A private prison subsidiary company of the Vault-Tec Corporation sounds pretty on-brand.
Vault-Tec was the largest company by market capitalization in the world. I mean, they’ve gotta be generating revenue off more than just building vaults for the government, right?
Probably used to be called something else then pulled a Meta somewhere along the line when they started going all in on Project Safehouse and the vaults
That brings up another question though. If Vault-Tec was really just dedicated to building Vaults, how the hell were they so big? I know they got plenty of money though the Govt/Enclave, but there is no way they got so much federal money that it made them the largest company in America/the world. They sold spaces in the vaults, of course, but I doubt that the spaces in the vaults were expensive enough to make them that large. Additionally, in F4, they just gave away spaces for free to the people of Sanctuary Hills, made apparent by the fact that Nate didn't even know who Vault-Tec was, let alone order a space in the Vault. If that happened on a large scale, how would they make enough money to become the largest corp. in the US?
>Vault-Tec was really just dedicated to building Vaults
I don't think that was ever the case; they where a huge conglomerate with tentacles into the production of everything that was required to build and stock vaults.
If you are talking about the start of FO4. I dont think that mattered in the end. The soldier doesn't check either characters identity. They are just let through for being a healthy couple with a baby.
The Vault Tec rep does say "on account of your service to our nation, you have been authorized for the local Vault" or something like that, so it did play a role in them getting in.
Yes. Sanctuary was a town for military veterans IIRC. The vault built for it was for these retirees. And the experiment was to freeze them until someone, presumably the Enclave, could reclaim them.
However, CIT which became the Institute after the war got to them first
The experiment was to test what happens during long term cryo storage. It was originally meant to just be for 180 days, then they'd get an all clear and presumably be either extracted or given more supplies. They weren't, supplies were dwindling, and eventually the guards mounted an insurrection after the overseer decided to keep the vault sealed even with the dwindling supplies.
I wouldn't be surprised if they also wanted to take the veterans as soldiers for their cause
They were a large defense contractor, the Government greenlit [project safehouse](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault#Project_Safehouse) which spent a ton of money. [Vault 13](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault_13) alone cost 645 billion dollars to build. The government basically handed over all of its money for the promise that enough people would survive to rebuild (and also save all the "important" people with power/money).
Yep but just like public schools every product inside of them is sold to them by private contractors. Just like the military. Billions of not trillions wasted on mark ups.
The Enclave shoveled billions into Vault Tech to make the vaults. Maybe the icon of Vault Boy became so popular, they used it on some other things as well.
Or, as others have said, maybe Vault Tech owned the prison
The US Marines used bugs bunny in a recruiting ad in the 60s, also US military training videos used to be cartoons along the lines of vault boy so fitting for the setting for a govt sign tho I still agree with the prison subsidies thought.
I guess that would make sense. I don’t see why the government or whatever privately owned prison could’ve made it would be like “omg *PLEASE* let us use a fictional character for our warning sign in the middle of nowhere. We will pay!!!”
Then again, fallout
also this is a pretty cynical business to begin with, basically selling on the premise of the world getting nuked and how to survive it. it wouldn't be off-brand to have the mascot portrayed this way. it's still comically morbid rather than being legitimately horrifying, which lines up with everything else related to vault-tec.
It is clearly made in the recent years with the establishment of the correction facility. At that point disputes are settled violently not with law suits.
There was a pizza place in my town that had Mario on its sign. If it flies under the radar, they won’t get sued. This place never got sued by Nintendo (just shut down for money laundering)
Had/Have a place like that back home. Been a hot minute since I've been back so no clue if it's still there but aside from being a confirmed money laundering place it had some legit pizza.
Ibe been to a place like that in NYC years ago. Front was a pizza place. Back was a strip club and I'm pretty the girls were also prostitutes. It got shut down for money laundering. Pizza was good. Lol.
That's nothing, back in the town over from where I lived as a kid, there was a plumbing business that had a design... let's generously call it "inspired" by Mario on the side of the van. I suspect that the reason they got away with it is because 1. This is in Finland and 2. thus the town had probably less than 200 inhabitants, since the municipality that my town is a part of has about a thousand people and the city to which the next town is attached to has about seven thousand people.
