Cards Against Humanity

Just read this review of Cards Against Humanity...

www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/revie...ds-against-humanity/

I think it articulates why I have such complicated feelings about it. Especially since it is one of the faces of our hobby. We virtually never talk about the game here even though it's the game that most of the people I know in real life or on social media are most likely to have played... do you guys play it and enjoy it?

I guess this could end up going Friday Freakout given the reviews I linked and some seriously charged debates associated with it, but to be honest mainly I'm curious everyone's attitudes toward it---that link encapsulates about 75% of my attitude toward it more elegantly than I could.

Haven't read the link. I've played it and thought it was okay and laughed a lot. My problem with it is the same as I had with Apples To Apples. Once people bring it out it gets played over and over until everyone is sick of it. So it definitely overstays its welcome, imo. It gets less and less fun the longer you play it until its not fun at all to keep going.

I stopped half way through Paul's ramblings...To fucking preachy.

^If you have no problem with the social "preachy" stuff, I think Quinns has the most relevant content re: the game itself sucks and you could skip to it.

I haven't played Cards Against Humanity, but I understand that it is basically intended to be a dirty and offensive version of Apples to Apples. I'm not worried about the dirty and offensive part, assuming parents exert their usual efforts to shield their young children from dirty and offensive things. Apples to Apples is a slightly entertaining game that has the advantage of remaining entertaining even when drunk people are playing it. Any drunk person can be taught to play in a minute, and unless they are really wild or sleepy, they can handle the gameplay. I try to amuse myself while playing Apples to Apples by looking for and enjoying the accidental innuendos that crop up. It seems that the more literal Cards Against Humanity would deny me that minor joy by making the dirty stuff very obvious.

I think the game is completely fucking stupid and its success just shows that if you can provide a socially acceptable context for people to make incredibly crass, vulgar, racist, sexist, etc. comments or jokes then you'll get rich because most people's sense of humor never rises above "pee pee, poo poo, butt". This is a classless, idiotic game made for classless, idiotic people. It reminds me of being in elementary school and some kid had one of those Truly Tasteless Jokes books. The kind that you are sort of shocked by at first, but then you realize that they're just lame and sad.

Ooh wee, it is so politically incorrect. Whoopty shit. Aren't you a maverick for making jokes about big black dicks, white middle-class college student?

I'm not for censorship at all, but I am against shitty games and things that are just cultural garbage like this. Burn it down. My feelings about it are quite uncomplicated.

The problem with taking a party game and making it dirty is that a group that is good at making dirty jokes can do that on their own and when it's from an innocuous source like Apples to Apples where that isn't intended it's actually funnier. Cards Against Humanity is too obvious. I did kind of like their consumerist Christmas joke where thousands of people bought and actual box full of bull shit from them... but I'm glad I wasn't a fan who paid for it. It's almost Kaufmann-esque but at the same time the joke would work better (in both the Christmas example and in the normal game) if it was way more subtle. As a party game it's ok but entirely unoriginal. I would never buy it when there are so many better options.

Content and game quality aside, I greatly disagree that it is the face or an ambassador to the gaming hobby. That's just a stupid claim. To try to make an argument that it does harm to gaming as a hobby would be like arguing those cheesy romance novels or softcore porn on late night cable does great harm to novels or movies respectively.

I own it and have played it a number of times and enjoyed it. The problem is that the more you play it, the less funny it becomes.

A friend of mine hosted the game with 10 people, which was fun, and then did it again maybe a month later with the same people and it fell really flat for me because we had recently heard all the cards already.

For me, this has become a once-a-year game, maybe twice a year. It just can't sustain itself more frequently than that.

The very first time I played the game was on New Years Eve a couple of years ago. In the environment of drinking and and having a good time we all laughed and giggled. For me though, I didn't laugh at the cards. I was drunk and I was laughing more at my friends reactions and them trying not to laugh. To me that shit was hilarious. The actual cards and gameplay were in fact a bore.

Each time I play the game I I walk away thinking...this game is aimed at 12 year olds or prudes that are normally offended by LOTS of stuff. I don't know about the rest of you...but I say fucked up stuff all the time. Play a game of "Say Anything" with me where I'm drunk and the shit that comes out of me is going to be ridiculous. I have way more fun trying to make up my own lines or jokes. Mashing the card "Mother Teresa" with a card that says, " sucked a fierce cock" or something like that isn't funny. You just picked a sacred cow and applied dirty words to it. Big fucking whoop.

Listen, I've played the game a half a dozen times or so. I'll continue to play it. My sister in law has it and thinks it's the shit. So I will inevitably play it again at some point. It's a silly time waster of an activity that I don't particularly enjoy. However, I don't begrudge or think less of people that do like it. If you play it and you laugh your ass off with your friends that's great. Mission accomplished by the creators. Personally I can have just as much fun, laughing and playing other games....and the conversation and quips will be much funnier and or vulgar.

I find it to be a hoot. But then again, my sense of humor hasn't evolved beyond fart and penis jokes.

Cards Against Humanity doesn't harm the hobby. Pointless, paternalistic gatekeeping does.

I've played it somewhere around ten times. It has gotten pretty stale, and I'd never suggest it, but I'm not gonna wrangle ten random people into playing Avalon when they're looking to drink and make these kinds of jokes. I think I liked it the first couple times. What I like best is winning with the non-dirty stuff. "What is George W. Bush thinking about?" I won with "Go-gurt." Because I (and the judge) could totally see him sitting around thinking about drinkable yogurt.

I read the article now. I agree with most of it, except for the idea that this is the ambassador for "the hobby." What is that supposed to mean anyway? Plenty of people who would love a game of Terra Mystica will be scared off by boring and tasteless games? I played Funemployed with Matt, Quinns, and some other people that were funnier than them at GenCon. I can see why they like it, but it's very dependent on having some creative people around for it to work.

I'm really glad that I can laugh at a variety of jokes. Laughing is fun.

There are party games that are an excuse to be stupid and are fun.

There are party games that are an excuse to be stupid.

CAH is the latter. I can be stupid all by myself.