THEY BUILT A CITY AROUND AN ATOMIC BOMB BECAUSE.... THEY JUST DID, OKAY?!

>THEY BUILT A CITY AROUND AN ATOMIC BOMB BECAUSE.... THEY JUST DID, OKAY?!

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didnt they worship it or something

Yes fallout 3 has terrible writing, what else is new?

They literally explain it
>people are trying to get into Vault 101 nearby
>use crater for shelter, build walls out of airplane wreckage around it
>some whackjobs start worshiping the bomb
>need all the able-bodied people they can get, so don't kick them out or defuse the bomb
>eventually bomb has been sitting there inert so long that no one gives a shit because why would it explode now if it hasn't exploded for all this time?

Yes until
>18 year old who lived in a vault his whole life with "Explosives skill" arms or disarms it
Terrible writing.

need some help moving those goalposts?

There were no goalposts, your game is bad

>people are trying to get into Vault 101 nearby
>they shelter in a crater with a nuke in it instead of the nearby city which has somehow survived

They apparently moved all the metal for their buildings from an off-map airfield. So, if they had the manpower, organization, and determination to haul a shit ton of massive metal pieces across treacherous wasteland to a hole with a bomb in it, why didn't they just use those pieces to build a settlement in the airfield instead?

BETER THAN REDDIT CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF DESERET

0 WATER
GOOD LUCK TO SURVIVE

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Correct.

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>0 water
>literally next to a dam with working farms in between
unless yourself live next to a river i don't know what's 0 water to you

good morning sir

Not like there's a Hydroelectric Dam with a massive reservoir called... Something Mead, can't remember that first word.

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Lmao don't you know what plumbing is

Literally have pipes running from lake mead with fresh water. I think there’s a side quest to fix them even.

Seemed like a good idea at the time lol.
I mean, let's be honest here though, it's not like humans don't quite regularly build their cities and towns in areas highly prone to natural disasters like floods, earthquakes or on the foot of active fucking volcanos just because that was where it was easiest/most convenient to build their shit.

Really the idea of people being dumb enough to build a town around an active Nuke is not something I see as being unrealistic or impossible. We're always doing stupid shit like that.

People built towns next to rivers, lakes, oceans for transportation and agriculture (or Mining resources but those only lasted so long and were abandoned). A lot of though went into building a town because it’s a life or death scenario.

The issue is that people could have settled in the nearby ruins of Springvale.

F3 apologists will write paragraphs about Megaton or their source of food but if you ask them why are people still getting food from supermarket hundreds of years after apocalypse they will be quiet.

Floods, specifically river floods, provide extremely rich and fertile soils for farmland that are usually worth the risk. Volcanos generally look like mountains and are completely inactive the vast majority of the time, it's not like the Romans would have built Pompeii if Vesuvius was spitting fire regularly. Also volcanic soil is rich and fertile in a way similar to river floodplains. You can't see an Earthquake at a glance and they don't happen frequently enough to stop settlement altogether, you think Japan, Indonesia, and California would have massive settlements if they were having Earthquakes 24/7.
A region being prone to natural disasters in real life isn't the same as building a town around the open and active symbol of the greatest manmade disaster in history.

They just add a middleman that doesn't actually answer the question. Caravans trading food to towns doesn't fix the problem, and the entire argument surrounding the idea that caravans with magically spawning food is utterly destroyed by a single follow-up question.
>Where do the caravans get their food?