I’m an older dude whose phase of staying up all night playing was back in the early console days. I prefer in-person tabletop RPGs like D&D, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. Just not into computer games anymore, but that and social media seem to be most people’s primary computer activities.
Game chatter has changed over the years - I used to see a lot of talk about graphics quality and massively powerful hardware - maybe that was during a period when it was rapidly improving, I dunno. But the current focus seems to be more on game industry business decisions sucking.
Anyway I’m just wondering how common it is to use computers more for coding and other technical non-game stuff.
Anyway I’m just wondering how common it is to use computers more for coding and other technical non-game stuff.
I’d estimate gaming is <5% of my use, probably lower.on my PC
Id say maybe <10% on my phone
I have no console. I had a WiiU as my last one and sold it during Covid as I never iswed it.
Have been thinking aboit a Steam Deck
Am old as fcuk, used to wrote my own games in machine code on my Commodore 64.
I use an HTPC that happens to be powerful enough to be a gaming PC, I also have a media server facing the internet for use on the go.
Most of my pc use nowadays is for media consumption and analog to digital conversion for backups (VHS to HDD and eventually M-Disc for long term storage).
I do a bit of emulation, most of that is done with an ARM handheld PC but it’s an SP form factor and I don’t really think it counts. I do a bit of PS2 emulation as well on my HTPC but mostly just to verify good rips of my physical games which I have backed up.
I mostly use mine to program. I started gaming again after barely playing them for a decade, but that is not my computer’s primary purpose. Otherwise, I do dumb online browsing, play D&D with friends (used to…), fiddle around with art (mostly do that on iPad), 3d printing or electronics related things. Random shit like that.
Funny thing I thought about when coming back home…
My work laptop has been used more for gaming than my gaming pc has, and inverse of that my gaming pc has seen more work done than my work laptop
Why? I don’t fucking know why it just is
I use mine mostly for work. But also games, music, and movies.
What’s a computer?
- I work with computers, so: work
- I mainly consume media (tablet, phone) or read (e-ink) these days.
- Raspberry Pi handles my home automation, and I’m always futzing with it
- my laptop plays games about once a month or taxes once a year
Technically for me it’s work now
I pretty much stopped gaming when I started working serious jobs after college. I was a designer and front end dev, then design lead for a startup (where I allowed myself to be overworked, especially around deadlines). It’s a lot of screen time and playing games when I got home lost it’s appeal. Plus I’d switched to Macs, and my favorite multiplayer games were being over run by cheating (mid 2000s).
I’m a recreational coder first and foremost. Sometimes I play games, but rarely all the way through
Linux stuff
this for me too
Audio! I’m a hobbyist musician.
Gaming is a close second.
That reminds me, for a long time I’ve had an idea for a piece of instrumental music that would be the intro to a video. I’m not a musician but used to play the piano a little. I do have a little synthesizer keyboard from when my kids were young. If I noodled out a melody on that and recorded it, is there software I could use to make it sound like multiple instruments, add drum effects etc. so it sounds real? I don’t know if there’s a musical term for doing that - flesh it out?
No games here, I never have found them interesting for whatever reason. Because of this my laptop is a 2018 Chromebook with reflashed BIOS running Ubuntu. It has significantly less processing power than my phone but is plenty sufficient for everything I ever need a computer to do.
I do 3D animation and illustration. Fortunately, running games requires the exact same kind of hardware so my workstation doubles as a playstation
I mostly use my Mac for business stuff, art and coding. The PC spends most of its time on offloaded AI tasks and rendering jobs. It was originally a toy for gaming but I’d rather use my Steam Deck for that now.
My main use is for porn.
Why do you think the net was born?
