A Little Musing

         When it comes to entertainment, we all have our sprees of indulgence. Gaming is definitely one of my favorites in that category. But, I would say I am modest in that regards. I started small while I was in college. I remember those $5 monthly subscriptions to Runescape. That was the first MMO I had ever played. In fact, I am pretty sure I still have some rare items in my bank there.

         For the most part, I played free-to-play games as a student. This included first-person shooter spin-offs such as A Path Beyond and random Facebook games like Mafia Wars. I wish I had some of my stats on those games archived.

         I didn't even join Valve's Steam platform until 2011. I have known the platform since I watched my brother playing video games, but I had never bothered to join. Even after I had joined, I only played games recommended by my friends and siblings. Often, I chose to get freebies off of Humble Bundle because I didn't have the budget.

_{Not bad, only a little over 1 hour a day.}

         I started off with Left 4 Dead 2 and haven't stopped playing since. Granted, I no longer play in vanilla servers, but in the large co-op ones. One of such servers is America Sector COOP.

_{I kill roughly 125 zombies an hour...}

         For a while, when I did purchase games, I bought them at a discount or long after their initial release. The first game I pre-ordered was Bioshock Infinite. Unlike many people, I actually played the red-headed stepchild, Bioshock 2, first. If anyone asks me, I say the first game had the better story while the second game had more fleshed out game play.

To this day, I still have not played a third of the games in my Steam library.

_{Is it bad that I'm level 83 on Steam?}

         It doesn't seem so bad when you consider 119 games over 8 years. Of course, that number does not include items I would buy for family and friends. As my budget grew, I started branching out into other games such as Hearthstone. I cannot begin to tell you how much I have spent on Hearthstone since 2015. I'm ashamed to tell you about it, but it's still cheaper than Magic.

         Over time, I found myself less interested in new games and consoles. I winded up playing games I usually enjoy or seek out retro games for amusement. If you ask me which game I would get in the near future, it would most likely be Borderlands 3, if it ever gets on Steam. The only reason why is because my friends and I still co-op together from time to time.

         That's it for my random musings. I would go into details about tabletop games, but that is a long story in itself.

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