{"id":158122,"date":"2021-10-23T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=158122"},"modified":"2021-10-23T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:56:29","slug":"todays-quote-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

J Greely<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I used to think that the world-building of Fallout 4<\/i> was the least-believable thing about the game, with people failing at even the basics of creating a pre-modern society after a full 200 years, and still living in rubble-filled open-air unheated shacks in Boston. They\u2019re not even keeping out the rain, much less the snow, and are wearing filthy clothes scavenged from the ruins. Twenty years, sure; fifty years, maybe, but two hundred years of taping together rotting lumber and pulling clothes off of mannequins?<\/p>\n

Then I saw how people responded to Covid-19. China didn\u2019t need nukes to destroy American society\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In related news, I am disappointed to find that there are no<\/a> In-N-Out Burgers in Kansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Bonus quote, from Maus at Severian’s place<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never felt like a typical Boomer, a fact that I chalked up to having much older parents (1916 and 1927) who ran a fairly strict, traditional household. But my focus shifted to much more obvious conflicts with the later Millenial and Zoomer cohorts, whose world views are materially and spiritually foreign to me. Ultimately, I\u2019ve concluded that generational parsing is driven by cosumerism\u2019s need for market segmentation, for which emphasis on conflicting differences is the sine qua non. It\u2019s simply not a useful heuristic for assessing the worthiness of any particular individual I might encounter with an inclination to form a deeper association of any sort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J Greely: I used to think that the world-building of Fallout 4 was the least-believable thing about the game, with people failing at even the basics of creating a pre-modern society after a full 200 years, and still living in rubble-filled open-air unheated shacks in Boston. They\u2019re not even keeping out the rain, much less … Continue reading “Today’s quote”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-F8m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158134,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158122\/revisions\/158134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}