marhawkman
Justified & Ancient
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I was thinking it was a laser pistol... since Fallout does have those and it doesn't seem to have a round barrel.I think it's a 10mm.
the connection between Mad Max and Fallout does make sense. Many of the fantastical elements and plots in the modern Fallout games... kinda weren't in the originals. OG Fallout had fantastical sci-fi elements to be sure, but was more focused on the effects of the collapse of society.
the missing element that you don't see in most post-apocalyptic fiction is HOW the "raiders" make a living. Some fiction would have you believe they're roving marauders who don't really have any infrastructure and live off of stealing from others. Which... only works when raiders are a minority. Otherwise you have a society with less production than consumption, and a dwindling production base. At least some of the "raiders" in Fallout have some sort of base of operations. there's one rather famous case in Fallout 4 where you see what might have been a group of raiders claiming an old fish packing plant as a base.... then actually using it to process fish? I say "might" because Mahkra is weird.... in ways players don't understand. Why do Synths care about the place? Why is every aspect of the "raiders" randomized, except that they all have the same face/body? Yes really, the raiders look like clones of each other. Is that a bug or part of the story? I don't know.
Heh, environmental story telling is tricky when you mix vague plot with what might be coding glitches, and things that are weird to start with.