David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 17 days ago

We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum

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We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 17 days ago

Outdated science fiction is hobbling our dreams.

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The Player of Games in which a smart nerd like themselves get recruited as an agent to bring down an empire a bit like our own by being really really good at games.

I’m sorry, I have no idea what this book is, but calling it “The Player of Games” is so funny to me.

adjust fedora I am not a gamer, I am A Player of Games
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  @V0ldek I mean it was specifically an extremely complicated and long-winded board game. Like space Agricola.

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