WEBVTT 00:00.959 --> 00:02.508 [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the Fallout lorecast. 00:03.795 --> 00:08.742 [SPEAKER_01]: The podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout. 00:13.750 --> 00:16.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Wieslanders and Vaultwellers, welcome back to the Fallout lorecast. 00:16.855 --> 00:36.203 [SPEAKER_01]: We have two episodes in a row talking about pre-war businesses, so we're getting right back into it, still in the D's section alphabetically, and we're starting this week with a company that seems to have been in the process of constructing maybe a road in Appalachia. 00:36.544 --> 00:40.129 [SPEAKER_01]: The company is called Dent and Sun's Construction. 00:40.109 --> 00:50.142 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're traveling across Appalachia and you are on state route 101, then you can reach this location by following that road to what appears to be one of its endpoints. 00:50.723 --> 00:56.230 [SPEAKER_01]: And this was the construction company that was working on expanding out that road. 00:56.590 --> 01:06.403 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, you can tell that the remains of what is here were being used to excavate the ground itself in order to flatten and prepare it. 01:06.383 --> 01:09.449 [SPEAKER_01]: for the expansion of the road when the bombs dropped. 01:09.770 --> 01:14.179 [SPEAKER_01]: And so the road ends here with Dent and Sun's construction. 01:14.500 --> 01:18.428 [SPEAKER_01]: And the name I think is interesting because Dent is a last name. 01:18.488 --> 01:25.523 [SPEAKER_01]: People have that last name, but also a bunch of construction equipment Denting things is kind of fun to think about. 01:25.503 --> 01:27.829 [SPEAKER_01]: But really there isn't a ton of information here. 01:27.930 --> 01:41.487 [SPEAKER_01]: What we do know is that in the years since the war this has become one of those locations that the Raiders like to hang out in it doesn't become a large base by any means what is here is very minimal. 01:41.467 --> 01:46.654 [SPEAKER_01]: you have the remains of what could best be described as a mobile home. 01:46.875 --> 01:59.172 [SPEAKER_01]: It basically looks like a manufactured home on a mobile home type lot, but was being used as their office at this location as they moved machinery around in those types of things. 01:59.152 --> 02:28.180 [SPEAKER_01]: And on this location, you can see a few different big yellow dump trucks, a big red truck for hauling things, some tractors, a fork lift, a pickup truck, a lot of other equipment that's just been left here from the pre-war times, but built on top of that are barricades and there's a little tower over by where the road is that maybe the Raiders built or who knows, somebody could 02:28.160 --> 02:31.268 [SPEAKER_01]: and maybe it got taken over by Raiders. 02:31.349 --> 02:38.836 [SPEAKER_01]: There's even a remains of a fridge outside the location outside the office and a satellite dish on the roof. 02:39.377 --> 02:50.448 [SPEAKER_01]: And other than the things that the raiders were maybe somebody else added to this location in those years between, most of the equipment looks like probably it was left where it was and is inoperable. 02:50.888 --> 02:52.470 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's driving these trucks around. 02:52.890 --> 02:56.373 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's actually using the office as an office anymore. 02:56.514 --> 03:00.057 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, it's fairly well dilapidated over the years. 03:00.037 --> 03:03.944 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, is there anything else that we can know about Denton Sun's construction? 03:04.385 --> 03:05.627 [SPEAKER_01]: Do we get a hollow tape? 03:05.687 --> 03:08.312 [SPEAKER_01]: Do we get, I don't know, the remains of a body with a note? 03:09.173 --> 03:12.800 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, this is basically all there is at this location, that's it. 03:13.301 --> 03:15.905 [SPEAKER_01]: So, time to move on to the next one. 03:16.526 --> 03:21.876 [SPEAKER_02]: You're a gaze of God on one of America's greatest finds, deserve for the nebricos of science! 03:22.362 --> 03:32.375 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're finally getting to the point where we are referring to businesses that get referred by previous businesses through connections and ownership and that kind of thing. 03:32.876 --> 03:35.279 [SPEAKER_01]: This one is Diamond Incorporated. 