When did they find the time? (fallout 3)

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KillerBee256

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I have been playing through fallout 3 and I've been wondering when were all these radiation warning signs like around the white house site and keep out sign on the subway put up? I mean from what were are led to understand any recovery efforts after the war didn't last very long before total anarchy broke out ie looting/killing etc, I mean who would have bothered?
 
Despite your lack of the proper ability to communicate, from what I could gather, that's a good question. Just another example of Bethesda's immature process.
 
The Brotherhood perhaps?

Who knows what has really happened since 2077, what factions have come and gone etc, some must have been friendly.

If you visit a place full of radiation to the far west there are signs that even mention a cleaning in progress, must mean that some kind of faction or so did all that.
 
Tapakidney said:
Despite your lack of the proper ability to communicate, from what I could gather, that's a good question. Just another example of Bethesda's immature process.
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Shut up.

All of you assume that somehow everything fell apart the instant the bombs were dropped, and that's untrue. Emergency services would have continued to work for at least some time after the war, and would proceed according to procedures prepared for the event of a nuclear attack.

That's why there are signs.
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Tapakidney said:
Despite your lack of the proper ability to communicate, from what I could gather, that's a good question. Just another example of Bethesda's immature process.
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Shut up.

All of you assume that somehow everything fell apart the instant the bombs were dropped, and that's untrue. Emergency services would have continued to work for at least some time after the war, and would proceed according to procedures prepared for the event of a nuclear attack.

That's why there are signs.
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Yeah, just like in Louisiana, FEMA would be there to patch it all up!
 
deadsanta said:
Yeah, just like in Louisiana, FEMA would be there to patch it all up!
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Oh come now, that wasn't FEMA's fault, it was the fault of George W. Bush for appointed an Arabian Horse Judge to the head of it and said Arabian Horse Judge for accepting the job and being an incompetent fool. Whose to say that Fallout didn't have a quite competent president when the war/world ended?
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
Shut up.

All of you assume that somehow everything fell apart the instant the bombs were dropped, and that's untrue. Emergency services would have continued to work for at least some time after the war, and would proceed according to procedures prepared for the event of a nuclear attack.

That's why there are signs.
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How many "emergency services" do you think are available after nuclear obliteration? You come in and tell someone to shut up and then speak as if you're an authority when really all you have to say is more BS...
 
He told you to shut up because you were an ass to the OP. I think that was a little uncalled for myself but whatever.
 
I would say it's possible it's a mixture of both emergency service before/after the bombs fell, kind-hearted locals with the right materials, and BOS scouting and marking.
 
The real question I have is what is Jet doing in sealed vaults in Washington D.C. when it was engineered in New Reno. Up in the Capital Wastleland I can understand, but down in the vaults?
 
Roflcore said:
Gooscar said:
kind-hearted locals with the right materials and BOS scouting and marking.
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uh yes, that sounds like fallout..
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Not saying it happened often with the nice locals.

But BOS scouting and marking makes sense, since that's a part of military tactics.
 
Brother None said:
Mikael Grizzly said:
That's why there are signs.
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...At spots that are nuclear hotspots 200 years later?
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Radiation persists. It's not a far fetched assumption that current hotspots were there 200 years ago, only far deadlier (think The Glow).

How many "emergency services" do you think are available after nuclear obliteration? You come in and tell someone to shut up and then speak as if you're an authority when really all you have to say is more BS...
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Note that DC was not obliterated, merely bombed to hell and back. Since it is largely intact (though that's a very broad term), it's not impossible that emergency and civil services continued their operation according to emergency procedures for some time, until everything fell apart with time and morale loss.
 
Roflcore said:
Gooscar said:
But BOS scouting and marking makes sense, since that's a part of military tactics.
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BOS tends to keep a low profile and don't interact with the locals.
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Not saying the DC BOS would do it specifically for the locals, they'd mark it off for their own purposes. It would just incedentally assist the locals. Then again this is the DC BOS who are looking after the locals far more than other BOS factions, so either way could be understandable.
 
Fallout spirit = BOS keeps a low profile, no interaction with locals.

Scouting for themself? Store the information for themselfs.
 
Dirk Magirk said:
The real question I have is what is Jet doing in sealed vaults in Washington D.C. when it was engineered in New Reno. Up in the Capital Wastleland I can understand, but down in the vaults?
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That might be a spoiler though..
[spoiler:dba789e681]Seems the vault have accepted outsiders into the vault - that might explain foreign items as well[/spoiler:dba789e681]
 
Roflcore said:
Fallout spirit = BOS keeps a low profile, no interaction with locals.

Scouting for themself? Store the information for themselfs.
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That just what the West Coast BOS did, the more eastern BOS factions are a little/lot more local interactive.

Besides, nothing reinforces the hazards of a minefield than a sign planted nearby saying "MINEFIELD!" You can be briefed on it, you can be warned about it, but you'll never really know unless you see telltale landmarks/signs or the unfortunate explosive greeting.

I think you give the BOS too much credit for information dissemination through their ranks. Military posts both in and out of country set signs up to visually remind people that indeed there are things that will explode in your face if you're not careful.
 
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