MajorHavoc

It's the year of the Linux desktop! /s

But seriously, I think I'm going to buy a SteamDeck.

As a book and video game enthusiast, my unpopular opinion is that the average video game is a much better entertainment value than the average book.

I've played a lot of games and read a lot of books. When measuring dollars for hours, I think video games win.

On the one hand, I've put massive numbers of hours into titles like Zelda, Metroid, Harvest Moon, and Pokemon.

On the other hand, I've only gotten two or three read-throughs out of even some of my very favorite books.

And then the video game classics really put up some big numbers: after decades, I'm still enjoying PacMan, Frogger, and Galaga and their kin.

And then there's the elephant in the room: Tetris.

If I had to pick - on a desert island - between an e-reader with every book ever printed, or one copy of Tetris on a Gameboy...it would be an agonizing choice.

Yeah, as DM I've always house ruled that it didn't make sense for a character to fail at the thing they're the best at.

Though I have been known to interpret a natural 1 as a crazy external force - like an earthquake - and have them reroll at -10.

Makes it even more fun when they succeed anyway.

Indeed. And when players ask pointed questions to the only NPC who was anywhere near the scene of a crime:

Edit: "Well I heard it wasn't a guy in a hotdog suit. We can't know what to believe."

A lot of times and places they're free. But yeah, WTF.

Based on the responses in this thread we pay infinity percent more. There's a lot of $0.00 stories here.

Almost like the capital owners are the ones paying...

I feel like not enough people have seen "Secondhand Lions".

Yes. Everyone should get to see Doctor Strange love.

Oscar is so fun. It's funny that it seems like people either adore it or despise it.

Yeah. That is such a great film, and you almost never hear people talk about it.

"I'm the Blue Rajah! Not knifey boy!"

"I shovel better than anyone!"

"When you're invisible, you can feel it!"

Edit'?: "I was saving these for you wedding but... That seems... Well..."

"He just jumped into that wood chipper! Who does something like that?!"