I used to love playing Pandemic, but now that we actually lived through one, none of my friends want to play it anymore, myself included. I’m really looking forward to Daybreak to hopefully reattain the vibes of the original while still being fresh.
Anyone else here getting it or looking forward to it?
I played it on TTS and it just felt hollow. Bright colors and stuff but the theme does nothing for me, especially because climate change is such a nightmare right now. I don’t want a board game reminding me of some impending doom that I can’t reasonably change. Despite that, I hope you can still enjoy it!
Thanks for your perspective! I totally get it. I imagine at the end of the game you all go “we solved climate change! Hurray!”, and then get back to reality where, “well no we are still living in hell” lol.
In the end though, I hope that the overall message is “we can do this if we do it together”, and my generation and the next have to be the ones to solve it.
But the problem is, even if all of the US came together and stopped 100% of our emissions, China would still continue to pump out 90% of the world emissions. So the board game should be a political game about trying to convince China to cap their fuel consumers who are the true contributors to the world’s emissions
China accounts for 30% of global emissions and, granted the states is half that, but they are still number 2. Also, the per capita number suggest that it would be easier for the individual to make a difference in the states.
Arguably a lot of China’s emissions come from industry. As America has outsourced a lot of it’s Industry to places like China these emission stats are probably somewhat warped.
https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country
@thorbot@lemmy.world
And looking at per capita, consumtion based, the US is ten times as bad as China. US: 20 tons per person. China: 2 tons. I think the world average is 4t.
China still needs to cut down because 2 tons is a lot more than what is OK but holy shit saying
is the wrongest thing I’ve ever heard. There are very few countries on this planet who arr doing worse than the US:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita
@snota@sh.itjust.works @boardgames@feddit.de
The wrongest thing you’ve heard based on stats that you think are accurate. China always under reports their data and a large majority of fuel consumers in China are smaller private entities that don’t report on it at all. So get all indignant all you want about numbers that aren’t accurate
@thorbot
The wrong thing was that “It doesn’t matter what the US does” when the US is exceptionally culpable on the demand side, the drill side, and the policy side.
In terms of the game, each player represents a world power, but there are no specific countries in the game. It’s not played on a world map.