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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...
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…
This is his job- by definition, he is a professional at RDR2. He gets paid for it.
Just how many hours have you spent in VSCode or VStudio? Shall we criticize other professions and how long you're in there?
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Stadia was released in 2019, while Proton came out in Alpha in mid-2018. It's highly unlikely it was available to Google when they started developing Stadia. Furthermore, controlling the full platform has enormous advantages in terms of scalability, low-latency streaming and control.
and enormous disadvantages. Like costing hundreds of millions of dollars to build, and on top of that, spending hundreds of millions in payouts to studios to port their games. The hubris to go ahead with something like this....
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Thank you for the context. Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio.
>Imagine being criticized for spending 6000 hours in Visual Studio. But have never made anything, just played with the menus they put there for you.
I'm honestly very surprised Rockstar doesn't provide a way to migrate your story/online character between platforms. At least when I upgraded Xbox versions of GTAV, there was a process to save to Rockstar's servers and then re-load from them, and it worked like a charm. Migrating consoles/platforms is such a common thing to do -- so this is really a Rockstar problem, not a Google one. (I mean purely financially it se…
Rockstar apparently removed cross-platform save migrations due to people cheating on PC and selling accounts for consoles. > Seems like they'd want to run it locally on an Xbox/PS/PC simply for performance Having played RDR2 extensively on Stadia, i assure you there were no performance issues and the visuals were good (not the same as a 4090 RTX gaming PC of course, but still good).
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> 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 It has no merit. Do you look at your hobbies as wasting your life? I certainty don't. My alone time playing video games is just as important to me as when I'm going hiking or camping with friends.
At what point does a hobby turn into an addition? People who have spent 6k hours in a casino, for example, would probably be happier if they could figure out why they're doing it, and find a more productive way to address that need. Same might be true of someone who has spent 6k hours in a single video game. [I've spent 450 hours in Factorio, but stopped soon after my partner nick named it Divorcio.]
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" - Gandalf (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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It's a multiplayer game
Fair, and I know that's a different ballgame if you're going to compare with Destiny 2 or WoW or League or something. But nonetheless, I think there's value in at least having some measure of calibration for what is reasonable and healthy.
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I think Google's biggest flaw in this regard is their own denial of the pattern of shutting things down. If they just acknowledge that's how things go, they can prepare better off-ramps for people who adopted their product. Doing this to your users is a slap in the face because it shows no gratitude for the fact that those people took a chance on your product. They believed in it, and it's not their fault your projec…
> I was not a Stadia user, but events like this reinforce my motivation to drop all the Google products I possibly can before they drop me. I currently do AWS infra. This is job security to me, because every time Google shutters another product, a whole cohort of companies chooses AWS over GCP because we all know Google will pull the plug on GCP any day now.
One just have to see how they treat their actual customers of their Ads platform, and think, if that's how they treat their customers, what can non-customer "lusers" of the other subsidized platforms (including GCS which is being subsidized at this point) expect.
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Would you say the same about a 6k hour investment coding a game? This "if it isn't productive it isn't worthwhile" attitude is toxic.
Why is it toxic? Throwing all your time into frivolous activity like video games is what I would say is toxic. This individual has been averaging 40 hours a week on this game since it was released. In fact, building a valuable set of useful skills seems like the precise opposite of toxicity. Rather, it improves and adds value to your life.
>building a valuable set of useful skills seems like the precise opposite of toxicity
eh, there's a limit. i spent past 10 years pretty much solely focused on gaining skills & career advancement and my one of my biggest regrets is not playing more vidya. i personally think work addiction is a bigger unspoken problem in society than game addiction. it certainly was for me.
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Exercise is the main one for me. Pick something progressive and addictive, like weightlifting or distance running. You’ll get hooked but there’s a built-in limit to how much you can do per day and per week. I try to get out of the house on various adventures or even regular walks at every opportunity now. Also I took up some hobbies like reading and photography. Some people golf fanatically and they seem to be better…
Hmm, this seems like a mixed bag. Exercise is great, but given your mention of it becoming addictive, it seems like you're replacing one thing with another - there are plenty of people who spend too much time in the gym, or marathon training, etc, to the detriment of relationships and other life responsibilities. People who are "fanatic golfers" often do so at some expense, both emotional and monetary, of their famil…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036297
> I like this rule of thumb to know if a behavior can be a psychiatric disorder: "when it interferes with normal functioning". It's purposely vague and subject to interpretation but it's a good first filter.
If these new "addictions" aren't interfering with "normal functioning", then they're not disorders. They're just normal parts of that person's life.