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Maybe everybody has just learned to stop worrying and... Anyway. Most of the inhabitants of the post-war world in Fallout may not understand nukes. They probably don't think they're a likely threat in the present or future. They may believe them to be part of nearly-mythological past. Any...

Well whether it's Black Mesa or Area 51, don't forget to include one of these, an inflatable base top and fake mountain thingy: At Strange Harvest via Subtopia via Modern Mechanix I guess even the Chinese in 2077 would have spy gear that would keep them from being fooled.

One of the things that's intriguing about Fallout is how "local" the world really is. When you create a threat to the "world", it only has to be to the "game world", not the planet. The big save-the-planet (or multiverse) stories work best for fantasy (BG-Torment etc.) or other settings. A...

Ah, but there's plenty of space for surface buildings nestled in little valleys between the hills, protected from the worst. Which reminds me, another original document: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki United States Army Corps of Engineers, Manhattan District...

When creating your own work, you can always decide that a high-priority asset like a military base was preserved by reasons besides secrecy and "dummy" installations: Defensive systems - After the ABM treaty between the US and the USSR, each side was allowed a fixed anti-ballistic-missile...

On the location: I've dorked around with the FO1, FO2, and Van Buren maps * and real maps using AutoCad, and I'm quite sure that Vault 15 on the FO1 map is about 1 cell north of Groom Lake (about 10-15 miles away). The Raiders location is between the ghost town/park of Beatty and Yucca Flat...

It seems like the zeitgeist has come back around to concerns about "the end" or something. Particularly an end with a human cause. Maybe it's an outgrowth of concern about global warming. Then again, since we're thinking about certain kinds of "the end" all the time, it's hard to judge...

I just read "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon. It's set in California in the 60s, and has a humor to it that might appeal to FO fans. Anyway: Reference #1 from FO2: there is a lawyer in it named Metzger, whose first name is never given. Reference #2, also FO2: a deceased character...

Killap, great work. Some sugar daddy needs to cough up a salary to have you on as a full-time Mod Master. After you finish University, of course. I have the Primitive Tribe crash-to-desktop issue. I don't see it mentioned in the recent fixes. I have the prepatched FO2 v1.02, and used the...

Well the real SAD was a real major nuke target in the Cold War. Maybe it took awhile for people to 1) brave the radiation and 2) figure out what was not destroyed. Plus, just because it was there, doesn't mean many people would realize what was in the base. It could have performed a lot of...

Agreed. The less-populated parts of the American West have scattered ruined things all over in the present. Another 70 years of failed mines, outdated military bases, drying-up aquifers and rivers, busted boomtowns, and other detritus of the always-changing landscape will leave lots of remote...

Reading the glowlcats article too fast, I thought the scientist was Hwang Woo Suk, like "It's always clone you up! Glow you up! Asshole!" But you are leaving out fish, rabbits, and pigs. I thought someone was doing this with frogs too, but can't find it now. However, the rabbit was done...

AHA! Thank you Holo, I saw a story on this a few months back and kept meaning to get it, but couldn't recall the title. I thought I had found it the other day, so I bought what I found. It's another collection of short stories from 2007. I'm halfway through it so far, and all the material...

Getting back toward the source (of this post), I saw some posts for a new game called Shelter described as "using Tactics assets with a modified .exe". Sounds hopelessly ambitious, but if you could make it work, would you leap right past the need for source code? Not that source wouldn't be...

That's true, though I think I recall seeing an article on saboted rounds in...um...a Popular Mechanics article in about 1981 (I'm so focking old) that showed unfinned and finned types. Might have been for the old 105mm guns, or even something else (chaingun ammo possibly?). Come to think of...

Genetically-modified crops on the Monsanto model, however, are often designed to be reliant on Monsanto-branded fertilizers and pesticides, so you need to keep coming back to the trough, and paying more money to the degenerate microimperialists. Which plays right into... In the "Better...

On currency, I think that in the Fallout immediate postwar environment, most everything would be barter. I make this assumption because I think that the war must have wiped out 99% of the population. (That's a seat of the pants figure, just based on how it feels in the 2 games. I lived in...

On SuAside's comment about the length of the 2mm EC ammo, I think that when you get projectiles up to large velocities you get better stability with a large length:caliber ratio. I'm thinking of the saboted depleted-uranium penetrators fired by tank main guns starting in the 80s. With a 6,000...

Petition for one more option in the poll. "I have the Mental Block perk. What was this poll about again?" And yes, it really sucks that I had to take the Mental Block perk. I hope you can get two ranks (hello, Fall 2008).

Oh this whole thing opens up such possibilities. I think an official Vault-Tec extruded suit should be #1. Then T-51b, then combat armor. Then the Tycho-raider model, since I never took to the raiders in FOT. Plus a new model to match the Tycho description: {100}{}{You see a man in...