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Ben Soto

Ben Soto

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I've decided that I'm going to start a new series of posts where I feature something that's a little bit more intelligent than what you usually see on the Fallout subreddits, then respond with my own thoughts. Today, we have a redditor named flashman7870, who has decided to compare the "pure" populations of the Enclave with the rest of the wasteland while also trying to justify why Fallout 3 looks too... wasteland-y.

Here it is!

So, what do I think? It actually makes sense. Radiation can do God knows what to genes and to the human mind. Combine this with 200 years of exposure, and the large amounts of FEV in the area (I've always thought that Vault 87 might be leaking FEV, kinda like the Glow does) and you have a recipe for people dumber than a Dumb Dumb.

What do you think? Does this theory make sense?
 
Trying to pass Bethesda's shoddy writing off as an intelligent subtext about the damages of long-term radiation exposure?

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If that was correct people in the wasteland wouldn't be able to repair, use and even improve pre-war technology (when even the smartest pre-war scientists couldn't do it).

I will use Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 examples since those are the Fallout games where people have been getting radiated the longest and would have the highest probability of them mutating into dumb people:
  • There would be no way that Megaton founders could have made a water processing plant and keep it running for decades (and with limited resources to repair it)
  • There would be no way Moira Brown would be able to read Big Books of Science and be able to understand and memorise them all (except the computer parts)
  • There would be no way scientists would be able to purify water and grow radiation free vegetables and fruits in labs
  • There would be no way Pinkerton could mess around with a synth memories and bury them using a lock code or perform perfect facial surgeries
  • No way the BoS could maintain or repair their Power Armor and energy weapons
  • There would be no way wastelanders could repair and/or reprogram robots (Tinker Joe, The Mechanist, Someone in Rivet City, someone in Tenpenny Tower, someone in Megaton etc)
  • No one in the wasteland could have created the crafted weapons we have in Fallout 3 or made blueprints of them
  • Definitely no way for the BoS to fix the power issue in Liberty Prime in just a few days (which not even the pre-war scientists who designed and built it could fix)
  • No way for any wastelander (anyone that was mutated by living in the radiation so the BoS is included) to be able to pilot Vertibirds
  • Definitely no way for them to rebuild and improve Liberty Prime after it was destroyed except for it's head
  • No way for the BoS to build the flying ship they use in FO4
I could go on and on, but in short: No wastelander could be smart enough to deal/repair/control/build/program/use any pre-war tech, they wouldn't be able to have any proper medicine or medical practices, they would probably not be able to read or write at all (200 years of people living in desolated wastelands, I don't think reading would have survived when they would have started to become so stupid), specially since they can't even see that living in a nice fully preserved house away from any danger would be better than living in the ruins of a destroyed house right near raiders territory :shrug:.
 
Risewild said:
If that was correct people in the wasteland wouldn't be able to repair, use and even improve pre-war technology (when even the smartest pre-war scientists couldn't do it).

I will use Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 examples since those are the Fallout games where people have been getting radiated the longest and would have the highest probability of them mutating into dumb people:
  • There would be no way that Megaton founders could have made a water processing plant and keep it running for decades (and with limited resources to repair it)
  • There would be no way Moira Brown would be able to read Big Books of Science and be able to understand and memorise them all (except the computer parts)
  • There would be no way scientists would be able to purify water and grow radiation free vegetables and fruits in labs
  • There would be no way Pinkerton could mess around with a synth memories and bury them using a lock code or perform perfect facial surgeries
  • No way the BoS could maintain or repair their Power Armor and energy weapons
  • There would be no way wastelanders could repair and/or reprogram robots (Tinker Joe, The Mechanist, Someone in Rivet City, someone in Tenpenny Tower, someone in Megaton etc)
  • No one in the wasteland could have created the crafted weapons we have in Fallout 3 or made blueprints of them
  • Definitely no way for the BoS to fix the power issue in Liberty Prime in just a few days (which not even the pre-war scientists who designed and built it could fix)
  • No way for any wastelander (anyone that was mutated by living in the radiation so the BoS is included) to be able to pilot Vertibirds
  • Definitely no way for them to rebuild and improve Liberty Prime after it was destroyed except for it's head
  • No way for the BoS to build the flying ship they use in FO4
I could go on and on, but in short: No wastelander could be smart enough to deal/repair/control/build/program/use any pre-war tech, they wouldn't be able to have any proper medicine or medical practices, they would probably not be able to read or write at all (200 years of people living in desolated wastelands, I don't think reading would have survived when they would have started to become so stupid), specially since they can't even see that living in a nice fully preserved house away from any danger would be better than living in the ruins of a destroyed house right near raiders territory :shrug:.
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"But it's Bethesda, right? They can skip over realism and lore to shoehorn in their shit."-Bethesda fans
 
"Not going to talk about realism in a World with Super mutants and Ghouls"
 
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