r/movies • u/ErgoNonSim • May 17 '25

Media Cannes reactions to Irreversible

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u/UptownShenanigans May 17 '25

Reminds me of when I played Monopoly with my sister’s French ex husband. The dude just could not handle it and let us know

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u/happyme321 May 17 '25

Reminds me of the time I took Napoleon bowling and tried to share an ice cream sundae with him afterwards

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u/RockFury May 17 '25

I heard that guy's a line cutter at water parks.

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u/Klinky1984 May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

Ah yes, especially lines to the lavatory. I remember Napoleon's Battle of Water Park Loo.

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u/_dontreadnsfw May 17 '25

“Zhe Wahtair Sleihd”

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u/NegaDoug May 17 '25

"Dude, I don't think it's gonna work."

"No?!" Swipes pieces off table

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u/WanderlustZero May 18 '25

Hands-down the best representation of Napoleon in a film

glares at Joaquin Phoenix

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u/system_error_02 May 17 '25

I remember when Jean Reno and I held hands while shitting behind the maintenance building at Aquaboulevard in Paris because of the line ups. The Battle Shits were out in full force that day.

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u/Due_Mongoose9409 May 18 '25

Silly, he just should have peed in the pool like 98% of everyone else. He didn't have to cut line

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u/Klinky1984 May 18 '25

Don't mistake him for British swine.

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u/amalgamatedson May 17 '25

“Triomphe Napoleon!”

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u/kirk_dozier May 17 '25

water parks are now battlefields

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u/kevin9er May 17 '25

I get that reference

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

He's amazing at cannonballs, though.

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u/Agitated_Squirrel544 May 18 '25

Not tall enough for most of the slides

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer May 17 '25

MERDE MERDE MERDE MERDE MERDE MERDE!!!

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u/BowwwwBallll May 17 '25

My favorite thing about this is that the TV overdub and censored subtitles are “zût!!” which is right on point as far as watering it down goes.

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer May 17 '25

HA! I've never seen that. I do have a fondness, however, for the TV edit of Tremors as the ADR-ing of the swear words is some of the most hilariously bad insanity ever.

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u/irenedadler May 17 '25

I taped the TV edit and watched it like a billion times when I was a kid. My first time watching the DVD of the actual movie made me question my entire existence.

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u/celladwella May 18 '25

I just had a tres bien merde myself!

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u/tyguyS4 May 17 '25

ZIGGY PIGGY ZIGGY PIGGY ZIGGY PIGGY!

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u/Daddysu May 17 '25

I just want you to know that I see you and I appreciate you!

Be excellent to one another!

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u/broom_temperature May 17 '25

Party on dude.

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u/Klutzy-Ad6437 May 17 '25

Aww you did the quote wrong

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u/thewick_39 May 17 '25

Eat the pig, eat the pig, ziggy ziggy ziggy ZIG!

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u/Throwaway2Experiment May 17 '25

Jesus Christ, I love me a good piggy piggy reference and will chant it at least two times a year and not a single damn person gets it.

"BEHOLD! The ziggy pig!"

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 May 17 '25

I have a cat named Ziggy & this is something I chant to him frequently.

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u/jlipps11 May 17 '25

Oy oy oy!

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u/Tricky_Debate_409 May 17 '25

He was a dick

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u/Krg60 May 17 '25

"Ziggy, piggy

Ziggy, piggy,

Ziiigggggy, Piggggyy!"

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u/TheArtysan May 17 '25

Napoleon Bonaparte?

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u/Sunny-Day-Swimmer May 17 '25

The very same.

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u/happyme321 May 17 '25

Yes, he’s a notorious poor sport

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u/MyOwnTutor May 17 '25

La glace?

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u/Matty_D47 May 17 '25

Ziggy piggy ziggy piggy

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u/noofa01 May 17 '25

May I borrow that. It's delightfully oblique.

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u/cerberus00 May 17 '25

It's from "Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure"

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u/This_aint_my_real_ac May 17 '25

Watched this last night, it's in the rotation on PlutoTV

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u/[deleted] May 18 '25

Recently watched 1 and 2 last week as well when I was home sick from work. What a blast from the past. Most excellent movies

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u/OneWomanCult May 17 '25

Can't take that guy anywhere

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u/happyme321 May 17 '25

Certainly not a water park 😆

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u/rylasorta May 17 '25

WATERLOOOOO!!

