That's a lot on Steam! For me it's been mostly buying up games I couldn't play--but wanted to--when I was a kid.
I own Skyrim for PC, Switch, and Oculus, have played many many hours, and I have yet to beat it :-)
I haven't logged in for a while, and I'm sure I'm not at 1500 days (!), but I have a still ridiculous number of hours in WoW. Played consistently through vanilla, BC, and WotLK, started taking some breaks during Cataclysm and Pandaria, and have played very sporadically since then. I still like to check out new expansions.
Kids today get chromebooks. Fine for browsing the web and accessing Canvas, but severely limited. It's kind of sad, and you can really tell that kids today are not learning the same fundamental computer skills that we had to in the 90s/00s (and earlier, though fewer people were regularly using computers in the 80s and before).
Unless you're an autist who has recorded every game you've ever played or a savant with perfect memory, this is a guess.
For me, it's been a fun walk down memory lane, and it's interesting to hear stories of how people got into gaming.
Damn that brings back the memories. One of my earliest computer and game experiences was getting a book from the library that had 600 lines of GWBASIC code for some kind of alien shooter game. I spent hours typing that and I never got it to work.
It did get me interested in programming and trying to understand why it didn't work!
Holy shit, man in politics fucks woman (or is it woman in politics fucks man). You got ‘em this time!
Ballpark of games played 1+ hour. Some of this was triggered recently by watching Youtube "Best games of 19xx" videos.
NES games. 30. We didn't have a lot of money so I only ever owned a couple of games. I used to rent games from Blockbuster.
SNES games. 20.
N64 games. 5
PS2 games. 20
Gamecube games. 10
Wii games. 15
Switch games. 10
DS / Gameboy / etc: 30
Dreamcast games. 5
DOS games. Big question mark here. 100-150? (Lots of Sierra games, Sim games, Ultimas, 7th guest, AD&D games, random games from local BBS).
BBS games. Legend of the Red Dragon. Land of Devastation. Wow, that was a long time ago. 10+
Flash games. 50+?
Phone games. 50
Warcraft. 8 million hours.
"Modern" PC games. 100+?
These counts are also kind of misleading, because I must have hundreds of hours of Starcraft, hundrds of hours of World of Warcraft, hundreds or more of hours of Civilization, etc.
I guess conservatively I'm around 500 games. Largely a function of how old one is!
Lethn is the world's biggest Beamdog fanboy.
Is he? I didn't know that Beamdog HAD fanboys? I say that as someone who briefly hung out on their forums when BG1EE was first released and owns most of the "EE" releases.
My impression was the general community feeling was thankfulness for Beamdog refreshing the engines, making them easier to run on modern PCs, tablets, etc. The most positive things I've ever heard said about their new content is that it wasn't bad and that most of it was optional.
Please tell me you've played more than a hundred games in your life. Think about it. A hundred. Should seem like a small number, compared to probably over a million games out there. But, be honest. You haven't, have you?
Not Lethn, but that's an interesting question. How many games have I played?
And what does played mean? I might be tempted to break it out into categories so that "played" means one of:
- Completed multiple times
- Completed once
- Didn't complete but played 5+ hours
- Played more than 1 hour
That avoids playing some game for 5 minutes and it goes on the list.
For me it would be old DOS games, old Mac games, NES, SNES, (etc), PS2+ (etc), "modern" games, phone games, flash games, etc.
I would guess it would have to be 300+, but I have no idea. I could be way off.
My vidya time really tailed off in my 30s.
Edit: My Steam and Gog collections are ~150, but I have definitely not played them all! I might revise my guess to 400+.
That’s kind of meaningless statement since for the entire history of Islam Christians have vastly outnumbered Jews. There have been plenty of massacres of Jews in Islamic countries (and battles in the Koran), but take the example of the Ottoman Empire that controlled roughly from Morocco to Saudi Arabia through Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and up almost to Vienna.
Christians were possibly the majority (rural peasants) in Egypt until maybe as late as the 1700s.
Christians were huge in Turkey, Istanbul, etc., until the 1920s.
Christians were the majority in Greece, most of the Balkans, large parts of the Levant (Lebanon areas), etc.
