I did and I’m quite excited about it. I’ve played 5 or so runs in Tabletop Simulator with some friends and had a blast. It translates fairly well to the physical format. Plays differently than the video game but captures the same feel.

If you enjoyed the Martian, I highly recommend his newest book Project Hail Mary.

Great talk and I completely agree with him. Static typing has a lot of benefits but the old style use cases had a lot of extra overhead. As languages have matured, that overhead has come down a lot and so it’s not surprising that they have gained back traction recently.

Little Bobby Tables is all grown up.

Historical Legacy is a good way to put it. For Pokemon in particular, RBY was the franchise for a lot of people, myself included. I’ve played a few of the others, but RBY is what came out when I was a kid and will always be the one I remember.

Your 4th point really hits on the main problem with all lists like this and that is that what is “best” is different for everyone. I agree with you that this puts too much weight on storytelling, but I know for some people story is by far the most important part of any game. For me, I rarely care about the story at all, I just want interesting mechanics.

Thanks for the great reviews! You definitely got me interested in a few I probably would have looked past previously.

It’ll be fixed in the next version of Lemmy. It’s a known issue.