Basically.

As opposed to current games, which are primarily about crushing poverty and cobbling together meals from scavenged fast food remains.

I always thought of it as a way for elementary school kids to practice math in a fun format. But then, I've never, truly, ever actually finished a Monopoly game, and everyone always has some kind of house rules since nobody seems to ever want to read the real rules. Nobody ever plays the "auction" rule. Everyone has some kind of "free parking wins you stuff" rule.

It is a tremendously effective time-waster. I don't know if anyone else remembers a childhood before videogames or cable TV (gasp!), but by about the fifth week of summer break, a kid would run out of things to do, and would become desperate for any activity that might consume a chunk of the day. Monopoly was marginally better than eating paint chips for two hours; in fact that was their slogan.

Monopoly has actual rules? I thought it was just a random dice rolling game that people played until the power came back on.

If you follow the actual rules then when a person lands on a property if they don't buy it everyone bids on it immediately afterwards, and the game only lasts an hour or two. The problem is that people don't follow the fucking rules and make up their own game-breaking ones.

I've always found Monopoly to be more about negotiation than math

The reason monopoly never seems to end is because people are always too nice and cut whoever is losing breaks. If you play it cut throat like you're supposed to it only lasts an hour.

Adram gets my stars, this video: anotsomuch

The free parking rule is the worst in terms of prolonging things. It's almost as if randomly giving out money from the bank prevents anyone from going bankrupt.

Wasn't there some Rock Band video where people were contesting to get the lowest score possible?

Rick, that is absolutely the most boring thing anyone could ever say whilst playing Monopoly.

:(

For you, glendower.

Do you have a YouTube channel I can subscribe to?

Are you Batman ?

Yakoo says you gotta do the monopoly by the book. You know you can't be lazy.

Yay-uh!

This was actually kind of my reaction. I just ain't write a fuckin' paragraph about it.

Visualize getting out of the house more often

My hometown manufactured its own version about 15 years ago. It features 6 (!) different hot dog stands and about a dozen businesses and sports teams, more than half of which closed/left less than 2 years after it was released. Monopoly may have ruined our local economy.