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What about this book is so impressive? I've never understood it. I just finished it confused and vaguely annoyed. Maybe you need some specific life background or something to get it?

That's a great story juffowup (great reference in the username too). I forgot to mention my three-year-old's absolute favourite games right now: ridiculous fishing and the Get On Top prototype from the sportsfriends kickstarter.

The wizard/knight books were huge disappointments to me, coming off Wolfe's amazing short fiction and the New Sun books. The only other book that came close to being as interesting in the s/f/antasy realm is Vance's Dying Earth stuff, which also tickles my brain in that same pre-apocalyptical nodule.

Assuming that you're in it more for the long haul, ensuring personality compatibility seems to be higher priority, so good job. The sexiness gets mostly taken care of via pheromones automatically anyway so why bother?

Yeah, so banning the graphical calcs makes sense, but not the low-level ones.

I think the idea is that internalising knowledge is the purpose of school so that there's no time/effort-expensive lookup step for things that should be basic. This has some merit to my mind. The issue is of course that people disagree which things are basic enough that they should be memorised.

There's some amazing things coming out as far as teaching children to program goes. I'm chomping at the bit to see how well my eldest does. 3 is a bit young because she can only do letters, not words and most systems do need some word knowledge.

No joke, that's probably the reason.

The riddle in Ismail's piece is just too good.

Fascinating! Something about venomous snakes, metallic materials and astrological observations. What the what.

Great blog post from one of the Vlambeer guys. Pre-empts a lot of the stalking head nonversation.

I'll speak for Radiant Historia being excellent. It subverts a great amount of tired RPG tropes, most notably things like incompetence in characters.

I quite like it! I'd prefer more emphasis on the historical part because frankly I'm not that interested in this particular game or how a given person plays it - that might be different for other games however. Stretches of silence while someone slices up brits/guards/whatever are not really what I'd expect or prefer. Suggested games: Mount and Blade, any of the Paradox games, especially Crusader Kings 2

No manual will beat Fallout's if you ask me. The only game manual I've hung onto.

I use charge boots, dwarven mobility race card and a lot of step attack weapons. That automatically tends to lend itself to penetrating, which tends to be my weapon type of choice anyway.

Dear Lord :psyduck:

I used to think this way, but now I see it as somewhat of a false dichotomy. Since I started regularly taking pictures of things, I find myself a lot more consciously realising that hey, this moment is great and worth remembering. The extra analysis loop of 'would this make a good photo' has the secondary effect (for me at least) of making me also continually take stock of things and gaining a greater appreciation of them than if I was just going on autopilot, as it were. This is of course completely besides the social media thing which I frankly have very little interest in.

That's kind of what one should expect these days when buying games on consoles anyway? Maybe it will be different in the new generation.

If you like Tiger! Tiger! I think The Forever War might also be right up your alley. Also maybe check out the Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe for just amazing writing.

Last sunday of the month is coming up again btw Rodi, boardgames day at our house

Chalk one more up in the "looks gorgeous but what even is going on?" column. I'd love to give it a go.

Man, using the 'games not owned' filter is kind of depressing (probably in a good way) there. I already have all the good stuff.

Huh, this is actually making me consider getting a vita.

My 3-year old daughter likes to wander around Proteus for about 30 minutes. She also loves to play dressup with my Dark Souls characters, and running around Firelink Shrine and falling off the cliff there. We have Colors on the DS for her to draw with (better than capacitive touchscreens because the fine motor skills of gripping a pen/stylus have been shown to aid cognition). Overall we limited screen time to zero up to about 18 months, having read some research that showed adverse effects. Now it's no more than 1 hour a day. She's always interested when I'm doing something colourful on the computer which means I actually have to get off it frequently, which is probably good for us all. My basic attitude is: she's going to get so much exposure to this stuff naturally that I see no need to push it on her, and rather feel it important to show her the other things in life. We carved a pumpkin, made a kite, painted, that sort of thing lately. Physicality is still more important than virtuality, at least to me.