What's the best way to survive fallout? Where should you go? What should you do? And what skills

should you learn to survive out in this post-apocalyptic wasteland? Well, today we're going to be

putting together the wasteland survival guide just for you. Hello internet. Welcome to

Film Theory, the show that doesn't want to set the world on fire. So it's that time a year again, folks, where film theory talks about a video game IP

because they keep making them into movies and TV shows.

And today, we're headed back into the wasteland that is Fallout.

The second season of the show just wrapped up on Amazon Prime, and honestly, I'm so impressed

with how the quality of this show has stayed so steady.

They really have something special on their hands, huh?

If you don't know, Fallout takes place in an alternate future that's themed around the 1950s.

The timeline diverged at some point, and everything was powered by nuclear technology.

But unfortunately, a resource war over oil led to a great war where thousands of nuclear bombs were set off, basically destroying the world.

And each fallout story is set in the, well, fallout of that post-apocalypse.

It's one of my favorite franchises ever, and I've dropped hundreds of hours into modding these video games.

Oh yeah, and I guess a couple hundred hours playing them too.

But with the show's second season wrapping up and just how difficult it seems to live out here in the wasteland, I wondered,

how would you best survive out in the fallout?

What strategies could you employ?

Where would you want to go?

And what skill should you want to learn? Now, wait a gosh darn minute here. Oh, my, everybody, it's Tom, host of our sister location game theory. Get out of here. This one's mine. Fallat's a TV show now. True, but if you'll recall, we made a truce over on Game Theory because it looks like

the Fallout games and the TV show are really connected.

The show looks like it's going to be canon to the games, and so we used it to help figure

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