03:35.299 --> 03:42.649 [SPEAKER_01]: Diamond Incorporated is mentioned on a terminal in the office of urban planning in the office building. 03:42.629 --> 04:00.385 [SPEAKER_01]: And the reason why this might sound familiar is because when we previously talked about compute-tech-tron, this was a division of skex corporation which will show up in the future when we get to the S's, but both of these were wholly owned by Diamond Incorporated. 04:00.365 --> 04:03.691 [SPEAKER_01]: Because they have something to do with computers, that seems to be the connection here. 04:04.332 --> 04:11.124 [SPEAKER_01]: Other than this one entry, and this only shows up in Fallout 3, we know nothing else about diamond and corporate. 04:11.164 --> 04:20.500 [SPEAKER_01]: This is one of those companies that would be interesting to learn more about, because it seems to own a number of other computer and technology companies, 04:20.480 --> 04:22.022 [SPEAKER_01]: But what were they doing? 04:22.203 --> 04:23.945 [SPEAKER_01]: Why did they own these companies? 04:24.025 --> 04:26.709 [SPEAKER_01]: And it makes me wonder, I mean, this is fallout, right? 04:27.130 --> 04:41.070 [SPEAKER_01]: And we do know in the pre-war environment, many of the businesses that we know are larger companies that have shell corporations and other companies underneath them, much like what happens in the real world today. 04:41.050 --> 04:55.811 [SPEAKER_01]: For example, most of the things you buy at a grocery store are made by like four or five actual companies that go by lots of different names or most of the media that we consume is actually three or four different media companies that's all been consolidated. 04:56.152 --> 04:58.195 [SPEAKER_01]: And that happened in the following universe. 04:58.535 --> 05:00.578 [SPEAKER_01]: But not only did that happen. 05:00.727 --> 05:19.563 [SPEAKER_01]: Many of those companies, their CEOs, the people at the top, were involved in other endeavors, maybe they were on-clave members, maybe they were working with other businesses in some sort of synergy like Valtek, or any of the other tech companies that are much more well-known. 05:20.164 --> 05:30.733 [SPEAKER_01]: There were probably connections between all of these businesses on some level, especially once they hit a certain level of success 05:30.713 --> 05:40.965 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, I bet there is more information that we could uncover about Diamond Incorporated if they were to show up in a future game, and we have to understand here. 05:41.406 --> 05:45.911 [SPEAKER_01]: There's no information here that I can uncover, so that information doesn't exist yet. 05:46.412 --> 05:59.387 [SPEAKER_01]: But what I'm just saying is it would make a lot of sense for the developers designing Fallout 5 or a future expansion to Fallout 76 to bring back a company like this and 05:59.367 --> 06:08.148 [SPEAKER_01]: More details about the way diamond incorporated might be connected to these other entities, businesses, important powerful people. 06:08.629 --> 06:11.215 [SPEAKER_01]: So keep a diamond incorporated in mind. 06:11.676 --> 06:15.064 [SPEAKER_01]: Just in case it shows up in the future, it might ring a bell. 06:23.077 --> 06:27.342 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been quite a while since I have consumed a hot dog. 06:27.402 --> 06:29.665 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how many people eat hot dogs regularly. 06:30.045 --> 06:39.736 [SPEAKER_01]: I did read something somewhere a number of years ago that of all the types of food that are probably worth never eating hot dogs are at the top of the list. 06:40.297 --> 06:51.109 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was something like the USDA recommends that you have at most one hot dog a year because of how unhealthy they are. 06:51.089 --> 07:01.985 [SPEAKER_01]: Hot dog is a fun thing to say, and hot diggy-di-dog is also a fun thing to say, and there's a business named Digities that is all about hot dogs. 07:02.526 --> 07:17.468 [SPEAKER_01]: Now this makes a lot of sense, so much of the fall of universe is playing off of these old timey types of phrases and old slang and things like that, and hot diggy-di-dog is one of those old timey slang probably from like the 1950s. 07:17.448 --> 07:23.603 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you travel to point-lookout in Fallout 3, then you can find Igidees hotdog stand. 07:23.623 --> 07:24.565 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just called Digidees. 07:25.006 --> 07:27.492 [SPEAKER_01]: And it is a hotdog stand, hotdog stand doesn't show up in the name. 07:27.973 --> 07:29.637 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is an unmarked location. 