Sounds awesome, I love his writing.

Side note: If it could not involve any helmets like the one pictured which some lights into the eyes of the occupant that would be great! One of my constant irritations when I’m watching sci fi.

Been playing Slice and Dice mainly, simple and fits into everything else that’s going on in life. This week I beat it on hard mode, just the once but that’s more than ever before!

For people currently playing, how does it compare to something like Against the Storm or Dwarf Fortress?

I think it’s a fun game, I never get very far but it’s good to play, quick, amusing and you can gather all the bugs up into a bait ball for lots of profit 😁

God I love Wildermyth.

I’m currently in mourning because in the final play of the final chapter of my last campaign, my top level fighter got hit with compulsion, killed one of my mages, and my other fighter and then died herself. She left just one character, her wife, to bury the dead and appreciate the phryhic victory.

I do usually do that when they get into a game, watch some YouTube and try to skill up a bit! This one seems super complex though.

Exactly! I know it will make sense eventually!

A couple of people have mentioned ARAM so I’ll take a look. As with a lot of these games, I find assimilating information at speed is not my forte!

I’m currently playing turn based RPG, Wildermyth, if you want an idea how fast my mind goes!

I played Heroes of the Storm, back in the day, and really enjoyed it, it didn’t feel as complex as league did. I was similarly bad at it though!

I played (and lost) 3 games, no-one said or typed anything at all that I could see, though that may be an artefact of a super low elo game?

Sorry should have been more clear, I meant the one inside the battle, when you can buy items to help you in the game. Haven’t got as far as working out if you can pay to get better items on that list!

My lad has been pretty calm about playing it, and most other games but I’ll look out for the behaviour and language, thanks

Funnily enough I was talking to my teenagers on this exact subject last night. At a basic level, nms appears to have what Minecraft does, plus spaceships. Why doesn’t it work the same?

For us, we decided that nothing in Minecraft is difficult to get at the level you need it. Wood is easy, always there. When you learn that you need coal for torches, it’s just in that rocky outcrop. Start digging, here’s some iron for you.

In Minecraft you don’t need to understand anything complex, until you’re ready to understand something complex. And if you want to spend a week running around on the surface and collecting chickens, you can do that too.

I restarted a nms game the other day and remembered that constant “warning, warning” as the planet inevitably tries to kill me. It was disheartening.

Nope. I don’t think the way my mind works would ever have led me there!

And you did!

Don’t worry, you won’t get to 1000 hours in dwarf fortress without your world ending in magma fuelled mega death while the survivors get eaten by some zombie bull yaks.

I loved playing lemmings, it was about all my first computer could cope with!

That’s an impressive CIV time, I remember how time would pass so quickly trying to manage all of the parts of your empire! I don’t think I’ve ever had quite that same immersion again!

It’s also entirely possible that ‘liking video games’ is not the real reason he is struggling with dating, but because the initial reaction he receives is often dismissive, he believes that it is.

I mean, I’m an ugly bugger as well, maybe that’s counting against me 😂

Kudos to your grandfather for keeping that going!

I love the soccer pitch analogy! So true and the disadvantage of a home based hobby!

Great response, thanks. I can definitely see how people might want to avoid the perceived toxicity that might come with a particular hobby, be it gaming, football or whatever.