Comments on: Slate's "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" finds out what kind of doomsayer you are http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 02:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558350 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558350 <I>Christian values make America into pacifists, and we get bulldozed by invaders. Seriously?</i> That one struck me as odd, too. This "Christianity" he describes sounds like nothing encountered here on Earth. It's an odd mixture of serious issues and cheeky humorous scenarios, which is fun in a dark and twisted sort of way, but not really indicative of anything. Christian values make America into pacifists, and we get bulldozed by invaders. Seriously?

That one struck me as odd, too. This “Christianity” he describes sounds like nothing encountered here on Earth.

It’s an odd mixture of serious issues and cheeky humorous scenarios, which is fun in a dark and twisted sort of way, but not really indicative of anything.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558130 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558130 Aliens but no zombies? Weak. Aliens but no zombies? Weak.

]]> By: Sourbasil http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558642 Sourbasil Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558642 This is complete bullshit! I did multiple scenarios and all told me that "one world government" would tell me I'm right? WTF! that's exactly the opposite of my choices! This game is a douche! This is complete bullshit! I did multiple scenarios and all told me that “one world government” would tell me I’m right? WTF! that’s exactly the opposite of my choices! This game is a douche!

]]> By: ADavies http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-561972 ADavies Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-561972 I'm not clear. Are we supposed to vote for how we WANT it to happen, or how we think it WILL happen? Either way, put me down for zombies as number one. I’m not clear. Are we supposed to vote for how we WANT it to happen, or how we think it WILL happen?

Either way, put me down for zombies as number one.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558650 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558650 Too bad North American land (or is it the people?) are such crap that a slightly denser population would destroy it. Frankly, I'm amazed that those of us with lots of resources and influence in the world (and low population densities) complain about overpopulation in our outsourced slave countries. We're afraid they actually contribute more significantly than we do (hint: YES) and that eventually they're going to make us feel that fact more pointedly. Too bad North American land (or is it the people?) are such crap that a slightly denser population would destroy it.

Frankly, I’m amazed that those of us with lots of resources and influence in the world (and low population densities) complain about overpopulation in our outsourced slave countries.

We’re afraid they actually contribute more significantly than we do (hint: YES) and that eventually they’re going to make us feel that fact more pointedly.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558147 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558147 I think it's eery that the fall of the American Empire is the apocalypse for you... I think it’s eery that the fall of the American Empire is the apocalypse for you…

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558921 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558921 did anyone get something other than bloodthirsty misanthrope? did anyone get something other than bloodthirsty misanthrope?

]]> By: Talia http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558160 Talia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558160 I'm snickering at a few of these. Oh noooes, multiculturalism! Egads, gay marriage dooms us all! :p Apparently, I am a bloodthirsty misanthrope. Cool! I’m snickering at a few of these.

Oh noooes, multiculturalism! Egads, gay marriage dooms us all! :p

Apparently, I am a bloodthirsty misanthrope. Cool!

]]> By: misterfricative http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558416 misterfricative Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558416 It's not on the list, but a serious breakdown in logistical distribution networks would pretty much render most cities and suburban areas unlivable in a very short time -- weeks if not days. Those supermarket shelves don't stock themselves y'know. Or if not that, then yeah, zombies. It’s not on the list, but a serious breakdown in logistical distribution networks would pretty much render most cities and suburban areas unlivable in a very short time — weeks if not days. Those supermarket shelves don’t stock themselves y’know.

Or if not that, then yeah, zombies.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558168 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558168 Too bad they don't have an option to vote on least plausible; would be interesting to see the bottom five, too. Many, most really, are scenarios that would certainly wreak havoc on the US but I can't see them as catastrophic enough to cause it's failure. Haven't read all of them but the economic ones seem the most probable while various invasion fantasies seems least likely. Interesting though, very interesting. Too bad they don’t have an option to vote on least plausible; would be interesting to see the bottom five, too. Many, most really, are scenarios that would certainly wreak havoc on the US but I can’t see them as catastrophic enough to cause it’s failure. Haven’t read all of them but the economic ones seem the most probable while various invasion fantasies seems least likely. Interesting though, very interesting.

]]> By: spazzm http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558424 spazzm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558424 <i>This "Christianity" he describes sounds like nothing encountered here on Earth.</i> That's because all the truly Christian nations have been bulldozed by invaders, duh! I guess putting xtianity up there as a force of evil in itself, along with militant islam, would be too much to stomach for their readers. This “Christianity” he describes sounds like nothing encountered here on Earth.

