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.
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!
This is me.
I have a 600 PC game library. I also own nearly every mainstream console and handheld released since 1980, and quite a few lesser known ones. My house is pretty much a gaming museum.
And I’ve only played a sliver of the total amount of games available to me.
I remember being 11 and playing Super Mario World and a couple Zelda games about a hundred times each. I came back to them over and over, I remember the maps and layout of Ocarina of Time better than I remember some of my childhood homes.
Now I have a steam library with 750 games in it and I can barely finish with the game I’m currently playing before I’m back on the store pages looking for more novelty. I think the average play time of items in my library is something like 2 hours.
I hate what I’ve become but I’ve lost what I had in the past. When I only had like five games I had no problem coming back to them over and over and over, but now that I’ve got my own income and no oversight I’ve flooded myself with options to the point that I don’t even want to play any of them. It sucks. I take solace in the fact that I pretty exclusively buy things on sale, so the total money pile is roughly half the size it would have been otherwise, but even so I don’t really want to know how much money I’ve spent on steam over my career. That’s cursed knowledge.
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,”
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.
