Also Let’s Talk A Little Bit About Fallout And Medieval Europe

It’s a society with a population decimated by the collapse of infrastructure resulting from the collapse of a great (if decadent) civilization.

In the case of Medieval Europe famine and plague swept through as a result of a mini ice age (partially the result of Volcanic activity, which is sort of like an atomic bomb but you know… no one’s fault) and the collapse of the organization of the Roman empire fucking the hell out of international trade.

Fallout it was nukes and corporate greed, but really they’re very similar societies.

People are thinly spread out, harvests are unpredictable and the environment inclement, social order has broken down resulting in vast increases in banditry and tiny groups of armed people going around robbing and plundering and burning, a lot of scientific and engineering knowledge has been lost, hygiene standards suck, there’s a group of people missing bits of themselves who people shun (lepers in medieval europe, ghouls in Fallout), the ruins of the previous civilization are everywhere but its order unreclaimable.

Also reading Foucault and playing Fallout at the same time makes you think about interesting stuff.

Memento goddamn mori.