• Amuletta@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    I bought a bike frame in 2015 and collected the parts to build it up. Started again recently except now I’m second guessing the shifters, and what if I went for a different gear range, and is this headlight mounting bracket really the best option for the dynamo headlight, and…

    Yeah, it’s not leaving the garage any time soon.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    I’m trying, honest!

    I just get paralyzed right as I try to start!

    It fucking hurts when I finish a day, can’t muster the energy to start on one of my projects, then just sit there hating myself while I waste another day doing shit I don’t enjoy (scrolling memes) rather than doing something I do enjoy (ANY OF MY GOD DAMNED HOBBIES!)

    Tomorrow though, tomorrow I’m starting a print job for film holders for my new (to me) 4x5 camera and hell or high water putting at least one brush stroke on my Orc Marauders Battle Truck model (it’s for One Page Rules, an approachable tabletop war game)

  • madjo@feddit.nl
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    11 hours ago

    You mean actually read the books in my library? Doesn’t sound healthy!

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        10 hours ago

        the games too?! Including all of the games in my DriveThruRPG library?

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            7 hours ago

            I have opened them all, but a number of them have remained unplayed, because I keep forgetting to bring them with me to game night, or to read the manual before going to game night, and thus hiding those in the bag because I don’t know how to play them anymore.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      protip: leave the people in your will with a map to find your treasures in the horde.

      because oh holy fuck is it hard making sense of what’s in those stacks when they have to move on to other housing or die.

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        11 hours ago

        “Ugh, really? Do we need to rent a second dumpster to get rid of more stuff they hid somewhere else? WTF? They didn’t even leave us enough money for the first dumpster!”

        • People reading your will
  • Cossty@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I guess I should start playing my games then. I have like 1800 games on Steam, only 30% were opened and around 20% have more than one hour of play time registered.

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      10 hours ago

      Not every game deserves more than 1 hour of your time, tho. I have some stuff that I got from bundles that just aren’t what I enjoy, plus at least 2 off the top of my head that you can experience everything it has to offer in under an hour

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      I’m the same. I looked through my most played games and games that i felt like I’ve played for ages are actually only have 1-2 hours playtime. I’m convinced there was a time when steam didn’t always track play time. It has to be gaslighting me surely?

    • 𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒@lemmy.worldOP
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      15 hours ago

      HOLY MOLEY!! Look, I’m not you… But I am you in some ways. (348 games and I’ve probably only played 100 or so more than 5 hours, and the rest have less time or no time on them.) Make sure you remove your card info from Steam, so it’s one step you have to do if you were to be tempted to buy another game, to ‘collect dust.’

      Stay strong.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I spent the last 20 years hoarding things I could do when I retire. Am now retired so am doing them

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        10 hours ago

        Keep an eagles eye on your savings and don’t let the people managing it fee you to death

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          7 hours ago

          It’s the govt in my case, Brazil’s retirement fund is govt owned/controlled. What tends to happen every 10 years is a “reform” that pushes forward the minimum requirements for retirement. Up to 2000 or so, men could retire at 60, nowadays it’s at 65. One of the “reforms” aroudn 2016 allowed banks to offer private retirement

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      1 day ago

      I switched jobs earlier this year and this is how I introduced myself when being asked what my hobbies were. At least I have a vast, persisting knowledge of things I will never need again, so I’m incredibly fun at parties.