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youhas
Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:40 am Post subject: Cards Against Humanity |
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Out of idle curiosity: have any people here played Cards Against Humanity? It's sort of been spreading through my local social network like so many fire ants recently. A cursory search suggests that bclare and I have both played it, but I haven't seen any other references to it, and I was just wondering how widespread it was at this point.
The general gist of the game is "like Apples to Apples, but for terrible human beings". Everyone has a hand full of white "response" cards. Each person takes turns serving as judge, reading one of the black "prompt" cards, which will be either a question or a fill-in-the-blank situation; you play the response that you think is most likely to be selected as a winner by the judge. A reasonably standard and straightforward affair, save for the caliber of the responses on the white cards. A couple of example rounds from recent games I've played:
Prompt: What did the U.S. airdrop to the children of Afghanistan?
Responses:
- Fiery poops.
- A sad birthday party.
- Fancy Feast(tm).
- Soup that is too hot.
- Smallpox blankets.
- Neil Patrick Harris.
Prompt: "_____: kid tested; mother approved."
- Catapults.
- Incest.
- Being a dick to children.
- Stranger danger.
- Pac-Man uncontrollably guzzling cum, forever.
- Coat-hanger abortions.
Somewhat obviously, the sorts of responses above suggest that no well-adjusted human being should play this game, ever. Which naturally means that I've been spending my time getting roped into marathon sessions of it at the tail ends of all sorts of social gatherings. (Though at least it's proved a learning experience for some people. Sometimes it's highbrow "what is heteronormativity?" learning; sometimes it's... er, less-highbrow "what is pixelated bukkake?" learning. But at least we're slowly expanding everyone's horizons all the same.) It is definitely not a game for the easily-offended of any stripe, though, given the sheer scope that cards name-checking awful things - Auschwitz! white privilege! the Three-Fifths Compromise! passable transvestites! - touch upon. But if you're of a certain constitution, it's buckets of fun.
Anyway, just wanted to see if anyone had actually played this, or had any amusing anecdotes of their own to relay, or if this was still confined to some sort of alpha-dork subset of humanity at this point. _________________
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krisdaschwab912
Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 6567 Location: UW-Eau Claire
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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I never heard of this, but this sounds like the sort of thing I would really enjoy. _________________
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Silly
Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 3450 Location: Nottingham, England
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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I heard about it a few months ago. I love Apples to Apples, and I'm a reasonably terrible human being, so this is right up my alley. Sadly, no-one I know near me shares both of those traits, so I have no real opportunity to play.
however... I did just find this. Add in Skype, Vent or other choice of VoIP and some brewskies, and we might be onto something here... _________________
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bclare
Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: Cards Against Humanity |
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youhas wrote: | Prompt: "_____: kid tested; mother approved." |
The correct answer is Panda Sex. Anyway yes this game is great. _________________
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anonymous_25
Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 0
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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PiemanLK
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 4712 Location: /export/home
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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I love this game, but I've only ever played it online. I'd love to play it with people, if my IRL social circle wasn't close to non-existent. _________________
[quote=''Otend'']Id come up with a long post, but Pieman said what we are all thinking, as usual[/quote]
[quote=''youhas'']EDIT TO ADD: Hey, post #3000! Neat! I will eagerly anticipate my set of ScoreHero-branded steak knives within six to eight weeks.[/quote]
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bclare
Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 6048 Location: Boston
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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PiemanLK wrote: | I love this game, but I've only ever played it online. I'd love to play it with people, if my IRL social circle wasn't close to non-existent. |
Come to PAX, asshole. _________________
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Cabanon
Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 6481 Location: Quebec, Canada
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:26 am Post subject: |
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OMG, this is the right game for my IRL friend. haha very nice. _________________
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youhas
Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:01 am Post subject: |
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"What do old people smell like?" "Racism."
"What's there a lot of in Heaven?" "Kamikaze pilots."
PiemanLK wrote: | I love this game, but I've only ever played it online. I'd love to play it with people, if my IRL social circle wasn't close to non-existent. |
As for the first part: how does playing it online work? Has some clever person scripted up some sort of interactive app, or is it played in an IRC channel on the honor policy, or what? Just wondering.
