The core trick of the game isn't that clever You sit down as a writer and you write a certain kind of setup as a black card and a certain kind of punchline as a white card, and you do this a bunch of times and mix them up
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So there's a middling chance any random match will actually be "amazingly appropriate" and a somewhat higher chance it'll be a "wild non sequitur"
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I sit down as a writer and I think of something edgy and shocking -- "Asian people be like ______, white people be like _______"
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I write a bunch of white cards that are Asian and white racial stereotypes ("Eating cats!" "Tiny penis!" "4.8 GPA"!, "Dying of tuberculosis in a gold mine!" vs. "Eating dry chicken!" "Slightly larger penis!" "Legacy admission!" "Dying for the First Amendment rights of COVID-19!")
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I shuffle these cards in with a bunch of other cards I wrote for other shit, all of which are "inherently shocking" in some way
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Maybe someone will accidentally get the Latino stereotype cards and play them here instead, maybe they'll get something completely different for I wrote for something else, maybe they'll get an "inherently funny" wildcard I made up like "Donald Trump's rectal prolapse"
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It doesn't actually matter Everyone is drunk or high or whatever, the fact they're doing edgy offensive jokes makes them laugh no matter how little thought went into the writing or gameplay I make a million dollars just "for the gift of this game existing" and other bullshit
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I decide I'm King Shit of Fuck Mountain and act like an asshole all the time and get an employee institutionalized because he tried to call me out for racism on the Internet etc For being a white guy who basically ran the improv scene in Chicago and ruining a mildly fun game
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Look, I actually bought this game three times when it came out because when I was a dickhead in 2012 I totally believed in "what this game stood for" and I don't think I've ever fallen out of love with something as hard and as fast once I realized how shallow the trick of it was
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Exactly
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