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For a few years now, Games to me has been the Vita thread, the Fallout New Vegas thread, and anything XCOM. Other threads do not exist, largely because my Vita is my only gaming device; I read the Fallout and XCOM threads out of fond remembrance. One time I read the Pillars of Eternity thread but that was only to complain about how long it took for me to receive my physical copy (I received it late July because I am on an island--the internet is not reliable enough to download anything, and the other month we ran out of rice for several weeks). Of course the game doesn't work on my machine, but that's perhaps my fault as one of my laptops is rather old and the other lacks a disk drive. Perhaps in a year or so I will get the chance to enjoy it. Overall I feel like Games is one of the healthier sections of SA. Ever since GBS became FYAD-lite it's the only part of SA I frequent with any regularity, save for occasionally checking Ask/Tell for something interesting (there often isn't). It makes me feel connected to the world outside my island. One time a goon even sent me some games (Killzone and Uncharted), so there's that. On a few occasions I have read the Game Developers thread, which I have found to be unintentionally comedic as game developers take their jobs very, very seriously. It's actually a good thing for someone to care about their work, of course, but here in the Federated States of Micronesia one can become easily frustrated at how little foreign presences care about the place. These days I have more respect for game developers than I do the UN, IOM, the embassies of several nations, and a plethora of NGOs that seem to excel at causing abject and profound harm. Meanwhile, nobody knows or cares because let's face it: do *you* know where the Federated States of Micronesia is? So it's really nice to read about people who have passion for what they do. It makes me wonder if sometime I ought to work in the field. If nothing else, I appreciate how SA still has some degree of discussion and passion. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I'm not aware of another site that offers what SA does. SA provided me a means of venting about Natural Doctrine, which is either the love of my life or as abusive and bad for me as my former fiance, and for that I am grateful.
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