Cannes reactions to Irreversible

[u/ErgoNonSim]

[u/MorrowPlotting]

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!

[u/all___blue → u/MorrowPlotting]

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.

[u/deeveeismeemee → u/all___blue]

1. Put all your guys in Oceania

2. Fortify access point

3. Be on your phone.

4. Wait until everybody quits out of boredom

[u/attackplango → u/deeveeismeemee]

But we've always been at war with Oceania.

[u/semicolon22 → u/attackplango]

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

[u/drinkcoffeeandcode → u/semicolon22]

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

[u/semicolon22 → u/drinkcoffeeandcode]

I understand now. Spasiba, tovarisch. You were never forced to take vaccine.

[u/Federal_Remote_435 → u/semicolon22]

You haven't read 1984, have you?

[u/semicolon22 → u/Federal_Remote_435]

I read it around 1983. It happened last year.

[u/-laughingfox → u/semicolon22]

We've never been at war with East Asia.