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Kit Walker posted:From living in lefty communes for a while I would 100% believe a post-apocalypse story where the survivors fall apart because of ideological infighting that keeps interfering with people who are actually trying to keep everyone’s needs met
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Fried Watermelon posted:They don't clean up their skeletons in Fallout. Just leaving them for a hundred years laying on the bed in weird poses... they're just letting weirdos like me be dead in peace 
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May 10, 2021 14:40
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Not my skeleton not my problem!
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May 10, 2021 14:44
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I want to be the Zybourne Clock reference corpse.
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May 10, 2021 14:44
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Paladinus posted:I want to be the Zybourne Clock reference corpse. Just be sure to keep 4 balls carefully arranged nearby wherever and whenever you go... This sounds like the kind of rich-guy eccentricity that would boggle non-terminally-online observers forever.
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May 10, 2021 14:46
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As long as I get annihilated I don't care where my skeleton ends up.
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May 10, 2021 14:46
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Oh poo poo that's the two minute warning! *hurriedly runs to sit on the toilet with an army of teddy bears posed around me*
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Paladinus posted:I want to be the Zybourne Clock reference corpse. I want to be the ball that falls of the cliff.
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May 10, 2021 14:47
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Enrique in a hazmat suit at all times, for that extra thirty seconds of survival.
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Daktar posted:Oh poo poo that's the two minute warning! *hurriedly runs to sit on the toilet with an army of teddy bears posed around me*
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May 10, 2021 15:14
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*opening my closet full of engraved tablets that describe me as a conman that sells lovely copper* I will become... immortal
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May 10, 2021 15:17
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I suppose you could get your 10ft home depot skeletons and build your own little tomb of the giants.
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May 10, 2021 15:28
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Where does Fallout land on the Skeleton War timeline?
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RFC2324 posted:Where does Fallout land on the Skeleton War timeline? Tomorrow.
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May 10, 2021 15:30
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Welcome to the world of tomorrow! *nuclear flash*
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Son of Rodney posted:I love the Gandalf memes. I love the German memes AND the Gandalfmemes.
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DarkDobe posted:Not my skeleton not my problem! dead Lowtax is in Morrowind  UESP posted:Arlowe was an Imperial pauper who fell victim to a pair of mabrigashes at the Ashamanu Camp on Azura's Coast. He wore a common shirt with matching pants and carried the unique weapon BanHammer.
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axolotl farmer posted:dead Lowtax is in Morrowind
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axolotl farmer posted:dead Lowtax is in Morrowind Ran over by his own GTR e,c: 
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LifeSunDeath posted:Ran over by his own GTR Is "Italian" something people censor now?
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Nessus posted:OR, it's like two hundred years later, and everything still looks like a complete shithole. Yeah this is the part that always bugs me about the Fallout games and a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction in general. 200 years ago the most advanced technology was the steam engine, the electric motor had just been invented in a laboratory and it would be thirty years until pasteur developed his ideas about pathogenic bacteria. it's a shitload of time for a society to grow and change. you're telling me that over something like six generations, the people in fallout couldn't figure out how to patch holes in their houses and put on a new coat of paint? ugh
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah this is the part that always bugs me about the Fallout games and a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction in general. The past 200 years have been unprecedented in the level of change in all the history of humanity and that was spurred by a series of breakthroughs in science. Its easy to imagine hitting a wall where no more breakthroughs happen, and so the pace of change slows again. Its actually likely in some ways in an apocalypse, since we wouldn't be worried about the things that its gonna take to advance science from where it is now, even without the fact that that pace seems to be slowing with things like Moore's Law breaking down
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Velocity Raptor posted:Is "Italian" something people censor now? i think it's a dunk on the dude here who said italian jokes were racist
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May 10, 2021 17:34
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I'm just  on how somebody couldn't notice the difference between pasta & ramen. The textures are pretty different.
