CentipedeFarrier

Its like those old games on the early internet, like 7-up platformers and whatever else, mostly aimed at kids but still. Back when companies actually seemed to care about their brand having a decent reputation or whatever the case used to be. They gave you something fun to do to get your eyeballs willingly on their product. Instead of just trying to force you to see it against your will.

Fun fact: the human brain can process speech considerably faster than the human vocalization systems can form it, so you can probably watch most videos on 1.25-1.75 speed wothout missing much, it just takes some adjustment.

At this point I cant watch people talking at a camera on anything slower than 1.5, because thats just the default videos play in (changed a setting on freetube and now cant stand slow), but I have watched 6+ hour videos that way. It cuts a substantial amount of time, and the speed up helps keep me engaged.

I do the same thing but then I also limit my framerate on most games because I’ve been playing on a potato laptop that overheats and crashes… and I don’t really play games where amazing framerate matters, tho 1-5 fps is still painful. Looking at you, whiskerwood, where I can get a max of 20fps on a brand new game.

I now have rebuilt my gaming pc, and it can run cyberpunk at max settings with no issues, but damn if the laptop isn’t more convenient most of the time… I’ll still probably turn all the settings way way down because IDGAF. Grew up on 8bit, lived through low-poly, have low standards.

(I rebuilt it so I could get my rimworld colonies comfortably to 100 pawns, but I’m sure I’ll use it for other stuff!)

Theres one by me currently that’s also a VR arcade.

I went once for high-end VR, it made me motion sick, so I haven’t been super motivated to use the other half of the gift card.

The computers are nice enough, I guess, but I’m not personally interested in paying to use a computer somewhere that isn’t at home, where all my comfortable lives. Owner says they get used for tournaments and thats about it. Which makes sense, considering they are so high end it costs quite a bit to rent them, considering the hours needed to get through games. $7/hr is simply not an amount I’m willing to pay for 30-100 hour games. That’s $210 to play a single 30-hour game, and the only games worth such a fancy computer are going to be longer.

So no, probably not, unless the hardware gets really absurd, or the cafes get really really cheap, which… why would they?