1960: The Making of the President [NIXON WINS, 269-258]

I was generally playing “moves should be approved by everybody” so unless the move was super obvious I waited for Ash to confirm everything

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Hence why I never did anything in the first 5 minutes

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i was playing “i approve of marissa’s moves”

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me too

I would be down to play this again in 2027 now that I actually know how to play this game.

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i feel like 2028 is more fitting

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Dunno how many U.S. elections take place then, but it’s good to see some spirit for politics.

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It doesn’t really to me. I think it was quite fun and the strategy is interesting

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i had a couple of huge errors, some that didnt end up being as bad.

I did NOT think we were up in NJ, when we placed those cubes to give us 3 in NJ, but then you fought us there anyways.

I should’ve used momentum to activate an event you left open at one point that woulda given us issue support, I just didnt even consider that as something I could do.

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I think most of our errors were more like vague strategy stuff, I hadn’t counted up our support for a few turns and didn’t realize we were behind and shouldn’t have been stacking on high-value states

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there’s a few gov races that are weird and held off cycle then

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I thought it was an interesting game. It has no longform replay value and some shortform replay value but I might consider house-ruling things to make the election day matter Not as Much

(I think there needs to be some ambiguity to keep the last turn fun, but there was too much imho)

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i think in short form it’s better cause you can’t precisely know what cards are possible to be in your opponents hand unless you have a damn good memory of both the card list and what’s been played

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I’m fine with the wild variance early and midgame its just kinda feelsbad to have the game decided exclusively by bagdraws in the end with no player inputs

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Hm I don’t feel bad about it

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i feel bad about it because it doesn’t feel like as much of a real win. I think even making the final cards a guarunteed 1 or 2 cubes per state would be better

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I just feel kind of poker about it

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There was a period of time when I was straight upnot playing and just signed off on Ash and Geyde’s moves lol

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well poker in the end is always, like, the game is luck-based but the final input is what You the Player do, vs here the final input is what the bag decides

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Hmm in that case I just feel kind of mahjong about it

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