This one.
Any major religious system masquerading as science which says people are worthless is pretty bad.
Any major religious system masquerading as science which says people are worthless is pretty bad.
Most terrifying fictional world to live in?
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and now I find myself oddly temptedSL33TBL1ND said:
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The world of Half-Life. I don't see myself lasting too long in a brutal dictatorship where zombies roam and barnacles try to eat you.
Silent Hill, definitely. There's no laws to exploit, no time-outs, nothing's safe. You have to sleep sometime, and when you do, the world can go darker and it turns out there's tons of insanely deadly things in the room with you.
And chances are, they'll rape you first, torture you second, and finally kill you. And you can't do anything about it. You can't reason with them, because they don't act on reason. You can't run, because everywhere you run to is just as dangerous as where you're running from. You can only escape by dying. And even then, maybe not.
It's a perfect (albeit extreme) example of one of life's no-win situations. You'll fight, and run, and try your best to work your way through it, but in the end, all you can hope to do is die well.
And chances are, they'll rape you first, torture you second, and finally kill you. And you can't do anything about it. You can't reason with them, because they don't act on reason. You can't run, because everywhere you run to is just as dangerous as where you're running from. You can only escape by dying. And even then, maybe not.
It's a perfect (albeit extreme) example of one of life's no-win situations. You'll fight, and run, and try your best to work your way through it, but in the end, all you can hope to do is die well.
Warhammer 40k.
I mean...the entire purpose of the setting is to create a massive galaxy wide war of unbelievable proportions. Of course...it depends on where you live. Hanging out in the heart of a tau sect would be, I strongly suspect, a remarkably pleasant experience. On the other hand, being torn apart from the legs up by thousands of fanged maws, in the wake of a tyrannid hive fleet, would be one of the worst; although at least quick places. By contrast you could be abducted by the dark Eldar and be tortured for decades by some of the best torturers ever, only to have your 'mind' eaten to prolong the life of one. The list goes on, and that's not even getting into the really messy stuff with Chaos and such.
I mean...the entire purpose of the setting is to create a massive galaxy wide war of unbelievable proportions. Of course...it depends on where you live. Hanging out in the heart of a tau sect would be, I strongly suspect, a remarkably pleasant experience. On the other hand, being torn apart from the legs up by thousands of fanged maws, in the wake of a tyrannid hive fleet, would be one of the worst; although at least quick places. By contrast you could be abducted by the dark Eldar and be tortured for decades by some of the best torturers ever, only to have your 'mind' eaten to prolong the life of one. The list goes on, and that's not even getting into the really messy stuff with Chaos and such.
I'd say Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation world, where every character gets, shot, impaled, mutilated, torn apart, eaten, spat out, eaten again, shat out, or had it rough from a man with a hairy bum.
There are 1 million space marines in the 40k universe, now consider that the imperial guard numbers in the trillions, and the regular population is so massive a single screwed up decimal place means they lose track of 10s of billions of people... your chances of becoming a Space Marine are so incredibly tiny it's not funny.Roggen Bread said:
I honestly don't find the idea of 40k to be that bad, sure it sucks if your in the army or on a planet about to come under attack, but the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of humanity is basically left alone and lives a decent life, so long as they say their prayers, pay their taxes, do what their told.
yeah, chances are really really tiny, but you got to admit, it rocked!tkioz said:
And I dont think your life as a simple worker in some colony over the rainbow was decent.
I am pretty sure its like living in the Dark Ages.
Another pretty amazing job was being a guard of the emperor himself. you even get to stay on terra
Do what you're told to do, told to think, told who and how to worship (worshipping a God who before he was enthroned went around trying to free humanity from the falsehoods of religion, only to be mortally wounded and then worshipped as one himself). Don't worry though, the thousands of souls being sacrificed to him on a daily basis probably wouldn't be you, because they have to be pyskers. Yeah...just being born that way completely by chance means your life is worth less than nothing, and you won't even make it to the afterlife they believe in.tkioz said:
Even if you do live an entirely devout obedient life, you may get the misfortune to have your world purged by the very Imperium you've spent your dreary life working to support. Or you might be killed by daemons, who will then play with your soul for eternity. Or Dark Eldar, who won't kill you, which is the problem.
Let's not forget the vast majority of humanity lives on Hive worlds - worlds filled with cities of billions, where the pollution is so bad, acid rain can burn you to death in seconds in some point. And you're still being taxed about 90% of your income to support everyone above you, in tithes to the Adeptus Administratum, to the Ecclesiarchy, to the planetary governors and so on.
Did you ever read "The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing?"
No? Well then, happy reading and I hope you don't like those pants too much!
No? Well then, happy reading and I hope you don't like those pants too much!
Jurassic Park imagine a 4 mile x 4 mile island full of 100s escaped man eating dinosaurs and 100s more omnivores/herbivores who could trample the living crap out of you, armed with only a limited supply of tranquilizors and thousands of eggs along with the fastly breeding dinosaurs, not to mention when they escape to the mainland, utterly destroying thousands of people and miles of land.
Also, Sphere. Finding a 300 year old spaceship from the future earth with a weird sphere bringing out 100% of your brain potential and your psychological thoughts into the real world. The slightest most unconcious thought of destruction appear gigantic squids man eating jelly fish, think, "Oh nukes" and accidently you kill thousands.
Also, The Congo, stuck in the Congo where homocidal gray gorrilas were trained to smash humans heads with stone sphere plates along with cannibals and harsh and some friendly pygmies, all during tropical storms and a volcanic eruption along with the civil war in the Congo and not to mention hippos trying to sink your boat.
Pretty much all Michael Chrichton books, oh, and all Stephen King books too.
Also, Sphere. Finding a 300 year old spaceship from the future earth with a weird sphere bringing out 100% of your brain potential and your psychological thoughts into the real world. The slightest most unconcious thought of destruction appear gigantic squids man eating jelly fish, think, "Oh nukes" and accidently you kill thousands.
Also, The Congo, stuck in the Congo where homocidal gray gorrilas were trained to smash humans heads with stone sphere plates along with cannibals and harsh and some friendly pygmies, all during tropical storms and a volcanic eruption along with the civil war in the Congo and not to mention hippos trying to sink your boat.
Pretty much all Michael Chrichton books, oh, and all Stephen King books too.
Prototype or Saint's Row universe. Can you imagine those homicidal maniacs just going down the street murdering whatever they want?
Camp Rock is playing on the TV in front of me.
And as fun as it would be to mention something and an entire crowd burst into song and dance about said subject, but after a few days of living in Camp Rock/High School Musical's fantasy 'go-get-em' attitude world i would end up running.
Into a tree.
Full of explosives.
And knives.
BLUNT knives.
The whole concept just freaks me out....
Or Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It would be non-stop crazy. . .
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And as fun as it would be to mention something and an entire crowd burst into song and dance about said subject, but after a few days of living in Camp Rock/High School Musical's fantasy 'go-get-em' attitude world i would end up running.
Into a tree.
Full of explosives.
And knives.
BLUNT knives.
The whole concept just freaks me out....
Or Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It would be non-stop crazy. . .
:S