Welcome to The Manhattan Project's Culture and Lifestyle portal! Although backstory and context is all well and good and the how to post and join just as much, wouldn't you like to know a little bit about current events? What's the fun in having a game if there isn't topics and shit to talk about, right? Culture and Lifestyle covers a lot of topics that range across the board, sure, but what holds it all together is this topic fodder essence.
Since a lot of the stuff contained within is very much of the "here and now" variety, players are really encouraged to let loose in this section! Please feel free to pitch in any pages on IC inside jokes about restaurant names, bands, Network slang phrases, and the like here; the worst that can happen is that your very OCD moderator goes and changes the order of your page's placement. Although this really does go for the Wiki in general (for, after all, it is a Wiki first and foremost), the Culture and Lifestyle portal is meant to best encapsulate the collaborative nature of players meet game! But first, a few jump-off points for the hesitant:
- Neighborhoods: In a post-atomic world, where you live — and why you live there — is everything. This page elaborates on the logic behind the National Housing and Districting Act, explains how such legislation has applied to New York and its boroughs, and how that affects your character.
- Locations: Locations, venues, stores, and whatever-else-you-can-think-of which has been featured in-game, whether they're a) fictional, or b) evolved versions of their 2010 selves.
- News: From TV to radio to the Internet, how do New Yorkers digest their daily allotted intake of current events? Click this link to find out more!
- Politics: To be blunt: shit is polarized, y'all. It's a rarity for current events to escape touching anyone's life at of 2029, with tempers on either side of the aisle flaming up… and not all necessarily at each other. This article is meant to discuss the nature of 2029's "liberal" and "conservative," as well as how certain factions within each philosophy beyond that of the good old Democrat and Republican parties are striving to tear more than just the two-party system apart.
- Entertainment: As the old adage goes, the show must go on, and go on in New York it does. From music to movies to theater, this post will outline everything from how good old Washington is trying to meddle its way into Broadway to how "Battle of the Bands" may mean a whole lot more in this neck of the woods than anywhere else.
- Education: What creates revolutions? Youth cultures. Where do youth cultures thrive? Colleges and universities. But even if you're not dealing with the potential of playing a college student ready to rebel (or not), pertinent information may be held within.
- Lingo: What sort of new-fangled lingo does the youth of today have? What are the new and cool phrases? And what in the Sam Hill does it all mean?
- Standard of Living: What comforts do Americans still enjoy? What miseries do they soldier through?
- Culture and Lifestyle FAQ: Still have questions? Come here and ask away!
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