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# Settlers of Brooklyn Is a Game About the Hipster Millennials You Love to Hate

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## Video: Inside A Christian Pot Shop

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_Published 2014-04-03. Bryan and Lanette Davies run a Christian medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento. After God told Bryan to open a cannabis shop, the couple say they have been doing God's work in providing natural care to the sick._


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Mar 24, 2015 5:02 PM UTC

The Brooklyn edition of the hit board game _Settlers of Catan_ is out — at least according to [a new parody by Above Average](http://aboveaverage.com/watch/above-average-presents/settlers-of-brooklyn/), the comedy channel on YouTube launched by Broadway Video, which was founded by _Saturday Night Live_ producer Lorne Michaels.

[According to the clip](http://aboveaverage.com/watch/above-average-presents/settlers-of-brooklyn/), the mission of this “game of settlement and exploration” is to create a “fully gentrified colony,” for “in the early 2000s, the land of Brook-_lan_ was virtually uninhabited by young adults with wealthy parents.” Kale is the subject of most of the jokes, and Lena Dunham is crowned the winner.

While the fake game is about Brooklyn, the jokes could pretty much apply to any city.

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