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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Genuinely this is one of the biggest reasons I was never able to get into Fallout. It’s been 200 years, pick this shit up! Why is there rubble in the middle of the floor in the house you live in!? Did the apocalypse also make everyone ridiculous slobs? Pick up a broom!

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago
[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

The trash gnomes come at night and get everything dirty again if you clean the floor.

[-] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Even if nobody had picked anything up, it's been 200 years, the cities should look like this.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

How the fuck did the Empire State Building end up in Brooklyn lol. This perspective makes no sense. Cool greenery though.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

i think the correct answer is that they need a latin american cleaning lady to clean up their shit.

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

That almost makes more sense, in a weird way. If it were actually 200 years after the bombs, there would be a new high-tech society that had moved past living in burnt out buildings and shooting each other for radiation meds and expired MREs. Since they wanted to maintain the post-nuclear-chic aesthetic, they had to make everything look like it had been destroyed a week ago. If they tried to split the difference, where would it stop? You clean up the rubble on the floor, but there’s still trash everywhere outside. Clean up the trash, and you’re still living in makeshift buildings with no proper insulation, ventilation, heat, light, etc. I think you either have to go all the way in one direction or another for sake of verisimilitude, as silly as it is, and they decided that it’s Mad Max all day, every day.

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