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Posted by Minuit on Apr 15th, 2008 digg this super bookmark

I've been seeing a lot of these kind of mods, lately:

"The year is 20XX. The world is in a state of despair after the collapse of society through fierce warfare between 2 superpowers. Blah blah the Russians began stockpiling their nuclear weapons. On May 5th, the first nuclear weapon used in hostility since Hiroshima was fired at a major US city"

Blah blah blah! Seriously, STOP WITH THE "A bleak, war-torn future where war is rampant" ideas! They're not original, the premise is always the same, predictable chain of "disastrous" events and the idea has been bloody done to death.

If you are a modder guilty of this, please rethink your story. Seriously. I'm fed up with these damn generic stories.

Argh, just had to get that off my chest.

gg.

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dethtoll Apr 15 2008, 5:59pm says:

I agree! It's an old and tired concept, but for some reason people like post-apocalypse scenarios. I blame Fallout.

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dethtoll Apr 15 2008, 6:06pm says:

Actually...

Come to think of it, the concept of a "war-torn future" is in a way symptomatic of the post-9/11, post-Iraq world in which it seems like war is everywhere and nowhere, where the average person living in the West (Europe, the United States) never knows what war is really like, knowing only that it's "over there", if they even know there's a war on at all (case in point: conflicts in Africa) but it seems to them that war has touched every corner of the world except theirs. War-torn futures in fiction are emblematic of the paranoia and looming dread that someday soon human society will destroy itself- a fear that went away for about 10 years during the 90s then came back with a vengeance. They used to be a popular trope during the 80s only to disappear for a time, but now they're in common use again.

But then I don't have a sociology degree so what do I know?

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