07:29.697 --> 07:32.263 [SPEAKER_01]: When you walk up to it, you can see the sign. 07:32.443 --> 07:36.132 [SPEAKER_01]: It is a giant hotdog with Digidees in front of it. 07:36.112 --> 07:40.120 [SPEAKER_01]: And underneath it, it's not a building that you go inside of. 07:40.140 --> 07:54.508 [SPEAKER_01]: It's more like one of those booths where the people work inside the building, but you walk up to the window, you order a hot dog, probably a new cola, whatever else you want, and then you carry it around with you while you walk around on the boardwalk. 07:54.488 --> 08:04.447 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, this isn't one of those locations, like the other ones I've talked about where we get a hollow tape or anything else that really gives us any more insight into who ran the business or what was going on here. 08:04.988 --> 08:10.438 [SPEAKER_01]: But we do know a little bit more about the decorations on the building, for example. 08:10.418 --> 08:20.721 [SPEAKER_01]: they also sold corn dogs because there's a sign that says corn dogs, they also sold popcorn and ice cream and ice cold drinks. 08:21.223 --> 08:28.900 [SPEAKER_01]: You know those generic signs you would see at say one of those types of locations, well this looks exactly like that. 08:28.880 --> 08:30.884 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, the whole place is shuttered. 08:31.405 --> 08:32.426 [SPEAKER_01]: It is closed up. 08:32.747 --> 08:34.350 [SPEAKER_01]: The windows are not open. 08:34.410 --> 08:37.676 [SPEAKER_01]: They have these metallic awnings on the front. 08:37.997 --> 08:39.099 [SPEAKER_01]: Honnings, is that the right word? 08:40.301 --> 08:43.046 [SPEAKER_01]: Screens, you know, the little drops in front of the windows. 08:43.527 --> 08:44.849 [SPEAKER_01]: And you can't look inside. 08:44.909 --> 08:47.614 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't go inside, but you can walk along it. 08:47.594 --> 08:56.258 [SPEAKER_01]: It was mostly designed as the kind of location that you would see at a place like this where you're walking around outside and different vendors and places have their booths. 08:56.679 --> 09:02.616 [SPEAKER_01]: So whether this is actually its own business that operated on the on the site. 09:02.596 --> 09:14.411 [SPEAKER_01]: Or if it was part of just the location itself, you know how that is, you go to a certain location and the place itself owns all the little businesses and they're not their own businesses, but they all have different labels and things like that. 09:14.811 --> 09:20.899 [SPEAKER_01]: Almost like going to a theme park where yeah, the little shops inside the theme park are not their own businesses. 09:21.099 --> 09:22.200 [SPEAKER_01]: They just look like it. 09:23.081 --> 09:25.144 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what this gives me the vibe of. 09:25.124 --> 09:30.712 [SPEAKER_01]: But I love the fact that it's called Diggities at Diggity Dog and also makes me think of Mickey Mouse. 09:31.152 --> 09:36.300 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure somebody out there is going to have that theme song stuck in their head from that Mickey Mouse show that one of my kids used to watch. 09:37.041 --> 09:40.886 [SPEAKER_01]: Also, that theme song written and performed by they might be giants. 09:41.487 --> 09:43.209 [SPEAKER_01]: Any other fans of they might be giants out there? 09:43.410 --> 09:44.131 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure somebody is. 09:44.611 --> 09:45.132 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there you go. 09:45.553 --> 09:46.474 [SPEAKER_01]: That's Diggities. 09:50.150 --> 09:55.916 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're heading back to Fallout New Vegas, and if you go back to the episodes where I was talking about the sign maker, remember that? 09:55.976 --> 10:02.602 [SPEAKER_01]: There were a variety of different signs, and this is one of the design details that is very good in Fallout New Vegas. 10:02.923 --> 10:15.035 [SPEAKER_01]: The way they designed these signs to look like the kinds of signs you would have seen in the 1930s or 40s or 50s for roadside diners, or in this case, a hotel. 10:15.095 --> 10:17.457 [SPEAKER_01]: Dini's hotel, 10:17.437 --> 10:22.986 [SPEAKER_01]: And the only reason we know about Danny Soetel is not because we know where the hotel actually is. 10:23.547 --> 10:25.511 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't actually know that location. 10:25.891 --> 10:30.860 [SPEAKER_01]: It may exist within Fallout New Vegas somewhere, and maybe one of those unmarked buildings. 