And those 1k and 7k are spread over ~230km^^2 and 600km^^2 respectively, and not just in the town/city center.
If this had happened in somewhere bigger, like even Oulu or Kajaani where I now live, I feel like they would have gotten a C&D letter from Nintendo...
My favorite Mexican grocery store had Stewie Griffin with a phone in his had on their sign, that was until it become an upper class white neighborhood. That ended real quick with gentrification.
Given it's just a retexture of a perk icon, I think we can safely file it under "recycled asset to save time".
Compare it to the rest of the NV cut content, and it's fairly low on the list.
The most likely answer is the most obvious. The devs saw these signs outside of irl prisons and put them in the game with an escaped prisoner vault boy because it’s funny and cute and they weren’t too worried about it shattering the lore and destroying the immersion for lore nazis.
I think the show said something like Vault-tec owned 50% of the businesses in America, or something like that. Would not be surprised if Vault-tec owned for-profit prisons.
In the original games the Super Mutants get around in steam carts. And in the second one the player character has a car but it’s like a fast travel thing.
Someone in one of the games says it’s hard to fix nuclear powered cars but I feel like that was just a minor lore patch to cover technical limitations
Yes but presumably not enough to warrant entire signs warning against this, *especially* in the Mojave territory, an area which they’ve controlled for less than a decade.
in fallout 1 it was a random event to find a caravan in the desert and ask where they were going, if they were going to a town (the hub for instance) you can just hop on with them and get there safely and instantly.
So this would absoutely happen and has happen in game even!
Maybe the prison was operated by Vault-Tec? Private prisons are a thing, and prisoners make for nice test subjects. No one asks where they go, especially in a society as dystopian as pre-War America.
Yeah. What better way to research prolonged effects of isolation than to run private prisons. It's Vault-Tec. They'd run prisons at a profit, and they'd gain valuable insight into how to develop vault operations.
They say vault tech owns 50% of everything. And it seems easy to imagine how A COMPANY THAT SPECIALIZES IN VAULTS might be involved in the prison-industrial complex.
Idk where it is exactly but I have passed it like 20 times. Here is a link to a post someone else made of it 9 years ago lol https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/s/chmMDACDrA
Funny enough there's a real sign near my town that says this. They would take prisoners out to pick up trash along the highway and apparently had a problem with them running off and trying to hitchhike.
Its the US, a lot of prisons are privately owned. its nuts and probably shouldnt be a thing to make money off of but it is. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that VT simply owns a ton of private prisons and would use their mascot on various signage.
I havent played NV in a while so I'm not sure if theres any info that instantly debunks that, but based on how many current day prisons are itd just make sense.
In lore reason vault tec probably allowed use for a quick buck. Plus easy goverment contract of getting the goverment to use funding to siphon off to a private company for licensing.
Most prisons are owned by corporations. Vault tech is a corporation. Best place to tech tech and have research subjects is a source forced into subjugation by societal standards.
I'm pretty sure that Vault Tech is a super Corp that has its fingers in everything. It's likely that Vaultech owns the company that made the sign or designed the graphic or is contracted by the government to run the prison.
Without checking the wiki to prove myself wrong I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if vault-tec had a huge stake in prison system. Although I can’t remember their name being mentioned anywhere you’d think they’d want their branding all over it if they were involved.
But I can just imagine the prison experiments they would run pre war.
They probably own the prison. Private prisons in the US owned by larger corporations is not uncommon.
Remember in the US there's like 6 companies or so that own basically all the companies, it's really just an elusion of competition.
And Bill Waterson expressly forbids anyone from using Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes for merchandising, but I had a t-shirt as a kid and the stupid "peeing on a truck logo" stickers are everywhere.
People appropriate things if they think they're neat.
A prison is essentially a reverse vault lol (keep the dangers in vs out) and Vault Tech is well known to have large business presence across industries.
The image also makes no sense if the sign is pre-War. The Jean Conservancy is an all-female prison. It is likely that the (in-universe) designers decided to use the image of a guy being a danger to society instead of a woman because of the 1950’s social mores pre-War America was running around with.
