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How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.
I'll just refer back to IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
It might get old for you, but other people enjoy the creativity of combining things in new and interestingly subtle ways.
How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.
It's less about the game itself and more about the people you're with when you sit down to play it. You get to know what they're squeamish about, what their prejudices are, what they're passionate about, even their fears. They say that many a truth was spoken in jest and giving someone license to say aloud dirty, disgusting, or even downright reprehensible thoughts will get to the core of someone's worldview faster t…
Without fail it just devolves into who can put together the edgiest answer. Then after 2 or 3 rounds everyone just comes to expect it and gets bored.
Why only consider within-country inequality (and, yes, I realize that the answer is 'because it's partly a publicity stunt, and humans are biased and parochial')? The average American is incomparable wealthy compared to the average African, and you can on average save a life for only a few $thousand to one of Givewell's top recommended charities.
It's a stunt to prove socialism is great. What it actually demonstrated is that charity works great. Charity is not socialism.
There are a lot of things, like civil defense and firefighting and road building, that historically started working more reliably when they became government-run instead of depending on volunteers or private industry. What makes charity different?
How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.
How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.
My kneejerk response is to downvote you, but I'm bigger than that. I'll just refer back to IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. It might get old for you, but other people enjoy the creativity of combining things in new and interestingly subtle ways.
It's just not that interesting after a few hands.
I suspect the audience of people who really like Cards Against Humanity leans towards people who like being "politically incorrect", because the card game often inspires people to be incredibly offensive. It seems likely that their audience includes lots of 4channers, shitlords, extremists, racists, or any other group of people known to be generally offensive. By making moves like this, they're showing everyone else…
How can such a boring game have such a large following? The gimmick wears out in like 15 minutes. Edit: these downvotes. To think I pegged HN for a community with good taste in card games.
Personally, I got bored with making sour grapes comments on the internet in like 1995. To each their own.
You've really cut me to the core.
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It's less about the game itself and more about the people you're with when you sit down to play it. You get to know what they're squeamish about, what their prejudices are, what they're passionate about, even their fears. They say that many a truth was spoken in jest and giving someone license to say aloud dirty, disgusting, or even downright reprehensible thoughts will get to the core of someone's worldview faster t…
I've played it several times before with a pretty wide range of people. Without fail it just devolves into who can put together the edgiest answer. Then after 2 or 3 rounds everyone just comes to expect it and gets bored.
To those seeking to criticize, it was not meant to be a perfect example of anything. It is also very relevant that this was done by a company who could have kept that money and sent a Christmas card with something snarky, and it would not have hurt their bottom line.
One of the coolest things I've read in a long time.