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When technological progress plateaus, engineers tend to keep busy with improving reliability. That's believable in the Fallout setting, but it tends to apply to manufacturing, especially machinery. I don't think I'd trust it for food. Both good points, at least for 80 years later. And that...

(We should just discuss this in terms of all the games, then the post in in just the right spot. It's what Harold would do.) Since the cities in the Beth games don't look like they were nuked, it kind of makes sense they can have shiny sparkly things and plentiful 2 century old supplies. Just...

4 GB system RAM in Win 7 64-bit? That's pretty...austere. Wasn't there also a patch especially for Win7 issues? Maybe for very high resolutions? I think there were issues (long ago) with sound. This is old, off the top of my head, and may be useless. One, you start getting ambient sounds...

Going all the way back to the OP... This can't all be referring to the FO1 intro? I don't see the connection to Mt Whitney, or Bakersfield. If you got that from what I wrote, you must think "the enemy" is everyone. See, you are paranoid.

Secrets aren't always kept. Especially secrets concerning a large program like Vaults. And, if you leak the true purpose to the enemy, maybe they do what you want, and leave the Vaults alone. China might keep it quiet so they didn't compromise their sources and methods. Think paranoid! It's...

Choices that are hard. Consequences that are mixed. Where the water in the oasis always contains dust blowing in off that desert, and you know that no matter how much you drink, you can still feel the grit, like glass in your throat. Fallout 1 and 2, Torment...there's not too many games I've...

In the book The Men Who Stare At Goats, the author interviews someone who was in a unit that was supposed to be experimenting with weird mental powers. They worked out of a run-down old building, and had no budget for basic things like coffee, so had to bring their own. He admitted none of...

I've been thinking about what parts of the electrical power generation system get targeted in the Great War, because Reasons. The presence of the following types of power generation in the period leading up to the War should be relatively uncontroversial, since they are defined in canon...

The California coastline is altered some. I used what recognizable points I could to align the worldmaps in my Atlas, but...there was gnashing of teeth. Eventually I had to make one of those super mutant head strap things to keep my face on. I chalk the changes up to a bit of cratering around...

I think penguin extinction refers to the idea that fallout and soot from a nuclear war fought in the northern hemisphere would take a long time to affect the southern hemisphere, and Antarctica would be the last place it would reach. Interesting area to explore. Maybe extensive uranium or oil...

Vault 8 is in NW Nevada near Gerlach and Burning Man. Pretty sure that's outside the SW Commonwealth. And 4 per Commonwealth is 13 x 4 = 52, so you've got 70 more to go. My suggestion above to think of them in proportion to US House seats is to reflect distribution of population, which might...

The Bethesda postage-stamp worldmaps create a distorted Vault distribution. I'd discard that as any pretense at canon. A rough state-by-state distribution based on population is easy to work out from seats in the House of Representatives. Take how many representatives a state has and multiply...

If you've ever met a non-Mormon from Utah, they may not say "Utah = Mormons", but they will probably say "Utah = mostly Mormons", and that the Mormons tend to be cohesive, to the point of insularity. The insularity comment was made to me by a very reasonable Mormon from Oregon (proudly the...

Circling back to the Mormons as they appear in-game: Are the Mormons, or more accurately their Mormon beliefs, in the New Vegas DLC mocked? I don't think they were going to be in Van Buren. But I haven't read the VB design docs in many years, and didn't play the NV DLC. In plain New Vegas...

Not sure the link to this thread was obvious in my earlier post. Useful?