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OT: That's what the 40k universe needs is a story from a bartender on a Rogue Trader vessel, and his Adeptus Mechanicum associate who vacuums the hallways.

They save the day, and no one remembers their names or what exactly their job on the ship is.

I'd read it. Because if I've learned one thing from Honor Harrington and Rogue Trader novels, you do not want to go to the bridge, unless you are the main character in the story.

Back on topic: There are some places like Tokyo (in Godzilla films) that I have trouble with. Yes, the G-Man just waded through your city... again to fight another giant monster and irradiated 16 city blocks... again.

Who would ever move to a place that attracts Kaiju that shoot radiation beams from their mouths?

What job could possibly be worth it to move there?

The government offers an extremely favorable tax credit given that as long as the monsters keep fighting in Tokyo the rest of the country is fine

Whatever city Doom eternal takes place in the average Joe would never want to be in, unless your a Doom fan.

I don't see the Hadley's Hope Tourism Bureau getting much traction. Even at its best, it's a bunch of miserable prefab buildings on a rain-soaked rock, and for all intents and purposed you're owned by the Company, which whatever Captain Hollister might believe will absolutely override any claim you might stake to anything of value you find while you're driving your tractor around the picturesque lava flats, assuming it doesn't kill you first. And you better believe they're not going to invest one cent more into the colony than it takes to keep you alive (and too poor to leave, or improve your lot by yourself) so you can tend the atmosphere processor and constitute a viable population for whatever requirement they need to retain ownership until the terraforming kicks in and they throw your descendants onto the street and sell the now-green land you worked yourself into a grave to create to somebody richer than you could ever have been. And of course we see full well that even whatever meagre 'rights' you may think you have count for zilch as soon as some rookie C-Suite wannabe back on Earth spots dollar signs at your expense.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
OT: That's what the 40k universe needs is a story from a bartender on a Rogue Trader vessel, and his Adeptus Mechanicum associate who vacuums the hallways.

They save the day, and no one remembers their names or what exactly their job on the ship is.

I'd read it. Because if I've learned one thing from Honor Harrington and Rogue Trader novels, you do not want to go to the bridge, unless you are the main character in the story.

Wasn't that a random Babylon 5 episode with random alien race attacking station? From the perspective of the B5 equivalent of the chicken soup vending machine repair men?

Not a town or city. But.

Albert Square

It’s not in the East End of Laaaahndan. It’s in Purgatory.

A layer of reality where souls are damned to repeat their perversions and corruptions, never learning anything, never bettering themselves or their lot. And it all started with the discovery of a murder victim.

And it’s through his eyes that we see the collective damnation play out, year after year after year after year.

No jobs outside the square. No socialising outside the square. Once you enter its non-Euclidean area? You’re trapped forevermore, or until, miracle of miracles, you somehow redeem yourself, or pass into the fiery pits.

The_Real_Chris wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
OT: That's what the 40k universe needs is a story from a bartender on a Rogue Trader vessel, and his Adeptus Mechanicum associate who vacuums the hallways.

They save the day, and no one remembers their names or what exactly their job on the ship is.

I'd read it. Because if I've learned one thing from Honor Harrington and Rogue Trader novels, you do not want to go to the bridge, unless you are the main character in the story.

Wasn't that a random Babylon 5 episode with random alien race attacking station? From the perspective of the B5 equivalent of the chicken soup vending machine repair men?

Your right, it was a season 5 episode about two maintenance guys. "A View from the Gallery," I think. Totally forgot about that one.

Good catch.

Back when I listened to it, that Nightvale place sounds like a pretty horrible place to live.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:
Kurouzu-cho deserves a mention.

Where's that from?

Junji Ito's Uzamaki. There's a recently released animated adaptation of it but its terrible beyond the first episode. One of the best horror manga you can read though.

Speaking of horror, we can add Hobb's End, New Hampshire to the list.

It's from H.P. Lovecraft's In the Mouth of Madness, also in the film of the same name by John Carpenter.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Speaking of horror, we can add Hobb's End, New Hampshire to the list.

It's from H.P. Lovecraft's In the Mouth of Madness, also in the film of the same name by John Carpenter.

Good call. Innsmouth probably qualifies quite highly as well.

I was thinking, and the titular "High-Rise" from that book/movie would be..... sub-optimal.

The_Real_Chris wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
OT: That's what the 40k universe needs is a story from a bartender on a Rogue Trader vessel, and his Adeptus Mechanicum associate who vacuums the hallways.

They save the day, and no one remembers their names or what exactly their job on the ship is.

I'd read it. Because if I've learned one thing from Honor Harrington and Rogue Trader novels, you do not want to go to the bridge, unless you are the main character in the story.

Wasn't that a random Babylon 5 episode with random alien race attacking station? From the perspective of the B5 equivalent of the chicken soup vending machine repair men?

You probably don't want to be on ship AT ALL if Harrington is in command. Not because she's a bad captain, or even a bad person, but because she has the bad LUCK to be at the focus of conflict so often, usually with marginally adequate resources to do her job coupled with her absolute will to do the job at ANY cost. Her first cruiser command was hammered into an unsalvageable wreck. Her second went into a suicide run on a vastly superior combatant and only survived due to luck. Her first fleet command got hammered with heavy casualties, and that's a patter that repeated distressingly often. And her last ship command was a commerce cruiser that got COMPLETELY wrecked.

The survivors are covered in glory, true, but lots of people die for that glory. Even if glory is not Harrigton's primary goal, that doesn't make those people any less dead.

(Having said THAT, I'd rather be on her ship than on the ships she faces in battle, their mortality rate is even worse!)

