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Offend The Offensive In New Cards Against Humanity Parody
March 21, 2019 by cassn
Do you enjoy 'edgy' humour? Would you be willing to say the things that no-one else would for the sake of a laugh, but are too busy/boring/dead inside to think of these jokes yourself? Do you like when corporations craft your borderline outright offensive humour for you, thereby negating you of any culpability for your own actions or behaviour?
Well, have we got a card game for you!
Offensive Adult Party Game is a simple card game which takes under a minute to play. The game comes with one black card which says 'I like playing offensive adult party games because...'. Players then choose one white card from their hand which best fills in their answer.
The seventeen white cards are all identical, saying 'I lack creativity and enjoy the illusion of being funny'.
The lead player then chooses the funniest answer from these identical cards, and the game continues until entropy consumes us all into the sweet, sweet arms of a waiting abyss. Offensive Adult Party Game is fully funded, and has even unlocked a stretch goal - an eighteenth card which says 'I lack creativity and enjoy the illusion of being funny'.
I personally hate Cards Against Humanity, but is this satire any more intelligent than the original card game? "Look at us, we're edgy because we're criticising a game that also pretends to be edgy". Nevermind that Offensive Adult Party Game is even less funny than CAH, the important thing is, with this product, you can look down on other gamers.
And I suppose that's what upsets me most about this parody. Millions of people enjoy Cards Against Humanity (even if I'm not among them), and this parody ridicules them for not being naturally funny, despite a prostate exam from Edward Scissorhands producing more laughter than this drivel of a product.
Live and let live I say, or at least be smarter in your critique. You can check out Offensive Adult Party Game here.
Do you like Cards Against Humanity? Tell us your opinion below!
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Being offended by a fun offensive game is offensive is it knot?
CAH is an easy target because… You guessed it, it was successful. I think the motives behind this game have very little to do with whether or not CAH is offensive (offense is subjective, I don’t find CAH to be offensive at all, it’s just shock comedy) and everything to do with it being highly successful.
I used to be a big fan of CAH but it got a little stale. There’s something like six cards (I call them nukes) that, if played ALWAYS win because they’re so shocking. Even if they don’t make sense in the context of that rounds question, they generally cause more of laugh just by being shocking. Once you play a couple of times and figure that out it kinds stops being fun. If played properly, CAH can be hilarious. Sadly it rarely is.
When we did play CAH we switched from the offensive to trying to be witty with the answers rather than just shocking, it worked out pretty well.
But, as you say, the game can become pretty stale after a while. I think there are better ‘party’ games to play like Codenames for example which are just as fun and often hilarious.
While the aim of the game is create the most offensive (or rather outrageous) statement, it’s still supposed to make sense.
I would highly recommend playing Quiplash instead. It’s played on devices and you enter in your own answers, it’s much more creative and often it can have nuke answers but there’s never been a dull evening if we launch Quiplash.
Isn’t the problem simply that it forces creativity when not everyone is as skilled at making genuininely ‘funny’ combos on command ?
If I am being honest, I don’t know why you bothered reporting this. The creator of this product just seems like a massive nob head. Better to not give him any publicity
Sometimes gotta talk about the dumb with the awesome just to give our opinion on it.
I don’t even think this counts as dumb. It’s not really a genuine attempt at a game. If anything it’s an anathema to BoW – it’s basically saying that someone else’s fun isn’t the right fun.
And the comments to this news story have been fascinating to read, so, it’s generated a good conversation!
Wow, such an edgy game; the creator must be a witticism genius! ?
Maybe, and I stress *maybe*, if there had been different answers on the cards it’d have been worth a mild titter to hear about, but as is…I’m betting the people who funded it are all hipsters who are so hipster they show how hipster they are by using Kickstarter because they think hipsters who boycott it just because they’re hipsters and KS is popular, are too mainstream. ?
9 days less and it’d be the perfect April Fools’ prank 😉
CAH is a drunk party game. We played it off and on in between black outs when I was at Uni and it was meh but it’s fun every now and then. Never once have I actually seen anyone get offended while playing the game. We played with everyone from Saudi exchange students to some random guy who just wandered up and never once was there an issue. People understand it’s contextually funny in the moment.
Both humor and offense are subjective. Probably not the best idea to make cancer jokes in a Chemo Clinic. (an example of a good time to make cancer jokes would be the old “Hey it wasn’t so bad see I’ve got more hair now than before the Chemo”) Also not the best idea to be offended if a washing powder has “Whites Only” written on it.
Way to go, The Dragon’s Tomb, busting that stereotype that SJW’s are just creativity parasites that exist only on outrage and can’t ever build anything creative themselves. Bit rich to slam people for lacking creativity while you blindly rip off someone else’s game.
I think the reason they had to insult the players rather than the game itself might be legal. I mean this is basically just a copy of their game with different words on the cards, expect lawyers to get involved (They probably won’t win because of Parody but you never know). It wouldn’t look good in whatever lawsuit comes from this if they were directly and openly trashing the company.
This reminds me of those Political books titled “How X System Works” and the whole book is either blank or just has the words “it doesn’t” written over and over again. They’re fun to sit on the shelf if you feel that way but everyone who sees it can tell you’re just virtue signalling.
I think it’s funny, to be honest. Mostly due to people’s reactions. People who get a chuckle out of stuff like “Andy dodged the pregnancy scare because… school shooting” can’t exactly go around and get offended that they’re being poked fun at. There’s something ironic about gamers who dig offensive humour getting offended about someone else’s ‘offensive’ humour.
That being said, the fact that this is an actual PRODUCT is pretty daft. It should have just been a photoshopped image, and that would have been that. A couple laughs, share it with friends, done. What are you actually going to do with the product itself? Just a waste of good cardboard.
While some might say it’s jealous or spiteful, I’m willing to give people who found this funny the benefit of the doubt. Fans of vulgar, low brow stuff are always going to be teased. That’s just how it is. You can’t defend Cards Against Humanity if you’ve ever made fun of professional wrestling, Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, Teen Mom, or whatever else.
Cards Against Humanity players honestly seem like the least likely group imaginable to need our benevolent protection. They’ll be fine.
Hear hear, @cassn !