‘Target mainland’: planned Troubles board game condemned in Northern Ireland

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a form of conflict simulation that leans into the historical context and they’ve always dealt with uncomfortable topics, like Castro’s terror campaign in Cuba or the war in Afghanistan.

  I’ve played several of these COIN (COunter INsurgency) games and they’re obviously supposed to be entertainment, but they’re also incredibly thoroughly researched, deeply thought provoking and challenging and serve to give a context for some of the history in a way no other medium can.

  What I’m getting at is that these games aren’t like “roll a 6 to murder a civilian” they’re designed to inform and educate their audience as much as entertain them with difficult decisions.

  Interview with the designer:

  theboardgameschronicle.com/…/interview-with-hugh-…

  why shouldn’t these mediums be sensitively used to study such important historical events, given the significant coverage already in the more passive mediums of print and film? Surely they too are worthy of simulation?

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TLDR version: a US board game company develops game for US idiots to LARP at being Irish.

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The publisher is American but the designer is Scottish and the artist is from Northern Ireland.

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My god they should really have known better then.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What a bunch of cunts, wow 🤦‍♀️

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s make one about 9/11, see how they like it

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