That’s because all the truly Christian nations have been bulldozed by invaders, duh!

I guess putting xtianity up there as a force of evil in itself, along with militant islam, would be too much to stomach for their readers.

]]> By: moose_hp http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558187 moose_hp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558187 Bloodthirsty misanthrope as well. Awesome. (I took: Grey Goo, Water Peak, 2012, Supercollider and Big Brother) Bloodthirsty misanthrope as well. Awesome.

(I took: Grey Goo, Water Peak, 2012, Supercollider and Big Brother)

]]> By: ian_b http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558189 ian_b Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558189 I found an "oldocracy" but nothing for "idiocracy". I found an “oldocracy” but nothing for “idiocracy”.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558203 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558203 bigods! I'm a bloody misanthrope too! Fancy that. bigods! I’m a bloody misanthrope too! Fancy that.

]]> By: chip http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558213 chip Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558213 Half of those problems are a direct result of overpopulation, yet somehow that didn't make the top 5 list. When you break it down, there are really only two possible causes of an "apocalypse" - Global natural disaster or overpopulation. Half of those problems are a direct result of overpopulation, yet somehow that didn’t make the top 5 list.

When you break it down, there are really only two possible causes of an “apocalypse” – Global natural disaster or overpopulation.

]]> By: TJ S http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558215 TJ S Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558215 Pick 5 reasons, you say? 1) zombies 2) Zombies 3) MOAR ZOMBIES! 4) American Idol 5) The Hills Pick 5 reasons, you say?

1) zombies
2) Zombies
3) MOAR ZOMBIES!
4) American Idol
5) The Hills

]]> By: chip http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558220 chip Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558220 I stand corrected. The Hills is a potential third cause of the apocalypse. I stand corrected. The Hills is a potential third cause of the apocalypse.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558221 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558221 Hmm, no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_scarcity">post-scarcity</a> option I see ('space harvesting', 'laziness', and 'socialist revolution' come closest I guess). Hmm, no post-scarcity option I see (‘space harvesting’, ‘laziness’, and ‘socialist revolution’ come closest I guess).

]]> By: PixelFish http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558222 PixelFish Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558222 Another bloodthirsty misanthrope here. Another bloodthirsty misanthrope here.

]]> By: Talia http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558224 Talia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558224 I would like to add that I would HAPPILY watch a zombie version of either American Idol or The Hills. Someone make this happen. With real zombies, preferably. I would like to add that I would HAPPILY watch a zombie version of either American Idol or The Hills.

Someone make this happen.

With real zombies, preferably.

]]> By: Tenn http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558241 Tenn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558241 As a bloodthirsty misanthrope- whar zombies? As a bloodthirsty misanthrope- whar zombies?

]]> By: jphilby http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-559309 jphilby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-559309 They left out Public Relations. They left out Public Relations.

]]> By: romulusnr http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558296 romulusnr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558296 Hey, they're using my Nine Nations map (via Wikipedia). An odd choice, to be sure, because Joel Klein never suggested that the Nine Nations were lines on which North America would be geopolitically divided, but that, in the non-political sense of the word "nation", they *already* existed. Hey, they’re using my Nine Nations map (via Wikipedia).

An odd choice, to be sure, because Joel Klein never suggested that the Nine Nations were lines on which North America would be geopolitically divided, but that, in the non-political sense of the word “nation”, they *already* existed.

]]> By: OldScot http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558831 OldScot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558831 How is the end of the American Empire an Apocalypse? (I agree with #2.) Signed an apparent humanitarian internationalist How is the end of the American Empire an Apocalypse? (I agree with #2.)
Signed
an apparent humanitarian internationalist

]]> By: Mister Moofoo http://boingboing.net/2009/08/03/slates-choose-your-o.html#comment-558335 Mister Moofoo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-558335 I was a humanitarian internationalist the first time, and a bloothirsty misanthrope the second. Very disappointed that there weren't enough options representing America destroying the world. "Christianity" as an apocalypse meant that Christian values make America into pacifists, and we get bulldozed by invaders. Seriously? I was a humanitarian internationalist the first time, and a bloothirsty misanthrope the second.

Very disappointed that there weren’t enough options representing America destroying the world. “Christianity” as an apocalypse meant that Christian values make America into pacifists, and we get bulldozed by invaders. Seriously?

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