Pretty Much Pop #174: Fallout Plays Post-Apocalyptic
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al discuss the new Amazon TV show based on on the video game series that launched in 1997. How does one best adapt a sandbox game? How dark is too dark for comedy? We talk world-building and exposition dumps, narrative structure and character revelation, and morality in a ruined world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much poppy culture podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | Pretty much your only refuge from a violent, radiated world. |
| 0:13.9 | So we're going to have to ask you to start wearing matching jumpsuits, just for starters. |
| 0:17.8 | Today we're discussing the Fallout franchise in light of a new Amazon Prime adaptation of this video game series, originally created by Tim Kane in 1997. |
| 0:27.2 | My name is Mark Linton Meyer currently enjoying a refreshing iguana on a stick. |
| 0:32.4 | This is Al Baker, just thinking about how video game adaptations come, video game adaptations go, but |
| 0:39.2 | podcasting, podcasting never changes. |
| 0:43.7 | My name is Sarah Lynn Bruck, and I'm not a synth, I think. |
| 0:49.7 | My name is Lawrence. We're coming to you from Oklahoma, and I don't like to be called a ghoul. |
| 0:56.6 | I am a necrotic, post-human. |
| 1:00.6 | All right, so let's give our priors here. |
| 1:03.1 | This is one that I have deep and long. |
| 1:06.4 | I played Fallout 1 when it came out to the end. |
| 1:10.0 | Fallout 2, not quite to the end, but pretty darn far until it, I couldn't get past some |
| 1:14.5 | certain part right toward the end. |
| 1:16.1 | Fall 3, I played to the end. |
| 1:18.3 | Not too much of the DLCs. |
| 1:20.5 | They didn't seem that interesting. |
| 1:22.1 | But then Fallout 4, over 100 hours I see I had logged. |
| 1:27.1 | And, oh, and New Vegas, I see I had logged. |
| 1:32.1 | And New Vegas, I didn't finish, but I played that a good amount as well. |
| 1:39.1 | I just reinstalled Fallout 4 to get all the DLCs and play a little bit of that and all the new. |
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