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Hello, fellow Textonian Fugunites!
I am hosting a game of Diplomacy for anyone on this forum who might be interested. For those of you who don’t know, Diplomacy is a military/diplomacy strategy board game. The game is all about forming alliances subsequently backstabbing fellow players. You make a move a day, so it’s not super time-consuming (unless you spend a lot of time discussing strategy).
If you’re interested, click the link below to join the game. You’ll have to make an account first. I’m game master, so you can contact me for questions. Only up to 7 people can play, but if we have extra interest, we can host two games!
http://www.backstabbr.com/game/4898838137536512/invite/WFC023
P.S. We can make it extra exciting / educational by limiting ourselves to speaking Japanese in-game ^_^
Not from the desk of Eihiko. Eihiko's boss took his desk away from him.I appreciate your adoption of the term “Textonion Fugunites”.
I haz a blog http://maninjapanchannel.wordpress.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLQzB-1u-dgWaaaaaait, wait, wait, wait… Edinburgh is marked as “England”? Who made this game? :P
For what it’s worth, the game setting is pre-WW1. The game itself was made in the 1950s.
Not from the desk of Eihiko. Eihiko's boss took his desk away from him.I’m reasonably sure that Scotland came into existance a little before WWI. =)
P.S. Thought you were going to ask us to teach you how to be a diplomat in Japanese. =P
Haha on behalf of the game’s creator, I apologize for all of the geographical errors and the underlying sociopolitical tensions which may have underlayed them in the 1950s!
@Justin- It has such a nice ring to it, how could I not?
@Joel Not today, but maybe someday soon. This will be good practice in the meantime c;
Not from the desk of Eihiko. Eihiko's boss took his desk away from him.To be honest, it doesn’t really matter when the game was made, there are always some people that think Scotland is somewhere in England; they somehow don’t know that the “United Kingdom” is a thing. Mostly Americans, though. Not that I’ve anything against being associated with England, it’s just annoying how stupid some people are :P
I remember seeing a clip from some old US game show where a contestant was asked which country Paris was in and she answered “Europe” ¬_¬
Looking at the map again, I’ve actually got a feeling it just means the English have an army stationed in Scotland, not that they’re one and the same. Similarly, Russia has an army stationed in Poland. Or it’s an alternate universe where these places have actually been taken over. Or maybe it’s just to make the game work better. Yeah, probably that last one.
Geography isn’t really taught in American schools. Our history courses are spotty as well. Also, it’s an expensive, many-hour flight to get to anywhere that isn’t America, so most Americans don’t leave the country, excepting Canada and Mexico. Our media almost exclusively covers American affairs, with the exception of our National Public Radio, which plays BBC news and Public Radio International broadcasts. But only some people listen to NPR
So yes, Americans can go their entire lives without understanding the distinction between the UK and England. But those of us that do figure it out do so through desire to be part of an international community while living in a country which frankly discourages it.
That being said, most of us know that Paris is in France and that Europe is not a country. The reason that clip is floating around is because it’s absurd, even to us.
Also, the triangle means that England has a fleet of ships off the coast of Scotland. Russia actually does have troops in Poland, but then Poland actually was occupied by Russia at the onset of WW1. It didn’t become an independent state until afterward.
… so I take it no one wants to play?
Not from the desk of Eihiko. Eihiko's boss took his desk away from him.On the other hand, Americans probably know more about American history than (say) Australians know about Australian history.
I can confirm that is definitely the case.
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