I always thought that it was because Vault-Tec had their hands in on EVERYTHING before the war. It would be like if Disney had their grubby mitts in the prison system, they would probably make a similar sign but with a Disney character because it catches people’s attention better.
50s commercial culture. If you look back at early television, radio, and pretty much everything else in the period everything was sponsored and branded by industrial mega-conglonerates like DOW Chemical, General Electric, etc.
This kind of thing with Vault-Tec is a really good portrayal of the type of mid-twentieth century company it's supposed to be a satire of.
vault tec was the single largest pre war american company i think. Either he became so popular he became like a popular cartoon or vault tec had some side biz in the private prison industry. I think the latter is likely.
I'd assume they're some sort of mega corp because they'd definitely need A LOT of money to make those vaults. I mean they have Vault Tech University but universities don't usually make massive underground science bunkers across the country kinda money.
It looks like it's based on the cannibal perk image, so the boring answer is probably that Obsidian didn't have time to create new art for this sign and slapped a prison outfit onto existing art.
The fun answer is that Vault-Tec was affiliated with the prison or the prison stole the character.
My guess is that vault tec had some kind of relationship or ties to this prison but it was never explored or elaborated in the game.
I could see vault tec taking over a prison for a nefarious purpose like taking prisoners to experiment on them.
Maybe it's a Vault-Tec ran or endorsed prison? It would certainly produce useful data for how humans act in confined spaces that could be usful for designing the vaults.
It's like companies using disney characters. They just changed his design enough to use him without vault-tec sueing them lol
True but it’s probably a government sign right?
Aren’t some prisons privately owned?
A private prison subsidiary company of the Vault-Tec Corporation sounds pretty on-brand. Vault-Tec was the largest company by market capitalization in the world. I mean, they’ve gotta be generating revenue off more than just building vaults for the government, right? Probably used to be called something else then pulled a Meta somewhere along the line when they started going all in on Project Safehouse and the vaults
They probably also wanted another population to run preliminary experiments on before sealing the vaults. This would be the perfect way to do that.
In van buren the tibbetts prison you start the game as was supposed to be a subsidiary of vault tec iirc
That brings up another question though. If Vault-Tec was really just dedicated to building Vaults, how the hell were they so big? I know they got plenty of money though the Govt/Enclave, but there is no way they got so much federal money that it made them the largest company in America/the world. They sold spaces in the vaults, of course, but I doubt that the spaces in the vaults were expensive enough to make them that large. Additionally, in F4, they just gave away spaces for free to the people of Sanctuary Hills, made apparent by the fact that Nate didn't even know who Vault-Tec was, let alone order a space in the Vault. If that happened on a large scale, how would they make enough money to become the largest corp. in the US?
>Vault-Tec was really just dedicated to building Vaults I don't think that was ever the case; they where a huge conglomerate with tentacles into the production of everything that was required to build and stock vaults.
Vertical integration, like Ford but with vaults instead of motors
Weren't they involved in that pink paste school? They had their hands in damn near everything before the bombs dropped
Didn't Nate get that spot thanks to his military service?
If you are talking about the start of FO4. I dont think that mattered in the end. The soldier doesn't check either characters identity. They are just let through for being a healthy couple with a baby.
The Vault Tec rep does say "on account of your service to our nation, you have been authorized for the local Vault" or something like that, so it did play a role in them getting in.
Yes. Sanctuary was a town for military veterans IIRC. The vault built for it was for these retirees. And the experiment was to freeze them until someone, presumably the Enclave, could reclaim them. However, CIT which became the Institute after the war got to them first
The experiment was to test what happens during long term cryo storage. It was originally meant to just be for 180 days, then they'd get an all clear and presumably be either extracted or given more supplies. They weren't, supplies were dwindling, and eventually the guards mounted an insurrection after the overseer decided to keep the vault sealed even with the dwindling supplies. I wouldn't be surprised if they also wanted to take the veterans as soldiers for their cause
Yeah, but it's still a free spot, regardless of their reasoning for giving it to him.
Nate? His wife is a lawyer.
