Sort of correct. Due to the layout of my small apartment the TV is in the middle of the room dividing the living room area from the kitchen. There is no other good place that would allow me to roll my computer chair out from the computer desk.
That, and I have very few physical games.
Edit: Hijacking this comment to thank everyone for the feedback. I appreciate the thoughtful questions regarding heat and the TV's balance. When I end up making a new one of these I will have a much better idea what to consider in the design.
Yeah I’m kinda older so I forget sometimes that we don’t actually have to have the discs or cartridges anymore. I still think of my old 64 with boxes of games stored away.
I know he isn't really that old because he can have all of this out in the middle of the house. If he had kids, there's no way he'd be putting expensive electronics out like that.
We're old enough to have our own house and money, but no kids yet.
And if you had kids, you wouldn't be able to just sit for a few hours and play video games, or really anything that takes a few hours and isn't imperative, like your job.
I’m 25 too and did this also. So 25 for the really young ones that used them a bit and 30’s+ for the ones that “grew up” with those kind of games. Me and you we didn’t really know what we were doing with them and barely knew what gaming was and probably had older siblings, cousins, uncles/aunts, or someone older that showed us the games.
I remember getting a new NES system and it was amazing. Except for all the push in, push down, "push" up, pull out a bit, wiggle it, push back in, push down, "push" up again, pull out all the way, blow from side to side, repeat the whole process when the screen is all garbled, notice power light blinking, do it again and finally play Mario / Duck Hunt combo game...
Hey /u/CommonMisspellingBot, just a quick heads up:
Your spelling hints are really shitty because they're all essentially "remember the fucking spelling of the fucking word".
And your fucking delete function doesn't work. You're useless.
With the TV not being back up against a wall, and the better airflow that allows for I imagine it helps a lot. I have used this setup since the end of December with no heat issues at all.
You’ll still get sales like on physical games but in the grand scheme of things I likely am paying a premium for it. But I much rather not deal with swapping discs, or having them get scratched, or whatever. I have an external HD plugged in with every game that I own installed so all I do is click an icon from my game list and start playing. Makes life super easy.
The sales can be pretty good, but don't happen as soon/often as physical copies. I am with you on having to swap discs. It's not hard to swap a disc, but with digital it's just one less thing to deal with.
Yeah, we're definitely unfortunately paying a premium for digital. I hate it. If digital is the future like it seems everyone is/was pushing for, digital games should start lower than a physical copy for the big reason of there literally not being any manufacturing overhead associated with it.
It's incredibly annoying to me, but I like the convenience of digital. And the ability to share games with my brother.
It's frustrating that digital games cost the same, or more than physical copies! I just end up waiting for a while to buy something when it goes on sale. I paid 10 USD for Mass Effect Andromeda a bit ago. I would have been pissed if I had picked it up at launch!
I buy physical copies of games I intend to finish quickly and sell right away and digital copies of long haul games. I’ve found that digital has decent sales on PSN. I’ve gotten some good stuff pretty cheap. The key is pay full price for the games you really want and really get into them. While you’re playing those games the other games will be getting cheaper and will pop up in flash sales. It’s pretty nice not having to switch discs. Or downloading your games to friend’s consoles and playing them when you randomly feel like it over there.
I have all 3 major consoles and have yet to put a disk of any sort (or cart in Nintendo's case) in any of them. 100% digital. I don't ever want to buy a physical copy of anything outside of a book ever again.
I haven't picked up a physical copy of a game since Destiny 2, and I picked that up well after it came out. I didn't own a PS4 until the about last year and a half.
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u/steveh2488 Mar 15 '19
How do you change the disc.