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The rare moment when you find insightful things being said in a boardgame review on bgg. This is a great read and worth noting.
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There are many ways to eat an elephant, and movies and games are a softer way to spread awareness, anger and motivation
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there is no stance that doesn’t make somebody on your own side enraged. If you over emphasise the threat of climate change you’re an irresponsible doomer, but if you take it too lightly you’re not emphasising the danger we’re in. Try to get people to take local action and you’ll be accused of letting the 1% off the hook. Try to target the rich and they’ll accuse you of trying to stop capitalism (too hard) instead of trying to save the planet. Point out that they’re nickel and diming you instead of just getting on board and they’ll accuse you of not caring about specifics or being blindly tribal. Criticise their methods and they’ll call you a traitor who is encouraging people to despair because they can’t see a united front.
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If we turn off the news and government propaganda we know there’s more power in us than we believe, and more than just despair and surrender. We can change things. That’s what this game says.
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This game changes the human soul in a time when the lights are going out and as such it is a significant work of revolutionary art
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not enough of course on its own to save humanity; Goya’s Third of May didn’t stop war and The Tin Drum didn’t stop fascism, but they raised a fist and said “this far and no further”.