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The sc:bw scene in early to mid 2000s was absolutely awesome. I only hope I can find that sense of community and competition in something during my retirement years in a few decades.

Age of Empires 2 had a wonderful revival in 2020 and has a huge European following where the top streamers have some 300k subscribers on YouTube. The plays are on par with BW in its prime. Only difference is the first half of an Age game is slow - it focuses on the macro, and then later the micro

To steal someone else's comment...

The game I'm playing is "read articles that HN users found interesting, and then see what other HN users had to say about that topic".

I guess I can conclude that imwillofficial is playing is some other game. They're probably very good at it, or at least having fun.

These for me are the socialising and interrelationship games. Its part of playing the tribe game.

Fwiw:

We're playing starcraft as well on weekends. Lan party style. Interludes of doom and quake. Warcraft 2 as well. Cracktorio is always running.

Still working out how we'll play bolo.

Bring me in fam, I’ll zergling rush ya’ll