Poofy Goof Rant-O-Matic

in my youth I spent hours designing cars for Steve Jackson Games' Car Wars, smashing or shooting them apart in slow motion. the engineering exercise of balancing between armor, weight, space, armaments, and speed originally drew me to the game, but lately I've been amused with the post-apocalyptic aspects of the game. Car Wars was a thought-out world based on speculation of what would happen in a future without cheap oil, weakening of federal government, and a grain blight.