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[Hasbro is Evil] It's Monopoly's turn, now

Started by Benoist, February 16, 2011, 06:05:15 PM

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Peregrin

#61
September 16, 2011, 12:58:29 AM
Quote from: Benoist;478864I could endure nearly 2 minutes of this before I had to switch it off. I still wonder how I did it.

I still have no idea what the woman was trying to say in the first thirty seconds.

"Live game interaction...strategy and everything...is...being involved...with this MVP...Motion Sensor Player"

:confused:

I'm still trying to figure out what exactly "Live Game Interaction" is, or how it differs from the Live Game Interaction I had last night while playing Ra with some friends (really good board-game, btw), but I'm just going to guess it's marketing gobbly-gook.  It'd be a lot more honest just to say "We slapped a talking computer on the game that the kids'll love but you'll hate because it'll suck up AA batteries like a pothead going through bags of Funions."
"In a way, the Lands of Dream are far more brutal than the worlds of most mainstream games. All of the games set there have a bittersweetness that I find much harder to take than the ridiculous adolescent posturing of so-called \'grittily realistic\' games. So maybe one reason I like them as a setting is because they are far more like the real world: colourful, crazy, full of strange creatures and people, eternal and yet changing, deeply beautiful and sometimes profoundly bitter."

Benoist

#62
September 17, 2011, 12:27:39 PM
Agreed, Peregrin. It's just smoke and mirrors, new shiny bullshit.

Doom

#63
September 17, 2011, 10:32:25 PM Last Edit: September 17, 2011, 10:36:43 PM by Doom
Herpy Derp.
(taken during hurricane winds)

A nice education blog.

James Gillen

#64
September 18, 2011, 12:05:47 AM
Quote from: Caesar Slaad;440768Does it come with fake investment ponzi schemes and taxpayer subsidized bank bailouts? That would really modernize it!

It's already got the "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

JG
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Doom

#65
September 18, 2011, 12:12:12 AM
To really modernize it, we'd need an alien invasion plan to give everyone real wealth (an extra 10k for passing Go, I reckon):

http://mises.org/daily/5559/Keynes-and-Space-Aliens
(taken during hurricane winds)

A nice education blog.

Peregrin

#66
September 18, 2011, 03:01:11 AM
Aliens are pretty passe.  It's all about the undead, now.
"In a way, the Lands of Dream are far more brutal than the worlds of most mainstream games. All of the games set there have a bittersweetness that I find much harder to take than the ridiculous adolescent posturing of so-called \'grittily realistic\' games. So maybe one reason I like them as a setting is because they are far more like the real world: colourful, crazy, full of strange creatures and people, eternal and yet changing, deeply beautiful and sometimes profoundly bitter."

kregmosier

#67
September 26, 2011, 09:10:08 PM
I've never been a fan of Monopoly, but Battleship Galaxies looks kinda sweet.
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