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In the modern day and age, collectable card games are doing damn well. Titles like Hearthstone, YuGiOh, and Magic the Gathering have all established their own entrenched positions in the video game market, bringing the decades-old hobby to computers, to consoles, and especially to mobile. Enter Marvel Snap, a new challenger to the big hitters with the word accessibility at its back in gleaming golden letters, and the team at Second Dinner Studios trying to recapture the spirit of an older, youthful card game experience.
To guide me through the game, and the goals the team has for it, is Ben Brode: flannel shirt aficionado, formerly of Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone team and currently chief development officer at Second Dinner Studios. While the studio has obviously got a long list of content courses it’d like to dish out through seasonal releases and ongoing updates, can it make a dent?
But before we get into the nitty gritty, what is Marvel Snap? Well, it’s a quickfire card game which has each play fill out three spaces on the board, each with four card slots and their own active modifiers that range from buffs to cards played there to limits on what you can place there. In six turns, both competitors must try and fill up these spaces with cards in their deck,with every card possessing their own power figure and abilities It’s the perfect type of game for phones in my mind, super fast and easy to grasp.
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Modern wokery is like Communist China, I hate it, says Blackadder legend Ben Elton
ALTERNATIVE comedy great Ben Elton says modern wokery is like Communist China under dictator Chairman Mao.
The creator of outrageous 80s comedy The Young Ones — who also wrote three series of Blackadder — says he does not like being told what to think by millennials.
The Young Ones creator says he does not like being told what to think by[/caption]
Ben, 63, was viewed as a maverick when he burst on to the comedy scene in the 1980s.
His style of alternative comedy railed against mainstream funnymen of the time, who often relied on racist and sexist material.
Now, 40 years later, he is criticising today’s younger woke generation and insists there is less freedom of thought.
Speaking to the Radio Times, he said: “There is a whiff of Maoism in the air, the whiff of cultural revolution.
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“There is now a new way of thinking — and you will be required to think it.
“My wife came up with a good observation the other day.
“She said our generation was all about breaking rules and it seems like the younger generation is all about making rules.
“These are things you can no longer say, these are things you should now be saying.”
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The Young Ones, which first aired in 1982 featuring hapless students Vyvyan, Rick, Mike and Neil, helped shoot Ben to fame.
He then co-wrote three series for unscrupulous character Edmund Blackadder from 1986.
Ben was discussing modern comedy as he prepared to take part in Channel 4’s one-off reboot of Saturday Live — the edgy stand-up show which launched his career — as part of the channel’s 40th anniversary.
He said the alternative comedy he and colleagues showcased always had a stance on specific subjects, rather than a blanket ban on anything which might be viewed as tasteless or offensive.
He said: “The one thing that was a feature of most new acts coming through in the ’80s was an active movement against racist and sexist comedy.
“We had a new mindset and wanted to find new ways to be funny.”
He added: “I take great pride that the language of The Young Ones and Blackadder is still part of the culture to this day.”
Elton’s comments come after his fellow alternative comedian, Absolutely Fabulous creator Jennifer Saunders, 64, said wokery would prevent her best known sitcom from being made today.
Last year, she lashed out at the joyless “small mindedness” that the BBC1 hit would be up against.
She said of today’s woke world: “I think it has changed comedy like what we used to make.
“I think we would probably talk ourselves out of most of it now.”
5 Elton lines that may need trigger alert
Elitism
“Rah, rah, rah! We’re going to smash the oiks!” — University Challenge dig at “Scumbag College” in The Young Ones
Mental Health
“He’s mad. He’s madder than Mad Jack McMad, winner of last year’s Mr Madman competition.” — Blackadder the Third
Transphobia
Nursie said: ‘A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it’s a miracle!’[/caption]
“A boy without a winkle? God be praised, it’s a miracle!” — Queen Elizabeth I’s Nursie in Blackadder II
Homophobia
“Started fancying boys have you? Why should I complain, leaves more totty for us real men, eh?” — Dr Leech in Blackadder II
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Sexism
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“Treat your kite like your woman. Get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back.” — pilot Lord Flashheart in Blackadder Goes Forth