@xinjinmeng I was SO RELIEVED to see articles like that confirm I was not the only one. Cards Against Humanity is one of my prime "guess we're not playing games tonight" games.

To be fair, it's not even the offensive--note the utter lack of scare quotes--humor. It's the kneejerk, brainstemmy nature of it. I hate it for the same reason I hate mid-era Adult Swim cartoons: bring me something *insightfully* offensive.

And the "joke generator" nature of it only makes it more stultifying IMHO. It's so damned easy to make a game that exploits randomness for humor. "Five Card Nancy" comes to mind.

But CAH has this strange accursed power to strip the surreality OUT of randomness and ground it in the most banal sort of "Ha! You sure said something you're not supposed to!" humor.

It's also just such a shitty game qua game. I have a huge pet peeve against "games" with no strategy besides "a bunch of stuff happens and then you win." It actually manages to be less of a game than Fluxx and that's IMPRESSIVE.

@zebratron2084 @xinjinmeng

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the people behind CAH later went on to basically make a Nazi game with Nazi theming where it's "fun" to be a secret Nazi.

Motherfuckers knew what they were doing.

@Phorm @xinjinmeng Counterpoint:

"The Trump Pack, a booster pack for Secret Hitler, which replaces the fascists' cards with Donald Trump and prominent members of his administration at the time (respectively Sean Spicer, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon and Mike Pence), was released in June 2017, with all proceeds generated from the pack's sales donated to the American Civil Liberties Union."

@zebratron2084 @xinjinmeng

I mean, I don't give them much credit for that. They still profited off of a design that lifted Nazi iconography, with all the baggage that carries, and they did it knowingly.

Releasing some stickers to slap over it after the fact in order to profit further off breeding fascism in the current era doesn't absolve them from anything.

@Phorm @xinjinmeng I'm just saying I don't think they're exactly closet Trump/white nationalist allies. I suppose I can share your qualms about what they're profiting off of, but I'm a little touchy about this subject because I'm a veteran wargamer and a LOT of my hobby depends on recreating Ugly History without necessarily editorializing on it. This is... probably one of those I should just quietly back down on and retreat back into my treehole.