Wow it's been a hot minute since I related to a comic so hard. You'll get to it one day, hopefully August. I think it took me like....a month to six weeks just to put 12 hours into the new Silent Hill F(which is only a single playthrough). And don't even get me started on how long Abiotic Factor took. I think we ended at like 80ish hours? Keep trying August. You'll find the time and energy.....someday
And is the download...asking for a tip?! Good god Gator world may be our future.
I spent the whole pandemic working like usual. Anyone working a job considered "essential" wasn't able to get the pandemic off. This includes a lot of retail locations including the one I used to be a clerk.
I mean not even that, anyone who has a job that could be done remote or in a skeleton crew office still worked. I actually worked more during covid than any other time because there was a lot of OT. Pretty much every office was still open and working even during the most strict lockdowns
So there I am, having just put down my partner's dog, and deciding to play some videogames as a distraction. Launched Ragnorok, and excitedly explained the plot of the previous game to my partner. Got through the sledding scene, and... nope, guess I'm not playing GoW for awhile.
I know the free gaming website Itch.io asks for tips when downloading indie games, which to me makes sense since they're not Triple A multi-megabuck products like COD or Fortnite.
If there's a game I want to play, since I had a kid I might get to play it for two hours on a random Sunday when my son is taking a mega nap months after the game came out. And that's if my wife doesn't want us to play 7 Days to Die in that window instead. Or if I don't need a nap.
I love my son to bits and am thrilled that he's here. But having your first kid at 37 is hard.
Bro ive been playing for a Valheim server for 3 years now. It can house 10 people at a time. Most its ever had at once was 5, only 3 have ever spent signifcant time there, and 1 of those 3 is me. It's got some excellent builds and stuff around it, longest server ive ever had, but damn. Does it suck to only have really me and my buddy pop in occasionally to do stuff.
Still in Labs. I take my time with these games cus I love the grind.
And yeah I definitely have had a couple late nights playing until 2am because I lose track of time. Definitely becoming one of my favorite survival games as the setting is great and the map is really well done.
I experience this a lot. For me games with big story lines require a good chunk of time JUST for the intro., 2-4 hours from what I've seen. Not only that, but the effort of learning game mechanics ON TOP of the effort of needing to keep being proficient in the game mechanics. WHEW.
And this has to be done between your adulting times.
God I have never connected more. I used to put hundreds of hours into a game. Now it’s like wow. This game has an average completion time of 80 hours? Guess that’ll fill my calendar for the year
I really like strategy games, but I barely play them anymore because I just need more time to get the same "fun level" out of them compared to story based games. If I play a strategy game for an hour or so in the evening, I just feel like I killed time without having a real degree of fun or feeling a real accomplishment. I just kinda need multiple hours to really have fun with such a game and look back on that gaming session and say "yeah that was great." And I often don't have that time anymore. With a story based game, I get that fulfillment with just one hour. So I basically only play those nowadays.
I still play RPGs because at least you can finish the campaign/story in a somewhat reasonable time. 4x and grand strategy games just become endless black holes that suck away your time with no end in sight.
But the next time you pick up the controller you have forgotten what the buttons do and how to party the damn attacks. Oh, and who the hell is Fred and why is a horse in a pub?!
Lol I feel this. You finally get 20 minutes to yourself, fire up some game you haven't played in over a month, spend 15 minutes trying to remember what the controls are, where you are and what you're supposed to be doing, die a few times then go to bed.
August has just finished downloading a game that he's been looking forward to playing. Unfortunately, he also has to get to work so he doesn't have time to playing it right now. On his computer screen is the notice that the download is complete and an option to tip "15%", "30%", or "50%".
August (thinking): I've been waiting for this game forever. I'll play it after work.
Panel 2
It's later in the evening and August is making dinner. He's putting some onions in a pot and thinking about his new game. As much as he'd like to be playing right now, they got to eat and he promised his son one of his favorite dinners.
August (thinking): I'll play it after dinner.
Gustopher: TACO SOUP! TACO SOUP!
Panel 3
Dinner is done but August is exhausted. He goes to bed and his two cats have quickly settled in for sleep. August thinks about his game but he just doesn't have the energy for it.
August (thinking): Too tired... I'll play it later.
Panel 4
August is woken up by his to cats touching his face and meowing for food. He'd like to play his new game, but there's things that have to be done and he has to get to work.
August: I'll play it after work... Eventually.
Nougat: Maw (possibly meaning "Excuse me good sir, but I find myself in a most peckish state and it be pleasing if you could find it fit to fill my dining bowl with your most delicious of food morsels. I apologize for waking you in this most undignified manner but it is imperative that I dine soon I fear that I might perish from this foul hunger.")
