The Non-Player Review of Video Games: Where are the Big Daddies?
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Jeremy curates lists of YouTube videos for me, which include trailers that he thinks I might be interested in. Which means that when the trailer for the Fallout TV series came out, he put that on the list.
I watched it with some confusion, because I didn’t remember any wild west zombies, and the weapons didn’t seem right.
And when we got to the end, I said, “Okay, but where are the Big Daddies?”
Turns out I got two different dystopian video games VERY mixed up in my head. I was expecting Bioshock, which Jeremy had played extensively (the first, second, and Infinite). He also played Fallout (3 or 4, most likely). But despite the fact that I own a Fallout lunchbox (part of a large collection of lunchboxes, and I think this one was part of a special edition of Fallout 3 that my ex bought) and once bought Jeremy a NukaCola bottlecap pin, I somehow had it my head that you woke up in the Vault and then proceeded to the weird remnants of an underwater dystopian settlement with Big Daddies, Little Sisters, and not infrequent HELLA racist music.
No, I don’t really understand my brain. In my defense, having not PLAYED the games, mostly hearing them in the background and rarely looking at the screen, and them both having this sort of “nuclear-devastated landscape forcing humanity underground” vibe, they just merged in my mind.
But suffice it to say, we got a pretty good laugh out of that one. And occasionally, when someone brings up the Fallout TV series, I again ask “But where are the Big Daddies?,” which confuses the heck out of them until I explain.
And then they don’t really understand my brain either.
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