We can argue about the specifics of whether this apocalypse makes sense but a ton of what this kind of setting is about is the idea that high-tech civilization is really fucking fragile Everything depends on systems layered on systems layered on systems
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
So, yes, the Fireflies really are running out of time The world is filled with machines that are breaking down and can't be fixed once they do, resources that will get used up and can't be renewed If there's no vaccine now there probably will never be one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
If an army of vaccinated soldiers can't be raised within a generation to clear the Infected hives from the cities, there probably won't ever be one A generation from now it'll be the Clickers clearing out the survivors instead
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean this is a bit of ludonarrative consonance, this is reflected in the gameplay This is why all your weapons have extremely limited ammo or they break after a few uses, and you constantly have to scrounge for supplies to make more
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You just set the damn cities on fire, Arthur.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Like I said - yes, the world-that-was is gone. But it's still gone whether or not you made an extremely limited vaccine. The dream of bringing it back, embodied in clinging to pointless empty cities instead of torching places you don't use and manufacturing nothing, is poison.
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Okay, well, so much for having surgeons who can save people from dying after minor injuries in the future either then
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Shit, the status quo in the future, the decent life people are able to manage to eke out in places like Jackson, *depends* on scroungers braving zombie-infested cities to loot them for their treasures That's Joel and Tess' whole job in 1
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Torching all that and going "We'll just live off the land!", which is never brought up diegetically in the story as a possible solution, is also clearly a deeply fucked up idea
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Technically it is brought up, as what the Seraphites did to that whole area of Seattle
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Well yeah The Seraphites' whole militant Amish thing is interesting because they are right - the outbreak would've never happened if not for global capitalism - but also obviously wrong - God isn't going to bless and protect them just for not using electricity
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