412: Fallout 3's Cultural References: 1984

First of all, if you go way back, I'm talking years back, if you've listened through the show, you probably remember an episode where I talked about all of the movies that inspired Fallout, and some of the books, and things like that.

But this list is much bigger, and it comes from a, let's call it tricky source.

What I have in front of me right now is a list on the fandom.com wiki of twen- 126 different references, and this is going to be an investigation because, as we all know, wikis are a wonderful source of information, but they don't always get everything right.

They are often filled in by people in the community, and sometimes the things that they talk about, the things that they reference, and even the actual references themselves when you go down the rabbit hole, don't actually hold up.

Now, that doesn't mean that wikis are without their, their worth and their value.

They're a integral part of doing the research.

In fact, they are often inspiration in starting down a path with something.

I, I often pull information from different wikis or different forums, places like Reddit, that inspire the episodes or create a, at least a baseline amount of information.

But the trick with using them is that you always have to vet the source.

You can't just read it and then expect it to be 100% right 100% of the time.

It's a good place to start, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it gives you the whole story.

Another example of this is I've been going through the, the pre-war businesses recently, and this is going to be a new series that kind of goes between those episodes if it works out.

Hopefully, this episode works out and it becomes a new series.

But my point is that that list of pre-war businesses does exist on a wiki, but I absolutely have to do more research with every single one of those entries to make sure that not only is it accurate, but to find other information in and around it.

Most of the time, the things that are referenced there are not the full story, and you've heard me expand upon that multiple times, where I was able to delve deeper and find more out than what was originally just posted in the wiki.

So with all of that said, we are going to investigate the cultural references in Fallout and also see how accurate the wiki is, the fandom.com wiki is about this, and we're going to start with Fallout 3.

That's right, 126 entries just for Fallout 3, and eventually we'll move on from there, and who knows? I mean, uh, uh, my gut says, I don't have inside knowledge on this, but my gut says that the next Fallout release we're going to get is a Fallout 3 remaster, so this might be a lot of fun to go through before that comes out so when we all play through the game again, we're gonna have these things on our mind.

So let's get into it.

First of all, if you go way back, I'm talking years back, if you've listened through the show, you probably remember an episode where I talked about all of the movies that inspired Fallout, and some of the books, and things like that.

But this list is much bigger, and it comes from a, let's call it tricky source.

What I have in front of me right now is a list on the fandom.com wiki of twen- 126 different references, and this is going to be an investigation because, as we all know, wikis are a wonderful source of information, but they don't always get everything right.

They are often filled in by people in the community, and sometimes the things that they talk about, the things that they reference, and even the actual references themselves when you go down the rabbit hole, don't actually hold up.

Now, that doesn't mean that wikis are without their, their worth and their value.

They're a integral part of doing the research.

In fact, they are often inspiration in starting down a path with something.

I, I often pull information from different wikis or different forums, places like Reddit, that inspire the episodes or create a, at least a baseline amount of information.

But the trick with using them is that you always have to vet the source.

You can't just read it and then expect it to be 100% right 100% of the time.

It's a good place to start, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it gives you the whole story.

Another example of this is I've been going through the, the pre-war businesses recently, and this is going to be a new series that kind of goes between those episodes if it works out.

Hopefully, this episode works out and it becomes a new series.

But my point is that that list of pre-war businesses does exist on a wiki, but I absolutely have to do more research with every single one of those entries to make sure that not only is it accurate, but to find other information in and around it.

Most of the time, the things that are referenced there are not the full story, and you've heard me expand upon that multiple times, where I was able to delve deeper and find more out than what was originally just posted in the wiki.

So with all of that said, we are going to investigate the cultural references in Fallout and also see how accurate the wiki is, the fandom.com wiki is about this, and we're going to start with Fallout 3.

That's right, 126 entries just for Fallout 3, and eventually we'll move on from there, and who knows? I mean, uh, uh, my gut says, I don't have inside knowledge on this, but my gut says that the next Fallout release we're going to get is a Fallout 3 remaster, so this might be a lot of fun to go through before that comes out so when we all play through the game again, we're gonna have these things on our mind.

So let's get into it.