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Now we just have to hope it fails in the senate because it may make some Republicans look bad if all the hospitals in their area suddenly evaporate.

I enjoy the way this game plays with dice- it's nice to see a designer who's thinking about them as physical objects and trying out novel ways of employing them.

Over-all, I think this game is very cute- I like the way wounds/stress is represented and I think the variable dice sizes are fun. They put me in the mind of the Devil City and it's 77 Vicious Princes. While I admire the creative and thoughtful exploration of dice as a tool, I do feel like this project seems a bit aimless. It think as a project it feels more like a personal thought experiment than a game, not because of a lack of complexity, but because of an unclear intention.

I would be pleased to see other things they make, because I think their ideas show promise.

I identify as agender now, I previously identified purely as a gay man for most of my life. In retrospect, it's kind of obvious for me, I've always been fascinated by characters who stood outside the gender binary- robots, aliens, etc. I was very Christian growing up and I was fascinated by angels as genderless beings.

In my case, I just don't like gendered language being applied to be in general. I don't identify as having a gender. It's always felt like work, being a man, like it's never enough and everyone has all these opinions about, "what a man is" and I resented it so Intensely.

Because I didn't want it. I wanted to be a weird outlier who didn't have to grapple with expectations in regards to my appearance, interests and talents based on something arbitrary that I didn't even opt into. I never felt validation from affirming my gender. It was just work I poured into a hole in the ground to please other people and make them more comfortable.

Now I'm pretty happy! I just don't give a shit about how I come off gender-wise and I basically don't care how people refer to me because I know I can act however I choose.

I'm not sure if this is helpful, but I felt like sharing? Maybe the irritation you're feeling is because there are parts of the gender role you're living out that you're dissatisfied with. Gender role is constructed, so I highly recommend picking the parts you want and living that, if that follows?

Anyway, thanks for sharing! I love when people talk about gender! It's nice to get to feel that way.