Haha that's actually pretty much exactly what I was picturing.

Huzzah! My spin-doctoring talents win again!

No, it does not affect me in the slightest and I do not feel any guilt for playing the game. Allthough I don't actually play any of the FO games anymore, regardless, real world issues do not affect what I play to any great extent. I am able to separate games from reality and I don't see why that would be a problem honestly.

What happened to Japan is terrible, but what happens in Fallout is not real, that's the key difference.

i didnt even think about fallout when i heard about the reactors. Im just glad that my friends in japan are safe and if they didnt live there, i probably wouldnt care about this catastrophe.

This has made me laugh so hard I'm tempted to sig this. :laugh:

THIS!


No.


No.


No.


Neither.


North America

Fallout is a game, not even realistic, about nuclear war.

Japan has suffered a terrible earthquake followed by some serious incidents on nuclear power plant, some real people are irradiated.

It's like asking if a car accident viewed on TV have affected your playing on GTA.

This. Sorry for all the people affected by this and I hope you guys recover quickly, but, since it has little impact on everyday life for me, its at the least of my concerns. Sorry.

Fallout is a game, Japan's disaster is real life.
It seems that comparing the two is akin to driving over pixellated beggars with a pixellated ferrari while looting and pillaging a pixellated city, then being interrupted by a drunk semi driver running full tilt into your living room wall. Mpst people won't fathom it until directly affected.

Thousands of people have died, FOR REAL, in Japan, becuase of this tragedy.
Pixellated peeps are not real.

Life. It's unpredictable. Japan is a nation of prepared, efficient, organized individuals. They will overcome this, despite what the fear mongering media say. I have faith in the nation and people of Japan.
I'm not worried about radiaton.
I would be if it were some third world country with ancient reactors in a constant state of disrepair.

I really don't see what relevance a fictional game has to a real world tragedy. Also, 98 people weren't worried about nuclear power? ARE YOU PEOPLE [censored] [censored]?!?!?! Building a [censored] ton of nuclear power (like obama wants to do) is not only a half as way of avoiding the issue of finding clean energy, not only does it expose cancer causing radiation to the workers and environment and people living near by (not to mention the areas the dump the wastes in and the fact that they are already having trouble finding "safe" places to store them), but building a bunch of them IS LIKE ASKING TERRORISTS TO ATTACK THEM! You might as well paint a massive ass target on the country!

I think the wrong question was asked in the OP. I play games to escape real life, so no I do not let them influence each other nor do I feel bad. Everyone always talks low about the human race, and how we are such trash, yet we have some amazing abilities that many people over look. One of those abilities is being able to stand face first into the unknown with hope and pride and courage. Not letting anything stop us. I know what happen in Japan was horrible but I don't let it stop me from living my every day life, there is no reason to let fear control my life.

I think the biggest question to ask, or the better one to have asked would have been, does seeing the disaster in Japan make you rethink how horrible it is to live in the fallout world? We play the game as a hero character and become uber tough and we often times fantasy about how that's how we would live in that type of event. But honestly look at japan and look at how they have it, do you think that living in a fallout world would be easy? I don't, it has shattered what was once a nice fantasy into reality. Life like the people in fallout games live would be as horrible as whats going on in Japan.

There's too much nonsense in your post to respond to all of it, so this will have to do:

:facepalm:

No.
No.
No.
Neither.
Europe.

It's a fantasy game. I'm surprised there's even a discussion about this.

As somebody else said, this current issue in Japan implies that I am now concerned about nuclear power. I'm not. The waste issue is a big problem, but other than that, the chances for something going wrong here (Britain) are very slim. Nuclear power is probably one of the better ways to deal with energy needs until sustainable energy is viable.

No it doesn't affect my enjoyement.
No I don't feel quilty.
No, I still think that Nuclear power is THE source of electricity. Atleast before fusion power becomes efficient.
Neither.
Finland.

