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Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:34AM (#26712243)
Sports are / can be massively nerdy tbh, some of them crunch more numbers and statistics than the average Eve Online spreadsheet warrior. And the bigger fans cosplay to the sports conventions.

Also, there's Football Manager, which takes the 'playing football' game out of the game.

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Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual... by vagrantJin on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:03AM (#26712645)
Yeah, that football manager is still catergorised as a game is hilarious. I think I may have even developed a appreciation of the finer aspects of the modern games use of data analysis.

But I do find something attractive about games that keep someone's brain active. Never played factorio though my colleagues wax lyrical about it ad nauseum.

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Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual... by notahacker on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:47AM (#26713310)
Football Manager once got described as being a game whose gameplay seems to have been inspired by accounting software.

Think I've completed that circle by suggesting to a friend working on accounting SaaS that he look at FM as UX inspiration...

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Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual... by Der_Einzige on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:18PM (#26713761)
Sports players and fantasy sports players live in different universes. Almost zero overlap.
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