I think when it comes to Bethesda fallout raiders displaying gore everywhere and the interplay/obsidion raiders not doing that, obviously the Doylist explaination is just that Bethesda thinks that fighting raiders that hang bodies and gore everywhere is fun. And theyβre right.
If weβre thinking of a Watsonian explaination though, maybe itβs a cultural thing on the east coast to display the bodies/heads of your slain enemies as a show of intimidation.
I mean the British did it up until the 18th century so like.
You know itβs fun to poke holes in the society of the Bethesda fallouts but frankly a lot of stuff going on in there is stuff that has also happened in the real world that weβve just forgotten about. So like. idk maybe human beings are just more gross than you thought they were. You know what I mean? Like if you think that displaying the heads of your enemies is rediculous take it up with the British.
βWhy are they still scrounging the ruins for building materials?β
Let me tell you a story about why the coliseum in Rome looks like that.
βWhy is there trash everywhereβ
Up until about the 1960s Americans used to throw trash everywhere and that was just part of the culture
βWhy are people still so obsessed with prewar America?β
I dunno why are people still so obsessed with Ancient Rome?
βWhy has society and language not changed much in 200 years?β
I dunno. Why has the Icelandic language not changed much in the past 1000 years?
βWhy are raiders displaying bodies everywhere?β
Ask the guys in the French Revolution that paraded around heads on pikes.
βWhy is there still radiation around?β
Magic. Next question.
