“I’d play more games, but I’m too busy working to afford the upgrades to my PC, upgrading my PC, and then going online to discuss how much I’ve upgraded my PC! Also, hopping linux distros every time I hear about a new one, and then going online to talk about that!"
My dumbass built a PC last year with a 7700x, DDR5 6000 RAM, 4TB PCIe 4.0 NVME, a $250 PSU, a freaking 4090, and stuck it all on a $500 motherboard. Paired it with a 65" 4K 120hz LG OLED with VRR and HDR. All in all I spent over $4K and what do I do with it most of the time? Watch YouTube.
No regrets, though. I could never afford anything nice in my 20s so I wanted to treat myself after my dad died and I collected life insurance. Not to mention that on the rare chance I do play a game, man is it glorious. 100% worth it.
The main reason I don't play a bunch of games is that my PC specs have actually gone down a few times...
I had a very nice gaming laptop that died, Got my PC running again, and then had to move, now I only really have room for a laptop, and my backup laptop is... bad. I've ordered a new gaming laptop that's better than anything I've had in years... I might actually get to play modern games again. Kind of looking forward to it.
Same, same. I bought my system well over a decade ago and the only thing I’ve upgraded is the GPU. System still works great for general computing, but it’s missing some of the CPU features newer architectures have like SSE[?-4] and AVX.
I don’t have a kid but the steam deck has been a godsend for me. No need to sit down in front of a computer to enjoy some gaming and the standby mode of it pauses the game. Also helps you being aware of your surrounding.
All of this! As soon as I got a Switch, I knew all of my gaming going forward would primarily be handheld. I always hated being tied to a specific place to play games, be it on an xbox or pc, but there was no other options. The steam deck and similar (I have an ayaneo) have made playing games so much more enjoyable. Being able to play whatever and wherever is just mint (the only downside is I’m reading substantially less than I used to lol)
I’ll give you my top 5: Gaia Project, Agricola, Spirit Island, Mage Knight and Terraforming mars. You can try some of those in boardgame arena! Ping me there, same handle, and I can teach you some games :)
What’s seemingly more impossible is for the blue line to decline. I assume all lines represent some sort of integral which means number of games played have become negative YoY
But it’s not as funny if you made the graph accurate
Personally I’ve gotten better at this. I’ve managed to control a bit better how much I buy, and I’ve been playing quite a lot of different games in the past year. It’s definitely hard to suppress the monkey brain during a Steam sale tho
Haha that’s exactly when I got a good computer! I was a console guy until the release of the HTC Vive, and I kept it up to date until today. Only got a Switch for Nintendo games, and waiting patiently for the remaining exclusives to release on PC (but I spend half of my play time on retro games through emulation 😅).
I got it in 2016 when the Vive came out and VR development was more of an open question. The first generation titles were wonky tech demos but they showed what would be possible in the next one. Then hardware adoption stalled so the next generation software never came out in any meaningful way.
Do you have a steam library on the slow drive? Apparently steam usually puts in-progress downloads to the same drive as the game destination but if there’s not enough room or maybe just at random steam will download to the wrong drive.
This is a few years old now but there’s some discussion here steamcommunity.com/…/1646544161774522444/
Fair point. If so, it’s probably putting the update I’m downloading in the removable drive because I only have 21 gigs of free space, maybe, left on the SSD when its max capacity is almost a terabyte.
Yeah. You could try making a symlink from the removable drive downloading folder to your fast drive but I don’t know if that can cause any issues with removable drives, or what would happen if you ran out of space on the removable drive.
Another option would be to use the steam mover app to move games back and forth from your fast/removable drives and get rid of the steam-controlled library that’s located there on the slow drive…
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