10:31.581 --> 10:35.327 [SPEAKER_01]: But the sign is no longer there if it is. 10:35.392 --> 10:43.521 [SPEAKER_01]: where the sign is, in fact, there are multiple signs for Denise Hotel that are in and around different locations. 10:43.821 --> 10:46.684 [SPEAKER_01]: So, Zap's neon signs has three of them. 10:47.105 --> 10:49.748 [SPEAKER_01]: Free Sides Northgate has two of these. 10:50.248 --> 10:54.713 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you go to Driver Nephi's hideout, you can find another one of these signs. 10:55.134 --> 10:58.918 [SPEAKER_01]: And the signs are very distinctly Denise Hotel. 10:58.898 --> 11:01.302 [SPEAKER_01]: The hotel is very large and big in the middle. 11:01.362 --> 11:09.897 [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of this skewed rectangular shape and blue with white writing and neon on it that probably worked at some time. 11:10.198 --> 11:14.305 [SPEAKER_01]: And above that, in script, we can see Dini's in a little obvious shape. 11:14.365 --> 11:19.795 [SPEAKER_01]: And then below the sign at the bottom, we can see where it says no vacancy or what's left of no vacancy. 11:20.196 --> 11:20.957 [SPEAKER_01]: And then, 11:20.937 --> 11:24.083 [SPEAKER_01]: As part of the design, you have kind of this checkmark shape. 11:24.604 --> 11:31.176 [SPEAKER_01]: All of it looks very vintage, very much like the sign that you would see on a road trip. 11:31.416 --> 11:36.907 [SPEAKER_01]: If you went with your family in the 1950s, down one of these highways during the summer, something like that. 11:37.448 --> 11:42.437 [SPEAKER_01]: And it also looks like the kind of place that you would be more likely to say motel instead of hotel on it. 11:42.777 --> 11:44.160 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's clearly an H. 11:45.187 --> 11:47.912 [SPEAKER_01]: we don't know where this location actually is. 11:48.473 --> 11:58.650 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems like they were making a whole bunch of signs and so that implies that this was a chain of buildings or chain of hotels in many different locations. 11:59.131 --> 12:00.413 [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe that's the case. 12:00.654 --> 12:05.963 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe there is no Dini's hotel in the New Vegas area, but... 12:05.943 --> 12:17.559 [SPEAKER_01]: other places further out in the southwest, and yet the sign manufacturer who made the signs was here, and was in the process of making new signs for some new locations when the bombs dropped. 12:18.060 --> 12:25.150 [SPEAKER_01]: But all of this is speculation, there's no other evidence for this, and all we have are multiple signs that all look the same. 12:25.130 --> 12:43.392 [SPEAKER_01]: The probable meta explanation is that one of the designers designed this cool-looking sign, and so the level designers and the people who were building out the different locations decided to use it when it made sense at those locations, but it never got put up on top of an actual building that looked like a hotel. 12:43.372 --> 13:00.116 [SPEAKER_01]: So Fallout 76 designers, if you are listening, the next time you add an expansion to that map, drop in a Dini's hotel, pull the sign from this or build a new one that was inspired by the ones that we see here in New Vegas and put in a Dini's hotel. 13:00.176 --> 13:02.920 [SPEAKER_01]: Our listeners will notice, they'll point it out. 13:03.440 --> 13:09.649 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and make sure the beds in the pillows and things don't have any bed bugs in them because that's gross. 13:10.372 --> 13:12.643 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I don't know anything, mister. 13:13.709 --> 13:14.272 [SPEAKER_02]: I just think it. 13:15.317 --> 13:16.382 [SPEAKER_02]: And then, I don't. 13:17.105 --> 13:26.581 [SPEAKER_01]: I love the use of phrases and things from old timey stuff, and when I say dog house, you're probably going to think, okay, well, that's not really an old timey phrase. 13:26.661 --> 13:40.564 [SPEAKER_01]: People still have dog houses, but when I think of dog houses, I think of old cartoons, seeing the dog house out back in the Tom and Jerry cartoons, or whatever, dog houses feel like things that showed up in cartoons, 13:40.544 --> 13:47.096 [SPEAKER_01]: from the middle of the 1900s all the time, and I don't feel like they're things that we even think about anymore. 13:47.797 --> 13:51.824 [SPEAKER_01]: And doghouse happens to be the name of a dog food company. 13:51.844 --> 13:54.990 [SPEAKER_01]: It shows up in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76. 