First Look: France

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Six more screenshots posted in the screenshots thread, all labeled...

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Hey - let's absolutely not slime this thread with getting into contemporary politics, but I have to make the following point IRT CdM being chosen as France's leader and the obvious reason, taken from an observation of what I hear was a highlight of the Democratic convention night before last:

The previous night, she says may have been that video of Hilary and the little girls - which I'm told Mrs. Clinton blew the performance of her lines in a very typical awkward way, but it REALLY worked anyway and gave the gurlz watching the serious feels.  As the Tick said about 20 years ago "Groovy all-girl world now!"

-If you don't believe me that such symbolic things matter -and many of you have heard this one from me before repeatedly- google Nichelle Nichols, Martin Luther King, Woopie Goldberg and LeVar Burton together and read what the latter two have always said about how important Lt. Uhura being there was to them as children.  -You can't take away from Hilary what she's already managed or that it really matters.  The little girls will always remember.

Please click on the quote link and OT the OTF politics thread w/ gaming talk before OTing this thread with politics, but DO look that up if you've never heard Nichols' King story - and what Uhura meant to Goldberg and Burton.   It matters and it's a thing worth doing -this being hardly the level of bad history Gandhi always has been...

We CAN totally kick around the historical appropriateness and the playability of the uniques and bonuses for France and all that -just, I've made my point, keep it in mind, but let's take any arguments about PC where they belong instead of taking over here... 

-I know I'm trying to have my cake and eat it too, and please forgive that.