Crapsack Only by Comparison: Difference between revisions

* [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E07 Amys Choice|An episode]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' involves The Doctor trapped (possibly) in a dream world where his two married companions are in a humdrum rural town that is incredibly boring. The Doctor asks, "[[Crosses the Line Twice|So, what do you do to stave off the self-harm?]]" Apparently the [[Call to Agriculture]] is a death knell to him.

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'': In the [[Grimdark]] grimdarkness of the grim, dark future, there is only grimdarkness! Er, war. Except that the Imperium of Man (and to a lesser extent, some of the other factions) must have a vast agricultural/industrial base to support their colossal war machine, and some of the licensed novels show the places that aren't right on the front lines (especially the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels). Presumably, it's possible to live a pleasantly uneventful life among the trillions on agri-worlds and forge worlds that doesn't involve being eaten by tyranids, chopped up by orks, enslaved by dark eldar, annihilated by necrons, executed for heresy by the Inquisition, having your soul ripped apart by Chaos, and so on and so forth. But it doesn't make a good story, and certainly doesn't work for a tabletop wargame.