Comments on: Hurricane Katrina, the Card Game

Hurricane Katrina, the Card Game

blacklite — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:32:19 -0800

Katrina: The Gathering is the latest great new collectible card game!

I almost don't know how to describe it. A brilliant, concise, very complete, and quite hilarious¹ summary of the the political fallout. It just keeps going and going and going. I think I want to play a game of it.
1 - My options are laugh or cry, so.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:57:26 -0800

Genius!

By: solid-one-love

solid-one-love — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:57:32 -0800

I love how the Department of Homeland Security card isn't particularly effective without the Proper Paperwork card...and there's no Proper Paperwork card.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:18:43 -0800

Oh, god, I had completely forgotten to look for the Proper Paperwork card by the time I got to the bottom. lol. Very well done stuff.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:43:50 -0800

Proper Paperwor cards, pirated from Taiwanese MTG card mills will be available over the black market.

By: skoosh

skoosh — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:44:46 -0800

I like how Rumsfeld's hands are hovering in the air like he's shooting Force-lightning from his fingertips.

By: mek

mek — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:18:48 -0800

Bravo. I find this darkly uplifting.

By: funambulist

funambulist — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:28:53 -0800

Wow, impressive... The picture with the woman holding the signs "god hates America" and "thank god for katrina", is that real?

By: cookie-k

cookie-k — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:55:04 -0800

Yes, she's one of Phelps'.

By: blendor

blendor — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:59:03 -0800

This is so good.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:41:50 -0800

I just had a nerdgasm.

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:26:09 -0800

I was expecting to find this somewhat disrespectful of the people displaced by Katrina, but it's not. It is terribly disrespectful of everyone else, and that's a good thing.

By: slf

slf — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:39:25 -0800

I had a fun time reading the cards. Surprisingly good all-round coverage of the disaster. :p

By: miss tea

miss tea — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:45:28 -0800

brilliant.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:21:26 -0800

[this is good] So, so excellent. Thanks for the link!

By: KirTakat

KirTakat — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:54:13 -0800

My only issue? [Nerd mode] most of those would not be white cards in magic[/Nerd mode]

By: Doohickie

Doohickie — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:10:26 -0800

Katrina exposed serious problems in my response capability at all levels. I take responsibility.

By: Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:18:16 -0800

My only issue? [Nerd mode] most of those would not be white cards in magic[/Nerd mode] Why not? White is the color of fascism or the state at the expense of the individual.

By: a3matrix

a3matrix — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:30:07 -0800

yaaawn.

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:41:55 -0800

Get Your War On - Katrina (in a few weeks this should be found here)

By: saladin

saladin — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:44:57 -0800

Is the site down? Or does my computer suck? I keep getting a "Forbidden" screen.

By: Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs

Emperor Yamamoto's Eggs — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:12:42 -0800

I can still see it saladin.. I do get a redirect though.

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:13:15 -0800

These are hilarious. blacklite, you just made my Thursday. The image of Rumsfeld alone might have done that: pure camp evil, distilled.

By: [expletive deleted]

[expletive deleted] — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:51:30 -0800

Hilarious find, thanks.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:00:58 -0800

Excellent. These are absolutely fantastic. Satire can be great, as long as it's not "Choose your own adventure" with "You are an african-american crackhead..."

By: o2b

o2b — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:16:47 -0800

Oh man, that's good stuff. We should print them out and see if the set is at all playable.

By: gnomeloaf

gnomeloaf — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:39:42 -0800

[nerd] There's not enough land to support a deck with this expansion only, is there? [/nerd]

By: ltracey

ltracey — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:49:52 -0800

As much as I had thought it was a real quote, the Pat Roberston card quote is a hoax (warning -- Snopes page with popups.)

By: sciurus

sciurus — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:51:34 -0800

Great post, blacklite. *is tapped for the rest of the day*

By: Ubiq

Ubiq — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:49:16 -0800

As co-author of this endeavor, I'm glad to see that people are enjoying this. More of these cards should be going up later today. I was expecting to find this somewhat disrespectful of the people displaced by Katrina, but it's not. It is terribly disrespectful of everyone else, and that's a good thing. To be honest, the whole project was born out of helpless rage as to how this was handled, by virtually everyone, across the board. When it started, all the cards were funny. In the middle, all the cards were kinda grim as the quotes from people in charge got kinda scary. Looking back on it now, what remains is a fairly good geekalicious diary of the episode from an outsider's perspective. Most of the cards rag on the Republicans, largely because they were the ones in charge. Conservatives will be pleased to know that the left has started to bring the stupid as well, and the cards have become more balanced as a result.

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:57:37 -0800

"finders/looters" is awesome.

By: Ubiq

Ubiq — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:48:24 -0800

New cards are up now.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:15:46 -0800

My favorite card is the Die-Hard Saints Fans, though I notice that there are new cards which may influence my decision.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:31:31 -0800

Funny

By: jlub

jlub — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:21:21 -0800

I think it's funny that you guys are obviously know all the latest M:TG (you use 'defender' instead of 'wall', a recent change), but you still use 'banding' which has been gone for ages. And you use 'bands with other', widely (and correctly) known to be the absolutely worst, lamest ability ever. Of course, it appears on 'Bill O'Reilly', so I'm ok with that. /geek

By: makonan

makonan — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:51:26 -0800

I do not get this at all, but I appreciate it on behalf of several ex-boyfriends.

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:57:50 -0800

People who play Magic date?

By: hoborg

hoborg — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:15:37 -0800

The Get Condi card is magnificent.

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:07:01 -0800

Yes, it is! I have been checking back regularly, and just spotted the Condi card today. Absolutely brilliant. The ultimate geek humor, clever and devastatingly accurate. Bravo, guys. This is probably the single best Katrina site short of nola.com.