Flamekebab @ Flamekebab @piefed.social

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I really don't buy this comparison at all. I think a better comparison would be to JRPGs - "it gets fun after 30 hours!" There's also the presumption that a game like chess must be fun and everyone will definitely enjoy it. I'm really glad you enjoy it, I find it irritating that I don't. However if the basics of it don't draw me in, and I see no ancillary value in learning how to play it to a higher level, why would I continue? The world is full of enjoyable diversions and not everything is for everyone. I enjoy playing football (as in soccer) but find watching it to be awful. If I invested enough time I could perhaps find myself engaged enough in the bigger picture, care about the minutia, but why? There's so many other things I found enjoyable from the outset. Reading included.

Pretty much the problem. It's very pure but I find that puts me off rather than draws me in. I kind of have the same problem with Quake 3!

If you're going to throw around an insult like that I'd like to see some working. I find chess boring, I'm not a fucking fascist.

The pared-down nature of chess really puts me off. I'm sure there's some elegant simplicity in it but I mostly find it dull. I like an element of randomness in my games.

Chess doesn't feel like a gateway to other, more fun games, and if it's not a fun game for me, why would I pursue it? I'm fairly sure it doesn't build skills that translate to anything else.

I also get that there are layers to it, although I'm adding that as apparently that's not so self-evident as to be taken as read. I can see where the path leads and find it no more appealing than the obnoxiously boring gambling machines in casinos, or Dota2, or athletics. Learn the meta, build an understanding of the underlying concepts in order to be able to build more complex strategies based on a combination of instinctive statistical analysis and assessment of your opponent, etc. etc.. I get it, I'm just not interested.

Edit: oh that's interesting, some of you have gone into my profile and systematically downvoted my older comments. That's what I get for not just blocking a Lemmy.ml user as soon as they chimed in.

I thought it was just the lads in my flat that called them eeeeeeeeeeeepeecees!

In all seriousness - why isn't it? It's definitely intangible cultural heritage.

The last full-price AAA game I bought cost £34.99 in 2001. That's about £64 adjusted for inflation and that's about $85 (US) at current exchange rates.

Interesting.

Bojack Horseman!

smothers it with a towel and stuffs it into an oven

Or sitting in a cupboard off-gassing, oozing, and generally making the home a safer environment.

It does remind me of the Acts of Gord's use for an N64 - as a doorstop with a note saying "This is all I am good for."

Oh! Ewaste! So kind of you...

I've yet to encounter a single Atari 2600 game that was worth more than 30 seconds of my time.

Considering I have 827 games on Steam, the figure of $1620.26 doesn't seem too bad. Now I've probably bought a load more bundles bumping that up, but there's no convenient way to figure out how much that adds (let's round to $2000). I've had the account 18 years, 9 months.

So that's... $8.89 per month.

Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable.

I've been playing (and loving) Fallout London. It turns out that the pokey little locations in their games are Bethesda's fault. The engine does still suck, but it doesn't have to suck as much as it does in their hands. London is huge!

KeyWe?

I'm always perplexed when I see porn videos with titles that use the continuous present rather than the simple present. One would have thought that the simple present would be the basic stuff for English as a second language, rather than the much less useful continuous present.

Makes sense, I suppose. I've heard the term "book burners" but never "book banners". Not that it doesn't make sense but given that they're carrying flaming torches...

Banners?

There's a few I've noticed in the last seven years or so - lots of Americans can't seem to conjugate "run". It results in horrible sentences like "I used to ran this game" or "I have ran this event before". No idea why that's happening but squirt those people with a plant mister.

It's even worse than people who don't finish the words they're writing "suppose to" and the like. In the brine with thee!

I guess I don't get to play either of their exclusive games.