It’s funny that I just finished typing a response which echos yours to a great deal. Directed experiences have proven to be better game play moments than open world / open ended games.

Probably the opposite for me. I have no problems being done with a game, even if I’m not finished it. I constantly pick up and drop new games, however I usually have everything on a steam wishlist so I can justify it by waiting until it’s on sale.

I was mentioning this in regards to what has seemingly become my favourite genre; survival games. Very few of them have an end game of any sort. After a while, it just becomes a ‘try to sustain your exploding population’ game, if there’s any population growth like Surviving Mars or Banished, or a ‘what am I doing here…

Hmm, that may be the case, thanks for the reminder, I will have to check.

Hmm, that may be the case, thanks for the reminder, I will have to check.

We handled that by just putting out the plain bases as markers. Granted, we only had one type of creature spawning, so it falls apart if you have multiples, but that’s how we did it.

We handled that by just putting out the plain bases as markers. Granted, we only had one type of creature spawning,…

Same, I got into MtG right before revised edition, so my deck was a hodgepodge mix of old expacs, revised, and some of the old black borders. I got each of the artists at gen con in 1994 to sign one of their cards, and those are the only ones I have left now. Occasionally I run across them when I’m going through nerd…

Haha, we did the third mission with the Inox encampment and wiped at 11/20 mobs. The second time we tried strategy and communication instead and we finished it. I’m still getting the hang of spellweaver. I like the mechanics, but knowing when to use and when to spend my big hits is a learning experience.

Yup, I was never given an option about university when I was a kid (both my parents have masters degrees, and my step mother is a PhD). I was a week past my 18th birthday when university started, and never considered anything else. I looked down on trade school, or community college, but holy shit those paths are so…

I have to say, I don’t like the way the first letter writer talks down his intelligence. Education isn’t the litmus test for intelligence. Flaunting degrees is like telling people your IQ. It’s ultimately meaningless in most circumstances.

I’m in one of those moods where I keep restarting survival games, and then abandoning them once I get a comfortable set up going. I have to say I appreciate Frostpunk for that, in that the challenge stays consistent through the scenario. I know a lot of people didn’t like the small scenario aspect of the game, but…

Ooh, my Gloomhaven weekend was last week. Such fun. We’ve only a few scenarios in but we’re finally figuring out how to gel as a team.

On twitch, you pay to subscribe. I follow a number of people, but I only pay to subscribe to one. As another commenter noted, a lot of those may be also amazon prime accounts, which don’t autorenew, so it could possibly also be a number of those people not readding him to their subs.

I guess she’s going to have to pick a route where that doesn’t matter. She’s not banned at all, she’s a liability. In a world where there are options, she’s made herself a bad option. Nothing about her apology notes that this is something she’s going to change. She didn’t know she was being filmed, she was drunk, she…

Welp, she made herself a walking, talking liability. /shrug Whatever anyone wants to do to her is overshadowed by what she did to herself. Anyone who hires her on has to contend with the likelihood of having to make apologies to the nation the next time she gets drunk. And that’s 100% on her.

Well, as to the skill question of Last of Us, there’s a reason easy mode exists on the game, and having watched a fair few lets players play it, there are definitely people bad at the game. Fortnite requires more fast thought and flexibility, but TLoU isn’t a Telltale point and click adventure. And yes, I know you…

Well, plastic tends to last a long time, and it’s not like there will be a lot of people specifically searching it out at the old wal-marts. Not to mention other options in the medical or chemical field that would have the same function but may be made of sturdier stuff.

Don’t have to be married to a dude to have a kid. Just sayin’.

As a Russian Canadian, I feel conflicted here. ;)

Hey, there are MDs out there who believe black people don’t feel pain. There are MDs out there that believe women only pretend to be sick for attention. There are MDs out there who believe every problem is a result of weight gain or stress and not, for example, the cancer eating you up inside. There are MDs who…

The Japanese soldiers used to hold contests to see who could behead the most prisoners of war in WW2. Civilians were often tied up and used as bayonet practice, buried alive, or beheaded for fun. Thousands of women were used as sexual slaves, babies were beaten against rocks until their heads shattered. It was a…