The world of the apocalypse is something that many of us hope for and wish we could experience. Others are in deep fear of it and decide to play video games to supplement their fear. But if you play a game like Fallout, you can have it all. There are giant roaches and ghouls that are sort of like zombies and all sorts of radiation that will make you sick for hours leading up to your demise,

But there is one thing that many of us forget about the greatness of what Fallout has to offer. And that is the super awesome memes that come from the game. The various bugs and fails in logic make for plenty of ammunition to generate laughter and joy in the form of weird photos surrounded by a quirky caption.

Games like these get us ready for the end of the world and they also give us reason to avoid a nuclear holocaust. So you sort of get the best of both worlds and there is no downfall to playing these games. You can basically let children play the game as young as the age of one, but it may be difficult to teach them how to save and whatnot. Still, there are very valuable lessons to be learned while playing a game like Fallout. Like why to avoid Deathclaws, and how to survive drowning in water by drinking more water.

25 Do Fish Drink Water?

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We all know that when you're in water the best thing to do is to drink all of the water that you're in so that you empty the area of that which is making you hurt. It's simple science. If you no longer are surrounded by water, then you can't perish underneath it. This works doubly for saltwater because, as we all know, salt makes everything taste better and makes us consume stuff faster.

This is just one of the things in the games that could be easily fixed.

Just that when the player is below the water, they aren't able to drink anything. Maybe that would cause too many issues and eventually make too much sense. But we don't play these games so that the world makes sense. We play them because real life is boring.

24 Better Hit Up The Energizer Bunny

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We understand the idea of not making the power armor super available too early in a game for there to be an actual balance. But this is just one of those logic fails that continues to make us angry throughout the entire game. It hurts our feelings that all these people in the games don't see us gamers as their heroes and offer us the power sources we need for the armor to beat the game.

Most NPCs are losers anyway, they basically do the same thing every day and have no purpose until we as the player gets strong enough to where we can wipe them out at the end of the game. They lie about not being able to use these batteries to use power armor most likely out of complete jealousy for how awesome everyone else is. The life of an NPC is garbage.

23 Some Knowledge Is Inherent

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Some people are born with a unique set of skills and some are given special skills after being cryogenically frozen for a while. In both scenarios, these things are called instincts. The ability to work on and repair bombs is something that all humans who've seen action movies know how to do. After all, it really only involves sweating a lot and picking which wire to cut.

It is a little weird that the main character in some of these video games knows how to do things so easily. Even with little to no training. It's almost like in The Matrix when Neo had to learn how to defend himself and become the hero and all they had to do was download a few programs into his brain then suddenly he knew Kung fu. This probably will be the future in some way. Just download knowledge into our brains.

22 Power Armor Boromir Knows The Deal

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If there's anyone who knows how to interrupt a main quest, it's Boromir. He was all about stealing the Ring of Power from Frodo and getting in the way of the fellowship's quest. Even if he was a great warrior and deep down had good intentions, Boromir just wanted what was best for Gondor. And in the end, he ended up doing great justice for the halflings by eliminating a bunch of orcs before they ended him. Except the hobbits still got taken, so he really didn't do that much. You can say that Boromir redeemed himself, but it was really the brother Faramir who ended up being the good son.

But in games where there is a choice on what to do next, it's hard to stick to the main quest.

Especially if it's a good game. We want to do it all and see it all, and get all the loot. Because we deserve it.

21 Choose Your Genetics

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Pretty soon, like within the next 50 years, parents are going to be able to alter and choose the specific genetics of their soon to be born children. Whether that will alter who that child actually is or will be genetically is not known to me, but it's still cool. However, it does seem like that is the first step in disconnecting the parents from the child they create altogether and then we get stuck in a situation where our babies are grown in fields.

This feeds into the whole idea of instincts. In the beginnings of certain games, we are given the options of changing what our avatar looks like and even some of the mental attributes the character may have. The character can be smarter, or stronger, or even more charismatic. All that matters is that one day this will be the reality of human beings. To choose it all.

20 To Be The Greatest House Guest

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The whole purpose of the NPCs in video games is to serve the player in some way or another. They often have dumb dialogue and fold a bit too easily under pressure from enemies. So all their belongings and their very lives fall under the umbrella of our own sick discretion. Not that all gamers have sinister plots in mind for the mindless drones that wander through our game worlds. But I certainly do.

Especially in games where there is an open world aspect and the player gets to choose what goes on. 

In those cases, there are often decisions to be made and sides to choose, which could end up in betrayal of sorts. That is when you realize that these people in the games are subservient to you and that you should steal all their stuff and eventually end their lives. Because they deserve it.

