I don't feel this way about drinking, but I think I can nevertheless commiserate with you because I do feel this way about another pastime/group activity that s

I don't feel this way about drinking, but I think I can nevertheless commiserate with you because I do feel this way about another pastime/group activity that seems to be becoming distressingly common in the tech circles that I find myself in: Board Game Night. No, I don't want to play monopoly, because my strategy for monopoly can be expressed in two or three lines of pseudocode and it is therefore an incredibly dull game. And if I have to sit through another hour long lecture about a game like Catan that is prefaced with "It's actually really simple; here, let me explain how it works...", I am going to put a power drill through my skull. Don't even talk to me about Magick or pokemans. Do you know what I do when somebody proposes a board game night? I wish them a good time, politely excuse myself, and find something else to do. Not everyone likes everything, and I should not expect others around me to abstain from activities that I do not enjoy.