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Originally Posted by OrangeP47
TBH, and I think this has started to come out more with Fallout 4, and 76 (though I haven't played 76 but I've started paying attention to some of the lore), is that Fallout's culture isn't so much "stuck" as it has evolved in an alternate way in such a way that we don't have the context to see how it's different... but it IS different.... if that makes sense. It's kind of a subtle difference, both in universe and with what I'm trying to say out of universe with my logic. Maybe we've just finally hit critical mass of source material that we can call the universe a proper setting instead of just a veneer.
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First of all, I have been incredibly busy of late and have another paper due, major assignments from my students due, and graduation applications to process. Still, I want to work in at least previewing the Association Championships today!
You know, I think you have a good point about them only seeming stuck in time. Other than a few recent additions of pre-War characters--most notably, people like the Cabots who still seem to be stuck but perhaps for much different reasons--what we see of the Fallout universe is the POV of people who never lived much in the pre-War of what the world was like. Of course, the main character of Fallout 4 (in my case, Nate Howard) would know, but he is a blank slate on the day of the bombing to us, so we can only imagine his full background beyond being a war veteran. Just like fashion trends come and go, maybe 2077 was a decade-plus of 1950s nostalgia. That means, it is the post-War civilization that is stuck because they have little to base their comparisons upon. There are some definitive signs that the pre-War era was way behind in some forms of fashion, though, like baseball uniforms that appear to be similar to the Mickey Mantle Yankees (see below).
In the case that civilization has found itself stuck in pre-War nostalgia, my recreation of the Fallout world is battling through some of those problems with rebuilding civilization while also looking to move past the lack of tools necessary to maintain an advanced civilization. Anyway, I am playing the world that I have created shaped and contained somewhat by Fallout lore other than the probable canon of Fallout 4 that the Institute must be wiped out as the "good" Fallout path, just like Caesar must be wiped out as the "good" path in Fallout: New Vegas.
Below: Baseball poster from 2077, actress Vera Keyes looking like a 1920s flapper, a pre-War baseball glove