13:55.190 --> 14:02.383 [SPEAKER_01]: It is the brand Doghouse Brand Beef Stew Dog Food. 14:02.363 --> 14:08.013 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, why a dog would need beef stew flavor because dogs don't typically eat stew? 14:08.374 --> 14:11.880 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but you can tell it's packaged that way on the can. 14:11.961 --> 14:18.212 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you look at the can, the labels are extremely dilapidated and dirty. 14:18.192 --> 14:30.677 [SPEAKER_01]: And you can tell that originally, the text was in kind of an off-white yellowy color on top of a bright red background with blue bands at the top of the bottom with stars in them. 14:31.058 --> 14:34.986 [SPEAKER_01]: So it looks like a very American design. 14:34.966 --> 14:38.654 [SPEAKER_01]: Pro-American kind of brand dog house. 14:38.714 --> 14:51.724 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why dog house would be pro-American, but maybe they thought that would help with their sales because, you know, a lot of times businesses in these days put bigger and bigger American flags up on things, thinking that that's going to help, I guess, with their sales. 14:51.884 --> 14:52.806 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. 14:52.786 --> 14:56.271 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, this is one of these things that don't get upset at me. 14:56.391 --> 14:58.213 [SPEAKER_01]: This is one of those things I find kind of confusing. 14:58.774 --> 15:01.037 [SPEAKER_01]: Aren't we all Americans who live in America? 15:01.097 --> 15:03.260 [SPEAKER_01]: So do we really need to tell people? 15:03.501 --> 15:04.863 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, shouldn't that be obvious? 15:05.143 --> 15:15.317 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure somebody's going to argue and get political with me and be like, well, some people went, I'm like, yeah, but that doesn't mean that the basic assumption should just be, hey, we're all Americans, we're all in it together. 15:15.297 --> 15:17.380 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, I digress. 15:17.861 --> 15:22.169 [SPEAKER_01]: There really isn't that much more information about Doghouse as a company. 15:22.549 --> 15:27.938 [SPEAKER_01]: There are no other examples of the different types of dog food they make, the different flavors. 15:28.479 --> 15:31.865 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they made like a chicken broth flavor or something. 15:31.885 --> 15:32.566 [SPEAKER_01]: Nope. 15:32.586 --> 15:33.588 [SPEAKER_01]: Just beef stew. 15:33.968 --> 15:35.010 [SPEAKER_01]: That's all we get. 15:34.990 --> 15:49.218 [SPEAKER_01]: But since we did just talk about hot dogs, I wouldn't be surprised if dog house company and digatees hot dogs both get their ingredients from the same manufacturer of like recycled meats. 15:50.100 --> 15:51.683 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it would work for both. 15:51.663 --> 15:58.854 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so let that one sink in, but otherwise nothing else about doghouse, but you know what there was that is there still a perk in 76. 15:59.054 --> 16:02.039 [SPEAKER_01]: There was a perk where like if you ate dog food You got more health from it. 16:02.420 --> 16:03.321 [SPEAKER_01]: That was a thing for a while. 16:03.862 --> 16:04.623 [SPEAKER_01]: Probably still is. 16:04.883 --> 16:05.364 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't use it. 16:05.404 --> 16:10.112 [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't really know but there you go doghouse Get some get some yummy. 16:10.132 --> 16:10.612 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm dog food. 16:10.973 --> 16:12.415 [SPEAKER_01]: That should be the slogan. 16:12.575 --> 16:13.637 [SPEAKER_01]: All right next one 16:20.080 --> 16:47.539 [SPEAKER_01]: those gunshots mean it's time again to talk about an ammunition company this one is particularly interesting because most of the ammunition companies we talk about are pro-American that kind of thing this one is and i'm going to butcher the name here so apologies ahead of time if anybody speaks German and uh i'm butchering this i i'm very very sorry uh don't know stall 16:47.519 --> 16:51.528 [SPEAKER_01]: GMB H, the G in the H are capitalized. 16:51.688 --> 16:55.196 [SPEAKER_01]: That probably is, I don't know, meaningful in some way. 16:55.657 --> 16:57.060 [SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, why would it be there? 