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Top 50 Best Games to Buy and Never Play (hard-drive.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Salamence@lemmy.zip to c/theonion@midwest.social

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6343551

It’s time for gamers to free ourselves of the shame we feel when we think of our backlogs. Every unplayed title is like a little reminder of one moment of weakness, and it can be tough to see all of those reminders listed alphabetically in your Steam library when you’re about to start your fiftieth Skyrim playthrough. But hey, it’s a collection! People fill their bookshelves with novels they’ve never read. We should be able to do the same with games! Here’s a list of the perfect titles to get you started.

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[–] FrederikNJS@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The trick is to realise that even if you could build it perfectly, your requirements will change causing even what was perfect before, to be less than perfect now. Of course it was never perfect, only an approximation. Sometimes you rip something out to rebuild, and sometimes you build something better, and leave the crappy setup behind.

At the point where you feel like everything is a massive bowl of unmaintainable spaghetti, you unlock construction bots, and can start to rebuild and redesign your factory on a massive scale, striving for perfection, but always coming up just slightly short, ripe for yet another redesign.

All of this is exactly the same when programming.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I think that's my main issue with it, I do programming for a living, feels too much like work, without getting paid for it