@onemanarmyy: I like table tennis and it has excellent trolling potential if you play defensively with tackles like I did, but there isn't as much exercise as badminton and it really depends on your mentality how well you can play. It is also way more stressful (at least for me) and players tend to scream more (which is doubly annoying since you are really close to each other). I have also found that my movements from badminton are much better retained. I'm still pretty decent at badminton now, but my table tennis play isn't much better than a beginner now that years have passed even though I was pretty decent at it at the time (probably because stamina matters less than in badminton).
@onemanarmyy: I'm from Iceland, and the wind here is too powerful to play badminton outdoors most of the time. The fly would just fly away. We did have a badminton court in the garden for a while though, but the rackets and net were really bad and there weren't any lines so I preferred playing indoors. Badminton being a "family sport" makes it even less fancy to me. I was never particularly good at it, but it I found it more fun than something like table tennis, even though I was a more successful table tennis player. My family actually rents a weekly table tennis court for an hour where we can play together. It's pretty fun.
Having practiced badminton for 9 years as a kid, I can tell you that badminton is emphatically not fancy tennis, rather tennis is fancy badminton. Tennis courts are much larger than badminton ones and are more often outdoors, the rackets are way more expensive and there is way more money involved in competitions. Tennis clubs and practice is generally way more expensive as well. I myself have described badminton as "poor person's tennis" in the past, and not unjustifiably as I doubt I would have been able to practice tennis for 9 years.
Agreed, and I have really enjoyed this series. This was a field I knew absolutely nothing about so seeing Tam interacting with an AI was illuminating. It was honestly much more realistic than I would have expected. I am also glad they went into the darker side of this in the end. Creating an AI to be an abusive shit to feels like something I might have read in a science fiction novel. It's just the right shade of messed up intrigue. Truth be told, I find AI more intriguing when it really is just algorithm than when it gains free will.
@dantronlesotho: I really liked reading your input as well. I hope you are doing better now.
All systems Goku is one of my all time favourite podcasts despite being an anime hater (maybe not despite...), so I can't wait for this one! Would have been nice to have both Jeffs though.
Thank you for the amazing write-up! I really enjoyed the read. As someone who mostly plays indies it was also great to see so many games I had never heard about. I'll definitely check out Horizon's gate when I have the time, and Library of Ruina sounds really intriguing.
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