the way out of a stupid game is not to create a new game (eventual corruption into new tyrrany) nor is it to stop playing all games (boredom/meaning crisis) it’s to not NEED specific game outcomes (including continued play)
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e.g. if during board game night you have one person who is really really offended that everyone is playing secret hitler, and the guy secretly playing hitler is going to throw a tantrum and break things if he doesn’t win... then it’s a really shitty board game night
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so everyone just sits in a circle staring at each other really awkwardly but not for long bc existential kicks in and the default game of sexual posturing and social stratification starts in the background
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so then, in order to stave off the inevitable anna karenina crisis, person who has worked wayyy too long at big co HR suddenly has the bright idea “you know what’s a nice non offensive game we can play for 10,000 hours & can organize us hierarchically? MONOPOLY”
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