Dude, who even knows.
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from the ‘96 Battletech TCG
Notice that cost on the left margin means it costs 7 more unless you have the Politics resource (land), which unlike the other 4 resources (colours) had no game effects other than making celebrity pilots and “orbital bombing” direct damage cheaper
Somehow at the time this was not obvious as a metaphor for the post-Cold War “New World Order”, because the comparison set was like On The Edge and Illuminati and Netrunner and Illuminati and the X-Files CCGThe ‘90s were paranoid conspiratorial as hell, just like the ‘50s shit doesn’t make sense without that
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birdsbayes said: Yeah I’ve been watching through Angel for the first time and I have thought a few times, mostly with regard to Wolfram & Hart, that this seems exactly like a modern RW conspiracy theory, and that if it came out now there would likely be a lot of chatter about that. It’s interesting how different kinds of conspiratorial thinking (even, I think, if entertained purely as fiction) move about political and ummm I don’t want to say class but you know sort of class-ish groups.
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man remember how the whole premise of Werewolf: the Apocalypse was that corporations were secretly polluting the world...
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This was the franchise from the same company that made Shadowrun, they knew what the fuck they were doing.
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