Thursday, 7 May 2015

Review: Cards Against Humanity

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.

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Yeah. Fuck that noise.
[SFW] [games] [-9 Bad]
[by azazel]
<-- Entry / Comment History

ENZ said @ 6:27pm GMT on 7th May
Black humor isn't for everyone. Obviously someone who experienced abuse it's going to find jokes about it funny, but that doesn't mean there's no value to shit that's provocative. Like how I'm sure people who have had their lives financially ruined and had to declare bankruptcy might not enjoy Monopoly too much, or people who lost a loved one to medical malpractice would find losing at Operation not at all funny. Laughing at a child abuse joke or a racially provocative joke doesn't necessarily mean you condone child abuse or racism. The appeal of black humor comes from how absurd it can be. Because the world can be pretty goddamned absurd, and the most any of us can really do about it is to laugh it off.

ENZ said @ 2:51pm GMT on 7th May
Black humor isn't for everyone. Obviously someone who experienced abuse isn't going to find jokes about it funny, but that doesn't mean there's no value to shit that's provocative. Like how I'm sure people who have had their lives financially ruined and had to declare bankruptcy might not enjoy Monopoly too much, or people who lost a loved one to medical malpractice would find losing at Operation not at all funny. Laughing at a child abuse joke or a racially provocative joke doesn't necessarily mean you condone child abuse or racism. The appeal of black humor comes from how absurd it can be. Because the world can be pretty goddamned absurd, and the most any of us can really do about it is to laugh it off.


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ENZ said @ 6:27pm GMT on 7th May [Score:1 Insightful]
Black humor isn't for everyone. Obviously someone who experienced abuse isn't going to find jokes about it funny, but that doesn't mean there's no value to shit that's provocative. Like how I'm sure people who have had their lives financially ruined and had to declare bankruptcy might not enjoy Monopoly too much, or people who lost a loved one to medical malpractice would find losing at Operation not at all funny. Laughing at a child abuse joke or a racially provocative joke doesn't necessarily mean you condone child abuse or racism. The appeal of black humor comes from how absurd it can be. Because the world can be pretty goddamned absurd, and the most any of us can really do about it is to laugh it off.



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