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It's an unfair argument killer, but I have always ignored and discredited any Bethesda addition to the lore whatsoever. :smug: But even so, their retro-fiction is still a transparent means to an end; they require bottle-cap money solely because Fallout had it, not for any other reason...

The Washington monument has a small platinum ball on top of it, it's platinum because at the time aluminum was too expensive. :eek: _____ Bottlecaps are usually steel or aluminum; that can be found anywhere in a city.

Home made crimps are common, some fit in a shirt pocket; if it was the equivalent of printing money, their use would be wide spread. There was this guy known for hand inking $50 bills, because he could. The point is that there is no in-world justification for the poor choice to use caps as...

One of the differences to consider is the availability of bottling crimps in the center of a desert, as opposed to access in the center of the nation's capitol city. It would be easy to make bottle caps in a major city. If the caps were accepted for trade, people would make their own counterfeit...

So... Bottlecaps were backed by the Hub's water merchants. Bottlecaps in DC couldn't have been. The Hub is in the middle of nowhere; DC was the nation's capitol. DC would have had access to coins; they could have used US dollars, foreign coins, bus tokens—even arcade tokens. They used...

Well the President was on the rig, and the Enclave seems to have had only one forward base; Navarro—as implied by the Enclave communications operator's utter surprise when he traced the PC's incoming signal. The impression was that that was their extent into the mainland.

Sad but true.

This contradicts the the dev's own statements, and recollections. Leonard Boyarsky set the style.

I believe that I read that they were prohibited from using Area 51 as well.

Starts out like a theme for a D00M level. _________________ @Topic:

They don't care about the theme. They care about ease of conveyance; the easy elevator pitch. IE. It's easier to have it be the future obsessed with the past, than to have it be the future as anticipated by the past, whose very physical laws are bent to the populace' fear and misunderstandings...

Indeed. It was 2077; though it could easily have been a typo.

The intro to Fallout [1] was entirely pre-war—and was the last mention of it in the game, but NPCs do recount pre-war memories in Fallout 1 & 2. Memories (in TV format) are usually flashbacks. I'd certainly not expect (or want) an obligatory flashback in every episode, but I'd not want the...

That usually implies someone remembering it... That's the perfect use for it, also to add contextual details, like an ancient memory that proves useful in their current situation—less implausible that a pure plot contrivance.

I can agree to everything but this. The Ghouls in Fallout are the only ones who remember the pre-war era first hand¹ —they are effectively the Fallout setting's anti-elves; immortal, stiff, slow, and ugly. They are really the only way to show pre-war scenes, aside from holo-tapes. ¹:At least...

Except that it was known about in Fallout 2, and should probably not have been copied into a later series title—or kept once the former event was learned about.

What's not obvious is that not everyone knows what 8.3 filenames are, or that they were ever necessary. In today's world, you can mention having a tape collection, and odds are that the other person assumes it's rolls of adhesive tape; no idea what a tape collection is; some have no concept of...

It's a repeat from Fallout 2; in Broken Hills there is a treasure buried long ago, by Typhon the ghoul—it's bottle caps; it's worthless by that time. The region having shifted to Dollars.

At what point (post war) was he not evil? Being amicable to someone (when they are useful) is not evidence of goodness; it's pragmatism.

Cooper is temporally split between post and pre-war; a man of two extremes, and foreshadowed by Wilzig's comment about still being/wanting the same after adapting to the new state of the world; becoming entirely different. Everyone else has a good and a nasty side to them.