Imposters, elections, and surviving 2020

Our lockdown lifestyle means Kristen, the kids and I spend some evenings playing Among Us, a quirky, online video game we can enjoy as a group from our individual phones. That’s 2020 for you! The characters look like Teletubby astronauts and it is set in some sort of nuclear reactor map. Each round there is one Impostor who pretends to be a common taskmaster whilst killing off his fellow contestants. The rest of the crewmates do, in fact, complete the tasks while they try to collectively out the Impostor.

Honestly, I have next to zero idea what is happening but the kids get a kick out of my naivete and that alone is entertaining. To make up for a lack of skill or strategy I offer up an evil sounding hehheh-hehhh at the onset of each round so they always think I’m the Impostor. Mostly I’m just pretending to be the Impostor. An impostor impostor. So yeah, the social life is really great these days.