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WTF!

The time/space continuum of Azimuth has enfolded. A Rift Lord's unwittingly opened a portal from the earthly netherworld, and the place is crawling with infamous historical thinkers, like Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Mary Daly, each of whom is trying to enlist your help in effort to figure out WTF Azimuth is all about. And... as you might imagine, there's plenty of conflict as they attempt to make sense of the ways in which, as Mary Daly puts it, "the game naturalizes a Western militaristic heterosexist hypersexualized patriarchal capitalism, played out in relation to a spiritually infused race war - kinda."

Plus, you can play a gnome.

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hellfire
June 2nd, 2008 - 07:53

I played this a little last week. I kept trying to right-click stuff and grew frustrumstrated. Still, neat stuff.
JuJutsu
June 2nd, 2008 - 08:33

Does it have Adam Smith as a gold farmer?
Brandon Reinhart
June 2nd, 2008 - 15:35

Mary Daly is an unreadable nut-job.
J.
June 2nd, 2008 - 18:18

Humanities majors.
Viz
June 2nd, 2008 - 23:41

I was unaware of this for the longest time, but apparently some of those fields are considered to be “social sciences” and the people in them will get pretty miffed at you if you call them “humanities.”
Sutro
June 3rd, 2008 - 08:51

Yeah, I called one a humanities major once, and I had to dodge what would have been a really nasty hit from his fry basket.
J.
June 3rd, 2008 - 10:11

Soft sciences.
Steve
June 4th, 2008 - 07:37

So can you smoke cigars in the game, and are they just cigars?
Flimgoblin
June 5th, 2008 - 02:57

Got to be careful, oil burns from a chip pan can be nasty.

That said they’ll have the last laugh once one of them cracks Asimovian Psychohistory.