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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 56 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And this ladies and gentlemen, is why we play games at 1am and fuck up our sleep schedule

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

True story.

[–] MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Indeed. That and not needing sleep so more free time

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On the rare occasion I decide to do a group dungeon in ESO, I feel like I get a text from my husband "wanna go to the store." Every. Time.

And it's hard to explain that I can't just quit right now, it wouldn't be fair to the nice little people in my PC.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just tank the dungeon.
No one will notice you're gone.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've only ever been a FPS scrub, so they'd notice.

At least I'm not a healer! Everyone blames the healer!

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Everyone blames the healer

... at their own peril.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I tried tanking a few times. It's hard ass work if you don't have every single mob location memorized.

Healings fun though. People actually thank you some times. But yeah I'm just DPS loser most of the time.

A few times when I first started engaging in multiplayer stuff, I forgot to unequip the Ring of the Pale Order which prevents being healed. Oopsie daisie.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I especially hate this because it's often after like 10 hours of staring at a wall doing fuck all. As soon as I start doing literally anything, all of a sudden I'm in high demand.

[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This hits so much.

Signed - married parent of two kids below 3 y.o.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm right here with you. 2 kids under 6, and a wife who's love language is 'acts of service'. Fuck. Me.

[–] Tedrow@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but the whole love language thing is total BS if you didn't already know.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

I'm serious, but I did know love language is BS. There is a quantum of truth to it though. Certain people like certain things.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

What is it that causes this behavior from people around us? I think we have all experienced this before, which means that people are probably predisposed to want your attention when it's elsewhere, but not care about your attention if it's nowhere.

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This, but always during an unpausable cutscene.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use to wonder the same thing with the GF when it came to Zelda. It always seemed she was in a part of the game she couldn't pause.

One day she showed me the game play and I couldn't believe the amount of loading and dialog scenes that modern games sit through these days.

[–] ProbablyYourDad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What she hasn’t told you is the Switch can go in sleep mode and pick up right where she left off at any time

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, or just press the Home button to pause and game on any situation

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Ha that I suspected but I'm the same way. I wanted to finish what I was in the middle of. Mind you there was no sleep mode on my Sega. At least with the emulators you can save state now.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Fuck unpausable cutscenes

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

This is my whole life.

I go out of my way to make sure everything is good and then start my game. Suddenly nothing is good haha.

Been trying to wake up two hours before everyone, everyone just started waking up two hours earlier lol.

I love my family though. I knew what I was getting into.

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

…and the game doesn’t has a pause button.

[–] Smallwater@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

There's an app for that!

It's called UniversalPauseButton (no link because on phone, but you can Google it). It basically makes the PAUSE/BREAK button pause any active process. Press it again to unpause.

Will likely cause issues with online games, but if you're playing offline or in single-player, like Witcher 3, Remnant, Baldurs Gate 3, etc it works wonders.

Signed, a new parent who often has to go comfort a waking baby at night.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I remember when I was a kid my buddy and I were raving about some game because you couldn't pause it. It was so cool. Emersive. You really had to make good decisions with you inventory, etc etc.

Today I'll just turn the game off if it tries that bullshit lol

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Link here: https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton

There's also https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna

which supports linux, and I believe takes a slightly different approach on windows so where one app might not work for one game you could try the other

[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Wow thank you, I knew something like that existed but I thought it was a per game hack/mod not an universa solution. l

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

The Witcher 3 NextGen has been pretty good in this regard. You can already pause in combat, or in long dialogue trees and even in cutscenes.

[–] lapommedeterre@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This was me at my office anytime I sat down and put my headphones on.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Argh, I hate that.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Without fail, quiet night nobody around, open game to enjoy a nice casual session.

Discord beeps from someone needing help troubleshooting my software.

Every dang time

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Your software? What do you make?

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haha nothing that exciting, and maybe even a stretch to call it "software"

Mostly just some python and jinja for klipper 3d printers and some guides and stuff for the same.

I've been working on a big project to add a lot of functionality through a python extension that is traditionally done somewhat manually with macros and jinja. The idea is to make it easier for new/inexperienced users to handle functions like filament runout/changes and preprint steps like heat soaking and generating a bed mesh on any printer without needing to understand jinja or gcode.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As someone with a 3D printer, thank you for your service.

I don't have issues with the things you've mentioned, but because less knowledgeable people have gotten into 3D printing, the market for such products is thriving, so I get to enjoy it because people who know less about it are doing it because of the efforts of people like you.

I appreciate it.

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Aww thanks ♥️

Every god damn time. Whether it’s sitting down to work on something or to play a game, the wife needs something. Hell.. even my work is the same. It’s an easy job with random amounts of downtime but the moment I decide to start cleaning or just scroll lemmy on my phone suddenly everyone needs help.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It is the worst thing. When you're not doing anything nobody needs you.

[–] eek2121@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Story of my life.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Conveniently enough (at least in this case) "everyone in my house" boils down to just me.

[–] HRDS_654@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Me when my parents visit me randomly and want me to help with some random project.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

help help, i tried pirating morbius and got an ai generated jesus video promoting free robux scam websites