New Tet
14th August 2009, 23:16
Now here's a game I think I read about on the internet years ago when the net did not seem so old and tired.
I wish I could remember more about it and where the fuck I saw this but a search of the Web and Usenet yielded nothing that could help me remember the actual name of the game or find the newsgroup (any!) or web site where I originally saw it.
Worse yet, my memory of the whole thing is vague and fragmentary. (I remember my mom warning me about not eating some mushrooms I had found in a pasture. After that, it’s all a haze. I do recall dear Mommy laughing and saying something about “Major Tom”[?]
Anyway, this is all I remember about it [the brackets are mine]:
Follow the Fascist.
[Sounds simple]
Rules
Everyone in the group assigns to him/herself the name of a notorious, publicly identified fascist (anyone who has ever appeared in the media openly defending or advocating racism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, violence, militarization or otherwise publicly identified as leader or member of any civilian political party or paramilitary or armed militia organization advocating the above principles.
[For the purpose of this game we’ll call this ‘leader’ a ‘(L)ord’]
Everyone starts with only one ‘lord’ per player.
[Obvious examples abound. David Duke. Limbaugh. Beck, etc. But there are many, many other little ‘lords’ craving exposure who are just as opaque and slimy as the above-mentioned Lords of Darkness.]
[Game restricted to commie club members]
How to Play
Each participant with an assigned “lord” will then follow his/her career, past and recent. [This requires some research but if you’re reading this, chances are you already have the primary research tool right at your pink, tender little fingertips.]
The way you score points is by posting here [or an assigned sub-forum] relevant or interesting factoids you discover about your fascist lord as you follow his nefarious career.
[Actual, real-life contact between the commie and his ‘lord’ is NOT recommended and discouraged.At the very least, it is stalking. And stalking, as anyone who has ever worn a trench coat with nothing underneath will assure you, leads to ugly business.]
For every factoid about one’s ‘lord’ posted here, the player [commie] is awarded 1 point.
For every relevant and important factoid, the player [commie] is awarded 2 points.
A factoid concerning actual, recent activity it is worth 3 points.
Four points if the factoid concerning your ‘lord’s’ activity is in your neighborhood (local, state or provincial).
An opposing player can score against you!
If another player spots an important factoid regarding the ‘lord’ of another, she gets 3 bonus points and the inattentive owner gets 1 consolation point for an assist.
[Remember: The newer the factoid the more it’s worth.]
[B]Who Wins
[At the end of a given time period or after accumulating a given score, whoever has more points is awarded the medal of Valor in the Dark, elected plenipotentiary leader for an hour of the Anti-Fascist forum and allowed to march around a coffee table of his choice (Danish or Modern American) waving a little red flag. Ho!]
I wish I could remember more about it and where the fuck I saw this but a search of the Web and Usenet yielded nothing that could help me remember the actual name of the game or find the newsgroup (any!) or web site where I originally saw it.
Worse yet, my memory of the whole thing is vague and fragmentary. (I remember my mom warning me about not eating some mushrooms I had found in a pasture. After that, it’s all a haze. I do recall dear Mommy laughing and saying something about “Major Tom”[?]
Anyway, this is all I remember about it [the brackets are mine]:
Follow the Fascist.
[Sounds simple]
Rules
Everyone in the group assigns to him/herself the name of a notorious, publicly identified fascist (anyone who has ever appeared in the media openly defending or advocating racism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, violence, militarization or otherwise publicly identified as leader or member of any civilian political party or paramilitary or armed militia organization advocating the above principles.
[For the purpose of this game we’ll call this ‘leader’ a ‘(L)ord’]
Everyone starts with only one ‘lord’ per player.
[Obvious examples abound. David Duke. Limbaugh. Beck, etc. But there are many, many other little ‘lords’ craving exposure who are just as opaque and slimy as the above-mentioned Lords of Darkness.]
[Game restricted to commie club members]
How to Play
Each participant with an assigned “lord” will then follow his/her career, past and recent. [This requires some research but if you’re reading this, chances are you already have the primary research tool right at your pink, tender little fingertips.]
The way you score points is by posting here [or an assigned sub-forum] relevant or interesting factoids you discover about your fascist lord as you follow his nefarious career.
[Actual, real-life contact between the commie and his ‘lord’ is NOT recommended and discouraged.At the very least, it is stalking. And stalking, as anyone who has ever worn a trench coat with nothing underneath will assure you, leads to ugly business.]
For every factoid about one’s ‘lord’ posted here, the player [commie] is awarded 1 point.
For every relevant and important factoid, the player [commie] is awarded 2 points.
A factoid concerning actual, recent activity it is worth 3 points.
Four points if the factoid concerning your ‘lord’s’ activity is in your neighborhood (local, state or provincial).
An opposing player can score against you!
If another player spots an important factoid regarding the ‘lord’ of another, she gets 3 bonus points and the inattentive owner gets 1 consolation point for an assist.
[Remember: The newer the factoid the more it’s worth.]
[B]Who Wins
[At the end of a given time period or after accumulating a given score, whoever has more points is awarded the medal of Valor in the Dark, elected plenipotentiary leader for an hour of the Anti-Fascist forum and allowed to march around a coffee table of his choice (Danish or Modern American) waving a little red flag. Ho!]