Sometime in the future, because lets be honest, every time period compared to today was just horrible. If you didn't die as a child, chances were you would die of some stupid disease at age 30. And the future only looks brighter (as long as you don't live at sea level).
You know, I read This Is A Call (a Dave Grohl biography, a really interesting one too) a couple of weeks back and it goes into a lot of detail about the DC hardcore scene in the 80s. I suppose I've gotten a very romanticised idea of what it was like, but it sounds fucking magical to be honest, I'd have loved it. It sounds like a great community oriented, DIY scene that I would have been really happy plinking around on my bass in. Besides, after it peters out I can bugger off and join an ultra-cool alt-rock band in the late eighties.
UK or USA late 1950ties so I could be in my late teens / early twenties during the Hippy era. Note I'm a white male and have an open outlook regarding sexuality. So no real need to fear discrimination.
That's utter and complete bull, both modern as ancient history is filled with golden ages followed by dark ones. Think the fall of the Persian/Roman/Byzantium/Ottoman .... empires (Persian especially, Byzantium depends if you consider the fourth crusade as the fall, or the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. Or more recently the roaring 1920 followed by the great depression followed by ffing world war II, followed by the cold war. The idea that human life progressively gets better with time is ridiculous.
Even in our current age, there are plenty of indications that we have very dark times a head of us. Our current technological development, nor the currently predicted technological development will not be enough to sustain the growing earth's population using dwindling recourses. Now perhaps science will come to the rescue ( a serious possibility as soon as people stop blocking genetic research.) But if it doesn't than humanity will have to adapt greatly in order to survive, and though we would succeed that adaptation won't be easy, and most likely not without bloodshed.
And we're not even mentioning global climate change. The severity of the effects of which becoming more clearly visible in day to day live every year.
Sometime in the future, because lets be honest, every time period compared to today was just horrible. If you didn't die as a child, chances were you would die of some stupid disease at age 30. And the future only looks brighter (as long as you don't live at sea level).
Which literally over 80% of the world population does. And consider how the remaining 20% would fare without 80% of humanities best and brightest ( because those tend to live in urban (read coastal) areas)). Also there are plenty of other problems beside global climate change that need to be addressed before the future is going to look bright.
Ah yes, truly a much simpler and more pleasant time for model collectors and war-gaming enthusiasts! I was so sad when the first Games Workshop store I ever knew closed down - my friend and I used to have great fun Space Hulking it up. Tyranids were unlike anything I'd ever seen...so menacing...so purple. We used to read White Dwarf all the time. My friend was so into the lore it was almost like a religion to him.
Out of curiosity, who was your favourite? I remember studying them years ago. We had a professor whose enthusiasm really helped bring the poetry to life. "To Autumn" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" were two of my favorites by Keats for their imagery.
It would be interesting to see how much smaller London was back then and how much more prevalent the awesome steam train was, and to watch the developments both nearer the city's center and in the locale surrounding Keats's home.
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I wonder if people were aware that if you take Death's offer and choose to be reborn, you have no memory of this current life and thus you will have no idea how bad your new life is compared to what you have now - your new life will become the only life you know and, if you choose wisely, you will still be better off than most people who ever lived. After all, haven't people been saying that life has gotten better in a lot of respects over time?
Ever been camping or anywhere without a working toilet? I imagine it will be like the experience of coming back home from one of those sorts of trips, ticks and all.
Out of curiosity, who was your favourite? I remember studying them years ago. We had a professor whose enthusiasm really helped bring the poetry to life. "To Autumn" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" were two of my favorites by Keats for their imagery.
It would be interesting to see how much smaller London was back then and how much more prevalent the awesome steam train was, and to watch the developments both nearer the city's center and in the locale surrounding Keats's home.
it's a three way tie between Poe, Blake and perhaps Goethe. It's hard to tell form what I've read of Blake i think he might take the top spot but I must pay dues to the man that plowed deep into the land of ancient mothers and the drunk that wrote himself blind. great men possessed by a great madness each, not as bad as Byron though, I've actually begun to wonder what lord Byron and Mary Shelley would react to being in a room together I've heard that Bryon was an infamous women hater and she was a feminist if i am not mistaken. It probably would be less then interesting but the prospect is worth a bit of thought.
