Vault Boy

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Since 1997, Vault Boy has been the constantly cheerful mascot for what post-apocalyptic video game franchise that was adapted for an Amazon Prime series in 2024? Now, how do you know what this is?

Because I remember hearing about, once I heard Vault Boy and when I heard cheerful, I was like, okay, that's gotta be Vault Boy.

It's definitely got to be Fallout.

I like your line of thinking there.

I love it so much.

that I got a Pip-Boy tattoo on my back shoulder, Vault Boy standing inside the gear, giving a thumbs up, wearing my military uniform with my last name on it.

I've only got four tattoos, but that one is my favorite.

And the timing of this episode is perfect because October 23rd was Fallout Day.

You've got the Fallout style.

You've got Vault Boy himself.

We had it in the Vault game.

What the hell was that Vault game called? The mobile game.

It's whatever.

I will say, though, it is the only one in the pack that still has Vault Boy saying, save your caps.

The rest of them are, you know, not.

Those are valuable.

Why isn't this working? This is controversial.

during the earlier episodes, whenever she's struggling and she doesn't know quite what to do, she looks to the Vault Boy for inspiration.

She sees a poster in the vault.

She sees a bobblehead in the general store at Philly.

And she says to herself, What would the Vault Boy do? What would Vault-Tec expect of me? What would the Overseer have me do? What would make my father proud? And it's then she finds the fortitude she needs to do what she knows is right.

Which is why it comes as such a surprise to her when persuasion doesn't exactly work the way she's been taught it should.

It wasn't persuasion that stopped the ghoul from killing her in Philly.

So maybe we can get some fun sound design in there.

Uh, Vault Boy from, uh-

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the Fallout franchise.

Vault Boy himself will be a playable character.

We're not doing power armor.

We're not doing, uh, any of those, uh, Vault Dwellers.