallacy and part or the red scare tactic to make people hate Russia. On a side note, the mostly one sided genital measuring contest America has been having with Russia since the second world has cost the lives of so many and destroyed the live of many more. and for what? because the Russian were actually the ones who won ww2 for the Allied nations and not America? Like for real, deal with your insecurity's American, there is nothing wrong with competition, If America had put their ego aside and worked with Russia we really could have been living in a better world.

    • @Gameprojordan
      @Gameprojordan Před 7 hodinami

      Nobody uses nukes for directly hitting the ground in the real world. They use air burst so the explosion covers as wide of an area as possible and doesn't get mostly absorbed into the ground

    • @sirdigbychickencaesar71
      @sirdigbychickencaesar71 Před 6 hodinami

      @@Gameprojordan Yes absolutely, the calculation was done with the damage radius of a airburst, I may have been a bit misleading with the word "land" but I was referring to the explosion itself not the payload. now there is a argument to be made about radiation effect on the globe, but as for out and out destruction, The size of India is all they would add upto

  • @Alan_The_Jaguar
    @Alan_The_Jaguar Před 10 hodinami

    Ah fuck you are telling me my neighbors are peack and ripe for nuclear strikes?

  • @Nercoholic
    @Nercoholic Před 10 hodinami

    Great video

  • @Lockerus
    @Lockerus Před 10 hodinami

    The big divergence from our timeline is that the microchip or transistor never took off as the basis for technological advancement. Instead, vacuum tubes are used. This isn’t to say transistors are not used at all, but that is the reason Fallout stuck with the retro 50s look.

  • @chenxing6157
    @chenxing6157 Před 11 hodinami

    How the fuck this guy pronounces the chinese vocabs right? must be a chinese spy!

  • @Pretender6
    @Pretender6 Před 11 hodinami

    Needs more fan Fallout songs thats relevant to modern life, like the endings song, its catchy by itself, and you should post them as seperartly

  • @insertnamehere1398
    @insertnamehere1398 Před 11 hodinami

    never stop using maya sprites in your videos

  • @stanchskate
    @stanchskate Před 11 hodinami

    I'm interested in more fallout content

  • @simonmacomber7466
    @simonmacomber7466 Před 11 hodinami

    The resource wars weren't fought over oil "alone." The lore clearly states that the resource wars were fought over oil, uranium and _WATER._ That's right, the availability of potable water was being depleted because so much of it was being used up for cooling all those fusion engines that were used everywhere. Mr. Handy fuel and Red Rocket stations didn't provide petrochemicals. It provided water with special additives to cool the nuclear reactions of the U-235 fueled reactors. There were other resources fought over, too, such as the materials needed to make all those fusion engines. Oh, and there are fan theories (and rumors based on the new TV show) that the "first shot" that set of the nuclear exchange in 2077 wasn't fired by either the U.S. or China, but by Vault-Tec itself, just to trigger the resulting war.

  • @lexcelius6921
    @lexcelius6921 Před 12 hodinami

    1:55 can't I'm on Linux and only Vanilla Opera non gx is on Linux

  • @alpha_tht
    @alpha_tht Před 12 hodinami

    I just finished Mother 3 yesterday. And could not stop crying.

  • @blackdragon6
    @blackdragon6 Před 12 hodinami

    The reference to the Drake and Kendrick beef was WIIIIIILD 😂

  • @kakkaohjus
    @kakkaohjus Před 13 hodinami

    Some years ago I heard that Chinese interests were acquiring stuff in Africa and South-American through shady means, is that still a thing or was it disproven? Something like that would be a significant factor for on where conflict would happen. Also isn't there a lot of contention on who actually fired first, a lot of contradictory statements.

  • @filthyuzumaki2084
    @filthyuzumaki2084 Před 14 hodinami

    Came for the fallout Stayed for the singing moon

  • @rootigaroot9922
    @rootigaroot9922 Před 17 hodinami

    I despise what the fallout show has done to the fallout lore, especially the pre-war lore...

  • @dirtpounder
    @dirtpounder Před 17 hodinami

    Opera is... Definitely one of the browsers of all time.

  • @iCirno
    @iCirno Před 18 hodinami

    it's actually not 100% certain that china launched first. it seems to be the most certain answer because we literally see multiple nukes hit the us first and can confirm chinese submarines then launched from us shorelines, but the us and china were in peace talks. not like the war would stop just cause peace talks would be ongoing, but that puts some doubt on them launching first despite the readiness for a nuclear exchange. we also dont know the origin of the first nukes that were detonated. what i like about that certain bit of writing is it allows technically everyone to be correct on who they think launched first. cause in the end it doesn't really matter

  • @likyardianto3614
    @likyardianto3614 Před 20 hodinami

    it is said that "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism", but nowaday it is getting even harder and harder it is almost impossible to imagine the end of the world. maybe we need a new, rebooted fallout with updated geopolitical lore, new satire, new "propechy" about how the world will end, it gives hope to this hopeless world.

  • @killergeek5004
    @killergeek5004 Před 21 hodinou

    I wish more people would talk about this topic, I love playing video games but I just feel limited by the games available rn. I love playing indie titles and games like animal crossing and stardew valley but i just really do not wanna play another game with a farming sim shoveled into it! I'm looking forward to the release of Witchbrook, Cozy Caravan, and The Little Witch in the Woods when they all officially release and are out of early access.