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[Balbi]

This isn't Top Trumps, it's Magic: The Gathering.

How about Privilege: The Intersectionaling.

*rings PD offices*

 

[Orang Utan]

I think that chart needs an additional point-scoring system for each privilege to complicate things further

 

[Balbi]

Like golf. The lowest score wins.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Are there enough oppressions there for a set of Top Trumps?

As it would be a race to as few points as possible surely it would be Bottom Trumps

 

[Balbi]

As it would be a race to as few points as possible surely it would be Bottom Trumps

Homophobe

 

[BigTom]

This isn't Top Trumps, it's Magic: The Gathering.

How about Privilege: The Intersectionaling.

*rings PD offices*

definitely going to try to work some kind of game out of this. Not sure. Top Trumps is obvious, or some kind of set collection game (where you could aim to collect all the oppressions or all the privileges for your character type thing).
Something more like M:TG, I dunno.. the name is fantastic though. Has to be done on that basis alone. Will photoshop something tomorrow maybe anyway.

e2a: I have 9 privileges and 3 oppressions.

 

[weepiper]

definitely going to try to work some kind of game out of this. Not sure. Top Trumps is obvious, or some kind of set collection game (where you could aim to collect all the oppressions or all the priveliges for your character type thing).
Something more like M:TG, I dunno.. the name is fantastic though. Has to be done on that basis alone. Will photoshop something tomorrow maybe anyway.

Spin the Bottle. Or Roulette.

 

[Ronnie Rubashov]

I think that chart needs an additional point-scoring system for each privilege to complicate things further

I think that's the idea. You make a point at the appropriate length along each axis then connect them in a spider diagram.

Maximal privilege would be defined as the upper half of a regular icosakaitetragon...and maximal oppression the lower.

That's a little known feature of the 'theory'.

 

[Orang Utan]

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12298/privilege

 

[cesare]

As it would be a race to as few points as possible surely it would be Bottom Trumps

 

[DotCommunist]

the cardgame where you seek to have no points whatsoever is called 'shithead'

 

[Orang Utan]

There are a LOT of weird political board games out there.
My mum made us stop playing Monopoly and made me go to some weird bookshop in Leeds to buy this game and play it instead:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/113397/the-grain-drain
It was shit.

This could be fun:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1510/class-struggle

Probably not though

 

[frogwoman]

There are a LOT of weird political board games out there.
My mum made us stop playing Monopoly and made me go to some weird bookshop in Leeds to buy this game and play it instead:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/113397/the-grain-drain
It was shit.

This could be fun:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1510/class-struggle

Probably not though

that first one looks fucking terrible

 

[DotCommunist]

I want to have a game of Junta

 

[Orang Utan]

This one is the best though:

 

[weepiper]

 

[smokedout]

Suzanne Moore blatantly loving this - i think she's doing that ha im winning on the internet look at me thing whilst looking a bit stupid that most of us got out of our system on here about ten years ago

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[frogwoman]

 

[Orang Utan]

I want to have a game of Junta

I like the look of these two:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12333/twilight-struggle
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/80446/weimar-german-politics-1929-1933
A friend of mine actually has them.

 

[frogwoman]

you have got to be fucking joking

 

[Orang Utan]

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37699/stalins-stash
"

Description Edit | History
Stalin is dying in the hospital. Quickly! Steal his money!

Designed around the concept of shadenfreude (enjoyment in the misfortune of others) and Sociopolitical Economics, Stalin's Stash pits up to 4 players against each other in a vie for Stalin's secret treasure. Players build tunnels under Moscow while stealing each other's money, collapsing the tunnels with Molotov Cocktails to earn bonuses and stall other players, all while paying union dues and managing equal worker's salaries."
Sorry, MASSIVE digress

 

[Orang Utan]

you have got to be fucking joking

That is the teeny tiniest tip of a great big humungous iceberg


http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1617/icebergs

 

[cesare]

The board game equivalent of longcat

 

[frogwoman]

what happened to a nice game of chess

 

[Orang Utan]

what happened to a nice game of chess

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/85165/chess-2-the-sequel

 

[Bakunin]

You think that's bad..?

http://urbantitan.com/eight-most-controversial-board-games/

 

[sihhi]

I blame Balbi's idea.

 

[tufty79]

that is fucking genius

 

[equationgirl]

Love it, even without LP on it ( )