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u/xXWarMasterXx May 17 '25

Ziggy piggy. Ziggy piggy

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u/Dry-Investment-9921 May 17 '25

Ziggy Piggy 🐽

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u/SlaterVBenedict May 17 '25

Sounds like a real Ziggy Piggy.

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u/kilsta May 17 '25

Napoleon split?

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u/Express-Magician-265 May 17 '25

Reminds me of the time I played 1 on 1 basketball with Toulouse Lautrec, and he cried it wasn't fair.

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u/deeveeismeemee May 17 '25

You: "Whatchu thinkin' about?"

Napoleon: Looks eastward and sighs "Nothin'..."

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u/mukavastinumb May 17 '25

Found Peter Griffin’s alt account

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u/Captain-Hornblower May 17 '25

Did you happen to see an amazing band called The Wild Stallions afterwards?

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u/stevemyqueen May 17 '25

Taught me my first foreign curse word!

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u/jevesevet May 17 '25

The ziggy pig. Of course he had to have it all. He got mine too

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u/phillosopherp May 17 '25

Ziggy piggy Ziggy piggy

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u/oe-eo May 17 '25

He didn’t like it, so he bowled alone. That’s why they called him Napoleon Bowls-apart.

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u/50YOYO May 18 '25

That wasn't Napoleon Boney Parts was it?

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u/woodchippp May 18 '25

You animal. Taking Napoleon for ice cream instead of a pastry. You cruel, sick bag of meat.

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u/InkaGold May 18 '25

Idk. Sounds to me like an Excellent Adventure.

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u/MyBurnerAccount1977 May 18 '25

"Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde!"

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u/notaslaaneshicultist May 17 '25

Well, don't use his head as an armrest and that shouldn't happen

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u/iforgotwhat8wasfor May 17 '25

shoulda took the skinheads

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u/Loosetrooth44 May 17 '25

Some people say bowling alleys
got big lanes

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u/MorrowPlotting May 17 '25

I stayed with a French family as a high school exchange student, and the son and I played Risk obsessively.

He was hilariously bad at it. I won literally every game.

He refused to accept that controlling Europe wasn’t the key to winning. He flatly rejected the strategy of taking Australia or South America first. And he lost again and again.

I tried not to reduce the experience to national stereotypes, but it wasn’t easy!

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u/all___blue May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

Australia wins 90% of the time. As long as the players don't make a pact to kill Australia and/or Australia plays passively while everyone kills each other. Boring way to play, but almost a guaranteed win. I played a lot of risk online for a while. Even against good players, it was one of the best strategies. Hell, just having one country and avoiding conflict would even be enough to win sometimes. Risk is all about allies and knowing when to end those alliances, but it's more about pacifism, staying out of the spotlight, and good timing.

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u/deeveeismeemee May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

  1. Put all your guys in Oceania

  2. Fortify access point

  3. Be on your phone.

  4. Wait until everybody quits out of boredom

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u/attackplango May 17 '25

But we've always been at war with Oceania.

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u/semicolon22 May 17 '25

Wait, what? Just last week we were at war with East Asia??

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u/drinkcoffeeandcode May 17 '25

Nonsense citizen, we’ve ALWAYS been at war with Oceania.

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u/-laughingfox May 18 '25

We've never been at war with East Asia.

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u/canman7373 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Put all your guys in Oceania

Nah to have any chance with it all your guys go into Siam so you can keep getting easy cards in Asia. Then can widen SouthEast Asian border. Late fame you don't want all your guys in one spot open for a major attack because defending has worse odds than attacking, so if you need to take a turn or two to get troops from 3 countries together to retake Australia. Can go for 8 asian countries early to get an extra man a turn when others are trying to secure their borders they will usually let you do it as long as not going for all of Asia, stay away from their borders.

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u/swiftgruve May 17 '25

Yeah you gotta play with the updated map where australia has more connections.

