The real prize wasn't the lessons we learned about diffuse responsibility for the depravities of late-stage capitalism. It was the friends we killed along the way.
I was just thinking of what an example of a reverse Squid Game would be, where the marginalised make billionaires play bizarre death games to survive, and realised that’s just every Riddler story in Batman. Love that you found your calling!
Well, maybe now you know why some of us loved Diplomacy back in the days of board games. Nothing beats trying to rule Europe by getting your friends to knife each other in the back in the correct order.
(Also, Laurie I love our work but this needed more proofreading. Among other things, you actually had me wondering for a second if Chain Gang All Stars had a sequel involving a long walk.)
Interesting that your players refrained from killing each other most of the time. I have never hosted LARP games, just regular pen and paper Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green games, but I found it surprisingly easy sometimes how quickly players could be brought to stab each others' backs. What does that tell about the people I used to play with...? 😄
Well, this sounds like a fun job! Always enjoy a good immersive game, especially if there’s the option to backstab others… but maybe that’s just me? :)
You realised you like power? Aha haha. Of course you want power, you're a feminist. Your entire life story is bound up with the female attempt to seek power for women. I mean, every person wants power (and not to be subject to the power of others), but that you want power is what makes you so relatable.
Anyway, congratulations on achieving such a level of power that you feel you can admit that you want, and have power out loud. Pour yourself a drink. I suppose it makes you more dangerous.
People want power, not because they are broken, but because they have none.
I was just thinking of what an example of a reverse Squid Game would be, where the marginalised make billionaires play bizarre death games to survive, and realised that’s just every Riddler story in Batman. Love that you found your calling!
Holy class warfare, Batman!
Well, maybe now you know why some of us loved Diplomacy back in the days of board games. Nothing beats trying to rule Europe by getting your friends to knife each other in the back in the correct order.
(Also, Laurie I love our work but this needed more proofreading. Among other things, you actually had me wondering for a second if Chain Gang All Stars had a sequel involving a long walk.)
Interesting that your players refrained from killing each other most of the time. I have never hosted LARP games, just regular pen and paper Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green games, but I found it surprisingly easy sometimes how quickly players could be brought to stab each others' backs. What does that tell about the people I used to play with...? 😄
Well, this sounds like a fun job! Always enjoy a good immersive game, especially if there’s the option to backstab others… but maybe that’s just me? :)
Oh, billionaires live in squid game, their incentives are far more designed than ours.
You realised you like power? Aha haha. Of course you want power, you're a feminist. Your entire life story is bound up with the female attempt to seek power for women. I mean, every person wants power (and not to be subject to the power of others), but that you want power is what makes you so relatable.
Anyway, congratulations on achieving such a level of power that you feel you can admit that you want, and have power out loud. Pour yourself a drink. I suppose it makes you more dangerous.
People want power, not because they are broken, but because they have none.