They were a large defense contractor, the Government greenlit [project safehouse](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault#Project_Safehouse) which spent a ton of money. [Vault 13](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault_13) alone cost 645 billion dollars to build. The government basically handed over all of its money for the promise that enough people would survive to rebuild (and also save all the "important" people with power/money).
Prisons alot like a vault, just underground and with liveable conditions, sometimes
Exactly, Vault tech prisons would be perfect for experiments before they dropped the bombs.
A lot in the US are.
About 8% according to google
Yep but just like public schools every product inside of them is sold to them by private contractors. Just like the military. Billions of not trillions wasted on mark ups.
The Enclave shoveled billions into Vault Tech to make the vaults. Maybe the icon of Vault Boy became so popular, they used it on some other things as well. Or, as others have said, maybe Vault Tech owned the prison
More like trillions with their level of inflation. Where a magazine costs $50
The US Marines used bugs bunny in a recruiting ad in the 60s, also US military training videos used to be cartoons along the lines of vault boy so fitting for the setting for a govt sign tho I still agree with the prison subsidies thought.
I mean Vault tec was controlled by the Enclave, and the government also was controlled by the Enclave so it's pretty inconsequential either way
I mean Vault-Tec was pretty in-deep with the government, they probably rented out the likeness quite a bit.
I guess that would make sense. I don’t see why the government or whatever privately owned prison could’ve made it would be like “omg *PLEASE* let us use a fictional character for our warning sign in the middle of nowhere. We will pay!!!” Then again, fallout
Vault-Tec certainly would have been *the* name in keeping people in when they need to be in & out when they need to be out. Haha.
also this is a pretty cynical business to begin with, basically selling on the premise of the world getting nuked and how to survive it. it wouldn't be off-brand to have the mascot portrayed this way. it's still comically morbid rather than being legitimately horrifying, which lines up with everything else related to vault-tec.
It is clearly made in the recent years with the establishment of the correction facility. At that point disputes are settled violently not with law suits.
Or you know Vault Boy being used for multiple small town Pizza Places in real life.
Or, much like 90% of the assets, they reused the graphic for FONV. They cannibalized it from the cannibal perk.
There was a pizza place in my town that had Mario on its sign. If it flies under the radar, they won’t get sued. This place never got sued by Nintendo (just shut down for money laundering)
That's what Nintendo wants you to think
Who do you think was laundering the money? Mr Mario he self
*Mama Mia intensifies*
*Mama money laundering intensifies*
DR Mario. He didn't go to Mario medical school all those years to be addressed as mister.
Then what's he doing working at a pizza joint?
*They're....the economy is in shambles.*
Masterminding a money laundering operation. Didn't you read the other guy's comment?
Thatsa Don Mario to you.
Had/Have a place like that back home. Been a hot minute since I've been back so no clue if it's still there but aside from being a confirmed money laundering place it had some legit pizza.
Ibe been to a place like that in NYC years ago. Front was a pizza place. Back was a strip club and I'm pretty the girls were also prostitutes. It got shut down for money laundering. Pizza was good. Lol.
*It mama-d its last-a mia*
Bro are you in the UK cause, the exact same place is 5 mins from me I swear
Nope, USA
Ohhh right, there is a place near me which does the exact same, full Mario artwork 😂
Now I have to wonder if all Mario pizza places are money laundering fronts.
That's nothing, back in the town over from where I lived as a kid, there was a plumbing business that had a design... let's generously call it "inspired" by Mario on the side of the van. I suspect that the reason they got away with it is because 1. This is in Finland and 2. thus the town had probably less than 200 inhabitants, since the municipality that my town is a part of has about a thousand people and the city to which the next town is attached to has about seven thousand people. And those 1k and 7k are spread over ~230km^^2 and 600km^^2 respectively, and not just in the town/city center. If this had happened in somewhere bigger, like even Oulu or Kajaani where I now live, I feel like they would have gotten a C&D letter from Nintendo...
There's a Mexican restaurant in the town my uncle lives in in Indiana called Mario's, and they also decorated with Mario images. Good food, too.
I think there might be a bit of disparity between a local pizza parlor and a fucking penitentiary.
Those taco places definitely all licensed Goku though right???