Edit: This is the best pic the I've seen of the fukushima accident.

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Of course we are very concerned about Japan, but Fallout is just a game.
However, I was in the game's house at Arlington Cemetary, and felt sad. the sick part is though, I turned on Galaxy Radio, cheered up, and went about my merry way.

No,No,No,No, Positive, North America.

I really don't see the problem with it.I said positive because as long as its some time after theses events(WWII games) it wont bother anybody.However when its something like the new MOH then there can be problems.

Technically it already has. Don't eat anything you find dead at Sellafield.

How is it nonsense? Nuclear enegy IS dangerous, weather you chose to ignore that fact or not.

Any source of energy is dangerous! Nuke power has gone to steps so that radiation leaks will almost never happen, unless someone really screws up.

I don't ignore it. However, unlike you I realize that Western power plants, especially those recently built, have so many safety measures that it is almost impossible for any serious accidents to happen. Unlike what you said, there is no danger to the workers or the surrounding area unless something goes terribly wrong, and that is very rare. Much rarer than say, a chemical factory burning down. The power plant in Japan was hit by a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami and the consequences are still very limited. Definitely worth it, considering that nuclear power is now the cleanest and most easily available source of energy we have. But if you want to go back to coal powered plants and pump our atmosphere full of CO2 while dreaming of the day that solar power can satisfy our need for energy, be my guest.

Can't respond to the politics in your post because of the forum rules, but they're almost as nonsensical as the rest of it.

I'm more concerned about the next Fallout game. I bet now they will ban the next installment, or Bethedsa is going to have to do some heavy censoring. Radiation will probably have to be called Nuka sickness or something.

And what about the storage of the nuclear waste from the plant? I've heard that there starting to run out of safe places to store it, and that there is lots of radiation in the areas that they do put it in.

Can't respond to the politics in your post because of the forum rules, but they're almost as nonsensical as the rest of it.

I didn't say anything about politics (aside from a brief mention), just that nuke plants could be huge targets for terrorists.

I'd love to get a very sensitive giga counter (not sure if I spelled that right), and walk around the outside of a nuke plant. I'd be willing to bet that there is at least some minimal radiation around the plant. The fact that is "not enough" to harm you doesn't mean [censored]. Unless its from smoking, people tend to get cancer from a mixture of things (mostly wireless signals from various devices). The more exposed you are to cancer causing things, the more likely you are to get it. The minor amount of radiation from such power plants is just one more thing added your being exposed to (if you live near a plant). Not to mention the fact that if there is any kind of waste (esp. harmful or dangerous waste), it should not, and can not, be considered Clean energy. Clean energy is stuff like solar, wind, or water power (not sure what the specific names for each of them is). What it comes down to is that nuke energy is just a temporary solution. I've never heard anyone say otherwise. Why should new nuke plants be built (thus wasting LOTS of money), when we could be investing in other sources and have COMPLETELY clean energy sources in 10-20yrs.

I'm more concerned about the next Fallout game. I bet now they will ban the next installment, or Bethedsa is going to have to do some heavy censoring. Radiation will probably have to be called Nuka sickness or something. 

I highly doubt this. Japan probably wouldn't have banned FO 3 or NV at all. Bethesda changed the name of the mini nuke gun (fatman, which was the code name for a nuke we dropped on japan) and removed the option to nuke megaton because they felt it would be wrong or insulting due to the fact that not only did we bomb them, but they are the only nation to have been hit by a nuke. As far as I know, the only other censorship was in Australia (and maybe Germany) because they considered the picture of the drugs too graphic.

Really doesn't matter to me what happens to people I don't personally care about, so it doesn't affect how I feel about FO3 in the least. '

The crashes and bugs, on the other hand...

As I recall, all they did here was change the name of morphine to something made up.

*Must. Resist. Political. Comments.*

No they won't and censoring Radiation? That's just ridiculous might as well censor every single word if your going to do that.