The real joke is, even this is probably more complicated than it needs to be.

100% with this.

I'm especially impressed with the "no social comment" idea on a game that is specifically 100% about and based on social interactions, and has rewards for carrying out social actions.

What if they're free?

Any maps at all… global, local, real, imaginary…

In all honesty, there's probably a lot of personal history (and then being a teenager) to this preference too:

Hey, I never said it was an argument I agreed with, it just struck me as an obvious one to make.

It's about the looseness and wetness.

Damn you for making me use Translate then realise "well, obviously you numbnuts, what did you think "sacculum" was going to be?"

Interesting question, and I've had a wee bit of 'herbal enhancement' now so apologies if this gets waffly… ;)

In spite of any other differences, I hope we can all agree that The Aeneid is a bag of shite? ;)

Just on Galactica and Starbuck.

They blend into one for me, from memory, I think Restaurant… is my individual favourite but it's been at least a decade so I can't be sure…

You can make that argument for sure (and one of the infidelities does actually help his men, Circe IIRC). I mostly just can't ever forgive him for the lotus eaters thing so I'm inclined to judge him badly on everything.

Oh, it's interesting and has great value for sure, but it's not a good read. If I'm going to go with those kind of criteria then my favourite books are (by an absolute mile) a decent dictionary and an atlas (especially one with historical maps).

"I think it's a semantics argument."

With total honesty, top of my head based on my personal enjoyment and absolutely no trading on reputation (no particular order):

I think most people prefer the Odyssey. It's more of an actual "story" if that makes sense. FWIW even though Achilles is the protagonist in the obvious sense, my hero of the book is Hector. Also, I love the sneaky nod to "these kings and princes are all just screwing us over" that is Thersites.

A bit like the Bible, I suspect that most people who've actually read it (instead of being told about it) see it for the bullshart that it is.

Not least because The Iliad is infinitely better than the Odyssey.