# Possible SCA variation? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 15, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853 "2010-09-15T14:52:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/21 "2010-09-15T16:28:40Z")
[xkcd: Blagofaire](http://xkcd.com/239/) is somewhat applicable. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/22 "2010-09-15T16:35:44Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > [xkcd: Blagofaire](http://xkcd.com/239/) is somewhat applicable. Yup, that’s kind of what I’m shooting for-only reenacted here and now, not the future. It would be a bizarro-world modern LARP. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/23 "2010-09-15T17:30:19Z")
From fiction, _The DaVinci Code_ to present a skewed take on our view of religion. Similarly, some Chick tracts might survive. Music should be a mishmash, of course. I suggest that “Never Gonna Give You Up” survive, with hints that it was somehow weaponized, and that the virus of 2165 was an unsuccessful attempt to finally eliminate it. Some nonfiction material should be included as well, of course. I suggest -Newspaper accounts of WWI trench warfare. -A few newsreels from WWII. -Incomplete reports of the WTC attack. (Why yes, I am picking things to mostly represent a century of war and religious hysteria. It would make for an exciting game, and we don’t want them to be _completely_ inaccurate, do we?) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/24 "2010-09-15T17:34:42Z")
The only movie musicals to survive would be “Grease” and “Repo-A Genetic Opera”. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/25 "2010-09-15T17:36:49Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The only movie musicals to survive would be “Grease” and “Repo-A Genetic Opera”. Perhaps you could work in a reimagined _Grease_ as envisioned by Anne Rice? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/26 "2010-09-15T19:51:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > _Bonfire of the Vanities_ by Tom Wolfe is a pretty good top-to-bottom overview of American urban society in the Eighties. > > _Bonfire of the Vanities_ would accurately portray the period, but a copy of _Doc Savage magazine_ would be more fun to reenact, wouldn’t it? 😉 Well, if it’s fun magazines you’re after, I’d suggest _Penthouse_ for the Letters column alone. Never would reenacting “history” be so enjoyable! ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/27 "2010-09-15T20:41:10Z")
A handful of Popular Mechanics would complete skew our technological ability ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/28 "2010-09-15T21:13:52Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > A handful of Popular Mechanics would complete skew our technological ability Just one or two issues, but they would have to have personal jetpacks and/or flying cars on the covers. Hey, do you suppose calling it _SCA 2000!_ would break any copyright laws? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/29 "2010-09-15T21:24:53Z")
I think Green Day’s - _American Idiot_ would say something. Probably make them think being American wasn’t all that. Maybe tie in “Holiday” with the only surviving song from the hit Broadway smash **Springtime for Hitler**! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/30 "2010-09-15T21:40:50Z")
I just had a flash of genius! The _Dick Tracy_ movie survives-this would be great for the costumers. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/31 "2010-09-15T22:14:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I just had a flash of genius! The _Dick Tracy_ movie survives-this would be great for the costumers. Beautiful. 🙂 “In the 20th Century, there were only four colors.” “Six!” “Six?” “Well, parts of it had black and white, too.” …and endless geek arguments erupt, completing an essential part of any game system. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/32 "2010-09-16T05:10:42Z")
I’m ruling out _The Illuminatus Trilogy_ for sanity’s sake. I’m including _The Santa Clause_ just to screw with their thoughts about what we believed, although maybe _Dogma_ would be interesting also. What book, movie or television show do _you_ think should be included to represent our religious beliefs? ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/33 "2010-09-16T05:14:17Z")
Darn, I was hoping there was some info here on an SCA-like recreation of the Jazz Age. (Puts coonskin coat back in the closet…) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/34 "2010-09-16T05:33:30Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Darn, I was hoping there was some info here on an SCA-like recreation of the Jazz Age. (Puts coonskin coat back in the closet…) Come out of that closet! If you can provide an over-the-top example in the media(book, movie or television) of the Jazz Age, it might get included. How about _Some Like It Hot_, or maybe _The Untouchables_? ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/35 "2010-09-16T05:36:48Z")
There should be a something with a gritty distopia and something where things seem happy and twee. That’ll set off some dissonance. Maybe \*1984 \*(they might not know its fiction) and… well I can’t think of anything twee. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/36 "2010-09-16T05:50:57Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What book, movie or television show do _you_ think should be included to represent our religious beliefs? Book: _JOB: A Comedy of Justice_ by Heinlein Movie: \* Life of Brian\* ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/37 "2010-09-16T06:00:30Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > What book, movie or television show do _you_ think should be included to represent our religious beliefs? > > Book: _JOB: A Comedy of Justice_ by Heinlein > > Movie: \* Life of Brian\* What about Harlan Ellison’s “Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods”? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/38 "2010-09-16T06:28:53Z")
“Pollyanna” might be twee enough. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/39 "2010-09-16T06:31:24Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > “Pollyanna” might be twee enough. The book-maybe. The Disney movie-definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853/40 "2010-09-16T07:41:45Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > > > Darn, I was hoping there was some info here on an SCA-like recreation of the Jazz Age. (Puts coonskin coat back in the closet…) > > Come out of that closet! If you can provide an over-the-top example in the media(book, movie or television) of the Jazz Age, it might get included. > How about _Some Like It Hot_, or maybe _The Untouchables_? Chicago, or maybe Roxy Hart (with Ginger Rogers, come to think of it, anything with Ginger Rogers) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-sca-variation/553853.md?page=3)