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Cards against humanity is board games entering its 90s phase 20 years late, hence people being blown away when the card said 'gently caress'
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Doctor Reynolds posted:I don't think I've enjoyed a single board game, come to think of it. Cards Against Humanity is terrible. My friend got really into board games for one summer, he made me play so many different games with him and his girlfriend. Tons of fancy ones like Pandemic and stuff. They were all so boring, I eventually started making excuses to avoid seeing him at all. The card game Love Letter was okay though.
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May 14, 2020 22:17
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dmboogie posted:jackbox games are board-game-adjacent and Quiplash is funnier than cards against humanity will ever be Jackbox has been doing some work over the course of this quarantine and Quiplash just works so well, we always kick things off with 1 or 2 games before shifting around the different packs.
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May 14, 2020 22:27
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Trivia Murder Party and Push The Button rule.
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May 14, 2020 23:08
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Fibbage 3 is how you learn way more about other players than you thought you would.
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May 14, 2020 23:23
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Calico Heart posted:It's funny because you could easily actually make a socialist monopoly game by tweaking the rules of monopoly, and it would probably be a fun and rewarding experience to design. Nope.
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May 14, 2020 23:29
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Yeah, it's a learning tool to showcase how much capitalism is trash. The fact people enjoy it is proof propaganda runs deep.
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May 14, 2020 23:33
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For people who don’t like board games I recommend hidden role stuff like Coup and Werewolf
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May 14, 2020 23:34
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I like complicated board games so long as someone else is responsible for card shuffling.
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May 14, 2020 23:42
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Yeah, it's a learning tool to showcase how much capitalism is trash. The fact people enjoy it is proof propaganda runs deep.
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May 15, 2020 00:07
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Relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4z900WFj4
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May 15, 2020 00:44
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Nuns with Guns posted:Dice Tower is a fairly major reviewer because he was one of the first and has been reliably pumping stuff out since. He's got a big range of reviews, but they tend to the shallow side. Also FYI he's a religious wingnut in the Quiverfull Movement, if you're trying to stay away from supporting people who suck in real life. Nuns with Guns posted:Technically yes but he's the co-founder (the other co-founder left some time ago) and leading personality still, so I felt like it needs to be disclosed. For fucks sake, even when I do a cursory search for miniature board game review and pick a couple of decent looking and otherwise innocuous videos , I still end up posting something that's related to some shitbag person or group, meaning that Nine-Gear Crow will come in and chew me out over it.  the thread posted:Miss Monopoly I remember reading about this a few months back, and with the in-equal money amount gimmick just made me think, "So basically, this is just Monopoly, but some players have handicaps on their earnings?" That in turn made me think that maybe a better idea would be a house-ruled Monopoly game where everyone started with more cash, but  Interesting fact: Monopoly was actually based off of another board game called The Landlord's Game, by Elizabeth Magie. The intent of the game was to educate people on Georgism, as well as highlight how property owners prosper financially at the expense of their tenants. Amusingly (and perhaps unsurprisingly), Elizabeth Magie is apparently not mentioned in Miss Monopoly.
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May 15, 2020 01:22
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Cards against Humanity is fine. It's fine. It's Be Edgy: The Game. People who take it seriously are just as dumb as people who take being edgy seriously.
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May 15, 2020 01:26
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the problem with cards against humanity is that it takes far less imagination than making dirty or edgy jokes in apples to apples
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May 15, 2020 01:47
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Yeah, Apples to Apples is much better. (Except it's still boring.)
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May 15, 2020 03:06
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VanSandman posted:Cards against Humanity is fine. It's fine. It's Be Edgy: The Game. People who take it seriously are just as dumb as people who take being edgy seriously. its ok with the right group of friends and with the right cards. i kinda like trial by trolley. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/282171/trial-trolley it has a bunch of edge but it realies on arguments and poo poo to be funny.