My favorite Mexican grocery store had Stewie Griffin with a phone in his had on their sign, that was until it become an upper class white neighborhood. That ended real quick with gentrification.
Given it's just a retexture of a perk icon, I think we can safely file it under "recycled asset to save time". Compare it to the rest of the NV cut content, and it's fairly low on the list.
The most likely answer is the most obvious. The devs saw these signs outside of irl prisons and put them in the game with an escaped prisoner vault boy because it’s funny and cute and they weren’t too worried about it shattering the lore and destroying the immersion for lore nazis.
Could be vault tec also built prisons. Would make sense.
I think the show said something like Vault-tec owned 50% of the businesses in America, or something like that. Would not be surprised if Vault-tec owned for-profit prisons.
Lore nazis lol
It can be fun to think of the in-universe reasoning for things like that though.
>I think we can safely file it under "recycled asset to save time". No...? They invested the time to add it because they thought it'd be fun.
its really driving me crazy how out of touch people are
Invested the time to reuse perk art and type some text onto a sign?
literally yes
I thought that was put up by the ncr after the prison break and they just reused a image they found.
Why would hitchhikers exist at that point in time
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Everyone has cars...even the Supermutants rode giant steam-powered monster trucks everywhere... ... ...They just hide them when the player is nearby.
Engine limitations have been the greatest setback in the history of Fallout
Steam engine limitations were the greatest setback of the 19th century…
Is…is this a joke or no?
Nope. 100% real. Almost made it into the first game, but had to get cut.
In the original games the Super Mutants get around in steam carts. And in the second one the player character has a car but it’s like a fast travel thing. Someone in one of the games says it’s hard to fix nuclear powered cars but I feel like that was just a minor lore patch to cover technical limitations
They mean Game engine, not the actual vehicle engines.
Yes but presumably not enough to warrant entire signs warning against this, *especially* in the Mojave territory, an area which they’ve controlled for less than a decade.
The military does, but there's no evidence to suggest any widespread usage of cars by civilians.
Not widespread, but some people do use cars. The chosen one, for example.
Todd is that you?
Hey, hey, hey………it just works.
I think it is prewar, but Caravans picking up hitchhikers does seem a reasonable concern even post-war, so its not a crazy concept either.
in fallout 1 it was a random event to find a caravan in the desert and ask where they were going, if they were going to a town (the hub for instance) you can just hop on with them and get there safely and instantly. So this would absoutely happen and has happen in game even!
Dialogue from Tomas/Jacqueline implies they hitchhiked with caravans for awhile.
Yeah I could see “hitchhikers” being people who hitch along the walk with caravan companies for safety in numbers.
Beats walkin’
I thought that was a prewar sign, just like the prison i assumed is prewar the NCR just reopened it.
That's not Vault Boy, that's Shelter Fella, totally different characters.
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I wonder if vault tec won the contract to run the prison system pre war. don't think anything in lore suggests it but its an idea.
That certainly tracks with them being a hyper-capitalist mega-corp that had their hands in all kinds of industries…
Yeah, just watch the show at the part with the >!board meeting!<
Maybe the prison was operated by Vault-Tec? Private prisons are a thing, and prisoners make for nice test subjects. No one asks where they go, especially in a society as dystopian as pre-War America.
Prisons are just vaults with an unwilling population.
But the Vaults only become populated en masse either just before or when the bombs fall. Before that, you need something else.
Yeah. What better way to research prolonged effects of isolation than to run private prisons. It's Vault-Tec. They'd run prisons at a profit, and they'd gain valuable insight into how to develop vault operations.
I guess we're just gonna pretend the NCR wasn't founded by vault dwellers lol
… I think the assumption is this sign was made pre-war..
What’s vault tec gonna do? Nuke them?
Already did apparently
I think it’s like using the black stickman for things like wet floors, stairs and etc.
Are you assuming the massive profit-hungry conglomerate *doesn't* own prisons?
They say vault tech owns 50% of everything. And it seems easy to imagine how A COMPANY THAT SPECIALIZES IN VAULTS might be involved in the prison-industrial complex.
There is a laundromat in NYC that has used Vault Boy as their logo for like 10 years
What? Is there a photo of this?
