Okay... aside from the so totally obvious that I can't believe he missed them, 80s end-of-the-world tropes like Alphavilles' "Forever Young" to Nik Kershaw's "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me", or more recent RPG Modules like "Hot City". by Contested Ground Studios, the author seems totally too young to understand the 80's mindset, the mindset that said "Yes, we expect a nuclear war sometime soon and we don't expect to survive it". I would be willing to bet the author is too young to even have been born in the appropriate time period...
You know, in a way, I see this current world as a world of uncertainty whereas in the 1980s we had some sort of certainty -- that is to say, we were certain a nuclear war would happen sooner or later and we would all have to live with the consequences. The world as we knew it was going to end, we "knew" it... even if it did turn out to be wrong, at the time we had some certainty...
These days, there just doesn't seem to be any sort of certainty to anything.
Edit: That'll teach me to try and write a post while I'm rushing around to get ready to catch up with friends in town... Hot City should have been
Cold City. It has a partner - although not connected - game called
Hot War that also fits into the "continuation" genre and me being a dumb-arse on the day, confused the two titles
05-11-2015, 04:54 AM
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