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To not want my son to play Among Us any more after discovering this

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apalledandshocked · 07/01/2021 00:35

My 8 year old recently started playing this game with his friends. It has skyrocketed in popularity recently. I was fine with this because although it isnt educational, it is social and arguably teaches important life skills. However, whilst watching him running around the Skeld sabotaging stuff it occurred to me.... Everyone in the game is wearing spacesuits with bulky oxygen packs on their backs. However, if the oxygen is sabotaged and they dont fix it in time then everyone dies. WHY? If the spacesuits arent actually doing anything then why cant they take them of and check to see who is the murderous alien. If the spacesuits are doing something then why does everyone panic when the oxygen goes of.
I could overlook the leaves in the garbage disposal since maybe they are space-leaves, but everytime I watch him play now I get incredibly annoyed.
So AIBU to delete the app on the grounds of its shocking lack of realism and logic???

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FelicityBeedle · 08/01/2021 20:57

@VeganSven it is yeah

VeganSven · 08/01/2021 20:57

Yh it says game not found. I’ll try again

Comefromaway · 08/01/2021 21:26

That was fun

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 08/01/2021 21:39

That's what I call playing! Logical and sensible Grin

KimNotEllen · 08/01/2021 21:40

It really was Smile

KimNotEllen · 08/01/2021 21:41

@Comefromaway yes, it is from Miss Saigon. Is yours from the musician too? That was on my list to go see

Comefromaway · 08/01/2021 21:43

Yes I’m a musicals fanatic. (I was Elphaba in the game).

Miss Saigon was the first west end show I saw many years ago aged 16

Comefromaway · 08/01/2021 21:45

CFA is the best show I’ve ever seen

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 08/01/2021 21:47

We're all musical mad here too. Not sure i could pick a favourite. They are all so good.

KimNotEllen · 08/01/2021 23:34

Ah of course, I should have twigged. I haven't seen Wicked yet but love the music. I was meant to be taking my son to see Dear Evan Hansen for his birthday before everything happened. He's caught the musical bug from me

SoVeryLost · 08/01/2021 23:38

@FoxyTheFox

Oooh, deflecting. Def the imposter.

This is my actual strategy when playing and I'm the imposter, first person to rightly accuse me gets the wide-eyed "guilty conscience, much?" turnaround. Then I hide in electrical, aka The Murder Hole, and whack them next round.

You need to kill someone they’ve been seen with. Grin
Comefromaway · 08/01/2021 23:39

We saw Dear Evan Hansen Christmas 2019

My kids are also MT fanatics. Ds just about managed to see Be More Chill for his 16th birthday last Feb but The Last Five Years was cancelled. (I’d already decided it wasn’t safe to go)

Wheresmykimchi · 08/01/2021 23:59

Loving the musical chat. Huge fan but was inspired by a classic thread 😘

DumplingsAndStew · 09/01/2021 11:20

I'm still dead.

Comefromaway · 09/01/2021 11:22

Poor dumplings. You really need a bodyguard.

DumplingsAndStew · 09/01/2021 11:56

Don't you worry about me, I shall have my revenge 😆

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 09/01/2021 13:00

Oh dumplings Sad did i kill you in one round? I tried and then you disappeared and then someone reported your body Confused

SpiderGwen · 09/01/2021 13:15

@Comefromaway

CFA is the best show I’ve ever seen
It’s great, although my heart belongs to Hamilton. @Comefromawayand I had near identical names at one point, bar the verb tense. It made a thread very confusing 🤣

I had tickets to Six, Jamie and Evan when all this kicked off. I’m missing my theatre visits!

DumplingsAndStew · 09/01/2021 13:52

@WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo

Oh dumplings Sad did i kill you in one round? I tried and then you disappeared and then someone reported your body Confused
I don't even know 😆 I do remember running away from someone a couple of times, as they were just acting a bit weird, then got killed by someone else as I escaped.

I'm just gonna stay away from elec unless I'm with someone I've seen visually is crew 😄

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo · 09/01/2021 13:56

Theres a reason we call elec the doom room Grin

toomuchtooold · 09/01/2021 17:04

Anyone fancy a game?

Jenasaurus · 09/01/2021 19:25

Yes I am up for it

Jenasaurus · 09/01/2021 19:25

is their a code

Comefromaway · 09/01/2021 19:35

Vxvzzf

Comefromaway · 09/01/2021 19:36

Ignore that. In the time it takes me to post it pings me out