• Kengaro0@lemmy.world
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    Middle aged: Don’t bother upgrading, you know you won’t use it. Mediocre PC - No free time

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      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

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      Oh, spicy depression. Is that the exciting variant? If so, would you recommend over vanilla why-should-I-get-up-for-any-not-immediately-lifesaving-task depression?

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        Yes! It’s the new and improved depression with anxiety and panic attacks! It still includes the paralysis of normal depression, but now you can’t relax either! Highly recommend! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!

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    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.)

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      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.

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          That’s a good point. I was born in the 90s but I don’t remember upgrading my computer that often in the 2000-2010 era when I would have started playing. Maybe I didn’t play intense games or something.

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        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.

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      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.

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      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

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        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.

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        I highly recommend getting jobs adjacent to social media with full time contract. Sometimes it’s insanely busy, much more than a person can handle, but if you can manage the stress, there’s many slow days where you can just play games.

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    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…

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      If you really want to experience the HD porn, get a Valve Index and Virt-a-Mate. You’ll never leave your room.

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        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.

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    I’ve solved it by not buying good PC in adulthood.

    spoiler

    it led to replacing the “addiction” with other 🤣


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      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.