Austin: "... between the United States and China." Trump: "CHYNAH!" That frickin killed me.

patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

"That is not a Greek f***ing myth!" I died 😂

i find it funny that where sanctuary hills is in the game, is actually in the middle of minuteman park in real life. the wooden bridge still exists. obviously there is no town in the middle of the park. but the road layout is accurate. maybe you could do a video on fallout locations VS real life locations.

Time to make a swear jar for Austin

Austin: nuclear winter. Me: PaTrOlLiNg ThE mOjAvE aLmOsT mAkEs YoU wIsH fOr A nUcLeAr WiNtEr

Moral of the story, the Southern Hemisphere wins, here comes the Emu Empire

Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="492">8:12</a>

the Viagra ad was great! I took a Viagra once but it got stuck in my throat....I had a stiff neck for a week!

vault tec launched the nukes.

whenever I see a shoddy cast video that begins with the main screen of google docs, I already start smiling.

hey austin you forgot that usa also anexed mexico and it also has been hit by nukes

Man, wouldn't it be cool if Bethesda released a Fallout game based in a country OTHER than America? We'd be able to see the impact of the war on other places and fight completely new enemies.

Would you be able to do a video on glassing in the halo universe, please?

I would love Bethesda if they Set their next Fallout to be set in either China or Canada. edit: this was 4 years ago? that’s crazy

The math here with 25 years after the drop it would be... "mostly okay" works with fallout 76, spooky

CHINA

Austin the u.s also annexed Mexico for petroleum in the 2050s

"sorry I need a minute" Need to get this video over 10 minutes...

I know this is pretty old but I'd like to mention that some nuclear missiles can contain multiple warheads and scatter them across whole stretches with a single launch. Lower yield devices also leave a lot of the radioactive materials that make up the core intact and the blast would spread that material as even more fallout.

So I'm SAFE! here in Australia? FUCK!!! Yeah!

People in South America are living in paradise while I'm trying to put rusty buckets on my companion's head.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="395">6:35</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="438">7:18</a> I have the exact same reaction bro. I'm just glad I'm in thus timeline because out of all the numerous times we have come close to wiping ourselves out we just never seemed to run it all the way to homeplate. I hope it stays that way too.

It would be interesting to see what vault building companies existed in other countries.

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I kinda want to see fallout games based in China or Europe. Or Chicago/mid West. That would be kinda neat.

WHY DID HE COMPLETLY FORGET ABOUT AUSTRALIA (not compliang but why?)

I like it when you start screaming "FUCK FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUUUUCK". I think it's funny

I thought about a fallout game that takes place just as the bombs are hitting. Seeing others turn into ghouls and see new destroyed buildings, and how other creatures and people deal and evolve into the new world.

With the amount of research you've done on nuclear bombs, I'm sure you're on a governmental watchlist somewhere XD

These videos are almost like therapy to me. Putting extremely terrifying situations in a different light by explaining the science behind them. I dunno why understanding something scares me yet comforts me. I guess it's just better than thinking we could all die at any moment. Which we could anyways, not just from nukes. We could slip on a banana peel and crack our head open, I guess. It's happened.

I love it when you swear, its hilarious, and practical. When one realizes we could have been UBER fawked.

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still waiting for the ability to glass planets lol

"global temperatures would drop" yay the tuatara is GONNA LIVE

suggestion : play Mothership zeta DLC from fallout 3. There's a scene when you get to fire the orbital weapon. you get to see some portions of earth and how it looks post war. Does your theory of pocket heavens still apply ?

422,000 NUKES BLAZE THE WORLD!!

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You know, 2000 years in the future, scholars will look back and ask, "Why did the people of the day write this myth of Nuclear weapons?" That is right, they will not believe that man was this crazy.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="420">7:00</a> Honestly, it’s therapeutic to hear Austin swear.

"Mutually-assured destruction, for those of you who didn't learn it in school or simply erased it from your memory" Me: Or haven't watched War Games.

I really like this channel and I am really impressed with all the work that you put into all the shows. As an American living in Japan currently, I was very happy to hear your reaction to the fact that we could have nuked ourselves to heck and back. I know you'll probably never see this message, but thank you for making this message of peace in an analytical dissection of a video game. Stay groovy sir.

The way he puts humans development of nuclear weapons in perspective at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="423">7:03</a> is so good. Haha

This guy is so terrifying yet freaking funny

since you are big on post apocalyptic game worlds can you give some love to the Metro series? there's a shit ton material to explore for your kinds of video man. so think about it, it would be cool.

"Fucking fuck fuck, fuck!" -Austin Hourigan 2k16

YES!! I'm not the only one who remembers! "He's only *_mostly_* dead."

Your videos are friggin awesome man keep doing what your doing

Never stop swearing, Austin. Please. I beg of you. You beautiful human bean.

As a point of order, another major deviation between the Cold War of the real world and the Resource War of the Fallout universe was the latter was an actually, long running active warfare that covered large parts of the world. Supposedly even before the bombs fell Europe was a huge mess. And since the fighting was over natural resources, especially oil and the components to create high tech doodads, and the various governments seemed to have little regards to human life of their own people and even less for foreign nationals it's reasonable to assume that the Middle East and Africa devastated by conventional warfare long before the bombs were dropped. Basically, it's not accurate thinking of the war leading up to the bombs dropping like the Cold War. It's more like if World War II had ended with a massive exchange of nuclear arsenals that had been built up over decades.

Is it only me or anyone who want next fallout in: •europe •canada •china who's with me ?

