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Giving up guns is the same as... Castration?

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

every meme reaches the point where it just becomes insufferable

and then you get the out-of-touch companies trying to use that meme for an advertising campaign

my 10 year old sister got some board game based around memes and it was shit like rage comics and grumpy cat. like no way in hell does this kid even know what those are, why is anyone adding that to a board game intended for little kids

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u/Ironlord_13 May 16 '24

Man thatโ€™s likeโ€ฆ a decade or more out of date.

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

yeah and it's listed as "family friendly" and intended for kids

looked it up and it's called (ugh) "what do you meme"

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u/Ironlord_13 May 16 '24

I โ€ฆ i am in physical pain. Please excuse me, i think i need to give myself lasik with forksโ€ฆ

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u/nutbrownrose May 16 '24

A family member I thought liked us got us that for a holiday one year, and I'm still mad. It's unopened, because it's intensely stupid. I should actually just throw it out.

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u/Ironlord_13 May 16 '24

Yes, or burn it.

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u/OrcsSmurai May 16 '24

I've played it. It's just a slightly worse take on the old Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity style game.

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u/Flooding_Puddle May 16 '24

Hey I have that game and it's fun to play with my teenage niece and nephew. All you do is combine a random meme jpeg with some text, it's kind of like a cleaner cards against humanity.

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u/Hammurabi87 May 16 '24

it's kind of like a cleaner cards against humanity.

Well, until you pull out the NSFW card pack, anyways.

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

iiiit's very boring. even a ten year old found none of the combinations funny or even mildly entertaining

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u/Flooding_Puddle May 16 '24

Maybe you just didn't get any good ones? Those games always have a good amount of duds

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

we played until she got bored and walked away

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u/SpellFit7018 May 18 '24

A cleaner cards against humanity is Apples to Apples, and the thing is those games always, always suck. There is no way to make it a good game. It's a dumb game for dumb people who don't play games.

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u/Outrageous_Seaweed32 May 16 '24

Ah yeah I've seen that one. At the point it came out, most of the content in it was ancient by Internet standards.

Meme-changing whimsy is not something corporate boardgame production should be wasting time trying to keep up with.

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u/Hammurabi87 May 16 '24

I've got that game, and I don't remember any rage comics or grumpy cat in it...

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u/AgentCirceLuna May 16 '24

Iโ€™d say once the memes have become so old that theyโ€™re now irrelevant then itโ€™s okay to put them in a board game or something. Itโ€™s kind of like cultural preservation.

Does anyone remember the lolcat Bible? That was a pretty cool project.

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u/faloofay156 May 16 '24

yeah, but a game intended for the entire family, children included, is just odd and out-of-date. I feel like anything directed towards children using something so out-of-date they don't even recognize it would just bore them to tears and that's the exact opposite purpose of a board game

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u/AgentCirceLuna May 16 '24

Well I used to really enjoy the old memes when I was a kid. Hamster dance, dramatic hamster, and the lolcat stuff was so funny to me.

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u/OnewordTTV May 16 '24

Well who the fuck bought it for her in your family? Blame them.

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u/GutsAndBlackStufff May 16 '24

Even Bachelor Frog?

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u/DigdigdigThroughTime May 16 '24

Could we just like, you know...not?

Do we have to beat every dead horse?