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M*ma M*a
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah this is the part that always bugs me about the Fallout games and a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction in general. https://youtu.be/DCEewyIE_0c
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Yeah, 200 years during peace time and prosperity is very different from "starting from scrach after a nuclear almost-extinction event wipeout" I mean, humanity has been around for a loooong time and for most of that time we've been really low tech. We didn't just go from spears and clubs to knights in shining armor and then modern society in a few hundred years. That took hundreds of thousands of years. If enough people died during the apocalypse for critical knowledge to be lost we'd probably get stuck in another long rut
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May 10, 2021 17:44
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah this is the part that always bugs me about the Fallout games and a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction in general. A can of paint pre-supposes a bunch of industries that would be gone when 98% of everyone died. So yea, I doubt someone would just be able to paint everything easy peasy.
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CainFortea posted:A can of paint pre-supposes a bunch of industries that would be gone when 98% of everyone died. So yea, I doubt someone would just be able to paint everything easy peasy. like enough tech is still working in the Bethesda-era Fallout games that it's weird how society is as stagnant as it is, they all feel like they were set 30 years after nuclear war and also people had amnesia.
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CainFortea posted:A can of paint pre-supposes a bunch of industries that would be gone when 98% of everyone died. So yea, I doubt someone would just be able to paint everything easy peasy. Paint is actually really easy. Modern latex paint isn't, but its not hard to stain a wall green(some colors are harder than others) They had paint literally 6000 years ago
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Keep in mind the existence of all this technology is a gigantic house of cards. You have to have someone cutting off the arms of children so the slaves are motivated to mine the rare metals. You have to have to have the totalitarian government to force the workers to put up suicide nets on the sweatshops building it. You have to have a massive international steel and oil monopoly to transport it. A few nukes going off means we're literally back to sticks and stones until we get that accursed system up and running again. But yeah paint is easy if one of the survivors remembers the formula. If not, I can't figure out why the people living in bunkers and hiding from cannibals haven't stopped to leisurely redevelop it.
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Sagebrush posted:it's a shitload of time for a society to grow and change. you're telling me that over something like six generations, the people in fallout couldn't figure out how to patch holes in their houses and put on a new coat of paint? ugh That's pretty much all Bethesda. There were plenty of sheet metal shanties in Fallout 1 and 2 (much like today), but even the lovely towns were mostly like adobe or something  
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Collapsing Farts posted:Yeah, 200 years during peace time and prosperity is very different from "starting from scrach after a nuclear almost-extinction event wipeout" CainFortea posted:A can of paint pre-supposes a bunch of industries that would be gone when 98% of everyone died. So yea, I doubt someone would just be able to paint everything easy peasy. Paint is literally tens of thousands of years old. You don't need a factory to produce it. I'm pretty sure that 200 years is enough time to rediscover methods of making whitewash and basic carpentry techniques. 200 years! We're talking about the time your great-grandmother's great-grandmother was a baby. Azhais posted:That's pretty much all Bethesda. There were plenty of sheet metal shanties in Fallout 1 and 2 (much like today), but even the lovely towns were mostly like adobe or something Yeah, that's much more what I would expect to see popping up within a few decades of a nuclear apocalypse. loving bethesda
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Lol like any of you know how to make paint.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:They would at least have invented a new genre of music, better suited to the post-apocalyptic wastes. Yeah, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78hZIEqONM
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CainFortea posted:Lol like any of you know how to make paint. you grind up anything that naturally has a color you like and mix it with water or oil, my dude whitewash, perhaps the simplest effective house paint, can be made from any source of calcium carbonate (seashells, limestone, bones) and water Sagebrush has a new favorite as of 17:59 on May 10, 2021 |
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I would probably scoot the skeletons off the bed at some point in my admittedly like 50 year lifespan
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Man, why can't those poors in X Poor Country just fix up their houses and paint them. They've been poor for centuries, you think those poors would've figured it out by now. Silly poors.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Man, why can't those poors in X Poor Country just fix up their houses and paint them. They've been poor for centuries, you think those poors would've figured it out by now. now we're cooking with gas
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