What about the headscratching choice to 'Go North' from London, to where it is presumably colder? I mean, if that was where the coal was, then fair enough, but Cornwall is south-west.
Why north?
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The cold was coming up from the south, so the generators were built further north.
A bit unrealistic for something this big to travel so slowly, especially with the implications of what caused it (Meteor winter, volcanic winter, and the sun dimming), but the heading north thing is explained.
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Re: Deliberate Values Dissonance
Probably needs clarification on whether it counts as Deliberate Values Dissonance or as Anachronism Stew, or some more appropriate trope. The issue at hand is that the historical perspective is 'not' portrayed accurately - it would be DVD if the people of the city didn't have an issue with child labor or amputation. That the people of the city aren't okay with it is an anachronism.
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Well, I think we can put it as "there are middle class and wealthy class survivors who aren't used to sending their kids to work since they have money. Also I think they pointed out that issue in-game where a poor family was grateful that their kid had education that they lack in London."
While the city inhabitants being upper-class might explain away that one anachronism, that still leaves the other, more obvious one - amputation still would've been standard treatment (even in the alternate timeline, what with the advances in prosthetics), and resorting to it wouldn't constitute a "radical" measure.
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Well, I am guessing that Radical treatment is more than just amputation. Like the art depicting a doctor performing invasive surgery than amputation along with an increased chance of amputee rather than the result itself. Maybe the imagination by the creator is that the sick are being held at the medical post to recover or treated for life. But you have a point there, along with reminding that the "city" is basically in middle of nowhere with little to no medicine let alone medical knowledge.
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What trope would "Leaving a group of survivors your scouts found to die because you don't have the resources or room to take them in" fall under?
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