This guy really hates games

I was cruising through a long list of board game related videos last night, and it's surprising how dull most of them are.  But THIS guy named BrewStew just nails it.  Here are two parts of an angry cartoon dude ripping on all the board games he grew up with.  Part 1 and Part 2.

No, he doesn't hate games.  He even explains that himself at one point, I think.  What he does do is point out the fundamental flaws and exploits of about a dozen popular games in under a minute each, with foul language but significant flair.

Yes, those party games like Pictionary are an anxiety attack in a box for most of us.  And they are so dependent on how well you and your partner can work together or read each other's minds.  Which reminds me of this one where the Carol Burnett family try to play Charades.

Apples to Apples? all these "rate the answers" games are arbitrary and pointless.  They make no sense at all.   Everyone chooses a thing and the current judge says which thing is best, for points.  Yay.  How is that even a game?

Mouse Trap?  "Need a degree in engineering just to set it up."  The Simpsons had a fun moment with this one, too, see Treehouse of Horrors XXI.

Uno with two players?  Yeah, that's broken.  It certainly makes the Reverse cards useless.

Operation?  The cartoonist has a knack for summarizing things in just a few words, and making it memorable.  Yeah, more anxiety.  Honnnnnk.

Boggle?  "Great, let's just do some homework, that sounds like fun."  I would have spewed root beer out my nose at that one, if I had a nose at the time.

Monopoly, of course.  Yes, some players will warn other players not to trade with you, even funnier if it's your wife doing it.  I thought she's supposed to be on your side.  He has a whole other video on how two childhood friends failed so badly at Monopoly and he could always manipulate them, with a great ending about how bad a player you have to be to end up bankrupted by Luxury Tax.

Scrabble?  There's nothing like a huge mismatch between players vocabulary levels.  Like that time Homer Simpson had a rack with the letters OXIDIZE and ended up playing ID because he didn't know that was a word.

Anyway, it was a fun set of videos finding some of the core imbalances and flaws with both the games and the players.  A good change of pace from all the youtubers who are apparently afraid to have an opinion at all.