Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

It's a fortnight?

But I don't know, it just seemed like a good number. Do you have another recommendation?

I dont. I get what you are saying about edition churn and there being a period of time its best to look away, I just never put an actual time frame on it.

 

[Velderan]

My new plan (but don't hold me to it), is to take a break from the boards for the two weeks leading up to a new WotC book release and the two weeks after and to take the last two weeks of December off every year too.

I tend to do that with the PF2e subreddit when a new book releases.

For those who aren’t familiar, Paizo provides a free PDF to subscribers when they ship your physical order. Since this happens over the course of a week or so, someone will inevitably be the first to get a 300 page PDF, post a AMA, and begin explaining feats or items as the most broken thing ever because they quickly skimmed and are missing a ton of context. That causes the subreddit to get all fired up for about 24 hours until someone else gets a copy and points out how everyone is overreacting because of things the original person didn’t explain and then things calm back down. My clue to stop reading for a bit is when Paizo invoices me for my copy, so I usually wait until my hardcover copy shows up to browse the subreddit again.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Jack hates his life right now. Can he borrow someone else's?

 

[Ryujin]

Jack hates his life right now. Can he borrow someone else's?

Cue "Don't Let Me Get Me" by P!nk.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I don't know where adults find the time to play videogames.
Maybe if I were single? But isolating myself for hours and hours would not sit well with my spouse.

My wife also plays video games, and we're perfectly happy to sit next to each to each other with background sound on both playing video games and exchanging occasional comments. Heck, sometimes we're even playing the same game.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Cool, but my wife is not a videogamer.

Yeah, but you asked how people find time. That's often how.

 

[trappedslider]

My wife also plays video games, and we're perfectly happy to sit next to each to each other with background sound on both playing video games and exchanging occasional comments. Heck, sometimes we're even playing the same game.

I know of a number of couple who game together or play different games separately, I also know of couples where one is gaming and the other is doing something totally different but they are on the couch together.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I go through cycles of video game fandom. Right now, I’m in a low. The last console I bought was a Wii, and I haven’t purchased anything for my desktop in a decade or more.

So I’m just playing stuff on my mobile devices.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I know of a number of couple who game together or play different games separately, I also know of couples where one is gaming and the other is doing something totally different but they are on the couch together.

Well, we also sometimes have one of us web browsing or in my case, working on campaign stuff, while the other is playing a game or something else. Essentially, we're both just cheerfully happy to hang out with each other messing with our laptops for one reason or another. Its not radically different than couples who will sit around with each other reading or the like, really.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Yeah, but you asked how people find time. That's often how.

Another way is if your spouse likes to watch videogames be played - my wife does for example.

I think part of that depends on how you grow up maybe - she and her sister grew up watching each other play games, and I did similar with my brother and sister.

My wife said that watching me play the Mass Effect series was kind of like watching a really, really good sci-fi TV show, for example.

And even if not watching, if you play in an area which the spouse/SO can sit in/be in, you can chat whilst playing etc.

I think its really only an inherent problem if your spouse dislikes you playing games, or dislikes the presence/sound/appearance of videogames, or if you need to play with like, "total immersion" - i.e. headset on, no distractions etc. Thinking of my friends, even the guy who has the most completely controlling spouse who basically has a panic attack if he leaves the house for more than 4 hours when she is there (despite her being a high-earning person who often leaves on business trips for days and days herself!), he managed to bloody finish BG3 before I did, because she's essentially fine with him sitting around and playing games, because he's in the house and can do stuff as needed (he basically does all the cooking, shopping, getting the kids organised, etc.)!