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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 07:20:10 JST Jacek Wesołowski

   One of my pet ideas for a video game is called "The Protest", and is based on real events. A key plot twist in that game is when an authoritarian government introduces martial law, and the player's character, who is a member of a political party, is helping that party establish its underground structure. This part of the game isn't real (we didn't have martial law), but... well, let's just say it was a crazy time and I'm itching to turn it into a story.

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 07:25:26 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     Something I can disclose: at one point during the protests, the government publicly encouraged the far right to form militias. They weren't that well organized, but some of them did feel like they got a licence to beat people up. So one day I got an urgent request to organize an escape route for a group of LGBT teenagers who accidentally wandered into the far right's territory and couldn't get out safely. I didn't have enough staff on hand to actually do that. Stressful, to say the least.