That is almost certainly the answer not only is she a genius inventing cold fusion but by vault-tec buying out her company no doubt made her a millionaire so she could afford her own fallout shelter and cryo bed.

My take is that it has something to do with the Enclave, which also seems to have had some cryo stuff going on. Otherwise, how would Wilzig know her and she him? Or something with Vault-tech, because they both also made comments which seemed to indicate they might have deep connections to Vault-tech. Moldaver's comments about knowing Barb and Vault-tech buying her companies (plural). And Wilzig's comments to Lucy about Vault-tech plan D and being "surprised it wasn't more popular."

@@GeraldH-ln4dv Well the Enclave is the former US government and were linked at the hip to vault-tec so they would have data on all the vaults. They contracted Vault-tec to build at least 122 vaults in the first place.

I’m gonna continue to believe she’s a synth or clone or something else that will allow her to make a shocking season 2 return, because I feel like they’re not done with her yet Hell I’m definitely not😢

Yup, like she said earlier "Hypocrisy is like violence - if only the bad guys use it, then the bad guys win." So I'm sure she went ahead and used a cryo-chamber like all of Vault-Tec.

Sam Rockwell would give him a run for his money.

@@josephkrengel True. Loved him in JoJo Rabbit

Yeah, he's amazing in Justified.

It is also true of Cooper in a way. He spent hundreds of years looking for his family but he had resigned himself to the fact that he will never find them and has instead transformed into someone focused on survival and temporary pleasures. His interaction with Lucy made him aware of how much he changed and that he did not like it at all.

Man, it's not that hard to use words that don't spoil who's speaking.

@@fedos if you've seen the episode it's not a spoiler. If you haven't seen the episode why are you watching a reaction video and looking in the comments.... especially of a season finale?

@@davidabercrombie5427 I'm referring to how it was spoiled for you. They could have used a word/words that didn't spoil it for you.

@@fedos sorry for the misunderstanding. I've been accused of spoilers before and it was things that were literally in the video. I was overreacting and maybe a bit sensitive. Please accept my apology, I didn't mean to jump at you

@@davidabercrombie5427 It's OK. I only call out people spoiling future episodes or lore that shouldn't be known by the reactor yet.

. . . as was his joke about losing money running a casino.

The "Mi scuzi!" man... 😎

And he seems like the only guy at the meeting not buying it all, just listening to prepare

Just watching now and I've had to turn the volume right up to actually hear what's being said. I don't remember the problem being there on the last Taskmaster video.

That seems like a rival branch to me. It has to go. 😅 But the really twisted thing is that that might actually happen depending on which vault makes it and how powerful a "competing vault" would be in comparison, because not all experiments would fit well together.

Not really, yes was formed by members of another vault but not under Vault-Tek management so...

Yes. Shady Sands had the G.E.C.K. treatment post-F1, so a Vault-Tec overseer destroyed a Vault-Tec reclaimed area. Which makes Vault-Tec's argument about "clearing away all the factions" for Vault-Tec moot, since every surviving Vault would end up being a distinct faction.

@@alcor4670 Vault 31 was not the main management vault though, not the one Barb is in. I think only Barbs vault could talk to all the vaults and 31 can only talk to 32, 33. Hank likely knew nothing about shady sands being started by vault dwellers.

I missed that too, the first time I watched. On re-watch I hate myself for not seeing it; it seems so obvious.

'97

@@CliffSedge-nu5fv D'OH typo. Thx. Corrected.

More likely Enclave, working in the shadows the last few years before the nukes

Thanks. As far as how I choose series? That's easy. I react to shows I want to see. Simple as that. :)

@@NeilTalks It's hard to argue with that ) My thought is that there are truly outstanding series that are more suitable for such a sophisticated viewer. For example, Westworld, where several ways of human development are considered and what this will lead to at the global level. Or the Hannibal series, which has an impeccable visual style, and Mads Mikkelsen's game deserves a box of Oscars and a monument during his lifetime. Or the Dexter series, about a serial killer who hunts serial killers. The idea itself is good, but it was implemented perfectly. The first season of Fargo, about the path of an ordinary man from a downtrodden insecure slug. All these series have a great plot, clever cliffhangers and there is an interesting idea behind the plot.

