Five angry Fox News hosts think the popular board game Scrabble is too “woke” because — in addition to banning racist and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs — a new version focuses more on having fun with friends than on competitive scoring.
Damn right! What the fuck is even the point of a board game if you can be racist while you gloat after destroying all other players?
That’s also the point of Monopoly, which is why it is the best board game ever and everyone loves it.
Edit: Also-
Co-host Greg Gutfeld replied, “So is life!” before admitting that he has never played Scrabble.
Of course not. Why would he play that particular game when he knows he’s too stupid to ever destroy all other players and then gloat about it?
That’s also the point of Monopoly, which is why it is the best board game ever and everyone loves it.
The Landlord’s Game was like that on purpose, to demonstrate why monopolies are terrible. Then you’re supposed to play it again using the “prosperity” ruleset and actually have fun.
Parker Brothers completely lost the plot by removing that second ruleset.
Monopoly and Mario Kart are explicitly designed to ruin friendships.
I think you meant Mario Party, Mario Kart forges unbreakable bonds through the vicious crucible of virtual motorsport, Mario Party on the other hand naturally develops a deep, seething, and justifiably hatred between all the players.
What, you don’t like the rage-inducing RNG events that steal your stars for some random reason?
I’m confused. Isn’t the base rule of the game “if it’s in the dictionary then it’s allowed, and if it’s not in the dictionary then it isn’t”?
How is the game woke?
I posted this elsewhere in the thread. Apparently the N-word was only banned from tournament play four years ago. I shit you not. So I guess that’s what they’re mad about.
Not that I like that word but the only rules we run by is literally if it’s in the dictionary “Websters” then it’s allowed. But it’s interesting that the tournament has banned it, but not surprising.
There is an official Scrabble dictionary that tournaments go with. They can put in and take out whatever they want. They could have taken it out a long time ago.
So done with right wingers hating on anything slightly different than the norm.
What’s the “norm” they’re comparing against? Conservatives even hated other white people in earlier parts of US history.
Solidly genX, always fucking hated scrabble powergamers boiling the fun out of everything.
The way you make classic scrabble awesome is by adding just one rule: you must play the funniest word you can make, regardless of score. If players do not agree which word is funnier, they must argue about it.
This actually leads to some interesting strategy, for instance if you’re left with two Os in your hand, you’re very likely going to have to play POO next turn, and that’s only 3 points. And you can set traps, too.
Swear word scrabble is a very fun version of the game.
Especially in public.
The P alone is worth 3 points, and if you aren’t completely braindead you can multiply that by playing it on a bonus square next to another word.
You could play POO and get 30 points easily without being funny (playing POO or POOP is always funny). You just have to be not stupid and try.
That lady with the deep voice just wanted to say “woke” as much as possible for this segment.
They ditched offensive words from the NASPA lexicon years ago that isn’t new.
Also, I would definitely play “woke” Scrabble before I ever played Scrabble: The Presidential Edition. Which is a real board game I posted about not too long ago: https://lemmy.world/post/13734442
Words are too woke. Because if you know too many of them and put them in specific orders you can learn anything.
I’m offended that
- the new version is released in Europe, only, and Amazon doesn’t have it in the US store
- Hasbro web site won’t let me shop unless I tell them my birthday
the new version is released in Europe
Europeans will appreciate it far more. Americans, in general, don’t understand why cooperative board games are so much better than competitive. It was such a revelation when I tried my first (and still favorite) cooperative game- Scotland Yard. Admittedly, competition is still a small part of the game, but the idea that you could play a board game and the point wasn’t to destroy everyone else? I didn’t even realize it was a concept.
They are snowflake
Not sure if they’re just wanting to cheat at Scrabble or just being Q…
The right wight is outraged about something the left wing does. Then the left is outraged about the right’s outrage and next Fox News is going to report on the left’s outrage about their outrage and that pretty much sums up today’s politics reporting. Recreational outrage all the way down. At this point we’re just knowingly killing braincells by paying attention to any of this.
“Both sides!!!”
You got downvoted, but you’re right. That’s essentially what he’s saying.
“The left is so dumb for being outraged at Fox News for saying most black people are criminals.”
but something something 13/50, No, I swear I am not racist, that confederate flag is due to Heritage!
Then the left is outraged about the right’s outrage
Can you point out who on the left is outraged over Fox throwing a fit about ‘woke Scrabble?’
Lots of people in this thread
I’ve read every comment in this thread and I haven’t seen anyone outraged over it. Can you please quote an example?
Laughing at stupid people, or just acknowledging their stupidity, is not “outrage”.
There is that idea that it is just selfish memes utilizing us as a resource. It isn’t prey and predators it is more like lichen.
I say X and no one says ~X. It’s gone, no more X. If X and ~X are constantly at each other it thrives.
