time to catch up (and complain about the infernal heat 😉 )

@mage : panzerfaust … yes that’s the one.

I know stuff exists on the internet. Google already got me several links, but I want to roll my own.
When I made my bot editor for Unreal Tournament I used a concept known as ‘Markov chains’.

It creates the sort of predictable random patterns that is perfect for procedural generating of content.

http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples_of_Markov_chains

(1) Favourite historical genre for wargaming, and if you don’t, and I pushed you for an answer, what would it be?
I like too much already, so it is hard to pick a winner.
There’s WW1 which had the excellent Red Baron flight simulator. Other aces would challenge you to duels and everyone was still learning how not to die five minutes after getting up in the air.

Then we’ve got WW2 … spitfires, Stukas and the infamous IL2 Sturmovik. I really miss that all games are arcade shooters instead of good simulators.

Back to tabletop I’d say WW2 in part because there is a ton of local history. And as short as our initial start of the war was the fact that we did better than people say was awesome.

The wild west aka the good, the bad & the ugly. It’s probably best for a roleplaying game and not so much a wargame setting.
Top tip : the computer game ‘Hard West’

https://www.gog.com/game/hard_west

(2) Science fiction or Fantasy, and why? This could be movie, RPG, board game, computer game or tabletop related. You decide.
I’d side with Science Fiction, because of Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance and others.
I’ve been trying to read William Gibsons’ novels, but it hasn’t been easy and I kind of doubt his novels make sense in Dutch because there simply are too many concepts that don’t translate to any other language.

(3) What mainstream, acclaimed thing have you never gotten into or liked?
Avatar aka Pocahontas in space.
Harry Potter … I never read the books, but I’ve seen a few of the movies. They’re interesting, but not world shattering by any means.

Reality tv … any format.
The person who invented that should have mean things done to him, because this ultra cheap tv format pretty much killed what was left of tv.

Pokemon and the related copycats/clones of kids collecting ‘monsters’/creatures/things and fighting in duels. Especially the duels never make any sense.
Never mind the eternal failure that is Ash Ketchup (or whatever his name is). One really has to wonder how Team Rockit fails to beat this kid when he rarely ever wins any of his games.

CCG’s like “Magic the gathering” … I think the concept is unfair for anyone with a mere casual interest in the game, because anyone with enough time/money can create a deck that is unbeatable by whatever random cards are in your starter set.
It forces you to either gamble or pay way too much for bits of card based on nothing more than perceived power/usefulness and rarity. It feels like playing poker where my opponent always gets all 4 aces and I only ever get a pair of 3’s …

(4) What brand and colour of paint are you fond of using lately?
I have only had two brands : Citadel/GW and Armypainter. The latter has been pretty good, because I do like the tiny dropper bottles.

(5) Name something random and obscure related to gaming you like and feel is under appreciated. It could be a computer game, little known company, or anything that takes your fancy.

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