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That’s why I like playing older games. You launch them and start playing immediately.
i mean, it’s true, but why?
I need someone to explain it to me.
Too god damn true. Some games back on the last two generations took so god damn long to load. GTA V took I believe like 4 minutes to load from cold boot? So I’d be lost in thought, and the bored by the time the game loaded up.
Get a Steam Deck, and you can press the power button whenever you want to stop playing and it puts the system on standby. Press it again and it powers on in a couple seconds right where you left it.
Me but with a half hour setup for a solo boardgame 😭
Im interested in knowing what solo boardgames you like?
I can never play solo boardgames tbh. If I am going to play something solo, I can play something more complex on the PC. In fact, many of the most popular BGs have very good apps for themselves too. And if one wants to play something specifically boardgamey, things like Slay the Spire exist.
I ask because my son, near 12 years of age, has ADHD and ODD. Videogames have historically been a massive issue with him, and today doesn’t play them. He does however love board games. However being he is a only child, he will play Chess/Clue/Yahtzee against himself often. I play when I can but I’m not always able to. He doesn’t like drawing, painting or writing, so I lean into board games.
I’ve found a few solo board games, but nothing good
Was hoping to hear what else might be out there that people find enjoyable, as his birthday is soon.
I’ll look up what Slay the Spire is
Also monster train 2,just came out.
For solo boardgames, it really depends on its age, but if old enough to play complex ones, there’s some ones with almost infinite replayability. Spirit island, Dune Imperium, mage Knight, voidfall.
You forgot to add:
- read everything about the game before installing
- check ALL mods, install them all, configure them all
- explore options, configure it perfectly, run benchmarks
…and then your part 😁
“This mod says it is incompatible with this version, but will it actually not work? I think it said that with the last version too.”
Well, after extensive comments-research on this problem, I might just try if it works 😁
Doing this used to annoy me, but I’ve come to accept that the modding bit is just a hobby of mine. I enjoy the process of research, troubleshooting, and time spent finding, installing, and configuring mods. Then I’ll play the game for a bit, maybe complete the first quest or something, and then it will sit untouched for the next year before I eventually uninstall it for storage.
This is exactly how it goes for me too
This is me with skyrim… But I do play test for some hours write down what is bad and need to be fixed, start fixing the mods, find more mods, aaaand repeat. I just figured I like moding more than playing haha
Last year when I did the same did I tell my self: this will be perfect and next time i play again then I can just play without putting time and effort into moding, maybe just update some. Lol I started over, again… And this time has it been a month instead of 2 weeks since I started and I am not done… I wonder if I will ever be done… More mods are just added and more merges and patches do I create. Maybe moding is the game I play 😂 I am scared of next year because I kinda double the time spent modding every year.
Yup, Skyrim is the big one for me too. I also fiddled with FO4 for a while, but nothing keeps me coming back like Skyrim… or at least, its nexus page. If I had an hour tracker on mod organizer 2, I’m sure I’d overtake my playtime in the actual game by at least 10x.
I also create private mod packs for my friends and I to play numerous games. Minecraft, Lethal Company, R.E.P.O., Risk of Rain 2, and more. Fortunately for those last three, I never really scrap my mod packs and instead build upon them constantly as new mods or updates come out. Which I do perhaps a little too much, because I get poked fun at for it now lol.
One thing I’ve come to appreciate is how detailed nexus mod pages tend to be compared to most other websites. Half the mods for games like Lethal Company or RoR2 don’t even have any pictures or detailed descriptions of what they do. I’ll hear about a really neat mod in the Lethal Company modding discord server and then check out its page just to see “adds a couple new items and enemies” and that’s the entire page.
One thing I’ve come to appreciate is how detailed nexus mod pages tend to be compared to most other websites.
Same, I think that is half the fun. Some have very flashy showcases of their mods and very detailed information how to change x and y and also give recommendations to other mods. Also the posts section is very active for most mods regardless of how old the mod is, I have seen many mods not updated since 2016-2018 with many comments from 2025. So it is easy to tell if the mod has any problems or if there are fixes and workarounds.
