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I rediscovered an old board game, but found its fans now include hate groups

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If white-supremacists happen to like Dr Pepper, should you switch beverages? Or if they like oxygen, should you breathe something else? I never understood this line of thinking; consuming the same stuff as a group you dislike doesn't turn you into them.

Choosing a board game is different than choosing a beverage, because you need opponents to play. If the places you would go to find other players are full of people you don't want to interact with, this may mean you have to give up on the game.

If your gaming group is full of neo-Nazis, you have way worse problems, though; you could be playing checkers and it would still be a problem. In any case, most board-gamers don't pick a game and find a group, they have a group and pick a game.

And the plus side about WH40K (which I've never before heard described as a board game BTYG) is you don't need even need to play to have fun.

I understand it's a painting game with some optional board elements.

The author of the article has a lot of balls posting not one but two AI-generated pictures of the people he supposedly interviewed. The one of "retired U.S. Army veteran Brad Thompson" is particularly egregious. https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/content/images/Brad-Tho...

I'm curious as to how you think the photos of Thompson and Gillen are AI-Generated. I did a reverse image search just to double check, and the only existence of the photos are on the cbc site.

The author listed the photos of his interviewees as supplied by themselves.

Because the pictures are bizarre. Take a look at the one I linked to - his chin line merges with his neck. The bags under his eyes are weird. He looks like he is added on to the background. And the background itself is super weird.

The other one that I think is generated is the picture of "Pop culture critic Ian Williams". Gillen's is ok.

> I did a reverse image search just to double check, and the only existence of the photos are on the cbc site.

The reverse image search didn't return anything precisely because they are generated. Search for the other image - that of the writer Kieron Gillen. You'll find it.

There are bad dogs that will wag their tails while approaching then bite You. There are bad people too, I wouldn't be surprised if every board game ever made includes fans who hate. The fact that the author is Asian should not give any more weight to their argument. It seems more and more people feel victimhood is a virtue that people should aspire to.

If some clown shows up to a game night wearing an Imperial Eagle Helmet with a bunch of Nazi figurines and I was there it probably wouldn't end well, but that would be the same if they showed up for any other public event.

Same reason I'm not a vegetarian.

Does the author realize that the “Trump as god emperor” thing is itself a satirical leaning-into of the left’s belief that Trump was fascist dictator?

Do the people posting it?

Half the time these things start out as satire but then attract/create true believers.

The left didn’t believe that he was one, but yes trump people used that satire to try to discredit a warning that proved very valid.

their actual view was that he had tendencies of a dictator and would like to become one, going so far as to encourage a coup attempt among other things, not that he actually currently was one.

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