Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-24469175-20160325005756

There are several factors as to why I don't like crapsack and crapsachirine settings:

1. They are pretty much hopeless: there is no point in fighting or even doing any good, and whenever you do, your not going to get better and neither is the world, so you might as well just become them

2. Beyond depressing: even when it's played for laughs or isn't really focused on, when you see a crapsack setting, you know nothing is going to go well, usually the characters in the story are in ridiculous misery and most of them end up getting killed

3. Nowhere close to real life: while our world does have massive problems, not everywhere you go is going to involve someone trying to kill or rape you, there are areas like that, but not the whole freaking population.

4. Really bad examples on tv tropes: There are plenty of examples that are actually pretty normal worlds, and sometimes the ones that are labeled actually do end up getting happy endings and involve the main character taking out the bad guy and then things improving immensely, just because there are powerful entity's and just because the main character is a massive jerkass alongside numerous other maniacal characters doesn't mean the world sucks, sure their lives suck, but that doesn't mean the world itself does.