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Weekly Ramblecast 086: Chicago Ted Is Still Out There

🕑 Added 2023-02-01 00:44:37 +0000 UTC

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Graeme Hobbs

I’m listening to this halfway thru February and the weather has been great. Now snow at all.

swiftdraw

Corrections! Well, not really. Just nitnoid nerd stuff. There was a single crossover level, The Sacrifice, between the Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 crew. It a part of the last campaign that was made for L4D and 3 of the 4 original crew interact with the 2nd crew and help out in the last part IIRC. In the comics that supplemented the games, after the second crew leave to their next destination, the first crew get on a boat and leave to parts unknown. Fallout has only been outside the United States once, to my knowledge. That was in the Mothership Zeta add-on for Fallout 3, where you get abducted by aliens and take over their ship with a contemporary slaver, a little girl who saw the nukes fall, a pre-war solider, a cowboy, and a samurai. At the time this made some of the Fallout fanboys very upset over its supposed ridiculousness, but they were already upset about a first person Fallout set on the east coast and needn't much more reason. That said, there is a lot going on in the world prior to the bombs falling. The Sino-American war is still going full swing, with the US kicking China out of Alaska and counter-invading China. The invasion in China was a stalemate until the power armor showed up in large quantities, then it became a brutal slog. The US annexed and brutally oppressed Canada, with Quebec being a hotbed of resistance. Europe more or less economically collapsed after a long war with the Middle East to secure the last of the oil reservoirs, which dried up shortly after or were destroyed during the war. Then there is a lot of evidence that Vault-Tec was the one who started the nuclear exchange, not the US or China. It is known the Vaults themselves were social experiments more than safe havens. Allegedly, the head of Vault-Tec thought nuclear war was coming anyways, staged an incident, and started the Vault program to begin the experiments. A lot of evidence points to the Vaults being experiments to help understand the challenges of deep space travel and colonization. Either way, plenty of pre-nuke stuff to explore if a show so desires. It would be like that Caprica show the was the prequel to Battlestar Galactica.