Emily Watkins is… something.
I just hate the rules lawyer cheaters. It is usually the person who brings the game up in the first place. They scrutinize every move you make then when you catch them doing something slick, they say something like “thats how we played growing up”. My mom is one of these people.
I semi-agree only in that those are some of the worst party games.
Usually when someone says they don’t like boardgames, its because they’ve only ever played Monopoly , Scrabble, or Sorry which are kind of terrible to play. It seems like she falls into this category.
She’s starting this complaining about a casual game of table tennis so it’s not exclusively board games, it’s like… the concept of playing a game? And apparently, not only as a party activity, but in general.
Very weird take.
This Watkins person sounds like the kind of person who’s just so bad at every game she now wants to ruin everyone else’s fun. It’s a known fact games of all kinds can be good for you in different ways, and having a playful side is often seen as a green flag in most adults too.
This person sounds like she’d be fun at parties…
(I mean I guess she is no longer invited to any and has fuck all clue why that might be >.>)
There are three mentions to alcohol, one for each potential social interaction in that article. So I guess I know how the author parties typically.
I’d rather have the games, thank you.
Oh, I’m SOOOOO sorry that our fun is interrupting your alcoholism. Feel free to down another bottle of wine alone in the corner while muttering about how you’re so much more sophisticated than the rest of us.
That was the first thing I took away from it, too. I like alcohol. It’s also objectively a worse activity for a healthy adult than playing ping pong.
Alcohol is the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 25
Hey now. Let’s not fight. The existence of drinking games proves we can all coexist!
“I’m bad at games, so they should be illegal. Instead, let’s drink wine!”
Wild take, but it takes all sorts. Incidentally, I do totally agree with her about Two Truths and a Lie, although I wouldn’t really call these forced ice breakers ‘games’
I find it interesting that she finds games to be so isolating and distracting from socializing, when the board game industry relies almost entirely on people getting together to play games and… socialize.
I wonder if she knows co-operative games exist
She’s entitled to her opinion, even if it is stupid and wrong.
We are also entitled to ridicule her for her shitty opinion.
Arguing against her strawman is not a productive use of anybody’s time or attention, and it even further wastes the time of readers. It’s not solving any problem because it’s not a genuinely held opinion. It is just meaningless slop, seeking profit, filling space, devoid of any intellectual value and no different than AI slop, whether a human wrote it or not.
You must never read UnpopularOpinion 😀
lol. 100% death on that hill.
It’s a weird hill to die on, but at least she’s dead 🤷♂️
I get it, people should come together and socialise rather than play games… I mean, I can kinda see the logic. But, sometimes I just wanna murder aliens. Currently playing Saints Row 4, one of the stupidest games of all time. You can murder people in the streets, but they’re all holograms or aliens. You can’t canonically hurt anyone in this game, as far as I can tell. Well, my character just got punched by another human character for uttering the words “poodle skirt” (IYKYK) (also, Kinzie is awesome).
lol what is it with educated white British women and their obsession with wine? Are people in the UK so boring that you need to stay inebriated to have a conversation?
I mean, my partner is an educated white woman Brit, and while we enjoy wine and beer, we partake in games a lot more often.
What an eminently unfun-sounding person. People that carve out such a broad category to gatekeep always confuse me. You don’t like competitive games? There’s cooperative ones. Annoyed by people who take it too seriously? Try a more casual one. Etc…
There’s nothing wrong with being stuck in your ways or preferring more simple social activities. But refusing to try whatever the consensus of a group is, or judging others for participating is some peak boomer shit. And condescending things others enjoy as only being for children is the chef’s kiss. Again, she’s allowed her opinions and preferences, but I certainly don’t want her joyless ass playing a game with me either…
It’s not even just games apparently. Any activity with friends that doesn’t involve the consumption of mind altering legal substances (yes, coffee IS a mild altering substance), is apparently off the menu.
And it’s not even her refusal to do these activities that’s mind boggling, but the fact that she thinks it’s okay to enforce it. Honey… you’re free to ruin your social connections with your stubbornness, but wanting to legislate fun out of existence just makes you a cunt.
git gud
Engagement bait slop.
Agreed. Disappointed with how many people just fell for it.
Shed paid to make this shit up folks. We’ll read it, which means she succeeded.
Bait used to be believable.
The hill I will die on: Emily Watkins shouldn’t be allowed to write. Not even a fucking post it note, let alone for a self-proclaimed news portal.
Tens, hundreds of thousands of people would have their lives immediately improved if she never held a pen, or graced a keyboard with her presence ever again.
