Seriously though, what's the purpose of a card named "consent" in your Apples Against Humanity-like, except to tell nasty jokes about rape? What does such a card do, other than that?
In this vein of cards to be used for evil, I would also have a card named "Informed Consent". But, I'm trying to be edgy here! I'm not making the same claims those card-game-creators are!
At the grocery store last night, I found a chocolate bar I hadn't seen before; it was a "with crisped rice" one from Ghirardelli. So, a Ghirardestle Crunch, if you will.
Anyway I'm not sure what to think; I mean it's pretty good, and I really like the concept of a Nestle Crunch bar that is made with half-decent dark chocolate, but... I'm not sure that The Ghirardelli Taste (which this bar has in spades) is the best pair for the rice.
What I really want to try is a tiny-chocolate-shop-from-Vermont's take on this!
im curious to hear how ppl view these colors, so can u tell me which color u think they look more like? yellow or green? blue or purple? yellow or orange? pink or purple? blue or green?
[Image is 5 colour swatches of colours that are in the fuzzy boundary between the main named ones.
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Lime green, which is green. Sure it's "yellowish" as greens go, but unequivocally green.
Purple, albeit a very bluish one.
Orange. Not even a particularly yellowy one. A very typical orange.
(A dark) magenta, which is a kind of pink. Maybe in a different context you could get me to call it a purple.
Teal. I guess if I HAD to call it blue or green, and not teal, I would pick green, but really, it's just teal.
Though I always have to wonder, for things like these, if my monitor, or its settings, are unorthodox. People's monitors matter as much as their eyes for this! And I've had the same monitor for ages; I don't have some outside reference!
his wife filled the house with chintz, to keep it real I descend into the ever-changing maze only to never return
And there is so much chintz down in that maze!
some are born normal. some achieve normalness. and some have normality THRUST upon them
And some have their normals reversed...
bitchy, but you would never guess from Ted Lasso season 1 how fucking bad it gets at gender by season 3
I've never seen any Ted Lasso. (I know the premise of an American guy going to Britain to coach soccer, though.)
What does it do that's bad, genderwise?
Straight female chasers. Discuss.
As in, straight women who specifically are into trans men? It does seem to be a thing. I can't tell how big the demographic is, though.
Now, if you looked at "people who are interested in the notion of an opposite-sex person who has their kind of genitals", I think you'd find that's a big demographic. And it's not really about trans people, at a fundamental level, I don't think, though of course in the real world, trans people are just about the only example.
What I mean is, you look at depictions of futanari and cuntboys, in hentai and fanfic and such, and they're significantly popular. But this isn't about trans people, first; most of these depictions don't represent trans people. It's about the fantasy of a woman with a penis, or a man with a vagina. That concept comes first, and can exist with or without trans people. But of course, as I said, in the real world, trans people are the only thing anywhere close to these fantasies.
Seriously though, what's the purpose of a card named "consent" in your Apples Against Humanity-like, except to tell nasty jokes about rape? What does such a card do, other than that?
can a type-b really fall in love with a type-a??
Spoilers: Those are two ends of the same cable.
If @kontextmaschine is indeed dead, I now take the time to say that I enjoyed his posts, including and perhaps especially, the confusing ones.
I regret that I didn't ask him more things (often about various unclear posts).
And, if and when Taylor Swift runs for president, I will wish that he had lived to see it.
gacha games may be unregulated gambling, but they also help a lot of horny artiststs with character designs, so, it;s impossible to say if theyre bad or not,
Bad! Bad!
Who greenlit the name....?
cards against humanity is a game that forces you to tell the creators' unfunny jokes back and forth to each other and now finally someone has innovated on the formula by removing the 'jokes' part of it
Gonna get a set of these and blindly draw cards to make posts and become the new boss
there have been literally dozens of shitty CAH knockoff Kickstarters over the last few years but the only one I’ve seen blowback about is The Queer One
weird!
