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no plan to either

just one day found it extremely boring, and never played them again

What is interesting, is that I was THE biggest gamer. I balanced a full time life—work and school—with like 40 hours a week of gaming

Then one day in my late teens, probably right before I turned 20, it just didn’t hit the same

I then sold every game, console, and anything else related on eBay, and haven’t played since

anyone else experience this?

Personally, I think it was just because I had started getting serious about other interests I had, and felt like gaming was getting in the way

no plan to either just one day found it extremely boring, and never played them again What is interesting, is that I was THE biggest gamer. I balanced a full time life—work and school—with like 40 hours a week of gaming Then one day in my late teens, probably right before I turned 20, it just didn’t hit the same I then sold every game, console, and anything else related on eBay, and haven’t played since anyone else experience this? Personally, I think it was just because I had started getting serious about other interests I had, and felt like gaming was getting in the way

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I was the same I bought the super Nintendo emulator Nintendo released with old games, someone on gumtree hacked it and put virtually every super Nintendo game on there, that was fun. But recently I bought an oled tv and have been playing that horizons forbidden West game on ps5 and it's actually pretty fucking epic in every sense, I recommend it, but even then I still find myself getting bored quicker than I used to, I used to be able to play zombies on cod for hours and get to round like 60-70 but I just don't have the patience to do that any more. Like op I just got interested in other things like making and recording music etc

I've always been jealous of people who could code though and have an intricate and in depth understanding of how PC's and software actually works. I've never had patience for math or numbers

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Numbers are just a small part of it. The computer crunches them for you.

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Hmm one thing I've always wanted to know is, what's the difference between making something small vs like making a video game? Is the coding essentially the same but just requires a lot more of it, or for more detailed stuff is it all completely different

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Small isn't a useful term for measuring a software project. Something you think is really basic could be millions of lines of code. By the same token, something like a video game might not require much code at all since there are clicky button editor programs all over the place. Plus we can copy and paste a lot of it. Maybe tweak it a bit.

From what I understand about video game development, at least for AAA titles, most of the work is put into voice acting, artwork for character and level design, 3D modeling for movements, stuff like that.