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May 22, 2024 14:43
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- kalel
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Uh oh, sweetheart, that's a no-no! You can't make that move because sending your troops across the DMZ to bypass your brother's naval blockade would be interpreted by my forces as an act of war—perhaps you'd be interested in holding off mobilizing your units and investing this turn's funds in a research agreement with me instead? It's okay sweetie, everyone makes boo-boos! Just don't let them turn into international incidents, we wouldn't want to involve your mother in this
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May 31, 2018 22:38
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- kalel
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No, Grampa, it's okay. I've played this one a million times, and...
(Grampa's trembling, papery hand lifts the tiny cardboard circle from the board. His eyes narrow at the symbol in red on black, glossy and vibrant)
... No Grampa it's not like that! They set it up so the good guys...
(Grampa's gaze becomes severe, frightening. The fire of ten thousand memories flickers behind his long, intense scrutiny. The children can't possibly know what that symbol means to him. What it meant to those men... those boys, whose faces he can still see in the shadowy hours of dusk)
... I know it's not cool for a boardgame to have swastikas but it's historic, and you really can't win as the Axis...
(Grampa sweeps all the cardboard circles on to the floor, grinding them under his slipper as he trudges away to be with his thoughts)
Grampa? Grampa? gently caress why didn't we just play Risk like normal people...
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Jun 5, 2018 05:58
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- kalel
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When this began - when did this begin? - it was a game. A game: one decision after another after another after another, until we'd made every possible choice and began to make impossible ones. Was it the boy (the brother), his name so long forgotten, that started it? He built the machine. Was it the girl, and it's possible she never had a name, that started it? She used the machine first. It was the mother, the father, as they merged into one in our minds, creator/destroyer, a single thing that began the game and ended it, but can we say they started this? They dismantled the machine, but by the time they did it was no longer bound by physical form.
I think - "I," "I," "I," as though the self was anything but an abstraction, a convenience - that it was the infant, unformed potential, who started it. He/she/they revealed to us what lived in the hearts of stars.
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Jun 18, 2018 01:57
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