• CriticalOtaku [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    People who would rather play Cards Against Humanity instead of Codenames are people whose opinions can be safely disregarded on most matters of import.

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    3 months ago

    you havent experienced true cringe until you’ve played 1) (badly) translated cards against humanity or 2) original american cards against humanity with a group whose english isnt quite good enough and who dont know enough about american politics/history to get most of the references.

    the pain. the pain.

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      3 months ago

      Or, with your 60 year old graduate studies supervisor and their date.

      It’s, an experience.

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          monopoly “slander” is just true. I’m sorry but it’s a really really badly designed board game. If you enjoy it I don’t blame you but I would look at other resource accumulation strategy games like Terraforming Mars or even deck builders like Star Realms too.

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            i mean, i suppose it depends on how you play it. with my group it’s all about the backroom deals and screwing over your friends by manipulating their decisions. but then we have played it maybe 7 times over the past 10 years 😅

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              that’s a completely respectable way to have fun but that’s more effort or inclinations on you and your friends part than the game. there are many games designed around that and monopoly honestly isn’t really that well designed for deal-making or dramatic gaslight gatekeep girlboss

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          3 months ago

          Acquire is a much better board game that came out around the same time, but unfortunately was not as popular.

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        3 months ago

        People don’t need to play heavy strategy games, but CAH is a relic of early 2000s edgy humor, and there are better and funnier light silly party games by now. Play Telestrations or Wavelength or Happy Salmon instead. Even if you want to impress your friends with crude jokes, Say Anything is a better vessel for it.

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    Every other round of Cards Against Humanity is everyone saying “yeah I don’t have a good card for this” and putting down some reference to a random American politician from the early 2000s

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      3 months ago

      Cards against humanity was a great idea, but honestly it lost its shock value literally after playing it the first time. It’s not really fun after the first play and gets boring super quick.

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    3 months ago

    Which is why party games like Jackbox and Gartic Phone are 2000x better than slop like “Peepeepoopooshitass, the Adult Improv Game” (even if a not-insignificant number of quiplash answers end up very similar or completely incomprehensible)

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    3 months ago

    the title is not accurate, i don’t see any mention of cock and balls or penises.

  • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Imagine the world is full of amazing board games, you go to whatever bookstore and half the board game selection is amazing looking stuff you’ve never played, but your friends only want to play this weird card game that combines the monotony of Mad Libs with the gatekeeping cliquishness and alienation of trivia games.

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      I mean, it probably that card games are generally cheaper and quicker to learn than a lot of the bigger board games. Cards you can whip out at any get together and people pick it up pretty fast. But try and pull that shit with Twilight Imperium.

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    I hate CAH with a burning passion because I used to play with these people who would pass up my very fun and interesting offerings on game night in favor of playing this for hours until we all hated eachother and made an excuse to leave. Half of them didnt get the refrences to authors or politicians and it was agonizing to see plays get thrown out because someone didnt know who Toni Morrison was.

    If you like the idea of CAH as this irreverent humorous card game but hate CAH for what it is, you might like Trial By Trolley. Trial By Trolley is based off of “The Trolley Problem” moral thought experiment. As two teams you put “good” cards (puppies, babies, cancer research labs, ect) on your track, “bad” cards (hitler, serial killers, the guy who invented pop up ads) on your opponents track, and then present arguments to the conductor who then chooses which track to go down. You win if they choose the track that isn’t yours. It’s pretty straightforward and encourages a lot more engagement and interaction than CAH ever did. The only downsides are that you need to decide on a time limit for the arguing phase (the creators did not set one iirc) and some of the cards can be kinda cringe, but overall I’m satisifed with it as a CAH replacement.

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  • man, that fuckin’ game. i played it once with an apartment of people i didn’t really know, because they really wanted to. i had one pretty good one, which nobody appreciated. it was like “[DETROIT], where the [AMERICAN DREAM] goes to die.”

    the winners were usually like OPs or “[RYAN SEACREST] and [A BIG DILDO]: a match made in [MOM’S VAGINA].”

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      I remember one of the few times I played I had a really good play involving a Three-Fifths Compromise card, but no one else at the table knew what that was (not american) so some PeePeePooPoo card won. I’m still annoyed when I think about it

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    Cards Against Humanity was always mid.

    I will say I once did have a friend play “Harry Potter and the Chamber of BEING A MOTHERFUCKING SORCERER!” Which did get a laugh from both of us. But otherwise it’s pretty tired millennial jokes.