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submitted 1 year ago by macabrett@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

This is a universe with faster than light travel and near infinite resources. There's a homeless shelter in one of the major cities. I helped them out. Why the fuck is there a homeless shelter in a universe with FTL and near infinite resources?

I'm starting to think Fallout under Bethesda isn't a satire and their writers are just incapable of imagining anything beyond capitalism.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

though I dont see why they should spend any time justifying how the society got how things got the way they are

Because that's the foundation of good world building, otherwise the setting comes out as flat, boring, inconsistent and completely arbitrary

It fleshes out and cements the stakes of the story, provides scale and the chance for the characters to be grounded in anything other than archetypal traits, that's why in the most celebrated sci fi, the setting itself defines the story as much if not more than the characters

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