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Are videogames for children?

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This might sound retarded, but I feel kind of guilty about not reading much anymore.
There was a time I read a lot (I average, over about four years, five books a month, about a third of that novels), tried doing a lot of different stuff. I had this notion about using my time productively and being well-rounded. I had several instruments I'd play, different types of exercise I'd do (like kayaking vs swimming vs bicycling). Then last December I got a gaming desktop, first one I ever owned, and around the same time the last of my willpower gave out and I spent a semester just laying around.

Well, eventually I got this promotion (had to demand it or I'd quit, basically), and life has genuinely gotten a lot better. But something I find is that the old bullshit I was doing still doesn't really satisfy me. It's like, sometimes the books or instruments or whatever is enjoyable, but most of the time it isn't. And I got to thinking, all of that stuff was, in a way, just makework to feel productive. I didn't get any satisfaction out of what I was doing work wise, so I didn't focus on that, but to some degree my satisfaction was dependent on fulfilling these chores and goals. But now I get my satisfaction out of the work, and though these other things CAN be enjoyable, all I really want to do in my free time is just play with my cat, game, and prepare for work.

It probably sounds dumb, but it's like I feel guilty because I feel like the old version of myself - where I had these hobbies, and different kinds of hobbies - was better, but it never had a real payoff either. Like I was trying to impress the world or myself or something. Became a tiger mom (to myself) in adult life.
 
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I miss Path of Exile from ~5 years ago up until Ultimatum League.

Ever since then it feels like there's nothing I can go "back" to because all my Standard comfort builds are bricked, and the amount of grind needed to get the currency needed to make the builds I actually want to play in-league just isn't worth the effort. I could try and take it for what it is, but I am too disgusted by my powerlessness to return to a preferred version, PoE being a live service borderline-MMO. I miss the game being "easy" enough to kill Shaper as a noob using a basic Arc Elementalist build (after taking far too much time and burning four portals), I miss Cyclone being overpowered, I miss the original Fossil crafting, I miss Gladiator being an easy max block / spell block facetank Ascendancy.

Still hungering for an ARPG experience, I'm replaying Grim Dawn instead. It has its own problems, but it's single player, mod-able, and all client-side, so I can at least play it knowing that no matter what the devs do to it I have some recourse. Thankfully I have not yet needed to resort to alterations beyond a single mod that grants affix colorization to make item tooltips easily parseable - vanilla GD tooltips are ungainly, bloated novellas.
 
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Imagine getting community noted on the announcement of your game's release :story:
 
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I was checking out an upcoming game and the ps4 was amongst the platforms it would be available for, isn't it worrying that the ps5 came out three years ago and its predecesor is still getting new releases? Not just small 2d indie games mind you, from what I recall new ps3 releases had all dried out by 2016.

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Fromsoft buffs: If I wanted to faceroll my way through most of Elden Ring, what would be a good starting class/early weapon to build around? I've started and stopped the game a half dozen times and really just want to explore and experience it one last time before the expansion, so I'm looking for something easy to play as.
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I'm over a week late but Samurai was pretty good with it's starting katana.
What I did in subsequent playthroughs (since I found progression to be too slow and the early game a slog) is grabbing a golden fowl foot (increases runes gain), a bleed weapon then went to caelid to grab radagon's soreseal and kill the sleeping dragon, that takes you to level 30ish and since you have a talisman that increases str and dex just enough to use most weapons you can put most points in vig and end.
 
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I was checking out an upcoming game and the ps4 was amongst the platforms it would be available for, isn't it worrying that the ps5 came out three years ago and its predecesor is still getting new releases? Not just small 2d indie games mind you, from what I recall new ps3 releases had all dried out by 2016.


I'm over a week late but Samurai was pretty good with it's starting katana.
What I did in subsequent playthroughs (since I found progression to be too slow and the early game a slog) is grabbing a golden fowl foot (increases runes gain), a bleed weapon then went to caelid to grab radagon's soreseal and kill the sleeping dragon, that takes you to level 30ish and since you have a talisman that increases str and dex just enough to use most weapons you can put most points in vig and end.
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Go and murk that nightcavalry guy on the bridge, I don't remember what he dropped but it was good. He's piss easy, being low level only means it will take a while to whittle him down.
 
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Half of me is really upset with Free Radical being shut down since they were literally formed again to make another TimeSplitters game, but at the same time I'm seeing this as somewhat of a blessing. I have no doubts that a modern TimeSplitters game would feel nothing like the others because of the current social climate and people's weird general distaste for hot women in videogames.
 
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Half of me is really upset with Free Radical being shut down since they were literally formed again to make another TimeSplitters game, but at the same time I'm seeing this as somewhat of a blessing. I have no doubts that a modern TimeSplitters game would feel nothing like the others because of the current social climate and people's weird general distaste for hot women in videogames.
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I hate that we have to consider the very real possiblity of our favorite franchises going woke. Used to be we could simply say "I'd like a new [insert entry of franchise]", or consider it good news if one was being made, but it's like a coin flip if it's a bad thing or not. It's a real hype killer.
 
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Unable to post YouTube videos because dear leader broke uploading Media to the Farms.
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Mostly deals with an example of YouTube reviewers who are again exposed as unreliable when they lied to their audience that Payday 3 was a great and functioning game in pre-release because they were sponsored by its devs, when in reality the game on release was broken and unplayable.

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It's bewildering how this year revealed The Act Man of his true colors through Starfield and this game (and the Keffals shit).
 
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I’m actually excited to turn on my Nintendo Switch in the upcoming days, and the first games I’m getting are Super Mario Wonder, Super Mario RPG remake (even though I’m taking a gamble with this one, since I love the original) and Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation because I will not apologize for loving the DOA Volleyball series.

Either way, it should be a fun week.
 
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