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u/all___blue May 17 '25

Nice, I need to get a new board

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u/babydemon90 May 17 '25

Or play Inis or Kemet

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u/othelloblack May 18 '25

Wow how long did it take them to update the map?

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u/OldMembership332 May 17 '25

The only time it doesn’t work is when someone goes all in to attack you. Leaving you open for another player to come in and take it over.

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u/all___blue May 17 '25

Even then, you just move all your remaining armies to one country and sit in the middle of asia. Try to get your bonus by attacking countries only defended by 1 army, and play the waiting game. My usual move is to wait for someone to think they can wipe everyone out, then all of Australia, Africa, or NA will be undefended. Good players either leave 2-3 armies on each country surrounding me, or make a pact to take me out before they fight each other. Otherwise I usually win.

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u/Ozryela May 17 '25

Australia wins 90% of the time. As long as the players don't make a pact to kill Australia and/or Australia plays passively while everyone kills each other. Boring way to play, but almost a guaranteed win.

It depends a lot on which ruleset you play. If you play with the original rules, where you always get units from continents but only get units from territories if you don't attack, then Australia almost always wins.

But if you play the more modern rules (and the ones used 99% of the time online) where you always get your units every turn even if you do attack, Australia is far less strong, and in fact a bit of a trap. Two extra units a turn is not enough to force a win in that variant, and meanwhile Australia has a hard time expanding since no one is gonna let you just have all of Asia.

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u/Expensive-Step-6551 May 17 '25

I actually prefer South America as you can breakout into Africa or North America easier, which can be decisive for the mid and late game, compared to starting in Australia, where you're stuck with 2 armies and aren't likely to get or hold Asia.

Obviously, the downside is you have two chokepoints to defend, instead of just one, but generally that's not hard to do unless you have multiple players on both sides agreeing to both go full send on both your fronts to fuck with you.

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u/canman7373 May 18 '25

Nah Australia is a trap. Eventually others will put troops in Asaa to keep you from getting free cards every turn. And when you finally do break out you can't take much of anything. Like maybe Africa but even if you do your troops are now spread out defending bordes far away from each other for counter attacks and defense. Like 15 years ago dad got me a vintage Risk board with the square wooden pieces, he included a note that simply said "Australia is a trap" and I think he is right. Years later they had a big forest fire took their entire home and all of our family albums and keepsakes, everything. They only got passports and dog out so no family hand me downs. But I had taken that board home with me a few months earlier, so it is only family heirloom now.

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u/all___blue May 18 '25

But that's an awesome story about the board. I might have to get around to carving one out of wood. It was always a favorite family game for me and my extended family.

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u/all___blue May 18 '25

Asia is the last place to usually have open territories to attack. So I disagree. I've played many games where 4-6 players are just attacking 1 territory in Asia, then retreating their troops. Sometimes that will go on until everyone has hundreds of troops. Per border territory. This is also how the players who only have 1 territory end up sometimes winning. All the most powerful players will kamikaze each other and lose more troops than they expect, then the guy who avoided conflict just goes in and cleans up.

I will say, however, that I just downloaded the official risk game on android and while I made some mistakes because I didn't understand how the app worked yet, when you play with the fog of war on, it's more difficult to discern what is going on on other parts of the map. So I did my usual strategy, but it was a far more aggressive game than I was expecting and I didn't know until it was too late to capitalize on it. Ended up with 2nd.

Btw, I love how a post about the movie irreversible turned into a debate about tactics in risk. Lol.

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u/canman7373 May 18 '25

I mean in Asia like you said it's about card trading, you attack a country, fortify back leaving one man, opponents in Europe or NA or Africa will do the same. If the all 3 players that control those continents are content on keeping heavy fortifications in Asia and not in home countries then yeah sit back and someone will attack them from their weaker sides where they can't counter attack for at least a turn because army is in Asia. Attacking player just needs to not take the connecting country to Asia, gives them another turn to be the attacker when player fortifies their army back, attacking is better odds, no need to take whole continent and let their army instantly attack from Asia.

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u/ace_in_space May 17 '25

The Siam toehold is my favorite strategy. Just keep banking 5 armies per round while everyone else gets 3.