I have seen a couple shitty knock-offs of edgy games that try to be "wholesome" or "soft uwu" or something. I have seen at least one knock-off of CAH that made it clear in the marketing copy that the designers never played or even heard about Apples To Apples.
But the queer one is notable for having all the jokes about being queer and edgy but not too edgy, and political but not in any actionable fashion. It's notable for aggressively implying that having fun is problematic, and the next best thing is validating each other. It's Hannah Gadsby in card form.
And I would wager it's not particularly inclusive. It's aggressively ingroupy. Please just play Apples to Apples.
actually now that you mention it, it is a little odd to describe your Game For Queer Witches as being particularly inclusive
Not sure how much to hammer the point home since most of the notes on this post agree with me here, but I can try.
The queer game is not singled out for being queer. The queer game is singled out for being explicitly political, explicitly saying queer is political and political is queer, and having a narrow view of what both queer and political mean.
Except it's not singled out. There are two more "queer" versions of Cards Against Humanity (not of Apples to Apples, I mean CAH), and this is the worst of them. A "safer" version of Cards Against Humanity is just Apples to Apples.
In Cards Against Humanity you can say:
The favourite dish of [Valdimir Putin] is [Hot Pockets] filled with [Foreskin].
If you are en experienced player, you may ponder for a minute if it wouldn't be better to say:
The favourite dish of [Valdimir Putin] is [Foreskin] filled with [Hot Pockets].
Now compare with the response cards in the picture. They are one of
They are all rather centred around "the self".
They are also clearly aimed at being "relatable". That's a problem if you aren't in the target group, which I am not, but it's not unfunny because I'm not a nonbinary bisexual disaster who can't fix a sink or change tyres. It's unfunny because the humour doesn't work. It doesn't stem from the juxtaposition of prompts and words to fill the blanks in with.
If you are going for "which is the most relatable", then fine. If you are going for "which is the funniest", then maybe add [Hot Pockets] back in. There could be a card that says [Aries], or a card that says [T4T couples that are able to conceive naturally].
I'm not just saying this game is cringe and unfunny. I am saying it is cringe and unfunny as political praxis. It's self-deprecating without being self-aware. It eschews the concept of a joke or a punch line and markets the absence of jokes an an absence of islamophobia/racism/transphobia. Is it funny if after [Magic Mushrooms] you experience [Ego Death]?
It's sanitised, but at the same time, it's not sanitised enough. [Fucking all my friends] ended your relationship? It's not funny, just sad.
Try these on for size: My relationship was ended by [Hot Pockets]. Too random? My relationship was ended by [Foreskin]? Too close to home? My relationship was ended by [Vladimir Putin]? Too dark? My relationship was ended by [Passing Transvestites]? Maybe queer, but too problematic.
At the same time, [Gay Panic], [Consent], and [Land Acknowledgements] are punch lines. Heh, in Cards Against Humanity, gay panic is a punch line, too!
These cards are raunchy, but sanitised, overtly political, but ultimately not saying anything or letting you say anything, they have the structure of jokes, but the cleverness is replaced by a laugh track.
So why is all the blowback about the queer one? Because all the other knock-off were either ingroupy expansions for Cards Against Humanity, or they were cranking up the shock value and outrageous black humour.
This one is the Nanette of card games. That makes me want to channel Vito Gesualdi and shout "Jokes are funny!" just to see who responds "No, they're not!"
First some random junk I have to say, then my actual point:
The "Fuckboys" card is offensive, if you know the etymology of that word. Sorry; I don't make the rules. Do better!
Also, yeah, the morphing of the phrase "gay panic"...
Also also, let's make something offensive of our own volition: The white card from the top, plus a green card from Grey's reblog above mine: "Ok. That's enough consent for today."
Okay, can we go home now?
My actual point is: Do they even have a Dick Cheney card? It's the one card on which Apples to Apples and Cards Against Humanity agree! They're SUPER lame if they don't even have a Dick Cheney card!
