Tigranes
Arcane
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- Jan 8, 2009
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"Really? And do you think that, even if there was a nuclear war, no one in the afterworld would remember a pop icon like Elvis Presley? Did they forget about Mozart, too? Why? That is retarded."
Why is it retarded? The Elvis faction is silly, but you seem to know for sure what does and doesn't get forgotten after an apocalypse. Our own history is full of stuff that very few people remember but contemporaries might have expected to be remembered - and stuff we don't even know we've forgotten.
"WHY would you LARP so hard as to actually qualify as circus clowns?"
Same reason every king fapped over the name of the Empire a thousand years after its fall. I've posted this before, but it's entirely reasonable that a scholarly minded man like Caesar would come across the historical texts and deliberately create a spectacular, iconic imitation, using the iconography to create a further sense of cohesion and historical destiny. What is silly is importing some of the Roman policies that really don't make much sense in the Wasteland, given how pragmatic Caesar is (e.g. the valorisation of premodern weaponry - this would only make sense if Caesar thought there's a widespread scarcity of kinetic and energy weapons, but this doesn't seem to be the case).
Boomers always seemed to me a reasonable premise (the fetishisation of old world military power, and precisely one remarkable power that seems to be nearly entirely lost) that never got developed and became a dumb caricature (also, NCR has vertibirds).
Why is it retarded? The Elvis faction is silly, but you seem to know for sure what does and doesn't get forgotten after an apocalypse. Our own history is full of stuff that very few people remember but contemporaries might have expected to be remembered - and stuff we don't even know we've forgotten.
"WHY would you LARP so hard as to actually qualify as circus clowns?"
Same reason every king fapped over the name of the Empire a thousand years after its fall. I've posted this before, but it's entirely reasonable that a scholarly minded man like Caesar would come across the historical texts and deliberately create a spectacular, iconic imitation, using the iconography to create a further sense of cohesion and historical destiny. What is silly is importing some of the Roman policies that really don't make much sense in the Wasteland, given how pragmatic Caesar is (e.g. the valorisation of premodern weaponry - this would only make sense if Caesar thought there's a widespread scarcity of kinetic and energy weapons, but this doesn't seem to be the case).
Boomers always seemed to me a reasonable premise (the fetishisation of old world military power, and precisely one remarkable power that seems to be nearly entirely lost) that never got developed and became a dumb caricature (also, NCR has vertibirds).