Halifax — A recent report by Statistics Atlantic has confirmed that absolutely nobody wishes to attend the games night you’ve been planning for this coming Friday.
“No amount of chips or veggie trays will make four hours of Monopoly with three boring couples seem at all enticing,” reads the report, which doesn’t hold back its criticism of games nights as a general concept, and yours in particular. “How could you possibly think it would be a good idea to entertain your friends with everyone’s most hated family ritual? Honestly, what is wrong with you?
“Not to mention, who wants to waste a Friday evening playing board games?” demands the scathing report. “Beautiful Fridays in June are for going out and hitting up a patio, not playing Parcheesi at your work-friend’s girlfriend’s apartment. Maybe a dreary Sunday evening in the dead of winter…maybe. But even then there’s only a 12 per cent chance your friends might want to — and that’s if there’s nothing good on TV.”
The report quotes your friend Mike, who usually shows up to pretty much any event as long as there’s the promise of beer. 
“But this is a ‘wholesome’ games night, according to the Facebook event… so like, no drinking,” said Mike. “And they suggested we all bring ‘our favourite vegan dish to share’…seriously, who wants to do any of that? I’ll have more fun at home by myself — at least then I won’t have to play Pictionary with people I barely know.”
On page 16 of the report, a graph shows a downward red arrow illustrating what happens the second an event becomes a “potluck.”
“If you’re hosting the event, you should provide food,” the graph’s caption reads. “As the responsibility shifts to the guests, the likelihood of those guests deciding to show up at all plummets to an abysmal four per cent. No one wants to get home after a stressful work-week and prepare meatless meatballs for ungrateful acquaintances.”
Page 23 of the report mentions the improbability of anyone even bothering to click “going” on the Facebook invite you sent out.
“You’ll be lucky to get one ‘yes’ on Facebook,” it says, next to a pie chart illustrating typical Facebook responses for events that are this level of lame. “Approximately 86 per cent of the people you invited will say ‘maybe,’ because that noncommittal answer frees them from any guilt normally associated with not attending a friend’s sad event. Be warned that none of the ‘maybes’ will show up, and even the one ‘yes’ is quite iffy.”
I agree wholeheartedly that few interesting adults would be willing to waste time on any of those boring board games. They are best-forgotten relics of the forgettable past. But you are quite mistaken if you think that there is no alternative to the garbage games pictured. Try Settlers of Catan, Splendor, Pandemic, Dominion or any of the literally thousands of phenomenal, euro-style board games that are available. Then please post a retraction of this horribly misinformed article. Check out the BoardGameGeek website for a glimpse into how the hobby has been thriving for decades.
It’s called a joke. Calm down, dude.
Ahh aren’t jokes supposed to be funny? 😉
Appreciate the feedback! I’ll be sure to take comedy lessons from you before writing anything else. 😉
well, taking comedy lessons from *somebody* would be a start
Go read literally anything else — no one’s making you read my joke stories. Maybe create something yourself instead of tearing down me and my work.
No one is making anyone read—or write—anything. We all have the freedom to do as we wish! But when you post an article to a site allowing public comments, you shouldn’t then get so worked up when people actually post comments. They are just as free to express their opinions as you are free to stop writing articles here. You don’t have a trump-card on telling other people what to do just because you wrote an article.
Good advice, random internet person. Happy Canada Day to you!
If it is a joke, it’s not a funny one.
Sounds like someone’s butt-hurt no one wants to go to his games night!
I got the joke. 🙂 Well done. Funny piece.
jokes involve humor. humor generally requires a reversal of expectations. so what exactly was humorous here? The closest thing I can think of is that you actually know that “game night” doesn’t involve Monopoly, Pictionary or Candyland but thought a take-down of people who have Game Nights would be funny by referencing those games. It’s not. Rather than funny, it just comes across as angry and ill-informed. What did game night ever do to you? did you go to one, play Catan, realized you suck at it because it actually requires skill & strategy (unlike Monopoly) and decide to make fun of game nights then?
You yourself come off as angry and ill-informed. Go play some games and chill the eff out.
Is Catan like the golden standard for people who consider themselves cultured and smart? Is it like the art gallery of board games? I don’t know, I don’t think I’m cultured or smart because I always thought that Monopoly required plenty of strategy. I always mortgage everything and then make side deals to pay people back over multiple turns… just like real life… come to think of it I do always lose…
THE FUCK YOU SAY ABOUT MY ALL SACRED GAME NIGHT. WHAT YOU THINK THIS IS SOME SORT OF GAME
HAHAHAHHAHAHA HOLLYYYYYY SHITEEEEE SOOOO FUNNY my diaphragm literally burst from laughing
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