I always figured the "joke" of the shelters was that they didn't have any legitimate radiation protection which is why skeletons and occasionally ghouls would be found in them.

Imagine a glowing ghoul walking into the Pulowski's Company building and saying "I would like to file a complaint".

I always figured that the skeletons inside the shelters were people that died of starvation while cowering inside and too afraid to step outside yet. It's a sad end to people who hoped that these blue coffins would keep them safe.

I realized these were a scam when I used one in a rad storm in fallout 4

The preservation shelter is good for two good things however. Having goodies and a much needed break from combat. It may have been a scam but hey at least it was useful in the future.

I'll never forget my first encounter with that tube. It was my very first time playing Fallout 4, and everything turned green and I had no idea what was going on, but I heard my rads spiking every time lightning struck, so I hid inside a nearby tube and closed the door... only to keep accruing rads because the damn things do absolutely nothing except sing you a jingle when the door closes. 0/10 would not recommend, I'm now a ghoul.

it's hilarious, that a literal fridge was able to protect a person more effectivly than that shelter

What's funny is that from the first time I fast one I always assumed these things had a lift system that lowered them underground so the top of it was flush with the ground, that way it could survive the initial blast. Finding out they don't is... Disappointing and obvious in hindsight.

Imagine... fallout 5.. you wake up after a nuclear war to find out you survived only because of a Pulowski shelter..

What profit is in these things?

This was how Pulowski himself raised enough capital to afford his ticket. To Vault 11.

The fact that you have to pay exact change is hilarious in a way. Its like "Oh, theres a nuke going off? let me just fumble around in my pocket for some quarters to put in this thing."

I wonder if the execs at Pulowski believed in their product enough to use it in the end or if they bought their own Vault-Tec shelter.

I love the irony that Mr Pulowski was more than likely in a vault due to the wealth he never even got to receive, so whilst trying to get rich he probably fell to one of the experiments of his biggest rivals

I like how there's always only one. Imagine seeing the bombs fall and a whole towns square worth of people rush to the shelter and only 1 person can get in