That and then lying, cheating, and deals are encouraged!
Will the real joke be how small Jan. 6, 2021 looks in comparison to what could be coming?
But when it was released on Jan. 6, 2024, people were confused.
Storm the Capitol.
Were the creators pro-insurrection?
Poking fun at it?
Was it all just in bad taste?
Pointing the mirror back on an absurd society was the only way to process it.
A certain amount of irreverence feels really important, given that were in a political deadlock.
What is there to fucking believe in now?
And to just be like, Oh, its off limits because people died.
Fuck you, we were children when 9/11 happened in our back yard.
Our school was a triage center.
And what are we doing in the Middle East?
What is our imperialist agenda?
Its not entirely unsurprising that Jan. 6 was made into a game.Board gamesare experiencing a bit of a Renaissance.
Would He Even Need To?
Then they went to go play video games.
And I was like, No lets do it.
And then we made my parents play with them for his birthday.
Some 10-part Slate podcast, nobody would make it past episode two.
Because I know on Jan. 6, I was texting everybody.
I was hanging out with people watching the thing it was like a communal experience.
Yeah, thats true.
It was a super fucked up situation.
[But] it was, at its core, super fucking absurd.
And so was this game.
