Bringing Light to Worlds of Darkness

       I know I promised some nostalgia, the thing I wanted to post won't work. I'll get back to you when I work it out. I was browsing my favorite site of TVTropes.org when I came across the trope "Earn your Happy Ending" and noticed that there were entries for White Wolf's World of Darkness. That's when I thought,       "FINALLY a happy ending for that setting." This line of thought comes from a number of settings that are created as very bleak. Judge Dread, the Cthulu Mythos, and let's not even get into Warhammer 40k. All in all, settings like that are created for two purposes. To (needlessly) remind the audience that life can indeed be hard and filled with turmoil and strife; and to make it all the more satisfying when a group of heroes save the world! I've never played it, but let's use the World of Darkness as an example. I always thought it would be awesome if each of the players played as one of the members from each of the factions from the individual games, teamed up, and saved the entire universe from a collective cosmic evil! Anybody with me on this? Why do people insist on creating these hellholes, giving you the tools to fight, and then telling you your efforts won't change a thing? Life is hard, we know that. The point of fiction, games in particular, is to be escapist. To let you stroll into a city entirely populated by slaves and the monsters that hold them in thrall, look at the slave drivers like their very existence is an affront to all that is decent, and then say "I've come to chew bubblegum, and kick ass . . . and I'm all out of bubblegum." Then proceed to unleash the Hell they so righteously deserve, free the entire city, and make it the first citadel of freedom and order against the tyrannical empire!

First post

Hello everyone! Despite my initial misgivings about internet culture I am creating this blog. I most likely will not live to see the world's next golden age so I would like some of my thoughts to live on for posterity. This blog will mostly consist of my own philosophical and moral thesis' open for anyone to read for enjoyment. The first will be about a bit of nostalgia. Let me know what you guys think!