Missing the gamer that I had inside me

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It has been a very long time since I played games. I used to be a regular gamer. Dota 2 and CS Go were my go-to games. I spent several days playing Dota 2 for about 12 hours a day and I remember it used to be so much of fun. Even recently I was playing a lot of mobile games and was having a lot of fun. Even now I play some games whenever I find time but not as good as how it used to be before.

I should say that ever since I started doing more development work, I started focused more on dev work than coding. I have my day job and apart from that I also do a lot of studying and have involved myself in more than 15 projects. Every day most of my time goes in either development calls or coding something. I should even say that my learning has also reduced a lot these days. I'm just implementing whatever I know already.

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Dota 2 days

I remember that even after I joined Steem Hive back then, I used to play Dota 2 and there were a few gamers on Hive as well. I remember playing some matches with them. When I had my desktop with me 5 years, I used to play Dota 2 a lot and later when I bought my laptop, I did not play much because of heating issues and I was worried about not spoiling my laptop because I bought it especially to do more coding than gaming.

I remember that during weekends I used to sit for 18 hours in one shot and play the game. Every game takes nearly an hour or even more than that at times. If I quit the game in between, it used to flag me and not let me play the next game or set me to a cooldown. The algorithm was very strict. Thankfully I never was in a cooldown. Those were some amazing days.

Today something made me think that I should have been in that wonderful life only. Today life is going well but those were fun days and I used to have lots of friends in Dota 2. We used to call people together and do a match together. I believe those friends are still playing the game regularly and wish to join them someday.

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I want to get back to gaming

One of my friends called me a few days back and asked me if we should be resuming our Badminton game. We used to play every day during the covid period. Later when we started going back to the office, it was hard to get back to playing. Now we have made plans to play badminton every weekend. Along with that, I have also been thinking about playing some games on my computer during the weekends. It is not going to be hard. I'm going to allocate only 3 hours for this. 2 hours for physical games and 1 hour for pc games.

Yesterday when I was checking my old hard disk, I found my favorite Hidden and Dangerous game. I was curious to go and check the price of the game on Steam. The price was only 279 Rs but I missed that opportunity. Now the price has increased back. I will wait for the next opportunity to see it go low and again purchase the game. 279 Rs is less than 5$ which is affordable for me.


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Gaming is the salt in the soup of life. At least this is a figure of speech in germany haha.

It makes you discover new ideas and worlds, pushes your fantasy and overall gives one a good time, I think I can say:)

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I definitely agree with this. The reason is because my interest in games is what is pushing me towards becoming a game developer on Hive now. The interesting thing is I'm building a retro style RPG game on Hive which is something I myself played and enjoyed during my childhood. From just a gamer to game developer now.

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Good luck with that! I think I'ma follow you and peek in once in a while

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Hmm ecency won't let me do that rn, I ll look into it later again ._.

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Adult life and having to work, learn and keep progressing forward definitely makes gaming hard!
Are you mostly looking at getting back into the old games, or looking to try some different games?

I try set time aside on the weekend to get gaming time that isn't recording or screenshots for blogging about, due to mental health and to just sit down, have time that isn't for working or as part of something but to enjoy.

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I did try playing old games but I noticed that I did not have the same interest I had during my young age. Maybe I would be interested in trying out some new games in the same Genre.

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Yeah some people can't get back into it, especially when only used to new style graphics.
Hopefully you can find some new games you will enjoy!

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Although playing games is enjoyable and sometimes takes a long time, I don't like to spend a large part of my daily life playing games. But when I don't play games for a long time, I miss them too much🤣🤣

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Yeah the same thoughts is what is making me not play games now. I also want to do something more productive than just playing games alone and that's how I stopped it completely. But now I think I shouldn't stop it completely maybe.

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go back, what's stopping you bro ? ;) I also missed playing games in real life.

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Time is the biggest thing. I want to sit and play games but work and responsibilities are sitting in front of me. 🙂

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These things come infront of Every man :) I can feel you brother :)

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Oh!! I am from the Dota 1 and starcraft days, I played it so much that I actually built a pro team and went for tier 2 tourneys. Man those were the days!!...

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Yeah I also played a lot of Dota 1 too. Warcraft was the best game during those days. It is an amazing thing that a single map made them build a new game out of it.

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