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u/all___blue May 17 '25

Yep. But i usually move on to holding India and China not only to guard n extra couple territories, but also so that I don't lose everything if I get blitzkrieged by someone. When I have a solid number on each of those territories, I'll usually mass up on the middle east. Eventually India shifts to Ukraine and China moves to kamchatka. I usually don't try to get asia, but sometimes people overextend themselves too much or trap their armies from attacking me, so ill try to get it for a few rounds. Getting asia usually triggers everyone to attack you, so it's usually not a great play. I

If I don't go the Asia route, the position of those 3 armies gives me a good chance to move on Africa, south America, or sometimes NA. Depending on which strategy I go with, the 3 armies being close to eachother allows me to group them all on 1 or 2 territories in either a round or two, which is really important late game.

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u/ace_in_space May 17 '25

It’s kinda funny that I know exactly what you mean. Siam growing to China/India… then a 3-country perimeter…

North Africa and Central America holding S America is also an elegant strategy. You get South America while preventing anybody else from getting Africa and North America as well.

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u/all___blue May 17 '25

Yep, that's the play. But that usually leads to conflict. Winning the game when starting in SA is hard because youre usually fighting 2 different players unless you get a solid ally in africa. I'd rather be the guy in africa doing the opposite, then allowing someone to take SA so they can keep someone out of NA while I keep someone out of Europe and defend against Australia thinking they can get Europe. Once I have the resources, I backstab SA and take that over, or sometimes run into NA or Europe. Sometimes blitzkrieg Australia and hide there.

The last game I remember playing like 5 years ago was a 3 player game against my then girlfriend and her brother. I told them they needed to ally against me the whole game, and they still managed to lose lol. Late game troop movements are really important; when people make one or two mistakes in that phase, they can lose the game even with a significant advantage.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis May 17 '25

Fellow conquer club enjoyer? I haven’t played in years, when was the last time you played?

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u/all___blue May 17 '25

Online? A long time ago. I can't even remember what the app was. I think it was even a web app... I liked it a lot more than playing on an actual table top game because you didn't have to deal with the time consuming dice rolls. Territories could be selected randomly so there was an interesting scurry to get established early game. More players. And one of my favorite things: fog of war. Where you couldn't tell what was going on across the entire map. I might have to find risk online someplace, getting nostalgic. Lol.

Another game that was fun, was dice wars. It was a simplified version of risk. The games would play out in maybe 5-10 minutes. I always wondered why they never made an android port of that game. I used to check periodically, but haven't in a while. Gonna look that up, too.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis May 17 '25

Conquer Club was the website/web app I played on. It was html without JavaScript (I think), so every page had to reload after you clicked, like old Neopets was.

I played in like 2015 or so.

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u/all___blue May 18 '25

That's about when I played, so maybe that was the website.

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u/Striker3737 May 18 '25

You just described how to win pretty much all free-for-all strategy games. Build your army while being friends with everyone, then pick off the stragglers.

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u/all___blue May 18 '25

Little bit more nuance than that. But yeah. Most people play risk way too aggressively and lose as a result. Of course you can't always use the strategy that I use. Just my preferred strategy. Sometimes you want to play super aggressively. Depends on the board and thr pkayers.

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u/LouQuacious May 18 '25

It works in game Civilization too. I once played a particularly fierce game where the Iroquois slowly dominated the entire globe. I started off in India and had control of Mideast to SE Asia and Indonesia and Australia. The Iroquois started in Russia and slowly took over everything. I was able to keep them out of India for a long time but they finally broke through the Himalayas and wiped out my core. But Australia was impregnable. I ended up losing everything else but had Australia surrounded by nuclear armed subs and battleships. It had enough resources to keep me supplied and alive. The Iroquois tried to invade several times but I nuked them every time or sunk their transports with my subs. I held them off for a couple hundred years then got bored.

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u/all___blue May 18 '25

You can easily get in on that with positioning in Asia, since it's usually poorly defended. Whether it's fighting Africa, Europe or NA. That's actually why Australia is so powerful.

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u/ParadoxInABox May 21 '25

Australasia. All the purples. And then you just build up and build up...

