“Coming out in 50 years” can totally mean next month in 2020.

Opens rulebook: "The game starts in fabled 'America,' a country that had been overtaken by the more subtle outbreak known as ignorance."

@@parkerlindenberg5574 "Struggle against not only the disease but local governments in the Mask Off expansion!"

Choose your character’s stats and race And then watch enraptured as you automatically loose if you’re not a rich white guy

@@redgreen2453 Hasn't that always been true regardless tho?

You're a group of indie board game developers that just release their debut game that took you 50 years to make. But unfortunately, you release it on the same day the new pandemic variant came out and everybody is playing it. Your job is go to different conventions and board game shop around the world treating pandemic game fever, establish your own board game convention, and promote your game in 5 conventions of the same color/region to put your board game as GOTY in that region.

After the first twist in Season one i decided that this problem needed a military solution and fast. So as soon as the colonel became available I grabbed him told my partner "I got this" and almost killed him in one game. *Spoilers* in my head I even named it the battle of Instanbul because after a catastrophic attempt of trying to save the City I got my second scar and decided to just forefit the game. Thats why the Quarantine specialist was the only military character we ever used.

*Big spoilers*, but my Dispatcher, Imada Hitoshi, was one of our favorite characters in the group, absolute MVP. We gave him Veteran and Paramilitary Escort so he could go hoovering up [redacted], but of course that made it so when the time came for the big twist, he and his brother-in-law Nate Beardsley (our soldier) were searching through a falling Algiers for the paranoid soldier, and of course Hitoshi was revealed to be [redacted]. We burned his card with sorrow and rage.

THIS!!!! This is how we played it. As our characters grew, we got more attached to them and when Pvt. Barney Stinson turned traitor.... It left us gob and shattered.

Meee tooo. :) I had to pause to giggle for a while before I started it back up.

It's funny because it's true.

@@deiseach02 but its not. even viruses are not all virulent. the hadza have been practicing a relatively consistent lifestyle for thousands of years, but it is being increasingly threatened. it seems to me, its certain implementations of ideas/cultures which can be the human equivalent of virulent

@@gordo6908 What does Virulent mean?

Or "Pandemic: Munchkin" you play as the Monsters, trying to stop the invasion of Munchkins.

You should have a super like per month on KZfaq or sth. Bcs I def want to give this more than one upvote!

Is there a Fluxx Pandemic yet?

No thanks. But I might be down for Munchkin Legacy.

@@OriginalPiMan Hmmmm. You're giving me ideas.... It'd be interesting to have two "Warriors" with different "Feats" that give them slightly different secondary abilities. Or "Enchantments" that improve weapons.

It's on its side. Gah!

"I hope the game is not too black and white (aka blue and red) aka the goods VS the baddies..." In the end, were your hopes justified?

Co-designed by a Dutch guy, just to make it even more appealing!

It's incredibly fun!

Stay strong. Keep up the fight. Don't let the bastard splash you down.

Communism kinda is a virus, one thats killed over 100 million people.

@@stetsonpowers5010 if by communism you actually mean authoritarianism, sure

@@stetsonpowers5010 Well, I'm sure capitalism killed more people.

@@stetsonpowers5010 Unfortunately, Capitalism has killed over 10 Billion. More than 100 Million in India alone.

@@stetsonpowers5010 that number was actually massively inflated by a dipshit boomer whose book has been discredited by everyone else who worked on it. Like that number was Actually Made Up © ...the number is actually closer to 10 million deaths iirc but at that point the author was conflating deaths by natural causes such as age or disease as murder by the state. In fact the actual big killer was when the Soviets messed up their planning and accidentally caused a famine when they brought the feudal era serfdoms of rural Russia into the industrial era with record breaking speeds. But also some simp farmers burnt their own crops in loyalty to the Russian aristocracy haha lol. Hey we live in the modern age, where famines don't happen anymore because our farms are fully industrialised... Unless you live in a third world country that was ravaged by colonialism centuries ago. In fact the 100 million death quota is easily reached by capitalism every 4 years through deaths caused by starvation, exposure or easily preventable diseases, most of which are children. That must be that capitalist efficiency I hear so much about because I certainly don't see it anywhere else! So yeah the communist development of bringing underdeveloped nations into the industrial era in under 10 doesn't sound too bad tbh but oh no people might die of old age. I'm sure capitalism will bring these countries to the first world any day now, even though it won't make any money to do so and also it's where the savage browns and blacks live [imagine that I pulled up a quote by Winston Churchill justifying the famines he caused in India because he felt like it] Heck even in first world countries if you're poor or homeless or live in a food desert you can suffer from malnutrition as a result of a distribution system that throws out half of all produce before it's sold because it technically makes more money that way. But you see if we started giving away food for free or selling it for lower prices it'll disrupt the market, and the economy will go bad and then Coles© won't be able to make a profit and pay their employees. You see we've got to throw out half our food... So that people can afford food... 🤔 Capitalism not only is so bad it causes needless death and suffering it's also dumb as hell. Also my phone autocorrected first to dairy what the hell

I feel exactly the same. Gamers are full of Fear of Missing Out too...

Totally agree. My season 1 box is still sat unused upon my shelf.

Pandemic but it's your board game collection.

Quinn's metaphors are like a roulette wheel full of fortune cookies!

"Fractal Carmen Sandiego"

The psi-ops aspect of Season 0 is pretty gross, from the look of it.

It's nice to come across someone else who prefers 2 > 1> 0. We played them in reverse order too (because season 2 was the only one available when we wanted to try out a legacy game) and it was so much more open and immersive to us than the others. We developed a narrative as we played through and got really invested in that story and the characters in it. 1 felt more like base Pandemic but had significant consequences when things went sideways. 0 was of a less interesting theme for us and the consequences also seemed lower. In the end it was a slog to finish and I was relieved that it was done.

*forced disappearings

I feel like the US and UK have a weird detached view of the evil shit that everybody did during the Cold War. It's still treated like a cartoon in tone in most media. Also, they were too easy on Conan, if anything.

Im sorry

You never know

Well they talked about it on the podcast over a week ago

Considering the incubation time, can you get back to us on that last bit in a week or two?

@@egregius9314 I certainly can, but it might save some time to reveal that it wasn't played in person.

Season 1 is phenomenal. You won't be disappointed!

Jonathan Charlton I’ve been doing my due diligence and avoiding spoilers like the... well you know.

Yeah, when he said "Spanish flu" I thought "wait ... isn't that one about cholera or something ...?" lol

in other words it has as much to do with the Spanish Flu as the Spanish Flu did with the Spanish.

But it's a meta-reference.

@@Vaderi300 but if they had called it the American flu America would have had a sad.

It's not 100% definitive where it came from.

Almost certainly. It's also possible they misspelled it by accident, then noticed but decided to keep it for laffs.

Yes.

I just assumed I didn’t get the joke.

If I remember correctly from my playthrough, you can. But, it will be a crazy board with several new rules that you will have to explain to folks.

I should finish watching before assuming I have something witty to offer.

There's a Gloomhaven for that

Have you checked out Tabletop Simulator on Steam? There's quite a few in the Workshop to play on there :)

@@kissmywhip yes and it's a pain for games like this lol