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Creators of the game have already responded and removed the naughty bits from the game
The same reviewer's favorite game has pillaging as a central mechanic
I find their criticism to be... inconsistent. They have a pinned video to their Youtube channel about their favorite game, A Feast for Odin. In the video, the girl on the right says, while explaining the game, "you can go on expeditions, you can go pillaging for - which I'm not really a fan of the pillaging concept, but its sort of, kind of like, what happened... for amazing jewels..."
Insensitive chuds dont take her seriously
Crying?? Relay?? This is so embarrassing. It's a fricking board game. Play it or don't. No need to make an butt of yourself in a video.
Someone realizes that not mentioning the conquistadors who were literally instrumental to this time period would also cause backlash
We've recently had an uptick of people calling out problematic themes by not including all the dirty laundry--basically, whitewashing history, or committing erasure of traumatic events. Having a game set in the colonial period but pretending slavery didn't exist is being called out as bad.
G*mers don't deserve rights
This is the same problems video games have. I feel like us game players have made it too much a part of us, almost like an identity.
Youtube comments are all so supportive of her for being brave and courageous enough to cry about this
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I can't even imagine having a life so devoid of obstacles and hardship that THIS is what makes you a blubbering mess. My main thought after watching what little of that I could stomach was, "how does she get through a normal day?" People throw around the word "privilege," but to me, this seems like the very definition.
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The board game industry is captured by very progressive people. I have a lot of experience with it and can even trace the point to one specific person who worked very hard to capture the trade association specifically for woke reasons.
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spill the tea sweaty
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Without giving away enough to doxx myself it's a lady who works with a guy that provides demo staff to board game companies. She also does woke consulting for games to make sure there's nothing problematic with it. I sat through one with her and it was fricking painful.
At a big convention she was going around strong arming trade members votes to be assigned to her as proxy. She wanted to purposefully recreate the orgs board because it was "too straight, too male and too white." This was years ago and I imagine she's only gained support since then.
A lot of manufacturers worked with their company for demo staff so they had ears of a lot of people.
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anywhere good I can read more about her & this history?
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Remind me today and I'll dm you the company name. Not sure how much info is our there on it but that would at least be a start. I have it on a con badge at home
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What happens if an indie designer tries to make a based board game? Do you need to be in the good graces of the trade association to do business with the print shops and manufacturers they all contract with?
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he goes broke because normal people dont buy special board games
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Yeah but I figure that's the case 90% of the time anyway so I want to know what special pull the trade association has.
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No, indie guys can do what they want. The trade association just runs the big cons and has a lot of connections to all the major players. If you made something too controversial you just wouldn't be allowed a booth at some really important conventions.
I'm sure there's more to the trade association behind that stuff but I didn't deal with that end of things too much. I worked more with distribution companies.
Edit: the important thing about the cons and the association is it's where tons of networking happens. Designers, publishers etc are all there talking and kicking stuff around. If the board is pushing progressive views and having panels on it then it begins to influence what people are doing and working with.
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implying board game stores arent full of this
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Yeah, then they tr00n out or go woke to try and get nerd girldick
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