You’re just too cool for school.
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Don’t stop now, I’m kraken up.
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I always love it when something problematic also happens to be something I have no interest in participating in. Life would be a cinch if all creators of problematic material were also lousy artists and entertainers. Lazy, yes, but I can dream.
Is there a site that has a list of all the CAH cards, ordered by release date? Then we could sort of judge if it got less “edgy” as time went on.
This site promises more than many of the other “Let’s put all of the CAH cards into JSON format and never, ever update” sites, as it has options for Five Expansions, 2014 PAX, etc.
But since I don’t play, I can’t say I’d be able to tell…
That would be interesting. In my experience its more a factor of things getting crowded out. The more expansions involved in whatever set I’m playing the more options there tend to be. So the better chance there is that a non-awful option fits the easy/general/funny choice for a given player. It’d actually be interesting to look at the card sets based on release to see if there’s been a more active attempt to shift the dynamics. But the impression I’ve gotten from announcements, blog posts from the company etc. has been that the ever increasing number of cards in the mix is at least partially a casual attempt to do just that. Make sure the offensive cards are still there, but give as many other possibilities as possible.
That’s why I say they can do more. That sort of approach reeks of weakly (but vocally) defending the regressive position while very quietly cow towing to the more progressive demands of polite society. I’d rather see anyone be more aggressive about embracing a progressive approach (even if, and some times especially, if they fail at it). But to be 100% fair there is a lot of assumption on my part involved in this interpretation. There’s a fair chance its just confirmation bias, making me feel OK about still playing it with a limited group of close friends under rigid circumstances. (Which is TOTALLY the mechanical deficiency I was talking about!)
Who’s Carlos Mencia? I ask because I find Louis CK about as funny as haemorrhoids, so I infer the other guy might be worth a punt.
You feel like you’re skating on thin ice?
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You can download the cards for free if you want to print them out on your own card stock, so yes, it is possible* to get the entire list to manipulate as you wish.
*I haven’t been to their website in a very long time, so I don’t know if all extension packs are included in this option.
He’s one of those “you either love him or hate him” comedians. Latino himself, a lot of his humor is race and immigration based. I think he actually lost his show because he rubbed certain people the wrong way. That doesn’t mean he’s not very funny, obviously. How Tosh still has a show and Mencia doesn’t, I can’t even.
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Finally, a ray of hope shining through the darkness.
Mencia (at least back when his show was on Comedy Central, trying to ride the tide of Chappelle Show) had some race-based humor, but a lot of people felt he sort of just made fun of racial stereotypes with no real commentary behind it, other than minorities are worthy of mocking - a lot of people felt that he was punching down in other words. That being said, Mencia was Latino (he’s from Honduras), so I’m not sure that stands up to scrutiny? I never thought he was nearly as clever or sharp as Chappelle. But I’m a Louis CK fan, too… I find him pretty funny. But I think comedy is like any other art - what you consider good is pretty subjective.
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I dunno… I never thought that Mind of Mencia was as good as Chappelle show. Lots of the stuff that Comedy Central was airing back then was that sort of edgy comedy, but with that kind of stuff, you have to walk a fine line. It can easily slip into something kind of nasty. I never cared for about half of the people who showed up on Colin Quinn’s show Tough Crowd. I especially disliked Nick Dipalo, but then again, he’s often on Louis whenever they do the poker scenes.
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Oh, I totally agree with you that he was not on the same level as Chappelle. No question!
But there are some pretty nasty “comedians” on Comedy Central, and at least Mencia was covering issues that aren’t usually covered on comedy shows.
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And I can still disagree that the characterization presented was productive.
I only go back 10 years or so. Even then it had several strong editorial tones, and not one. It was a common mistake made then. It is an easier mistake to make currently, with the actual editors posting and managing production of some content, as well as the original bloggers.
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Do you mean what -they- are doing, or what -you- are doing? because there is truth in either statement.
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