Cards Against Humanity

@sohmageek just emailed.

@ACraigL Your mail server is refusing my e-mails... Do you by chance have another email address you can email me from? I've tried my personal and my icloud accounts, both refused from your ISP's mail server. (Could be they have an outage currently too)

@sohmageek Just sent you a new one.

@ACraigL @sohmageek What are you talking about that's so important that you can't do it in front of all of us, your famehly?!?

@ooglek it is official goat business ;) feel free to email also.

@Willijs3 My wife is mildly superstitious and won't let me put those in the deck until it's past the date.

@Willijs3 I gave the game to one of my kids, but I took the card with my name out of it. No way are they using me as an answer.

@Willijs3 I did the Ten Days of Kwanzaa or Whatever, too, but made the mistake of leaving my name cards in the stack when I played with extended family. It got pretty damned hysterically awkward.
Thanks, @ACraigL, for the alert. Just picked up the 6th expansion pack.
What I really need to find is an inexpensive but decently made case to store all the cards.

The CAH Bigger Blacker Box

@DrunkCat I think I played a game that looks like Dixit at someone's house, thanks for the name so I can buy it!

But I agree, CAH is fun until you memorize all the cards and have heard all the combos, which happened pretty quickly for me. I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't want to play that game anymore :)

@metageist Might be just my personal experience but it generally just devolves into dick-esque jokes and whose lining where the points don't matter.

I rather play a game that feels like I accomplished something. If you want something with more meat and still socially geared there's also Cosmic Encounter (which I also love, the social component comes mainly in the form of asking for allies).

@DrunkCat @metageist It's not just the answers or the obvious innuendo, but the layers of subtext and allusion behind each answer. But it's true that I've played the game less than a dozen times so far. Still, I hope you're wrong.

Also, when we play Apples or CAH the selection and reveal of the chosen answer, the explanations and the occasional lobbying all add to the experience.

As with most social games like this, the game itself is just a prop. It helps to have better props, but a prop is just a prop. And I hate Gallagher.

@joelmw When I play a game I'd like for there to be an actual game involved.

@DrunkCat I guess we just make things gamey. ;-)

@joelmw You're making a huge mistake. Gallagher is AWESOME live. 5th row seats, baby!

@joelmw I think it definitely helps to play with the right people, for this or any other game. Is it weird that I just think the dick jokes etc are boring? I hear enough of that at work so I guess on my free time I'd rather do something more interesting.

@DaveInSoCal

@metageist Honestly, I don't think there are a lot of dick jokes or even that much sexual innuendo. I mean, that's definitely some of what happens, but I think the game is open to enough interpretation. That's where the individual judge comes into play. Most of the folks I know wouldn't just go straight for the dick joke. I think you're right that that's an easy--and eventually boring--play. Unless it's really good. There are dick jokes and then there are dick jokes.

I bet this post has more "dick"s per capita than any other post on meh. Please prove me wrong (it'll be more impressive if the post already exists, as opposed to creating it in response).

@joelmw There were quite a few in Irk's Breakfast Quest.

@KDemo Yeah, way to call me out on my bullshit. ;-)

@Foxborn They are __ in case of ___ for Christmas.

@Pamtha I'd say that's pretty PG for CAH

@joelmw Cognitive dissonance.

@joelmw @jaremelz was distracting you with... Whatever.

@sohmageek @joelmw

@sohmageek In any case, it's all her fault. Thanks, @jaremelz.

@joelmw Eh

@jaremelz

@joelmw I'll just leave you hanging.