Fallout 4 is an incredible game and it certainly deserves to be one of the most popular one’s out there. While the Fallout series in general has always been fairly dark, it’s these eerie stories that always keeps the player coming back for more. This series has always been extremely interactive, and Fallout 4 really outdid itself with all the options to customize both characters and bases. Truly, the expansive world they built was completely worth it. Even if you haven’t played the game, you would do well to invest in it and at least try it out.

Fallout 4 takes place after a nuclear war has ravaged the Earth, leaving it a total and utter wasteland. You, as the Sole Survivor, have only made it this far because you’ve been frozen in sleep for, let’s just say, a very long time. When you wake up, the world you knew is no more. Freaky as this seems, there are somethings that Fallout 4 may have missed in terms of logic. We couldn’t help ourselves, so we made a list of 25 memes that really embody our feelings about some of the thought processes that went into this game. Trust us, you’ll laugh when you see it.

25 Let’s Just Carry It Around With Us!

Fallout 4 is supposed to be about a post-apocalyptic world where life is constantly being threatened by the radiation. But, then we decide it’s time to carry all this radioactive stuff anyways? What’s the deal here? We may as well be rolling around in toxic waste, because if we can’t even walk near these barrels without the threat of death, there is literally no way we can survive carrying these materials. That’s the logic behind this, right? Apparently since you survive, but seriously though someone didn’t think this all the way through.

Why shouldn't we just carry all this nuclear stuff?

In game, you find an assortment of things that could potentially carry deadly effects. The nuclear material  meme is talking about anything from miniature bombs to monster flesh that’s been radioactive for god knows how long. But, as soon as we even get close to one of the barrels of toxic waste, or literally anything that glows green, your Geiger Counter starts ticking like a clock counting down to your doom. It’s insane, but we guess it is what it is. We’re sure that you’re going to need all that radioactive junk at some point. If you’re a normal gamer, you probably stash as much as you can get thinking it’ll be useful down the road.

24 This Is How It Works In The Real World Right?

Real-world logic would dictate that if we throw a knife at anything that isn’t made out of cork or fabric, it’ll just bounce off. Even if it is made out of something you could logically stab, you have to still be good at throwing knives. Apparently, your avatar is so good that they can make a knife stick to a car. Just look at that landing! The precision! It’s like he threw it while levitating! A real ten out of ten on this one folks.

This is actually from one of the previous games, but the same rule seems to apply in Fallout 4. Usually, these things are glitches and tend to be just a little ridiculous. That being said, it’s important to remember that this game is a huge open-world experience so it’s almost impossible for things like this not to happen. With every video game, there’s usually a couple of errors that are unavoidable. Things, much like this knife, tend to be a reoccurring thing that happens in Fallout, but we won’t hold that over the developer’s heads. That being said, it’s still very funny to look at when it happens.

23 We Probably Should Have Picked The Other Area…

The settlements of Fallout 4 are perhaps the weirdest thing you can experience while playing the game. Unfortunately, it always feels like you’re not making the best choices. Just look at how secure that first location would have been! You could protect yourself from so many things. Yet, we pick this one shabby house to start all over in. No wonder humanity can never win in post-apocalyptic settings. If we all had the same mindset the creators of Fallout 4 did when it came to settlements, we would never survive.

Nope! Not that place! 

That being said, there are a lot of settlements you can visit and help build in Fallout 4, so really this isn’t the worst we’ve seen. The settlements can be some of the trickiest aspects of the game considering some of the glitches and odd mechanics that tend to follow it; but it is still a part of the game that we love. While this meme is pointing out an obvious flaw with this particular one, it doesn’t mean that it’s the absolute worst or that it can’t be fixed up a little bit. The only thing we wish wasn’t a thing is that some settlements have aspects you can’t change.