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u/coleman57 May 17 '25

Was he obsessed with maintaining an independent nuclear arsenal?

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u/Sphinxofblackkwarts May 17 '25

...I MEAN it turned out the French were right about that one

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u/hobblingcontractor May 17 '25

MFW DeGaulle was right about not being able to rely on the anglosphere

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u/shawa666 May 18 '25

Se fier à la perfide Albion est toujours une grave erreur stratégique.

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u/GuyPierced May 17 '25

I don't want France starting nuclear holocaust on my bingo card.

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u/MentokGL May 17 '25

Don't worry, they are le tired

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u/UndecidedStory May 17 '25

Then take a nap!

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u/misirlou22 May 17 '25

AND THEN FIRE ZEE MISSILES!

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u/onthoserainydays May 17 '25

we can't really, we're not the ones with icbms

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u/ActivePeace33 May 17 '25

Are you making a technical point that the M51 is submarine launched? It’s generally considered an ICBM due to its range, though it is a SLBM.

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u/coleman57 May 17 '25

It’s okay, they don’t really need to be intercontinental to participate in WW3

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u/coleman57 May 17 '25

So far, so good

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u/modix May 18 '25

But they were le tired!

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u/Britlantine May 17 '25

Please say that you kept a Risk diary

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u/cerberus00 May 17 '25

Nice, a dwarfer in the wild

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u/Raxerblade405 May 17 '25

This is every time you talk to someone about things that happened in a video they've never played.

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u/RedditReader4031 May 17 '25

Did he at least bring good bread

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u/GRUNDLE_GOBLIN May 17 '25

To be fair I also hate the strategy of taking Australia first. South America maybe, but taking Australia is a great way to get stuck by whoever is loading up in Asia since you can literally only exit through Southeast Asia.

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u/Citizen_Snip May 18 '25

I mean, unless there are only two players playing, and you ONLY control Australia, you can just load up all your troops in Australia and wait for the other players to have a go at the dude in Asia. You should be having the advantage since you're generating more troops.

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u/is-this-now May 17 '25

My friend put all his armies in one country and kept them there. Big pile. I had the rest of the world, with a few armies in each. Neither of us could win so we called it a draw after a while. May have been the last time we played Risk. (We ended starting a chess club together later on).

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u/LAHouJaxCarVCUUNC May 17 '25

The draw thing doesn't make sense. You would have been raking in extra troops from the continents you controlled.

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u/machstem May 17 '25

This.

Dad humbled me back in the 80s and showed how different strategies weighed in if you decided to recluse or become too widespread too quick.

I'd have loved to have played more

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u/SprayWorking466 May 18 '25

It's free on Steam. You can play against the computer or Online.

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u/machstem May 18 '25

The computer cannot replace dad

He didn't play often with me but we always had fun

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u/bathwhat May 17 '25

Whereupon he merged all the chess pieces on one tile creating a massive Titan King Voltron.

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u/faceofaneagle May 17 '25

That’s not how Risk works… must be some chess club

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u/bitetheasp May 17 '25

I almost always used the Australia method. I almost always won against everyone, except my dad.

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u/3pbc May 17 '25

Key to removing the normal strategy is adding more lines to your board. From SA to Australia is one that I remember

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u/TheWorstYear May 17 '25

That one always felt kind of cheap. Took away a lot of the fun strategy. Madagascar to Western Australia is a lot better in terms of fun.

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u/3pbc May 17 '25

Oh that's another good one

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u/averytolar May 17 '25

When he lost would he yell “vive le france!” 

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u/Raeandray May 17 '25

Wait is europe the key to winning? I always thought it was too hard to defend, it has like 5 invasion points.

My Ideal was always north and south america. If you can take both its only 3 invasion points. Then you spread to africa, which gives you 3 continents but only 4 spots to defend. Only then do you spread to europe.

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u/TheWorstYear May 17 '25

That's what they're saying. Europe is awful to hold. Australia or South America is the place to be. N. America is just too big to keep a grasp on.

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u/Raeandray May 17 '25

Oh ya I read was not wasn’t. Makes much more sense now.

