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What is a Powerpoint Party and why aren't you hosting one?
Orca
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A Powerpoint Party, AKA A Drunk Ted Talk, is a party where a group of friends or acquaintances get together, and some or all of them present a short (~10 minute) talk on some subject.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/us/tiktok-powerpoint-parties-presentation-nights-cec/index.html
The only requirements are a space to present, a means of presenting like a TV or projector, and a group of friendly people!
I've attended a couple so far, and the topics have included:
It's a fun way to get to know your friends, or to get to know your acquaintances.
If you've hosted or attended one, I'd like to hear about it! If you're interested, let's talk about it!
Why aren't you hosting one?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/us/tiktok-powerpoint-parties-presentation-nights-cec/index.html
For McCall Mirabella’s 21st birthday party last month, she asked guests to bring only one gift: A PowerPoint presentation. Mirabella...assembled her closest friends and asked them to present a slideshow on anything they could think of. The only criteria was “the sillier, the better.”
Her guests delivered. One attendee ranked the attractiveness of 10 animated characters while another humorously explored the disparate stages of being high. Mirabella herself presented her predictions for how long her friends would survive in the Hunger Games (and how they’d meet their violent ends, seemingly a popular template for a PowerPoint party).
The only requirements are a space to present, a means of presenting like a TV or projector, and a group of friendly people!
I've attended a couple so far, and the topics have included:
- My vacation (presented by someone who was visiting home)
- How well do you know me? A multiple choice quiz on the presenter's preferences on things like favorite childhood TV show
- The weird things I've seen working in hospitality
- My PHD thesis
- My last photo trip
- A rant about taxes and how the local metro area is too expensive
- My adventures with unpowered flight. Wings optional.
- What does your name mean and why are you not living up to it?
It's a fun way to get to know your friends, or to get to know your acquaintances.
If you've hosted or attended one, I'd like to hear about it! If you're interested, let's talk about it!
Why aren't you hosting one?
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The PS1 video game was in the animorphs TV show!
I like drunken Ted Talks too, so that might have to happen.
Now the trifecta would be a mock trial/debate club night.
My friends and I did this online during the pandemic. We called it "Turt Talks" (our group mascot is Google's old Turtle cartoon emojis, specifically the one sitting at a drum kit doing a rim shot), and covered subjects like "What is the best Pokemon to keep as a pet?" and "Birds aren't real".
Dropout.tv currently has a show called Smartypants that is basically this, with professional improv/standup comedians giving the talks. It's pretty hilarious.
Like, I work in managing print and the number of people who think PowerPoint and Canva should be used to make brochures is appalling. When I'm dictator of the world, these people will be first against the wall.
Jackbox is pretty great. A lot of their games are basically just "fuck around and laugh at the results".
It’s actually pretty fun
I was fond of the You Don't Know Jack series, and was pleased to discover that they've been continued, or at least have a spiritual successor of some sort.
Murder House Mystery Party is my favourite, with the 2nd version having some solid updates to the game.
Variations of Quiplash and T.K.O. come up fairly regularly as well.
Ever since early in the pandemic, I've been enjoying playing board games with a group of friends on Saturdays, and various Jackbox games are sometimes the focus of said game night, or an addendum if we wrap up the other games early. Sometimes it's custom Scattergories, or a variation on Trivial Pursuit they run that mixes up a series of categories, so you might be answering questions from Science and Nature, Seinfeld, Star Wars, Disney, Star Trek, and Lord of the Rings boxes.
Other times it's actual board games. Fortune and Glory, Last Night on Earth, A Touch of Evil, etc.
I calmly patiently clearly explained to them that, as someone in their 40's, PowerPoint is a testament to man's cruelty and that using it "for fun" is only something psychopaths would do
Their rebuttal was, "But all the transitions!"
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To be honest, the last thing I want to have to do before going to a party/gathering is homework. I can barely muster the will to prepare for my D&D games that I DM. I am not doing up slides and a presentation.
Yeah - different strokes I guess.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
That said, selling it as a "show and tell" us something you are interested in or would think is funny, can be a way to get more interest instead of scaring everyone off with the words "PowerPoint Presentation". Show and Tell is something you did in kindergarten. PowerPoint is the uncomfortable and awkward to use tool for the dreaded public speaking presentation.