Looking very adult there, Hibiki...

Hibiki's communist persona activates

Xian_Avenger said:

Hibiki's communist persona activates

Ra Ra Ra Rasputin
lover of the Russian queen!

Xian_Avenger said:

Hibiki's communist persona activates

So, just like that, Hibiki became Verniy.

Mincemaker said:

So, just like that, Hibiki became Verniy.

I guess Ido's Verniy planted that game there to convert Hibiki...

Is she gonna summon her Comrade Big One?

Her inner communist is surfacing.

Thank god Admibro doesn't have Gangut and/or Tashkent else we'll see Red Rising... if they aren't charmed by him beforehand.

sabitafukku said:

Ra Ra Ra Rasputin
lover of the Russian queen!

That's not really communistic though

I heard the inventor of Monopoly also wanted the player to hate capitalism?

PEKA_CYCYR said:

I heard the inventor of Monopoly also wanted the player to hate capitalism?

I have never once played a game of Monopoly in which someone won. It always turns into a stalemate of cyclical spending, typically with one player owning marginally more than the others. Perhaps that says something about capitalism in itself.

PEKA_CYCYR said:

I heard the inventor of Monopoly also wanted the player to hate capitalism?

More specifically, it was a critique of the way rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants (to quote from Wikipedia) rather than larger concepts of capitalism, though there's some similarity to the relationship between capital owners and labor, I suppose.

PEKA_CYCYR said:

I heard the inventor of Monopoly also wanted the player to hate capitalism?

Blindga said:

I have never once played a game of Monopoly in which someone won. It always turns into a stalemate of cyclical spending, typically with one player owning marginally more than the others. Perhaps that says something about capitalism in itself.

The point of the original game that it was based off of was that players were explicitly encouraged to suck every last penny out of all their tenants by building larger buildings with more expensive rent to the point that they were evicted for failing to pay until all but one player (the "winner") was evicted and the whole economy collapsed as it was one monopoly on the land that had no tenants that it could charge to supports its wasteful overbuilding, and the whole system collapsed.

The precursor to Monopoly was a direct argument against Capitalism and for measures like rent control and the like.

The game Monopoly itself is an ironically market-oversaturating orgy of capitalism trying to license absolutely everything to sell the same people who already own at least three versions of Monopoly the game they already own.

That said, this is a parody of the game of Life, which was explicitly made to celebrate capitalist virtues like hard work being rewarded. (Life seems to be more popular in Japan than Monopoly, and there was a wildly successful knockoff game released on Playstation with a memetastic "Goddess of Poverty" that you'll likely see referenced frequently in anime and doujins... such as a certain character from Touhou.)