Christians and Jews were classified together as “people of the book” — monotheists who would be allowed to live under Islamic rule, but with limited rights and you get taxed to hell and oh yeah you can be made into slaves too. (If you're polytheists in an Islamic society, you are fucked. The last succesful jihad against polytheists was in the 1890s in Afghanistan against a polytheistic people who lived in a province called Kafiristian, the land of unbelievers. After the jihad and forced conversion of survivors, the province was renamed to Nuristan, the land of enlightenment).
Generally, if you played by the rules, so to speak, as a native Jew or Christian and didn’t shake the boat, you were ok.
Two events increased hostility against Christians specifically. The first was the crusades (the first major fightback from Christians powers—it’s easy to not care about Christians if they’re easily conquered and servile citizens). The second was with growing power of the Spanish, French, English, Russians, etc., and supporting Christian peoples inside the Ottoman Empire, Christians were in a similar boats to Japanese in the US during WW2.
tl;dr, Islam is expanionistic and aggressive, and while you can be a Jew or a Christian in an Islamic society, it sucks.
Confirmed. I had never heard of this shit, but I asked my middle school aged kid about it. He said oh yeah, tons of kids at school have it, and people are selling it at lunch, and some kids are paying $5 for it!
I’m going to go beyond saying “The Internet was a mistake” and say MASS MEDIA was a mistake.The vast majority of people are just too susceptible to peer pressure and manipulation.
Wow, 10 comments in and no one is freaking out because she’s Jewish. I honestly figured this post was just bait to get Imp and the stormies in another slap fight.
Wow, I didn’t know that was a thing. Childbirth is serious business! Likewise glad you’re good now.
Damn, they don't do that any more? I watched anime from the very late 90s to the mid-2000s. Most of it was crap VHS or VHS quality video, but I remember many shows that had those types of subs. There wasn't particularly a debate, that was clearly the best and most popular style. Fansubs were clearly the way to go. There WAS a debate over subs vs dubs, but that was basically just geeks vs normies.
Similar thing happened--though not allergies--to my wife. After one of her pregnancies she started getting digestive issues when eating red meat. It was linked to her gallbladder. She's not quite vegan now, but she doesn't eat much meat.
Merry Christmas!
Interesting, Gay is yet another example of a race and grievance obsessed black woman whose career is based entirely on talking about white power AND who is…married to a white dude.
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/12/16/meet-claudine-gays-husband-dr-christopher-afendulis/
The examples are almost too numerous to count.
I was thinking most people were probably not 13 during Tiny Toons, but more like the shit people saw on New Grounds.
True, I was 11.
That Adam Lanza source is incredibly sketchy. Lanza is an Italian name, so nothing there. Maybe his mom, but nothing to indicate that.
To be fair, I didn't know Klebold, Holmes, or Cruz were Jews, and yes, you're right that that is criminally under reported.
Here's what I could find in a few minutes of googling (since I couldn't figure this out).
Left to right, asterisk means Jewish confirmed.
- *Nikolas Cruz. Part Jewish.
- Elliot Rodger. Can't find anything claiming he was Jewish.
- *James Holmes. Probably Jewish.
- I don't know who this is.
- Jared Loughner. Not Jewish (https://www.jta.org/2011/01/12/obituaries/loughners-jewish-mother-not-so-much)
- Adam Lanza. Not Jewish.
- *Dylan Klebold. Jewish.
- Not sure who this is.
So, at least 3 out of 6 not Jewish.
Payton Gendron. Doesn't seem to be Jewish.
In other words, conspriacy theory shit.
"Always has been"
Quote: "The staffer has not been named but was identified by Semafor as a former senior House staffer of Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington"
Degenerates all the way around, and they always have been.
Roy Cohn. etc
Check out this hoe…
Its Dong Long Gone as always. Mad that he doesn't have any family for Christmas and that his front fact Keffals betrayed him.
I missed what happened with Keffals and Liz Fong-Jones -- the one who had a "consent accident." Nice phrase for rape!
I had totally forgotten that game! MAy have to up how many NES games I played. I never owned many, but between sharing with friends, Blockbuster, etc., it's go to be up there.
So many weird games too. A Boy and His Blob? (Apparently has a 2009 remake)