16:57.100 --> 17:04.616 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's another way to say Danube Steel, which is a limited liability company, according to the information here. 17:05.037 --> 17:07.502 [SPEAKER_01]: And we know about them because 17:07.482 --> 17:19.463 [SPEAKER_01]: This company shows up on amunition 9mm rounds in Fallout New Vegas, which I hadn't thought about previously. 17:19.523 --> 17:30.182 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess I don't pay much attention to the amunition that you pick up, but it turns out that when you're picking up 9mm rounds, you're picking up amunition made. 17:30.162 --> 17:33.185 [SPEAKER_01]: not in the United States in Germany. 17:33.646 --> 17:41.834 [SPEAKER_01]: And not only the name tells us this, the actual logo itself looks like the coat of arms of Bavaria. 17:42.255 --> 17:54.027 [SPEAKER_01]: It has the, and I don't know the phrases for coats of arms, but it has the kind of like checkered, like stretched checkered pattern in the background 17:54.007 --> 17:57.732 [SPEAKER_01]: Lion thing, I think it's a dragon lion. 17:57.992 --> 18:00.055 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, standing up on his hind legs. 18:00.736 --> 18:21.482 [SPEAKER_01]: But all of this points to Bavaria, German manufacturing, and that leads me to a lot of questions here because, again, and on the similar topic from the previous episode, with the Chinese vases showing up in a shop in the United States, we know how insular the United States was the years before the bombs dropped. 18:21.462 --> 18:29.878 [SPEAKER_01]: They became more and more isolated, and on top of that, we know that European companies were in dire straits. 18:30.419 --> 18:45.006 [SPEAKER_01]: The resource wars, the conflict with the Middle East, trying to get oil, all of that stuff meant that these places in the world were having extreme difficulties, and the United States and China became more isolationists and more 18:44.986 --> 18:49.153 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess imperialists and conquering their neighbors and that sort of thing. 18:49.473 --> 18:56.925 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's interesting to me that there would still be nine millimeter ammo made in a place like Germany shipped into the United States. 18:57.546 --> 19:09.604 [SPEAKER_01]: So this seems to imply that this ammunition was probably made a decade or two previous to 2077 to the bombs dropping and all of that and may have just been left over. 19:10.025 --> 19:12.529 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that ammunition has a 19:12.509 --> 19:13.571 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a limit on it. 19:13.611 --> 19:21.102 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure it's some point it does, but I would also imagine that bullets have sat around for like 10 years or probably find to use still. 19:21.542 --> 19:23.245 [SPEAKER_01]: And 10 years is just me speculating. 19:23.265 --> 19:26.229 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's a specific timeline on exactly when. 19:26.289 --> 19:27.831 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, that's a good question. 19:28.112 --> 19:37.926 [SPEAKER_01]: Exactly when shipments from international companies would have stopped, but I haven't feeling we don't have information for specifically every company and the United States completely shutting that down. 19:37.906 --> 20:00.990 [SPEAKER_01]: So based on I just took a quick little break to do a little bit of research, based on some research and refreshing my mind about this, it seems like this was a gradual thing, probably starting with the collapse of the United Nations in 252, and then continuing through the European Middle Eastern War from 252 to 2060, and then the main isolation of the United States begins in like 266. 20:01.050 --> 20:02.952 [SPEAKER_01]: So I was close. 20:02.932 --> 20:13.663 [SPEAKER_01]: but there's no specific list of these are the specific companies or these are the specific countries that were no longer being traded with. 20:14.104 --> 20:30.120 [SPEAKER_01]: Chances are that would have happened sometime in between 2052 and 2060 or something like that, which seems to confirm my initial intuition that this ammunition was probably shipped into the United States, 20:30.100 --> 20:33.584 [SPEAKER_01]: at least a decade, if not two decades before the bombs dropped. 20:33.824 --> 20:34.605 [SPEAKER_01]: So, there you go. 20:35.086 --> 20:40.973 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we get very specific detail in the lore, and sometimes we just get kind of broad sense of things. 