Dumbing of Age

Jesus, Sal, you're the other girl in the school Joyce wants to fuck, wait for the text at the party.

Looks like she's gonna do just that

Joyce's face in that last panel

SHE HAS TO TELL THAT STORY. HAS TO.

I don't care if it's the next Slip Shine or whatever, I WANT THAT STORY.

Sal Performs a Helen Keller?

Now, how will Out of the Box - oops, no, Mattel these days - feel about this free publicity? AtA isn't usually sold as either a Christian game or a game that will get you laid (because, well, it's not really either).

edited 2nd Jun '15 4:22:44 AM by Spindriver

Yeah, when Amber gets here things are probably gonna go to hell

Oh, Jesus, this is gonna end in a fight.

The subtext in the final panel, of course, is that if Walky doesn't put his shirt back on, we're going to get our next Slipshine.

An orgy spontaneously occurs while Joyce disapproves but can't look away?

And that gets Sarah out of the bathroom.

"The hell is all the moaning in he.....oh. Well. *takes shirt off* Eh, my book was getting boring."

Bom Chicka Wah Wah....

Oh hey, Sal is the darkest character to be in a Slipshine so far, isn't she?

And considering neither her nor Walky was originally written to be half-black...

Are we really going to fault Willis for not having worked out Walky and Sal's racial background in kindergarten or whatever? By the time It's Walky! happened—i.e. by the time he was actually publishing stories about these characters—he'd sorted out. I dunno what's unfortunate about that.

Technically they're more 1/4 black.

And Dina's still doing her best bird impression

They were already mixed by Walkyverse continuity? I'd gotten the impression that it was a decision that came in with the Dumbiverse.

I can only see Sal as part-black when her hair frizzes, but that's my problem.

Mrs. Walkerton's second appearance, and Mr. Walkerton's first. Even in greyscale the difference is pretty obvious.

Jeez, dragging Dina into a game of Apples to Apples... Yeah, somebody really, really ought to have known better.

sad cards

So Apples to Apples is basically a much-less-nasty Cards Against Humanity?

With less Dead Babies, you mean.

I find it interesting how Apples to Apples is now being described as "Cards Against Humanity, but clean" (I mean, aside from the perversity inherent in the Hitler, Berlin, and "My Love Life" cards and emergent in the Helen Keller card)

I'm pretty sure A 2 A predates CAH by several years. It's only until this week that I've ever heard the relationship between the two described as anything other than "CAH is A 2 A, but the goal is to be as awful as possible".

Apples To Apples is basically the newest classic game. I think it was invented in the 90s.

Basically, instead of having Black Cards that set up a perverse joke and White Cards that form the punchline, you have Green Cards that offer a perfectly innocent adjective and Red Cards that offer a perfectly innocent noun or noun phrase, and you can adopt the strategy of being accurate or being funny depending on how you read the judge.

edited 4th Jun '15 10:20:13 PM by TParadox

There are some amusing alternate rules you can play with, too. There's one where you try to play the least fitting red card possible, and another where everyone plays a red card before anyone knows what the green card will be.

edited 4th Jun '15 10:28:04 PM by Blueeyedrat

There are games hobbyists and games industry people who regard CAH as a tacky rip-off of the older AtA. Hearing someone imply that CAH is older could get them quite annoyed.

(In fact, for the record: AtA, 1999; CAH, 2009.)

edited 5th Jun '15 2:14:22 AM by Spindriver

I've definitely only heard of Cards Against Humanity being described as "a dirty Apples to Apples." Never the reverse.

She probably adjusted the description for the audience. Well, as she perceives them as hardcore people that would know hardcore CAH but may have skipped on the tame ATA.