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I dream of early retirement and finishing my backlog with my son. Sounds so fun.
I dunno. I game less and less every year. I think I’ll probably just play the odd n64 game by the time I retire.
Yep, most of us won’t really have the energy to get into a 100 hours + game, a platform, an indie or a retro beloved game? Yeah I can see that.
I know right. Elden Ring looks so damn good but there’s no way I can get into it at that playtime.
I just hope my hands hold out long enough. I already have terrible arthritis in both hands.
In a better timeline this is one of the many things a Neuralink could be good for
I’m still holding out hope for full-dive VR in the next 20-30 years.
Have you check out the neuro crown devices? They are very work outside and can do some basic games already
VR gaming bro.
Everyone I know who retired is at least as busy as before.
The notion that without a job, people just sit around bored, is capitalist propaganda.It’s insane to me that people think they will somehow go braindead the minute they don’t have a job. Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse? From my only related experience with actually existing in this life, I fucking hate how I don’t have time for anything, ANYTHING, ever, because work work work, only to go home and work work work some more as an adult with actual responsibilities. Retirement ya, i might get a quarter of my shit in order, at best, but I’d probably just stock it with more responsibilities that I really don’t have time for, but a window of more time means a window of thinking about more shit that has been neglected or needs doing because things always do.
Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse?
Replace the wallpaper with a television and this is awfully familiar in my neighborhood.
A decent amount of people really do just park their ass on the couch and cease existing. I’ve watched more than a few people retire and die shortly after from having nothing to live for.
What tying your entire purpose in life to how much you can enrich capitalists does to a motherfucker.
No kidding. When your whole identity is how hard you work, what do you have left in life?
To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don’t really have much of a sense of self at this point.
Me too, thanks.
I somehow end up busier whenever I have long stretches of time off. Idle hands create hundreds of projects.
Retirement home LAN parties… That’s the dream
That’s what I keep going for
Invites all around! Remind me in 20 years.
Dude. Yes.
I don’t think any amount of achievable retirement savings is enough to give me confidence that I could cover escalating health care costs enough that I could retire. Even if I had $10M in the bank, I would worry that the cost of health care will rise fast enough to impoverish me.
You just move to a county with actual Healthcare as part of your retirement. Won’t even need 5 mil.
Gaming and smoking a shit ton of weed in retirement is gonna be great… if we still have social security and access to 401k’s at that point lmao
That sounds like what I do now except I have to start at 4:45 instead of when I wake up…
Me and the homes in the old person dorm. Playing games, watching movies, doing community service.
Walking dog, feeding homeless, getting drunk, magic the gathering and dnd with my other retired friends. That’s what I would do if I ever retired, which I probably won’t because of everything.
My father is retired and still needs to use PowerPoint. He is very bad at retirement.
I’ll restart and 100% stardew valley or die trying. Always wanted to commit to it, never did.
“Error connecting to PSN Servers” (no longer exist)
The PS9 is backwards compatible with PS4 controllers.
By the time I retire I hope we’re in or moving towards a mix of solarpunk and star trek like utopia
You ever actually spent most of your time just playing video games? It gets old real quick.
I don’t know, I was unemployed for a while and literally spent every waking hour gaming for many months straight. It was the happiest time of my life. I’d give up a lot to be so financially stable I could do that again.
If you mix video games and diy projects it can be satisfying and fulfilling for years.
For me the social aspect is the hardest because i don’t make friends online and am bad at keeping in regular contact with my real life friends.
I substitute socialising with small streaming channels. Like the ones that have less than 5-10 people watching ever. You can come and go as you please and no one cares, and you can make real connections and have actual conversions with both the streamer and other viewers. People with channels that small aren’t doing it for the money, they’re doing it to have people to chill with while they play.
Some would say they aren’t real friends but I think there’s a point you can get to where I would disagree.
I have a friend with a small stream and she definitely considers a lot of the people she’s met in chat friends.
Having one thing be your only hobby will get boring for the majority of people, so just have some extra hobbies. I could definitely spend 75% of my time gaming and the rest on other hobbies and feel great.
During the lock downs I got furloughed for a week. I spent most of it playing Dwarf Fortress.
If you retire with no SS, medicare, an insurance that is required to cover you, medicaid to keep the doors open for even a retirement home to care for you, and your 401K is destroyed from the plunging depression that’s on the rise… it might be cool to worry a bit.
