You should play Splatoon with your family: Why touch grass alone when you can pretend to be squids together?

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Usually my younger siblings wait until I’m done with work — they’re in earlier time zones than I am, so they’re being polite — then the group chat lights up: “Splat.” “Splat.” “Splat.”

In the interest of bonding, I started hanging out with them on FaceTime while we played Animal Crossing together.

Our pandemic family video game hangouts never really ended, so now I am logging serious hours on Splatoon.

For the uninitiated, it’s a third-person shooter, but a family-friendly one; the idea is to paint as much space in a map as possible.

I am writing this, in part, because my younger siblings have some complaints, and they would like me to abuse my position of power (?)

When I lived in New York after college, video games were a fun way to hang out with my downstairs neighbor after work.

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