They’re referencing the Fallout video game franchise. There’s a government referred to as the New California Republic, and their flag has a bear with two heads. Two-headed creatures mutated by radiation is kind of a running joke in the Fallout universe.
I mean the multiheaded eagle has been used on many flags dating further back than the 1800s. So, wouldn't be too absurd for there to be a flag with another double headed animal on it I suppose. Just not sure there is a such a bear in any mythologies those founders may have subscribed to.
Here's an example in the wild that I remember. Anime reviewer Glass Reflection (13:39) talking about an anime/gaming convention in California that he attended. He's Canadian so he gets a pass. No hate, just a funny mistake.
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prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 2y
This one is going over my head
MisterMcBolt@lemmy.world · 146 pts · 2y
They’re referencing the Fallout video game franchise. There’s a government referred to as the New California Republic, and their flag has a bear with two heads. Two-headed creatures mutated by radiation is kind of a running joke in the Fallout universe.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 2y
For the lazy, here's the flag in question
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 8 pts · 2y
And it does look better, as all two headed animals on flags do.
Eagle on flag?
Boring. Cliche. Possibly a Romeaboo, aka a cryptofascist.
Two headed eagle?
Majestic.
Twice as imperial.
Possibly a Byzaboo, the correct option, East Rome Best Rome.
Deuces@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Which east Rome? The south east, the north east, the north less east, or the north less east again but more fascist?
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 2y
The one that dealt with their political enemies in the most humane and effective way, blinding and castration.
stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 2y
Thank you.
Stamets@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website · 16 pts · 2y
I'm not on the west coast, but I've seen the flag plenty of times.
Doesnt matter. It still feels weird. Almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
nifty@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y
No, no it doesn’t. Tf man
Robmart@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
It's a reference to Fallout
9bananas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
almost like it's a reference to fallout or something...not like the post is literally about fallout...tf man
EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y
"Patrolling the Mohave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter"
yamanii@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
It really feels empty without the second head, guess I gotta reinstall New Vegas now.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
NGL a decade ago, I wanted a California flag too and was also disappointed that it wasn't a multi headed bear. Didn't even know it was Fallout.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 21 pts · 2y
The idea of the people who founded California in the 1800s deciding to draw a multi-headed abomination of a bear on their flag is hilarious.
Sway_Chameleon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I mean the multiheaded eagle has been used on many flags dating further back than the 1800s. So, wouldn't be too absurd for there to be a flag with another double headed animal on it I suppose. Just not sure there is a such a bear in any mythologies those founders may have subscribed to.
Edit: spelling.
magikmw@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
To be fair a two-headed bird is on many-a coat of arms.
BleakBluets@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Here's an example in the wild that I remember. Anime reviewer Glass Reflection (13:39) talking about an anime/gaming convention in California that he attended. He's Canadian so he gets a pass. No hate, just a funny mistake.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu · 10 pts · 2y
Bruh
It's a Fallout New Vegas reference.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 2y
Or maybe Fallout 2, where the NCR were first introduced.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Oh yea, my wife who's from the US showed me this flag and I was like "That NCR flag looks weird" having only ever seen that flag in New Vegas.
Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Why does the bear look thirsty? He's got some weary side eye going on.