Iron Lung is not as bleak of a setting as people think(sorry)

local man wins argument against incomprehensible cosmic horror over the concept of "what is a resource"

The fish that kills you at the end of iron lung made this video

The cold indifference of the universe vs the INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT

How to "uh, actually..." your way into saving humanity.

"No useful resources" like how I look into my stocked kitchen and go "there's nothing to eat!"

I think the bleakness was because there were about two thousand people alive in the entire universe and the largest three satellite cities were all trying to murder each other.

As a British person, Iron Lung moons look absolutely scrumptious

It’s still bleak. Just because it’s survivable doesn’t mean I want to be there

Man BEATS horror game with FACTS and LOGIC

Surely nothing bad will come as a result of eating the eldritch space blood. Surely.

A major flaw with your plan is that to pull a lot of this off, it would require the majority of remaining humans to act rationally for extended periods of time after a near extinction level event.

The fish in Iron Lung being massive means there is sooo much food that it was viable for the fish to grow that big (and the blood ocean is able to host life somehow)

The fact that blood oceans are able to be oceans implies that blood moons have a heat source strong enough to keep water in liquid form, and an atmosphere to stop water from boiling due to vacuum. So that means pretty much any blood moon is habitable, especially if you live on the dry land.

It turns out humanity's true bastion from the apocalypse is semantics.

This is basically a bunch of arguing about definitions followed by "just drink the blood, bro".

Iron lung 2: the blood ocean is literally drained and the funny fish became sushi

I love the idea that whatever cosmic horror force blooped stuff out of existence was very concerned with adherence to strict human definitions of cosmic bodies.

Mushrooms will drink the blood. Eat the mushroom. Mushrooms don't need light.

Dont think survivability is what makes a series bleak Like in warhammer its very likely that even if they lose the war humans will likely survive in the end in one way or another Yet the setting is bleak simply because living in it is horroble and no matter what humans do they are destined to face despair and pain I never questioned if humans would survive or not in iron lung but its still one of the worst sci fi settings to live

the problem imo, is that what happened is clearly not natural, its like some kinda divine punishment by a cruel eldritch deity. so i dont think that you could use the statement "all stars and planets dissapeared" in that kinda way. theres no reason that whatever caused this event would not take brown dwarves for example, just because humans dont define them as stars. same with nebulas. a human would notice the dissapearance of stars and planets way before any of these other things, but that doesnt mean that those didnt still get removed. these things dont operate on fae rules and technicalities