How Dark is the Future

Einstein was right all along: the future is dark

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The ache of someone gone-missing.

Make a scene in the dark: a brighter fashion future

Walk it off like a misspoken word. And to all those injured. Intent on air, the funk of crave and function comes to blows. Leave this field blank.

Alleyne Dirge South by Anne Waldman. Recorded for Poem-a-Day, October 18, Nobody straightens their hair anymore.

My shea-buttered braids glow planetary as I turn unconcerned, unburned by the pre-take-off bother. Why had she disappeared so suddenly behind that earthly door? Gingivitis, Notes on Fear. Four tickets left, I let her go— Firstborn into a hurricane.

I thought she escaped The floodwaters. Society has collapsed almost back to the times of both the Dark Ages and the Wild West—where there's no law and no order , and the natural laws of physics have broken down. Megacorps are now in total control, technology runs rampant, and Sanctioned Ops patrol the roads and highways tracking down and destroying the renegade scum who live there, outside of the law and doing what they please.

Another game like it , bearing the name Dark Future, was originally developed for Games Workshop as a cyberpunk role-playing game, but was canceled. The game's co-author and GW board game developer Marc Gascoigne ported it onto Richard Halliwell's car-racing game system, using a mechanic originally developed for Judge Dredd role-playing game adventure Slaughter Margin.

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The game was seen as a replacement for GW's early board game Battlecars , which merged James Bond -like combative car gadgets in a Death Race and Mad Max -styled background. The novels that were written by Jack Yeovil—a pen name of Kim Newman —created an elaborate alternate history in which Elvis Presley is a hard-as-nails bounty hunter and Oliver North is President of the United States. In the Dark Future setting was brought back as a series of novels published by Games Workshop's fiction imprint Black Flame. They updated the setting to , and released several new titles.

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However, while several pop-culture references were updated in the books, some lines retain their original wording, and now seem out of place such as when character Jazzbeaux thinks of the millennium coming around in five years' time in 'Route '. In the board game, the player plays the part of a Sanctioned Op—a bounty hunter of the future—or a Renegade, dueling for survival in high-tech vehicles of the present.

In May it was announced that Dark Future would be rebooted as a digital game entitled 'Dark Future: This is a volume of advanced rules for Dark Future. Inside this book players will find new rules for manoeuvers, shooting, hazards, and new equipment. Also, new vehicles are presented trikes , new scenarios, and new characters as well. Auroch Digital, the UK indie developer responsible for the digital versions of a previous Games Workshop cult classic, Chainsaw Warrior , announced that they would be developing a reboot of the board game as a digital title for Windows.

The game is due to be released on Steam in late Designer Tomas Rawlings described the inspiration for adapting the original being due to the themes still prevalent today, stating "The original rule book talks about the impact of climate change. This was from where most people would have been oblivious to it. When I read news articles that suggest conflicts like that in Darfur and Syria has climate as a partial catalyst, [3] it shows how prescient Dark Future was.

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The world has undergone an intense social, environmental, and moral collapse, combined with a dramatic rise in technology; by the year , violence became the main killer as well as mutating viruses ASD, CSE and PHD. As of the late s, he's doing this as leader of the Brethren of Joseph which he himself brought about in and clashes with the various protagonists. As well as causing blood sacrifices to his masters, he sacrifices the potential of artists and thinkers - including Edgar Allan Poe , H.

Route has Seth responsible for the bizarre circumstances of Poe's death , and revealed he tried and failed to sacrifice Elvis as well meaning the real-life shape of Elvis' career after The main point of divergence in this timeline was the Presidential election - here, John F. Kennedy was caught in an affair with Marilyn Monroe , crippling his support and giving Richard Nixon the Presidency. The Solid Sixties were seen as a golden age of peace, stability and decent, if hypocritical, moral values in America, under a popular but authoritarian President.

Legal restrictions were removed from businesses, allowing for both technological advancement and ending regulations against pollution.

Hendrix and his Merry Minstrels performing big-band music, while operating an underground movement to Make America Groove Again. Other key resistance operatives included Dr. Thanks to the increased pollution, drastic climate change and damage to mid-western water supplies would cause most of America to become desert "the Des" from the 70s onwards. Violent dystopian gangcults - the Maniax, the Psychopomps, and the Confederate Air Force being central to the books - would rise to prominence. In , to control the increasing violence, the Enderby Amendment opened up law enforcement to private groups and individuals: President Heston would also bring in the Moral Re-Armament Drive and recreate the United States Road Cavalry, a heavily armed Mad Max -style group garbed like the original Cavalry , to patrol the roadways and interstates.

By the then near future of , the major cities have for been split between Policed Zones and the lawless NoGos for over a decade; several of the southern states have re-legalised slavery under the term "indentured labour"; New York has a wall to keep out rising flood waters, while New Orleans is succumbing to floods.

The North government is bankrupt, thanks to the deliberately disastrous policies of free-market economist Ottakar Proktor, secretly a serial killer.

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