[quote=@TTNoobs]
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It's certainly OTT, but I always figured that it was as much to terrify as it was to satirize. The petty nationalism leading to the Enclave advocating genocide and eugenics, the chirpy Americanisms and posters talking about the perfect American, contrasted against the desolation of a nuclear-devastated world (like Fallout 1's intro), always struck me as a cautionary tale. It's creepy. 
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The entire Fallout Series is actually pretty grimdark with what it implies or hides away.

I remember in New Vegas while playing through Old World Blues and stumbling into Little Yangtze and looking around. I though it was bad enough being basically a concentration camp for Chinese people until I saw that there were several desperate attempts all around the camp and how the bomb collars on the ghouls went off it they went out of the camp. And then I thought of all the shit the three remaining ghouls must have seen: brutally suppressed riots and escape attempts, harsh racist treatment that their own country put them under, seeing the people around them die of radiation or slowly turn into ghouls when the bombs fell and seeing their friends go "boom" when they took a step out of the camp.