transcription: uhh... sorry but i only play woke games
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people usually say that "there is no ethical life under capitalism" isn't an excuse for being a consumer, but i'll go the other way and say it is an excuse. because when you've been born into the system you have no choice but to participate, and that means you have to live with two conflicting ideas in your head: "the system must be destroyed for us to survive" and "i must use the system for me to survive".
and i know you're a clever gal. you know that catan is not a driver of neocolonialism, just like you know that monopoly isn't responsible for actual housing crises and that risk doesn't start wars. they are not the system. they are just of it. like you. so go play. have fun. it's the best thing we can do for ourselves.
now thats a fresh perspective! 🍃🌊🍋
it kinda should count as an excuse ... there is an argument to be made that essentially becoming Buddha is ethical, but - that's not gonna get us anywhere but on the streets i think.
someone else said that catan is an awfully boring game... is it? what games would u like to play instead?
My friends and I got bored with regular Catan, but not because it's a boring game, we just played it so much
Check local game stores for used copies of the expansions, but also just make up your own rules! One of our go-to "rules" is starting with all the resource tiles face-down and not flipping them until someone's built a settlement on it
Games are supposed to be fun, tweak the rules as much as you want :)
yeah we can only do what we can, and not managing to be some kind of enlightened super-being isn't a personal failure. that's just life.
catan is what got me into board games, and i've played it quite a few times. it does suffer from being one of the earlier entries in the current "renaissance" in that there is not a lot of player interaction and what there is is disruptive. that said, it's still a good intro to the meatier stuff.
my recent plays include Skull, a 5-minute bluffing game; Earthborne Rangers, a cooperative adventure where you walk through a big forest and help people with their problems; Mind MGMT, a 4-v-1 hidden-movement game where a team tries to find a spy; Ark Nova, where you compete to build habitats for endangered animals; Codenames, where two teams try to puzzle together related words; and Root, where you play as cute forest animals embroiled in a violent conflict.
there's so much out there now that you can basically just pick a theme you like and there will be like 15-20 games about that specific thing.