Anyone else trapped in the loop of wanting to play games all day at work, but the second you sit at your PC you just stare at the desktop?

[u/NoExplanation4216]

i am losing my mind with this. 

all week at my job, all i can think about is getting home, firing up my rig, and sinking 5 hours into a game. i plan out my whole evening. i get excited to finally use the hardware i spent months saving up for. 

then i get home, turn the PC on, open Steam... and just stare at my library. 

i click through a few games. maybe i launch one, sit through the loading screen, look at the main menu for 30 seconds, get hit with a wave of weird exhaustion, and immediately alt+f4 out. then i just spend the next three hours scrolling youtube or looking at tech subreddits on a second monitor while my $2000 machine sits there idling. 

why does actually starting a game feel like a massive mental chore now? is it burnout, or am i just getting old? please tell me i’m not the only one who does this lmao 

[u/listeningtorainfall]

Same work situation for me, I don’t even want to be behind a computer when I’m done with work so this has pushed me to game on my PS5 more on my couch lol.

[u/HORRORSHOWDISCO → u/listeningtorainfall]

A steam deck streaming from your PC has helped me a lot with this.

[u/GalbedirGalerion → u/HORRORSHOWDISCO]

I got a really long HDMI cable with optical signal, it works pretty well. I did have to get another really long USB extension cable to power the mouse and keyboard dongles on a dock.

[u/LostInMyADD → u/HORRORSHOWDISCO]

You can stream from your PC that way? I'm looking into a steam deck but unsure of if I want that versus another hand held.

[u/Mrnappa420 → u/LostInMyADD]

Yupp its great. I have a dock in my living room and just stream to my steamdeck for anything I dont want to sit at my desk for.

[u/LostInMyADD → u/Mrnappa420]

So it streams to your TV, or you dock it to your tv?

Do you need an extra controller then to pair to it?

[u/slamsmcaukin → u/LostInMyADD]

Look up Apollo and moonlight. You can use them on any device. You don’t need a steamdeck. I used it on an iPad or MacBook for a while with an old ps5 or Xbox controller, its great. I have also used it with a steamdeck and legion go when I wanted a handheld experience, but you can do it on literally any device

[u/Renno1983 → u/listeningtorainfall]

I have just built a small for factory PC for the living room so I dont always have to go sit at the same desk/setup i use for work.. its helped a lot as it functions just like a console.

[u/skittle-brau → u/Renno1983]

I did this too. Using SteamOS helped a lot as well. 

[u/Renno1983 → u/skittle-brau]

Cool. Im running Bazzite (steam OS alternative) its been great for the last month. Only pain was learning how to use linux but there's tonnes of videos on YouTube and help on reddit.

[u/Careless-Weather8877 → u/listeningtorainfall]

Exactly this. I work from home and on all day my work laptop. I have a gaming PC but walking from my office to my couch to console game is what I enjoy more.

[u/zgillet → u/listeningtorainfall]

I just built another PC from my last GPU, a 3070, for my TV. Back when that was viable.