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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Myron basically admits he's full of shit in 2. Jet (perhaps not under that name) is a pre-war drug. It's a complete nonissue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there is merit to the "Myron is full of shit" theory for sure, but isn't one of the primary ingredients in Jet Brahmin feces?

Can't exactly imagine that existed pre-war

[–] Kalothar 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Manure? Why does it have to be a two headed mutated cow instead of a regular cow

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, just because the active ingredient semi-naturally occurs in brahmin dung (only if they're fed a specific pre-war feed) doesn't mean that that's the only place where it can be found or that a cow/cow adjacent digestive tract is the only place where the requisite reactions can occur. Jet is basically inhaled meth, there's no reason to assume that it can't be mass manufactured.

[–] Kalothar 1 points 1 year ago

Is the reason the drugs names are fake because of censorship? Like they didn’t want a higher rating or something

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember being irritated about this in Falllout 3, but even more so that every person pre-war from the poorest child to the most exalted CEOs hoarded bottle caps and stuffed them into every ready container. Almost like they knew I'd need the cash decades later.

[–] trafficnab 8 points 1 year ago

Pre-war Fallout 4 population storing their homemade hardware store guns in their safes before the bombs fell

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

*centuries later

The Bethesda fallout games take place 200 years after the Great War.

Imagine walking around America today and someone has the Skelton of a revolutionary war soldier in their half burnt house. Or finding a flintlock from 1760 in someone’s desk and it’s in mint condition. That’s what every Bethesda game has

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Lincoln's repeater is the tits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I wrote 200 years initially then couldn't remember if they were actually that dumb, second guessed myself, and hedged on "decades."

But yes, realizing that many places in America would have been uninhabited wilderness 200 years before today, the idea that major metro areas would still be untouched ruins 200 years after the war is just ludicrous.

I just put all this stuff in the same "ignore it for the gameplay" box as torches still being lit in ancient tombs and backwoods merchants accepting 1000 year old gold coins as currency for buying beef jerky or magic shields or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It also bothered me how safes pretty much have the same random content regardless of where they are or how strong the lock is. You could pick a master-grade lock in the depths of one of the Commonwealth's most advanced top-secret military bases, and still wind up with a pocket watch and some crackhead's scrap metal pistol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CIA or the Fallout equivalent. Everyone knows they get up to sneaky black ops stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And getting people hooked on drugs is one of their specialties.