My friend's pre-fall family heirloom kept beeping faster, but still, we found nothing. (lemmy.world)

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I started to suspect that "Geiger Counter" was not old German for "Gold Collector", as he had said.

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[-] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Minor question: what does pre-fall mean here? Is it pre-autumn? (Yes, I'm American lol, where "fall" also means autumn) Or does it mean the years prior to the fall of the Germany in 1945? Or maybe fall of the Soviet Union? Both would be plausible for the eras where radiation sources got lost on a near regular basis.

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It means neither. It's a commonly used term when roleplaying post-apocalyptic scenarios to denote "before the apocalypse". So OPs scenario is survivors of an apocalypse lead to believe a Geiger Counter is a gold detector.

Edit: to clarify, the "fall" it's referring to is the fall of civilization

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Fall = WW3.

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