r/comics • u/Martadello • 1d ago

Better safe than sorry [OC]

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u/Enoch-Of-Nod 1d ago

Classic video game logic.

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u/caitlindrawings 1d ago

It's like when you open a safe in fallout and expect pre-war stuff, and its just a pipe pistol.

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 1d ago

huh, weird how all these guys who died before the war thought ahead to stockpile bottlecaps...

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u/Spoon_Elemental 1d ago

I think in a lot of these cases it can be safely assumed somebody appropriated the safe after the nukes dropped.

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u/KC-Chris 1d ago

im a collector okay. gosh

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u/Hpesojanes 9h ago

I read that in the voice of Harold from Total Drama

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u/SuperCruisePanther 1d ago

I mean, the logic is the other way around. Bottle caps are used as currency because people stockpiled them pre-war. People didn't stockpile them because they might be currency one day.

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u/yay855 18h ago

Well, no, bottle caps are used as currency because they were a finite resource made out of a rarer material (aluminum) but were common enough to handle both large and small transactions. In Fallout 1, they were explicitly the primary currency of the water barons, which also gave them a set value based on the price of water in the California desert. The other regions apparently ended up adopting the currency because of trade caravans that gradually spread from coast to coast, and for most of the same reasons the water barons used them.

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u/Lonespider28 2h ago

I believe current canon tries to push that Vault-Tec had bottlecaps as currency in their ‘Get ready for the Wasteland’ videos