Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[TiQuinn]

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.

I was the same for a long time until one day I wanted to play some games and then bought myself a PlayStation and a Nintendo Switch and said it was for the kids (I lied.)

 

[payn]

 

[overgeeked]

You're wrong about damn near everything. But at least you're consistent. So you got that going for you.

 

[Autumnal]

Handy for many situations these days. Let it work for you.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I was the same for a long time until one day I wanted to play some games and then bought myself a PlayStation and a Nintendo Switch and said it was for the kids (I lied.)

I bought myself an Xbox series x early on…got lucky! Then the kids started enjoying it so much I had a hard time playing too!

So I bought a second one and a second nice hdtv…

But now more than one kids is playing…and here I sit in ENWorld!

 

[TiQuinn]

I bought myself an Xbox series x early on…got lucky! Then the kids started enjoying it so much I had a hard time playing too!

So I bought a second one and a second nice hdtv…

But now more than one kids is playing…and here I sit in ENWorld!

My kids finally got old enough that they confiscated the consoles for their rooms, and then invite their friends over and now here I sit on ENWorld too.

Here’s to our attempts at reliving our video game days!

 

[Warpiglet-7]

My kids finally got old enough that they confiscated the consoles for their rooms, and then invite their friends over and now here I sit on ENWorld too.

Here’s to our attempts at reliving our video game days!

Got up at 5. To work through detours. Back home drive people around…fix 2 toilets!, chores tasks and thinking a few rounds of a shooter….both TVs and Xboxs taken after 14 hour saga! My kid offered to let me play but she was having fun so I did the dad thing and cracked a beer and said have fun!

When it is my son we do some couch coop or shooters…no such luck today! Ha! My time has passed

 

[MNblockhead]

Cool, but my wife is not a videogamer.

It isn't even that she minds videogames - she bought me an Xbox One some years back, when Overwatch came out, because it was big and she thought I might like it. But it turned out to take, as I said, hours and hours of time of me off playing a game. Even that's okay now and then, but it doesn't work as a habit, which means I don't get to really dig into any games.

Every 2-4 years a game will come out that I really want to play. I'll buy whatever the latest game console is out that best supports it and spend an insane amount of time playing it over a short period of time. Then I turn over the game console to my kids and don't play anything for a couple years. My wife puts up with it because it is so infrequent. It helps that very few video games can attract and keep my interest. I do worry that we are getting very close to where GAI and more powerful graphics cards and processors are going to make the kinds of games I like so immersive and content rich that I'll have to avoid them to getting sucked in.

 

[Scribe]

Evergreen.

 

[Maxperson]

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.

I mean, people still complain about things in 1e, 2e, 3e and 4e. I don't think two weeks is going to cut it.