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Ain't it awful

Ain't it awful

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Ain't it awful

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- Game number 16 is called Ain't it Awful. Now, technically this is a pastime rather than a game. The only difference is that it doesn't have a twist at the end. But I think it still feels pretty gamey, it's still on the triangle, so I wanted to include it. So Ain't it Awful is where two people just complain about stuff. "Oh, kids these days, they've got no respect," or, "Oh, TV's rubbish these days, people have got such short attention spans, I blame smartphones," and all that sort of thing. So it's a very negative way of passing the time. And the reason why I think it's worth including on my list of games is because both people are persecutors, and they're persecuting some third party who isn't there. They're persecuting the world in general, or kids, or society, or the government. "Oh, isn't the government useless?" And it's a substitute for action. It's a passive-aggressive activity, really, isn't it? 'Cause we're…

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