22 One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

The NPCs in game are always really strange. Their behavior makes absolutely no sense because, realistically, no one in the real world would ever have these odd reactions. Sure, the world is a mess and it’s a frightening time, but surely we’ve kept enough sense to know that there’s a difference between some small-time stealing and literally throwing out the window. Right? Perhaps not. At the very least, the NPCs and their bizarre sense of priorities adds a little wacky charm to the game. Normal people can be boring after all and these characters keep the gameplay somewhat interesting.

You can make Diamond City look like a mess by throwing whatever you want. Have no fear, the NPCs aren’t going to do a darn thing about it. If you could throw an entire car, they probably wouldn’t even blink. But stealing a safety pin? Absurd and disrespectful to their home. Why the game is like this, we really don’t know. The reactions aren’t just odd, but aren’t even in the realm of realistic. Just be a dear and try to be gentle with that window next time you go looting in someone’s house?

21 Post-Apocalyptic Capitalism

We can make fun of this kind of logic all day long, but at the end of the day this is perhaps the only useful part of the game we can really approve of. Is it a little messed up? Yes. Would this ever happen in real life? No. It’s completely absurd that you could steal someone’s things and make a profit from those very same people. But none the less, we can at least earn a bit and get ahead by doing this little method. Those NPCs want their stuff back after all, right?

Let's just sell their stuff back to them, genius! 

One of our favorite things to steal is the Alien Blaster. You can literally loot this off the dead corpse of an alien who’s spaceship crashed to Earth, right outside Boston. For those of you who haven’t played Fallout 4, yes this is completely real. Stealing is totally fine if you’re stealing from a dead person, or an alien. Logically, it’s not really cool to take stuff. Especially when it comes to random extraterrestrials whose weaponry we might not be familiar with. That just sounds like we’re begging for trouble. But hey, it’s the post-apocalyptic world and I can turn raiders into goo so who cares?

20 I Can’t See Me

Since when is John Cena a Fallout 4 character? Since now. In Fallout 4, you can create your character to look like literally anyway you want. When we say any way, we really do mean any way. The customization details are so good that you could create any celebrity or even crazy cartoon characters who’s facial proportions would never make sense in the real world. Imagine Nigel Thornberry running through the Wasteland. Sounds ridiculous, sure, but it doesn’t mean that it’s impossible.

Alongside facial choices, you can also choose an assortment of names to tickle your fancy. This may not seem like a big detail when it comes to video games. Most will let you name your character whatever you want. The difference with Fallout 4 is that, if Codsworth recognizes the name, he’ll actually say it out loud. Feel free to be named anything from Buffy to Holmes, but be careful of young ears. There are a few names he can say that are really inappropriate and we’re not sure why he’s able to say them in the first place. Our question to the creator of this handsome fellow is, how will you be able to see him? Will enemies be able to tell he’s even there?

19 Wasteland Necessities

Screws, adhesive and springs, there are some things you just can’t pass up in game. To upgrade or modify your weapons, you’re going to need these three items to do literally anything. For Fallout 4 players, if you can find any kind item that’ll have these components, you’ll be pretty solid and ready for any kind of tomfoolery that’ll be going on in the Wastelands. A fan, typewriter, and antique globe would have all of these things in it, but that’s not exactly why this meme is so funny.

This is what a gold mine looks like to Fallout 4 players. 

The Fat Man is a gun that can launch nuclear bombs, it’s perhaps one of the most powerful weapons in Fallout 4 and definitely something you’d be lucky enough to get your hands on. Obviously in the picture, we’re looking at the weapon. A real Fallout 4 player would be more excited about what’s behind it so they can modify whatever they’ve got on them. Surely, this sounds ridiculous, but once you play the game you’ll totally get it. That being said, don’t ever pass up the Fat Man if you see it. That’s a literal game changer and the mess you can make with it is out of this world.

18 Don’t Step In To A Nuclear Winter Without It

The Glowing Sea is an area of extremely high radiation and one of those areas that you really don’t want to find yourself in without rad-away. Really dude, you should have worn your Power Armor to help with this issue. First time players might not know, so we can’t totally blame you. Definitely make sure that you gear up when you’re heading out that way, the Glowing Sea is one of those places you’re going to die in right away if you don’t have the right stuff. No amount of gears or screws can fix that kind of mistake!