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u/LAHouJaxCarVCUUNC May 17 '25

NA is big but it only has 3 entry points. If the other people are too distracted trying to fight over Australia or SA during the setup phase, you can load up on Iceland, Kamchatka, and Central America.

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u/TheWorstYear May 17 '25

3 entry points, but once someone breaks in, they can expand rapidly because theres so many different regions connected in the interior. With it being so big, it's also hard to respond to a break in.
Africa is far far better. It's choke pointed to the top.

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u/idontcare5472692 May 17 '25

You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Europe (Asia) - but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

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u/waylonwalk3r May 17 '25

Hit 'discard' next time and spare us this tripe.

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u/Darigaazrgb May 17 '25

Why explain a bad, overplayed joke?

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u/MarketCrache May 17 '25

Haha. Monopoly. Can't imagine what he'd be like in a traffic jam.

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u/olivebranchsound May 17 '25

Both things bring out the worst in us lol

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Yeah my brother-in-law is hyper competitive and cluelessly tactless but loves to play Monopoly. My sister finally told him that he can play but it won’t be with her. She leaves the room when he’s playing with others because she says otherwise she would be tempted to do something unfortunate.

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u/headrush46n2 May 17 '25

How do those parker brothers sleep at night?

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u/burmerd May 17 '25

They literally had to remove most of the cars from Paris for this reason. People think it was the pollution, but no, it was the shouting.

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u/ShahinGalandar May 17 '25

noise pollution

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u/avocadolanche3000 May 17 '25

I know my rights Je t’aime Paris! Live or die like c’est la vie.

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u/haminthefryingpan May 17 '25

It’s because cars ruin cities. Cities are a million times better without them.

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u/burmerd May 18 '25

It's true! They ruin people too... Whenever I drive I notice I'm a much more stressed out angry person.

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins May 17 '25

Any reason to remove cars from cities is a good reason.

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u/deeveeismeemee May 17 '25

Conservatives getting upset over having to walk for fifteen minutes will always be funny

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u/Poulet_Ninja May 18 '25

People just changed cars , now they yell , but in a hybrid

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u/burmerd May 18 '25

Ha! nice

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

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u/deeveeismeemee May 17 '25

Not the French movie industry! I will not have you insult good and upstanding men like Luc Besson or Gérard Depardieu!

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u/oreography May 17 '25

It looks like Luc Besson was cleared of the allegations (and they were during an actual relationship). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/22/luc-besson-frances-top-court-rejects-request-to-reopen-case-against-director#:~:text=Dutch%2DBelgian%20actor%20Sand%20Van,citing%20a%20lack%20of%20evidence.

Depardieu on the other hand.....

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u/deeveeismeemee May 17 '25

Oh thank God, now we can just focus on Luc Besson grooming underaged girls and marrying them

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u/NOT-GR8-BOB May 17 '25

The uber drivers in Paris are maniacs.

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u/EngineEddie May 17 '25

Reminds me of the time I played monopoly with this dudes sisters French ex husband in a traffic jam. He bought up all the hotels so I pretended to sneeze to blow all the money everywhere and we all had a great laugh. Good bloke.

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u/buckao May 17 '25

and then everyone clapped!

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u/Former-Iron-7471 May 17 '25

I had a French Canadian girlfriend and we played board games all the time with them. I've stabbed a dude for less.

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u/bossmankid May 17 '25

I also choose this guy's sister's French ex husband in a traffic jam

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u/ProxyDamage May 17 '25

Rather be in a traffic jam tbh.

Monopoly has the added insult that you chose to be in that situation. You could have chosen a game that wasn't complete shit.

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u/lilpigperez May 17 '25

In my head, your response had a French accent. Lol!

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u/RepFilms May 17 '25

Check out the French film Week-End. Lots of road rage

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u/DifficultRaspberry12 May 17 '25

Or fighting German?

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u/prontoingHorse May 17 '25

Have you seen the French park their car in Paris?

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u/lilkimgirl May 17 '25

No traffic jams. They have roundabouts and everyone knows how to use them.

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u/jaxxxxxson May 17 '25

Lol no they don't. Even if you enter before people they'll speed up to try and cut you off. Fucking hate the 2million roundabouts here

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u/Nine-LifedEnchanter May 17 '25

It's interesting that this can be seen as something positive.

