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Minichan

Topic: How come every pre-war thing in fallout looks like it's from the 1950s?

dreamworks !AUIkTW/L46 started this discussion 15 years ago #11,357

The war didn't happen until the 2200s so there should be modern stuff but there's not

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #204,223

Because that's a theme of the series. It's based around what 1950s America thought the future would look like.

dreamworks !AUIkTW/L46 (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 7 minutes later, 8 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #204,225

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
What's that called?

The Pony !.PonyTzEbE joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #204,229

@previous (dreamworks !AUIkTW/L46)

Zeerust

But thats why a lot of the enemies are giant animals. It was common back them to be all like "oh radiation mutates animals to be massive"

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brie !OudrPWaUDQ joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #204,233

Alternate history. In the Fallout world, technology developed differently after WW2; they didn't even have transistors until the 2060's.

here you go: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Divergence

dreamworks !AUIkTW/L46 (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 11 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #204,240

thanks for the helpful replies minichan

!penisGseqs joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 8 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #204,246

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrofuturism
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