Same place, same day/month, same time, but... 8 years earlier. Or you know what? Let's call it before the age cutoff, say may, 1990. So long as I am of a group wealthy enough that I can become interested in and maintain an interest in my current hobbies and I wind up in Chicago fairly close to wrigelyville as a resident in 2010 I'll be happy.
Why something so specific? I'll tell you why. In high school I've basically not had any good friends. In my wargaming community I've met a bunch of great people which the single largest barrier to us interacting outside of the dedicated hobby store is that I was a minor until a couple months ago, and still now I can't legally do a number of things or go certain places. Were I a college student or college graduate when I encountered this group I'd bet I'd be better friends with many of them, but as it stands I'm not very good friends with any of them.
Ah yes, truly a much simpler and more pleasant time for model collectors and war-gaming enthusiasts! I was so sad when the first Games Workshop store I ever knew closed down - my friend and I used to have great fun Space Hulking it up. Tyranids were unlike anything I'd ever seen...so menacing...so purple. We used to read White Dwarf all the time. My friend was so into the lore it was almost like a religion to him.
@thalukhain: Well, I still enjoy admiring the miniatures, particularly those of the Tau, even though as far as I've heard, the lore and rules as a whole have pretty much gone downhill. The models and art will likely always fascinate me. There's a chap on YouTube with a channel called Buypainted who does some incredibly good camouflage for Tau vehicles - Jagged, disruptive desert camouflage and digi-cam patterns as well, all done carefully with a spray gun and multiple squares of tape cut into stencil shapes. I could watch his techniques for hours. The books are still something I get a lot of jollies out of as well, particularly the short stories. The best long one I read was probably the Ravenor omnibus.
I'm sorry, I really am...I just don't know why I laughed at that. I think it reminded me of something a friend of mine said a while ago...he was sitting at the kitchen table one morning when I went downstairs for breakfast and...he. Looked. Rough. I asked how he was and he put his best Eeyore impression, saying, "Oh, you know...fine...not good, not bad *sigh*, just fine..."
I couldn't hold it in. I laughed until the tears rolled down my cheeks and I eventually managed to set him off as well.
Not having a go at you, seriously! I just read that and it reminded me of those days when you get up and everything's so perfectly, Edgar Allen Poe-level depressing that you can't help but giggle like a lunatic. Here, have this to cheer you up - a rare instance of a cheerless man cracking:
Went there and absolutely loved it! Cold it may be, but at least you get the proper mountains and the snow without so much of the rain. It made a real impression on me, I wonder what it would be like to see the place in a hundred years' time or even a hundred years into the past...
@thalukhain: Well, I still enjoy admiring the miniatures, particularly those of the Tau, even though as far as I've heard, the lore and rules as a whole have pretty much gone downhill. The models and art will likely always fascinate me. There's a chap on YouTube with a channel called Buypainted who does some incredibly good camouflage for Tau vehicles - Jagged, disruptive desert camouflage and digi-cam patterns as well, all done carefully with a spray gun and multiple squares of tape cut into stencil shapes. I could watch his techniques for hours. The books are still something I get a lot of jollies out of as well, particularly the short stories. The best long one I read was probably the Ravenor omnibus.
There's still some good models, and they all tend to be technically better done that in the past.
But, then you get technically well done models of Centurions, superhuman blokes wearing power armour on top of their power armour. The modellers obviously put a great deal of time and effort into some awful idea dreamt up by some rubbish rulemaker, filling a niche already filled since forever by terminators and dreadnoughts even before they stuck a zillion variants of them in.
Who goes and says, I believe, that these things have been a big part of marine armies since forever.
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