Middle aged: Don't bother upgrading, you know you won't use it. Mediocre PC - No free time
This really hit home. I have to play games I can squeeze a half an hour to an hour into every now and then now. No more online multiplayer stuff, more zelda and puzzlers.
And so many modern games take half an hour just to get through the intro. I don't have time for that, I'll just play PS2 era games again.
I have a mITX tower i built in 2015. Feels very obsolete nowadays for games. Don’t have much time to play anymore after getting kids etc but I might just do like my friend and lease a gaming rig for two years then decide if I want to keep it and pay the remainder, return it no questions asked or lease another one.
$48 per month. Hmm
I hacked this by buying a Steam Deck and gaming on my 1-hour work commute!
I drive at my 1 hour commute ... so
Congratulations! The first step is admitting you a have a problem.
Sucks to suck, vote for people who support public transportation and improvements. Or try to get a carpool
how do you have the energy to do that, I could totally also do the same with but with a gaming laptop actually, assuming I get a seat with a table
I guess the point of the Steam Deck is so you don't need the table.
That gem has changed my approach to gaming massively.
Meanwhile I’m just here with a bad pc and no free time
What a shit meme format.
Hey, I had a great PC when I was a kid! Top of the line, no expense spared. Heck, my parents even bought a fancy solid-wood roll-top desk for it.
....and boy were they pissed when I asked for a new one a couple years later, and they found out that obsolescence was a thing! From then on it was bargain-basement PCs until I was old enough to build my own, LOL.
(Only one of those subsequent computers ever fit properly in that roll-top desk, by the way. That thing was designed to hold a desktop-desktop (i.e., flat, not tower), fairly small CRT monitor, and a dot-matrix printer.)
Who needs a new computer every couple of years. 5-7y is normal. You should be able to buy a desktop for a 10yo and have it last till college.
That’s really a modern thing. It used to be that you’d buy a nice PC and 3-4 years later it can’t play new games at an acceptable frame rate and resolution.
Tech used to advance pretty rapidly, but I'm just going to assume they weren't swapping out parts themselves and they were either talking about staying top of the line or it wasn't really that good in the first place.
Adult with free time and a good PC: I AM THE FUCKING KRAKKEN PREPARE THESE PIPES FOR C.O.D AND HD PORN
I've never felt so imaginary jacked in my life. Like, multi jacked if you think about it. And I'm really Goro from Mortal Mombat, so that helps the jacked multiplier...
If you really want to experience the HD porn, get a Valve Index and Virt-a-Mate. You'll never leave your room.
I can't play fast paced shooters anymore. The kids these days are too jacked up on caffeine and trickshot you while jumping around like they are a clown on meth.
Use your experience to dominate them tactically. I found it when playing high TTK shooters like Overwatch 2 I can still hold my own against them young'uns.
Adult(me): lots of free time, good PC
Job? 0.0
Maybe a software engineer.
I still have the time, yet it doesn’t feel as fun as it used to be.
One of the reasons for this is that you already experienced a lot of games and there are less of those "first" experiences. Another reason is that AAA and AA has been very same-y for a while (I almost wrote 'trash', but not really, it's pretty cool how far technology has come). AAA doesn't try anything new, AA tries to be AAA. I tend to go back to older games I'm not familiar with and I follow the indie market, there are pretty cool niche games out there which sometimes bring back the spark of that "first-experience" feeling.
it's been almost a decade for me to "digest" this truth. But to be honest, I don't even miss or regret it much anymore. I end up cooking, going out, cleaning up or resting instead. and doing those with the same openness to let them absorb me the way games used to,... man, they sure can be enjoyable
I have been feeling the same. I only really enjoy gaming with friends now because I like the social aspect. Otherwise, I'm filling my alone time with reading. It's much more satisfying.
My life be like: Adult Bad PC No money No free time
How dare you call me out like this.
Don’t remind me…
Adds another game to Steam library to ease the pain
Never seen this meme format before, did you make this?
Nope. Saw it on Mastodon 🙃
You have time you just allocate it to different things, that is unless you just had a kid.
I've solved it by not buying good PC in adulthood.
spoiler
it led to replacing the "addiction" with other 🤣
Your kids have both
Exactly. That's what I do with my son. I buy the hardware and most of the games, he has time to enjoy it. Sometimes even together.
Relatable. What I kinda hate about it as well is that I can't use my own PC for work, but at least this time around I have a decent work laptop - and I can still use my own peripherals.
I never understood why someone would want this. I would never want to use my personal pc for work. They give me a device, install everything for me and I just work with it while not having to deal with anything. I see that like a company’s car. You drive it and don’t have to deal with it in any other way. Isn’t that great?
When you are young and have the time you don't have the money.
When you are young and have the money, you don't have the time.
When you have the time and the money, you're too old.
I often think about this and feel like absolute shit after that. It's just something that we should cope with.
You bettah MAKE some free time.
and bad internet for both periods.
I'm playing through automata with an hd 530 😂
(Wanted to see how the story went after replicant)
I have way more free time as an adult. Going to school for like 7 hours and then doing homework took pretty much my whole day. Now I can work from home and automate like most of my job I have so much time for hobbies including video games.
I‘m adulthood but the first image. Can’t bring myself to build a new Michaelsoft Binbows machine when a PS5 costs about 1/3 of the price of a PC with the same power.
(Minus the screen, plus needed peripherals)
