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Author: BadKarma

Aug 19th 2011 at 10:58:43 AM

I took the trope quote from that cracked article. It was one of my more favorite articles, actually (although not the reason I made this; I had other reasons).

And yes, a flat tire is uncomfortable to ride with, but even in a Scavenger World, it means that they just need to find another of the multitudes of abandoned bicycles. Car tires are more durable, but you have at best a few hundred miles on them until they're utter garbage in a world that no longer has a working gas industry. Gas doesn't just magically pump, refine, and distribute itself, after all.

As for expanding it to camping tents, I think it may be plausible. It's another sort of 'technology' that is overlooked at times. However, the sheer amount of abandoned houses that people normally find usually suit their needs. Never the less, camping tents are applicable enough; the trope is, after all, supposed to be about any simple, logical, and populous thing that everybody completely ignores.

If so, should we change the title? Or should it be an allegorical catch-all title, since there's nothing in the Apocalyptic Tropes index that really comes close to it? I kinda like the ring of the current title, after all, but I'm fine with changing it or at least making alternate titles.