SquirrelWithATophat
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Jul 27, 2024 4:13 PM
SquirrelWithATophat
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DontTazeMeBrah
Always enjoyed a good game of Risk
MarkSengenberger
Monopoly is grounds for divorce.
NicolasKevinMac
Same energy...
EmporerDragon
Gotta play board games like it's 2015 instead. Play some Splendor, Azul, Scythe, or Carcassone instead of basic bland Monopoly or Life.
GadenKerensky
Videogames have basic rules enforcement that can't be confronted. Also bound by programming.
Hornet65
Get you some Wingspan
CogPrimus
Bird facts and a high quality game! "Who cooks for you?" -Barred Owl.
eeyrjmr
You also know why you have soo many uncles and aunties
ArkoneAxon
Those are the ones who lived to see adulthood.
MustHailSagan
My grandpa was an alcoholic because of all the fucked up shit he did and saw in the Pacific. My grandma was an alcoholic because she grew up dirt poor on a farm and her parents were both dead by the time she was 10 and she had to raise 3 kids by herself pretty sure board games had nothing to do with it more like unprocessed traumas…
lujotu
I'm not disagreeing with you, but...
RadioactiveNerfDart
It is called a “joke”, killjoy. You should check them out.
Tiggums
I mean, sure that's traumatic and all, but a 13 hour game of Monopoly with your siblings physically fighting and your parents calling the divorce attorney.... That's the chef's kiss of family dysfunction.
AttentionDeficitHyperDepression
Reading so many such accounts over the years, I honestly feel that my siblings and I - and the occasional cousin or other participant - did it all wrong because we always had zero drama over Monopoly.
Grimmrog
This is just how monoply in RL works too.
cousteau
I thought the point of the post was that lack of TV caused alcoholism, not that board games did
lujotu
No it's because they wouldn't let the kids on the Internet while the TV was off. If they'd just used the Internet they'd all be on fentanyl and this whole alcoholism thing would take care of itself.
SophieClockwise
If you were still playing the same incredibly basic, boring, and badly-designed "family" board games that were around in 1955, this is understandable. Try something a little more modern, that isn't just Monopoly or Snakes and Ladders.
FScottFitzhardly
Gen Con in 4 days baby!
lujotu
Also though... Playing old school Risk was awesome. All the grandkids freaked out when we went to college and Grandma threw out all the impeccably maintained 1950s era board games because "you all grew up". Screw how much money they would be worth, how great would it be to still get to play them together (and drink heavily)
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heptadecagram
“I don’t like movies, I remember watching ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ when I was a kid a few times and it didn’t click for me”
Kingrablo
Jesus Christ, take a joke and stop advertising for settlers of Catan.
SophieClockwise
I said nothing about Settlers of Catan, which I personally also find quite dry, dull, and unappealing.
CogPrimus
Yeah, bust out a quick game of Twilight Imperium.
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CogPrimus
PACK A SLEEPING BAG! IT'S BOARD GAME WEEKEND!
lujotu
Wait... Isn't it Chutes and Ladders? Or are we in different timelines?
skibitybebop
I've seen it say Snakes now, but I grew up with Chutes, too... an odd update indeed
lujotu
Huh. That's weird. Chutes and ladders has a pretty simple internal logic. Man go up, man go down. How do snakes fit in? So strange.
PhobianDarkmoon
Snakes and ladders is the original version, centuries old and invented in India. Chutes and Ladders is the sanitised American version.
lujotu
Huh.
lujotu
Dammit this is stuck in my head now, I'm going to have to go read about it.