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May 15, 2020 03:07
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CAH just gets kinda boring and peters out. Much better to have a punch-up with Monopoly. Or play the only real board game that matters, Trivial Pursuit. (In all seriousness I kinda wanna hit up board/TT game playing friends SOON)
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May 15, 2020 03:10
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Kim Justice posted:CAH just gets kinda boring and peters out. Much better to have a punch-up with Monopoly. Or play the only real board game that matters, Trivial Pursuit. trivial persuit is fun but i only have the "super genuis edition" which is impossible and one from the 80s to like 2001 and maybe star wars somewhere.
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May 15, 2020 03:12
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i remember REALLY liking QUE VES? which is a bunch of cards with visual riddles (picture of a fern with the word NO inside. In fern: "no". Inferno) and you have to solve them with a timer of like 20 seconds. it was pretty fun, but you can only play it so many times
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May 15, 2020 03:22
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okay, the bit at the start of jim sterling's unreal engine 5 video is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_tUYiK-0IM&hd=1 Dapper_Swindler posted:i am sure someone on etsy or so has made a real socialist monopoly  it's all like, human-scaled stuff, a sword, a ripper, a helmet, and then...a loving space pyramid
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May 15, 2020 03:26
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Max Wilco posted:For fucks sake, even when I do a cursory search for miniature board game review and pick a couple of decent looking and otherwise innocuous videos , I still end up posting something that's related to some shitbag person or group, meaning that Nine-Gear Crow will come in and chew me out over it. I mean, I don't fault you for that. It's going to be something you run face first into a lot with tabletop stuff since all the drama and foreknowledge of lovely people doesn't spread as far by its very nature. Like sexpig said, Dice Tower does have a fairly comprehensive backlog of board game reviews and like Captain Spaceman said, not all the content from Dice Tower (like that video) is exclusively Tom Vasel's work. He keeps most of his lovely political views to his private social media stuff, and if you're not looking for it any biases related to them would fly right over your head in his reviews. re: Jackbox, I played a few rounds of Robot Rap Battle with some coworkers and it was pretty hilarious. The "auction your lovely drawings" one was fun, too.
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May 15, 2020 03:27
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Dapper_Swindler posted:its ok with the right group of friends and with the right cards. Yeah, thats my experience as well. There's a lot of bad cards, but with the right people they're great. I also got laid because of how well I did in a CAH game, so take that as you will.
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May 15, 2020 03:34
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I've always got time for Trivia Murder Party.
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May 15, 2020 03:46
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Ghostlight posted:I've always got time for Trivia Murder Party. yeah, thats a fun game too.
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May 15, 2020 04:06
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The best board game  
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May 15, 2020 04:17
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Monopoly is such a strange product. It is famously hated. Who is buying it? Even if you do auctions and cut out the Free Parking Jackpot nonsense, Monopoly is still a bad game. Games are supposed to end either after a certain amount of time/rounds, or when a player crosses a point threshold. Monopoly makes you keep playing until everyone but one player loses and that's terrible. But, people still buy Monopoly because for people who aren't huge board game dorks like myself, saying they want to "play a game" means they want to play, essentially, an elongated game of chance with a lot of extra steps attached. You gently caress around with pretend money for an hour, and because the game is largely dictated by dice rolls, no one's feelings get hurt too bad when they lose. (As opposed to Trivial Pursuit, which nearly ended my parents' marriage the time Dad ran the board) Also learning how to play a board game can be a real pain in the rear end and a lot of people just have their eyes glaze over when you start breaking out things like Resource Cards and Worker Placement Tokens. I mean, I love that poo poo but not everyone does. Now Jackbox Games? That's a crowd pleaser. Everyone likes drawing dicks with their phones.
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May 15, 2020 05:22
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The winning move for Monopoly is to laugh in the face of the person who offers to play it with you.
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May 15, 2020 06:10
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Jackbox is intensely good, but it did make me feel weird when I was the only one who knew what omorashi was when I played it with some family
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May 15, 2020 07:35
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having now been cursed with that information i feel like i'd feel weirder if I weren't the only person in my family who did.
