A first-person survival game (no zombies, just unforgiving nature) called The Long Dark explores this in a way that feels concrete. There's no electricity, exc

A first-person survival game (no zombies, just unforgiving nature) called The Long Dark explores this in a way that feels concrete. There's no electricity, except during aurorae when everything electric glitches. After playing the survival sandbox version of the game for some time, there was a short electric blackout due to a thunderstorm in real life, in the area where I live. That made me think hard about our dependency on electrical stuff. If the electricity goes over a big area, there's no light, phones last for a short time, then goes the water, radios will be out, food supplies will cease eventually, and so forth and so on. A modern technological society is relatively brittle. The game studio made a short film called "Elegy" [1]. I think it is quite beautiful in all its melancholy. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZNbUITN-mA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZNbUITN-mA