And this ladies and gentlemen, is why we play games at 1am and fuck up our sleep schedule
45Indeed. That and not needing sleep so more free time
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On the rare occasion I decide to do a group dungeon in ESO, I feel like I get a text from my husband "wanna go to the store." Every. Time.
And it's hard to explain that I can't just quit right now, it wouldn't be fair to the nice little people in my PC.
35This, but always during an unpausable cutscene.
23I use to wonder the same thing with the GF when it came to Zelda. It always seemed she was in a part of the game she couldn't pause.
One day she showed me the game play and I couldn't believe the amount of loading and dialog scenes that modern games sit through these days.
14Fuck unpausable cutscenes
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…and the game doesn’t has a pause button.
18There's an app for that!
It's called UniversalPauseButton (no link because on phone, but you can Google it). It basically makes the PAUSE/BREAK button pause any active process. Press it again to unpause.
Will likely cause issues with online games, but if you're playing offline or in single-player, like Witcher 3, Remnant, Baldurs Gate 3, etc it works wonders.
Signed, a new parent who often has to go comfort a waking baby at night.
14I remember when I was a kid my buddy and I were raving about some game because you couldn't pause it. It was so cool. Emersive. You really had to make good decisions with you inventory, etc etc.
Today I'll just turn the game off if it tries that bullshit lol
8The Witcher 3 NextGen has been pretty good in this regard. You can already pause in combat, or in long dialogue trees and even in cutscenes.
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It instantly turns me off any game. Much of my free time for gaming on the weekends is really when I'm doing less active chores, like laundry. If I can't pause to change loads and fold, I can't play that game.
3I play a lot of souls likes and most don't have pause. But they usually save your position if you go back to the main menu; so I pause by just quitting to the main menu.
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I especially hate this because it's often after like 10 hours of staring at a wall doing fuck all. As soon as I start doing literally anything, all of a sudden I'm in high demand.
17This hits so much.
Signed - married parent of two kids below 3 y.o.
4Yeah, I'm right here with you. 2 kids under 6, and a wife who's love language is 'acts of service'. Fuck. Me.
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This was me at my office anytime I sat down and put my headphones on.
11Argh, I hate that.
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Baaaaabe?
10Without fail, quiet night nobody around, open game to enjoy a nice casual session.
Discord beeps from someone needing help troubleshooting my software.
Every dang time
7Your software? What do you make?
2Haha nothing that exciting, and maybe even a stretch to call it "software"
Mostly just some python and jinja for klipper 3d printers and some guides and stuff for the same.
I've been working on a big project to add a lot of functionality through a python extension that is traditionally done somewhat manually with macros and jinja. The idea is to make it easier for new/inexperienced users to handle functions like filament runout/changes and preprint steps like heat soaking and generating a bed mesh on any printer without needing to understand jinja or gcode.
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Every god damn time. Whether it’s sitting down to work on something or to play a game, the wife needs something. Hell.. even my work is the same. It’s an easy job with random amounts of downtime but the moment I decide to start cleaning or just scroll lemmy on my phone suddenly everyone needs help.
6Story of my life.
6Conveniently enough (at least in this case) "everyone in my house" boils down to just me.
4help help, i tried pirating morbius and got an ai generated jesus video promoting free robux scam websites
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