Search results

Hmm... You can't really just join the BoS or the Enclave, otherwise I'd go with "Brotherhood Scribe". If I was just some normal schmo, well, so much depends on the setting. Obviously I'd like to imagine I could play the hero and solve the wasteland's problems but I'm not much of a fighter, or a...

Marko from New Vegas Bounties III. Built up through three huge campaigns, and when you finally reach him, you find out he was just trying to leave his life of brutality behind, and the thing that pushed him back into his old ways was your pursuit of him, more out of curiosity and a chance to...

Basically this entire terminal entry from HELIOS: "Can I Tell Him?" A Poseidon Energy Publication for New Employees As a member of the Poseidon Family, it will be natural for you to become enthusiastic about the incredible endeavors you'll be undertaking with us, and to want to tell others...

I always imagined they would be most useful for urban warfare. They'd be very resistant against small-arms fire like SMGs and shotguns, as well as splash damage from explosions. To a lesser extent, glancing blows even from heavier weaponry would tend to be deflected, rather than penetrate the...

"SOON THE WORLD WILL BURN IN NUCLEAR FIRE! AGAIN!"

Courier: "I don't like your attitude" Alexander: "Would you like it any better if I told you to fuck off?"

Oh god, I wasn't using FO3's story as a defence. I was trying to say that I didn't think the Children of Atom would have been completely irredeemable as a side quest a la Bright Brotherhood, in spite of the general shittiness of FO3's story. If they had good writing. Which they almost certainly...

But imagine if, say, Dead Money had been the story of how Jason Bright's followers had crash-landed at the Sierra Madre, and you had to help them round up the feral ghouls before they could release the Maguffins of Doom from the vault. Helping you to do this is Essential Companion Jason Bright...

Hey, I never said that was a good thing! I'd prefer to see a game either set in a collapsing Caesar's legion after defeat at Hoover Dam, or on the borders of a fracturing NCR, only kept from civil war by the threat of the advancing legion, depending on which ending for New Vegas is made canon

I think it could have a lot of interesting ideas to play with. American soldiers from a military base, Soviets, locals of all descriptions. A good writer could do a lot with that. There's nothing to say that it would have to be set 200 years after the war. 20 or 30 years would be enough. Not...

Unfortunately the lifeboats all inevitably drift to Far Harbour

Hmm... It still doesn't seem too likely to me. The fire would have carried fission products upwards in its plume, so there would have been some amount of "shine" from that if the plume was passing directly over the region. Shine from the reactor itself at that distance (almost 2000m) would have...

Do you have a source for that? It seems pretty unlikely. No bystanders are on the list of deaths on wikipedia. That's a big dose!

Okay, fair enough. But the full amount of water was never going to separate and recombine explosively anyway. Only a tiny fraction ever will, and once that explodes it will blow the rest of the (unseparated) water away from the Corium. It it likely there will be a series of steam explosions...

Not a nuclear physicist, but I have worked as an engineer in a nuclear power plant. Hope that's good enough! Hydrogen has an energy density of 142 MJ/kg. 11% of the mass of water is hydrogen. From adding up the volumes of the reactor vessel and the steam separators of an RBMK reactor like...

Trying to pass Bethesda's shoddy writing off as an intelligent subtext about the damages of long-term radiation exposure?

Haha, killing you for using the vending machines? That is exactly the sort of move I'd expect from a DLC that penalises you for passing speech checks!

It's just incredibly thermodynamically unfavourable. I mean, in theory it could be done, we can just about manipulate individual atoms and molecules with things like optical tweezers, we could probably assemble something using that. It's getting those atoms in the first place that would be...

Asteroids are actually a pretty decent source of heavy elements like uranium. The earth is differentiated, meaning it was essentially liquid when it formed due to the energy of all that mass smashing together. This allowed most of the heavy elements to sink to its core. Asteroids are far...

Could have even been something as stupid as the US or China using a tactical battlefield nuke in the battle for Beijing, and things kind of snowballing from there.