Damn Parker Bros. for their game Risk!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

I have imagined the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and other neocons playing Risk gleefully in their youth, and if that's true I am cursing Parker Bros!

They created a game about World Domination, and never incorporated into the play, what do afterwards. That's probably why Afghanistan and Iraq are so screwed up now, and so will be Syria and Iran if these sociopaths can get away with it.......

[htuttle]

1. That would explain why...

...they thought that as soon as you get some of your troops into the enemy's capital city, the whole country 'changes color' to your side.

Nope. Don't work that way.

[ixion]

2. that's the equivalent of blaming rock music or video games

Really, it's the individual, not an inanimate item or piece of art, or game, or picture, or film that causes violence, and has intentions of world domination.

I've played Risk® hundreds of times, and I have no plans for world domination as far as you know. :evilgrin:

[mikeytherat]

3. Risk? I doubt seriously they made it past Stratego...

Can you imagine these numbnuts with a game like Supremecy? We'd have boxed them in and sanctioned their asses so fast, left 'em hanging for the rest of the (many, many hours) game.

If you haven't tried Supremecy, it's like Risk on steroids -- treaties, weapons, and too many nukes hurled and the game is over 'cuz the world is over. Here's a good sample of what you'll get (a brief exchange from my college Supremecy years):

"Fuck it, I'm going rogue!"
"Dude! We have a treaty!"
"Fuck it, I'm going rogue!"
"OK, I'm signing a treaty with HER, and we're taking you out!"

mikey_the_rat

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. On an almost unrelated note... check out this game

http://assassindeathmatch.com

And look at the pieces....

:)

[aden_nak]

5. If I played Risk like they wage wars, I'd lose in the first 30 minutes.

[gratuitous]

6. It also explains their attitude toward the troops

Who needs R&R? What are troop rotations? Supply lines? Hanh? They're just little wooden or plastic pieces to be moved around; they don't need no down time. And if you need more, you just turn in some cards and get them. Right?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. That thought has crossed my mind, too

Their attitude reminds me of my brothers at age 12 to 14 or so, sitting in the basement with their friends playing Risk Saturday after Saturday.

We'll know for sure if Rumsfeld starts fretting in public about Yakutia developing nuclear weapons. :-)

[NewJeffCT]

8. I played Risk as a child

it's a game! I'm a pretty peaceful person overall, too. I also owned a BB gun as a child, too. Yet, for the first 18 years of my adult life (from age 18-36) I would have been all for a complete ban on all guns. Only since joining DU 2 years ago have I softened my anti-gun stance.

I also played Dungeons & Dragons, yet I still haven't participated in any demon-summoning satanic rituals. And, contrary to popular belief, I do have a social life & a lovely wife & daughter. Another guy I gamed with is also liberal & has a wife & 2 kids.

I also listened to all kind of heavy metal music growing up - Black Sabbath, then Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Metallica, and many many more obscure bands. Yet, I never tried to commit suicide, never went on a killing spree.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. But I also assume that you're not a sociopath! ;)

[seemslikeadream]

9. I loved that game, loved the little wooden pieces

The way they're doing things, I kinda thought maybe they never did play the game.

[acmejack]

11. I was cut out to be the dictator of the world!

#While a proficient risk player, I have never once felt the urge to dominate the planet, nor it's billions of inhabitants. Never was I struck to strive for intercontinental conquest with real armies1

Likely their problem, they conceive the troops as those little markers, no kindred human bond or even a thought for those troops as living, breathing beings.

[mccoyn]

12. Risk is an aptly named board game in which one player at random is killed.

"Risk is an aptly named board game in which one player at random is killed."

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Risk

[4 t 4]

14. I love that game

use to play when i was a teen with a friend against her brother, some games would last two weeks!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. Kissinger: "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns

for foreign policy.", quoted by Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Kiss the Boys Goodbye