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Ok, so you sit around and pretend to get fucked up on mock drugs? Pretend to see hallucinatory creatures? (I can't really see a legible detail of instructions on how you "play.") Fun for the whole family!
Damn, and I really wanted the dosage scale. Sellouts.
Try explaining that one at the airport security checkpoint.
"No, really, it's um, a board game..."
It's more art than boardgame, as evidenced by the fact that he's only made one, and has priced it at $3500 -- and he's selling it along side his other art.
Here are the "rules":
http://www.jrbaldwin.com/mixed-media/fear-and-loathing-the-board-game/2300076
@mr_josh: I somehow doubt you would even get that far.
Actually, the rules seem to suggest that the intent is to replace the the contents with the real deal, start ingesting and reenact adventures in real life... minus the DUI... The rules state that there must always be a babysitter.
Nothing like safety first when mixing a randomly determined selection of intoxicants...
I remember from way back this "Monopoly" style board game called Organized Crime.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/439189
If it comes with a Samoan attorney, I'm in.
We can't stop here! This is bat country!
Needs to come bundled with a shaving kit that includes little brown bottle...
That little brown bottle is the key!
Buy the ticket take the ride...
Sketches and activity/challenge card details were posted http://www.jrbaldwin.com/boardgamedetails
Why would a scale and a glass pipe have legal issues?
You should receive this board game, then, after about three months, receive a shotgun in order to shoot yourself after you realize that there is no escaping the existential despair. You will then truly experience an accelerated version of the image of Hunter S. Thompson's life.
Although, I would find myself asking, where's that damn gun at already?
"And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
What, no human adrenal gland extract?!!
Check out my video interview with the artist, Jonathan Baldwin, here:
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Hope you enjoy it!
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