This is a top tier meme format for music communities. Making me need to dive into more game OSTs.
If anyone is on the hunt for good ones, Brad Derrick did some incredible work for Elder Scrolls Online. It's all fantasy sounds, but an excellent source of ambience for the TTRPG player. A two album set for the base game, and an album for each expansion. It's some 10 hours of solid work!
Not sure I'm going to support it when there all plenty of decent free third party apps. Been using Jerboa since I made the switch, and have enjoyed the interface quite a bit.
I just can't get behind the idea of paying for the ad free experience. Still support the developer, but it better not be like Sync's $20.
I'd love to be a gatekeeper saying "we're already full, turn back around", but I'm a CA transplant myself. Personally, I'm looking to leave myself: too cold most of the year, and it's getting really $$$. YMMV
Yes! I love my work, even though most people hate retail. I'm in a grocery store deli, and getting people food they like and them coming back saying I offered good recommendations just makes my day!
I'm the manager, and even I still struggle a bit with money at times, all the while trying to save for a house. Not easy out here, but certainly wouldn't want to stop working.
That MIB parallel makes me think of a religious secret society, keeping the secrets of the surface from the regular pukafolk, and keeping the surface from interacting too much with their underground. Probably more heavily leaning toward repressing interest in going to the surface via fear and such.
I'll definitely check out the link!
And hey, Ich sprache ein bisschen Deutch, so it's all good. Ich habe im hochschule Deutch gelernt, fur vier jahre! The gendering is a bit strange to me, but I got use to it, sort of...
I enjoyed the write-up, but I see what you mean about the lack of cultural depth (put most assuredly intended for the deep folk). Also liked what you said about the other comment in terms of cultural motivation. But how they need to survive can play directly into those motivations.
Perhaps people are starting to delve too deeply for minerals and ores, and are encountering these folks in even greater numbers? They see the firearms they possess and are starting to pry into their smything. The priests are nervous it could cause conflict if the don't acquiesce, but would spell ruin if they did.
How they react to such triggers could certainly help broaden their cultural leanings.
Makes more sense with some context, very "In Soviet Russia..." style joke, right up my alley! Besides, as a white guy in the US, I suppose I'm no arbiter of what is and isn't PC anyway.
An interesting perspective for worldbuilding though, could think more on that for my cultures that have pretty set gender norms.
I don't delve much into post apocalypse settings, but a good write up nonetheless. Might cut that last part out about gender utilization though, as it seems vaguely unnecessary for the topic and a bit reductionist. That socioeconomic sphere has a lot of historical and religious factors that don't fit what you're posting, at least in my opinion.
The rest is certainly a solid framework of thought, thanks for posting!
The closest thing to this topic in my setting is the remnants of an empire that was killed off by a necromantic ritual, killing everyone within any built settlement (the necromancer "poisoned" the stones of the empire, so anyone living in a city built with masonry was affected).
The rutlral populations left now have to contend with roving hordes of the undead, limiting their ability to band together and rebuild. A religious movement (as you mentioned) also stalled the progress of redevelopment. They are now being overtaken by an industrial republic from across the ocean, and though put up quite the fight in pockets, are unable to stall the republic's progress.
My thoughts exactly! I imagine birds would have some sort of hands free tech for Bluetooth and such as well, which would help in that. Could be as simple as them getting a "traffic" citation for not having one on, like not wearing a seat belt. Also good for directions, sort of a Google maps audio alerts for where to turn and such.
The data and location privacy is an interesting implication indeed!
I think the best method would be a system of air traffic control, flying animals required to wear some sort of gps/radar system so the control towers can ping their location and alert them to what air space they are in.
This would be more for professional flight transit/transport, but could be scaled down to a private industry level given the need in certain cities, sort of like a neighborhood watch app, but for safe flight paths.
You're definitely thinking of T1, or health class and the Internet lied to me all my life. Come to think of it...
But for sure you can get T2 from making unhealthy choices with sugar consumption.