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Anti-Communist Games?

Started by kidkaos2, January 09, 2021, 09:26:45 PM

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Reckall

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February 05, 2021, 07:10:02 AM
Binge-watching "The Americans" can give you many ideas, exp. about some of the realities of the era as seen by the Soviets. The show is about two Soviet spies "embedded" in the American society, but the creator - an ex CIA agent - mumbled about the the US doing the same in Soviet Union. It would be an interesting setting, with stress, paranoia and the risk to be discovered - maybe because someone else screwed up.
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

Jim in Oz

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March 12, 2021, 09:27:10 AM
Quote from: Rhedyn on January 11, 2021, 01:13:06 PM
Any "apolitical" game is anti-communist. Conservative politics aren't considered political.

I haven't laughed so hard in fucking decades.

Visitor Q

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March 12, 2021, 11:36:41 AM Last Edit: March 12, 2021, 11:40:19 AM by Visitor Q
As has been said Paranoia seems like the obvious fit. Not only are you literally trying to uncover commie mutants, but from a meta point of view the game also highlights the hypocrisy of Communism. Principally through Alpha Complex very obviously being run as a Communist State.

People sometimes say Paranoia is a send up of totalitarianism in general but personally I've never seen it like that. Sure there's a bit of a scatter gun approach to its political gags but overall it seems Communism is the principle butt of the joke.

Or a Wh40K game, either Dark Heresy or Deathwatch where you're fighting the Tau.  Deathwatch in particular talks about how the Tau's "glorious" Greater Good ideology is achieved through disappearing populations and "reeducation". They are also completely ignorant of the realities of the Universe (Chaos etc).

That said the Imperium aren't exactly the good guys but you can't have everything.
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