Civilization's been nice, but I think it's high time we admit we're long past its peak.

https://lemmy.world/post/17501817

Civilization's been nice, but I think it's high time we admit we're long past its peak. - Lemmy.World

“Monopoly” as “one of [the] world’s greatest games.” That’s enough right there to tell you that civilization jumped the shark decades ago.

I thought it couldn’t get lower than Curb Your Enthusiasm Monopoly.

Yes, it’s real. They found a way to take everything good and funny out of that show and squeeze it out and put the rest down as a board game.

This adds an entirely new strategy to the game, because you can try to construct words that add up to the number of spaces you want to go, almost completely eliminating the random chance aspect of monopoly that’s so frustrating.
The words you can choose from are limited by the letters available. Presumably you might be forced into landing on someone else’s property.
There are a lot of words, man. Like way more than you or I even know. Except maybe with the strangest of hands, you probably have at minimum five different scoring words available to you, but likely a lot more
Not exactly the same but feels like Simpsons already did it.
By the same creator, “this ham gum is mostly bones!”
“Are you happy? Is your family living in peace and harmony?! Shake things up a bit!”
Everything Monopoly touches is tainted.
would you believe that the original rules and board were a waring against capitalism. Until capitalism got a hold of it.
How did they not name this ‘Scrabopoly’?
You rolled snake…in the kitchen.
It always makes me cringe when I see how commercialised Monopoly is. Like, do they honestly not see the irony?
The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins

In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly – but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right

The Guardian
I’ll never stop blaming that goddamn lungfish that crawled out of the ocean a billion years ago. Fucker.

If you want a wtf combination of board games, I recommend Tetris Jenga.

At least that kind of makes some sense. It looks needlessly difficult, but you can at least see how someone who isn’t certifiably insane would mash those two games up.
That looks kinda cool, although it does irk me that the pieces seem to not all be tetracubes.