19 The Best Parties Have Roaches

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It's a little upsetting getting trolled by weak enemies in games where you know they are the weakest. But when the difficulty is amped up, it's hard to accept when the baby enemies pwn you like the nub you truly are. It's an actual fact that the very first Goomba in Mario Bros. is the most deadly of all video game enemies. It is moisture of the fact that it's the first level being played by many who are unfamiliar with the game and its mechanics as well as the fact that since it's the first level, it's naturally the most crossed enemy in the game.

So when upping the difficulty of a game you may or may not have beaten, there's a bit of a learning curve associated with the increase. So don't feel bad when you get wrecked by the weakest of enemies, it's all a part of the challenge.

18 Fallout Bugs Are Integral To The Experience

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It's important when searching for the next game to purchase on Steam to search in the comments section to add more information to your decision. This game you plan to buy could be in early development and filled with bugs or it can be a fully released game with a group of lazy developers. It could be the piece of info that makes or breaks whether you choose to purchase the game or not.

For some reason, other games made by Bethesda seem to be riddled with bugs and glitches that no one seems to really mind. It's almost as if the game is so great and so large that the bugs and mishaps are almost expected. It seems crazy, but it's almost as if the people who accept and ignore these bugs are working together to not be whiny little babies and simply enjoy the hard work the creators put into the massive game we all enjoy.

17 The Freedom To Choose

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This is something that has happened to me in almost every single scenario of the games where you need to defeat the automated turrets. You go into these buildings and start getting torn up by turrets and then the reason you actually went into this pace becomes secondary to you destroying these turrets. You use all the weapons at your disposal to destroy these evil robots only to find out that the dumb computer you passed by is the thing that shuts them off.

It happens all the time. You destroy the turrets and then finally have the safety and lack of fear to explore the building or area. It's at this point, when you're safe from harm, that you notice the computers and think that it's a great way to get some loot. By simply unlocking a door or treasure chest there can be great stuff. But no, just the turrets you already gunned down.

16 Thanks For The Gift

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This happens all the time in the Fallout games. Especially the first time you run into a Brotherhood of Steel member. They have such awesome armor and stuff and they are normally the good guys tasked with defending a certain area. Plus they are really hard to eliminate most of the time. So you can either leave them be until you're stronger and don't need them or you can lure a bad guy to destroy them or you can try to take them on yourself. Either way, that weapon belongs to you.

It's unfortunate if you end up getting rid of a character that matters later in the story. It's even worse when you do it for a weapon you desire and the weapon ends up not even being useful soon after. So you basically end up with all the negatives and none of the positives. Just like real life.

15 Priorities Bro

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It's a bit unrealistic the idea of rushing to your son's safety right away in the game. Now. you shouldn't be confused with what would happen in real life and what would be really going on in a video game. Because if a dad woke up from being frozen for a while and knew that his son was in danger he'd rush right there. But in video games, there is stuff to do.

Being a father in a video game is sort of irrelevant. It may serve the story but we don't buy these games to have a family. We buy these games to create widows and orphans by the hundreds. We know that there is a job to do and people to find, but there are more important evil things to be done and enemies to destroy. It's no one's fault, but the kids can wait to be saved. This isn't a Liam Neeson film.

14 First Time's The Charm

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There are certain substances out in the world that could ruin a person's life on the first try. Fortunately, drinks are not one of them. They're actually quite popular and many people spend their entire lives in anticipation of their next drink. We call these people college students. But fear not.

For those of you who've never tasted a drink, you won't get addicted to it on the first try.

So why does the character in these games get so addicted so easily? Perhaps Ron Burgundy can explain this to us. We all know how much he loves his dog Baxter. So maybe ask him what the chances are of you running your life by taking a drink. We must always remember that we only get one liver unless of course you're super rich and you can just get another one from someone else. So try to be rich.

13 This Bed Is Taken

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Some of the aspects of this game are completely ridiculous. In most video games if you sleep or rest, then most of the bad things wrong with you are no longer hurting your health points. And it also makes sense that most people don't want a dirty stranger, most likely covered in blood, sleeping in their bed. We don't think you should lose karma for it, but we get that it's a touchy issue.

But the bed that you awaken in at the beginning of the game should be your bed. Why does the doctor guy who wakes you up to act like such a jerk when it comes to this subject? Aren't doctors supposed to follow some oath and help people out especially if they are sleepy and need some rest?

