Did you just discover your phone is a snitch?

Yeah the "awkward small talk" bit is real, but it's worse when they try way too hard to force fun. Like someone organizing a cringey icebreaker game, or making everyone do a virtual toast. That stuff just highlights how weird it is. It turns a simple check-in into a performance. Just let people hang out without the pressure.

Wait, the cheese wasn't even melted? (how do you even serve that?) That's just lazy, man. I'd be fuming for hours too.

My buddy who writes for a small blog got into a Twitter spat over a horror movie's pacing. He ended up revising his review after that thread, admitting some scenes worked better when you considered the director's intent. It was a pretty clear case of the conversation actually changing a critic's published take.

In my family, we had TRIPLE copies sometimes.