#mathposting my beloved

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I wanted to have another game to play just in case I didn't feel like playing my current long game, so I pulled up both my backlog wheel and HowLongtoBeat. I spun several times before getting a game that was less than 20 hours (since I knew I'd take longer than whatever HLTB shows)

So in true late night Kiy fashion, I was so curious about just how much longer I take to complete games that I immediately did some calculations. First, I calculated the difference between my playtime and HLTB's average playtime for the closest level of completion. Then, I calculated the Snail Gamer Tax: (snail gamer tax) = (difference)/(HLTB playtime)*(100)

From these calculations, it is painfully obvious that: 1.) I have not played that much of my steam library (15 of 18 completed steam games had usable playtimes) 2.) I play games longer than what HLTB lists in most circumstances (the only exceptions were pokepark wii and zero time dilemma)

I need to play more games (and record my playtimes for more games) so I can get these standard deviations better I swear (column 2 is difference in hours, column 3 is Snail Gamer Tax in percent)

A trend I noticed was that games where I have to keep up with a pace as opposed to setting my own pace tended to have smaller (or even negative) Snail Gamer Tax. This included games such as Lemon Cake, both Pokeparks, and ZTD

[mauxanhduong]

the two moods of cramming two semesters’ worth of a math class into a month, brought to you by a student doing online math at 1 in the morning

[image id: two rough black and white sketches done in ms paint separated by a line. the first is a person crossing their arms looking confident and smug. their desk is neat and there’s a circle at the bottom of a paper in front of them it’s captioned “i feel like a god. i love math.” the second drawing is of the same person with their head on the desk. their hands are on their head and there is a tear puddle around their head. their desk is dishelved and the papers are scattered—one has several X-ses and question marks on it. it’s captioned “i hate math”. end id.]