remember being very struck by what the participants in this @codingconduct.cc study had to say wrt when it feels justifiable to kick back & play games as a Responsible Adult

10/10 dalmatian tongue clipping nightmare!

Ta! I think as a matter of policy it's probably wise to keep the wank detector handy when a game contains the complete text of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, but I also think Oikospiel is very much worth playing

Eve Sedgwick, 1997

understandable but also v. poignant that Clarke is incapable of foreseeing how deftly neoliberalism was about jujitsu flip this kind of attack on the British class system too

(the teen melodrama, the intimations of military-industrial misdeeds, the landscapes with cthonic power instinct, the absurd/macabre pop-psychedelic setpieces - it's all here in this <90min 1974 UK teleplay!)

(but then we're talking about a pundit class that, despite all the evidence that MAGA's invocations of free speech were always rankly opportunistic, remain so wedded to liberal ideals of Robust Public Debate that they'll canonise a Kirk, so they're not that hard to bamboozle ig)

Thanks for making such great games! Hohokum is another personal fave