My wife has came at me like that before. She has over 500 books that she's never read so I just flip it around on her
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What if I massively overbuy both games and books without consistently consuming either?
Well, if you have the disposable income and you're not married, it's no different than me and my wife's finances haha
Hah! I like that comparison, very apt.
I am married. My wife is concerned because I enjoy and own an unreasonable quantity of video games and books; and we have a toddler with a growing interest in both as well.
My wife says that our next house won't have a library, it will just be built from books.
On the plus side, one of my favorite authors - Terry Pratchett - once said "I wouldn't want to be friends with someone who has enough room for all of their books." I would have liked to be friends with him.
Books are generally cheaper, though.
Per capita, but think about it. Over 500 books. We got books in the spare room. We got books in the living room. We have books in storage lol
True. She needs to get an e-reader and just pirate them if she's not gonna read them anyway!
She keeps reminding me "It could be drugs"
At least drugs can be resold for a decent price if you don't use them.
She just wants bookstore credit lol. Bookstore credit is like the most selfish/unselfish thing ever. Like people are reading, but you're getting free books lol. I've learned to just keep my mouth shut about it unless she says something about my video games. If the boss is happy, I get to be happy
The Cold War of queued media.
This is me.
I have a 600 PC game library. I also own nearly every mainstream console and handheld released since 1980, and quite a few lesser known ones. My house is pretty much a gaming museum.
And I've only played a sliver of the total amount of games available to me.
The important thing is that they're there when you want them
Narrator: He never wanted to play them.
Someday there will be time... someday...
I remember being 11 and playing Super Mario World and a couple Zelda games about a hundred times each. I came back to them over and over, I remember the maps and layout of Ocarina of Time better than I remember some of my childhood homes.
Now I have a steam library with 750 games in it and I can barely finish with the game I'm currently playing before I'm back on the store pages looking for more novelty. I think the average play time of items in my library is something like 2 hours.
I hate what I've become but I've lost what I had in the past. When I only had like five games I had no problem coming back to them over and over and over, but now that I've got my own income and no oversight I've flooded myself with options to the point that I don't even want to play any of them. It sucks. I take solace in the fact that I pretty exclusively buy things on sale, so the total money pile is roughly half the size it would have been otherwise, but even so I don't really want to know how much money I've spent on steam over my career. That's cursed knowledge.
We’re not buying the game, we’re buying the fantasy that we have the free time to play the game. I heard someone say that about books they bought and didn’t read. You can apply this reasoning to explain a lot of similar spending people do.
"Of course I'm going to play it! For a few minutes to make sure it works, then into the backlog it will go, forever,"
Glad I'm not like this
How dare you. I've been busy, damn it.
I guy was looking through my installed games and was outraged that I had never played a few of them. I was glad he didn't look at the full library.
Well now that I know I'm not alone I can feel more confident when the next great buy comes out.
It doesn't help that I go back and replay games that I've already beaten instead of trying out the new ones in my backlog.
The way my life's been going lately I haven't been able to play any games in a long time and thankfully for my wallet I've also stopped buying them. I do however open up Epic every Thursday to pick up the free games. Some of them have been pretty decent and one of these days I'll get around to playing some of them. Not to long ago was Fallout 1, 2, and tactics which I have always wanted to try. Just have to find a free minute and some motivation and brain power, hopefully all at the same time.
Periodically I do a "spending freeze" on games and force myself to look at my backlog. I'm in one right now, Monster Hunter World is rocking my socks off
My policy is I only buy something if I'm going to play it that day. No more rapidly expanding backlog.
i only need minecraft and factorio in my life. Nothing else is required.
What's the purpose of buying a game you're not gonna play? Come on, if it's on Steam where you bought it, spoiler alert, It's not yours, they sell licenses, not the games.
if its installed on your computer, there are ways to take steam DRM out. So yeah they got their "game" going on...I got mine.