You own an Xbox and you buy games? Wtf man just get Gamepass. It would have paid for itself already with just those two games and maybe one or two smaller releases.
As someone who loves to read and to think I agree but at the same time I know it would be a waste of the town’s finances. People here don’t read, for example my grandfather told me not long ago that “he hates” reading. How can you justify the expense of a library that no one would ever visit?
The schools have OK libraries (by our standards, for someone from a city they probably look like a closet) and when I was a student I was one of the very few that ever used it for actually reading. Everyone else just used it as a social space and to watch YouTube.
Even if it was considered cheap, why subscribe to a rotating library that you may or may not enjoy when you can buy your own and enjoy they at your own leisure whenever you want. I guess if you want to buy it for a month and play a specific launch title on it it makes sense - Digital renting.
I play like 3 long games and a handful of short games per year. I’m not sure how anyone except a teenager would have the time to play most of these. That’s not a dig, I just truly don’t understand where the time comes from.
Even in a year that isn’t outrageous for a hobby you enjoy. Some people ride, some hike, some paint, some read, some go to the gym. I’ve got a friend that spends 2 hours a day in the gym somehow, and my wife reads almost 2 hours a night.
8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours “free time”. Take away 5 of those hours doing important life things and you’ve still got 3 hours a day to pursue your hobby. Even if you only play an hour a day you could do at least half or more of those games.
I feel your disdain for digital and your fight against it should be more focused on the ownership of digital goods instead of just “digital bad” for a variety of reasons. The most important being the environment.
I don’t care to own mass consumption media to be honest. Maybe some movies.
In my opinion the only media really worth owning is books and even then not all books are worth the paper they are printed on, so those might be best kept on an ebook.
I rather put my money in silly things like appreciating assets.
You own an Xbox and you buy games? Wtf man just get Gamepass. It would have paid for itself already with just those two games and maybe one or two smaller releases.
Uh, you can get them for free from the library. Game pass if hella expensive. And yeah, I don’t do digital.
That’s hell of a nice library that has games available, on launch no less.
I don’t even know if there’s a library in a 3 hour radius from me.
It just the city library’s. Have you checked out yours, I know each city will vary but it’s worth a shot.
I don’t live in what I would call a city, and we don’t have a library.
I’m sorry to hear that. Every community should have a library.
As someone who loves to read and to think I agree but at the same time I know it would be a waste of the town’s finances. People here don’t read, for example my grandfather told me not long ago that “he hates” reading. How can you justify the expense of a library that no one would ever visit?
The schools have OK libraries (by our standards, for someone from a city they probably look like a closet) and when I was a student I was one of the very few that ever used it for actually reading. Everyone else just used it as a social space and to watch YouTube.
I guess by shifting it to be a resource for things the community could use? Libraries can be so much more than books.
Not that it’s cheap or easy.
Ah damn. Do you at least have decent internet for those huge files?
Yeah I can’t complain. I downloaded Oblivion Remaster in like 4 hours I think? Maybe less.
Yikes. Well, at least your able to access games and that’s the important thing.
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Even if it was considered cheap, why subscribe to a rotating library that you may or may not enjoy when you can buy your own and enjoy they at your own leisure whenever you want. I guess if you want to buy it for a month and play a specific launch title on it it makes sense - Digital renting.
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I play like 3 long games and a handful of short games per year. I’m not sure how anyone except a teenager would have the time to play most of these. That’s not a dig, I just truly don’t understand where the time comes from.
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Jesus Christ, calm down. I thought that was in one year.
Even in a year that isn’t outrageous for a hobby you enjoy. Some people ride, some hike, some paint, some read, some go to the gym. I’ve got a friend that spends 2 hours a day in the gym somehow, and my wife reads almost 2 hours a night.
8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 8 hours “free time”. Take away 5 of those hours doing important life things and you’ve still got 3 hours a day to pursue your hobby. Even if you only play an hour a day you could do at least half or more of those games.
That’s more expensive than free.
I feel your disdain for digital and your fight against it should be more focused on the ownership of digital goods instead of just “digital bad” for a variety of reasons. The most important being the environment.
I do appreciate GOG. It’s the only place I buy digital.
We need more like them. We should own the things we buy, or they should be much much cheaper.
You’ll own nothing and be happy
Exactly the opposite.
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I don’t care to own mass consumption media to be honest. Maybe some movies.
In my opinion the only media really worth owning is books and even then not all books are worth the paper they are printed on, so those might be best kept on an ebook.
I rather put my money in silly things like appreciating assets.