ryan @youfoundryan.bsky.social

Nobody who knows anything about Bosnia or Cambodia or has even watched MASH would think that a civil war is something we can just LARP through.

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ryan @youfoundryan.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

I fervently believe that failure to produce a show with the raw horror of MASH but for Iraq/Afghanistan is one of the entertainment industries biggest failures of the past 20 years.

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Stephen Webb @stephenwebb.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:38 UTC

We had a civil war already. In 1860 there were 31m Americans. Something between 650-850k died, which is more than all the other wars we've fought combined.

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Andrew Staples @acstaples405.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:18 UTC

Although there are many LARP-ers for the last American one:
destinationgettysburg.com/events-for-a...

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