Views : 599,447
Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: Jan 21, 2021 ^^
Rating : 4.956 (126/11,418 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-03-12T03:27:30.811147Z
See in json
Top Comments of this video!! :3
The bottlecaps one reminds me of my childhood. I had a pretty sad childhood and lived in a giant slum. All the local kids and I used to collect bottlecaps and use them as currency because all the adults drank so much and left their garbage everywhere. Caps for uncommon alcohols were worth much more due to their rarity, while easy to pick up caps were worth like a penny in value. We would buy things like pieces of food, running errands, even gambled during various activities. In my teen years I still had a shoebox of various bottlecaps just in case even though I had already escaped that life. A bittersweet memory.
10 |
6:19
That is actually hilarious
10 |
Fun fact, the brand of soda the bottle cap comes from means nothing, and hasn't since the first Fallout game. The caps value was originally tied to the price of water, and were often referred to as Hub Bucks, since it was the water traders of The Hub who started using caps as a currency as there was a finite amount of them to go around, and its surprisingly difficult to make counterfeits. The second game did away with bottle caps, replacing them with NCR dollars that were based on traditional American currency backed by gold, and mine scrip. NCR dollars are present in New Vegas, but have been severely devalued do to the various wars the NCR involved themselves in. Fallout Tactics replaced caps with ring pulls, and featured them alongside so called Brotherhood scrip.
Fallout 3 only features bottle caps as the predominant currency, and started the trend of caps being this magic item that everyone holds the same value too. New Vegas, 4, and 76 feature alternative currency along side the cap, but those currencies either serve no real purpose (New Vegas' Legion coins and NCR dollars), or are for very specific transactions (76s gold bullion, legendary scrip, treasury notes, Mr. Fuzzy and mine prize claim tokens, ammo points, 4s nuka-cade tickets hand tokens, and New Vegas' casino chips.
There does exist in every game post 3, wads of pre-war money, that in the lore of the game universe had been completely devalued due to hyperinflation. Pre-war money has virtually no value in 3, Vegas, and 76, but sports a value in 4.
2 |
@HalfAsleepChris
3 years ago
Two corrections: The Star Trek currency is called 'Latinum' not 'Latnium as I said (my apologies!) And I've also mis-labelled 'John Wick 3' as 'John Wick 4'
326 |