It’s well nigh 11:30 pm as I write this. I was just finishing off some Fortnite quests, (no, you’re a loser), when I realized that tomorrow is Monday and a) I have to start the work week again, (because I do not live in Illinois and did not win the $1.2 billion MegaMillions lottery), and b) I hadn’t bothered to do the mock draft yet, instead focusing on putting up a bat house in the backyard, watering our increasingly desperate landscaping, buying beer, procuring BBQ for dinner, and apparently fomenting a plan to writ a paragraph consisting solely of one run-on sentence after a very short one telling you all what time I came up with this nonsense.

Boy are my arms tired!

Anyhoo, while finishing the last quest I ran through some ideas. I have a couple left over from Scotchy and RTD, but running them without giving the originator more than a night’s heads up to get the first pick in seems shitty. I thought briefly of “spices”, but figured most of us would run out after “salt” and “pepper”, while Yeah Right and 2-3 others would just run train on everyone.

But if people think spices would work, let me know. I will take pepper with the first pick.

Pepper rules.

Then I realized that I was playing a video game, and that I was running this draft for a bunch of shut-in nerds, (and to quote ‘Mall Rats’ “I should know; we can smell our own”), and frankly a draft for video games is probably long overdue.

The rules are simple: If it’s a game, and it had a video component, you can choose it. Arcade, Atari, PC, whatever. It must have a video component, however. If a game is part of a series, please specify which of the series you are taking; the others remain on the table. If there are games within games, you can also take specific games while leaving the others alone; a good example of this would be the various Zombie games in the Call of Duty games.

Your Commissioner is the tough but…no, actually he’s pretty much just tough.

Quite honestly Halo’s Master Chief is probably a complete psychotic in desperate need of intervention, which he is never going to get because the Universe needs him more than he needs his sanity. I’m sure everything will be just fine. Hopefully being the featured image soothes some of that PTSD.

With the first pick I am taking the zombies game from Call of Duty, (heh, “duty”), 3, ‘Shadows of Evil.’ It had a great map, large and complicated, and was so much better to play as a group than solo that it required getting together remotely with 3 friends, or making 3 new friends when you got in a random game and realized that everyone was pretty good and you had a shot at the insanely complicated Easter egg. The story was great too, and the noir graphics I thought top notch.

With that, the rest of you are on the clock. Don’t disappoint me, nerds.