Yeah, it’s not really for that. It’s for sitting back with a friend or three and messing about while you hang out. A friend and I have been doing that with similar style games since Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. And we’re enjoying MU3 now.

Oh, goody.  Someone made Fortnite worse.

“Purple and orange?”

I think I have a problem. I’m mostly appalled at how expensive shipping on a plastic tub with several gallons of water in it would run.

You have no idea how many teachers are constantly stopping themselves from correcting random kids’ behavior in public. Spend a couple decades going, “Michael, you put that down, apologize to her, and clean up your mess from lunch”, then try to spend 10 minutes at a mall food court without saying anything.

I don’t mind heights if there is no railing or a metal railing, but if there is a glass railing, I see it shattering and me falling through it and I get extremely paranoid and nervous. So no railing makes me more comfortable than a glass railing.  There's some irrationality.

Furious parents who want to coordinate pick ups and the rest of the day with their kids. Certainly not most of them, but enough that it’s a heck of a fight for any district that wants to try banning every phone.

As a teacher:

I honestly don’t mind the music. Whether it’s rap or Mariachi, the two most common in my neighborhood. What gets me is when someone brings a karaoke machine. “This song is from my favorite movie, Shrek... hey now. You're a rock star...” with maybe one note in six hitting.

Um.. why? Playing this game, I never felt like I was out of stuff to do and needed to grind some levels to get to a new area. Enemies level with you and you can only have so many abilities active at once, so even the allure of having all abilities seems meager.

As a high school teacher, I feel qualified to assert that Uno is huge. There are eight tables outside my classroom and any given lunch period there are between three and five games of Uno going on.  Uno games regularly outnumber Smash games.

I thought it and Shazam were on par age-wise. If anything, Shazam may have been more middle-schooler focused. So very, very many Shazam jokes focused on teen boys doing teen boy stuff that I found myself rolling my eyes at it sometimes. Youtubing power tests, flossing, sneaking into strip clubs and buying beer, the…

I was particularly surprised by that because there have been a lot of Fortnite/Avengers tie-ins and frankly, “Fortnite’s player base is fat, depressed middle-aged men and obnoxious, A-hole middle schoolers” seems like maybe a message Fortnite wouldn’t want pretty much the entire world to see.

Exactly.  I have a female friend from college who was still working at Riot when all this went down.  She has since moved to another company, but that search and move took time and she has a family (and even if she didn’t, she enjoys having a roof and food).  She clearly doesn’t support Riot, but may not be able to do…

It's on Hulu.

NMS was basically Spore, except that Hello hung around and fixed it.

Shh... MCU will cancel that monthly paycheck that all us fanboi SJW fake geek girl posters get if you talk about it.

I use a trackball mouse at work because I have limited surface area on my desk. Some if these might have been useful at previous jobs, but wireless trackball is my friend now. Also easy to pick up and use as an extemporaneous clicker for presentations without worrying about the curser going nuts.

I use a trackball mouse at work because I have limited surface area on my desk. Some if these might have been useful…

You had me until you said Widow's Walk.  Several of those haunts are so badly broken or poorly explained that one needs to get online to find how people have modified them into something playable.  We play Betrayal all the time (just played it two days ago, in fact), but Widow's Walk is the only expansion I have ever…

You had me until you said Widow's Walk.  Several of those haunts are so badly broken or poorly explained that one…

Still going to be a bit before I read the name Riot without wincing. A gallery of buxon, latex-clad women interspersed with stoic and bruised women isn’t helping. On the bright side, my friend who used to work there found a much better gig!