a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world
I Said “Im going to have a leftist insurgency” and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes
“Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction”
The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza…
a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world
I Said “Im going to have a leftist insurgency” and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes
“Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction”
them
It was Lego, by the way…
I love that their assumption was that their highly fractured society going to war with one another wasn’t political. What do people think politics is?
The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza…