Fun Fact: The water chip being broken is a nice little nod to the first game, where it begins with your vault's overseer sending you out into the Wasteland to find a new chip.

Regarding Maximus: bullying your bully is fair game, plus he treated thaddeus better than he was treated

The currency is bottle caps and it's value is based on clean purified water. 1 cap = one bottle of water.

Ghouls are humans mutated by ungodly amounts of radiation. Their physiology is altered to be healed of their wounds when in the presence of radiation and they are immune to most diseases. This makes ghouls functionally immortal; no one has ever found a ghoul who died of old age. There are drawbacks, however, most notably looking like a corpse, as well as a certain condition that affects some but not all ghouls…

The bottle caps being currency originated from a community called The Hub. They used them because you can’t make any more than there already are unless you can fix a bottle cap machine. The Hub is the only place with a working bottle cap machine so they can control the cap economy and prevent inflation. Caps are worth about $10 usd per cap. So Maximus was charged about $60. The pre war economy was suffering from severe inflation so they had to change to a different currency. The NCR uses their own bills they print and an NCR dollar is worth $4 USD. All currencies are backed by bottles of clean water. The cooper hating Vault Tec thing is explained later.

Hahaha great reaction again. I legit lol'd at the start when you were talking about disliking gore and knowing the head-pop was coming up. 1. Caps are the currency because (going back to last episode comment) Nuka-Cola plants aren't running any more and no more bottle caps are being made so there is a finite amount of them in the world and thus they can represent a stable base currency without fear of inflation. 2. The bag situation you mention is a nod to the games where players will pick up every bit of junk they can until they are over-encumbered and unable to move, and also that in game you can get a companion that travels with you and players load them down with all the gear and junk instead so the player can move at full speed again 3. Maximus is an ass and sucks, am sure someone would be able to explain that he has some sort of arc where his power trip is explainable based on being picked on but yeah, he sucks :D

At my favorite local Thai restaurat run by a nice mom-n-pop couple, they offer imported drinks from SE Asia. One is a canned tea that's lavender flavor. It tasted like soap!! I'm with cowboy Cooper on this one!

I get that maybe Max was on a little power trip but that's WAY more realistic then someone getting power they didn't have and being super humble about it, it would've been Cliche.

I believe the water in the canteen was radioactive, which is why he didn't let her have any. He could have told her this, but chose to dump it out in front of her because he was mad at her and wanted to be a dick.

I call my cat "missy moo" when she's being pushy about food and your channel name makes me grin because of it lol

There are "tons" of ghouls alive from before the war throughout the games. They don't age. Not only ghouls either, there are lots of people alive for lots of different reasons.

After the war bottlecaps became money because they were all over the place. Their value comes from being backed up by the water faction who have access to clean water. So instead of a "gold" standard they have a water standard. Norm becomes a standout character for me by the end of the series. The best way to understand Maximus is to understand his upbringing was guided by a fanatical religious order, he truly believes in their ideals, which Titus did not live up to. The brotherhood DID NOT build the suits, they are pre war technology, that is why the ghoul knows about them, he used one when he was in the marines. Though probably a different model. The gulpers guts are pulled out because Maximus pulled out the anchor that was stuck in its guts.

6:18 The power armor probably has temperature control since the U.S. army uses in place like the desert and Alaska.

06:01 "I would love to be strong for you" HAHAHAHAHAHA

It's good that I already saw this series because this is one of those reactions where you look more spectacular than usual and I get distracted watching 😻🤎💓 you

In the game the vaultsuits do indeed block radation, but only a very small amount.

Most technologies in this show are salvaged pre war tech that they maintain, not built. All the power armor suits are pre war, same with the pip boys on their wrists and most other things. Theres not a lot of people creating new tech in the world of fallout, save for a few factions with the resources to do so.

The gore is intentionally over the top and almost comedic. It's meant to juxtapose the brutality of war, violence as spectacle versus violence as tragedy. It makes more sense in the games, since you are the perpetrator of the violence instead of a passive observer, but it kinda works here as well, since the expected reaction from the audience is to find the gore entertaining to watch.

The power armor was made before the bombs fell 200 years ago... The Brotherhood of Steel was form out of military units just after the bombs fell.

You're smart to specify if you want a question answered in the comments. So many commenters don't realize a lot of reactors' questions are rhetorical, and answer them in the comments, thus introducing spoilers . . .

Well, we are told in the first episode that Coop is divorced from his vife from Vault-Tec. That might explain why we have Vault Boy and not Coop being on advertisements any more Other than that: While some amphibians can indeed have its guts pulled out/vomit them up, this is not at all how it looks

Btw there are very real actual deer with fangs

Let's go Moo

Your going to run into a lot of seemingly quirky "plot armor" and most of it is do to a thing called "Video Game Logic". A little tip "pay attention to the end-credit graphics".

But the art department got a great special on bulk the fake blood..... 🐒

2:42 from the explanation given by Three Dogs, DJ in Fallout 3: ghouls are people who have absorbed a huge dose of radiation and were not lucky enough to die. their appearance changes and they look like zombies from old horror films, they live a long time, hundreds of years, radiation has no effect on them but over time they become feral. I've always wondered if ghouls felt pain, because they were transformed by exposure to an enormous amount of radiation that made them become radioactive themselves, so it's as if they lived inside a microwave oven that constantly cooks them. in the scene where Lucy asks for water, I believe that the ghoul was deciding whether or not to let her drink the water that was in the canteen, because most likely that water was also radioactive, as ghouls are immune to radioactivity, so not giving it to her at that time and in a way it only did her some good, even though she was dying of thirst.

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Ghouls regenerate so they are a bit immortal ... except if they don't get their meds, they go feral and lose their minds.