2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

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

do you really?

Yeah, actually; I mean, even allowing for how she was raised etc (child of batshit local fundie preacher), she was always gracious, kind, and did very very well in her classes, including sciences. It wasn't until she popped up on Facebook as a CC artist living in Alabama that she started exhibiting these dead zones of total lack of compassion. (By comparison, most of the other PKs I went to school with, all of whom were in the honors classes, are varying shades of liberal, particularly socially; abortion is the only sticking issue and most of them are still pro-choice even if they personally think abortion is murder.)

http://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame where the fuck is checkers?

said in nixon voice in honor of gop thread

OBAMA DID THIS.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvZc0zycMCM/RhmpohZEMWI/AAAAAAAAA20/BaGHhhsh4iI/s400/SOPRANOSTONYONFLOOR.jpg

http://www.magisterrex.com/prodimages/Anti-MonopolyFront-h450.png

I like that Apples to Apples is now distributed by Toys R Us & the like.

Now I'm just waiting for Carcasonne and Settlers of Catan to hit the major American toy/games distros.

Boy, now that looks like a fun game.

xp

xpost

haha, I remember a friend of my mom had this when I was a little kid

They sell Settlers of Catan at Target

her friend had anti-monopoly, I mean

there was a copy of anti monopoly kicking around my house when i was a kid, a few times we attempted to play it couldnt figure out the rules and put it back on the shelf

There's a newer, better flavor of Anti- out there, which is based more on cooperation, but I can remember its name.

monopoly is such a bad game. so is risk. even apples to apples is basically stupid. americans make the worst games. f america

you know what's an awesome game, is Pass the Pigs

it had tons of these v small colored paper circles in it that u were suposed to use for something

monopoly is such a bad game. so is risk. even apples to apples is basically stupid. americans make the worst games. f america

― max, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:10 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fu

apples to apples is terrible tho

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

Surely every game of Monopoly everywhere ends with the banker stealing all the money?

(insert zing here)

Enh, I like it, but it depends on the crowd playing and how boringly literal minded they are

I like that Apples to Apples is now distributed by Toys R Us & the like.

Now I'm just waiting for Carcasonne and Settlers of Catan to hit the major American toy/games distros.

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:08 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Games By James is a really cool store chain we have up here, kinda HARDCORE board game store and stuff

http://www.gamesbyjames.com/index.htm

it had tons of these v small colored paper circles in it that u were suposed to use for something

yes! i never got that game either. i now own Monsanto.

oh man GAMES BY JAMES

many many xposts: That's a good question actually! (I assume "mass produced" as in, like, you can find it at Target and Toys R Us etc.) I wonder if there's any kind of way to search that.

A few standbys:

Life: #7,814 (almost entirely luck-based, usually a no-no)
Trivial Pursuit: #7,677 (dunno why, probably just requires too much that's "external" to the game)
Risk: #6,256 (presumably these people play a lot of other more complex war games etc)
Taboo: #1,076
Apples To Apples: #956 (all game geeks like having some crowd-pleasers for the casual visitor etc)
Scrabble: #827
Bananagrams: #825 (quicker than Scrabble, more portable, easier to hook people)
Pente: #800
Big Boggle: #799 (see bananagrams)
Backgammon: #774
Euchre: #739
Cribbage: #328
Mahjong: #310
Chess: #249
Bridge: #175

and it's...

Magic: the Gathering: #134 (hahahahahha)

Candyland: not ranked, has a 3.2/10 ;_;

And, to give you an idea of the heart and soul of the place: #1 is Twilight Struggle, a three-hour, two-player card and map game where you play out the Cold War. I played this once with my brother. It was possibly the most satisfying game I've ever played and yet I don't know that I could ever play it again. Back on topic: the same makers made a very similar game for the 1960 election which I might play (ranked #54!).

lmao

mtg is better than all those games tho, it's true

risk is so bad, i hate risk

taboo is pretty fun though