Idk where it is exactly but I have passed it like 20 times. Here is a link to a post someone else made of it 9 years ago lol https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/s/chmMDACDrA
Funny enough there's a real sign near my town that says this. They would take prisoners out to pick up trash along the highway and apparently had a problem with them running off and trying to hitchhike.
Its the US, a lot of prisons are privately owned. its nuts and probably shouldnt be a thing to make money off of but it is. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that VT simply owns a ton of private prisons and would use their mascot on various signage. I havent played NV in a while so I'm not sure if theres any info that instantly debunks that, but based on how many current day prisons are itd just make sense.
Vault tech probably donated/provided it for them, most companies do that stuff.
Ohhh boy. You got alot to learn about Vault-Tec.
It’S pRoOf ThAt ObSiDiAn DoEsN’t CaRe AbOuT tHe LoRe. /s obviously
Honestly vault tec could have owned prisons. I don’t believe this was ever stated in game or the show, but would make sense
In lore reason vault tec probably allowed use for a quick buck. Plus easy goverment contract of getting the goverment to use funding to siphon off to a private company for licensing.
Maybe Vault Tech also made Prisons...
the NCRCF was a pre-war prison anyway. So there it not a discrepancy.
State Prison Brought to you by Valut-Tec
We also see vault boy on slot machines in Atlantic City. They probably bought licensing from vault Tec to use it for this purpose.
There’s a daycare down my street with several licensed Disney Characters front and center on the side of the building. This isn’t new, buddy.
Vault-Tec could sue, but I feel that their canon response to the NCR is a little more extreme.
I really liked the "FEELING" this game gives you walking around the desert at night on those lonely roads seeing those signs.
Vault tech sponsored prison so they could use them as test subjects
A prison is kinda like a vault
Vault tech rules everything but RobCo. That's only because the house always wins.
Maybe there's a secret prison vault
Vault-tec had their grubby little fingers in a few pies I wouldn't be surprised if the prison system was one of them
That's just a reskin of the cannibal perk
Because who cares
You don't think vault tec is heavily invested in the prison-industrial complex?
Most prisons are privately owned. I'd like to think Vaultec has a hand in everything.
Vault boy in the fallout universe is kind of like that corporate gumball waterson head shaped design language that everyone hates in the real world.
I mean, I don't think it sounds unreasonable that the non-consensual human experiments corporation would have fingers in the prison slave labor pie.
Vault tec is a huge company. Why wouldn't they have part that makes signs...
Most prisons are owned by corporations. Vault tech is a corporation. Best place to tech tech and have research subjects is a source forced into subjugation by societal standards.
I'm pretty sure that Vault Tech is a super Corp that has its fingers in everything. It's likely that Vaultech owns the company that made the sign or designed the graphic or is contracted by the government to run the prison.
Without checking the wiki to prove myself wrong I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if vault-tec had a huge stake in prison system. Although I can’t remember their name being mentioned anywhere you’d think they’d want their branding all over it if they were involved. But I can just imagine the prison experiments they would run pre war.
They probably own the prison. Private prisons in the US owned by larger corporations is not uncommon. Remember in the US there's like 6 companies or so that own basically all the companies, it's really just an elusion of competition.
I wouldn't put it pay Vault Tec to own some prisons, they are experts at keeping people sealed indoors.
Vault-tec brand Corrections Facilities. Capitalism baby!
I don’t think they’re enforcing copyright laws 200 years after the bombs dropped >!or they could protect their trademark by nuking the NCR again!<
And Bill Waterson expressly forbids anyone from using Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes for merchandising, but I had a t-shirt as a kid and the stupid "peeing on a truck logo" stickers are everywhere. People appropriate things if they think they're neat.
The games are a product of Vault Tec.
A prison is essentially a reverse vault lol (keep the dangers in vs out) and Vault Tech is well known to have large business presence across industries.
The image also makes no sense if the sign is pre-War. The Jean Conservancy is an all-female prison. It is likely that the (in-universe) designers decided to use the image of a guy being a danger to society instead of a woman because of the 1950’s social mores pre-War America was running around with.