20:41.193 --> 20:51.966 [SPEAKER_01]: So, specifically, I don't know that we're ever going to find out exactly when Germany themselves last shipped specifically 9mm ammo into the United States. 20:52.006 --> 20:55.691 [SPEAKER_01]: That feels very specific, but I think we have a good sense of it. 20:56.071 --> 20:56.732 [SPEAKER_01]: So, there you go. 21:02.922 --> 21:26.787 [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, onto the next one, have you ever sat down and paid attention to and looked in close detail to all of the different board games you can find across Fallout 4, 76, and then also these were highlighted, or at least the company that mix them was highlighted in the legendary run update for Fallout 76. 21:26.767 --> 21:39.221 [SPEAKER_01]: The company is called, don't be bored games or don't be bored games company and bored here is spelled B-O-R-E-D like boring, like something is not keeping your attention. 21:40.063 --> 21:42.109 [SPEAKER_01]: But obviously that's a pun. 21:42.089 --> 22:06.747 [SPEAKER_01]: And it probably wouldn't have made sense if they called it don't be bored like board games don't be board games By our board games don't be board games like that doesn't make any sense So I can see why they went with the pun here, but yeah, this is the company that makes titles like autopsy Blast radius Catch the cummy Rad poker the legendary run and Unstopable shindig 22:06.727 --> 22:09.532 [SPEAKER_01]: and I love coming across all of these different board games. 22:10.213 --> 22:15.983 [SPEAKER_01]: Every time I see one, I'm tempted to pick them up even if I don't need the materials that they break down into. 22:16.484 --> 22:21.773 [SPEAKER_01]: But I love that board games are featured in Fallout so predominantly. 22:21.793 --> 22:23.917 [SPEAKER_01]: And again, it makes sense. 22:24.057 --> 22:24.718 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 22:24.698 --> 22:29.302 [SPEAKER_01]: The United States had technology, computers, they even had video games. 22:29.322 --> 22:33.226 [SPEAKER_01]: You can play video games on a pip-boy or on a computer at a location somewhere. 22:33.246 --> 22:35.348 [SPEAKER_01]: You can put the little holotapes in and play the video games. 22:35.789 --> 22:38.231 [SPEAKER_01]: But that doesn't mean that board games went out of fashion. 22:38.291 --> 22:46.639 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, due to the cultural similarities with the mid-1900s, board games were extremely popular. 22:46.920 --> 22:54.587 [SPEAKER_01]: Every home had a monopoly or a scrabble or whatever from like the 1950s on. 22:54.567 --> 23:05.149 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you go into a major retailer today, if you walk into a Walmart or a target or anywhere like that, you will find an entire aisle with a bunch of board games still. 23:05.610 --> 23:07.153 [SPEAKER_01]: They're still extremely popular. 23:07.253 --> 23:12.063 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter that we have TV shows and video games, people still enjoy playing a board game. 23:12.624 --> 23:14.668 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we can thank you. 23:14.648 --> 23:19.194 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't be bored games for all of these different games that show up in the games. 23:19.234 --> 23:30.749 [SPEAKER_01]: Now what would be even cooler about this would be if you could actually find the pieces inside the boxes and collect all the pieces and then sit down and play. 23:30.769 --> 23:34.935 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine this in 76 if you sit down at like a table with your friends? 23:34.915 --> 23:45.593 [SPEAKER_01]: and then like the camera zooms into the board and then you can like spin the little dial or roll the dice and move your little guys around the board and play a board game with your friends inside the game. 23:45.994 --> 23:53.447 [SPEAKER_01]: That would be insane and I would love it and I'm not sure anyone would actually use it very often but I think it would be really cool. 23:53.427 --> 23:57.556 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, unfortunately, we don't get any other information about don't be board games company. 23:57.617 --> 24:03.450 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't get to visit a location where their offices were, or men you factoring was, or anything like that. 24:03.991 --> 24:11.027 [SPEAKER_01]: All we know about them is from the board games that are left around is just kind of, you know, to try this in these games. 24:11.548 --> 24:12.330 [SPEAKER_01]: But... 24:12.310 --> 24:14.373 [SPEAKER_01]: that doesn't mean that we won't come across this in the future. 