Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.9:48 PM · Aug 2, 2026 622008171
Juraj Misina @jurajmisina.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialShe wants coffee and wine for everyone over 12? That's a bit... far? 52140
Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialAs someone who’s read studies on all the health benefits of Play throughout life, that headline makes me super sad 13375
Vichy Democrats will not see heaven @agentincommand.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialSure, but in a "democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried" kind of way 030
Acts of Tekla @acts-of-tekla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialWow, I bet she's great at parties and that's why people keep suggesting games as a way to interact... 0200
preemchoom.bsky.social @preemchoom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialIt's really hard to still get published in media outlets today, isn't it? 020
cɹitical tomɐto @critical-tomato.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialoh, you can DEFINITELY tell this gal grits her teeth and goes “guh, guh, guh, guh, guh” in a severe monotone during sex 010
pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.social"Why my weird opinion should be the law of the land" ease it back there, Emily. 0210
Bongtologicalshock 🫲👁️〰️👁️🫱 @bongtologicalshock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialsounds almost exactly like the shitty and sometimes very sketchy 'art parties' in florida during the 90s/early 00s/probably still 010
Gilbert @tinpottop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialSomeone had a due date and didn't have many ideas 0260
Oatsmate, of the Green Sea @oatsmate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialYes, there's nothing 13 year olds love better than wine. Who needs Go or Chess? All it does is take away the free time they could be spent drinking. 020
Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialTen bucks says she’s one of those people that sits in the corner and fucks around on her phone anyway. 0620
Ponder @ponder719.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI don't have the "fetish for being yelled at" meme to hand, but that seems to be what's going on here. 0240
The Return of Sexy Boy @goosedoggy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialWhen Onion articles become real … 030
Bryan Cursèd @chucklebot314.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI like how she looks like some sort of dried autumnal arrangement, with rattling seed pods, and then the huge red lips. 0100
Dueledge @dueledge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialPeople are saying she can just not play games, but clearly what she wants is to force her friends to not play games 2340
James Callan @scarequotes.com · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI think @thehighsign.bsky.social has found her doppelgänger 000
Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialAh, lifestyle fascism. 0440
Can I Pod With Madness @podwithmadness.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialHell of a way to announce you're shit at Buckaroo. 020
Chris Wilhelm @cwilhelm24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialSheesh, if she doesn't want to play the games, she can go ahead and not play the games. Banning them seems a bit over the top. 020
Elliot @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI hate to even comment on this bc i’m falling into the trap of the op-ed itself but. The whole premise is a fundamental misunderstanding that playing games IS when people “make space to be together” Like… ppl have always had personal convos & bonding over games, whether it’s Scrabble OR Fortnite 0460
Ori Vandewalle @orivandewalle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialoh ok so she's an alcoholic 090
dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialThe ol’ “Dying on a Hill Game” - a favourite of curmudgeons everywhere. 110
monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialthe job requirement for op-ed writers is to be the most insane out of touch weirdo with terrible views and opinions. it is monetized rage bait. 0532
Sam @lovelyoldtree.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialAt least now we know what her voice sounds like 060
Shade Aurion @shadeaurion.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialWell, she sounds like a fucking bore 010
Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialWe can drink coffee or wine while playing games. You can be over there drinking coffee or wine and not playing games. We all good? 120
Political Fixer - Shawna Presley Vercher @politicalfixer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialCounterpoint: we keep taking safe community spaces away from people and game nights create a place where people can just relax and exist, even if they are socially awkward. 0120
CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick) @canadianchick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI do not understand people who think like this. I do not enjoy board or card games. I wish I did, but I really don’t. But I have many, many friends who do love them, and I actually have fun watching them play! I love that they have this thing they enjoy immensely! 0230
Max Shields — Moonbase Tourism Agent @maxshields.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialAh yes, becoming a raging wine mom. Much better than being addicted to scrabble.static.klipy.comWoman with Giant Wine Glass: Just One Glass!ALT: Woman with Giant Wine Glass: Just One Glass! 031
Satsuma Danger @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialRough day when you find out you're in agreement with a Guardian columnist but I stand by it. I'm middle aged now, this was always going to happen.Satsuma Danger@clementinedanger.bsky.socialIt doesn't help that it's never the fun board games. Yeah I'd love four hours of fucking Catan with 2 people who take it way too seriously and get angry if you don't, one weirdo who won't stop talking about anal and two ADHD dorks who wander off two hours in but insist we don't skip their turn. 150
cagygibbon.bsky.social @cagygibbon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialMe when I lost my first Pony League game as a 13 year old 020
Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialShe does realise, right, that without the game board mediating the excess wine drinking is just alcoholism? 070
final girl austin @8kbps.com · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialplaying a shit game with friends is no different to fishing; a nominal structure, over top which we hurl jests and trade sympathies and stories, until the shocking or inevitable conclusion (ganging up on josh to ensure that nobody wins at monopoly) 11340
Ezikeyal 🔥[NTVTN]🔥 @ezikeyal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialSounds like she never got over a Scrabble loss 030
Jack "O' Lantern" Liu @teflonslinky.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialYou see that face and name and this dogshit premise and instantly know she has relatives with blue names on Wikipedia 0132
Anna Biela @nuclearanna.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialThere was kinda a period where it seemed every get together amongst nerdy folks had to be a board game night, which was kiiiinda annoying, but that passed most of a decade ago. And it was always something you could fix by just… hosting your own events instead of complaining. 120
Matthew Beswick (they/them) @mbeswick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialIt's a weird thing for her to say she wants under 12s to suffer... 240
Mask Up Comments and Opinions @commentsandopi2.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialLots of small businesses struggling where I live. A newish one is a Fandom merch shop with half the floor space available as tables for people to play games at. Always bustling. People like connection 070
Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI don’t understand why you can’t play board games and drink wine simultaneously. 1160
Shou Fukan @shoufukan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI just got back from Gen Con where I spent 4 days hanging out with my best friends from college. We were together with drinks and talking about our lives while also playing board games. These people are the worst and think they're so far above everyone else 0160
DMEggs @dmeggs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI feel like we are due more and more of this click bait going forward, we’ll have nothing but nonsense where we can’t resist reading the article and thus get exposed to the ads. A good portion of those “I only read dialogue” booktok takes are just designed to create engagement with rage imo 040
RevolutionaryRadish @revoradish.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialWe need games so we don’t have to talk to people like her 040
🔞Neph, Changeling Fucker Supreme @ohgoditsneph.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialI have the feeling she feels this way because nobody wants to actually play a game with her 090
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Okay folks, we have officially crossed the "completely deranged reacts" horizon. Protocol is now in effect. Return to your homes. 02680
Semiotic Stochastic, purveyor of sick beats @mitdasein.bsky.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialOh, that’s the hill you will die on? Dont let me stop you 0150
ourotheboros.myatproto.social @ourotheboros.myatproto.social · 02/08/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.sociallove when games are bad 020
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