What people are saying about "Fun Is Relative"
Fun Is Relative
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Kuratius
over 9 years ago
[url=#user_comment_351784]@Shade[/url]: Have you considered using a spreadsheet? Excel's programming is complex enough to make games with and you can figure out how to emulate the functions that you need your other program for.
over 9 years ago
Oh god! I love tower defense but I hate the ones that sort of force you to crunch numbers. Maybe this is why I love games like Orcs Must Die and Dungeon Defenders :)
lolis r the best
over 9 years ago
Hi Jo, please post more flat girls with glasses.
Tridus
over 9 years ago
Defense Grid 2 (and most good tower defense games) are fundamentally puzzle games. Solving puzzles is fun for lots of people. I'm one of them, though I haven't had time for Defense Grid 2 yet.
Shade
over 9 years ago
>Warmachine

I have 6 industry characters in EVE Online. My usual calculation software is broken, so I'm having to do everything manually.

I spent 5 hours going through markets, costs, profits, construction times and fuel costs yesterday.
over 9 years ago
[url=#user_comment_351779]@T[/url]: Sounds like she would enjoy playing in my FTB server :p
T
over 9 years ago
I imagine that Morgan approach to minecraft would be instead of fighting and hunting she would build structures to automatize everything!
over 9 years ago
Please have Morgan play EVE Online. I think she'd enjoy that.
USAF_Son
over 9 years ago
Reminds me of the days when I used to play Diablo II, spending hours trying to make the perfect Barbarian build.
over 9 years ago
This reminds me when I played OpenTTD. Trying to build an efficient railroad, build atop an outdated railroad system. Also, managing signals to maximize the number of trains in the same rail. Also using the same rail for many different routes.
over 9 years ago
the bigger the maps get on defense grid 2 the less I want to calculate =(
over 9 years ago
F*k that, GUN TURRETS FTW!
Stoike
over 9 years ago
So, who's going to introduce her to EVE?
over 9 years ago
For those asking, it's based on Defense Grid 2.
over 9 years ago
[url=#user_comment_351755]@Geary[/url]: Never heard of it, only played Gratuitous Space Battles.
over 9 years ago
[url=#user_comment_351759]@Max[/url]: A bit, yes. Think of her as the xbox kid of the comic.
Mari
over 9 years ago
I do it! I totally do it!
Maybe not the numbers part ('cus numbers are bad), but I can see me on this one as playing Kingdom Rush!
Bobo
over 9 years ago
Humans are problem-solving machines, and it's satisfying to do so!
Max
over 9 years ago
Is it intentional that Jane is literally the cancer of gaming?
borisvdb
over 9 years ago
This is what I do whenever I play a city builder like Anno.
It's funny, I like min-maxing but I hate math.
Desty
over 9 years ago
I do believe this comic refers to mission 12 "Incursion" in Defence Grid 2. I too kept loosing a core on wave 10 and that was just not acceptable.. I must have tried that mission 7+ times tweaking tower placements and upgrades just to beat wave 10. It was a lot of work but it was worth it in the end
over 9 years ago
Hey, Jo, do you have any opinion of Gratuitous Tank Battles? It's like a tower defense game only way more complex.
over 9 years ago
Oh mah gawd, Sanctum. I really hope he actually makes a strip showing the characters. I really want to "Mine" myself a Skye.
over 9 years ago
As a tryhard I love others tryhards. Thanks mate. Keep up the good work.
over 9 years ago
Hey, I like it.
Then again, I'm doing engineering so...
over 9 years ago
Also being Demo-chan is all about Chemistry; a good one LOVES math.
over 9 years ago
Of course Jane would be confused by anything that isn't mindless shooting.
over 9 years ago
Holy SHIT is that a Sanctum 2 strip!?
Jo, you magnificent creature. =D
over 9 years ago
[url=#user_comment_351711]@Serathis[/url]: was my thought too.
over 9 years ago
I though placing turrets is Engi thing.
Lordlundar
over 9 years ago
Well I'm not like this with Tower Defence games (not a genre I'm a fan of), I've got papers spread all over the place for modded minecraft stuff. Sometimes the problem solving really is the best part.
over 9 years ago
This comic made me buy the game.
over 9 years ago
This is me and my fiancèe perfectly. When I'm playing Civilization I'm in deep thought about how to proceed, and she's looking at me like "that is not the face of someone having fun."

Me: "I HAVE NOT EVEN BEGUN TO FUN"
over 9 years ago
Oh Jo, keeping all the girls was the best decision you made.

Also, Morgan is a very good role model!
over 9 years ago
I was trying to play this game on Competitive Hard without losing cores ... but after about the 7th level I just kept running into walls. Finished the game on Competitive Normal.

I think they should have allowed tower items on competitive hard and orbital as well on competitive elite.
Violence Jack
over 9 years ago
[url=#user_comment_351732]@Verteros[/url]: Yep, it looks like Defense Grid... I discovered that game a while ago, and I'm having a blast with it... It's amazing that such a simple game can be so much fun. Games like Battlezone, Defense Grid, Sanctum, Orcs Must Die, etc, are simple, yet amazing. Reminds me of the good old 90s :P
over 9 years ago
Soldier's right, since when has the cyclops ever wanted math?
dice
over 9 years ago
Math is only a number.
over 9 years ago
Yeah, I know this!
<Playing a turn-based game>
Me: Hmm, this enemy is weak for dark magic, but I wear an item that buffs my ice skills... Should I attack it now, or may be buff myself, or...blah-blah-blah...
My friend: JUST KICK IT WITH SOMETHING!

BTW, game was EBF 4 by Kupo707. Try it guys!
Verteros
over 9 years ago
Is this based on Defence Grid 2?
over 9 years ago
People look at me this way when I play Wartune, but through research, study, and min-maxing, I've done things they haven't. Things they could only dream of being strong enough to do.

Get on my level. Then give me your credit card, I want to upgrade my sylph(pet) to legend.
Camojan
over 9 years ago
lulz! y so srs. I has wife n kids! No lifer bunch!

Oh wait I'm a gamer I don't have wife and kids. Min-maxing for the win!
over 9 years ago
NOOOO NOT MATH! MY ONLY WEAKNESS!
over 9 years ago
Hell yeah, Sanctum.
Marx Derpanius Soul
over 9 years ago
If YoU cAnT tElL, i`M nEw hErE.








(NEVER DOING THAT QUIRK AGAIN. I PROMISE.)
over 9 years ago
Just spam gun turrets like God intended.
over 9 years ago
Pray that Morgan won't get into EVE Online.
DrunkMonkGar
over 9 years ago
I'm with Morgan on this. While I don't get this serious about TD games, determining how to maximize efficiency is very fun and satisfying for me. :D
over 9 years ago
Hehe, I got just the same attitude when played Sanctum.