Jefferson would be the insufferable indie gamer type, Adams would play Paradox games, Hamilton would be very bad at FPSs and nurse grudges against Mexican 12-year olds for teabagging him. https://t.co/GUmGGeLo98
— Starfish For National Security Advisor (@IRHotTakes) September 27, 2019
Jefferson would buy characters other people grinded. https://t.co/HTorzeS3ol
— Je Suis Corn Pop (@agraybee) September 28, 2019
(Grinding)
"Hamilton would be very bad at FPSs"
I see what you did there
— Stretch+Bobbito Fan Account (@Bugs_Meany) September 27, 2019
Hamilton would like SimCity
— John?Galvano ?? (@JohnGalvano) September 27, 2019
Ben Franklin would be playing Hentai games with sound on full blast and curtains open
— Russell Cohn (@russellcohn1) September 27, 2019
Abagail Adams would be a girl gamer, but the kind that just plays with her mic off with a gender neutral screen name to avoid putting up with all the bullshit.
— Starfish For National Security Advisor (@IRHotTakes) September 27, 2019
(Slander! Abigail and John would always team, even when people made it clear they’d rather not listen to John endlessly rules-lawyering… )
jl
Benjamin Franklin would script, program, and market video games, and retire rich around 40.
edit: FFS
Major Major Major Major
Checks out.
West of the Rockies
Wait… there are hentai games? (Asking for a friend…)
mrmoshpotato
This is all assuming the glowing picture box wouldn’t blow their minds. :)
piratedan
not sure what it is, but links from front-pagers on the main post no longer display for me…. probably due to the lack of fiber in my diet. Using Google Chrome and its decidedly weird because I can see links embedded in the comments when people make them….
emrys
If you are a Queen fan, check out the last hour of the Global Citizen Festival.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@piratedan: Obviously you need to tell Alexa to “order all the popcorn”.
HumboldtBlue
Sit down, John! Sit down, John! For God’s sake sit down!
I play “Take Command 2nd Manassas” to this day. One of a gang of Paradox games that have engaged me.
Mousebumples
@emrys: thanks for the rec. They’re my favorite band, and being pregnant, I skipped seeing them in concert on their us tour this summer. (if the videos don’t make it clear, they’re great in concert and put on one hell of a show) ?
Great way to augment my middle of the night breastfeeding break. Fortunately my little one listened to Queen plenty in utero!
Fred Fnord
I mean I know I have lots of dumb ideas so I can certainly imagine thinking something equally stupid. I just can’t imagine thinking something equally stupid, but at the same time so compelling that it gets umpity-thousand retweets, not all of which are actually mocking.
Starfish
I have no clue who these people are, but I appreciate their faith in me becoming National Security Advisor.
Zinsky
I’m still trying to learn Asteroids, so most of this is meaningless to me. But I appreciate the humor of overlaying our Founding Fathers culture with the electronic entertainment matrix of 2019. My only caution, and I sound like an old-timer here, is don’t let these electronic distractions stymie or prevent the human relationships you have here on Earth. I have seen young people do that. Your time on this planet shouldn’t all be spent staring at a screen.
geg6
@emrys:
Yes, it was pretty damn awesome, wasn’t it?
JGabriel
Starfish For National Security Advisor via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Washington led raiding parties in World of Warcraft. Adams, who passed the Alien and Sedition Acts because he didn’t like the way the press talked about him, was a solitary gamer focusing on big name first/third person action/rpg series like Mass Effect, Bioshock, and the The Witcher.
Franklin wrote Elder Scrolls mods requiring full nudity add-ons (when he wasn’t playing hentai games).
Frankensteinbeck
@Zinsky:
So it has been unto the first generation of Man, with whatever entertainment is around. Ah, for the ‘Stop reading and go outside’ warnings of my youth.
different-church-lady
…AND WE WOULDN’T HAVE A FUCKIN’ COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY WERE WASTING ALL THEIR TIME.
JR
Well, I’m old.
Starfish
@Zinsky: In some cases, the games are a path to human relationships. Massive Multiplayer Online games have been a thing for a while now, and the relationships that people form in-game are real. That is why we have all the discussions that tell men to quit being crappy to women in online games. Even before the current generation of online gaming, we had Multi-User Dungeons and Dragons (MUDDs), and I took a trip to Canada with some people that I knew from an online game at least 15 years ago.
@JR: You don’t have to be old to not be into gaming. One of the commenters here writes beautifully about gaming, and I hardly ever have any clue about the game that she is talking about. I read her writing because she writes beautifully. I think it is great when people are so infectiously enthusiastic about something, and I end up reading really broadly because of it.
Ken
@West of the Rockies:
To learn more about them, turn off your ad blocker.
Tim C.
God Damn it…. Adams is one of my favorite founding fathers and I like Paradox games…. someone called it.
artem1s
kind of a nice polite way of saying, “Jefferson would use characters his slaves grinded.” Spot on otherwise.
Just Chuck
Trump would be a griefer.
Another Scott
I’m watching BBC Click, slowly waking up. They just had a neat story about the SoundShirt. It’s lets deaf people feel music at more frequencies than just a pounding bass. It’s a great idea and should have been invented long ago. It was wonderful to see the wearer’s faces light up in a dance club. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Frankensteinbeck: “Writing is the worst!!11” – Socrates
Cheers,
Scott.
Obvious Russian Troll
@Just Chuck: Trump would rage quit long before he had the skills necessary to be a griefer, and then buy blatantly obvious cheats from some sketchy web site. He’d spend all his time trying to convince people that even though he could survive a direct hit from the most bad-ass weapon in the game and move five times as fast as everyone else that he wasn’t cheating.
Miss Bianca
@JR: Yeah, me too.
Another Scott
@Obvious Russian Troll: Speaking of Rage Quit – Twitter:
So, very angry, (huff-puff)…!! [/Marvin]
They all lie about everything. Everything.
Cheers,
Scott.
NobodySpecial
The question is not really “Would Adams play Paradox games?” The question really is “What civics would Adams pick in Stellaris?”
And aside from being reasonably certain he’d be a Rogue Servitor, I haven’t a clue.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@JGabriel:
Fraklin would be the founder and chief moder of Loverslab (an infamous site that does adult mods for the Elder Scrolls game and others, or so a friend told me)
sdhays
Which one of them would stand for ethics in gaming journalism?
Tim C.
@NobodySpecial: Oh….. lovely to meet someone who shares my addictions…. Adams would go for an egalitarian oligarchy in my opinion. Probaly with Mechanistic and pacifist ethics too
Tim C.
@sdhays: Burr