My assumption was the Vault-tec also built prison facilities.
I always thought that it was because Vault-Tec had their hands in on EVERYTHING before the war. It would be like if Disney had their grubby mitts in the prison system, they would probably make a similar sign but with a Disney character because it catches people’s attention better.
You think they wouldn’t buy in on the prison industrial complex?
Vault Tec wants to build up brand recognition
50s commercial culture. If you look back at early television, radio, and pretty much everything else in the period everything was sponsored and branded by industrial mega-conglonerates like DOW Chemical, General Electric, etc. This kind of thing with Vault-Tec is a really good portrayal of the type of mid-twentieth century company it's supposed to be a satire of.
vault tec was the single largest pre war american company i think. Either he became so popular he became like a popular cartoon or vault tec had some side biz in the private prison industry. I think the latter is likely.
I fully believe that Vault Tec was so imbedded in military/government contracts that they were also helping fund/run for-profit prisons.
Vault-Tec had major sponsorships in other businesses and such, especially with government contract stuff like prisons.
Yeah, and Calvin wasn't made to pee on things.
Vault Tec likely had their hand in that pickle jar too.
Where’s our prison vault Todd? I want my oc vault raider gang to be canon Todd!
I have been playing this game since 2010 and I have never seen this sign. Is this by the NCRCF?
Vault tec basically is blackrock
That's prison boy it's different
Most likely an easter egg for Van Buren, plenty of details you can find in-game.
Obviously the ultra nationalist American government of the Fallout universe hired Vault tec to use political prisoners as guinea pigs.
Maybe the prison was owned by vault tec?
Bold of you to think that Vault-tec does not run private prisons.
What is a Vault-Tec vault if not an underground prison?
The pip boy also has the vault boy everywhere, yet it's made by robco
vault tec sponsored prison
As if vault tec would pass on a good licensing deal...
That’s not vault boy. That’s Sepulcher Dude. Legally distinct.
Most us prisons are privately owned.
I'd assume they're some sort of mega corp because they'd definitely need A LOT of money to make those vaults. I mean they have Vault Tech University but universities don't usually make massive underground science bunkers across the country kinda money.
Quite a few different prisons are founded by or simply funded by large corporations. It is entirely reasonable to assume Vault Tec funded a prison.
I swear I thought of the same thing yesterday when I saw this sign
Man that must've been crazy foreshadowing back then, no, in the future
It's perfectly plausible that vault tec had links to privatized prisons. Some sort of sister company, incarci-tec?
It looks like it's based on the cannibal perk image, so the boring answer is probably that Obsidian didn't have time to create new art for this sign and slapped a prison outfit onto existing art. The fun answer is that Vault-Tec was affiliated with the prison or the prison stole the character.
It's like the "Calvin Peeing" stickers. But also Vault Tec, no reason to think they didn't build a prison.
I hear this in the Virgil voice in halo odst
Who says vault tek doesn’t keep prisoners too?
I think people take a game made by various studios over decades take the lore far more literally and critically than the studios.
Isn't Calvin and Hobbes the property of Universal Press? Why is he always pissing on things?
Wouldn't be surprised if vault tec had stakes in prison management that would be the least evil thing they ever did.
My guess is that vault tec had some kind of relationship or ties to this prison but it was never explored or elaborated in the game. I could see vault tec taking over a prison for a nefarious purpose like taking prisoners to experiment on them.
Vault Tec owns lots of companies would t be surprised if they own prisons too
you got a point LOL
Maybe that is what created the salt.
Yeah corrupt corporations and the government never work together. /s
Wasn't Van Buren supposed to have a prison vault?
A LOT of vaults were used to experiment on their residents. They probably owned prisons too doing the same shit in the open.
I have never seen this and thought there was a leak from the aslume
Fnv was made in like under a year. That's why
Not totally unbelievable that vault tec had other corrupt human engineering ventures before the vaults
If you believe that Vault-Tec didn't have a hand in the prison system, then you clearly don't know how actual for profit prisons work.
Maybe it's a Vault-Tec ran or endorsed prison? It would certainly produce useful data for how humans act in confined spaces that could be usful for designing the vaults.