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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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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Or maybe just a place that has tech but they're not involved at all in running it, and definitely not expected to be the default tech support lol.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was trying to imagine it and can't imagine seeing new tech and not putting my hands on it.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They would have counselors available.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not cut out for this.