The Glowing Sea is an area of the Commonwealth where a nuclear bomb made contact during the apocalypse. Now that the issue is over, the lasting effects are clearly visual. You can actually see, much like in the meme, the green and yellow radiation that’s coming off the land. It’s called the Glowing Sea because you’re basically swimming in toxic radiation that will eventually kill you if you stay in there for too long without Power Armor or some rad-away. Don’t be like Spongebob and grab all the right stuff the first time so you can explore a land of literal devastation.

17 Just Move Them Somewhere Else

This meme could be interpreted a few ways. One way is that only a few specific people got into vaults so that they could survive the original nuclear attack. While not everyone did, at the time it seemed like the best chance for survival. Some players feel like only those who were well off or had connections got security during the initial attack while others feel there’s a mix of all social classes that were stuck in the Wasteland. If that’s true, then those who didn’t have a good social standing were the ones who suffered the most.

Let's just push them somewhere else! 

The other way to interpret this meme is where you chose to place your settlement. Now that we live in the Wasteland, there’s not really a paper currency. But hey, we have bottlecaps! There are some who have better weapons and resources, so you could say that these are the “rich” people. If you wanted to move people around, you could take those you find valuable for their weapons and place them in a better area while those who don’t have as many resources can stay in a worse part. Either way, this meme is a little bit of dark humor in a list about a post-apocalyptic game, so that’s saying something.

16 Why Are They There?

This is where we draw the line people. There are not scorpions in Boston. How did these guys even get up there? It’s way too cold for these little land lobsters to just be walking around in nuclear waste! Even though they’re literally the stuff of nightmares, it makes no sense for them to be that far up north. Usually, you find these little critters in more desert areas. Not a place where a frigid tundra can be the reality of winter.

A lot of players have this opinion about Radscorpions, seeing as scorpions in our world really go up as far as places like Virginia. Some users feel that this could be a relevant creature if, by this point in time, there’d been a seasonal shift that allowed for scorpions to live further north. Not to mention, these bad boys are iconic in all of the Fallout games, so it might just be more about keeping iconic mobs to the gameplay. Besides, out of all the horrific things we see in Fallout 4 and the literal monsters that roam the Wasteland, are we really going to get caught up over a few scorpions? Maybe they’re not all that ridiculous after all.

15 Stay Hydrated!

We’re not even sure where we’re supposed to start with this one. It’s just so random and absurd in terms of gameplay. Often times, video games will give you an option for health refuels that don’t cost anything on your part. Or do their job regardless of what injured you. But really? Drinking water after nearly drowning? That seems like a little bit of a stretch. Still, with all the radiation and other toxic stuff that could be in the water, depending on where you were drowning, maybe it’s not too out there in terms of realism.

Staying hydrated is super important kids.

As you might imagine, there isn’t a lot of sustainable water in the Wasteland. It’s sort of called the Wasteland for a reason, you know? So when you do decide to go for a dip, you’re going to need either high endurance or be prepared to take some serious damage. Water, clean water that is, can be one way to help you gain back your health should you take any damage. One way to avoid drowning altogether, and to avoid this bizarre sense of logic, is to have either the Aquaboy or Aquagirl perk. This will make it so you can’t drown and you also don’t have to deal with the radiation poisoning that can sometimes come with it.

14 That Looks Flashy!

Fallout 4, and the other Fallout games in general, aren’t typically happy subjects. Despite being really fun, these games do revolve around really dark themes and, apparently, so do their memes. This one is no exception. If you like a character’s weapon, there is always one way that you can get it off their person without them really caring. I think you know what we mean. Of course, if they’re an important NPC that’s relevant to the overall story, it’s a little harder to “get rid of them”. By hard, we mean impossible.

