The world was almost destroyed by a barrage of nuclear missiles.
It and it's people are scarred forever, knocked almost back to the dark ages, however,
humans do what they've always done best….they survive...through any means possible.
Sadly for you, that means you'll need to accumulate some bartering tools to acquire
some of the better survival gear.
Thankfully you've obtained this funky looking device on your wrist, that could be worth
a few bucks.
Specifically, I'm talking about the unique variant of the Pip-boy 3000 within Fallout:
New Vegas, known only as the Pimp-Boy 3 Billion.
This shiny[glint] sonofabitch is made up of gold, diamonds and of course the basic boring
parts found in every other Pip-boy 3000.
What I wanna know is, how much is it worth?
How many caps could I flog it for?
First of all, we need to obtain our free upgrade from the regular pip-boy to the glossy upmarket
alternative.
This is surprisingly simple to do but for those out of you who have played through New
Vegas a few times but are yet to obtain, or come close to obtaining your fresh piece of
wrist wear, I've got you covered.
All you need to do is make acquaintance and preferably befriend an Asshole Omerta, along
with the honest Freeside merchant Mick of Mick and Ralph's.
And finish the "How Little We Know" quest however you deem fit, I do advise dealing
with the Omertas in a violent manner, since it seems to add more flare to a low energy
playthrough.
Once you've run ruin through the whore-ridden Gomorrah casino/hotel, you'll be able to
return to your buddy in Freeside to claim your prize.
Now you're all set and actually own a golden device fit for a pimp, we can move onto the
real important business, it's value.
We could simply use the value that is embedded within the game's code for how many caps the
device is worth, however, this would mean the pimp boy wouldn't be worth a single
cap in a bartering scenario...and that's just not going to work for us.
To figure out the real world value for the pimp-boy, we'll have to find out its dimensions,
which is a lot more difficult said than done.
To begin with, I tried thinking of items or features in the world of New Vegas that I
could use as a standard for a certain measurement, that correlates with our real world.
The first thing that came to mind was street signs in America.
I thought, surely they'll be a standard height for specific types of posts for signs
to go onto...but apparently not, and that was a bust from the starting line.
Something that does seem to have a standard, would be Government buildings interior door
frames.
I know this sounds odd, but trust me we're sorta scraping the barrel to try and get a
measurement here.
Yet again, a spanner is thrown into the works as the game doesn't seem to have consistent
doorway sizes.
This could go on forever.
The scaling of New Vegas is a little odd, in the world map and certain objects but I
digress.
We're going to have to take a step away from the game and back into reality.
The only way we're going to make progress here is if we take a real world height for
the player character.
With the Fallout games almost exclusively being set in the main body of the United States
of America, we'll have to take the USA's average height...and since the player character
doesn't have a set gender we'll have to take the mean of the two averages, (176cm+163cm/2)
giving us the height of 169cm or 5 foot 6 inches tall.
After this, we can use a still of the player character, and use pixel measurements to divide
his or her body up and acquire the wrist width along with the length of the pimp-boy itself.
The length of the pimp-boy comes in at 15.9cm, whereas the width or diameter of the character's
wrist comes in at 2.652cm.
Which I thought, "That's really small." but then I measured my own wrist
which is roughly only 3 cm so it's not that far off a real person's.
This is where things get a little messy because it leans on the fact that the player characters
wrist is almost perfectly cylindrical, which normal human wrists are not.
Using these figures as a basis, along with using the delightful invention of Pi, we can
calculate the volume of the internal cylinder, otherwise known as the bit where your wrist
will slide into.
Using the πr2h formula, we get the rough volume of the player's wrist, being 87.78(3687576)cm3.
Yes, I know this seems pointless at this moment in time, but trust me, we'll need this later.
Now we just need to find the volume of the Pimp boy...urgh we're back at stage 1.
Fear not, I have a plan.
A totally real plan that I just can't reveal to you right now, unless you've caught onto
it, then well done, you've officially passed basic mathematics.
Right, so we know the length of the pimp-boy already (15.9cm for those who have short term
memory loss), now we just need to find the diameter of the whole device, whilst attached
to the wrist.
Thankfully we can apply a similar method of using pixels and an image manipulation program
to get a fairly accurate reading.
Including the wrist inside, the diameter of the device is 3.32cm.
Using the same formula from before (being πr2h) we can gather the volume for the overall
cylinder of the device, being 137.576(0856)cm3.
I know what you're thinking now...the pimp boy isn't perfectly cylindrical...it has
an outdent with the buttons and of course where the screen would come out.
