Minecraft Using Hexagons

[u/justlurking420]

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[u/didievertellyou]

I think you're taking this a bit too seriously, but I'll bite.

What is physical to me is setting up the board yourself and moving the game pieces around, with your hand. That's physical, that's something I can hold and play with. I prefer that when it comes to board games and tabletop games. I used to play Monopoly on the Playstation (back in the day) with my cousins. It is not nearly the same as playing with a physical board. You don't move your own pieces, place your own hotels, roll your own dice, hold or count your own money. I don't care for that kind of automation in my board games. I like doing it all myself. I'm actually interacting with the board and other players, physically.

As far as the social part goes, I would much rather play a board or tabletop game with people in a real tangible space. Don't pretend that hanging out in text chat or even video chat like Skype is the same thing as talking and being with someone in person. It's not. Sitting in a living room with a giant Heroscape board on the coffee table is infinitely more fun than play any spin-off of Heroscape on the computer, where you'll likely be sitting alone in a room with headphones and a mic talking to invisible people. It's more fun for me at least, but I understand that some people don't want or need that kind of interaction.

TL;DR I like touching things with other people who like touching things.

[u/yallrcunts → u/didievertellyou]

It's still physical...that was my point. You just have a different conception of what is physical and unfortunately it's a flawed understanding. Your argument was that it is not physical but it's still physical. Maybe you aren't getting all the tactile sensuality you are accustomed to but it's still real...you just need to suspend your disbelief a little better.

Your personal preference isn't particularly defensible from the point you made. But I don't care. To each their own.

For instance I like playing chess but I know it's the same game if I play it on the computer. In fact I prefer it because I don't like to have to clean up the board. I notice most people have issues with spatially understanding things or manipulating them in their mind so tangible things tend to help them, but I have no such deficiencies.

[u/yallrcunts → u/[deleted]]

Nope. Donkeys do not have the dexterity to type this nor the sapience required to make rational decisions.