If a character is locked, it means you can’t defeat them. Injuring them may cause them to just crawl around on the floor for a little while, but not much else will happen. It’s really a shame if they have a nice flashy weapon that you’d like to add to your own personal collection. Much like with our stealing meme, this goes on the list of really odd things we have to do to obtain stuff in the game. Sure, this one is a little more realistic since we’re living in a post-apocalyptic world, but seriously? Can’t we do something else to get what we want that isn’t totally impossible? Fallout logic, everyone.

13 This Guy Is Bad News…

The Vault-Tec should be on his way any minute! If the world decides it’s time to give up and press all the big red buttons, we’ll all be here waiting for this guy to whisk us away to the vaults where we can, hopefully, survive the nuclear attacks. Some of us are hoping it never gets to this level, while others are just waiting to plunge into a world of radiation and bottlecaps. One man’s nightmare is another man’s dream we guess. For those who haven’t played, the Vault-Tec is the man who comes to your door and asks you if you’d like to be placed in one of the vaults.

If this guy knocks on your door, you know it's bad news. 

However, going into the vaults isn’t the flashiest kind of life. While the player survives, there are many who don’t. Once you’re there, you’re put into a frozen sleep, which you were tricked into because they say the chambers are for decontamination. A lot of really horrific things happen that you sometimes wake up for, but since we’re good guys, we won’t spoil too much about what happens. Let’s just say you go in with great intentions for survival and come out with so much less. It’s never fun to wake up and realize the world you knew is completely gone.

12 Only A Few Minutes…

Have you ever been given a baby and been told they’d be back in five minutes? We’ve all been there, whether we were holding a relative or friend’s kid, maybe even our very own. In Fallout 4, this has a totally different meaning. When you’re asked to go into the vaults, depending on which character you play, your significant other will be in charge of the baby. In this instance, it looks like the player was female and she gave her husband the baby. Much like the meme shows, a lot of time seems to have gone by; what a lovely beard that baby has grown since then.

Of course, once you’ve been put into the vaults, you’re put into a frozen sleep and you won’t be waking up for a long, long time. Imagine having to share a vault, frozen with a baby. It would be a complete nightmare, but at least everyone is asleep. We can’t imagine the dad was too happy for a number of reasons when he woke up. For those who’ve played the game, or at least the very beginning, you know exactly what we’re talking about. When your significant other wakes up a couple hundred years in the future, it’s not exactly a joyous good morning.

11 Before And After; This Is How That Works, Right?

Like we’ve said before, the Fallout games really aren’t cheery. More so, Fallout 4 really takes the cake than its predecessors in being really dark storyline wise. When you first decide you’re going to play this game, you probably looked like the before picture. So bright, so full of life and hope for the future. But, you’re really going to have to toughen up if you want to play this game because it is not for the faint of heart. The themes and storyline itself is already pretty down right horrific, but it’s nothing your average gamer can’t handle after a little while.

We're certainly tougher after playing this game. 

While the thought is scary, the game is really fun so we’re not here to discourage anyone from at least trying it out. For some, it might not be their cup of tea, but the writing in this is enough to get anyone interested. It isn’t just about waking up to the world being thrown into a post-apocalyptic setting or  trying to survive in this new terrain. Rather, there’s a lot to do with human resilience and trying to find your long-lost family amidst a devastated world. Truly, you’re going to feel awesome once you’ve played through this game.

10 We Have A Settlement!

Of course, this would be some kind of odd logic. Out of all the cool things Fallout 4 has to offer, the settlement would be Preston’s biggest source of pride in the long run. As silly as it seems, considering how much an army or Liberty Prime could do in terms of damage, Preston’s thought process might not be as crazy as some of the other logic on this list. We have to consider Preston’s background as a senior officer of the Minutemen and how his people were treated during a time of hardship.

The Minutemen had a job and duty to protect settlements. According to the history in Fallout 4, one of the biggest issues with settlements was that people wanted to disband and take care of their own self interests rather than helping one another. Obviously, this doesn’t do anyone any good in the long run because eventually we all need help or we don’t survive in this setting. Preston takes a lot of pride in being able to take care of the remaining five people he’s taken under his wing from Quincy. After all they’ve been through and the constant attacks, it’s no wonder a settlement is so important for him.

