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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
Ah -- I get your point now, and yeah, sorry if my initial post sounded a bit too rooted in survivalist fantasy and such.
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HS,
No need to apologise, probably something of an overreaction on my part. Please accept my own apologies!
A recent article characterised this and other tropes as "nuke porn", complete with metaphorical "money shots" (detailed descriptions of atrocities, nuclear attacks, cannibalism, etc.). Cannibalism is all-too often a kind of lazy shortcut for moral degeneration and the collapse of civilisation. Cannibals are like "orcs" or zombies, bestial subhumans to be liquidated without guilt or remorse.
Getting back onto topic, I was reading of Trump's Mar-a-Largo estate in Palm Beach Florida.
"In 1985, Donald Trump paid $10 million for the estate, which contained 33 bathrooms,
three bomb shelters and a nine-hole golf course. Ten years later, he converted it to a private club with a spa, tennis and croquet courts, a new ballroom and beach club. Current initiation fees are $200,000."
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/home_ga..._web_0418.html
In the larger sense, if you or anyone lives in Florida then by all means, run a game there! I can't emphasise how fun it is running a game in your home state or province, and especially your own city or near where you live. I'm running a PbP game set in my home town of Vancouver, and when I want to I can go out and have a look at the physical geography. One of the players lives close by and every once in a while we meet up for coffee and check things out, take photos, do a "walk-through" of an area to gain a better understanding for offensive or defensive operations, or just to go over an engagement for amusement. ("Okay, the claymore would have been set up there, behind the Hydro pole... later, the biker takes off down the alley there, Andy is standing here, turns, puts two aimed shots into his back and brings him down.")
Tony