Child Culture Guide for Adults: Week 4
Video Game Week: Everyone’s Playing Among Us
If your child starts calling everything he doesn’t like, “sus”, he is probably playing Among Us . Sus is a versatile suspect indicator in a multiplayer detective game that has recently become very popular.
“ Among Us” is not attracted to cutting edge graphics or high frame rate violence. Instead, ” Among Us” is deduction and social interaction. Four to ten players portray space travelers on a friendly mission, but one player is a traitorous assassin and the rest of the group must figure out who the rat is before they are slaughtered.
It’s a simple concept that you may remember playing at the table as Werewolf or Mafia, but being able to log in with friends or strangers (the game is cross-platform on mobile and PC) is convenient and fun. and since the game is based on trickery and deduction, there is no obstacle for players who have less than the fastest reflexes. It’s even at the right price point: it’s free among us for mobile and only five dollars for PC.
Week on Television: Enola Holmes
The original Netflix feature by Enola Holmes was released this week, and if you have a smart and / or quirky kid in your life, they’ve probably watched this movie at least eight times already since its release on Wednesday. Believe me, this is one of those films that was destined to become the favorite film of many young people. Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven in Stranger Things) plays Sherlock Holmes’ little sister Enola: an eccentric, resourceful teenager whose idyllic life as a wealthy Victorian girl is destroyed when her mother disappears. Fortunately, Mom leaves behind a set of cryptic clues, so Enola sets out to find her and overcome traditional gender roles. Enola Holmes is amazing. You will get an overdose of delightfrom one trailer.
A week in music: the return of guitars
Don’t be surprised if your child asks you for a guitar this Christmas. According to a recent article in The New York Times , the old-fashioned tool of rockers and rioters is suddenly making a comeback, not driven by Generation X trying to survive the glory days of Nirvana, or gray-haired blues lawyers buying Gibsons for $ 20,000. hang in the office. It’s all because of the kids. Well kids and COVID-19.
Industry insiders believe that all the extra time they have at home is due to increased sales of axes among young people. “There was a moment with my students when I could tell the numbness on Netflix, Instagram and Facebook just doesn’t work anymore,” guitar instructor Jensen Trani told The Times . “People could no longer use their normal coping mechanisms. They said, “How do I want to spend my day?” “
Interestingly, guitar sales are particularly high among girls and young women, who now account for 50 percent of new guitar sales, according to a study by guitar maker Fender . Like everything good in our culture, I believe it has to do with the influence of Taylor Swift.
If your kid is really into the guitar, they will have far more resources than previous generations could have dreamed of, from completely free YouTube tutorials to “official” online tutorials from Fender for a small monthly fee to guitar teachers who teach Zoom or FaceTime – ask your local guitar dealer.
Viral Video of the Week: Uncle Roger vs. Gordon Ramsay
Millions of young people watch, like and subscribe to Uncle Roger’s YouTube channel, where he responds to other people’s fried rice recipes.
Okay, maybe this sounds uninteresting, but trust me, you need to check his channel if you want to see what your kids are laughing at. Start with thisbrutal smashing ofBBC TV presenter Hershey Patel’s rice skills with fried rice.
In my top viral video this week, Uncle Roger battles the world’s biggest whale in the culinary world: the famous mega-chef Gordon Ramsay. I expected the naughty British chef to face cross-cultural strife, but surprisingly, Ramsay’s Indonesian-style fried rice recipe and technique surpasses Uncle Roger’s strict standards … Unlike, say,Jamie Oliver . Hi-ya.