when/how do you find the time?

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i love video games but i can't remember the last one i've finished. i just don't have the time :(

fall always gets me motivated to do more GAMING though, obvs

cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

get the flu.

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago)

but really, by specifically not doing more constructive or social things like working on music, reading, or hanging out with my girlfriend/friends. :/ or by staying up too late.

left 4 dead is great for the time-strapped, i'm finding, my friends & i can carve out some time and do a campaign (w/a satisfying end point) in a little over an hour.

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago)

yeah i guess i'd have to give up fitness

cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

i always feel guilty firing up the ps3 instead of reading a book

cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago)

then i just end up getting stoned and listening to music anyway

cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, out of all the things i use my limited free time for, gaming causes the most guilt

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago)

can't u game while on the turbo

coz (webinar), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago)

This is part of the reason I gravitate toward short-burst games, but then I just wind up playing short-burst games for incredibly long bursts.

Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago)

my roommate, on the other hand, has no problem finding time to play all the games i buy and beat them well before i've even learned the controls

cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

kale omelette in one hand, dualshock in the other

coz (webinar), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago)

there are many sides to me

cutty, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

this is an ongoing problem for me and why i'm playing DS way more than xbox even tho' i'd rather be doing arkham asylum than trioncube

Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

u shd play DS while u run john

coz (webinar), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago)

i should! fuck, i should just run in any case! I'm gonna start tonight!

Does the hole come standard or did you have to special order it (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

i love video games but i can't remember the last one i've finished. i just don't have the time :(

lol time consuming sardine preparation

i havent played videogames in like a month :-(

h3len k. (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:18 (fifteen years ago)

option one: the one weekday i have off (if nothing in my house has broken/collapsed/etc., which can be rare
option two: napping girlfriend
option three: terrible insomniac worknight decisions

option three seems to be winning out the most recently

Don Quishote (jjjusten), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago)

my bf likes games but only really gay ones like call of duty and makes fun of the ones i have abt magical japanese schoolchildren. for sum reason this is more stressful than just having a gf that doesnt care abt videogames at all

h3len k. (Lamp), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:40 (fifteen years ago)

that dude needs an attitude adjustment

Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 06:36 (fifteen years ago)

did not know lamp was a woman? or a homosexual?

cutty, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago)

This is a question I find myself asking a lot when on ILG (not "Is Lamp a woman/homosexual?", the time for gaming one), when reading about all these games everyone else is playing. I mostly read ILG while on my lunch break/quiet times at work, so it's not to blame for my lack of gaming time, but maybe once or twice a week I'll find an hour or so in the evening to play games. At the weekend I'll maybe find a couple of hours, maybe a bit more if I'm lucky/cripplingly hungover.

It took me about 8 months after getting my 360 to complete Fallout 3, and Gears of War I&II (all three of which I got with the xbox). When I see a game with "over 40hours of gameplay" I think "That'll be about 10 weeks to complete". More annoying that the 'when/how do you find the time?' question is 'what the hell am I doing with my time?' question. I neglect pretty much all my hobbies, but never have time for any of them. The majority of games I actually complete are DS games, which I can play on my lunch break, or on the train to go visit people, etc. Plus they're rarely 40hrs long.

CraigG, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 10:41 (fifteen years ago)

lamp is a female homosexual iirc

coz (webinar), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:13 (fifteen years ago)

it's difficult, but if i can squeeze a few several hours of gaming in between sleeping and watching seinfeld I'll give it a go.

Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago)

then why does she have a call of duty playing bf

cutty, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

lol we play left4dead 2 together now fwiw

top 5 most time-consuming games of the year, for me:

blazblue
persona 4
anno 1404
demon's souls
valkyria chronicles + dlc

cutty u shld like uncharted 2 its the shortest time i spent playing any game i actually beat this year its like half a saturday

^_^ (_² ÷_X +_- (Lamp), Thursday, 17 December 2009 01:41 (fifteen years ago)

i beat it

crazy shituations (cutty), Thursday, 17 December 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago)

valkyria is asking a lot out of me right now

fictional, homosexual, Baltimore hoodlum (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 December 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago)

such a dope game tho - tbqf i dont really regret the hundreds of hours i spent on those 5 games except maybe demon's souls which i didnt get that much out of

Lamp, Thursday, 17 December 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago)

I play when my gf has gone to bed but as that's the only time I really get to play, I always end up playing till late.

whenever I play games when its light outside, that's when the guilt really kicks in.

my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 17 December 2009 08:49 (fifteen years ago)

mainly i find the time by being single and not having a grown up job? actually the only things i've played this month are scribblenauts and a sort of sokoban thing on my phone and a v bad tower defence based on starship troopers

thomp, Thursday, 17 December 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago)

i think mb i have become a *casual gamer*

thomp, Thursday, 17 December 2009 09:18 (fifteen years ago)


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