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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bumbles" data-source="post: 4799060" data-attributes="member: 83457">Well, that's your perspective of it.  I think part of the problem is you're looking for agreement instead of understanding.  Shoot, you could use that to argue against reading any book, or writing one...and I really don't know how to address that, since it seems to be your own personal preference.May you live in interesting times then.  Real life may feel that way to you on the individual micro-scale, but then, that's why people don't play Accountants and Archives.  And I really don't agree with your perspective on real life.   We're not quite at the Urth-level of stagnation yet.I see part of the problem is right here, as we're not communicating very effectively with each other.  Realism, or if you prefer, verisimilitude, in this case, can contribute to something being interesting, as it adds a certain level of believability and depth.  This is not contradictory with the game, which does abstract many elements of realism out, as there's a wide range of things that are not realistic enough, too realistic, or just right.  In the game, the trick is the balance, which may vary quite a bit from person to person.But I really don't think I'm explaining it very well, as it seems to me you're not understanding what I'm saying.  What i'm trying to say is that worlds where things change, where other events happened, do appeal to me more because they seem more believable and real than ones where it just suddenly seems something dropped in out of nowhere to happen.This is distinct from the prosaic "What's ending the world this week" you might see in children's cartoons, which is what I think is closer to what you're asking about.Um, who exactly is doing that?   I'm a bit confused where this is coming from.  Ok, then obviously I don't understand what you're talking about.   Maybe you meant something other than post-apocalyptic, such as fatalistic?  If so, then the answer can be found in....not giving up.  Because not everybody is willing to believe nothing can be done.</blockquote>

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