I’m an older dude whose phase of staying up all night playing was back in the early console days. I prefer in-person tabletop RPGs like D&D, Traveller and Call of Cthulhu. Just not into computer games anymore, but that and social media seem to be most people’s primary computer activities.

Game chatter has changed over the years - I used to see a lot of talk about graphics quality and massively powerful hardware - maybe that was during a period when it was rapidly improving, I dunno. But the current focus seems to be more on game industry business decisions sucking.

Anyway I’m just wondering how common it is to use computers more for coding and other technical non-game stuff.

  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
    481·
    11 days ago

    A lot of people in IT, especially programmers I have met, are completely uninterested in gaming.

    To be sure, there are PLENTY of gamers in IT, but many people I have met are done with computers once they get home.

    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      19·
      11 days ago

      My friend, a longtime Java dev, hasn’t written a line of code since his last day at work. I do lots of hobby coding and will probably die at the keyboard lol.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
      71·
      11 days ago

      many people I have met are done with computers once they get home.

      This is me. After 25 years in corporate IT, I have little to no interest in sitting down at a computer anymore. My personal box only gets turned on a few times a month. Casual browsing and such is done on mobile, gaming on console. Once upon a time I spun up VMs for fun and knew everything that was running on my system. Never had the patience (or desire) to go full Linux, and between work sucking out the joy and enshittification overrunning modern commercial OSes, I just stopped having the energy to get excited. So the box only get used when I have something to do that’s more involved than light spreadsheet work etc.

      I am very much a Lemmy outlier lol.

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
      3·
      11 days ago

      I’m a developer and games are a snooze fest in my book. I’m just always frustrated and think too much about how it was programmed and want to change stuff; I never get into the world of the game.

      When I first got into VR though it was mind-blowing. I’m an on again, off again VR user and haven’t thrown any more money into it but it’s a great way to exercise.

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      I work from home, but yeah, as soon as the day is over I kind of need to get away from the PC for a bit.

      Which is a shame, because I also love (or loved) PC gaming, and have a bunch of great games which I never feel like playing because they’re “at work”.