Film Theory: The Fallout Nukes are a LIE

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World: dies Film theory: "thats a lie"

Nuclear war is scary... If you're instantly vaporized, you're lucky. If you die from 3rd degree burns, or radiation sickness, you're less lucky... But slowly dying from starvation in a bleak cold world, watching those you know drop dead again and again while you fight to stay alive... That's truly scary.

Something I've noticed in the games is that a lot of the greater hot spots, like the Glowing Sea, tend to be around nuclear power plants, rather than just being ground zero for nuclear bombs. Given how common nuclear power sources are in the Fallout universe, it makes sense that meltdowns would be common as well, ranging from power plant sized all the way down to car sized.

Counter theory: A possible reason that the bombs shown in the start of the show and games were so small was because they were the bombs that vault tec launched to start the war as stated at the end of the show

"I was there when fisto told me to assume the position" is the best thing you can say when someone asks if you played fallout

this makes sense considering the bombs by vault tec were supposed to be "dirty bombs", not meant to destroy everything but meant to spread as much radiation as possible. Edit: i just realized i wrote this wrong, should've said salted bombs.

Everyone is like “oh, I don’t like the channel anymore, there’s no MatPat” Buddy, at least we HAVE the channel still around, be grateful. Me personally, I think that he’s doing great!

I like how these videos don’t have that much of a decrease in viewers. Shows that people are still interested in the new hosts

In fallout 4, vault 111 was supposed to closed for 180 days if you read the computer entries but they never got the all clear signal

Lee: "The reality is much worse." Me: "Worse than nuclear war? Dang, stuff is getting real."

1 important detail missed: Vault Tech wanted to start the war themself, so it could be said that the first view nukes where smaller to give themself enough time to react, to throw the rest of the world into a full out nuclear war. Also, i think its said that Vault Tech used some other nukes afterwards to specificly spread more radiation, so elongatting the fallout. On top of that, Vault Tech and other companys had preaded a lot of missinformation around nuclear fussion and nukes in general. For example, the all the Fusion stuff, was actually unstable Fision marketed as Fusion. It would also not be too far off that Vault tech had their hands a bit deeper in other countrys nuclear projects than we might know.

Film theory… Film theory never changes. In all seriousness you’re doing a killer job, Lee!

we also cant forget that even if it would be safe to leave the vaults very soon, vault-tec didnt want people to leave the vaults. they wanted to keep their experiments going, so they made it almost impossible to actually leave the vaults. the only times we see people actually leaving them is if something happened, like what we see in the fallout show, 3 and 4. 76 is an outlier though since vault-tec actually wanted them to leave.

There is litterally on fallout 1 and 2 maps, whole SQUARE OF KILOMETERS COVERED BY NUCLEAR CRATER. And, the ghoulification was not only rads, but its combination with FEV released in the air in massive quantity.

The fact the bombs fall in 2077 and it STILL looks like we’re in the 1950’s is wild.

I love it when film theory can steal from game theory

The part about the bombs radiation levels being nearly gone after a week might be true, but in the fallout world nearly everything is nuclear powered (think of all the cars, and nuclear waste you see in the world), so all the radiation could be from everything that was destroyed on the ground from the bombs, making it unsafe because of some sort of miniature nuclear meltdown of each and every nuclear powered object. EDIT: Actually honestly maybe the bombs only had to be that size, it could be cost efficient cause of all the nuclear powered devices that would spew out radiation when destroyed on the ground.

0:21 I love that reference from The Ink Spots, " I don't want to set the world on fire.. I just want to set a flame in your heart.."

The thumbs up in fallout lore is actually referring to you being at a safe distance if your outstretched thumb covers the entirety of the nuclear mushroom cloud