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[doctorbadwolf]

And even if you could, why would you?

D&D doesn't need a Warlord class.

Definitely not, but a Captain class would benefit the game more than the Cleric, Barbarian, Sorcerer, Bard, or Fighter, class does.

 

[CleverNickName]

Unpopular opinion, especially here in the Pacific Northwest:

Summer is the worst season, and it's not even close.

Keep your wildfires, allergy attacks, sunburns, mosquitoes, crowded beaches, dust, fireworks at all hours, crowded highways, heat waves, crowded trails, and poison ivy. Give me back those quiet rainy mornings, fuzzy scarves, crackling fireplaces, fresh apples, cozy sweaters, empty sidewalks, and pumpkin-spiced everything.

 

[Jd Smith1]

The cost-per-hour thing is pretty interesting.

The best value in my Steam library by far is Stardew Valley. I bought it for $12 a few years ago, and I've played it for 2,210 hours (and counting), so it breaks down to about half a penny per hour.

The second-best value is Subnautica. I bought it while it was still in Early Access for $20, and I've played it 1103 hours...almost two cents per hour.

And it looks like the third-best value is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. I bought this one twice (the regular version and the 64-bit version), and both times I paid the release price. (I was young and foolish.) I also bought the DLCs for their release price. In all, it looks like I spent $113.97 on a game that I've played for 1332 hours, about 9 cents per hour.

The worst value for a game that I bought was Red Dead Redemption 2, which I paid full price ($60) for because my buddies wanted to meet up online and play together during the pandemic lockdowns. The online gaming never happened, but I still ended up playing it for 82 hours by myself before I put it down. That's $0.73 per hour--less than the "dollar per hour" cutoff, but almost a hundred times more expensive than other games on my list.

(I just checked, and RDR2 is still full price on Steam, four years later. Yeah, good luck with that.)

RDR 2 is great, but like the RD series, the locked-in campaign progression inhibits solo replay, IMO.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It's so weird. Looking at my Steam history, except for a few outliers (Bethesda RPGs and similar mostly) I play most ga.es for about 30 or so hours. I don't even finish that many. But I'm okay with that.

I am looking forward to pouring a whole lot more than that into BG3 and Starfield and eventually going back to Diablo 4.

Yeah I'm kind of amazed that I finished Breath of The Wild. I never complete open world games. I find them impossibly tedious after a while. But BOTW I had no problem going back to the main quest when wandering and such got boring, or teleporting around Hyrule to fight Guardians and take their parts or whatever when the main quest wasn't doing it for me.

I think it's that BOTW is still an action adventure game, rather than the sort of RPG represented by games like Skyrim.

I don't finish many games, though. I think I can list all of them

Final Fantasy 7, 9, and 10, Assassin's Creed 2 and 3, BOTW, Dragon Age Origins and 2 (Inquisition has too much fetch and gather grinding in big open ended maps. I get tired of being there. Give me a mod that makes those maps more linear somehow, or makes my companions auto-gather stuff, and I might finish it), I think Final Fantasy 1, and the one with the magitech mechs that starts with magic not being believed in, maybe the one with Cecil, 5 RPGMaker games in the style of final fantasy that were a saga set in the same world with large time jumps...can't recall the name, and I think that's it.

However many hours sunk into Skyrim, and I doubt I ever got half way through it.

Oh! Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger!


30 years of playing video games, that's a weak record lol

 

[Velderan]

Unpopular opinion, especially here in the Pacific Northwest:

Summer is the worst season, and it's not even close.

Keep your wildfires, allergy attacks, sunburns, mosquitoes, crowded beaches, fireworks at all hours, crowded highways, heat waves, crowded trails, and poison ivy. Give me quiet rainy mornings, scarves, fireplaces, fresh apples, cozy sweaters, empty sidewalks, and pumpkin-spiced everything.

Equally unpopular of an opinion here in Minnesota. The thing is I can put on extra layers to deal with the cold. I can only take off so many layers of clothing in the summer before the cops get involved. I'm now not allowed at that park, which also makes summer less enjoyable.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Unpopular opinion, especially here in the Pacific Northwest:

Summer is the worst season, and it's not even close.

Keep your wildfires, allergy attacks, sunburns, mosquitoes, crowded beaches, fireworks at all hours, crowded highways, heat waves, crowded trails, and poison ivy. Give me back those quiet rainy mornings, fuzzy scarves, crackling fireplaces, fresh apples, cozy sweaters, empty sidewalks, and pumpkin-spiced everything.

As someone in Central California...you are objectively correct. The margin is enormous.

I'd rather fight someone in a parking lot than go through another summer, but unfortunately no amount of blood sports will keep the summer from kicking in the door and making everyone uncomfortable for way too long before finally leaving for a few months.

 

[Scribe]

Unpopular opinion, especially here in the Pacific Northwest:

Summer is the worst season, and it's not even close.

Keep your wildfires, allergy attacks, sunburns, mosquitoes, crowded beaches, dust, fireworks at all hours, crowded highways, heat waves, crowded trails, and poison ivy. Give me back those quiet rainy mornings, fuzzy scarves, crackling fireplaces, fresh apples, cozy sweaters, empty sidewalks, and pumpkin-spiced everything.

Yes please.

I can do with (and would like) 1 week of Summer. Keep all the tourists at home, give me a week to feel the sun, and then get back to the only good seasons of Spring/Fall.

(I've grown to despise the winters here though, I'll take my frozen north over what passes as winter here.)

 

[CleverNickName]

And even if you could, why would you?

Remember, I'm the guy who wants/needs only four classes.

 

[Maxperson]

I thought that Battlestar Galactica was a myth made up to frighten our children.

Nah. That's Galaga, but I can see the confusion.

 

[Maxperson]

The old BSG was better than the reboot BSG. Not only did it not take itself seriously, it had better writing in places. Especially the Pegasus plot. Which they utterly flubbed in the reboot. Any story that ends with “it was all a dream” or “these characters are really Adam and Eve” is bad.

I don't agree that the old series was better. The new one was amazing.............................at least until the last season where it's all a cycle and got super religious.