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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2533 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 22, 2024

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So, what are you playing? What are you reading?

I've been playing Civilization 5 over the last week. I finished a game on the second highest difficulty. :) Science victory. I let my embittered rival have some nukes to his population centers before we left this planet. I'll probably leave the game installed and play another campaign in a month or two. I've never tried a faith-first route. Might play Ethiopia or the Maya.

I'm reading five books these days. Usually I stick to one of them for a few days and then mix it up. Three books on finance, one on memory (Charan Ranganath's very recent book), and a Dostoevsky. Enjoying them all.

Finally got rolling with Baldur's Gate 3. I had started it up when it came out and I just didn't really enjoy the mechanics, largely because I don't play anything tabletop and was thinking of it as a tactics game more in line with something like XCOM with spells. That's not how the game works at all! When I restarted, I settled on just building a barbarian to limit my options with regard to incompetence, enjoyed it decently, learned the systems better, and now find that I like it pretty well (at the start of Act 3).

That's not how the game works at all!

How does it work?

It's a slightly gamified version of D&D 5e. An accurate representation of the roleplaying game, but it diminishes how fun it is. (The lack of simulataneous turns is the real killer.)

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