For anyone that keeps up with the television channel National Geographic, you know the new craze is called "prepping". Prepping is the new hoarding and there is a new TV show that follows these people. Doomsday Preppers on National Geographic is a show dedicated to showing the lives of individuals that decide that they have seen enough. Enough natural disasters, global economic crises, things flying at Earth from space, and the list goes on. In response, these featured preppers have done EVERYTHING in order to prepare for their end-of-the-world situations.
From creating a spider hole in a secret rural area that contains over 200 pounds of food, to teaching a family (including an eight-year-old) to located, load, and fire firearms, preppers are taking National Geographic and the TV nation by storm. At the end of interviewing and touring each preppers preparations, the show's experts rank each group and rates their chances of survival in a doomsday scenario. The ranking is based on a point system, taking in account several survival necessities WHEN doomsday strikes. Not IF doomsday strikes.
This is yet another example of how ANYTHING can be "gamified". National Geographic has taken some of the most...(umm) interesting people in America and eventually turn it into a competition to see who is the best prepared for doomsday. Further evidence that gaming applications are truly... LIMITLESS!
