Cross-posted from "who bunks the bunkermen" by @Deceptichum@quokk.au in !mop@quokk.au
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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A lot of things we have now would have been considered "silly sci-fi nonsense" not that long ago. I like that you bring up the best Fallout game, New Vegas. I personally preferred 3, but I loved NV for its writing and for not having an ugly green filter over everything. I recognise it was the better game, but I had more fun with its predecessor. Anyone who played adventure games in the 1980s or even the 1990s could not have imagined Fallout: New Vegas. I've been there for most of video games' history and... I mean, shit, look at some of the 8K Cyberpunk videos on YouTube. If they weren't all focused on car mods, I'd love to send some to some Boomers and say "believe it or not, this is a video game." I mean, they get rid of the HUD and everything, it almost looks real. The way the people look really gives it away.
Did Robert House even live that long? When we meet him in the game, he's just a computer. I think the Robo-Brains we saw in the Fallout 4 DLC Far Harbor had a better (more Fallout-cynical view) of longevity, that hotel full of rich peoples' brains in robots pretending they're real people. Head north from the main town and you'll be approached by one of them, it's a real hard quest to miss. It's not integral to the DLC's story, but I don't think it's missable (maybe if you shoot the robot on sight before it can give you the quest — but why would you do that when you could have a fade-to-black sex scene with one of the robots? I am not kidding). Anyway, I was referring to Nuka-World in Fallout 4, where they expressly state that Vault-Tec wants to put Vaults on other planets. Of course Vault-Tec lied to basically everybody, so they are not to be trusted, but if the control vaults (e.g. Vault 101 from Fallout 3) can really protect people from the Wastes (and, minor spoiler, even be opened and let people in and out!), they can probably protect people from space as well (or, I mean, a planet with no atmosphere). Of course, the Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK) as presented in Fallout 3, that could potentially terraform a world, was dubious at best even in the games...
Well sure, and I don't doubt that colonization of other celestial bodies is possible (and even desirable) but it is far beyond our reach currently. It's not like we're in the 1700s speculating about how to make an airplane, we're in the 1300s speculating about how to make an airplane. There's a lot of work to be done before we can get there.
He was like 250 years old in FNV and very much still alive (unfortunately). Though it's kind of a twist when you learn that because it definitely wants you to suspect he's just an AI at first.