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Author Topic: NYT Covers Scramble for Africa Controversy  (Read 29409 times)

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Reply #45 on: August 05, 2019, 09:33:27 AM

PETS - People for the Ethical Treatment of Square corners

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Reply #46 on: August 05, 2019, 10:27:58 AM

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Reply #47 on: August 05, 2019, 12:04:07 PM
This same article can be written for just about every game that makes up this hobby we all enjoy. 

We had better be careful, or the same uninformed people, like the writer of this opinion piece, and yes, that's all the more it is, will find reason to stop just about every game from being made in the future. 

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Reply #48 on: August 05, 2019, 02:29:44 PM
Sounds like we might need our own article addressing this, though it seems to me that this is dangerously close to a political discussion.

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Reply #49 on: August 05, 2019, 02:33:14 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on August 05, 2019, 02:29:44 PM
Sounds like we might need our own article addressing this, though it seems to me that this is dangerously close to a political discussion.


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Reply #50 on: August 05, 2019, 02:34:59 PM
I was being facetious, Brant.  :ROFL:

My version of, "there's a Front Page?"

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Reply #51 on: August 05, 2019, 02:38:06 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on August 05, 2019, 02:34:59 PM
I was being facetious, Brant.  :ROFL:

My version of, "there's a Front Page?"


I'm laughing. :waiting:

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Reply #52 on: August 05, 2019, 02:44:18 PM
They can have my wargames when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Second thought, not even then!  >:(

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Reply #53 on: August 05, 2019, 03:01:37 PM
This is not an unexpected outome of games becoming more mainstream and lighter games trying to use more serious topics that they will never be able to handle in a meaningful way. Trying to design and publish a euro-style game on the 19th century colonization of Africa was a bad idea.

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.

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Reply #54 on: August 05, 2019, 05:57:18 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on August 02, 2019, 01:22:47 PM
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 02, 2019, 01:18:33 PM
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I try to avoid fanatics of any stripe.  I find them tiring.

This.

Very few people get pissed if you play wearing a Napoleonic marshal's hat. You aren't generally going to get painted as a bigot for seeming like you sympathize and admire Savoy when playing a game about the War of Spanish Succession.


I actually don't really like games.

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Reply #55 on: August 05, 2019, 06:48:30 PM
No, they’ll just put you in a nice room where you can “rest” until you’re better.



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Reply #56 on: August 05, 2019, 06:58:08 PM
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on August 05, 2019, 06:48:30 PM
No, they’ll just put you in a nice room where you can “rest” until you’re better.



Only if your opponent is Bugs Bunny.

I actually don't really like games.

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Reply #57 on: August 05, 2019, 07:45:58 PM
I would rather fight Chuck Norris AND Thanos than mess with, "The Bugs".  :notme:

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Reply #58 on: August 05, 2019, 08:17:47 PM

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
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Reply #59 on: August 05, 2019, 11:17:21 PM
Uh oh. Somebody's gonna be in trouble now. His real name is, 'Numb-Chuck Norris'.  :worried:

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