Javalasers

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  1. New people: Read this, say hi.

    Hi, Idle Forum. I'm a long-time gamer and new dad who discovered the Idle Thumbs podcast while I was on paternity leave. With all the time I spend working and parenting, there's not too much time to actually play games at the moment. Instead, I find myself mostly reading (and listening to) other peoples' thoughts about games. This has been unexpectedly fun and satisfying! :-) That said, two great things have already happened in my life as a direct result of Idle Thumbs: The podcast discussion was so reminiscent of the best conversations I used to have with my gaming friends that I got motivated to try to create more discussion like this in my life. So I started a gaming "book club" at work, and it's been wonderful thus far. Each month, we pick one game that we'll all try to play (not necessarily finish).[1] Then at the end of the month we have lunch in a conference room, talk in-depth about our experiences, and pick the game for the next month. There's also a lot of good hallway chatter about the game-of-the-month every day. Many of my colleagues were very into games, including a few former game developers. But everyone was time-constrained, and almost no one happened to be playing the same game at the same time. Converging as a group on one game each month has made gaming way more enjoyable for all of us. I stumbled upon the Terminal 7 podcast, which solidified an interest in Android: Netrunner, which got me raving about it all the time at work, which got 10 coworkers into the game (thus far). :-) Anyway, this silly Video game podcast has felt like such a big, positive part of my life lately that I decided to hop on the forums and engage a bit more deeply. For reference, my head-narration for this entire email has been Chris's impatient get-through-the-long-reader-mail voice. [1] - Games picked in our group so far: Super Metroid(!), SimCity 2000, Half-Life 2, Bioshock: Infinite.