Since we can never find out how thick the actual screen would go in, I'm once again
using pixel measuring to dictate the thickness of this area, bar the screen protective outdent.
Now we'll have to go back to school maths for the cuboid formula of Length x Breadth
x Height, being 15.7 x 5.3 x 1.4, which will get us the volume of 116.494cm3.
I know we have small in-dents and imperfections all around the device that i've not factored
in here but they're so small that it won't make enough of a difference to notice...so
don't tell the fool i'm selling my pimp boy to.
To finally get the volume of the device on its own, we simply need to subtract the two
cylinders from one another whilst adding volume of the cuboid and bingo, we have the sole
base of the pimp-boys volume of *Drum roll please*...166.286(398024)cm3. (sigh) What
do you mean that means nothing to you, and that's not what it's worth?
Okay, well if you asked the latter, you're actually half wrong...mainly because gold
is valued by weight and purity but I get your point...You didn't click on this video to
hear about what it's volume was but actually how fat your wallet would be after you pawned
your pimp boy off.
Don't worry, it's just a part of our journey.
As I mentioned gold is valued in (mostly) its weight.
And as of writing this video, gold is valued at $39.59 per gram.
Sadly we don't have the weight of the pimp-boy yet.
Since the device is supposedly fit for a true pimp who is decked out with the finest of
gear, we're going to assume it's made out of solid 24 carat, despite it probably
not.
But fuck it, go big or go home...we're in vegas for fuck sake.
1cm3 of this gold standardly weighs 19.3 grams, so again bringing out that multiply button
on our calculator, and pressing ferociously on those buttons we come out with the number
you've all been waiting for…
I should have saved the drum roll for this one but fuck it… it's worth $127,057.28.
To put that into perspective, you could buy 6,356 copies of Fallout: New Vegas' Ultimate
Edition with that wad of cash.
It's some serious fucking bank….
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!
This sonofabitch ain't just made out plastic computer parts and the lustrous gold, it's
got woman's best friend too!
MOTHERFUCKING DIAMONDS! AND lots of them.
I counted.
One-hundred and twenty eight of those fuckers.
In-game they're not exactly shiny and beautiful like in real life, but they're definitely
supposed to be Diamonds.
Like the gold, diamonds are valued differently, mainly dependent on the karat.
How do we find this out, well being a dumbass who knows little to nothing about diamonds
myself, we have to use the power of the internet to get the answer.
On my search, I found a solid guide into putting a code onto your specific diamond, by measuring
them, looking at the clarity and colour.
After you pinpoint your diamonds code and karat, you can get a base value.
Since our diamonds are so small, coming in at 3-4mm, it barely hits the 0.22 karat point,
which certainly isn't the most glamorous...but we've still to get the code for it.
I came to the conclusion that they were D-E-F Sl1's as they're fairly light coloured
with a light cloudiness to them.
Now we can get a rough value, according to some folks who actually know things about
diamonds… using the Antwerp World Diamond Centers formula, we would get $194.70 per
diamond, which sounds like a rip-off to someone like me who doesn't appreciate a good diamond
and probably not much to you wanting to see big numbers being thrown at you but in the
grand scheme of things, it all adds up...cause we have 128 of these bastards.
remember.
So that's $24,921.60 worth of diamonds glued to our wrist wear.
And with simple addition we come to the final value of a fully 24 carat golden pip boy with
diamonds thrown at it…
So we'll be able to flog our pimp-boy 3 billion for upwards of $151,978.88.
Not bad for sorting out a weapons trade deal in a post apocalyptic Las Vegas…
Shame the US dollar means bugger all to the people of New Vegas.
So for fun, let's just figure out how much bartering power you'd actually have in 2281
Las Vegas.
This turned out pretty easy to do, but I made it a lot more confusing than it had to be
but we just need to use the base value of a gold bar found in the likes of the Sierra
Madre Casino vault from the Dead Money DLC, which even has 999.9 imprinted into it, which
is gold people talk for really fucking good gold, fine gold...or to put a smile on my
face….24 carat gold.
Each bar is worth 10539 caps, and weighs your character down by 35 pounds.
35 goes into 10,539 301 times which we just need to multiply by the weight of our gold
in pounds.
Our gold weight being 3.2kg is roughly converted to 7.075 pounds, so when we times that by
301, we come out the other side with 2129 caps.
This is quite disappointing, but feels fairly logical, considering how useless gold is during
the apocalypse compared to what it is now.
But to put it into perspective you'll be able to buy 106 bottles of purified water,
assuming you can find that many being sold in the wastes.
OR you could just splash all of those caps on booze and hookers in the place that started it all…
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