The Hero with a Thousand Faces -
Why do we keep telling the same stories over and over?
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Thursday, 7 May 2015
quote [ But we all know the direction the game wants people to go in because it subtitles itself ?A party game for horrible people.? It openly, plainly, even joyfully acknowledges its content, with things like ?The profoundly handicapped,? ?Black people,? ?Auschwitz,? ?Homeless people,? and ?Surprise sex? which, if you?re not versed in the term, is a euphemism for rape. ]
tl;dr: it's a pretty shitty game, for plenty of reasons.
I think a comment on the review itself explains just why it's so fucking bad; I'll quote the part that is important here:
So then I'm with another group of people a couple of months later, these guys are a bit more laid back, also more into edgier humour, everyone's drinking and having a good time, someone takes out Cards Against Humanity. What the hell, I think, maybe it works better as an actual party game, rather than a sit-around-the-table-and-play-board-games game. We institute a house rule that the "winner" of each combination must take a shot, and... First 20 minutes pass fine, everyone's having a laugh, the jokes are mostly about sex, poop, dead celebrities, I don't remember what else. But then a particularly horrible card combination comes up, involving hitting children and... well something else as well. It gets a laugh from a few people, but one person breaks down and starts crying. It made us feel sick to realize that it wasn't just that the card combination was a reminder to that person of what they and their sibling went through, but that the fact we LAUGHED at the card felt to the person that we were condoning child abuse as a joke. -- Yeah. Fuck that noise.
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kylemcbitch said @ 6:24pm GMT on 7th May
It's literally a game that advertises itself as for horrible people.
And the comment you quote in the extended, they play with alcohol and laugh at the horrible things the card suggest, until someone at the table felt a personal connection to the horrible joke, and suddenly it was bad.
Well fuck them, if they laughed at dead babies or "can't even remember what else" and thought that was fine, but then wanted to draw the line when someone made a joke someone in the group had feelings about. I guarantee you someone, somewhere cares deeply about a dead celebrity, a dead baby, the Holocaust, etc. If you aren't comfortable making fun of your own shit, you have no right making fun of others, period. That is sort of the point, if your feelings are such that you can't handle that, then don't play the fucking game.
As for the article itself, it's obvious click-bait. Of course Cards Against Humanity is offensive, do we really need 3 guys to explain to us (like we are emotionally stumped children) that it's not nice to make fun of people or horrible events? They claim they are against the game because they want to open gaming up to everyone, I guess that just means everyone that shares their bland sense of humour and over-developed sense of morality.
I say fuck em, and the high horse they road in on.
kylemcbitch said @ 2:30pm GMT on 7th May
It's literally a game that advertises itself as for horrible people.
And the comment you quote in the extended, they play with alcohol and laugh at the horrible things the card suggest, until someone at the table felt a personal connection to the horrible joke, and suddenly it was bad.
Well fuck them, if they laughed at dead babies or "can't even remember what else" and thought that was fine, but then wanted to draw the line when someone made a joke someone in the group had feelings about. I guarantee you someone, somewhere cares deeply about a dead celebrity, a dead baby, the Holocaust, etc. If you aren't comfortable making fun of your own shit, you have no right making fun of others, period. That is sort of the point, if your feelings are such that you can't handle that, then don't play the fucking game.
As for the article itself, it's obvious click-bait. Of course Cards Against Humanity is offensive, do we really need 3 guys to explain to us (like we are emotionally stumped children) that it's not nice to make fun of people or horrible events? They claim they are against the game because they want to open gaming up to everyone, I guess that just means everyone that shares their bland sense of humour and over-developed sense of morality.
I say fuck em, and the high horse they rode in on.
kylemcbitch said @ 2:37pm GMT on 7th May
It's literally a game that advertises itself as for horrible people.
And the comment you quote in the extended, they play with alcohol and laugh at the horrible things the card suggest, until someone at the table felt a personal connection to the horrible joke, and suddenly it was bad.
Well fuck them, if they laughed at dead babies or "can't even remember what else" and thought that was fine, but then wanted to draw the line when someone made a joke someone in the group had feelings about. I guarantee you someone, somewhere cares deeply about a dead celebrity, a dead baby, the Holocaust, etc. If you aren't comfortable making fun of your own shit, you have no right making fun of others, period. That is sort of the point, if your feelings are such that you can't handle that, then don't play the fucking game.
As for the article itself, it's obvious click-bait. Of course Cards Against Humanity is offensive, do we really need 3 guys to explain to us (like we are emotionally stunted children) that it's not nice to make fun of people or horrible events? They claim they are against the game because they want to open gaming up to everyone, I guess that just means everyone that shares their bland sense of humour and over-developed sense of morality.
I say fuck em, and the high horse they rode in on.
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kylemcbitch said @ 6:24pm GMT on 7th May [Score:5 Underrated]
It's literally a game that advertises itself as for horrible people.
And the comment you quote in the extended, they play with alcohol and laugh at the horrible things the card suggest, until someone at the table felt a personal connection to the horrible joke, and suddenly it was bad.
Well fuck them, if they laughed at dead babies or "can't even remember what else" and thought that was fine, but then wanted to draw the line when someone made a joke someone in the group had feelings about. I guarantee you someone, somewhere cares deeply about a dead celebrity, a dead baby, the Holocaust, etc. If you aren't comfortable making fun of your own shit, you have no right making fun of others, period. That is sort of the point, if your feelings are such that you can't handle that, then don't play the fucking game.
As for the article itself, it's obvious click-bait. Of course Cards Against Humanity is offensive, do we really need 3 guys to explain to us (like we are emotionally stunted children) that it's not nice to make fun of people or horrible events? They claim they are against the game because they want to open gaming up to everyone, I guess that just means everyone that shares their bland sense of humour and over-developed sense of morality.
I say fuck em, and the high horse they rode in on.
