Red Dead Redemption 2 fan with 6k hours on Stadia begs for character transfer • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by refracture » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 2:31 AM UTC

StrictDabbler wrote: post #291

refracture wrote: post #117

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Yeah that blunts my immediate reaction of "This is blessing in disguise", that said I'm really hard pressed to understand how this person doing this for a job thought Google's streaming service would be the best choice.. at a certain point dedicated hardware is a very sensible business purchase.

Stadia had built-in support for streaming directly to Youtube. Very easy, completely integrated and heavily advertised. Setting up your own hardware streaming build in 2019 was more difficult and expensive. So this user "bought" (or accepted) a product from Google that promised to make everything easy for them and, until now, it was fulfilling that promise.

True, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks.

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

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Post by bazhand » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 9:40 AM UTC

The real travesty is sinking so much time into Red Dead Online. It's a quite average experience that's been neglected by Rockstar.

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Post by ramblerman » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 10:57 AM UTC

dtjb wrote: post #296

pb7 wrote: post #287

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>I know people that read that much but we don't go around telling bookworms they're addicts. I don't think you really understand how much that is. That is every single day , rain or shine, healthy or sick. If you miss one day, you have to do it for 13.4 hours the next day. You absolutely do not know someone that reads that much, not for 3 years straight.

How we spend our time is as much a personal decision as how we spend our money. People can make all sorts of judgments about what's "normal," but in the end, if the person is satisfied and content with their life and they're not causing harm, then who cares how far they are from the median.

Nobody is calling the police. We are merely discussing if this is healthy behavior.

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Post by redeeman » Sun, Oct 02, 2022, 2:31 PM UTC

redeeman wrote: post #49

martincmartin wrote: post #39

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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.]

12 work-days of a hobby and your partner labels it an addiction thats divorce worthy? sounds pretty terrible. I strongly suspect he/she is probably spending atleast as much time on his/her hobby.

couldnt edit, yes, meant work-weeks

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Post by paledot » Sun, Oct 02, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

KptMarchewa wrote: post #143

FredPret wrote: post #106

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I had the same with Factorio, only I actually did get divorced. I went through many attempts to quit - including deleting my Steam account. Eventually I set up the household to Mac & Linux only to help increase the friction. Along with a lifestyle overhaul - new hobbies, and actual sport played outside, non-gaming seems to stick. Gaming addiction is real and it can truly destroy a life.

There is zero friction to play Factorio on Mac or Linux.

"My gambling problem got so bad that I had to move to Linuxville."

"Oh, Linuxville! I love that place, it has a great casino."

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Post by NoGravitas » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 7:55 PM UTC

BrainVirus wrote: post #199

They deserve it for supporting shit like Stadia. It's one rare case where smug, annoying assholes who are cheerleading the destruction of personal computing (and, if you pay attention, the slow abolition of private property) are facing some negative consequences. I used to think that politely warning people about obvious consequences of their bad decisions it a reasonable way to go. That if you are eloquent enough an…

The concentration of private property in a few hands is not at all the same as the abolition of private property, my dude. Kind of the opposite.

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Post by imdsm » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 12:14 PM UTC

P5fRxh5kUvp2th wrote: post #190

imdsm wrote: post #102

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This is entirely dependent on the person. Some people have to have something new every single day, and some people like to enjoy the same stuff. Some people try new beers every time they go out, and some people drink their favourite. Years back, I spent roughly 20,000 hours in WoW, starting 2006 and the last time I played, a year or two ago. 20,000 hours doing the same stuff, one could argue, but those hours have bro…

As someone who ran a raiding group for over 4 years in WoW, it's stimulating in a whole host of ways, including making real friends.

People under-estimate the effort that took. I ran guilds & raids for years, and getting 25-50 people to be motivated, on time, follow doctrine, train, perform, and be available over a schedule, without any pay, that takes something that a lot of companies could do with having.