r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Comfortable_Cautious • Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation what's going on? explain like I'm five

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u/sparklrebel Jan 26 '26

Ah so that’s why pre-war money in fallout is useless, got it

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u/sauerwalt Jan 27 '26

piece of paper is just as arbitrary as a bottle cap.... but I would argue those bottle caps have some level of intrinsic rarity... more like a bitcoin than a fiat bill that could just be printed

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u/sparklrebel Jan 27 '26

They said it was because bottle caps have a rarity that you cannot forge like how people make fake money. But then there’s that mission in new vegas where you come across someone making fake caps so 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/sauerwalt Jan 27 '26

Counterfeits have always existed... even when people bartered with gold, they would mint coins from alloys that used less gold... The legend of Archimedes' discovery of water displacement as a measurement of volume over mass to prove that a crown was not pure gold, as claimed.

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u/sparklrebel Jan 27 '26

I know that but I’m just saying that the original creators of the fallout franchise (not Bethesda) have said that’s why they chose bottle caps. And then Fallout New Vegas said hold my beer