So, you never played New Vegas? It is explained very clearly there.

Those "Okie Dokie" got more and more serious as the season went on.

But he has a decent Luck stat. He keeps getting himself into situations and keeps lucking out of them.

Every vault most certainly doesnt have an arsenal. It would have to be only the most trusted and secure vaults. Its also possible the NCR put some gigantic nuclear power source underground that got sabotaged by VT agents to destroy the city.

@@davidmacy411 I was going to do some more research into yields and power plant outputs, but there's a chance that that might set off an alert somewhere lol. In any case, afaik Shady Sands didn't have a nuclear plant in F1, but they might have set up one later on. Powering a medium-sized town though wouldn't need a lot of energy (and certainly would not create a crater that size if it went critical). Chernobyl's output was designed to produce energy for a *much* larger region, but the explosion was very small in comparison to the WW2 nukes. In any case, a crater the size of Sedan (~100 kt, or 10 times the size of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) would require the energy of roughly 729 million Corvega engines, or hundreds of Vault power plants. Fuel for power plants is far less energy-dense than the material used for weapons, which is why it's highly unlikely that the crater was a sabotaged plant. So yeah, Shady Sands was most likely destroyed by a weapon. Where that weapon came from, well... 🤷‍♂

@@alcor4670 Agreed. Its also possible they handle them like F76 does. We just dont know... yet.

​@@davidmacy411 "like 76 did" you mean, Hank becoming enclave general? :D

There’s a mod that lets you play through Fallout 1 in the Fallout 2 engine along with a lot of community fixes and tweaks, so it smooths over some of the interface issues. It’s pretty easy to install, worth a look.

@@RocketSurgn_ Thanks for the heads up.... I want to play the game for the sake of learning the lore, and experiencing the stories etc. Just the controls were very awkward and not intuitive in Fallout 1 imo. I don't mind older graphics etc, some of my favourite games still to play have ancient graphics, but they have good game play though. Once again thanks.

In the games, you get contradictory info that it was started by China or that the Enclave planned to start it (and outside, devs have made comments that it was China I think but that’s not particularly considered cannon). My personal read of the episode is that they didn’t reveal it “was” VaultTec here, just that they would have done it if needed. As a comparison, it’s suggested in Fallout 2 that the Enclave had plans to start things (and were already manipulating things toward conflict instead of peace) but were caught off guard by the escalation to nuclear launches happening before they had expected. A lot of their people were scattered and caught outside bunkers, kindof like being shown the daughter of a senior Vault Tec exec caught outside vaults at a birthday party with her dad in the show. I think it makes the most sense that we were just shown someone else willing to cause the war but never really know who pushed the button first. Who knows though, they may have decided to say VT really did it themselves and just didn’t bother to get everyone into vaults first.

@@RocketSurgn_ Makes sense thanks for another point of view.

@@RocketSurgn_ I agree. The show implies that Vault-tech dropped the bombs in 2077, but it may have been a red herring. Barb's daughter was out in the world with Coop when the bombs dropped. Would she risk her own daughter, after making clear everything she was doing was for family?

The possible explanation is they had some form of air raid warning system, it was enabled but he didn't know any safe place, he only saw the bridge

@@VORASTRA Yes, long range warning system would be one of explanations how people had time to react. Although, not sure if such eqiupment still exists in Fallout, possibly does. 🤷

And it freezes up every time I try to play it. That soundtrack though...

You're missing the point. Shitting on New Vegas *FANBOYS* . You can be a fan of the game, but some people make it to another level.

@@VORASTRA Oh, I get it. Can't stand em. Also can't stand having to run/config/optimize 20+ mods to play a game I've purchased on 3 different platforms. I gotta hear my Marty Robbins, though. (ed. Is funny because: I agree, but I still jump through hoops to play it in 2024)

There's always one. Todd hater, am I right?

​@@GeraldH-ln4dv yep