12 Thug Bugs

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Certain games like to betray you with their spawn rate algorithms that often overload you with enemies when you don't deserve them. There are some games that just wait until you are at your most vulnerable when you haven't saved in a while that just troll the heck out of you. The game wizard just waits and waits until you don't deserve to get chumped off and then, in fact, chumps you off like never ever before.

In Fallout, this happens way more often than it should.

And it's not always with random bandits and stuff, it's with Deathclaws and giant rats and these mega dragonfly things that swarm you like you're covered in honey. Now V.A.T.S. offers some advantage in situations like this, but you can't be overly reliant on it. Because you never know how many of these savage snakes are coming to eat you.

11 Ashes To Ashes

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We're not complaining about the whole idea of some valuables being intact after we turn an enemy into a pile of ash. It's not like we're begging for reality here. We want guns and we want apples and stuff to eat and we don't care if we burned someone alive to get it. We want to be able to shamelessly dig through the ashes of our enemies and find all the cool stuff they cared about in their living moments.

This is just another one of those scenarios in the game where we don't really ask questions or demand a change in the game's code. Because half of the time, when we reduce people to ashes, we're doing it because we want the loot they have. So if every time we used a laser weapon we lost all our stuff, we'd have to go back to ballistic weapons and nobody plays games about the future to use regular guns. Let's get serious, folks.

10 We Wish This Was Reality

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For all of the people out there who enjoy food, and often eat too much of it on account of them enjoying it so much, we feel your pain. And we're talking about that emotional pain about not being able to live as long due to heart disease and obesity. Not talking about that pain in your midsection that starts out as being overly full and then turns into a raucous trip to the toilet area of your house.

But in certain games where food acts as a healing item, you tend to hold on to all the edibles you can find.

When you run out of health packs and stuff as well as being overweight, you can shove all that hoarded food into your mouth hole and actually lessen the weight of your character. If only that was the way the real world worked so many people would be happier.

9 Deathclaws Have Hearts Too

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Everyone gets all up in arms about how overpowered Deathclaws are, but all you need to do is shoot them in the face. Plus what's the big worry about when you're playing a game that saves every twenty seconds? You can just perish and go to another place, it's not even that difficult. Deathclaws don't really randomly spawn anywhere, they often have their designated areas or act as minibosses.

Sometimes though, Deathclaws just show up in spots where they absolutely shouldn't. In these scenarios, you really have to be resourceful and pull out all the stops to stay alive. We've read that all a Deathclaw really wants is love, so if you offer yourself to them without any hesitation in your heart, perhaps the encounter will end up being a rendezvous rather than you getting butchered.

8 The Theory Of Currency

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The idea of currency as a concept has never made sense to a lot of people. But when you play Fallout the lack of understanding hits an all-time high. Why on Earth would a bottle cap to a soda be worth anything at all? it doesn't make any sense and is just one of those things that you ignore because it's such a good game. We understand gold coins and food as currency, but bottle caps will never make any logical sense. Maybe that's the point.

But this brings up the question of why paper money in our world means so much to us all. Many people have lost their lives simply over the idea of paper money being taken from them or they take it from someone else. It's just paper, it literally has no value. The easiest way to judge if a currency is useful objectively is to see if aliens would have any use for it. Now gold and silver and stuff like that can be useful, but paper money ends up being as valuable as say bottle caps.

7 Flanders Plays Fallout

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The coolest thing about Fallout is the V.A.T.S. system. It's what sets it apart from other FPS games as well as other survival type games. You get to stop time and pick which part of the enemy you want to shoot, and if you're powerful enough,  you get to watch in slow motion that body part gets blown to smithereens. It can warm the heart of even your most stingy video game enthusiast.

The coolest thing about this meme is that Flanders is involved. We never know that Flanders had the time to play a game and stuff like that. What with all his loving of God and worshipping his deceased wife. Flanders doesn't look like the type of guy to get any 1 hits anyway so we can just assume he's a betraying liar who lives next to the Simpsons.

6 Welcome To Fallout Shelter

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The Fallout Shelter game is pretty cool if you are the type of person who can't wait for the next real Fallout game to be released. But the craziness of this little mobile game is not much short of the real games on Xbox and PC. The shelter gets attacked and people perish under the great weight of the apocalypse. But it's no one's fault except yours, the person who shoves their dirty finger into the little people's faces.

But to get more things and build a bigger shelter, you need to attract and find more people to do the work.

Sometimes you get lucky and a smart person shows up randomly and they end up knowing how to work on a nuclear generator. Even if you just met them and chances are they are a psychotic maniac, you still put them to work because that's how a shelter survives.