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Dr Wadd
09/22/09

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I`m going to have to side with some of my fellow commenters here and take some issue with the fact that this story is labelled up as having something to do with Fallout. I loved the Stalker game, and as soon as I found out about them I bought both the film and Roadside Picnic. I`m glad to see (although I guess I shouldn`t be surprised) that a good number of my fellow commenters have heard of both the film and the book, but I bet a lot of the wider science fiction audience have not. This article could have been the perfect way to introduce them to something that may have normally fallen under their radar. In fact, why not take this opportunity to post a retrospective on Roadside Picnic / Stalker (film).
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CedricCaecus
09/21/09

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The movie Stalker came out in 1979 and this article is about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. which makes the headline misleading. But I guess Fallout is a bit more well known these days.
Still, that's some mighty fine larping.
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OgdenQualakon
09/21/09

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@ ManchuCandidate, This is clearly S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and nothing at all to do with Fallout. The bolts (for detecting anomalies) give it away. This comes from Roadside Picnic or Пикник на обочине, Piknik na obochine, a 1971 Russian novel which was later made into the 1979 Soviet film "The Stalker". These all predate Fallout/Wasteland by many decades.
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d_r_e
09/21/09

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I'm slightly confused here, why does it say "Gamers Play Fallout__" in the headline, when this is clearly a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. cosplay deal? Stalker (or Roadside Picnic) was out a long time before the Fallout game series. Don't mean to nitpic, sorry.

This Russian group really goes all out on these S.T.A.L.K.E.R. events. I think this is the 4th or 5th one that I've seen now.
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ManchuCandidate
09/21/09

@d_r_e:
Fallout came out in 1997 as an RPG and based on Wasteland which came out in 1989.
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ManchuCandidate
09/21/09

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They could have gone to Chernobyl and played Fallout for Real.
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senatormayer
09/21/09

@ManchuCandidate: Can you go to Chernobyl? Is that allowed? - Apparently you can. And they call it The Zone of Alienation. Do the Russians live in a video game?
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Idaan
09/21/09

@senatormayer: Even if you can, Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia.
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CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton)
09/21/09

@ManchuCandidate: Lol. Seriously. And just like in Fallout, if they explore some old ruins of a military base they might find a broken down T-62 tank or some ammo for their kalishnokovs.
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Dirk Anger
09/22/09

@CmdrHunt (aka Clarence Colton): check out [englishrussia.com] if you're into that, they had a post about an abandoned tank base a couple weeks ago
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RandomFrequentFlierDent
09/21/09

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Oh those Russians.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
09/21/09

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I don't see any hairless mutated dogs or invisible whirlwind traps. Hmph, all their efforts were for naught!
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