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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.
You have to pick one n64 game. Go.
Do not disappoint me.
Ocarina of Time. Randomizer.
Megaman legends.
I know you’ll be disappointed, but Mario 64 has a fair number of levels and star missions. So, either that or Star Fox (your score can always be a little better).
Not disappointed at all.
Blast Corps
Definitely oot, but if I could pick two, it’d be this super weird game I’ve never been able to find again, or remember the name of. Had a kind of Hawaiian theme, iirc. There was a conch shell you blew. It was weird, and I loved it so much
There’s like 300 n64 games in existence. You can find it.
Mystical Ninja staring Goemon?
I forgot about that game. It was great.
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.
Yeah my hands started acting up when I was in my 30s. Now that I’m in my 40s they cramp and become useless when they’re any amounts of cold.
My wife likes to rock climb but she will only go to the gym if I go. I can handle the pain but my fingers will literally just stop opening and closing. I haven’t gotten the courage to talk to her about it yet.
Do gloves (fingerless for climbing) do anything to help?
I tried gloves for kayaking since my hands lock up during that but I didn’t feel a huge difference.
I probably just gotta see another doctor. The last doctor I talked to wanted me off of adderall before they’d prescribe me anything but then I’d lose my job.
Yes, definitely see a different doctor.
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.
What’s retirement?
It’s a carrot on the end of the stick that’s tied to your back
That really big bill when they run out of rubber to patch on your car
Retirement home LAN parties… That’s the dream
Hopefully all your friends are still around
That might be a problem. What friends?
You can make some at true retirement home. Sad part is, our generation isn’t getting any of those, most of us will be working till we drop.
That’s what I keep going for
Invites all around! Remind me in 20 years.
Dude. Yes.
I’ve never understood people who get bored in retirement. I looked forward to it from the very start of my career, and now that I am retired I’ve gotten so into hobbies and interests that it feels like there still isn’t enough time for everything.
Here’s to hoping we still have the physical ability to engage with those hobbies and interests.
Yeah, I also have 5 hobbies and many more interests. I am only scared that I don’t have enough energy left in me once I retire.
It’s amazing how much energy you get from waking up without the obligation to go somewhere and work on somebody else’s shit all day because you have to. Gives me a big smile every morning!
I work in public infrastructure, so at least I can comfort myself that I am trying to improve the lifes of everyone in my area. Still exhausting.
Exactly. I was lucky to be in a field where I actually enjoyed the work itself (writing software) - it just didn’t leave much time or energy to geek out with my own projects like I can now. But it was worth waiting for.
it’s because they had enjoyable work. not the slave trade were in today.
Lol to thinking that it was better. Capitalism was always terrible for normal people.
But many people just don’t have a lot of hobbies. Change is also scary for many people.
Objectively I know millions of people simply go to work, come home, eat dinner, watch TV and go to bed. Repeat until dead. I just personally find it hard to relate to that frame of mind. Maybe they fear retirement would be boring because their lives are already boring and the only stimulation they get is at work - but to me that’s sad to imagine.
Oh yeah I forgot, careers were an endlessly fulfilling series of fun exciting tasks. And job interviews were like, “A white male with a college degree? You’re hired!” Everybodty’s ignorant fantasies about the past are staggeringly accurate!
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.
If you make it to Medicare age, it gets a lot less stressful. eg: my folks have had 4 knees replaced with very little out-of-pocket cost. There’s still supplemental insurance, but Medicare, not the profit-driven insurance company, determines what gets covered, and they mostly listen to doctors. There’s always edge cases, where some treatment might not be covered, but I feel like those are uncommon.
One way or the other, my ultimate health care plan is 9mm.
I have no confidence that medicare will still exist. It could be gone by next month.
Maybe in our lifetime we will see an expansion of Medicare to be a single payer system for all Americans as a publicly available option (ie: the minimum standards other insurance would need to meet to be competitive).
That would be nice. Idk I’m just hopeful in like 25 years we may see some real change ushered in when it comes to that. Probably very naively hopeful but I have to at least occasionally believe in a better future.
I get more pessimistic every year and I started out extremely pessimistic. I think humanity going extinct in my lifetime is more likely than the US getting single payer in my lifetime.
Humans won’t ever go extinct save some absolute batshit scenario that wipes the world completely clean of all life, give or take.
We’re too resourceful and we like fucking too much for humans to go extinct but it could be a pretty bleak existence for the human race at some point.
Nevertheless, I stand by my view. We are already trying our hardest to make the atmosphere replicate the atmosphere of the K-T extinction.
I’m surprised that Trump doesn’t use Obama care to prescribe 9mm medication to people. It’s a lot cheaper to pay a one time cost of a 9mm that reoccurring costs of medication. Think about it, health care costs plumit and firearms sales skyrocket. It’s a republican wet dream.
Sorry, no SS for you. Back to the office.
Parkinson’s disease in 3,2,1…
Gonna be kicking ass on dynasty warriors!
Grandpa’s got an extra twitchy trigger finger, better watch out!
No, but there was time now…
Helps my APM
I can finally replay that game for the first time again. /s
Me and the homes in the old person dorm. Playing games, watching movies, doing community service.
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
If they cut the system, we’ll get the money in our pay. So at least we can control it. Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years. I’m personally guilty btw.
Just don’t spend it on games that will hit your backlog and sit for years.
What do you think I plan on doing in my retirement?
Right. Some people update their 401k, in over here updating my back log…only 40 more years until I retire. Or die at 90.
That sounds like what I do now except I have to start at 4:45 instead of when I wake up…
You ever actually spent most of your time just playing video games? It gets old real quick.
Yes, and it was a lot more fun that working.
Maybe you played shitty games?
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.
Day 3170 here… that’s still what I’m doing… But in Athens, and mouse+keyboard.
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.
And then you die because a blood clot that formed in your leg came loose and shot up into your brain, because you’ve been sitting for weeks playing videogames.
Worth
Get one of those fancy massage chairs to help blood flow
By the time I retire it’ll probably be an omnidirectional treadmill for VR gaming
