[ Arcade jumps, ever so slightly, at that half-successful slammed door, but he isn't about to mention it. They've been talking this whole time, anyway - if something was going to come along, it already would have... right? ]

I imagine that was the Vault-Tec line, behind all the cheerful cartoon propaganda.

[ That's not entirely without a tinge of bitterness. But Arcade is used to this kind of conversation, unfortunately. ]

Personally, I prefer not to think of people as nothing but cannon fodder or data points on a graph. But that's not the kind of thinking that gets you a seat at the table, when it comes to wildly unchecked capitalist ambition.