Well this isn’t OK. Scrabble has changed its rules to allow the use of proper names (including companies and brands) and places .
What’s the point? It’s like…it’s like…at a Bar Mitzvah party when the DJ always lets the kid who’s getting Bar Mitzvah-ed win at the all games when he clearly didn’t win. But the DJ is getting paid to make the Bar Mitzvah kid feel good. So in this scenario the kid would be all of us and the DJ would be Scrabble. Basically, we’re being pandered to and treated like we’re the special person when we aren’t. We aren’t special, we have to use our brains like everyone else. And using our brains involves overcoming obstacles, like not being able to use proper nouns! Dammit!
This video is an apt summary of how I feel:
How many balloons (words) are you going to let us stuff into our shirts (Scrabble boards) before we pop (pop), Scrabble?
