Everything In Moderation

oh right, it's a pen.

Jared Cyr

It's about an hour to Vermont, 90 minutes to the Long Island Sound, and about 2 hours to Boston.

Matt Pedone

Lake Moderation, just outside Northhampton.

Jeff Gedney

I JUST realized where May put her pen. It didn't register before.

DodgerEmerson

Never heard of "gacha games" until tonight...but dang, think I'll try out "Romancing SaGa Re: Universe"...what could go wrong?

Au contraire, these look like extremely stable foundations

Nicolas Demers

Isn’t Northampton closer to Vermont than to the Atlantic?

Miyaa

You don't hear the pen complain, do you?

prettydragoon

Only a few more, and China is going to claim sovereignty over the new island

Mad Marie

I don't think that's a safe place for a pen... :P

Dav Waldron

yeah, may, youre in boston. the SEA is right there??

Waffliesinyoface

Games are games Shawn. Caring about what constitutes a "Real Gamer™" is stupid nerdy jerkass shit for nerdy jerkasses

Fart Captor

well what else are lakes FOR Tall Momo?!

Ace of Hearts

The fact that she appreciates high quality video games does not preclude the possibility of her also indulging in trash games as a guilty pleasure. Some writers, the really ambitious ones, occasionally give characters more than one personality trait.

BookBeard

Sure, there are some fun phone games - but NOT Gacha games. Those are trash where you're better off just lighting your money on fire than paying them. Those games are more akin to a drug addiction. Except drugs are typically cheaper.

Shawn Spencer

"Gacha pulls"? Hmm. Sounds like something we used to have down behind Buzzy's Tavern back in the early sixties. See, you took your girl to the old nickel Coke machine and...nah -- get in trouble if I tell young people about this in any detail.

Ursus Ridens

Just... get a debit card specifically for gacha games and put a hard limit on it? I haven't tried that, but I'm pretty good at not making purchases in apps generally.

Michael Chui

Let me know when they adapt a version of that from Dance Dance Revolution.

ValdVin

I love lakes.

Chris Warren

Gainax Bounce Races

I'm thinking there must be a pile of phones by now.

Darnel D Cooper

"Those who live in 'cast houses should not throw phones."

Ben Engelsberg

I'm married to a huge PC gamer who is also addicted to a couple of phone games. People are way more varied than the boxes we're always trying to put them in. Also, she's fictional, soooo...she likes whatever Jeph writes she likes.

Laura Curry

Don’t go throwing iPhones into the lakes and rivers you’re used to I know you wanna download games or nothin’ at all — but you’re losing money too fast.

Miyaa

Truth. I know plenty of "gamers" (myself included) that have played/still play phone games. *Points to games like mario run/pokemon go*

Tracker_x495

people can like multiple things

Sam Suchabutt

This seems weird for Marigold. Like from all indications she's always been more into real games and not dumb phone games. I feel like Jeph isn't into games at all and doesn't realize there's typically a large divide there between players of like, everything else, and players of phone "games".

Shawn Spencer