Dan Thurot’s new podcast ep has a really fascinating discussion on slavery in boardgames with Prof Patrick Rael.
Raises a lot of interesting points about games that include aspects of slavery without acknowledging slavery, and the argument/interaction between games aiming for Historicity versus ethical/moral retribution/contrition. And refreshingly lacking in judgement.
(PS @RogerBW Why is SpaceBiff’s podcast not in the auto thread / RSS type thingy, please???)
Agree with that, there can be a couple of articles a week at times. If you want to know about all the biff content then his e-mail notification for the site works pretty good.
I thought it was an interesting podcast. I wonder if some of the issues with games with slaves if the main verb associated with games wasn’t “play”.
The game they mentioned a few times - and the subject of a previous podcast (“our guilty nation”?) feels like a really interesting case in point in the sense that it tries to model how to nudge a population away from decades of inertial satisfaction towards uncomfortable justness.
In this moment politicians use anger a lot to steamroll themselves into unlimited power. Is there a way to get people to vote for non horrid things?