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Originally Posted by helbent4
As a point of fact, we may be coming from different points of view when it comes to education, as I can only say what I know locally (Vancouver BC).
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I've had more than my share of spats with people like Leg and others on here for slights or perceived slights to my country, and God knows I'm proud to be an American; but I absolutely despise our public education system. I was lucky and overcame the hurdle, but since my three kids got into school, I've been nothing but disappointed. I know Webstral is a teacher, and I hope he does his best to fight the system, but I firmly believe it's broken in this nation. I give kudos to nations that have broken the code and managed to actually educate their people.
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I've run post-apoc RPGs that use a Cold War background (WWIII involving the Soviet Union; in this case, The Morrow Project).
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Morrow is kind of a special case though. Just the premise of cryogenic stasis in the boltholes lends a certain fantastical aspect to it that appeals across a broad range. Big fan of Morrow here...
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The younger players (who are also not hardcore gamers) in their teens and twenties had learned about it school and were interested in the same way presumably we were about historical conflicts and periods we didn't live through, either. I mean, I was never around for WWII nor to any great extent the American-Vietnamese war but that didn't compromise my enjoyment RPGs and wargames on these themes!
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Please bear in mind that this has progressed past "I'm proving my point, I'm countering your point" and has gone into simple conversation that presumably could move to PM and no interest. However, the fact that we're discussing the post-apoc/Cold War/gaming industry, I feel warrants staying open in this thread.
That said, they did turn me off from many of those games. Granted, some GMs really ran great games, but being locked into historical certainties of knowing what really happened or what was going to happen if the game didn't diverge from reality really irked me. That's part of why I like futuristic/post-apoc games so much, I think. It's not written and there isn't a historical fact-check book to bounce my adventures off of. I've never been accused of following the mainstream in any of my hobbies though...