Mandatory tutorial. When a video game forces you through tutorial that cannot be skipped. Usually tedious and grueling.
Steve: Did you check out that latest free to play game?
Bob: Only for about five levels. I spent thirty minutes in an unskippable tutorial before I quit out of boredom.
Steve: Ugh, Mandatorial. No bueno...
By Robin
Mandatory Fun
Fun, Mandatory: When the 1sg or CO (or their spouses) decide that the company's spouses and children are going to have a day set aside for them to have a family oriented even, and you are "invited" (I.E. no choice). you may not leave until the day is over, even though you live in the barracks and have no dependents of your own.
A social event put on by an organization having some form of authority over event attendees where those attendees are generally confronted with the dilemma of attending the social event or facing some generally undesired consequence.
A: "Sorry, but I can't go to the beach with you this weekend. My employer wants us to attend this team-building retreat. If I don't go to the retreat, I'm required to show-up at my workstation and perform my duties."
B: "Oh, so they want you to have some mandatory fun, huh? It's okay!"
By Cathrine
Mandatory Jello
A game played usually between two people in which one participant shouts "mandatory jello!" and collapses like said gelatinous substance towards the ground and towards the second partaker. The second person is required, per the rules of the game, to attempt to catch the fall-ee from falling. It has been suggested that this game is equivalent to a small scale trust fall (however much more fun and less therapuetic).
A humorous and satyrical, yet somewhat serious requirement coined through a frequently mis-hearing ear. It is a policy at the Labyrinth Press Company in downtown Jamestown, NY.
Hey man, you'd better hang one of your paintings up forsale here, it's mandatory art.
By Patricia
Mandatory Fun
When CTYers are forced into playing games, holding races, and other activities outside on the weekends instead of hanging out in their rooms. Prominent at CTYCarlisle, Pennsylvania.
I would love to talk more Mom, but mandatory fun is going to start at the ATSin ten minutes. This week, the theme is "Nintendo."