grrgyle

That's a beautiful phone. I'm sorry to hear of your tale of woe. Sadly, there are many like it

I thought capitalism was supposed to provide options.

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My siblings, there are stockpiles of refurbs to last us until the end of capitalism or life on earth.

I'm using a 9 year old phone rn now and I've got zoomers oooing over its "minimal" design (lol it's just old).

I'm with you. To my knowledge all my irl woke friends ride only mainstream social media.

I had a local anarchist reach out to me on my ancient FB Messenger of all things.

I get that it's not the most important part if you're doing prefiguration, but as far as I can tell most people just want to be where most people are, even if it is supporting actually vile corporations.

I just cant get into competitive multiplayer anymore.

Big same.

I used to eat MP up, but now I just get tilted because my reflexes aren't what they used to be (that, and I can't devote an entire weekend to honing my twitch skillz).

I like your approach. I made this post actually mostly because I'm curious about trying it out myself. I feel like it might actually get me to play more games, rather than just scrolling through what I could play and then not playing anything.

6000 to 1300 is massive.

Do you ever think about writing off a game without playing it? Or maybe like putting it in a "B pile" if the description doesn't 100% grab you?

Yeah, after the first couple of Steam sales I realized it was the same frenzied want that department stores try to inculcate in shoppers, and so I've tried to be much more conscious about my purchases.

Congrats on not being a completionist! I don't suffer from the issue either, but I know of many many many people who do, and this is for them.

Maybe you need to edit the approach. Like, you consider every game, then decide whether to keep it on your backlog or remove. Could even just be done by glancing over your current backlog and rejecting anything that doesn't jump out at you.

You can always go back and find something you dismissed initially if you really want to.

That's a fun way to look at it. I do have a weird sense of minimalist-adjacent purity fetish with my library that is undoubtedly unhealthy.

That's kind of how I view the internet--there's always something interesting to read of watch.

Speaking of checking off lists, I had an old co-worker who just had this great big huge spreadsheet of games he'd played or wanted to play. It was an interesting phenomenon when I'd play a games and think I wonder if Michael's played this -- I think he would like it and then realize I could just consult his public list lol.

I feel like it would be good to remember how you felt about a game, too.

Wilfully running a windows server is a moral problem