After playing Fallout 3, my Boyfriend and his friends believe that the plot to Fallout with actually happen soon...
They're collecting bottle caps, making Nuka-Cola(I don't how, but I suppose they're making it during Science class) and creating schematics of weapons.
How YOU went through a phase or is in a phase like this right now?
I mean, I don't blame you or them.
Fallout seems revolutionary

the closest I got was contemplating making a Nuka-cola Quantum light, didn't get very far with the idea though

I dont go overboard on thinking Fallout is really possible like in the game. But it has made me plan out survival if a war on the scale of Fallout ever occured.

I think it might happen eventually, but not in my lifetime, so Im all good.

I kept a bottle cap from a coke once, for the lolz

Either they are in elementary or middle school, or they may just be nuts. Maybe they need to get help. If someone was actually behaving this drastically I would seriously be worried, unless they are little kids with big imaginations.

I'm not trying to be offensive fyi. This seriously sounds troubling.

They're.... In High School... :vaultboy:

I just got a couple cases of coke and slapped on some homemade "nuka-cola" labels on the bottles, so if this world goes to [censored] I'll be ready in case I run into a hot little ditz named Sierra.

I count bottles for a refundable place, I sometimes consider collecting all the bottle caps...

Do they really truly think what happened in fallout will happen in real life? And do they really truly believe that saving bottlecaps will help them and actually become a form of currency just like in the game? If so then they may need to see a psychiatrist or psycholgist.

Hopefully they do not truly believe all that and are simply having some stupid fun, and maybe trying to freak you out at the same time. The bottlecaps thing worries me the most.

Playin' Fallout 3 made me reasonably consider some kind of fallout shelter. Also, so did this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9rh4CDj9SI&feature=related

I've also dabbled in the quantum nuka-cola thing... this was one of my earlier versions, don't have the final unfortunately:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs059.snc3/14645_320259565569_894690569_9357922_5636979_n.jpg

Anyway, it's probably all in good fun. They'll probably get bored of it eventually. Or build you a sweet fallout shelter.

In light of what's happening in Korea recently, maybe a Chinese - American nuclear war is not so far fetched....LOL :nuke: I'll wait to start stocking up on hourglass-shaped colas though...

While I think some of the themes and ideas are interesting, and were actually based on a things and views in the 50s/years around that decade, I don't believe it's going to happen. I find it entirely possible one day some of us are going to abuse the nukes in the world-or all of us-and bad [censored]'s gonna happen. But we KNOW things like ghouls, super mutants, and I'm pretty sure nuka cola aren't going to happen. Sadly, that might just be an upgrade in what would happen in reality-if we blew up the entire world as many times as we could.

Though when I went through my most obsessive period of playing Fallout, I thought about it a little too much to be healthy, I'll admit. And even now I absolutely adore all of Fallout's concepts-and when I say that, I mean the whole series.

I've done my share of fantasizing about what the world would be like if it ended and I was one of the few survivors, but I've never actually tried to build a bomb shelter or stock up on supplies. I doubt the world will really end any time soon.

luckily i am not that obsessed with fallout, i still go outside and live my life as normal. Sometimes in bed i think of such thing like what if something like fallout will happen and what should i do. But that is what all there is, otherwise my social life is still awesome. :rock:

I thought about what a Fallout world would really be like. Then I realized I'd probably be dead anyway, so... meh.

I'm more worried about zombie apocalypse than I am about nuclear war.

In my opinion a zombie apocalypse would be more survivable then a nuclear one. In real life it's be very hard to survive after a nuclear war. There's no cure for radiation poisoning which kills you very painfully and slowly, a lot of buildings would be blasted to dust and there wouldn't be solid buildings to explore like in Fallout 3, and you'd be starving because most of the food and water would either be contaminated by radiation or destroyed by the bombs.

A zombie apocalypse on the other hand, you'd have plenty of stable buildings to seek shelter in and to hunt for food and supplies. Zombies are pretty slow and easy to avoid (I don't consider the "fast" zombies in 28 Days Later to be zombies at all), and sure if you get bitten you'll be infected and doomed. But if you quickly amputate the infected area you should be OK, and you could always just wear protective clothing like thick leather jackets to make it less easy for zombies to bite you.

A real life zombie apocalypse is damn near impossible to take place. First off, the second it's discovered, everything around the thing would be quarantined. They can't spread their disease without biting anyway, so cutting them off from society is really easy.

Second, since they are basically already rotting dead meat, weather would be very harsh on them. Heat can actually cause them to explode, and cold would cause them to freeze in place. Meaning LA would probably be the only place on Earth zombies could ever exist.

Another point is, they can't heal themselves, ever. So if they're damaged slightly, they're not going to recover from it. Even if you shoot one of them in the leg, they're pretty much useless as they can no longer move, and thus no longer cause damage or spread the infection.

Unless there's some sort of airborne virus that is spread across an entire city, but then again, they could simply quarantine a city. They've been known to do crazy stuff like that, whoever "they" are..

Nuclear apocalypse is also pretty survivable if you're in the right place. Say you live on a country that's a remote island. Like Cuba or Hawaii. Unless you're directly targeted, you'll live. Sure, things will be tough as you won't have the outside support, and exports, and economy would suffer, but atleast you'd be alive. A majority of the world would not be targeted, as no ones going to waste a nuke on a neutral country. Out of the ashes, it's pretty easy for humanity to come back. Plus, there isn't any ridiculous stuff in real life like Super Mutants or anything.

We have absolutely nothing to worry about. Except for local dangers like rapists, murderers, and thieves. :cryvaultboy: