Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scurvy_Platypus" data-source="post: 4387301" data-attributes="member: 43283">Good for you.I tend to be rather selective about which parts of a forum I go to, and even more selective about which threads I bother to read.And after that? Half the time I'll make a reply, and then I simply delete it unposted. Heck, I've spent more than a half hour on some of these posts, doing searches, formatting it nicely, and so forth. At the end of the day, a lot of it just doesn't matter that much.You know another thing that might help?Try not buying anything for a while. Yeah, I know it sounds crazy... try it anyway.All these forums seem to be full of people desperately looking for something to spend their money on, or going on about how much their latest purchase kicks ass, blah blah blah. And then next month they drop whatever it was they bought and rush off for the new shiny. The book someone else is going on about somehow always seems to be cooler than the one you're actually reading right now...I actually have been doing this since January of this year. I did break down and pick up Dark Heresy (I've got mixed feelings about it), but other than that I've been good. I'm trying to last a full year without buying any gaming stuff for myself (new or old). Just going to play/run the games I've already got.Welcome to the more relaxed side of things. Just be careful, or you might wind up getting slapped with that dirty "casual gamer" label. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Disclaimer: I'm so unconcerned about most gamer things that I don't consider myself a gamer. I've played and run so many rpgs in the last 20 years I can't remember 'em all. I don't see that changing either. While I personally advocate actually playing the damn games you buy and treating rpgs as a hobby instead of a way of life, I'm aware of the fact that I'm a minority.Hopefully more folks will follow your example. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification