03-30-2016, 12:27 PM | #11 | |
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03-30-2016, 05:21 PM | #12 |
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Re: [ATE] What makes you interested?
Same things that interest me in DF:
- Exploration - Survival - Sparse settlement and thus limited social situations - Combat is a dangerous thing; it's best to get the resources you're after without fighting whenever possible Of course, DF offers me a lot more other things I'm also interested in. It's the increased emphasis on the Survival aspect that'd make me want to try playing a post-apoc game sometime.
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03-30-2016, 05:58 PM | #13 | |
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03-31-2016, 10:25 AM | #14 | |
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'Research shows that in most scenarios, groups of people are more likely to help each other than hinder. “In emergencies, the norm is cooperation,” says Chris Cocking, who studies crowd behaviour at the University of Brighton. “Selfish behaviour is very mild and tends to be policed by the crowd rather than spreading.”' |
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03-31-2016, 10:33 AM | #15 |
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Humans have lived in bands since before we were humans, and probably before we were even apes. The idea that we devolve into solitary, selfish predators at the first provocation has always struck me as a weird one. But since it's usually presented as "they turn against one another; we don't because we're nice, right-thinking people", where "we" tends to be defined as "the people I know", I think it's just an expression of tribalism. It's easy to suspect "them" of something.
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03-31-2016, 10:48 AM | #16 | |
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Its also related to stereotypes about predators, who are often believed to operate alone (even though we know that lions, wolves, etc. are social pack animals). If those savages over there are like wolves, and wolves are solitary, and if after the fall we become like the savages, then we will become solitary.
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03-31-2016, 11:06 AM | #17 |
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I just watched a documentary where they interviewed tribes and stuff living in jungles around Australia. Some were cannibalistic.
It tends to have a "Gang" mentality. They tend to do something messed up and then the tribe retaliates and it goes back and forth. Tribes form from families and common ideas of trust. The interesting thing was it the back and forth wasn't very often. Yes, death is scary, but it wasn't like they were "At war" where tons of deaths would happen. Otherwise the tribes would be wiped out or absorbed forcibly. However, I don't like at ATE for realistic play. I'm always interested in the cinematic nature of genres. The idea that mass amounts of people will become solitary and start preying on each other is more interesting than communities form and people might be distrusting of each other but nothing really happens =)
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03-31-2016, 11:16 AM | #18 |
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Part of it comes from several popular scenarios of 'The End', where food distribution breaks down, and you have a few weeks to find food and defend it from others before everyone but a few starve. That's the source of the 'every man for himself' policy: you have enough food for 1/100th of the population to survive, and you can either lay down and die or you can fight and kill your neighbors to be one of the lucky 1%.
That mentality then gets projected forward onto post-apocalyptic settings because the two situations are tied together in our minds. Of course, the winning scenario in that case is the gang, not the loner.
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03-31-2016, 11:23 AM | #19 | |
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03-31-2016, 11:38 AM | #20 | |
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It would be interesting to see how donations for charity in America changed in the aftermath of 9/11. My prediction would be that donations to outside charity went down while donations to charity inside America went up. Because this was a clear attack on American and American values and so Americans close ranks (and the same for French donations after the Paris attacks, Belgian donations after the Brussels attacks, etc. - I'm not saying that Americans are uniquely tribal).
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