https://xkcd.com/2833

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I was, at least at the start of this disastrous game night, your friend.

  • @randomaccount43543OP
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    411 year ago

    I hate playing those kind of games. My social anxiety goes through the roof.

    • @[email protected]
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      281 year ago

      I love playing these games. Everyone thinks I am an idiot at poker because I always make stupid bets and give off obvious “tells” in the first few rounds.

      People are unbelievably easily manipulated. We were playing a big blind of ten cents and I managed to win twenty dollars in one night.

      • TJA!
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        81 year ago

        Yes! The problem is that you cannot do it with the same people multiple times. They will get suspicious very soon

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          No one realises they’re the fool because they’re too busy laughing at the “fool”!

          (guess who said this!)

  • @Godric
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    121 year ago

    Other fun games include Secret Hitler and Diplomacy.

    Diplomacy especially has glorious backstabs, often from friends you would never suspect.

  • @ShunkW
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    81 year ago

    Just gonna drop the name Blood on the Clocktower for anyone who likes social deduction games and hasn’t heard of it. It’s mafia or werewolf on steroids and it’s so good.

  • Iron Lynx
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    51 year ago

    I have a group of friends with whom I play werewolves occasionally. I volunteered to be the forever GM, since I find that I have more fun in the game if I’m the one running it than if I’m in the middle of it.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    I love the game Secret Hitler. If you have a group of people that’s really engaged it’s so much fun.

  • @suction
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    -901 year ago

    Agh, Xkcd still around? Never liked the tone.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 year ago

        Ugh, communities? Who needs that junk, just give me a straight feed algorithmically tailored specifically to extract maximum profit out of my eyeballs!

      • @suction
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        01 year ago

        “Mummy mummy, someone in our echo chamber has a different opinion on our sole source of personality! We’ll all die!!!”

    • @Donkter
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      51 year ago

      What don’t you like about the tone?

      • @suction
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        01 year ago

        Always thought it’s smug and too nerdy.