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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024?
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 22:40:01 -0000 (UTC)
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Lane Larson <lnlarson@stoat.inhoin.edu> wrote at 15:01 this Saturday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 wrote:
>> JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 10:23 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> On 02/04/2024 18:20, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>> I find the games pretty varied, and extremely rewarding, but at times
>>>>> they can definitely get a bit much.  Breaking controllers throwing them
>>>>> out of frustration is a common meme of people playing these games.
>>>>
>>>> I absolutely can't stand super difficult games. Thanks, though.
>>>
>>> I used to enjoy games with big manuals and a steep learning curve when I
>>> was younger - the type of game where you have to spend at least an hour
>>> reading the manual and several hours playing just to get the basics of
>>> the game. Nowadays, totally different and I really want to be able to
>>> pick the basics in at most an hour and preferable far less than that.
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, exactly.
>> 
> I like difficult games, but not difficult-to-learn ones.  Like chess, 
> for example.  There's a handful of rules and practically infinite number 
> of possibilities.  Steep learning curve is not too important to me. 
> Maybe only Civilization of the games that I play has a learning curve 
> like this.  Why put all that time into learning some esoteric game when 
> chess is already strange enough.  I ask myself sometimes if learning 
> those moves like of the knight has any practical benefit.  Then you come 
> in with a 200 page manual and tell me to play Hearts of Iron III.


I hate chess, always feels like everyone is smarter and that sucks
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