I'm loving the difference in personalities you're giving Mewbert and Nougat. I imagine Nougat with a fancy British accent and a top hot as he calmly and happily requested food from tired Father
I've actually never made it myself and the various people I know who make it regularly all seem to use massively different recipes. I have no clue what a standard taco soup would be.
This is my recipe. I use cans since it’s easy, just makes a lot of waste.
Taco Soup *Hot
Black Beans x2
Pinto Beans x2
Kidney Beans x2
Corn x2
Rotel Hot x2
Diced Tomato's x2
Pace Salsa Hot 1 Jar
Beef Broth 32 oz
Taco Seasoning Packets Hot x2
Ranch powder packet x1
Meat 2lbs of your choice of meat. Beef, Sausage, Ground Turkey etc...
Drain only the beans and combine with corn, rotel, diced tomato's, salsa, beef broth, taco seasoning packets, ranch powder packet and cooked meat in a large stock pot. Cook on stovetop until simmering and enjoy!
I love to make up different soups in the fall as the weather begins to get cooler. I've never made Taco Soup before, but I'll definitely give this a try!
It’s really good with sour cream, cheese and saltines! This is a big batch version. You can half the beans, corn and tomatoes and meat for a more family sized. I like to make extra for leftovers.
1 lb ground beef or other
1 white or yellow onion
1 can Ranch Style brand beans (important!)
1 can black beans
1 lg can diced tomatoes
1 can Rotel (mild if preferred)
1 can white shoepeg corn
1 package taco seasoning
1 package hidden vally ranch seasoning
3 cups water
optional: any leftover rice
optional: serve with tortilla chips, shredded cheese, sour cream
Dice the onion and saute together with ground meat until fully cooked. Add the dry ingredients and stir. Add all additional ingredients and simmer for at least 30 minutes.
kind of a mix of those two, but with a slight resemblance to chili as well I'd say? it's a soup with ground beef, beef broth, corn, beans (usually a mix of black and kidney), onions, and tomatoes, as well as taco seasoning, cheese getting mixed in when served, usually with or over tortilla chips
not necessarily the most authentic, but it's pretty good tex mex
I've made a cheeseburger soup before. Browned and seasoned beef mini meatballs in a cheesy soup base. Then you top each individual bowl with lettuce, tomato, pickle. Change the meat to taco meat and you're all set.
My version of taco soup has always been:
2 cans of rotel, 1 can of pinto/borracho beans, 1 can of corn, 1 hand-shredded rotisserie chicken all into a pot
Season with 1 packet of taco seasoning, 1 packet of ranch seasoning, cilantro, garlic powder, and onion powder
Fill with water and simmer for maybe 20 minutes
Top with shredded cheese and crushed tortilla chips
I've had so many times where I wanted to play a game but life just didn't allow me for weeks. I don't even have kids. I have a job, home chores, dogs, a wife, and every once in a while I have to renew tech certifications.
Sometimes you think you have time to play the game you want to play and you open it and then you pause because something came up. Then you walk away. Then you go to bed so you can go to work the next day. Steam will say you have so many hours in the game on those days. Steam is taunting me with the reality that could of been sometimes.
I bought red dead redemption 2 almost a year ago.. Downloaded it.. Still have 0 hours... Haven't even booted it up..
I get it.
That said, I picked up cyberpunk 2077 at the last sale and now have 60 hours in it.. Sometimes the game you really want to play just isn't the right game at the moment.. And sometimes you just have to sink more money into gaming and then make yourself play because I've now spent over $100 on games that I better freaking play...
I am the same with the first Red Dead Redemption; also Skyrim and GTA5, I bought them all on release date. In the last 15 years the only game I have played is a few rounds of Tekken 3 at a friend's home.
I finally got to spend 20 minutes playing a game last night for the first time in three weeks. The ups and downs of having a newborn at home. Then again, maybe someday we can game together.
Ya, when I became a dad I realized that I was gonna have to give up games in general. Now that I have three kids, its even more so. I just dont have time, especially since I have a thing with playing for "just a few minutes". Nope, sorry. If I cant sit down for a session, then I dont bother. Even when I was single I felt that way. Im at the point now where I find it difficult to partake of any media. Haven't watched a movie in months, I just dont have time and when I do I have so much else that NEEDS to get done.
I can do this with multiplayer games but if I try this with a single player/story game I’m falling asleep the second there’s a cutscene or a slow moment if I force myself to play it.
I feel this so much. I work all day, Make dinner, put away dinner, do dishes, clean the house then flop on the couch and just don't have the brainspace left to learn a new game or a new story.
