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[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's me. I have numerous games like this. The answer? Alt-tab + multiple monitors + powerful PC. It's easier for me to just switch to another application and switch back when I want to keep gaming than to close the game completely and open it again... Only sometimes it's more than a day before I get back to playing again. And there's how you end up with numerous games with thousands and thousands of hours on Steam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

More than a day?

So you don’t shut down your Pc when done? I only ask as I always turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I will literally go months without my PC being turned off or even rebooted. To each their own. 😂

[–] piccolo 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Only time my pc shutdowns is for kernel updates or it crashes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Makes me wonder whether turning it off regular and particularly when not in use if it would have more longevity.

[–] piccolo 1 points 17 hours ago

I personally dont worry about because pcs usually get replaced after ~10 years anyway due to massive performance and efficiency increases.

Laptops would be the only exception if you rely alot on the battery.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

My steam account has just over 4000 hours logged in Dota 2, plus there's about 1000 hours sitting on another dead account somewhere.

I played the game for like 7 years, pretty much daily for anywhere between 30 minutes to... Well I did a 24 hour stream once when I finally decided to play ranked for a while. I think about that stream whenever I consider going back to the game, but the audience has changed so much and language barriers are so difficult in games like that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wow that Factorio time is a lot and I’m on my way there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Cracktorio is a hell of a drug.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Leaving *Commandos" on pause when I don't play racks up hours it seems 🤷🏼‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

How many hours yearly do people work?

Assume 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year. That makes 2000 hours a year. So yeah, how do people pull through with this?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Forget to turn the launcher off and your computer off a few times and it adds up.

Some people are also lucky enough to have a bullshit job and still be remote.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

My max is csgo with 600 hrs and I'm still trash at it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Running the game servers with Steam installed can do that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

You just got to find the right game that will ruin your life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Some like a game enough to play it for years. I wasn’t one, until I found an obscure racing combat game called “OnRush”, and have over 3700 hours in it. Can’t even get it on the PS Store anymore, but I still play it drunk now and again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

When you find that one game that you love that also has infinite replayability. Four years later your likely to have thousands of hours if you play it everyday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I have around 1500 in KSP but tbf, most of that is AFK where I've had to do long manouvre burns in the multiples of hours so I've just set it and walked away lol.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Factorio enters chat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There's an MMO I have played off and on for almost 2 decades now. I can't even imagine how many hours I've accumulated, especially back when I was a kid with nothing to do but school.

Life is so much busier and way more things demanding my time as a grown-up, and I simply cannot sit in a chair like that for any long stretch of time, I get antsy.

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