Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/29/chicago-game-cafe.html
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So we’ve hit the point where it is cards against humanity.
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Cards Against Humanity is loathsome and despicable.
Played it once. Never again. It is against humanity, all right.
Occasionally it comes up in conversation – “Let play a game! Let’s play Cards Against Humanity!” – upon which I ruthlessly shame my friends (or complete strangers) for having this loathsome despicable thing in their house.
I try not to get worked up, but this is an exception.
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How well has making that assumption worked out with CAH before now?
Absolutely nothing going on in the livestream makes the least bit of sense to me. I don’t know if any familiarity with the card game would make it more comprehensible or not.
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Since the game is being written by a computer, the next logical step is to have it be played by computers as well. In fact, I think it would be best to take humanity out of the equation altogether.
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Future historians will point to this game as exemplifying peak irony. Its all downhill from here.
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I agree. I loathe the game. More often than not it provides people with a way to say horrible things and then laugh about them. More than one party has being ruined (for me) with this stupid thing.
Also, it isn’t much of a game apart from saying horrible things and being transgressive.
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I guess BoingBoing BBS Con would need at least two separate party rooms.
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Anyone else have no audio on that video? Or just me?
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Read the FAQ on the https://www.cardsagainsthumanityaichallenge.com/ site.
Actually, everyone should read it. It’s pretty funny.
Anyone for Exploding Kittens!?
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A Taste of Armageddon:
Well, okay, humans are still part of the equation. But they are on the way out. (Or they would have been, except for Kirk violating the Prime Directive.)
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Agreed. While I applaud the company’s humanitarian stance (And I can’t even remember what that was) The game itself quickly becomes …nasty. I have a set in the house. We played it once, and like you, intend never to play it again. I can’t bring myself to throw it in the recycling, and refuse to give it to a charity shop, as other people might end up playing it. I wonder if there is a way to convert such a deck to something that’s actually friendly and not gratuitiously offensive? Any ideas?
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I suppose you could get a Sharpie and rewrite all of the cards to something positive.
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Quietly and unceremoniously recycle it – which is what I did after being gifted a set for birthday (by my best friend, who didn’t know my feelings about the game).
There may be a time for clearing the air and talking about the infinite potential ugliness of humanity. Of course we must be able to talk about ugliness.
But not while playing games with friends. Ugliness is not a game.
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Thanks, but I’m busy waiting for my Bonsai Kittens to mature.
Update: I am so amused by this post that I have documented it in the Gnomon Chronicles:
http://gnomonchronicles.com/wiki/Waiting_for_my_Bonsai_Kittens_to_mature_(nonfiction)
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So the cards are written by humans and by robots, but only human action gets to decide if they are funny? Smacks of discrimination. They should teach an AI to judge whether something is funny and give it a vote.
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Nope, because a BB BBS Con would be creative and inclusive, so people like me who enjoy CAH would invite people who don’t to do this…
…or not, as is their custom. No one should be pressured to play a game they dislike, and sometimes that means picking one of the myriad other fun games this world provides. 
Also, such a great episode.
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