Comments on: Monopoly piece contest: kitty in, iron out

By: Karan'ah Kel Meren

Karan'ah Kel Meren — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:21:00 +0000

Works for me.

Dogs and cats make people happy. The thought of ironing, on the other hand….

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:56:00 +0000

nice cat though.)

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:45:00 +0000

You already lost… the top hat is the bukkit in disguise…

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:41:00 +0000

Oh, the irony…

By: James Penrose

James Penrose — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:42:00 +0000

Carrying on the tradition of freedom of the Press.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:16:00 +0000

Boo!

BOOOOOOO!

By: James Agenbroad

James Agenbroad — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:10:00 +0000

Fundamentally, Monopoly was never INTENDED to be a fun game. Instead “the landlord game” was intended to teach Georgist economics. If everybody but winner is forced to continue to play for a long time in ever growing poverty and boredom while the leader amasses ever more money and resources…well that’s kind of the whole POINT.

By: dculberson

dculberson — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:30:00 +0000

From my hot, burnt hands!

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:59:00 +0000

I blame 4chan.

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:52:00 +0000

“You hear that iron? Nobody likes you! Nobody! Now get out and stay out!”Of course, the iron grew up, became a major player on Wall Street, bought Parker Bros., dismantled the company and FIRED EVERYBODY.

By: DreamboatSkanky

DreamboatSkanky — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:08:00 +0000

Stop right there. Thimble Forever!

(Pssst! It’s really a baby dalek.)

By: DreamboatSkanky

DreamboatSkanky — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:06:00 +0000

Maybe the Iron can find a home in your new edition of Clue. I always thought an iron would make a gruesome weapon.

By: bzishi

bzishi — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:52:00 +0000

It wasn’t just a robot. It was a robot with a ‘stache! Apparently that was enough for it to cross over into the uncanny valley.

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:45:00 +0000

Oh! And the top hat with a bukkit!

By: Frank Lee Scarlett

Frank Lee Scarlett — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:04:00 +0000

Huh. I envisioned Settlers of Caftan as a brutal, but romantic, ornately decorated, onion-domed world of paranoid, epicurean, aristocratic Russian libertines of the pre-19th Century era. Traditional Russian aristocrats loved their caftans. And their muzhelozhstvo (men lying with men).

Your version would, of course, have to include a late middle-aged version of Shelley Winters and her wardrobe of 12 fabulously swooshy psychedelic caftans. Including the one in which she performed her Olympic-length Swan Swim in the waterlogged Poseidon.

By: gwailo_joe

gwailo_joe — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:12:00 +0000

I am disappointed with this: what about the stupid thimble?! A blatant symbol of female oppression by the Patriarchy if there ever was one!

And not even a real thimble! The iron was useful (theoretically)…

While the Scottie dog looks straight ahead at Art Deco attention; its new Nemesis strikes a fey pose…with Monopoly branding. How…sweet.

It’s a Travesty I tell you! I am now going outside to shout random imprecations…

By: Senor Schaffer

Senor Schaffer — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:02:00 +0000

THERE WAS A ROBOT AND IT DIDN’T WIN?!?

FUCK

THAT

SHIT!!!

By: Church

Church — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:55:00 +0000

“Mr. Meow in the Stairwell with a Jingly Ball.”

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:55:00 +0000

I think you’re on to something. Monopoly pieces could be made from Kama Sutra poses. “Damn it! Why do you always get to be reverse cowgirl?”

By: Ari B.

Ari B. — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:49:00 +0000

I can’t haz iron?

By: 10xor01

10xor01 — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:30:00 +0000

Now just replace the wheelbarrow with a cheezburger, and internet kittehs will want to play.

By: Stooge

Stooge — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:09:00 +0000

…number 138 in an occasional series of Antinoid solipsistic reveries.

By: Winter Seale

Winter Seale — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:56:00 +0000

Me too! =(

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:53:00 +0000

Coming up next:

Vote for which weapon will be replaced in CLUE.

I want to see the Lead Pipe replaced with a Chainsaw.

(Or a cat. Cats are underrated as murder weapons. And including a cat will sell thousands of copies to obsessive-completist cat fanciers.)

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:49:00 +0000

How about Settlers of Caftan, in which all the players are late-middle-aged gay men and every playing piece is a cat?

By: m0nkyman

m0nkyman — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:43:00 +0000

Boo. I always picked the iron, and proudly announced that I was going to flatten everyone else.

By: Alex Riepl

Alex Riepl — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:43:00 +0000

Great. I knew they were going to get rid of my piece. I love the iron if only because of its charm and subtle menance (a hot iron is nothing to trifle with).

I might be more bummed out if there weren’t nowadays a massive proliferation of far better board games to choose from (Agricola, Ticket to Ride, Thurn and Taxis, Dominion, Few Acres of Snow, and yes Settlers of Catan).

I don’t know that I’ll ever be desperate enough to buy Monopoly these days.

By: oldtaku

oldtaku — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:35:00 +0000

The robot was so, so, much cooler. But if you ask the internet you’re going to get cats. Or porn.

By: allotrope

allotrope — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:26:00 +0000

I can haz get-out-of-jail-tree card? the cat wondered as it contemplated the barking Scottie dog beneath it.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:26:00 +0000

Brilliant way to sell more copies of a uninspired game that almost everyone has a copy of already.

I think we need “Settlers of CATtan,” in which the roads are little carved pieces of yarn, and the buildings are cat scratching posts.