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Quintin and Chris' Bad Idea House #6

🕑 Added 2023-07-20 15:17:30 +0000 UTC

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Brett Rolfe

Agreed. You would be asking a very different question to what you might have asked at a different time - but a powerfully relevant question to gaming as a whole, when so much of gaming is about simulating situations that are ethically problematic (if much less obviously so). Quinns, I think this is a question of whether you are willing to channel your inner Hunter S. Thompson (or Sacha Baron Cohen) and sail up river into the heart of darkness.

Brett Rolfe

Totally there for farming. Embedded in a team of fanatics, overcoming any personal misgivings to uncover the human connection they have with their shared passion? Move over Louis Theroux!

Porkchop

The farming sim sounds good! Even if you didn't find it "interesting" I think the environment and people's excitement would be too great not to get caught up in it. The Border Wars is 5/10 mainly because I wonder what kind of people would be in it. They're bound to have relatives/relationships from either side, does that effect them? Can't say I'm interested in the whole war games side though.

Sam Siegel

11/10 for Border Wars - take the ethical questions head on. As part of learning what sort of people participate, I’d be really interested to know how they feel about simulating a war in Europe while there’s a war in Europe happening. Like, has it even occurred to them? Do they see it as practice before joining the fight? Or do they think their hobby is no more related to the war in Ukraine than philately?