Like he mentioned at the beginning, the nukes in the Fallout world are much smaller than the ones we currently have. and there were millions killed in the Great War within minutes.

"Fuck, Fuck, Holy Fuck, Fuck" - 2016

Forgot Mexico. The US Annexed Mexico before the Resource Wars as well.

That moment when you realize the world legitimately could have ended.. And the powers at the time were really bout destroying eachother... Damn.

"how many nukes does it take to make our game?" Trick question, its none!

I want a Fallout game based off of post-war China.

you forget that in the glowing sea episode everything almost everything is powered using nuclear power from the family car to the toaster that when the bombs drops most f the stuff using that fuel source blew up to spreading more radiation

You may not believe me, but your videos both on this channel and on Game Theorists is basically just a lullaby to me; the sweet combination of science applied to and through a medium I love makes me enjoy learning. It's also soothing, for some reason, and I like that. Thank you.

i just love the way you talk and explain everything, also great music👍👍

You should explain why cliff racers are from hell

I have, interestingly, seen a few discussions regarding how the popular understanding of MAD is... not entirely accurate. A _lot_ of the fear of Global Annihilation was really just fear-mongering on the part of the military-industrial complex. Basically, MAD was never about targeting random cities and wiping out civilian populations. It was specifically about hitting the other side's missiles and military targets. Not even... infrastructure in general. Why? Because A.) We never had anywhere close to the nuclear arsenal required to "wipe out all life" and B.) because after you've spent all your nukes... you're defenceless. Conventional military action is still possible. In fact, you don't even fire all your nukes. Whatever survives the first wave then becomes your bargaining chips to try to force negotiations and to defend yourself against invasion if they fail. Because nuclear exchange was never actually about Wiping Their Civilization Off The Map, everybody who lives (and it will be a lot of people, with guns and tanks and bombs included) will be able to look at the aftermath and, say, go "holy shit you targeted civilians like a monster, now that your deterrent is gone we're going to rightfully fuck you up".

In your previous video you mentioned how nuclear reactors are in nearly everything such as cars and radios, would this have an effect on the destruction caused by the nuclear bombs ??

Love your work man. 85 was a hell of a year to be born haha

You are now definitely on the NSA Watch list

So Australia is the promise land in the Fallout Universe.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="394">6:34</a> through the next minute or so really aligns with my own feelings on the matter there.

I subscribed to you cause of this video its my first time watching keep up the good work :)

...CHINA

According to the pre-established lore, as i understand it, the U.S. military actually had china under siege after the battle of anchorage, and were using their new and unique invention of powered armor to decimate the chinese army within their own borders (mr. trump would be proud). This included several military campaigns, including the Gobi campaign (hence the name of the sniper rifle variant found in fallout NV) and I can only assume that this led to china retaliating, with the U.S. following suit, decimating not only what was left of china, but also the U.S. populations that were probably gathering around the major cities at that point.

it makes me wonder do you think the rest of the world will send scientists to search the ruins of the war and involve themselves with survivors?

If you're curious, the Fallout timeline deviates from our own in 1961, 2 years after the Tsar Bomba was tested

i fucking love this show

In conclusion: Nukes are bad, mmkay?

How have I NOT found this channel before now?!?!? Everything is making so much more sense! This channel is AMAZING!!

Love these SCIENCE! videos, could you do one on the feasibility of Fallout 76, and living plants 25 years after the bombs fall?

I don't know how this gets monetized

I love it when he swears. Just saying

love the princess bride reference

I think you forgot about the US having a heavy presence(they like annexed them) in Canada and Mexico at the time of The Great War and the nukes required to take those countries out

Also in the fallout universe they were way more intelligent in nuclear science and had multiple different nukes and more powerful, more radioactive, etc.

thanks shoddy cast

This was really interesting and I understood all of it

also you turned a diameter of 25 miles into 25 square miles without any kind of conversion. a circle with a diameter of 25 miles has an area of approximately 176.71 miles. this makes your answer off by at least an order of magnitude on its own and its even worse if that 25 miles was a radius.

I would really like to see a fallout game set in Europe, like New Berlin or Paris or London.

Remember that the resource wars were for oil specifically. Nuclear powered technology was available but didn't take over in time to stop the momentum of the wars and those profiting from them

I love it when you curse, its so much fun!

the week after can u talk about mutated creatures like deathclaws and super mutants

If I recall correctly, Europe and the middle east had their own exchange long before the great war.

I just got over the power of the star bombs. Cheers.

Although I am multiple years late, I consistently see Princess Bride references and I'm incredibly proud

I may be late to the show on this, but I couldn't stop laughing at this when he started his "Fuck" tirade!

YOU FORGOT ABOUT MEXICO THEY GOT ANNEXED TOO

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="410">6:50</a> but then you have to account for the the Mr. houses that exist

i think I will sing that song on my next road trip

When this guys gets swears it's like me when I play competitive on overwatch

Imagine if Bethesda made Fallout:World mmorpg

I would just like to say I love it when you swear! :D

Ahh, seven years later and I still share Austin’s opinion from about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="393">6:33</a> onwards.

I really wonder what's Australia and NZ got up to leading to the great war, I mean we had (I'm an Aussie) the whole Red scare phase so we would most certainly be on the American side, but Australia+NZ are fairly isolated and spreadout, more so than the US, thus coupled with air currents and our mountain ranges it's plausibly to speculate an Australian Super Power some time after the war, and unlike many African and south American nations were rather stable plus we have resources!