2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

kudos on tinting the 'get out of jail free' guy

pretty sure general motors and chrysler should be in the purple spots

free porking

so bottom line it for me:

is the GOP's Operation Total Clusterfuck still progressing as planned?

No Alinsky Avenune, Wright Boulevard, or Ayers Railroad. I assume they're represented somewhere in the Chance cards.

we really need to redesign this and make it better

how the hell is goldman sachs not the boardwalk, I mean duh

Want to play? No?
Too bad, you're already playing and just don't know it!

haha

ps you know what's actually a terribly designed game: monopoly

Monopoly is great for 30 minutes, the problem is that it's a 4 hour game

My mother-in-law posted this to Facebook this morning.

This is why I'm not on Facebook, I know I would snap one day and tell my in laws how idiotic the things they are posting sound.

it combines the fun of never ending w/ the fun of no real strategy

I guess the presidential elections are sorta like that

(The funny part is that my mother-in-law is 66, disabled, on Medicaid, lost her home to foreclosure last year, etc., etc., suffering a million other indignities as a result of the Bush era, and yet gleefully pulled the lever for Rick Santorum yesterday.)

(It's not actually funny.)

xxxp I only do it passive-aggressively and indirectly, Nicole.

it combines the fun of never ending w/ the fun of no real strategy

― iatee, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:48 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spoken like a true monopoly loser, it tons of strategy its just all in the property trading segment of the game

I got an anti-Obama joke e-mail from a cousin a couple of weeks ago. I opened it with genuine trepidation--if there'd been racist garbage in it, that would have been a dilemma. Happily, it was more along the lines of Greenwald/Morbius complaints.

Like, she's been posting all this stuff about Obama raising your gas prices, so I just posted something about how if you do not understand supply/demand and futures markets and think there's a magical "gas price" switch the president can pull, maybe you should stfu.

the only way to lose monopoly is to start playing

w/e communist

lol @ Freddie Mac/Fannie being the cheapest properties

Monopoly is great for 30 minutes, the problem is that it's a 4 hour game

― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:46 AM Bookmark

off-topic gamer nerd stuff but yeah - - it's definitely poorly-designed, or at least follows a model that's now pretty much dead, where the object is to actively drive other people out of the game one by one. Nobody actually wants to do that because it's not really fun for anybody involved, so you get this weird twisted inversion where people cut each other breaks, add the "land on free parking and get the wad of cash rule" and other things that actually result in the game becoming a four-hour slow-grind where you have even less fun. How they still sell copies of this thing is beyond me.

what I always did as a kid was I would play w/ my brother, who was younger than me and dumb, and I would be the banker and slowly steal one bill at a time while he wasn't watching

driving people out of the game is totally fun!

Monopoly was one of those activities that consumed literally hours of time as a kid but have no interest in resuming now.

and youll have to tell any tournament that this model is 'dead'

I mean, the fun's over once people start building condos and shit

I have a pro-life fundie friend from high school who lives in Alabama and likes to post all kinds of nonsense on Facebook; when I respond, I usually write "give me a break" or "I know for a fact that you are smarter than this"

ya god forbid people build condos in america

Elections don't let you be the race car, only the thimble.

there r no condos in monopoly gdamn it

We played a lot for a couple of years in high school. Very intense--tipped-over boards, thrown playing pieces, etc.

OK, tournament, sure - - model is dead in terms of "family game night" people actually playing because they like hanging out with each other etc. Driving people out of the game may or may not be fun for the driver, for the person driven out it just sucks - what do they do? Go put a movie on? Fix drinks for everybody else? It's just awkward.

Actually would love to see a European designer fix Monopoly - - would just have it run for a set number of ticks around the board, after which the game would be over and you count out the money as victory points. Rather than chance and community chest there would be a bidding phase for different benefits and boons. Would actually be a decent game probably.

lol that's like some games of risk where there is lots of note-passing diplomacy and deal cutting going on

xps but if forget to whom

Everyone fought for the car but I wanted the top hat

i got the monopoly ipad app but it kind blows, risk is amazing on the other hand

Actually would love to see a European designer fix Monopoly

oh suuuuure. the mask slips!!

perhaps i am really playing OBAMOPOLY after all

btw, with 10,370 ratings, monopoly has a 4.5/10 score on Boardgamegeek and is ranked #7,804 out of every board game ever

sure that's what we need: European fixes for American crises.

"I know for a fact that you are smarter than this"

do you really?

I learned not to ever comment on my super-conservative friends' posts when I got jumped on by about 10 tea partiers for trying to say that Planned Parenthood isn't actually a genocidal organization trying to keep blacks & poor people from reproducing. These people had literally insane ~things to say~ about Planned Parenthood.

doctor casino, what's the best rated mass produced boardgame on that site?

OK, tournament, sure - - model is dead in terms of "family game night" people actually playing because they like hanging out with each other etc. Driving people out of the game may or may not be fun for the driver, for the person driven out it just sucks - what do they do? Go put a movie on? Fix drinks for everybody else? It's just awkward.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:56 AM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the cruelty of driving yr opponents out and the fear of having this humiliation perpetrated upon you and also that it involves money are clearly key to the incredible success of the game, regardless of whatever settlers of catan niceties are trendy in todays emasculated coward society

You all see the new version where there's no hard currency at all, only like debit cards and shit?

Like, why would you remove the thing from the game that's entered the popular lexicon? "Monopoly money" is a real and physically tangible thing, fun to throw at each other is disdainful wads

monopoly makes having lots of money boring, it is secretly communist

I refuse to believe there are 7,803 board games people play more often than monopoly

btw, with 10,370 ratings, monopoly has a 4.5/10 score on Boardgamegeek and is ranked #7,804 out of every board game ever

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:59 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who cares what board game geeks think, this is a real game for real people!

Like, why would you remove the thing from the game that's entered the popular lexicon? "Monopoly money" is a real and physically tangible thing, fun to throw at each other is disdainful wads

assuming you've got wads left to throw

can't believe you actually bought the ipad app, so sad xp

well i may have not actually 'bought' it