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My wife has came at me like that before. She has over 500 books that she’s never read so I just flip it around on her
What if I massively overbuy both games and books without consistently consuming either?
Well, if you have the disposable income and you’re not married, it’s no different than me and my wife’s finances haha
Hah! I like that comparison, very apt.
I am married. My wife is concerned because I enjoy and own an unreasonable quantity of video games and books; and we have a toddler with a growing interest in both as well.
My wife says that our next house won’t have a library, it will just be built from books.
On the plus side, one of my favorite authors - Terry Pratchett - once said “I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who has enough room for all of their books.” I would have liked to be friends with him.
… one of my favorite authors - Terry Pratchett - once said “I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who has enough room for all of their books.” I would have liked to be friends with him.
That’s beautiful. Also the quote makes me feel a lot better about all the books strewn about the house. Makes it seem more normal, or acceptable. Kind of flips it around to a good thing.
Books are generally cheaper, though.
Per capita, but think about it. Over 500 books. We got books in the spare room. We got books in the living room. We have books in storage lol
True. She needs to get an e-reader and just pirate them if she’s not gonna read them anyway!
She keeps reminding me “It could be drugs”
At least drugs can be resold for a decent price if you don’t use them.
She just wants bookstore credit lol. Bookstore credit is like the most selfish/unselfish thing ever. Like people are reading, but you’re getting free books lol. I’ve learned to just keep my mouth shut about it unless she says something about my video games. If the boss is happy, I get to be happy
Also shoutout to libraries. I’ve got a whole reservation queue going
The Cold War of queued media.
We’re not buying the game, we’re buying the fantasy that we have the free time to play the game. I heard someone say that about books they bought and didn’t read. You can apply this reasoning to explain a lot of similar spending people do.
“Of course I’m going to play it! For a few minutes to make sure it works, then into the backlog it will go, forever,”
Glad I’m not like this
How dare you. I’ve been busy, damn it.
Periodically I do a “spending freeze” on games and force myself to look at my backlog. I’m in one right now, Monster Hunter World is rocking my socks off
Well now that I know I’m not alone I can feel more confident when the next great buy comes out.
I guy was looking through my installed games and was outraged that I had never played a few of them. I was glad he didn’t look at the full library.
It doesn’t help that I go back and replay games that I’ve already beaten instead of trying out the new ones in my backlog.
Nothing wrong with just enjoying yourself.
The way my life’s been going lately I haven’t been able to play any games in a long time and thankfully for my wallet I’ve also stopped buying them. I do however open up Epic every Thursday to pick up the free games. Some of them have been pretty decent and one of these days I’ll get around to playing some of them. Not to long ago was Fallout 1, 2, and tactics which I have always wanted to try. Just have to find a free minute and some motivation and brain power, hopefully all at the same time.
My policy is I only buy something if I’m going to play it that day. No more rapidly expanding backlog.
What’s the purpose of buying a game you’re not gonna play? Come on, if it’s on Steam where you bought it, spoiler alert, It’s not yours, they sell licenses, not the games.
if its installed on your computer, there are ways to take steam DRM out. So yeah they got their “game” going on…I got mine.
Tell me more, please
Lovely, Much Obliged.
So glad I got the indecisive spending guilt disfunction instead of the insecure hoarding disfunction. /s
I also feel bad knowing I’ve got games I don’t love in my “library.” I need it to be as tight a list as possible, so I anguish over each and every one.
I know I can “hide” the games, but God still sees them.
i only need minecraft and factorio in my life. Nothing else is required.
