situationist war-gaming
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nomos
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I've never come across it but I'm curious. is it in one of the books?
I've tried a couple of times to get people interested in a game of Asger Jorn's 3-sided football. Even my grad school friends didn't bite when I explained that it was really an experiment in triolectics that "deconstructs the mythic bi-polar strcuture of conventional football, where an us-and-them struggle mediated by the referee mimics the way the media and the state pose themselves as "neutral" elements in the class struggle."
Some people just don't know how to have fun
I've tried a couple of times to get people interested in a game of Asger Jorn's 3-sided football. Even my grad school friends didn't bite when I explained that it was really an experiment in triolectics that "deconstructs the mythic bi-polar strcuture of conventional football, where an us-and-them struggle mediated by the referee mimics the way the media and the state pose themselves as "neutral" elements in the class struggle."
Some people just don't know how to have fun
you've just given me the excuse i was after to post this
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same here - look interesting but reckon they need some commitment and experience to fully appreciate
look forward to your battle report !
nomos
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interesting! clausewitz was an influence on deleuze too. i wonder if any of that limited run he made are floating about.
john eden
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Debord's game of war:
http://www.classwargames.net
Some people in London (Including Fabian Tompsett) doing it on the regular, also some interviews etc....
http://www.classwargames.net
Some people in London (Including Fabian Tompsett) doing it on the regular, also some interviews etc....
ok, so i dug it out finally.
the rules are a bit long winded (would have prefared if they were snappy like society of the spectacle) and though the game itself seems like it could be interesting, it kind of feels like a poor mans Go, just with more complicated rules, so its less accessable but also much more limited.
from what i gather its essentially about resources and communication and how they are spread and stretched but i just kept thinking about how these same ideas are represented much better with Go.
I'm sure its popular with people, and its certainly a nicely packaged product, but i don't think it stands up as a game really. Maybe i'm totally wrong. I'd rather play Monopoly though.
the rules are a bit long winded (would have prefared if they were snappy like society of the spectacle) and though the game itself seems like it could be interesting, it kind of feels like a poor mans Go, just with more complicated rules, so its less accessable but also much more limited.
from what i gather its essentially about resources and communication and how they are spread and stretched but i just kept thinking about how these same ideas are represented much better with Go.
I'm sure its popular with people, and its certainly a nicely packaged product, but i don't think it stands up as a game really. Maybe i'm totally wrong. I'd rather play Monopoly though.
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sufi
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back when i was a rpger o we were only little) i really fancied this game: http://www.sjgames.com/killer/
as it is ‘virtual’ (which back in the 80s means not on a board!) so you chase your mates around and attempt to assassinate them with kind of imaginary weapons – water pistol, plastic spider, banana
this sort of thing kept us entertained til the advent of those ‘laser’ gun & target kits that worked on infrared, sort of like hi tech hide & seek, creeping & chasing around multi-storey carparks trying to snipe your chums - ace
blimey thank goodness for the interwebs eh
o we were only little) i really fancied this game: http://www.sjgames.com/killer/as it is ‘virtual’ (which back in the 80s means not on a board!) so you chase your mates around and attempt to assassinate them with kind of imaginary weapons – water pistol, plastic spider, banana
this sort of thing kept us entertained til the advent of those ‘laser’ gun & target kits that worked on infrared, sort of like hi tech hide & seek, creeping & chasing around multi-storey carparks trying to snipe your chums - ace
blimey thank goodness for the interwebs eh