9 We Like Playing Games In Games

Talk about putting political messages in the media, Red Menace is a pretty obvious title for this post-war game! For those who didn't play Fallout 4, you might not know some of the underlying themes that this game has strung throughout the story. Essentially, this game is an alternate universe where the Cold War never ended and we also never really went into the digital age. Because of this, we expanded heavily on the advancement of military weaponry. So while the game takes place in the 2050s era, it’s sort of replicating our world’s 50’s era.

Playing a video game inside a video game is sheer perfection.

China is on the side that bombs this version of the United States, but before that happens there’s still a lot of propaganda that’s splattered all over the country. The Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV is a really good example of what the technology is like in in the Fallout world of  verses what we have  in our current digital age. On your Pip-Boy, Red Menace is a game that you can opt to play. Essentially, you get a bonus game within the overall video game; fun concept, right? There are a couple of video games outside of Fallout that do this, but really this isn’t the worst logic when it comes to being in a post-apocalypse world. What else are you going to do on your downtime?

8 I’ll Be Over Here If You Need Me!

Has anyone else noticed that Preston, who is a senior officer of the Minutemen and is a completely capable person, sends us out to do his dirty work? We’re so confused on how his logic works. Surely this guy could spend just a little bit of time out of his “busy” schedule to help you save the settlements and help occupy them, right? The people that wrote Preston made him have such a cool background story, so it’s kind of a shame we can’t have him tag along on missions; it just makes him look a little lazy if we’re being honest.

Preston was one of the Commonwealth’s Minutemen, a group of people who are basically a civilian made militia. Because the Commonwealth is so dangerous, your average Joe tends to be a little on the short end of the stick. It is, again, a world that just managed to survive a nuclear attack. From the monsters roaming the land to other humans, there’s a lot of things out there that can kill you if you’re not careful. Preston became one of them at the age of 17 in hopes of protecting people. Not so sure he can do that if he’s chilling at Sanctuary Hills while we’re out kicking butt.

7 Definitely Not Because We Were Scared

Legendary enemies can be downright horrifying. No one really wants to fight these things, but we also kind of want to just for the glory. That being said, the faster you kill it, the less likely it’s going to be to undergo a mutation and come back at you like crazy. We certainly didn’t make quick work of it because we were scared!

When a baddie mutates, you're in for some pain. 

Needless to say, the creatures and enemies of Fallout 4 are pretty horrific. How can they not be after living in a world that’s literally filled with toxic radiation? But, the Legendary Creatures are particularly freaky because they aren’t your normal nightmare. In game, you can go hunt the baddies for a little something special. However, most guides will warn you to be careful in case they mutate during the battle. Once they do, there’s a variety of things that can happen. Amongst them is gaining back the health you were so desperately trying to chip away at or even instantly ending everything. That’s right, if that thing mutates, it could just be your immediate doom and there is nothing you can really do about it. So you see, you probably should be at least a little worried about these things mutating for your own benefit. If they don’t, then congratulations! You probably feel like a god!

6 How Do We Do That Thing Again?

Some people can pick up a game and instantly know how to play it, it can’t be that hard after all, right? But, not all of us had that easy of a time with trying to build our settlements in Fallout 4. Settlements are supposed to be one of the many things that makes the new game so much fun, but it’s not always easy to figure out how we’re supposed to make one in the first place. Maybe we really are like Patrick, because we certainly felt like it trying to put two and two together here.

There are a lot of games that let you design your own bases or homes. Fallout 4 is no exception to that rule and really seemed to want to expand how players were able to customize everything from their character’s looks and names to where those characters decided to settle down. Surely, we didn’t expect that building a home in a post-apocalyptic world was going to be that simple, but surely it wasn’t supposed to be this complex for a video game right? Regardless, there are those who get it and those who don’t. Maybe we, including the maker of this meme, just weren’t that fortunate.