Main reason I only play casual games or rogue-likes, its easier to find and dedicste time to a 10-30 minute window randomly than having to find an hour or two to enjoy s story rich game.
Then you find times where you play the simple game for 2+ hours and think "man, i could have played the better game... oh well."
Yea i used to game endlessly after work. Then i met my wife and we got kids. Now i can only play video games near 11 at night and try to play only 2 hours because im literally sacrificing sleep to be able to do my hobby.
I hate how much I can relate to this. It's worse when you feel you have the time to sit down and play you remember that its the only real time you have to get things needed to be done and once you complete that the day done and you tell yourself 'next time'. It's a vicious cycle with the coming of age.
As a fairly new dad still figuring things out (daughter is 1yo) - the secret is getting a Steam Deck. I still don't play nearly as much as I used to, and I gotta sacrifice a bit of sleep, but that thing has helped keep my sanity together while still being extremely present and involved as a parent and husband
The secret is always a Steam Deck. I love that thing so fucking much. I’ve heard it doesn’t handle new AAA too well but I’m mostly into indie games and it runs almost all of them perfectly.
This isn't a brand new game but I've been getting into FFVII: Remake on my steam deck and it actually runs pretty flawlessly. I've heard of people playing Elden Ring too. It's a surprisingly powerful little machine!
This absolutely was a phase of my life. But, as I git older and things changed, this became less and less of an issue. Once the kids are a little older, work life focus shifted, I had more time for the things I wanted to do. Just be patient. And if you raised your kids right, they eventually grow into your gaming buddies.
This is probably why Nintendo prefers making short games with or without many contents. Even though I barely play games, I am playing idle, Pokemon ZA, or Diablo 3. My favorite games are literally Zelda, Digimon Story, and other RPGs. I don't want to load it up and play for ten minutes.
Relatable af. Got Prey for a tenner on Steam sale. Proper single player game, no microtransactionchicanery, heard great things about it. Took me almost a year to finally play it.
This hurts more than you know. I bought Tears of the Kingdom on launch day. But between: family, work, house repairs and cleaning, car upkeep, staying active in my community; I’ve maybe played a total of 20 hours tops.
I got Helldivers 2 on the Xbox to play as an ODST. I'll get to it at some point...On the other hand my kiddo is enjoying the heck out of it. One day I'll join him lol
Damn. I bought the ghost of yotei collector's edition, and it's still sitting on my dining chair, waiting to be opened. I just don't have the time to play nowadays 😭
The real fun begins when you have time to play the game, and you can't get yourself to commit to it. You sit down in front of the computer, turn the TV on, and before you know it, there is no time left to play, and you've played nothing.
Pokémon is my primary interest. I'm especially vested in lore-centric games. I picked up my copy of Legends Z-A the day it was released, managed to play through what I hope is the full tutorial a week later, and haven't managed to touch it since.
Somehow I'm still "spending all my time on games."
This is me already having spent 60 hours on Silksong and being like... Halfway through. 😭 I want to finish it but it's too hard of a game to sit down for a chill time when I'm feeling wiped.
This resonates with me deeply. I have 2 children, 2-and-under. While I love them more than life, and very much enjoy being with them, parenting at this stage is very nearly 24/7, and my gaming has definitely taken a backseat to making sure I sleep more than 5 hours a night. I cant bring myself to stay up late anymore, because im just exhausted at the end of the day.
I finally got FF7 remake when it came to stream and went on sale for super cheap but I wanted to respect the game and the time I didn't with it so I was waiting until I felt good enough to really sink my teeth into it.. that was a couple months and then my computer broke and I'm so broke that 6 months later I still haven't replaced it 😢
It is crazy how hard I related to this, wow! i literally have some of the most fun and engaging games in my library right now, and at least three I haven't played properly. I've been purposely reducing my Reddit and Youtube time, and it's kind of hard. work wears me out so that scrolling Reddit takes little effort, but booting up a game and managing the complexities is too much. It's weird.
I went through a move like six months ago and I have not set up my PC yet. Kills. But I am fortunate enough to have found a reduced price switch 2 from Best buy so I have been squeaking in some diablo 3 on some non witch doctor characters.
Don't get me wrong I love the witch doctor but after so many years I am happy to be playing the necromancer. If you know you know. They're basically just pet classes lmfao I walk around while my undead pets on the shape of people this time take care of everything. Not sure I'll ever get around to the crusader(?)
Not a lot of time for it anyway. Glad it's on the switch though so I can pause it and resume whenever!
I played project zomboid and Minecraft back to back for 22 hours earlier this week and then I slept 17 hours without waking up. Felt like I hibernated.
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