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PowerPoint Drinking Game

What good are the many pleasures of alcohol if they can not serve to relieve the tedium of a PowerPoint presentation?

The Booze
The most difficult part of any office drinking game is consuming alcohol without raising suspicion. If you have an opaque container, your choice of beverage is unlimited. If you've got a clear water bottle, vodka, (strained) Goldschlager or Everclear will work. If you're limited to a coffee mug, add a little coffee to a hard liquor of your choosing to pull off a convincing look. Always remember: Kahlua is for pussies.

Technical Difficulties (1 drink)
Players drink at the first signs of any type of technical snafu, including but not limited to...

Screen saver kicks on.
Any error message (BSOD = finish your drink. You've now got time to go get a fresh one).
"How is it that our conference room doesn't have ANY electric outlets??"

Bullet Points (1 drink)

Every slide containing bullet points gets you

one step
closer
to complete
liver failure.

Comic Sans (1 drink)
Nothing screams "severely unbalanced mental state" like using Comic Sans. If there are players in the room who are not familiar with common fonts, a subtle dry heave can serve as a signal to all that it's time to drink up.

Scripting (1 drink)
All PowerPoint presentations suck more than any presentation could ever suck in all of suck-landia but it's only that much more painful when the presenter couldn't care less about preparation. It's OK to have note-cards in hand. It's even OK to have a script in front of you, to be read verbatim. It's NOT OK to have every damn word of your presentation on screen. If you treat us like kindergartners, we will drink like kindergartners. And kindergartners drink fucking HARD.

Typos (1 drink)
Spotting a misspelling in a presentation isn't always easy because we all make mistakes. Luckily, PowerPoint has a built in spell-checker and screams "Drink up, fuckers" with triumphant, squiggly red underlines.

Irrelevant/Unnecessary Clip Art (1 drink)
Some common examples...

A slide mentioning "emails" features some sort of shitty envelope with an cursor or a big fat "@"
Shaking hands - because cooperation is a nearly impossible concept for killer pirates like yourself.
A globe - because nobody knows what the hell that crazy Earth looks like.
Jesus - Jesus Christ.

The Recap (finish your drink)
What does it say when a presentation has a recap? It either says "This thing was so damn long, I expect you've already forgotten most of it" or "Check it out. I could have done this whole thing in one friggin' slide!"

Credit to my wife for helping create the concept (as she prepped for a "dry" PowerPoint presentation).

Forgiveness for the creators of shitty presentations: If you Google "PowerPoint Presentations", the very first result is PETE'S POWER POINT STATION. Go there. Look around. Go ask your mom why the world is such a horrible place.