You know, this just inspires me to run a game where the players are members of the management of HASBRO, trying to manage setting COBRA versus G.I. Joe. #gaming #GIJoe #Hasbro 1/8
Logistically supporting both sides, and making sure neither one actually has a winning position because if that happens, HASBRO doesn't have a profit angle. 2/8
Probably also dealing with private organizations that have personal interests for insurance fraud, political manipulation by proxy, that sort of thing, at the same time. 3/8
#Kingdom might be a fun choice for that game.

lamemage.com/kingdom/ 4/8
The players represent upper management of HASBRO who have to keep things under control with Crises like "the journalist is sniffing around and on the verge of tying everything together" or "the US government is starting to catch on". 5/8
There was an older RPG (where "older" is relative) called #MSG(tm) which might also be appropriate for lower-level management in the organization, just trying to get through the day to day.

drivethrurpg.com/product/152079… 6/8
(Don't ask me what's in the "Deoffensified Edition" versus the Executive Edition I have from a decade ago. The RPG industry has been in a weird SJW universe almost that long and I can no longer tell what's Poe's Law or not.) 7/8
This is a remarkably silly idea.

What does HASBRO stand for?

Human Augmented Systems Brigade Relations Organization? That could work.

Profoundly silly. 8/8

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I just did. But rather than just hang up on them, I took it the next step. I used it the best weapon in my arsenal:

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