[Earning money playing games]

I can't imagine ever being happy gaming to earn money. It's one of my hobbies: I don't want to turn it into a job!

[Which game can you go back to over and over again and not get tired of?]

Railroad Tycoon II... it came out in 1998; I got it in 2002; and I still play it today 😛 . 

I think the gameplay still holds up - and while the graphics don't exactly look 'modern', I think they've aged pretty well 🙂 

[Lance Reddick, known for his roles in video games Destiny and Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West, dies aged 60. RIP]

RIP, Lance Reddick 😢 . My condolences to his friends and family.

I hope John Wick: Chapter 4 has a very successful run at the box office in his honour. 

[If you were given the opportunity to try a dish that was made from a combination of chocolate and savory ingredients like bacon or cheese, would you be willing to try it? Why or why not?]

I did something like this 😛 . I once mixed chocolate milk with Tabasco sauce to see what it would taste like, and it was... not as bad as I feared.

 

Didn't have it again, though.

[Can video games be a good distraction when going through a traumatic time in your life?? :(]

Yeah, definitely. I find they can be very immersive, and thus have high 'escapement value' from real life - especially if they're fantasy-themed!

Although, I suppose one disadvantage is that, once the traumatic time is over, I might grow to associate the game with the traumatic time. (For example, one thing that dampens my enjoyment of Transport Fever is that it was my main lockdown game!)

[Does gaming overpower television?]

To me: not at all. I mostly play strategy games - but they require mental energy, and sometimes, I don't have that. In these cases, I'd much rather sit down in front of the TV 😛 .

Besides, a narrative you can control is rarely going to be as compelling as a narrative from a well-made film or TV show!

[How does it make you feel when modders use real retro devices in their builds?]

Kinda sad from a "loss of historical value" perspective - but, I assume this would only be done on ones that currently aren't valuable anyway. (And sure, they might be valuable in 10 or 20 years... but, destruction of most of them is the process by which the remaining few become valuable in the first place 😛 ) 

 

And, if it makes them work better... that has to be better than them sitting unused, or being thrown out and recycled.

[Last Game Played]

Transport Fever, which I played yesterday.

[Is RGB important?]

2 hours ago, killamch89 said:

The issue I have is when they literally have it on everything. Their gaming chair, around the frame of the monitor, on the walls. It's almost like a disco dance floor in their gaming area. The fact that it's practically useless also annoys me.

Yeah, at that point, it just looks really tacky 😛 .

Admittedly, my current laptop has it - but it was a complete non-factor in my decision to get that specific laptop.

[Last Game Played]

Transport Fever... only did a couple of in-game years, but it took me about two hours!

[All books online]

Yeah... I think "All books should be free" is hopelessly idealistic. Implement that, and you'll find that far fewer books get written (and the quality of those that [i]do[/i] get written will likely go down). 

As for whether all books should be on the internet... if publishers have the means to digitise them, then I'd like to see them doing so. The more accessible they are, the better!

[Would you rather eat a bowl of cereal with orange juice instead of milk or a sandwich with ketchup instead of mayo?]

38 minutes ago, killamch89 said:

Some people just don't like it - I don't have a problem with it at all and as a matter of fact, when I make chicken sandwiches, I usually use ketchup anyways.

Ketchup on a sandwich is delicious except if it's something like a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. I'm not sure I want to explore that one either.

Yeah, can't say I'd be too enthusiastic about adding ketchup to a PB&J either. Ketchup has its place, and PB&Js have their place... but their place is not together.

[Would you rather eat a bowl of cereal with orange juice instead of milk or a sandwich with ketchup instead of mayo?]

Yeah, the only time I've had cereal with orange juice was when I ran out of milk, and couldn't be bothered getting more before breakfast 😛 . It... wasn't nice.

I've never had ketchup on a sandwich, so I guess I'd take a chance on that 😛 .

[If you were stranded on a deserted island and had to choose between eating a raw octopus or a poisonous mushroom to survive, which would you choose and why?]

Yeah, I think I'm on the octopus's side on this one... it was only trying to protect itself from being eaten (and not just eaten, but eaten alive!)

Myself, I don't even consider poisonous mushrooms to be food, so I'd take a chance on the raw octopus... although I would do everything in my power to stop it from fighting!

[Did you miss an era?]

I never fully missed an era - but, I didn't get any games from the late 1990s when they were new, because we still had an old computer with a 100MHz processor that couldn't run them.

I did get a few of those games later on, after we'd upgraded our computer - but this was in the 2000s (by which point they were no longer new).

[Last Game Played]

Transport Fever

[If you had to wear a different silly hat every day for the rest of your life, what would be your favorite and why?]

How about a nice ten-gallon cowboy hat 😛 ?

[Is RGB important?]

Not really... it's nice to have, I guess - but I'm certainly not going to pay extra just to get it.

[Last Game Played]

The Sims 4... something other than Transport Fever, at long last!

[Since when you were a kid?]

Not a massive amount, really. I mostly grow up with music from the 1960s and 1980s, so that's what my favourites have always been. I used to hate modern pop music - but now, I merely think it's 'meh' 😛 .

(I'm still not a fan of hip-hop, though... I've never liked it!)

[Morality Question - Is murder ever justified?]

If someone was trying to rape a female family member, and the only way I could stop them would be by killing the would-be rapist... I would do it in a heartbeat. 

However, I do not believe that killing them would be a good thing to do, or even an okay thing to do. I just believe it would be a necessary thing to do. 

The defence rests entirely on the fact that it's the only way to stop an innocent person from coming to serious harm. If there was some other, non-lethal, means of achieving the same result, then I would be morally obliged to use the non-lethal means instead. A necessary evil, without the necessity, just becomes plain evil.

[Hey, Hi, Hello...]

Welcome aboard, Sean! I hope you enjoy this place 🙂 .

[If you could bring any Gaming character to life, who would it be and why?]

Let's go with the Medic from Team Fortress 2.

Yes, I know the guy would be an absolutely horrible doctor: I certainly wouldn't want him playing tricks with my internal organs. But his Medi Gun would be insanely useful, if we could just get it into someone else's hands!!!

[Which game release was the biggest letdown?]

Civilization: Beyond Earth was quite a let-down for me. 

I'd always enjoyed Civilization V, and I'd heard good things about Alpha Centauri - so, when I heard there was going to be a modern sci-fi-based Civilization game, I hoped it would combine the best bits of those two games. Unfortunately, it didn't really do that: it didn't depart too much from the Civ 5 formula; the sci-fi elements were pretty shallow; and the game itself was very unbalanced (trade route spam was the way to win).

To be fair, things did get better: a series of patches fixed the balance issues, and then the [i]Rising Tide[/i] expansion helped it to feel more like its own game. But by that point, it was too late: most of the player base had abandoned it, and there were no further expansions.

[Progrumz]

Welcome aboard, Progrumz! I hope you enjoy this place 🙂 .