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I was hacking on HackWaste a bit more, & now I realize it doesn't have drugs, junkies, or any kind of slop brain infection. What is wrong with me?
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It does have cyborgs & some basic vehicle stuff now, so I ain't been completely nonproductive.
OH, I had some drug rules in my old Shotguns & Strip Malls crime game.
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@mdhughes most stories are better when inspired by real world than other stories
@viktorTheBoar I don't generally think that's true; SF & fantasy are better than professors-humping-grad-students "literature". Real life war stories are depressing & linear, mostly logistics & long-term destruction, without a lot of possibility for adventures.
The core of HackWaste is to force ethical choices on a small enough scale where you can do something about it, & those almost don't exist in "real world".
@mdhughes Sorry maybe I misspoke, I didn't mean imitating the real world, but rather finding inspiration. Real world is scary? Bring that fear into the game! Something from the real world is giving you faith in humanity? Make an allegory about that!
I seriously struggle with this game design, because I want to make it a terrible world where you need to thread between violence & cooperation in order to survive. Everything in it is about that, like dependence on artifact tech centralizes power, but universal primitivism sucks to live in (make some Disease rolls).
But it's just so hard to make it meaner than real life now, even in the "nice" places that aren't currently at war.
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