Pattern game is hot trash. In its best form, the way only I know how to do CORRECTLY because everyone teaches it WRONG!, it's just a stilted living room. Let's take your example and translate it into a passable living room: “pencil.” - “pencil, school, student loans, capitalism, protests, not paying taxes, forms, pencil.”
Player A: Pencil. Isn't that something you only use at school and not once again until you die of old age?
B: Just like my English degree! I will think of it for the rest of my life tho, as I'm still paying the loans off at 85...
C, sarcastically: Isn't it amazing how productive the universities are under capitalism? So much innovation is happening.
B: Back in my day, I was just analyzing boring Shakespeare's sonnets all day, but now a student can protest a new controversial speaker on campus almost every week.
A: That's what we really need to protest, some guy with a bad take on Joe Rogan, and not billionaires paying 0.1% in taxes.
C: "Your honor. Have you tried filling a tax report for billions of dollars? It's so long!"
B: Pencil.
Now, every criticism about how to do the pattern game correctly can be applied to this living room instead to produce the exact same fodder for your set, but in a much more fun, relaxed, and accessible form. And instead of the juxtaposition of two words, everyone's ideas would be based on real feeling and opinions.
Pattern game is hot trash. In its best form, the way only I know how to do CORRECTLY because everyone teaches it WRONG!, it's just a stilted living room. Let's take your example and translate it into a passable living room: “pencil.” - “pencil, school, student loans, capitalism, protests, not paying taxes, forms, pencil.”
Player A: Pencil. Isn't that something you only use at school and not once again until you die of old age?
B: Just like my English degree! I will think of it for the rest of my life tho, as I'm still paying the loans off at 85...
C, sarcastically: Isn't it amazing how productive the universities are under capitalism? So much innovation is happening.
B: Back in my day, I was just analyzing boring Shakespeare's sonnets all day, but now a student can protest a new controversial speaker on campus almost every week.
A: That's what we really need to protest, some guy with a bad take on Joe Rogan, and not billionaires paying 0.1% in taxes.
C: "Your honor. Have you tried filling a tax report for billions of dollars? It's so long!"
B: Pencil.
Now, every criticism about how to do the pattern game correctly can be applied to this living room instead to produce the exact same fodder for your set, but in a much more fun, relaxed, and accessible form. And instead of the juxtaposition of two words, everyone's ideas would be based on real feeling and opinions.