If @kontextmaschine is indeed dead, I now take the time to say that I enjoyed his posts, including and perhaps especially, the confusing ones.
That "I only like trans men because they're men on purpose" post was just so bad... Nobody owes you gender-on-purpose! They frankly don't owe you any gender-things at all! Don't pretend you're a gender-progressive if you believe otherwise!
And also, even leaving aside whether you can tell trans and cis men apart in public... You have no idea whether and how much that man has introspected on gender. And it's none of your business! He doesn't owe you that introspection, let alone proof of it!
Also also, though I say this with tons of posts, try gender-flipping it in your head.
Ironically, you should avoid handling uranium bare-handed for largely the same reason and to the same degree you should avoid handling lead bare-handed
tiny toxic heavy metal particles rubbing off and entering your blood stream thru your pores?
And your digestive system and lungs, yeah. You just don’t want heavy metals getting into you by any method of ingress, really.
Yep, just good old-fashioned poison.
Good luck to those of you on this quest.
Rushing the field just went to another level, and it is brilliant.
near where i grew up there was a thing where the local student actors would get paid to put on a riot for police trainees and if we eliminated cops i think we should keep that as a kind of local festival and add spectator seating
This would be a good ritualized, official mid-game event, but I'm just reblogging for the Back in Black/Staying Alive hybrid.
matched on tinder with my fwb's roommate, hmm
@flakmaniak said:
Is this a mandatory-disclosure situation, where you have to tell your FWB, and ask her what she thinks, before you proceed?
no, but I did disclose it because it's a funny coincidence. fwb wanted me to come over yesterday but I already had plans, so I asked about today. maybe, she said, my new roommate will be back. I hadn't heard about roommate before. fwb sent me a pic of her cat snuggling with roommate and today I see the same pic on my tinder match's profile. I told fwb and she said "maybe you should come over tonight anyway" so I think it's like, a non-zero chance of threesome situation?
hmm it turns out both of them are into astrology so :/
What, they read a threesome in your stars...?
no the roommate was looking through tinder and they were commenting on star signs
Isn't that kind of rude, to be scrolling through Tinder while they have a boy over? I mean, forget about the astrology for a moment!
bad bad bad awful no good stop it
I need my olive oil! In what else will I cook potatoes?
I think from the women in that Dating Docs post, Hana is the most insufferable. Jane is, well, kind of plain and generic, but she sounds the most chill.
I’m Jane. My favorite animes are Full Metal Alchemist, Attack On Titan, My Hero Academia, Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, and Fate: Stay Night. My favorite video games are Super Smash Bros, Final Fantasy, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, and Fortnite. I’m really shy and don’t leave the house a lot but my family says I should get more into dating. Let me know if you want to hang out and play something and get to know each other better.
Kind of a boring taste in anime, don't you think?
But then somebody commented:
Jane has remarkably narrow tastes in anime for someone who likes anime. Someone should introduce her to Monster and Nodame Cantabile. But she sounds like a nice person.
And Scott responded in a top level post:
Many of you had strong opinions about Jane’s anime preferences and what they said about her. I’m sorry if you wasted any brain cycles on this, I got them by Googling “what are famous animes” and including the ones in the list.
So either this is Scott shitposting and sniping, or he doesn't realise what this sounds like. If you make your profile about anime, it really matters what anime those are. If you are deliberately leaving out the information out of the profile, doesn't it invalidate the point?
I guess I would need somebody who hates rationalists and only has a superficial understanding of probability/inference, philosophy of mind, and effective altruism to write the Hana profile.
I I had to guess, Sky gives head enthusiastically, Cindy just lies there like a dead fish, Larisa is always too tired and later complains that you aren't having enough sex, and Hana is into BDSM and you are too but there's a high chance you would be incompatible anyway.
I agree that Jane's normie taste in anime and video games says something specific, beyond "likes anime and video games".
I don't understand your predictions about Sky and Cindy. But you have a lot of experience here. Why those predictions? And what would you predict about Jane in the bedroom?
