on politics and wargaming

[22:28] <obli> Dajhail:

[22:29] <obli> as a game critic and game critism intilectual

[22:29] <obli> do you think there are many left wingers who are into wargaming

[22:29] <Dajhail> Yes.

[22:30] <obli> do you think you can be a left wing and morally be a wargamer ethicly

[22:33] <obli> Dajhail:

[22:33] <Dajhail> Imaginary lives are the most precious of all.

[22:33] <obli> do you think more right wingers are into wargaming than left wingers

[22:34] <Dajhail> Only the ones who don't think Nintendos are just for children and vg guns should be illegal.

[22:36] <obli> well

[22:36] <obli> when i say rightwingers

[22:37] <obli> i mean libertarians and fascists

[22:37] <obli> not think of the childrens

[22:37] <Dajhail> I think videogames are too awesome for politics.

[22:38] <Dajhail> And left wingers and right wingers should just be grateful we have them.

[22:38] <obli> what about tabletop gaming

[22:38] <Dajhail> Evil.

[22:39] <obli> what about war reinactment

[22:39] <Dajhail> From Monopoly teaching kids that monopolies are fun, to Dungeons and Dragons teaching children that problems can be solved by whining to the dungeon master.

[22:40] <Dajhail> War reinactment is cowboys and indians taken to the next level.

[22:40] <Dajhail> They should stick to paintball instead.

[22:40] <Dajhail> At least then people actually get hurt.

[22:40] <obli> are cowboys morally comparable to the SS

[22:41] <Dajhail> Only the bad and perhaps the ugly.

[22:41] <obli> does wanting to be a cowboy automaticly make you a genocidal scums

[22:42] <Dajhail> Cowboys were basically the truckers of the wild west.

[22:43] <Dajhail> So don't hate on the truckers.

[22:43] <obli> i hate truckers

[22:44] <obli> they killed the railways

[22:44] <obli> fuck em

 

10:29:42 p.m. me

do you think there are many left wingers who are into wargaming

10:30:55 p.m. Cole Barrett

Hmm.

10:31:55 p.m. Cole Barrett

I think right wingers would be a comfortable majority, I don't know if they'd be disproportionately so though.

10:32:30 p.m. me

how aboot d&d

10:32:48 p.m. Cole Barrett

I think D&D would be closer to even.

10:33:15 p.m. Cole Barrett

PLenty of hippies that like to play monks, druids, bards, wood elves, etc.

10:34:30 p.m. me

so whats the diffrence

10:36:40 p.m. Cole Barrett

Wargames are always about war. D&D is almost always about fighting, but it might be for a good, individually motivated, cause.

10:38:57 p.m. me

like loots

10:39:02 p.m. me

and genociding orcs