The new game in this house is Lego Star Wars

[cosmolinguist]

D: "Oh no, I lost my pants!"

Me: "You keep losing your pants!"

D: "I don't know why, I don't know what game mechanic causes me to take off my pants..."

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I'm getting constant updates on the state of his Lego-stormtrooper disguise: first pants and helmet, then the pants disappeared, then the whole suit, now no pants again!

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D: "Oh good I've got some pants again."

Me: "Are you stealing them from dead stormtroopers???"

D: "Of course! How else do you think I'd be getting them?"

Me: "Well we don't know how you're losing them, so why would there be an explanation for how you're getting them!"

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D: "I do have pants! I just don't have stormtrooper pants. It's not like I'm going around with no pants in this game for 7-year-olds!"

Me: "I think 7-year-olds are the perfect audience for thinking no-pants is great actually."

D: "You make a compelling point."

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Now D is saying "Aw yeah, shooting up your server room! Hope you haven't tested your backups lately! Where is this in your ISO risk assessment??"

Comments

[rmc28]

I am reminded of the many years of reiterating "you have to at least wear pants" to the young people in this household.

(though I meant underpants rather than trousers, and I suddenly realise the lego pants are probably trousers)

[cosmolinguist]

underpants rather than trousers, and I suddenly realise the lego pants are probably trousers

Probably. :) Yeah, I did notice D started saying "pants" when he normally wouldn't, and I don't know if it was as an accommodation to me or ambiguity about what's going on Lego figures' legs, the increasing prevalence of "pants" to mean trousers that's slowly spreading in Manchester particularly... Or as a reference to the "Honey where are my pants" thing mentioned below!

Or just because it's a funnier sounding word (I feel, anyway).

[rugessnome]

As something of an aficionado of Lego games (though I haven't played the more recent Star Wars iteration yet), I wonder how much of the pants stuff, if intentional, might relate to the "Honey, Where Are My Pants?" in-universe show in the LEGO Movie... (though I think that the concept is probably based, regretfully, on the Sitcom Heteros dynamic of the kids' parents)

Also, the server room comment is excellent!

[cosmolinguist]

"Honey, Where Are My Pants?" did get a reference in our conversation eventually.

But I also wouldn't be surprised if this kept happening because D's approach to new games is to just jump in and figure out what buttons do etc. by trying them all. :)

You can tell what kind of IT D has worked in from the server room comment, I feel. ;)

[mst3kforall]

The ISO risk assessment taunt made me giggle.

[cosmolinguist]

You can tell what he's been up to at work this year. :)