
Video Games and Other Diversions
Two's Complement
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XCOM: A New Generation of Tactical Games
I really liked the XCOM world. Aliens and sort of proto military and all of these other things. And I actually like it's not even like one of the XCOM games. It's the whole franchise. Right. The whole progression from you know, this is the US government and there's these tiny little alien visions to a modern incarnation where aliens have taken over the world. You're basically fighting a guerrilla war. Everything in between there and that the whole world, I think, is just really kind of interesting and immersive and it just sort of locks you in. Like D&D for me - tactical combat mechanics are exactly what you're doing when you're rolling the 20s and Dungeons and
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