“It is 2020. 250k are dead from a raging pandemic; a private space company is launching crewed missions NASA can’t. A mad president is live-tweeting a painfully slow psychotic break, refusing to leave office. The planet boils.” —Blurb from “2020” obscure sci-fi book from 2007.
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Actually I can’t imagine it right now either, even though it’s literally happening all around.
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The state of play is too big and messy for my little head. I liked the pre-2015 easy mode release of this game. The reboot is poorly designed and unplayable.
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The difference from all the sci-fi I read that was vaguely like this is that there was a plot to those stories, and a cool anti-hero or anti-heroine going around kicking ass and taking names while artistically navigating a spiral of self-destruction.
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"Live... Tweeting? Is the president a bird?"
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Well Twitter had just been founded so it was a thing
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The part I missed was how impossibly stupid it'd all be.
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2007 was such a simpler time
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Maybe look further back. I feel like Phillip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut were starting to capture general feeling of right now.
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I did and it kind of derailed me as a person. I have an idea of who can help, but I'm a nobody and even bringing it up to people who know me causes their eyes to go wide with fear. It's not like in movies at all. They don't jump on board, they get scared.
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