3XXX: NAKED HUMAN BOMBS
Think of the poor children who have to inhabit a world where people explode from seeing skin.
The following is an excerpt from an op-ed titled "The Recent Rise of TO-Induced Explosions Shows We Need to Ban Handshakes" by Caroline Stuart in the New Terra Times:
"I don't enjoy saying, 'I told you so,' but ever since the Sensible Party refused to follow our advice, more and more people have been injured by that l*wd activity known as handshaking. Imagine: two people secretly meeting in an alley, away from our respectable surveillance cameras and the police, to engage in this egregious activity involving skin-to-skin contact. They must have revolting, despicable, and shameful thoughts!
"I once met a child who shook hands with an adult, and after that, she became a handshaking addict. She was only 38, poor girl. So much to live for, yet she must now spend the rest of her childhood and perhaps a bit of her adulthood in rehab. She told me, 'I can't stop shaking hands. It hurts too much if I don't.' I cry for her soul. Will the Sensible Party listen to her cries and realize that people will lose everything when their hands touch other hands?"
Will you find a better world for the children, or will you let it fall into decay?
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As someone who was already familiar with the payment processor and itch situation, I wasn't sure what to think of this game at first. It felt all a bit too heavyhanded as a satire, evoking some weaker parodies of things i'd read from probably several ago. But... this story was so earnest and committed to the bit that I really came around on it, especially seeing the YA-novel like resistance into budding romance. Plus, the noir detective intro was a great hook.
The most striking thing to me about this setting was the distortion and extension of what ages counted as 'childhood'. it's really the tone these bans are giving, huh? state itself babying and drawing foolish lines on morality and purity, determining us to be too stupid to see anything in fiction without trying to imitate it in reality.
That segment at the end was a pleasant surprise. It... was honestly what made me interested in writing out a comment for this game. Thanks for including that, if it's appropriate to say. I've been thinking about how directly personal an author should be in their work, and similarly, a split between writing endings that would suit the narrative versus the one that I'd want to see. This gave me another opinion on those things.
Here from Uranium Gays. Wanted to see how a similar premise with heavier political background would turn out, and wasn't disappointed!
Very fun concept turned into very good characters. I found Ollie to be very cute, though I do have a bias for soft boys.
The irreverent humor is perfect, and the twist (if could be called that?) at the end was a very interesting direction to take the story; it caught me off guard, but it was fascinatingly raw and open.
i c*me here to enjoy reading about naked human bombs and it was all very good and unhinged. i liked the choices that were allowed to me as a reader, and i liked wearing the ~spoilers~ uniform and band with ~spoilers~ ears. all is well that ends well, and i am sure we too will build a better society soon somehow? maybe?