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I've read accounts, granted as unreliable as any other unsourced internet post: Someone firing rounds from 1880 in which case "a reasonable number" of them worked. Ammo stored in hot and humid conditions unusable after just a few years. Surplus WWII ammo stored in good conditions and all of...

It's an awesome game for many reasons. I've only had time for 2.5 playthroughs, one pure combat and one talk/lore. I'd like to explore some more of the gated content but I don't really have time to try everything. Neck and neck with Underrail for GotY last year for me. Their next game Colony...

Good thing this discussion is about the post apocalyptic setting in general and not Fallout in particular, then.

Some ruins and abandoned places here and here. But most of these have been abandoned only somewhere between 10-50 years or so. Example of an estate whose roof was deliberately removed in the 40s to avoid taxation. Lots of good stuff here though I haven't looked at much yet, more information...

The only food I know wouldn't spoil over more than a hundred years if kept in a sealed container is wine and honey. And vinegar. You don't have to specifically talk about Boston/Washington, btw. The aim here wasn't to point out flaws with Bethesdas games, that's already been done, but to try to...

Some other opinions about concrete decay here.

I think the life span of wooden buildings are hugely affected by the climate, the quality of the wood and the type of structure. There are barns in northern Sweden that are hundreds of years old with no paint. For example, heartwood is much better but much more expensive as a building material...

After Fallout 3 there were a lot of discussion about how unrealistically the 200 years setting was implemented, like wooden houses still standing without any maintenance, canned food remaining uneaten and edible, cars still having paint, clothes lying around in dressers in abandoned houses still...

That is correct, but has nothing to do with it being good.

Corny, but still

I don't get the praise for Dragonfall's story, to be honest. It's OK and well communicated, the party banter is mediocre and the backstories for the companions isn't anything special either. I also don't see how it's that much less linear than Shadowrun Returns' campaign. Throwing in some...

John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids are both great and short PA-ish and straight PA reads.

Wow, really? Out of curiosity, is that the highest repair check in the game? Can't remember ever putting much more than 120ish into repair in a play-through myself...

Then maybe you should watch a documentary about the scientologists where they explain how they went after young actors to get celebrity scientologists that would help make their cult popular. I think it's called Going Clear.

I don't think Cruise and Travolta are scientologists because they get money for it anymore, but because the scientologists have so much dirt on them by now they just can't get out anymore. But eh, off topic.

1080, obviously.

I played in 1920*1080, which apparently you aren't supposed to do, and that font at that size was eerily blurry and elusive to me. I actually had trouble focusing on it, never happened to me before that I can remember. It was fitting, though. The look of it I mean, not it's ability to poke your...

Man, that WASTELAND huge-ass red wrench sure looks familiar, doesn't it? And who's that holding it? Could it be ANGELA DETH ARENA OF DEATH?

I had a barrel outside hardcore city bar with about 30 tac vests and 30 crossbows in it, and a ton of other things as well, obviously. It doesn't take long before the merchant's money and goods is the limiting factor on how quickly you're getting obscenely rich rather than how much loot you can...