 Flinty wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Speaking of horror, we can add Hobb's End, New Hampshire to the list.

It's from H.P. Lovecraft's In the Mouth of Madness, also in the film of the same name by John Carpenter.

Good call. Innsmouth probably qualifies quite highly as well.

I'm just going to skip Rhode Island and New Hampshire altogether... just to be safe. As much as fun as it would be to be sacrificed to Dagon, I'm going to pass on that experience.

Jerusalem's Lot - (Salem's Lot) - Hello Vampires!

Crockett Island - (Midnight Mass) - Hello Vampires (again)!

Paradise City - (Star Trek V) - Backwater slum ran into the ground by useless politicians and eventually taken over by insane zealots.

Megaton - (Fallout 3) - Best known for being built around an unexploded nuke. It's also in the Fallout universe, which is generally awful.

King's Landing - (A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones) - Population pushing 1,000,000 with medieval sewage systems. Prime location for disease and stench. Put to the sword 15? years before the start of the series, besieged during the series which led to starvation and riots, and it only got worse. Many settlements from ASOIAF qualify, but the population of King's Landing pushes it to the top in my eyes due to the aforementioned hygiene issues.

Any major city in Dragonball or One Punch Man. The odds of a cataclysmic event occurring because someone had a bad day are non-zero.

As someone entering middle age?

Beanotown. Once an attractive place of childish anarchy, now a horrific prospect for the same reasons.

Fallout taught me that If I'm going to a town filled with children pickpockets (Little Lamplight) only carry live handgrenades and landmines into their midst and the crime problem solves itself.

Another horrible place would be Minas Morgul. I'm not sure I'd make it past the front gates.

But for a city of the evil dead, it is decently well-lit.

MIdsomer.

SamusDrake wrote:
MIdsomer.

I'm not familiar.

It's gotta be better than Scotland.

I was listening to the Scots metal band Gloryhammer last night and heard these lyrics from the song He Has Returned:


He stormed the ports of Cellardyke
And felled the dread witch-queen
Then liberated Cowdenbeath
Saviour to all machines
Hero forged in Heaven by the gods of old Dundee
Lays waste to all before him with a hail of holy steel

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
MIdsomer.

I'm not familiar.

It's from "Midsomer Murders" Which has 24 seasons of rural British murder going on in Midsummer. With most episodes having multiple deaths!

 Overread wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
MIdsomer.

I'm not familiar.

It's from "Midsomer Murders" Which has 24 seasons of rural British murder going on in Midsummer. With most episodes having multiple deaths!

There was a show like that in the US called "Murder, She Wrote," starring Angela Lansbury, and took place in Cabbot Cove, Maine.

Where someone was murdered every week for years. I think by the end everyone in that fishing village must've either been related to a murderer or a victim.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Overread wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
MIdsomer.

I'm not familiar.

It's from "Midsomer Murders" Which has 24 seasons of rural British murder going on in Midsummer. With most episodes having multiple deaths!

There was a show like that in the US called "Murder, She Wrote," starring Angela Lansbury, and took place in Cabbot Cove, Maine.

Where someone was murdered every week for years. I think by the end everyone in that fishing village must've either been related to a murderer or a victim.

Yeah we got that show over in the UK too - though as I recall she also often did travel outside of the town too - where more people often dropped dead!

That town in 30 Days of Night and that is before the Vampires even show up.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:


There was a show like that in the US called "Murder, She Wrote," starring Angela Lansbury, and took place in Cabbot Cove, Maine.

Where someone was murdered every week for years. I think by the end everyone in that fishing village must've either been related to a murderer or a victim.

Absolutely love Murder She Wrote, to the point where I'll break into full Peter Griffin mode whenever hearing the theme tune.


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 Overread wrote:

Yeah we got that show over in the UK too - though as I recall she also often did travel outside of the town too - where more people often dropped dead!

She's a right Doctor Decker, yet no one is the wiser....

I should probably do a little research, but wherever Nicholas Cage and the Wicker Man are, I'd rather not be(e).

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
I should probably do a little research, but wherever Nicholas Cage and the Wicker Man are, I'd rather not be(e).

Use the crap example why don’t you

Christopher Lee, Summerisle, Scotland again

Liberty City (Gta 3, and 4, not so much in 1)

Crime is exceedingly common, gunfights happen on the regular, grime and dirt and gak is everywhere, terrorist attacks happen often, Niko calls it 'the worst place in America' for a damn reason...

Vice City is great though... incredible party culture, great music, great view, you might get to see Tommy Vercetti every now and then, no brainer, really.

I was going to bring up Uzamaki but LunarSol beat me to it so I will say Gotham City. Even in the bright colored goofiness of the Silver Age it seems like it would be an insufferable place to live.

 Ahtman wrote:
I was going to bring up Uzamaki but LunarSol beat me to it so I will say Gotham City. Even in the bright colored goofiness of the Silver Age it seems like it would be an insufferable place to live.

Especially when you realize it is within walking distance to Metropolis to the North.

Hmm... I can live over here where Superman is or I can live over there in crazy town.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
I was going to bring up Uzamaki but LunarSol beat me to it so I will say Gotham City. Even in the bright colored goofiness of the Silver Age it seems like it would be an insufferable place to live.

Especially when you realize it is within walking distance to Metropolis to the North.

Hmm... I can live over here where Superman is or I can live over there in crazy town.

Even with alien invasions being common in Metropolis it still is a brighter and more hopeful hopeful place to live. Sure there is a lot of property damage but the community comes together and rebuilds whereas in Gotham you have clowns feeding poison cotton candy to Boy Scouts every weekend.