And I REALLY like that in nexus they show dependencies, so when I find a mod I like then I check what depends on it to find replacers, textures, fixes, patches or mods that use the mod as a base. It is very convenient and also the reason it takes forever to be done with the mod list haha
Don’t forget the community and the comments. Nothing beats checking one mod you really really really want but it’s 5 yrs old…and the comment from yesterday says “still works today if anyone is wondering”. Yes! My hero 😁 I always vote and give kudos like free candies.
True. My last run filled about 700g or so. After said weeks of excessive tinkering. But at least I managed to game some hours in the end. Not counting all those “does it even run?”-runs…
And yeah I’ve come to peace with that too. I love the tinkering and I love games that are exactly like I want them to be. 4 decades of gaming made me horribly picky 😁 Even if I then don’t play them adequately long afterwards.
So my overpowered PC is so I don’t lose focus due to loading times.
Mine loads fast too. Doesn’t mean I don’t lose interest, just means I lose interest faster. More efficient that way.
Or you’re trying to mod skyrim for the first time in 10+ years and hyper focus on troubleshooting crash after crash for 36-ish hours.
Just a theoretical scenario…
Are not supposed to just highly optimize our games for 3 hours and then shut the computer off when you get the golden 60-120fps?
Last time I modded for weeks straight then played a day or so…
Hey there! In case you weren’t aware, Nexus Mods has something like Wabbajack, that they call Collections. Literally click and install, and start playing! I’ve tried quite a few this way, and highly recommend it. No longer going through pages and pages of mods to find the “correct” ones that work with the version you are on! :)
I did find my way to the nexus’ collections (though thank you for the tip), which would’ve gone smoothly if I hadn’t fumbled a fresh install beforehand with an issue I already addressed in the first install.
Not a great feeling when you realize the last 10 hours of frustration are entirely self inflicted XD
Awh, trust me, I totally understand! I can also recommend downloading the game fresh, zipping it up afterwards, and then start tinkering. That way if you mess something up, you can delete the entire folder contents and unzip the files back into the folder for a “fresh” install!
You may know this too, but in case anyone else comes across our conversation! :)
Processing Vulkan Shaders
Processing any shaders…every load time. I guess the upside of spending too much on hardware it doesn’t take as long as it could. I definitely ignored Hogwarts Legacy some game evenings cause it did that every time I played, it went away recently though and oddly I finished after being able to play right away.
One of the one games I’ve finished in like 3 years, which I assume is also an add thing, I don’t finish a lot, just try and get my entertainment value and hope for the best after. Currently not wanting to lock into the last mission of cyberpunk 2077 heh.
Okay so its not just me that sits on the last mission of games for no real reason?
Life quality improvement tip: disable that from steam download settings.
YES!
I finished downloading almost 40GB of Call of Duty Mobile over mobile data on February 21st. I still haven’t played it, and now it needs updates installed for sure.
Yeah, quite a big phone game.deleted by creator
Is it ADHD or is it depression 🤔
Hey that’s my line D:
Well both for some of us, but it’s probably also the fact that you have no energy in your reserves to do your hobbies when everything is so fucking shite everywhere. Can’t pay bills, tons of stress, videogames are now revenue generating devices instead of genuine entertainment, and social media on your phone delivers the same dopamine hits with much less effort. Your brain knows this so it makes it harder to work to play if that makes sense.
Yes
This is the ADHD memes community.
It gets very frustrating when people comment on every meme suggesting that this feeling might be caused by something else. ADHD unfortunately has to fight pretty powerfully to occupy a space for just ADHD.
Fucking hate it when this happens
happened to me 3 times in a row two days ago
I usually only get this when I’m overworked, a few days of staring at a wall usually fixes it until the next overtime wave.
I really shouldve started playing _____. Closes X, boots ____ Dang, I was gonna check something on X…
Game: optimizing shaders, please wait
Me: looks at phone
Game: loads into main menu
Me: jams to the main menu music while scrolling for 45 mins
Me: Nah I don’t wanna play anymore
