{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "from the \u201896 Battletech TCG\n\n Notice that cost on the left margin means it costs 7 more unless you have the Politics resource...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/644154300255420416/", "html": "<p><a href=\"/post/176016659783/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>from the \u201896 Battletech TCG</p>\n\n<p>Notice that cost on the left margin means it costs 7 more unless you have the Politics resource (land), which unlike the other 4 resources (colours) had no game effects other than making celebrity pilots and \u201corbital bombing\u201d direct damage cheaper</p>\n\nSomehow at the time this was not obvious as a metaphor for the post-Cold War \u201cNew World Order\u201d, because the comparison set was like On The Edge and Illuminati and Netrunner and Illuminati and the X-Files CCG\n<p>\nThe \u201890s were paranoid conspiratorial as hell, just like the \u201850s shit doesn\u2019t make sense without that </p></blockquote>\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_pc23hr0tuU1qeywqoo1_250_922cdfb48cc4.jpg\" />", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_pc23hr0tuU1qeywqoo1_250_922cdfb48cc4.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 214, "thumbnail_height": 300}