Possibly Controversial idea (The Youth of Andrew Jackson)

I don’t think you’re right about that. Specifically, I don’t know how you could announce a game in which you play a character who commits genocide, without expressing that it’s worthwhile, even fun, to play a game in which you commit genocide.

We live in a world where people think that we should commit genocide, and who communicate their ideas mostly through coded language. Just last week John Carpenter was forced to clarify in a tweet that his classic anti-capitalist horror film, “They Live,” is not about Jews secretly controlling the world.

The response in replies to the tweet is mostly “yeah, right, we all know what you really meant.”

If you make a game in which you play Andrew Jackson and do what he did, and try not to glorify it, you probably won’t succeed in the eyes of many readers, and that likely includes members of the CoG/HG staff.

There are many thousands of other fascinating characters in history. Please, write a game about one of those people instead!

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