I like this one, but my main worry is that I have done “Oh, they’re really playing a violent video game” as a reveal-type punchline before (in “Computer Training”). I guarantee you will never see that as the basis for a punchline again. I’m never lose my fear of getting into a rut. In humor as in wargame strategy, predictability is vulnerability.
It's clip art with jokes. Seriously, that's it.
“He’s camping my spawn!’ would’ve been a sleeker and more realistic punch, but the point comes across clearly
I’ll disagree with Mike. While what he said is appropriate for hard core gamers, people who aren’t into serious gaming, but still enjoy these strips have a clear concept of what you want to get across, whereas ‘camping my spawn’ could be a lot of different things to people who don’t understand.
“Camping,” in this context, is also a hardcore gamer term.
But, without being a hardcore gamer, I can make the leap – it’s camping, it means staying in or near one place. I like this one.
The funny thing is, my son—who lives in sunny California—has a best friend in snowy Sweden. They play games and chat over skype daily, so the entire dialog is entirely realistic, except that the kid at the other end is not a stranger in this case.