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have taken my love of gaming just a bit too far today.
am currently in the midst of doing a time trial event for test drive unlimited 2 on 360.
am doing 20 laps of the island of hawaii (117 miles each).
total distance in excess of 2330 miles 😯
started at 7:45 this morning, each lap takes roughly 45 minutes to complete.
driving the bugatti supersport (for a nice relaxing drive 😀
well back to it now (after another black coffee 😆
That's more of a waste of time than my 250 stolen Skyrim hours.
Precisely the reason why I quit gaming.
Now I sometimes play games.
Doesn't count if you pause it.
Get out on your bike man!!
EDIT: Do you poop while playing?
I stick to GT therefore I'm learning a real track, so it's not as pointless. 😉 Although some I will never get to drive. 😥
45 minutes a lap! oh dear 😯
On GT3 I drove the full-length races without stopping. Over an hour with the computer breathing down your neck trying to look after your tyres. You knew you'd finished one of those.
Once, despite being utterly hopeless at the game, I played a full 90-min match of Kick Off 2. It finished something like 74-2.
You need to try playing wow, eve or eq to rack up some serious years on line 😉
Once, despite being utterly hopeless at the game, I played a full 90-min match of Kick Off 2. It finished something like 74-2.
😀
Skinned-up a big one before the match I bet?
Having downloaded DOTA2 as a freebie timewaster for the odd winter evening last year, I've recently deleted it as 2014 seems to have drifted past without me noticing. Damn these computer games.
A friend of my dad's I know is an ex airline pilot, for fun he flies real time across the pond on his PC at home....
Odd
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What's DOTA2 like, then? I picked it up as a freebie too but don't think I ever even installed it.
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Currently up to 550hrs on Team Fortress 2. Keep going!
A friend of my dad's I know is an ex airline pilot, for fun he flies real time across the pond on his PC at home....Odd
Please tell me he does in flight announcements to the dog/cat/goldfish.
A friend of my dad's I know is an ex airline pilot, for fun he flies real time across the pond on his PC at home....
Blimey, there's someone who can't let go!
Although.. that opens up a whole new possible market for games for retirees...
Bus Driver Simulator
Checkout simulator
Lawn mower simulator (with an option to sit and wait a week til the grass needs cutting again)
The hrs played counter on Steam is like finding a receipt from the pub...
well am currently starting lap 8 out of 20 (time so far 308m 08 sec). bring it on peeps 😉
I've no idea, but he apparently won't "leave the flight-deck" when he's [s]playing[/s] flying.
Edit: I believe there's a truck driver sim as well.
A friend of my dad's I know is an ex airline pilot, for fun he flies real time across the pond on his PC at home....
I'm sure one of the sketch shows did that once, the guy had a pretty much full cockpit set up, had his wife be the stewardess and kids be the passengers, on a 14 hr flight or something [s]tragically realistic[/s] hilarious.
I will be sending Sony an invoice of my hourly rate for the 2000 odd hours the Gran Turismo series has taken up over its 16 year life.
well am currently starting lap 8 out of 20 (time so far 308m 08 sec). bring it on peeps
You're already cheating by using pause.
You're already cheating by using pause.
Nah, hes fulfilling a fantasy of texting whilst driving.
(slightly) serious question, is it for a reward in the game or just for shits and giggs? If it's the former, fair play. If the latter, well...
yeah, fortunately I can't remember my steam pw just at this moment, checking my counter might depress me.The hrs played counter on Steam is like finding a receipt from the pub..
tom, Aye I seem to remember the fast show....
Apparently it's not all that uncommon, there's forums (ahem) full of them...
[i]Advanced[/i] Lawn Mower Simulator on the speccy:Lawn mower simulator
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A friend of mine has 2 years played on World of Warcraft. That's over 17000 hours. And he's not even played for a while either... if he'd carried on I guess he'd be somewhere around 3-4 years now
That's it nickc!
*scuttles off to youtube*
I once sat and watched my brother drive an entire F1 race on the original Playstation. His engine failed 3 laps from the end.
RE: the flight sim, guy my mate worked with did that. He'd come into work and be like, "flew to New York last night". To the outsider, overhearing the conversation, he probably sounded like the ultimate playboy...
Don't worry I played EVE Online for several years. Thousands of hours that I will never get back but I don't regret it.
Cougar: Hellishly addictive, despite seeming like it'd have a short shelf life. There's the option of playing against bots which have some very questionable AI, but is good for practicing or against real humans, who have furious tantrums at the slightest provocation.
When the multiplayer's good (not many bell-ends and some cooperation) it's great fun, but sometimes you just bounce from one ruined game to another.
Also takes [i]a lot[/i] of learning the different roles, tactics and such - shamefully it's useful to watch some of the streams of it (with commentators explaining what the hell's going on)
i.e. (a bitesize game, 30mins to an hour's the norm)
Thankfully i'm free from the shackles of online gaming these days.
/played (WoW) was genuinely scary, i'm quite glad I can't track it now 😀
speaking as a fellow badge earner I still cannot see the difference between a game "achievement" and S&G, there is sod all real world difference, we're still sad gaming anoraks either way.serious question, is it for a reward in the game or just for shits and giggs? If it's the former, fair play. If the latter, well...
452 min 20 sec for the first half of the tt 😯
parp! 😯 😳
Currently up to 550hrs on Team Fortress 2. Keep going!
<embarrassed cough>I'm past 750 now...
Cougar: Hellishly addictive,
Sounds good except,
Also takes a lot of learning the different roles, tactics and such
... doesn't.
Hum.
Lawn mower simulator
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real humans, who have furious tantrums at the slightest provocation.
I know somewhere else like that....
I play airplane sims. Passenger sims. In real airplanes. As I have a life.
Edit : posted from Vienna airport waiting to board jet2.com flight LS960 to Manchester.
I play airplane sims. Passenger sims. In real airplanes. As I have a life.
You're being a bit of a dick at the mo, iolo.
Chillax, guy.
Bus Driver SimulatorAlready exists: http://bus-simulator-2012.en.softonic.com/
Buses - pah! Train Simulator is where it's at 😀
NWS, #YOLO
Genuine laugh at smoke coal evreee day.
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@op while you're young, fit and strong enough to ride, go ride. In downtimes, plan rides.
While you're doing this, over the years, games are getting better.
When you're no longer up to riding, fill your gaming boots.
Mattjg probably speaks sense. I remember spending 30 mins if that on operation wolf (all 10 stages) and feeling wasted. Put me off gaming from an early age, with a brief foray into gta and GT 10 years ago.
I'm semi-dreading next Tuesday when Destiny is released. I played the beta and loved it. I expect many hours to be [s]wasted[/s] enjoyed this autumn!
Ooh. I saw the trailer; tell me, can you fly those ships, is there a dogfighting section? Or were they just cutscenes?