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That's a good point. 200 years a fucking long time to settle for a crack shack. I'm sure building material probably sucks, healthy trees are probably hard to come by so lumber isn't too reliable, and they probably forgot how to make concrete, but even a crack shack could be made to looks a little nicer after 20 fucking decades. They all looked like they whipped them up an hour ago. Hell, with the constant radioactive rain they deal with, you'd think they would develop a system for that instead of just... ignoring it. Not even sure where they get drinking water.
and yeah omfg. The fucking skeletons! There is no bigger "fuck it" example than the people of Fallout and their tending to the dead. I swear, some motherfucker is going around out there and putting funny hats on them, because that shit is too pristine to have died in.
I also think it's funny how they always depict the main character wearing the vault suit all the time when almost nobody has ever worn it in any game long term. I think Fallout 1 you're trapped in it for the whole game, but you aren't even a Vault Dweller in FO2.
I am almost sure you could retrofit the old structures, some kinda cement still had to be laying about and at least the trash would be thrown away. It feels like carpenters, builders, masons, etc all died out and with them the knowledge(which makes 0 sense since books still exist from pre war). You tell me not even one doomer prepper had s shelter with copious amounts of manuals saved up? Heck, nuclear energy is so wide spread it could even be on a terminal and yet no one to rebuild.
Don't even get me started on how the fuck so many computers that are hundreds of years old still not only function, but are left on and provided constant power in totally fucked and abandoned buildings. My computers all crap out in 5 to 10 years.
Yes. His name is Emil Pagliarulo.
I bitched about this back in FO3, saying I think they added an extra zero by mistake. 20 years feels a lot more realistic, or maybe even 50. But 200? That's nearly the time frame from the American Revolution to the modern day.
It would be one thing if the games were set in post-apocalyptic Delhi or Mogadishu or some other country where people actually are perfectly content to live in filth but there would be enough white survivors in DC that somebody would have at least swept the floor and buried the bodies after 200 years.
I can understand why they went for so much time passed. The Half-life of radiation is a huge counter argument for much human activity. Frankly, I'm still not sure how anyone on the surface managed to hunker down for that long amount of time before it became more livable. Christ, I'm not even sure how they fucking procreated.