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I'm an older dude whose phase of staying up all night playing was back in the early console days. I prefer in-person tabletop RPGs like D&D, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. Just not into computer games anymore, but that and social media seem to be most people's primary computer activities.

Game chatter has changed over the years - I used to see a lot of talk about graphics quality and massively powerful hardware - maybe that was during a period when it was rapidly improving, I dunno. But the current focus seems to be more on game industry business decisions sucking.

Anyway I'm just wondering how common it is to use computers more for coding and other technical non-game stuff.

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I work from home, but yeah, as soon as the day is over I kind of need to get away from the PC for a bit.

Which is a shame, because I also love (or loved) PC gaming, and have a bunch of great games which I never feel like playing because they're "at work".

[–] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 days ago

For me it's the amount of debugging it takes to get new games to run. Most games these days come with some sort of third party launcher or drm that takes a lot of work to kill in order to get them running.

I just spent 12 hours debugging because of shitty-closed source software that i have to work around, i dont want to do it again.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ugh, that sucks. I can understand not wanting to go back to the same environment once you clock out for the day.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah - that and family time too of course, bit anti-social if I head straight back to the office after dinner 😁

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, PS4 here - but I'm itching to get back into Half Life 2 again... :-)