Generally, I’m not allowed to talk to the students at Maribou’s job. Occasionally, I get told that this one or that one is okay for a particular topic (usually video games) and I am allowed to start a genteel conversation (THAT DOES NOT EXPLORE ANYTHING ELSE!) while I wait for Maribou to finish up whatever she’s doing before she and I go out to dinner or back home or whatever.
One of the kids that I’m allowed to talk to about video games was working the counter and Maribou had to finish up some emails or something so I idly started up a conversation with the kid behind the counter.
“Have you heard about Pillars of Eternity?”
The kid’s brow wrinkled in thought. “I’ve heard the name but not really much more about it.”
“Do you know the game Baldur’s Gate?”
The kid’s face brightened. “Yeah! My dad plays that!”
“Yeah, well. Tell him to play Pillars.”
All that to say: I am old. And I like Pillars a lot. (It not only reminds me of Baldur’s Gate, it reminds me of Fallout! I’m sure that dad plays that too.)
So… what are you playing?
(Photo is “The Game” taken by Mo Riza, used under a creative commons license.)
What am I playing? Geocaching this morning at a rest area in Nebraska. Started this game/hobby at the urging of my oldest daughter last fall. I don’t have a great number of finds yet but the ones I have are spread all over the country. Literally coast to coast.Report
I would think you have an almost perfect profession for that.Report
Yes and no. It’s good for picking up caches as part of a nice little break in my day. A little exercise, stretch my legs. But I’m pretty much limited to caches within reasonable walking distance from truck parking. So mostly rest areas and pull-offs for historical markers and such. But yeah, a fair number of truckers do this.
When I’m home we like to go caching as a family activity, too.Report
Why were characters in 80s breakfast food commercials such terrible people?Report
It was the 80s. Everyone was terrible.Report
Maybe the breakfast foods were an allegory for scoring your next hit of coke, which is breaking a different type of fast.Report
I am also playing Pillars. My first character was a Druid, but I was not enjoying it. I started over with a cipher, and I am enjoying the class more.Report
Monks! Monks, monks, and more monks. You want to play solo, then you want to play with a monk.
That’s my philosophy.Report
Golf! It’s finally temperate enough to play here in the Windy City and I’m making the most of it.Report
I am playing Survivalist, which is the zombie survival rebuilt society game I wanted State of Decay to be, but wasn’t.Report
Short answer:
I want a Civ IV.V.
I like the leaders from Civ IV, and the greater number of civilizations. And the espionage screen.
OTOH, Civ V has city-states, giant death robots, hex grid, and a few other tweaks I really like.
That said, I will probably need a new computer to run Civ VI.Report
I like the city-states but I don’t like that you can only take like two of them before they all unite against you. The whole point of the city-states is that they try to play the larger powers off one another and cause wars. But when they all unite against you, it’s just a huge war and you become the big meanie and the whole world unites against you all at once to save poor little Ragusa who really had it coming anyway.
I like the giant death robots. Damn cool.
Other than that, not having the ability to stack dozens of units and expend truly obscene amounts of war materiel takes a bit of my joy away.
And while it should be tough to build a Wonder of the World, it should also be possible to do so without crippling your entire civilization, else what’s the point of having them?
Neutral on hex versus square tiles.
I preferred Civ IV to Civ V.Report