Eve online: the best game I'll never play.
I find all the politics and dynamics of Eve Online super fascinating. There's maps, propaganda, hierarchies, dictators, bribery and even actual spies on each alliance, it's insane.
AFAIK there's an in-game currency that can be bought with USD or earned. The biggest ships (Titans) can be worth thousands of dollars. The last big war was two years ago, in which ended up costing well over $300k.
Holy shit is this apt. These stories are possibly my favorite part of modern gaming, but you won't see me wasting any of my new rigs computer power on Spreadsheet Simulator 2k16. I'd love to hear an episode of Radiolab with some of the developers of EVE.Eve online: the best game I'll never play.
The author is having some trouble getting everything set up with Amazon's back end right now but Empires of EVE was an incredible read. I backed it in the Kickstarter, never having played the game and it was incredibly fascinating. It was essentially written like a history book about this fictional universe, complete with interviews with players and forum posts/emails put up the way letters to home would have been. It does a great job of explaining all the jargon and making the stories accessible if you don't already know the history. Once he gets the back end Amazon stuff worked out I'd highly recommend giving it a read if you like these kinds of stories.
Also, did you ever see that article about the animal sound design? http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-a-dragons-mating-scream-sounds-like
Uh oh. Is this going to make me quit cs:go? I really want to quit csgo
YOU PLAY CSGO?? Sorry. I got excited. Why haven't we played together yet? quatrarius plays occasionally too, but only if I ask really nicely :P (Uh… #bugski: I keep trying to tag Quatrarius, but every time I submit the comment, it uncapitalizes it and the tag becomes broken. forwardslash)