Kid2’s boyfriend — a very nice young man - recognized the computer game I was playing (a ludicrously overcomplicated strategy game called Europa Universalis IV) and we had a brief conversation about it and I could see her dying a little inside.
@ZeirosLion @Popehat imagining like a less violent version of this
(Fun fact: when I was young, dumb, and full of Ritz crackers, I thought the roads and bridges were exploding because he was blowing them up in retribution. If only.)