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mantequilla
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Turkey779 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-11-10 09:47:35
November 10 2016 09:46 GMT
#1
it makes me sad that after finally building a desktop that can play games a year ago (lived off on 'gaming' laptops for too long), the most demanding game I played on it is Salt and Sanctuary... I can't get into games last couple of years.

in weekdays, I come home at about 20:00, dinner (usually ordered, rarely cook myself) takes one hour, couple episodes of tv series or anime, reading a bit off internet, checking out my favorite sc2 streams (can't watch any other game ;_;), and I usually fall asleep before shutting down twitch. Often avilo screams and wakes me up at 3 am, giving me a chance to shut down the pc.

In weekends I don't have much to do, besides cleaning the home and relaxing after a busy work week, cooking something simple that involves vegetables (since all orders are meat based here). If I play a game it just feels that I didn't do anything worthwhile and the day is already gone away...

Anything that involves some focused effort feels like such a drag to me. The Salt and Sanctuary was simple to learn, but very fun to play singleplayer game, most games are not like this. You have to learn and practice for a while to be able to enjoy it. Casual games doesn't involve any challenge, and I'm not humane enough to take people's bullshit in a multiplayer game.

The games I waited for a discount for months on steam, now sits on my library NOT EVEN INSTALLED :D

I used to fall asleep happiliy after playing civilization 4 for hours. Now I'm not doing anything and not playing anything. Time just passes somehow.

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N0
Profile Blog Joined October 2016
154 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-11-10 17:04:31
November 10 2016 16:30 GMT
#2
You need games which teach you interesting things you might even find useful in life. I'm guessing you're Turkish, and the time you've spent gaming in the past has helped you enrich your vocabulary, strengthen your command and polish your pronunciation of the English language, more or less regardless of the games, but civilization also delivers general knowledge about geography, history and important developments and personalities. Now that you feel you've come to a point where that doesn't happen as efficiently you seek new synergy.
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mantequilla
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Turkey779 Posts
November 10 2016 17:29 GMT
#3
n0 you native english speaker?
Age of Mythology forever!
Cauld
Profile Joined February 2010
United States350 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-11-10 18:10:49
November 10 2016 18:00 GMT
#4
I feel the same way. When I get home I don't want the mental engagement a lot of games require. The prospect of spending 60 hours at any game is just exhausting.

I've been going for more Indy games and other things I can just pick up and play and put down without any large commitment. I get a good amount of enjoyment out of the various new ideas and artwork they present without feeling like I need to get a huge amount of hours/$ out of each one.
N0
Profile Blog Joined October 2016
154 Posts
November 10 2016 19:44 GMT
#5
On November 11 2016 02:29 mantequilla wrote:
n0 you native english speaker?

sort of.

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mantequilla
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Turkey779 Posts
November 11 2016 08:28 GMT
#6
On November 11 2016 04:44 N0 wrote:
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On November 11 2016 02:29 mantequilla wrote:
n0 you native english speaker?

sort of. I'm a native reverse-English speaker. The thing most people don't realize about languages is that they all came from somewhere and sometime. Most of the time when a new language is created it's the exact opposite of the one which the ruling, dominating group of people is speaking. The reason for that being that when, every so often, someone gets rejected out of that select group of people, they are not only forced into exile into your world, but escorted and forced to learn and teach their kids the anti-language in order to shame-brand them and their descendants. If the escort hears of words being spoken in the original, or any other language, his orders are to swiftly carry out the death penalty. Needless to say these anti-languages have a tendency to spread quite rapidly here, we don't know why. I am a native reverse-English speaker because that's the language the ruling class was speaking at the time of my initiation. I've learned to speak 3 new master languages and 4 old slave languages fluently since then.

Having said that, my kind has long recognized that our dimension is not a primary, but a mere vassal to yours. Nevertheless we harbor the kind of intelligence, in abundance I might add, and lore which is threatened by extinction in yours. We are willing not only to trade with you, but also to fight against the oppressor minority which exerted its mischievous influence upon your psyche to uphold a dystopian status quo, by confusing you with authoritarian, bullshit, anti-logic.



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