Interesting Links for 12-07-2021

[andrewducker]

Lothian Drop-in Vaccination Clinic Locations (including the mobile ones)

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Board games companies are completely fucked right now

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Least Religious Countries 2021

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Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers

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Can People Still Play the Same Computer Games as They Get Older?

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Comments

[melchar]

Sorry. A 'twitch' game is any kind of game that is played by reacting to movement on the screen & requires quick reflexes to play. Most 'first person shooter' games are twitch games, as an example.

All of the games that I referenced, OTOH, are games that are turn-based. I can start the turn in 'SM's Alpha Centauri' [as an examples] - and while there will be more and more things that happen in a 'turn', as more forces are deployed & cities are built - the game politely lets you make each choice, one at a time & there is no time pressure to make quick and rapid decisions.

A game like that, or like the game 'Final Fantasy X' [and the rest], can be left at mid decision point, or mid-battle - while I run off to make dinner or visit the loo & I will come back to find the game still waiting for me. With a 'twitch'/aka reflex game, sometimes pausing to blink, sip water or adjust the mouse cord means that you die in a sudden barrage of weapon fire.

My point was that IMO the person making their written claim was speaking about one category of games, while including every other game by inference when they wrote about 'gaming' and 'gamers' as a monolithic thing.