Processing any shaders...every load time. I guess the upside of spending too much on hardware it doesn't take as long as it could. I definitely ignored Hogwarts Legacy some game evenings cause it did that every time I played, it went away recently though and oddly I finished after being able to play right away.

One of the one games I've finished in like 3 years, which I assume is also an add thing, I don't finish a lot, just try and get my entertainment value and hope for the best after. Currently not wanting to lock into the last mission of cyberpunk 2077 heh.

Life quality improvement tip: disable that from steam download settings.

Yes

Hey that's my line D:

Doing this used to annoy me, but I've come to accept that the modding bit is just a hobby of mine. I enjoy the process of research, troubleshooting, and time spent finding, installing, and configuring mods. Then I'll play the game for a bit, maybe complete the first quest or something, and then it will sit untouched for the next year before I eventually uninstall it for storage.

"This mod says it is incompatible with this version, but will it actually not work? I think it said that with the last version too."

Are not supposed to just highly optimize our games for 3 hours and then shut the computer off when you get the golden 60-120fps?

Last time I modded for weeks straight then played a day or so....

I played Roller Coaster Tycoon from 1999 recently. That was the exact opposite, and so refreshing. Its an efficient game, which I think it had to be to run well back then with the simulation of 1000 individual guests and the whole park on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB of RAM.

I don't remember how it was back then, but now playing it on a modern computer, it just loads instantly. When I noticed how truly instant it was, I was so surprised that I just switched back and forth between loading two saves for a bit :-)

I quit playing the Sims 4, I am simply, a builder. I would go on a month binge, then not play for 6months. Sometimes I'd play once a month-

But having to fix my mods every single time I booted was so much. I never had issue finding what was broken, it was just so time consuming. Then after two hours the game would be ready to play, and .. I would be instantly bored, forgot my house plan to the mind vortex, all energy spent, ugh. That game is seriously dead.

I was beyond excited to move from xbox to pc with that game. amazing how it took no time at all for me to hate it.

I also play PvE Rust, it takes like a half hour to load in, and i get a whopping 33FPS. Love that game so much, 20-30mins loading time is fine if I dont have to fix mods like a sleuth every fuckin time I want to play. Just walk slowly so the graphics can load in lmao

I still load into Rust and immediately just, log off often. Hyperfocus just isnt there sometimes. Thats when I load N (it's free and fun!) and play short levels.

happened to me 3 times in a row two days ago

Im interested in knowing what solo boardgames you like?

...it didn't used to be. It used to be fun. Can I please have that back? Please...? Please...

Find a book that really grabs you. When this happens, I usually don't know how to stop reading it.

Depends. If it's a book I'm not interested in or that I need to read for some reason: hell no. Just repeating the same few sentences over and over until I give up. If it's something I want to read though, and I'm hooked by the plot and curious what happens next, it's another timehole where 5 minutes of reading suddenly last at least an hour.

That's the thing: you don't. After reading the same page a dozen times over and still being unable to comprehend a single damn thing, you eventually get frustrated and give up.

The only time I can get through a book is if it's on a subject I'm really interested in.

Often, I will reread the same paragraph a dozen times because I either fail to comprehend it, or because I can't help my mind from wandering. Sometimes my mind will wander to thinking about what might happen next, instead of just reading it.

If its a book or subject I'm really enjoying, this is a process I don't mind and even like doing. It's okay to just let your imagination run sometimes. But if it's a boring book, or it's something I'm totally uninterested in like required reading back in school, it's miserable and I've never been able to do it.

Unfortunately this means I'm terrible at research unless it's something I'm super interested in at the moment.

The best time to read books for me, was when I was paid to do it.

I worked the ticket booth at a state park. We had a lake, so we'd stay open even if it was raining. We'd have four or five boats come in the morning, I'd take their fees. The rest of the day I would sit in that booth making minimum wage, sitting in a small shelter from the rain, while being in the woods, and I'd read the whole time. I read 6 books that summer just from down time sitting in the booth

Read on my own time? I can't remember to bring the book with me. I really just need to put one in my purse.. oh look, I forgot to do that .. again.

Mine loads fast too. Doesn't mean I don't lose interest, just means I lose interest faster. More efficient that way.

I don't know about AAA games, but I play mostly indies and I never have this issue.