I have a problem.
It is with the tasks in the Humanitarian Crisis.
There are many tasks which just dont fit.
This problem of misfitting tasks may or may not extend beyond HC, but that is not my concern here.

Just for consistency sake, here is the mission statement of HC.

The Humanitarian Crisis Group believes that the residents of San Francisco are victims of a humanitarian crisis. The group seeks to bring aid and relief in any way it can, often relying on charitable acts and public services. Members of this group are expected to navigate public spaces and identify (with) those in need of help. They are also expected to hunt down the perpetrators of the crisis and bring them to the Hague where they will be tried and put to justice by an unbiased international criminal tribunal for crimes against humanity.

Help "in any way it can" is certainly vague, but i beleive that some of these tasks, do not help at all.

I'll start with an example of a few tasks i beleive fit the bill perfectly.

Please Love Back
in which players change the please move back signs on muni into reminders to love.


SF Quilt Coalition
quilters design a handmade comfortor as a group and donate it.

>>A guy who found it deeply important to perform all the mundane tasks of spinning and sewing his own clothing, I bet Ghandi would love this task.

Table for Two, Tack
eating at a dinette set within Ikea.



NOW HERES THE BORDERLINE FITS. (THIS IS A COMPLETE LIST)

A Most Dangerous Game:
Go to a Raiders game at Oakland Collesium dressed in full 49er's attire while the Raiders are not playing the 49er's. Can you make it out alive?

>> I think the "can you make it out alive element is what throws me off. If this task were about overcomming arbitrary differences which play themselves out in a often violent way, then i would have no doubts about this tasks HC status.

Free Samples:
On a certain day of the week, a trip to the grocery store becomes a free meal due to sample-tasting tables aimed at getting you to try and then buy various food products.
In a public non-grocery, noncommercial setting, set up your own sample table and use this promotional strategy to appeal your non-product to the masses.

>> There may be som anti-consumer or anti-corporation element which I'm just not getting here. Help?

Press the red buttons:
Press the red buttons. Note that this task requires a location (and non-San-Franciscans should note that "financial district" is hardly SF-specific).

>> Maybe this is an inside joke I dont get. But it is unclear, I dont know where these red buttons are or why one would push them to help overcome the crisis. I agree that oneliner tasks are sometimes elegant (and i realize this discussion has played itself out already) but i think theres just not enough here.

THE MISFITS:

I SHOULD ADD SOME DISCLAIMERS HERE. AFTER SEEING ONE WHICH I THOUGHT JUST DIDNT BELONG I WENT THROUGH AND READ ALL THE HC TASKS SO THIS IS A COMPLETE LIST. AS YOU CAN SEE I ENDED UP REEVALUATING ONE OF MY OWN AND WILL FLAG IT HERE.

FURTHERMORE I'D LIKE TO ADD THAT I THINK MOST OF THESE TASKS ARE DOPE, THEY JUST ARENT WHERE THEY BELONG. I SUGGEST NEW HOMES FOR THEM IN BRACKETS.

Tiny Surprise Party: {aesthematics}
Hide a small fete somewhere unexpected for someone to stumble across. A gingerbread houseparty on a friend's porch, a lawn gnome garden party in the park, etc. Decorate, arrange "guests", make invitations or fliers.

>> Possibly unfair question: would you feel comfortable expending this effort and time to build a little houseparty down on an impoverished street in front of a group of vagrants?
>> I think that this might be recieved as a cute gift by your friend but as concerns the "awww" which would result, i doubt its main purpose is to redirect the crisis.

Give a Man a Fish: {all play}
Bring a fish to an accountant, at work (not yours).

>> i love this task. I plan to do it. I know its in HC as a tongue in cheek reference to the task "teach a man to fish", but I still dont think it fits.

Ah, Childhood {all play}
asks us to perform a childish prank on someone

Diverse City Pays {all play}
asks us to pay at a restaraunt with another currency

snakes on a plane {pa}
asks us to put snakes on a plane
i really dont see this aiding the crisis.

catsophrenia {all play}
this is my task. i ask people to dress up as a cat and call a cat psychologist

Break Into Peoples Houses And Climb Up Their Chimneys {pa possibly?}
its one of those self explainitory tasks.
i just dont see this aiding the crisis.