24:14.553 --> 24:34.798 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, that seems like a fun location to put in something like a fallout five where you come across the actual manufacturing company and maybe this is a very popular company and they have like giant board game pieces in their lobby, kind of the way that, I don't know, you can go visit Bethesda and you can see the big old statues of power armor and stuff like that in their lobby. 24:35.258 --> 24:36.200 [SPEAKER_01]: That would be really cool. 24:36.560 --> 24:38.202 [SPEAKER_01]: So I've got ideas about board games. 24:38.522 --> 24:42.267 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, developers, if you want my ideas, reach out. 24:43.293 --> 24:46.992 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who Dot was, but I'm sure Porter's food does her memory proud. 24:47.647 --> 24:50.109 [SPEAKER_01]: All right, last one for this week, dots diner. 24:50.450 --> 24:54.333 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a location that shows up in the capital wasteland, so fall out three. 24:54.694 --> 25:01.440 [SPEAKER_01]: And this feels like the kind of place that's built around some of the vintage diners that we still have, like village in, or denies. 25:02.001 --> 25:05.744 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, unlike some of the other ones we've talked about this week, there is more information about these. 25:05.804 --> 25:08.006 [SPEAKER_01]: We get multiple locations in Fallout 3. 25:08.087 --> 25:16.995 [SPEAKER_01]: There's one in Canterbury Commons, grade-itch, north of the Metro Central Station, east of F Scott, Key Trail in the Campground. 25:16.975 --> 25:24.710 [SPEAKER_01]: Jerry Street and Metro Station has one nearby, and then also north of the Nucacola plant and west of the red racer factory, there's another one. 25:25.051 --> 25:28.157 [SPEAKER_01]: So you can visit these in a few different locations, and you're in luck. 25:28.177 --> 25:32.706 [SPEAKER_01]: There, open 24 hours a day, or at least they used to be before the bombs dropped. 25:32.686 --> 25:35.673 [SPEAKER_01]: But there are some other odd things that can be discovered. 25:36.014 --> 25:47.961 [SPEAKER_01]: The oddest thing here is the fact that if you go to the one near the Nukecola plant, you can find one of the rarest non-special items in the game. 25:47.941 --> 25:52.108 [SPEAKER_01]: There are lots of items that you can pick up in Fallout 3 that you can find all over the place. 25:52.269 --> 25:55.174 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just old junk that's laying around a non-unique items. 25:55.554 --> 26:01.645 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this location has the only guaranteed flour location in the game. 26:01.725 --> 26:05.231 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you remember picking up bags of flour in Fallout 3? 26:05.251 --> 26:07.956 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not particularly common, but they're not unique. 26:08.257 --> 26:13.105 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is the only place in the entire game where you are guaranteed to absolutely find one. 26:13.085 --> 26:22.579 [SPEAKER_01]: Plus, at the same location, you can find the US Army 30 handy flamethrower recipes magazine in order to upgrade your stats. 26:22.960 --> 26:28.829 [SPEAKER_01]: But most of these locations don't have anything nearly as exciting as those, and they're just full of booby traps and that kind of stuff. 26:29.230 --> 26:35.439 [SPEAKER_01]: But there is one of these locations, the one at jury street metro that is involved in the quest jigs loot. 26:35.920 --> 26:39.345 [SPEAKER_01]: So, it is worth visiting if you're going to do that questline. 26:39.325 --> 26:50.701 [SPEAKER_01]: Outside of that, we don't have any details, no old hollow tapes or details about who owned this string of diners, what company was in charge of them or anything else that was going on. 26:50.861 --> 26:52.283 [SPEAKER_01]: That would have been of note of any kind. 26:52.704 --> 26:56.209 [SPEAKER_01]: And even the sign itself is not as fancy as some of the other signs we've talked about. 26:56.269 --> 27:00.895 [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of this, I don't know, wider at the top, rectangular kind of shape. 27:00.875 --> 27:03.902 [SPEAKER_01]: That says dot's diner in a script font. 27:04.103 --> 27:05.186 [SPEAKER_01]: There really isn't much to it. 27:05.406 --> 27:05.807 [SPEAKER_01]: It's red. 27:06.268 --> 27:06.769 [SPEAKER_01]: So there you go. 27:07.130 --> 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