Am I the only one who intentionally avoids buying games?
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
I do not own a single gaming system. I love to play games, however I get addicted easily to the point where I dream about them or map out strategy at work. I would rather be more productive when I am not at work.
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
I try avoid games that force me to play online against hordes of Koreans (crazy starcraft players) or other dysfunctional teenagers who forget that playing games is supposed to be fun. M.
Watched code never compiles.
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
You're not the only one fighting this. There are a couple of games that have taken way too much time out of my life. One thing that I despise are game consoles. I might bend a little for the Wii, as it's truly multiplayer / socially interactive.
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
Christopher Duncan wrote:
they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
You kidding me? That is exactly why I play them.
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it. My latest tip/trick
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
I do not own a single gaming system. I love to play games, however I get addicted easily to the point where I dream about them or map out strategy at work. I would rather be more productive when I am not at work.
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Yeah, people ask me, "But don't you like to play games?" Yeah. I do. And of course, therein lies the problem. An analogy to liquor comes to mind, but I can't quite place it. :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
I avoid MMOs now... I escaped from WoW after about 4-5 years (Beta until last July), then tried Champions Online for a few months (Boring)... Now I only buy games that I can play if and when I want to, without being penalized or "falling behind." Don't even get me started on Zynga games (Farmville, etc)... No. Just no.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
I avoid MMOs now... I escaped from WoW after about 4-5 years (Beta until last July), then tried Champions Online for a few months (Boring)... Now I only buy games that I can play if and when I want to, without being penalized or "falling behind." Don't even get me started on Zynga games (Farmville, etc)... No. Just no.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
I escaped from WoW after about 4-5 years (Beta until last July)
Yeah, if I'm going to be captured by something, I prefer it to be a harem full of cute girls in I Dream Of Jeannie outfits. :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
I intentionally avoid buying games quite simply because I am crap at them.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
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You're not the only one fighting this. There are a couple of games that have taken way too much time out of my life. One thing that I despise are game consoles. I might bend a little for the Wii, as it's truly multiplayer / socially interactive.
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Well, I won that fight. But I lost the one with the compiler. :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
I destroyed about $10,000 worth of games from my gaming library last year. Oddly, I have had an amazing amount of time to pursue other interests since then. Claiming a 2 year WoW addiction and writing a book is like snorting pixie stick powder and writing a book on how to quit hard drugs.
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I can play Transport Tycoon Deluxe for hours and hours and hours. I have never really progressed from that.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Ahhh! Why did you have to bring that up? Now I'm humming the music to that game again! I used to play that all the time... I have OpenTTD installed on all of my home machines now. Such a great game, and so intricate.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
I destroyed about $10,000 worth of games from my gaming library last year. Oddly, I have had an amazing amount of time to pursue other interests since then. Claiming a 2 year WoW addiction and writing a book is like snorting pixie stick powder and writing a book on how to quit hard drugs.
Pualee wrote:
Claiming a 2 year WoW addiction and writing a book is like snorting pixie stick powder and writing a book on how to quit hard drugs.
Maybe, but The Guild is a really good series, if you're enough of a gamer to get the jokes :) That, and Felicia Day is... well... she's almost on my list.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
Ahhh! Why did you have to bring that up? Now I'm humming the music to that game again! I used to play that all the time... I have OpenTTD installed on all of my home machines now. Such a great game, and so intricate.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)I have the TTDPatch[^] on my work desktop, but since an office move around my monitor is now visible to others so I cannot play. Getting it working under Windows 7 on my home machine was a happy moment. There are still people creating new graphics for it and fiddling with the source code.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I have the TTDPatch[^] on my work desktop, but since an office move around my monitor is now visible to others so I cannot play. Getting it working under Windows 7 on my home machine was a happy moment. There are still people creating new graphics for it and fiddling with the source code.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Ah, but OpenTTD works perfectly on pretty much anything... I have it running on my old XP box, my Weven box, and my Xandros (Debian Linux) EeePC.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
I’m a hard core gamer since Duke Nukem and the first Pentium 133MHz processors were introduced. I even opened my own computer club with 10 seats in order to play LAN multiplayer Delta Force, Alien vs. Predator, Half Life and CS with other people in the times when the Internet was not fast enough for online competitive gaming. As a side effect this small business was generating just enough cash to support me through the last two years in the university/on a terrible price though; sleepless nights, having to deal with junkies, neighborhood bullies etc./. Now I’m playing not more than one hour a day and not every day. So it’s much more like a hobby, not an addiction.
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I was watching The Guild a while back (web series) and part of the back story is that Felicia Day wrote it after a two year WoW addiction. While I tire of the medical industry defining a gazillion "addictions" so that they can bill your insurance company to treat them, this one struck home. Back in ancient times, before Windows ruled the earth, I encountered a primitive DOS based game called Digger. I recall going several nights without sleep, hammering away at the game. Just one more round! You know the story. Sometime thereafter, I realized that any cool game was going to be trouble in this fashion and ever since I have studiously avoided buying any computer or console games to keep my life from disappearing down that particular little rabbit hole. Of course, I don't know how much good that did me since immediately after that first gaming encounter I became a programmer. :rolleyes: Hey, one out of two ain't bad. Anyone else avoid games because you know they'd suck too many hours out of your lives?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.modified on Friday, December 31, 2010 4:09 PM
One word: Doom
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Well, I won that fight. But I lost the one with the compiler. :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer
Writing apps? Developing sites? Hate marketing? We can help.The fight with the compiler is FAR more virtuous. (virtuous is a word, right?) Yeah, I'm same as you. I spent plenty of quarters back in the 80s. But now adays, I just watch my son play em. With much disgust. He could be fighting the compiler instead of wasting his life. At least with compiler fighting, you're building some THING. There's a .exe - it may not do everything you want, but it probably will before you die. I just joined FRC (high school robot club). Even if my son drops, I can still be a "mentor". (That is, get to play with 150 pound robots:) I'm hoping he'll YET catch the bug. But it's kinda lookin like this gig is not his bug. Maybe the 3d printer will get his attention. FIGHT THE COMPILER !!