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May 15, 2020 07:42
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I normally hate chance-based games but I kinda like monopoly! I actually don't think its totally chance based like everyone says. There's a lot of wheeling and dealing in it that I kinda like. Negotiating for property that you want. Like "I'll give you all the rail roads and 500 bucks if you give me parkplace" that kinda thing. It's neat because it's kinda tactical. Like you don't want to give someone a good property that they're going to use to screw you over with later but the offer is too good to pass up and stuff. You have to think carefully. *shrugs* its kinda fun. There are way better games out there tho, yeah. But I don't hate playing it. But maybe that's cuz I almost always win lol (that's not me bragging tho lol my family just suck at monopoly and board games in general)
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May 15, 2020 08:09
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If you want a game that has all the risque fun of Cards Against Humanity without the inherent Ow, The Edge it brings with it, I'd suggest We Didn't Playtest This At All. It's just stacks of interlocking hilarious bullshit and one of the funnest party games I've ever played for how insane poo poo can get during it.
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May 15, 2020 08:53
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That game is latinamerican and i kinda want to say its from here in argentina but im not sure
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May 15, 2020 08:57
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ArfJason posted:That game is latinamerican and i kinda want to say its from here in argentina but im not sure Their website is pretty vague, but Argentina is the only named country other than "and others", so it's probably a good bet. I remember one round of it I played I got dealt a card by another player that required me to sing everything I otherwise would have said for that game or I'd lose instantly. I decided I would "sing" everything in the styling of Russel Crowe as Inspector Javert, with the logic that if a major motion picture studio considered that passable singing, then it was good enough for a game like this. I won the round handily on that gambit. We Didn't Playtest This is a fantastic experience because practically anything you play can either be a knock-out blow or backfire catastrophically on you depending on how creative the people you're playing against are.
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May 15, 2020 09:19
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Monopoly is fun to kill time with family or when it involves some friends and a bottle of vodka. Most of my fond memories of Monopoly comes from just chilling and talking with friends/family rather than playing the game itself, so its good for that I guess.
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May 15, 2020 09:29
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I do enjoy CAH but you need the right set of people to play it with, going for cleverness over haha ow the edge. Our house rule is that BATMAN is always the winning answer, even if it makes no sense. 
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May 15, 2020 09:51
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Zedd posted:I do enjoy CAH but you need the right set of people to play it with, going for cleverness over haha ow the edge. It's always the micropig wearing a tiny raincoat and booties for me, because the little guy's just so wholesome in a sea of dark comedy.
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May 15, 2020 09:57
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I don't enjoy many board games because I always lose and I'm a terrible loser. I generally prefer the ones that don't require me thinking too much about strategy. Something like Werewolf or Dixit, or some cooperative games are way more up my alley. I know a lot of people who LOVE board games though, and they play Neuroshima Hex a lot. I liked Monopoly when I was a kid playing it with other kids and no one understood the rules. Last time I played was in February and it was supposed to be an ice-beaker for my meeting with my dad's girlfriend and her son. It... didn't work.
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May 15, 2020 11:49
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Nuns with Guns posted:I mean, I don't fault you for that. It's going to be something you run face first into a lot with tabletop stuff since all the drama and foreknowledge of lovely people doesn't spread as far by its very nature. Like sexpig said, Dice Tower does have a fairly comprehensive backlog of board game reviews and like Captain Spaceman said, not all the content from Dice Tower (like that video) is exclusively Tom Vasel's work. He keeps most of his lovely political views to his private social media stuff, and if you're not looking for it any biases related to them would fly right over your head in his reviews. The Algorithm pushes Dice Tower pretty hard as well, so it's often the first choice you'll see pop if you're looking for a game review and they've done it. It's pretty common to run into his stuff when poking around and I didn't know any of this either because I gravitated to other folks like Undead Viking and SUSD.
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May 15, 2020 12:19
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cards against humanity was really fun when i was a kid and you couldnt buy the cards, you had to download a pdf and print them out yourself, and i only printed out the black cards and just had blank white cards so every answer was made up on the spot
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this is my meager game collection (Carcasonne is behind), favorite is probably Santorini, simple and beautiful to look at
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