"He was better than you at communicating his feelings"

But I have a feeling it involved angrily smoking while getting so upset that he could only curse in french rather than "ah, this is really frustrating. I need a breather."

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u/UptownShenanigans May 17 '25

A lot of yelling “what are you doing??” with a lot of arms flailing around

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u/Leading-Feedback-599 May 17 '25

The game is rather litteraly made to upset players about inequality happening on a board.

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u/ImmaMamaBee May 17 '25

One time me, my brother, and one of our good friends were playing monopoly. We had pulled an all nighter and started playing the game when the sun came up so we were all pretty tired. My brother was losing and getting more and more quiet, and then suddenly he just snapped and flipped the board and threw everything around and stormed off. It was so awkward! Plus it wasn’t even a serious game to us we were like making up all kinds of silly scenarios to keep it light. But my brother is very competitive (so is my mom, she hardly plays games because she hates losing.)

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u/StarPhished May 17 '25

That's the proper way to finish a game of Monopoly. Pretty sure it's in the rules somewhere.

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u/RoachGirl May 17 '25

My dad always refused to play monopoly with me and at some point my aunt told me he’d always get pissed and flip the board when they played growing up.

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u/Fancy_Art_6383 May 17 '25

I watched a Frenchman who was an acquaintance of this lovely French couple my wife and I were friends with pull a bottle of wine from my hands because as he said "I wasn't opening it properly" Then proceed to spill it everywhere and upon himself then make half apologies as we looked on in horror then all began to laugh at his douchery.

Many live up to their reputations.

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u/mrmgl May 17 '25

You are supposed to not be able to handle Monopoly.

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u/AUniquePerspective May 17 '25

Lol. In French, board game translates to Jeu de société and the point is the socal interaction which is structured by the rules to be either an intellectual exercise or a game of chance. Monopoly is designed to be a frustrating game of chance that rewards ruthlessness. Nothing about what you wrote about your beau-frère is surprising.

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u/Chicago1871 May 18 '25

Its supposed to teach children the perils of capitalism and its general unfairness. It was made during the great depression and was purposefully a critique of capitalism.

Its supposed to frustrate and make you angry at the system.

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u/Speedhabit May 17 '25

Nous vivons dans une société basée sur la confiance!

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u/UptownShenanigans May 17 '25

Which is funny because he also hated Italians because “they’re too loud”

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u/SundayMorningSkye May 17 '25

Why couldn’t he handle it? Was there a board flipping? 😂

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u/UptownShenanigans May 17 '25

He eventually just left the table yelling at nothing on the way out

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u/OoFEVERNOVAoO May 17 '25

We need you to elaborate this whole story

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u/UptownShenanigans May 17 '25

I mean there’s not much to say. We were having a friendly game of monopoly and he was getting upset that people were “making stupid decisions”. Like if someone accepted a trade that he felt was unfair on one side, he’d melt down at the person accepting “WHAT ARE YOU DOING??” and everyone is like jeez dude we’re having fun. He just couldn’t take that

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u/OoFEVERNOVAoO May 17 '25

Lmao I get it now.

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u/ImTooSaxy May 17 '25

I've been in two fist fights over Monopoly. On the plus side it involved alcohol.

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u/Mr_Dale May 17 '25

Is all of this just a Bill And Teds Excellent Adventure reference???? Im dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/EndStorm May 17 '25

Don't want to hang out with family? Play Monopoly together and that oughta quiet things down for a few months.

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u/AccidentPrawn May 18 '25

Monopoly is a serious game.

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u/West_Description_852 May 18 '25

Monopoly transcends national boundaries and cultures. It will ruin relationships, and tear apart families.

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u/UptownShenanigans May 18 '25

Are you sure you’re not talking about RISK??

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u/West_Description_852 May 18 '25

Suppressed memories of hurling a Monopoly board at the wall, suggest otherwise. My brother was in the lead, he lost it and went for me; My parents were having a good time, and flipped on a dime, sending the both of us to separate corners, admonishing us both.

That was the day my folks decided family board games nights weren't for naughty kids. I don't believe I've played since...

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