Finally went to the market apocalypse and people here are so dumb. The whole TP/Paper Towels rack is empty, but like all kinds of other life essentials (milk, eggs, bread, probiotic yogurts) or even like cups & utensils and frozen food are all normal and plenty. Was glad I could get 90% of everything I usually get each week.
I'm gonna check out Trader Joe's tomorrow to stock up on a week or two worth of good frozen food (their frozen food is like the only frozen food that doesn't taste like crap to me) just in case they shut down all the fast food/restaurants at some point.
Since I gave up on playing Death Stranding, what caused the apocalypse in that world?
Death Stranding
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In Death Stranding world people have bodies in the real world and souls that exist in a separate reality/dreams/the beach (Ha and Ka) and every couple billion years there's an "extinction entity" that eventually realizes their purpose is to cause the extinction of their species. Norman Reedus' Mom was the extinction entity and her body and soul split when she underwent surgery and her soul was trapped on The Beach. (Death Stranding) Real Body Mom was trying to prevent the extinction event by using stillborn babies' souls to make a super time travel internet. Mads Mikkelson is a father of one of the kids and dies while attempting to get his kid back (btw the mom was also the president of the USA) and in the process, the baby is killed as well. Soul Mom feels bad about this and saves the soul of the baby using her powers from the beach and Real Body Mom raises him as her son irl, while Soul Mom raises him on the beach in his dreams. He comes back to life but he can't be killed anymore (Death Stranding) and instead, every time he is killed it causes a massive Akira-esque nuke crater. This throws off the balance of life and death within the world and causes the Death Stranding, time fall, etc.
Actually from my understanding of DS they never really explain how the apocalypse came to be.
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Just like "extinctions happen every once in a while because nature"
I mean the process was a surgeon doing a c-section on a dead woman to save the baby and he touches the baby's umbical cord and is able to see a BT/Ghost and it touches him and causes a nuke like explosion because BT's are antimatter and when they come into contact with human's matter it causes a nuke-like explosion (let's not get into the plot hole that in the game plenty of people are touched and dragged around by BTs and the nuke only happens when a major boss like BT touches a person, but the surgeon just seemed like he saw a BT, idk I guess you can explain it that what he saw a boss BT and it touched him).
Then people start seeing and coming in contact with each other cause nukes everywhere which wipes out a lot of the world. And that through natural evolution some people are born with stronger abilities to detect BTs in order to evade them and live. Which makes sense. The DOOMs thing though? That never really made much sense for anyone other than Sam given his situation when he was born, dunno why they made other people have DOOMs as well.
But what caused the BT/ghosts to start interacting with people assuming they've always existed after people die? Or if BTs weren't always there, what caused BTs to start staying instead of crossing over? Pretty sure it's never really explained other than it was time for another extinction event so it just started happening triggering the beginning of the end of the world. I think they didn't want to get too detailed into the existentialism of what caused it all and leave some mystery there.
So yeah, nothing like COVID-19 so far. Unless we start seeing ghosts next.
