If the gaming industry survive till then.
I got a backlog of like 200 games… the gaming industry could die tomorrow and I still wouldn’t run out of games for the next 5-10 years.
Assuming Steam survives, or your console manufacturer keeps releasing updates, or whatever.
In the cartridge days all you needed was the console and the cartridge. As the years go by, you rely more and more on online services, software updates, and so-on. Even for supposedly offline single-player games, many of them stop working eventually.
Well, Valve did say if they ever close shop they’d offer all your purchased games as downloads without DRM. Not that it will ever go that far.
Even in the cartridge days if you played on PC you had to download patches from the developer website… which as you can guess nowadays is no longer available. There was also SecuROM which bricked several games as the activation server no longer exists.
But sure, if we go all the way back to Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 then those games will survive the apocalypse. Many PC games even from that time wouldn’t (at least not fully patched and you might scratch a disk).
Same here, haha, between my early days of game collecting and then Steam sales fever, I have so many more games than I’m realistically going to be able to beat. Plus I’m a bit of a datahoarder, so I have everything either on physical media, and the respective console to play it, or backed up on drives, and I plan to further improve my storage in the near future, so even if Steam or the entire internet goes down, as long as there’s electricity, I’m good
I thought I would never tire of vidya. And then one day I realised I was basically done gaming. Maybe when my body starts failing me I will come back to it, but I don’t know…
This was me for many years when I joined the military. But then it fucked me up and gave me PTSD and now it’s about the most productive thing I’m capable of aside from posting terrible memes so I can totally see how our generation will retire back into video game connoisseurs now.
It’s a weird thing. I never really stopped playing video games. There were games I played pretty kuch daily, if only for half an hour or so. Then if i stop for some reason (vacation, girlfriend, no time, whatever) and i didn’t play any video games for a week or two, i don’t have any urge to go back really. And then i fire up a old ir brand new game and i remember how much i like it.
@BruceTwarzen @Kushia @Flyberius, i’m 70 Jears old and i still like good Videogames in a spare time. Keeps the mind fresh.
I hope people aren’t counting on playing games that require fast reaction speeds. If your jam is turn-based games you’re in luck, you should be good to 100. But, if you’re a competitive online gamer, you’re in for a rude shock if you think you’re going to retire and compete against the 20-somethings.
It’s not just reaction time that interferes wirh us old folks gaming, it’s developers insistence on making game mechanics as uncomfortable as possible. I just don’t have the stamina or flexibility to spend 15 minutes fighting some insanely difficult boss fight over multiple stages while constantly mashing buttons.
I think there should be an “Experienced gamer” difficulty level where the rest of the game is normal difficulty level, but the boss fights are less of an endurance challenge.
You think people our age will be able to afford to retire? Ha.
That’s something the boomers and upper classes took with them.
Boomers and gen X are the ones not able to retire. Most of the younger generations have that ability.
They haven’t saved for retirement and grew up in an Era with with work offering pensions as rare.
Younger generations have greater growth and more savings across the board.
I’m not even 40 and my elbows are totally ruined from using a mouse and keyboard, game controller and phone too much… My gaming days are nearly over and it SUCKS
Have done, best they could do was tell me to stop doing the things that trigger it… Great!
Standing desk, more ergonomics, and ibuprofen.
Also, here’s a good stretch:
With your arms straight, grab your hands together behind your back. With your fingers laced, lift them directly up, while looking up. That’s it. It really helps with standing straight.
Hey I see you. I had some serious tennis elbow a few years ago that basically prevented me from using my dominant hand for a few weeks. I couldn’t even lift a cup of water with it. I went to PT and they gave me some exercises and stretches to do. The stretches maybe helped but the exercises were trivially easy and did nothing for me. It feels like it got better just by leaving it alone more than anything. It’s acted up every once in a while since then, mostly when I get cocky and do something stupid. Recently I decided to find out how to actually fix it, and I found out that the exercises they gave me were actually ineffective, according to the medical literature. In order to improve tendon health and heal chronic tendon injuries, you need to do resistance training. The best method to improve tendon strength and health is to do like 2 or 3 low rep sets, with as much weight as you can handle, every week. It takes high tension to grow tendons, with low tension doing basically nothing. You also want to do the exercises with slow deliberate motion to avoid sudden high loading of the tendons. I’ve been doing that for my tennis elbow for the past couple months and it has helped a lot. It was scary at first to load my elbow with a lot of weight, but I slowly worked up to it and was careful every time and haven’t had a flareup since, despite doing more lifting than I have in my life. My suggestion is to find an exercise that works the problem tendons, and slowly increase the resistance over some weeks, to as much weight as you can lift. Always be slow and deliberate. It shouldn’t cause you pain at any point, and if it does back off to where it doesn’t.
Tldr; research says to improve tendon strength do high weight low rep exercises with slow deliberate motion. Growing tendons takes longer than muscles so take your time. Should help your pain. Is working forme.y
The ones I do are mostly heavy isometrics. I do weighted dead hangs for the inside forearms and isometric reverse grip barbell curls for the outside forearms. For the curls I’ll hold at about 90 degrees. For both I shoot for more than 20 second holds with as much weight as I can. The specific exercises aren’t as important as doing something that creates a lot of tension on the tendons you want to work, sustaining the tension, and being safe. The last thing you want is to exacerbate the problem.
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