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Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer

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Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer

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Post by happimess »

spaceman_2020 wrote: post #110
PedroBatista wrote: post #24

Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that's happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn't depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google. The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be…

I’ve probably logged in thousands of hours watching, discussing, analyzing sports (not playing - that’s a separate metric) Most older people have likely spent even more hours than this. Yet spending 2 hours watching football, then another hour watching a bunch of talking heads discuss the game, is somehow considered “normal”. I’m not a gamer, but what about this hobby is any different from any other passive sedentary…

I don't know anyone who watches 5.5 hours of football 7 days a week for 2 years.

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Post by bee_rider »

yborg wrote: post #157
nsxwolf wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has some merit. When Call of Duty 4 came out on XBox 360, I was completely addicted to it. At some point I noticed I had been playing the game for 2 months . I spent 2 full months out of a single year playing a game. It was fun! Yeah, it was a lot of fun. But there are real things I could have accomplished by balancing that time with other things. I have good memories of COD4, but I still can't play piano. And 144…

Spending 2 months learning piano would have left you as a novice piano player nobody would want to listen to in performance except for your mom. I'd argue that your CoD skills would have made you worth watching after that much time.

Keep in mind they've built the series off minor iterations on the first Modern Warfare game (CoD 4) over the course of, like, 15 years. I think in the piano analogy, this would be like slightly different brands of keyboards. I wouldn't be that surprised to find I'd played around that much CoD over the course of, like, 2007-2016 and I definitely was not worth watching.

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Post by rvz »

PedroBatista wrote: post #24

Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that's happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn't depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google. The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be…

> The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be happy" leads to these situations. Now it's "just a video game", but this is starting to happen to most walks of life.

Indeed. It is everything-as-a-service subscription, rent-seeking, griftopia created by our tech overloads which "you will own nothing and you'll be an extremely happy user" and all your digital games and save games gone if the service shuts down, bans you or terminates your access.

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Post by proex »

towaway15463 wrote: post #202
nvrspyx wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RDR2 was released on Stadia on November 19, 2019, which was 1046 days ago. 5,907 hours over 1046 days is around 5.65hrs/day, 39.55hrs/week.

That’s essentially all of his free time after subtracting time for sleep, work, commute times and taking care of basic needs like eating and hygiene.

That's not including holidays, weekends and such...

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Post by swyx »

buttersbrian wrote: post #132
Yeri wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ex-googler here. The average Googler hated how many good products were killed. Many want to continue/improve many of the (countless) products that were sunset. I'm sure memegen is on fire as we speak and how Google should be and do better. Sadly, that's not how it works in a corporate. At least not at Google. If your boss moves you off the project and hands you new work, that's how it is. You need to spend ~8hrs/day…

Apparently google employees had a meeting telling them Stadia would be shutting down ~45 minutes prior to it being released to the public. I get the feeling that many were blindsided with the abruptness.

i mean, news as big as that was bound to leak anyway. i dont know how the announcement could have been played any differently.

the deprecation schedule however... different story

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Post by swyx »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #92
banannaise wrote: post #15

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Anyone with a full-time job has spent about 8000 hours on that singular activity in the same timeframe. I'm not sure that tells us that what this guy is doing is healthy, but it does raise the question... is working the way we do healthy either?

8k hours on a job should be leading to portable artifacts that are difficult to take away: Something like 120K of income (probably closer to $200k), and a progression of skill development. Also could have intangibles like a feeling of contribution, socialization, purpose. Yes, exceptions exist. But many could make their job have these kinds of outcomes if they choose to do so

you can trust that this professional streamer also walked away with some good money and increase in follower count

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Post by phpisthebest »

jesuscript wrote: post #101
PedroBatista wrote: post #24

Although the angle of: Losing his characters is the best thing that's happening for him due to wasting a very significant part of his life in video games has some merit (but could be worded differently), this is yet another example on why you shouldn't depend on these platforms for anything of value, specially Google. The immense pressure to transform/re-frame everything as a service, aka: "You'll own nothing and be…

why you shouldn't depend on these platforms for anything of value I disagree with this. I found it unmanageable to do my own backups without the cloud and remember passwords. I trust my bank because the the government has laws to protect me. We have zero laws for cloud platforms. In the event of a shutdown or request to transfer off to another cloud, laws should be in place where these companies must comply. We are i…

>>I trust my bank because the the government has laws to protect me.

boy are you in for a shock.... Governments has laws to protect the bank...

I dont trust any bank, that is why I have mutiple accounts at several credit unions, and other institutions

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Post by EugeneOZ »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #45
bartread wrote: post #10

5907 hours spent playing RDR2? Assuming he spent 12 hours a day playing that's 492 days spent doing nothing but playing RDR2 (the 246 days quoted in the article assumes he didn't sleep, eat, go to the loo, shower, etc.). He's literally spent 33% of his waking life in the ~4 years since release doing nothing but playing RDR2 or RDR Online? That seems... perhaps unhealthy, certainly unbalanced - it's definitely a lot o…

> He's literally spent 33% of his waking life in the ~4 years since release doing nothing but playing RDR2 or RDR Online? That seems... perhaps unhealthy, certainly unbalanced A lot of tech people have a blind spot for excessive video game addiction that goes beyond having some fun with your friends on nights and weekends. The mainstream focus is all about social media apps, but at least among tech people I believe v…

Is it ok to spend the same time on motorcycles, paragliding, mountaineering, snowboarding, and so on? There are divorces because of motorcycles and other addictive passions. These activities are much riskier and more expensive.

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Post by haswell »

mikkergp wrote: post #209
Retric wrote: post #69

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Sometimes yes. Side projects can be toxic if they leave little time for anything outside of them and work. The old idea that “nobody on their deathbed wished they spent more time at work” can easily apply to your side hustle.

Your deathbed mindset is a pretty short time to have to endure to optimize your entire life around. Especially compared to the hundred or so years you have to live through.

The length of time enduring these thoughts/feelings is not the point.

The point is that of the ways one chooses to spend those hundred or so years, people often find later in life that they wish they'd spent the time differently. They realize that they could have achieved much greater life satisfaction if they had.

I don't believe in a literal hell, but someone once posited (sorry, cannot recall who at the moment) that hell is the "eternity" of thought that occurs as your consciousness fades away. Those thoughts you're thinking are the last thoughts you'll ever think. People don't want their last thoughts to be filled with regret. People want to die in peace.

But the broader point isn't top optimize your life around the time you'll eventually spend on your deathbed - that's just where everyone ends up. The point is to optimize your life so that you are satisfied with life - something that is not limited to your dying hours.

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