As for the second part: if your real-life social network is looking threadbare - that is how my 2010 rolled - trawling through meetup.com can sometimes do wonders. (Though it's kind of spotty by region; I have no idea how active participants in... uh, Brava Centauri are on the site.) For me, there are approximately four hojillion local groups, covering every interest and subset of humanity imaginable. Hikers! Bikers! Amateur photographers! Geeks! Board game enthusiasts! Karaoke nuts! Guitar Hero / Rock Band players! (Seriously, on that last one. I met a small-but-important sector of my social network via showing up to GH/RB meetups.) _________________
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blingdomepiece
Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 4358 Location: Ottawa ON Canada
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Played it once last year. I was a bit too good at it :-P. _________________
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Kubuh
Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 1765 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:01 am Post subject: |
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youhas wrote: | "What do old people smell like?" "Racism."
"What's there a lot of in Heaven?" "Kamikaze pilots."
PiemanLK wrote: | I love this game, but I've only ever played it online. I'd love to play it with people, if my IRL social circle wasn't close to non-existent. |
As for the first part: how does playing it online work? Has some clever person scripted up some sort of interactive app, or is it played in an IRC channel on the honor policy, or what? Just wondering.
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We had quite fun with it a couple of months ago in IRC with an IRC script, some games were asbolutely insanely hilarious _________________
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PiemanLK
Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 4712 Location: /export/home
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 4:02 am Post subject: |
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youhas wrote: | I have no idea how active participants in... uh, Brava Centauri are on the site. |
Well, they promised us hover cars and space colonies, so ideally it would be easy to meet new people, but....well, EPCOT wasn't right about everything.
Kubuh wrote: | We had quite fun with it a couple of months ago in IRC with an IRC script, some games were asbolutely insanely hilarious |
I think we need a concerted effort to get people to play it again. I mean, we're all always on #Triviahero, it just seems no one wants to start a game anymore. And we can drag youhas along to IRC, too. _________________
[quote=''Otend'']Id come up with a long post, but Pieman said what we are all thinking, as usual[/quote]
[quote=''youhas'']EDIT TO ADD: Hey, post #3000! Neat! I will eagerly anticipate my set of ScoreHero-branded steak knives within six to eight weeks.[/quote]
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youhas
Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:07 am Post subject: |
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blingdomepiece wrote: | Played it once last year. I was a bit too good at it :-P. |
I actually finish last in many games that I play, simply because instead of methodically playing to the judge or whatever, my goal is to play the single most soul-searing card during the game. I may lose the game in spades, but if my actions spawn an anecdote or inside joke that perseveres for eons thereafter... well, then who's the real winner here?
PiemanLK wrote: | Kubuh wrote: | We had quite fun with it a couple of months ago in IRC with an IRC script, some games were absolutely insanely hilarious |
I think we need a concerted effort to get people to play it again. I mean, we're all always on #Triviahero, it just seems no one wants to start a game anymore. And we can drag youhas along to IRC, too. |
I freely admit, of all the random-pants options one might try to employ to finally drag me into IRC, "hey: Cards Against Humanity gameplay!" would probably be pretty high up on that there list. _________________
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GuitarHailz
Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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Ah yes, "Assholes to Assholes." The game you wanted Apples to Apples to be. I'd love to play this more, but my real life social group is late-20s-or-30-somethings and most of them have kids, so we'd need to find a place to play out of earshot for sure. :P And the ones that don't would rather go out drinking or relive their lost college years than stay home and play a silly card game, so I'll have to do some fancy convincing to get like-minded terrible people to stay in and play it with us.
Also, I'd be down for an online game one of these days especially if youhas was involved. Lord knows I need to pop back in IRC more often. Just say when and where! _________________
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Vampyromaniac
Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 1216
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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"Is Cards Against Humanity available in my inferior country?"
^best line from the website FAQ
In other news, this does seem like the kind of thing I would enjoy (and dragging youhas into IRC sounds like a great deal of fun). We could always use that old SH_Debate channel. _________________
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