• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    >get pneumonia

    >go to hospital

    >can’t do dailies for 3 days

    >i will never catch back up

    Meanwhile I just opened Stardew for the first time in 6 months and my pup just gave me some bone shards for petting him

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      28 days ago

      Had to cover someone at work who was off sick and I missed 2 weeks of classic wow raids. Felt great and uninstalled it immediately. Never going back.

  • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    I attribute my revulsion toward live service games to this greentext. Great visualization of the endgame for the soul-sucking garbage that’s become popular in recent years. It’s a return to the 80s arcade, stealing your every cent at record speed, but infinitely more surreptitious.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      There is a place near me that’s a three floor complex of arcade machines and it’s a single entry fee to play them all.

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      Yes, it’s horrible. My goal with a game is not to find something to fill hundreds of empty hours of my life, I have enough shit to do already. I’m looking for an experience, like when I go to the movies.

      Maybe related, but I’m also not a big fan of TV series for the same reason, even the good ones have some filler and waste time.

      I remember once when my wife and I binge watched some exciting thriller series on Netflix, that was impossible to stop. We did 2 seasons with 10x1 hour episodes, and then realized it was Sunday evening, and our weekend was gone. It had more seasons, but we said nope, it’s just not worth our time.

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        You’re saying you’ve only ever watched one tv show ever? That’s wild

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        28 days ago

        Funnily enough I don’t watch movies very often for similar reasons. They feel so shallow compared to a good series due to the limited time the creators have to tell any stories.