Robots Radio, games, lore, stories, community.

Just press play.

Welcome to the Fallout lore cast, the podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout.

The writers of the Fallout games have always, whether intentionally or unintentionally, made comments about society and sometimes even philosophy in the video games that they've made,

in the storylines that they've written, in the character arcs, the situations, and there's

something about this setting that now that I think about it even more, and that's a funny thing to say because I've been doing this podcast for a number of years, but now that I think about it even more, and that's a funny thing to say because I've been doing

this podcast for a number of years, but now that I think of it even more, it would be hard

to avoid even accidentally making some sort of commentary on situations or concepts like

nationalism or fascism or capitalism. And I know that Tim Cain has

specifically said that originally the Fallout creators were not actually writing a commentary

on capitalism, but it's something that just, well, it seems like it kind of snuck in anyway.

Something about the nature of commenting on our world extrapolated into the future with all of the terrible things that could or might not happen makes it almost impossible

not to interpret these things as commentary on our own world.

Today's episode, we're digging into another faction from Atlantic City.

Probably the faction that I should have covered first, but I decided to cover them last

because they are the faction called the Munis, and they represent

what happens when the system fails.

But then when people stand up and take ownership and try to fix it again.

They represent both sides of the human condition,

the way that our systems can disguise incompetence,

and yet the way that individuals can rise to the occasion.

So let's get into it.

...