Help! my town was just nuked!
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I would not bother with it because if their town got nuked, they'd be dead. No going into the frige wont save them. they wouldnt be able to open the door to get food and would starve to death...
"Help! My town was just nuked!"
"Seriously!"
It sounds like an incredibly bad troll. I would go with the "Pics or it didn't happen." response.
"Seriously!"
It sounds like an incredibly bad troll. I would go with the "Pics or it didn't happen." response.
This. Or I'd ask why they're still alive, considering that their town WAS JUST NUKED.Fat Man Spoon said:
EDIT: Actually, it would be easy to tell if they're being stupid, a nuke would be in the news within seconds. So there would be no confusion.
Ummm if your town was nuked why the fuck are you on a computer posting about it. Shouldn't you be trying to find you loved ones or legging it out of that shithole before you die or radiation?
It'd be the first nuke to be dropped in hostile action for decades. It'd be plastered everywhere on the news. Also they'd be dead. If they weren't the LAST thing they would do is post about it on the Escapist. Seriously, they'd be getting their affairs in order and seeing what they can salvage from their lives. Also the massive EMP would probably have disabled their PC if they WERE within range at the time. They'd be trolls and I'd ignore them.
Interesting. Anything smaller than 400 kilotons wouldn't make it out to my house if it were exploded directly over the casino district downtown. That makes me feel much better about the world.paulgruberman said:
(edit: Also, if anyone was going to nuke Nevada, they wouldn't nuke Reno---not when Vegas is a much more attractive target. Then again, how would we get Fallout 2 without Reno getting turned into a wasteland...er, more of a wasteland than it already is?)
C'mon guys, you could survive a nuclear blast. Just shake it off, take a couple of deep breaths, and keep shooting. Oh wait, that's Call of Duty. Zing!
I wonder how many people who stated something about the EMP wiping out electronics had no idea that even happened during a nuclear blast until after they played Modern Warfare 2...
Heh...should we set the over/under at 60%?Ryuzaki001 said:
To the question - I'd first have to imagine the kind of situation where that would ever, ever happen.
You couldn't be in town. There's no way. First of all, anyone in town who was outside the radius of direct radiation, and even outside the radius of the EMP, would most likely be unable to communicate with the outside world. Even after a very minor earthquake in LA, causing no deaths and very little property damage, cell phone lines and ISP networks were swamped nearly to the point of uselessness. For a better example, people living in and around the greater Manhattan area were nigh unreachable for several days after the towers fell. So in this case, I'd be willing to bet the entire county would be incommunicado to anyone who was not part of emergency services.
So you'd have to be out of town that day, thank your lucky stars. Most likely, you're trying to reach your friends and family, make sure they're okay, etc. What would make you go here specifically? For up-to-date coverage, you'd just have to turn on the TV. Lacking a TV, the internet is just as good: you'd be refreshing a news site every twenty seconds most likely, or watching streaming coverage, etc. To do a generalized request to get word to your loved ones, there would probably be better options springing up all over the place, numbers to call and so on. The only thing I can think of, is that you're friends with an Escapist user or users who live geographically near your home town, but not specifically in the town. And perhaps in the chaos of the moment, you forgot that you can PM people, so you make a public thread asking for their help.
In which case, only those friends in particular would be able to provide any realistic "help" in this theoretical thread. My own reaction would be more generalized sympathy for the OP, I imagine. Most of the first several pages of the thread would be a really interesting read as the back-and-forth plays out between you and that person or persons, checkered with the various responses by 3rd party members such as myself, and then once the thread has reached its conclusion, it would carry on (by merit of most-likely being the largest Incident-relevant thread on the site) in a more generalize direction of what everyone thinks of the attack, how it's affecting them personally, etc. Followed in turn by irrational pontificating, paranoid suspicion, and macho declarations once the initial shock wears off.