People who would rather play Cards Against Humanity instead of Codenames are people whose opinions can be safely disregarded on most matters of import.
Codenames is so good, especially those last ditch effort desperate nonsense hints that inevitably work and get like 5 correct to win the game.
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.
Or, with your 60 year old graduate studies supervisor and their date.
It’s, an experience.
Much like how a lot of people consume zombie “horror” movies less for a “horror” experience and more to get off to power fantasies of mowing down dehumanized “others,” I think a lot of people that are into “adult humor” games aren’t really there for a natural laugh as much as for the “clapter” of the edgy word combination and how it must trigger delicate snowflakes or the like.
In general, if something has to market itself as “adult” or “mature,” to me it usually translates as “teenagers and people that never quite stopped acting like teenagers see this as adult/mature.”
He’s back
thanks for killing Kissinger!
Or - hear me out - they are 35 years old
Or - hear me out - I already covered that part.
and people that never quite stopped acting like teenagers see this as adult/mature.
In general, if something has to market itself as “adult” or “mature,” to me it usually translates as “teenagers and people that never quite stopped acting like teenagers see this as adult/mature.”
I feel the same way about adult cartoons
Shidding and pissing back and forth forever
bobs burgers is the most mature animated sitcom and isn’t marketed as “adult” so this checks out
I do enjoy me some infantile pee pee poo poo dick shit jokes but anyone who thinks that’s what being an adult means is not someone who thinks like one
bobs burgers is the most mature animated sitcom and isn’t marketed as “adult” so this checks out
I feel the same way about Tuca and Bertie, though that certainly isn’t intended for children and isn’t marketed that way, either. The show is horny and has a fair bit of swearing, but the actual themes and story beats are outright wholesome much of the time and speak to greater interpersonal truths than the types of self-described “mature” fandoms that recite “DAE LE POOPY BUTTHOLE GET SCHWIFTY” and the like.
I think zombies is also about self insertion survivalist fantasies - general apocalyptica - playing along with the show saying ‘ooh, I would’ve actually gone to the medical supply store first’, or whatever.
Otherwise these edgy things are for people who just aren’t culturally analytical or engaged. Funny poop offensive random - that’s the internet. People who aren’t very online don’t bump into that stuff every day.
People are still playing cards against humanity?
It’s pretty much the modern Monopoly, a game that’s not great but has pierced through into the pop culture. I’ve tried to get my IRL friends to try Jackbox instead and its flopped every time.
Monopoly slander
Monopoly was invented to be a slog of a game because it was meant to show the heinousness of landlordism
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.
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 😅
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
Acquire is a much better board game that came out around the same time, but unfortunately was not as popular.
what everyone loves jackbox this is party heresy
I’ve had success converting people to playing wingspan if they’re over age 30
They should be playing Scythe, War Of The Rung, and Twilight Struggle.
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.
People need to play heavy strategy games.
I don’t. But CAH has ruined a generation of “adult humor” games
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
My uncle once put Helen Keller for “touchy feely” in apples to apples and I’ve never seen that high re-created since.
Apples to Apples was always the better game, both overall and in terms of dark comedy potential
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.
pretty much sums up all party games.
That or “[transphobia]”
My favorite CAH card is “Ace Ventura, a movie that definitely holds up I promise”
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)
quiplash answers
The time me and every other player put “masturbation” as our quiplash answer, priceless.
it’s hilarious when it’s organic, can’t force it yknow?
the title is not accurate, i don’t see any mention of cock and balls or penises.
[mass starvation] all the [white people] for world peace
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.
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.
There is a huge variety of card games that are easy to pick up, not vapid, and not purely a word game.
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.
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].”
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
“Sexy sex sex le SEX!”
I’ll be here all week.
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.
