1) Centuries after apocalypse Bostonians still speak with Bostonian accents (and Bostonian self-importance, that\u2019s a detail they got really good), the robot Takahashi\u2019s Japanese speech is a subject of discussion, arrivals from outside the Commonwealth are big news, but no one makes note of the Longs\u2019 Chinese or the Bobrovs\u2019 Russian accents.
\n\n2) And somewhat related, people have re(invented/discovered) windmills, there are waterways everywhere*, traders and trade routes are the backbone of civilization** but under constant bandit threat, the USS Constitution is right fucking there, but no one thinks to go sailing.
\n\n*unlike the desert of 1 and 2, where they had an excuse
\n\n**this is why I did what\u2019s apparently unthinkable around here and sided with the Legion in New Vegas - what the Wasteland needs most of all right now is a force to pacify the roads and allow a traders\u2019 empire to consolidate; \u201cimitate the Roman Empire\u201d is not a bad approach; NCR city-state federalism doesn\u2019t scale and would fall to infighting; Yes Man\u2019s Free City New Vegas sounded tempting but not if the opportunity cost is rebuilding civilization.
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