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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2021-07-12 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] aldabra 2021-07-12 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
(Twitter won't give me the board game rant unless I, er, postpend a "/" to the url.)
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[personal profile] naath 2021-07-12 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
ok, it's sad for beard games publishers (and chip manufactures and and and); it is also sad for people stuck for MONTHS in the wrong country, or ON A BOAT because of the stupid pandemic. Pretty sure the containers and ships and sailors are all in the wrong places, and there is a global shortage of cardboard. Lets require shipping firms to charge last years' prices because you, dear author, had never even though that shipping half way 'round the globe (and just how ludicrous is it that we routinely expect to be able to) would never be more than 2k per container in your multi-year business plan. Sure, lets be sad, but I think sailors deserve a living wage and some time off at actual home.
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[personal profile] ninetydegrees 2021-07-12 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Can People Still Play the Same Computer Games as They Get Older?"

Nice article. I really appreciate games with several difficulty levels, particularly when you can switch freely between them whenever you want, assistance and accessibility options. Both for myself because sometimes I don't want to spend hours trying to kill a boss again and again, and for my 70+ parents as I can recommend better games for them. One thing the article doesn't mention, I think, is the difficulty in remembering controls and combos as you age. Games where you have to remember everything are difficult for my parents.

Hopefully, the 'purist' 'this spoils the game' discourse from certain devs and gamers will quiet down as gamers age.

[personal profile] anna_wing 2021-07-13 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
The whole "do you feel religious" question is a bit strange, and perhaps based on a rather culturally specific attitude towards the supernatural.

In so many contexts, religious practice is social practice; it's something you do, not something that you have strong emotional reactions to.

"Today is the X Festival, we will all go along to the temple and do this traditional thing, and then go home for lunch and eat this traditional food, and then we will play videogames all afternoon", or someone may keep a roadside shrine to a traffic accident victim dusted because it's next to their house and that's just the proper thing to do, or the office administrator will put up a little fence and a "Do Not Disturb" sign around a tree known to be occupied by spirits.

Calling that "feeling religious"...feels odd.
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