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Buying Games > Playing Games

Buying Games > Playing Games
The digital hoarding phenomenon strikes again! That sweet dopamine hit from clicking "Purchase" during Steam sales is vastly superior to the actual commitment of downloading and playing the games. My Steam library has more unplayed titles than a bookshelf at an illiterate's house. It's basically a digital museum of good intentions at this point. The backlog grows faster than technical debt in a startup with no code reviews.

The Great Steam Backlog Phenomenon

The Great Steam Backlog Phenomenon
Ah, the Steam library paradox – where we shovel money into Gabe Newell's pockets during sales with the enthusiasm of someone who definitely plans to play all those games... someday. That tiny shoveled patch labeled "Games I played" compared to the vast snowy wasteland of "Games remain on my Steam library that I bought but never played" is the digital equivalent of buying gym equipment that becomes an expensive clothes hanger. The backlog grows with each seasonal sale, while our free time mysteriously shrinks. It's almost as if buying games has become its own separate hobby from actually playing them.

The Sacred Download Protection Ritual

The Sacred Download Protection Ritual
THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of parents who think downloads have a pause button! 😱 This poor soul has resorted to multilingual warfare, posting a desperate "DO NOT DA COMPUTER" sign while Steam downloads "Sea of Thieves" at a glacial 37% complete. The Italian/Spanish warning below ("está scaricando un juego") translates to "it's downloading a game" - because apparently "don't touch" needs international reinforcement when you're dealing with download-interrupting parents who believe computers have a magical "I'll just quickly turn this off" feature that doesn't obliterate hours of progress. The struggle is REAL and the trauma is GENERATIONAL! 💀

My Body Is A Machine That Turns Wishlist Into Regret

My Body Is A Machine That Turns Wishlist Into Regret
The skeleton of every Steam user, faithfully converting wishlist items into digital dust since the dawn of time. That wishlist is basically a graveyard where good intentions go to die. We tell ourselves "I'll buy it when it's on sale" but then we're too busy playing the same three games we've had since 2012. The wishlist is just a monument to our gaming FOMO – the digital equivalent of buying a treadmill that becomes an expensive clothes hanger.

Which Stage Are You In Right Now?

Which Stage Are You In Right Now?
Oh. My. GOD. The eternal struggle of indie game developers on Steam in four panels of pure AGONY! 💸 Left side: "WHEN YOU GET PAID" - a glorious Yamaha DX7 synthesizer worth actual money! The notification from Valve is practically DRIPPING with hope: "payment for your share of revenue earned through January 2025" - HALLELUJAH! Time to quit the day job! Right side: The soul-crushing reality - "Valve didn't send payment this month" because you didn't meet the EARTH-SHATTERING threshold of... $100. Your reward? ICE SOUP. Literal frozen water with ice cubes. Bone apple tea, you poor, poor developer! 🥄❄️ The duality of indie dev life is just TOO REAL. One month you're shopping for vintage synthesizers, the next you're wondering if ice cubes count as dinner. The dream never dies, it just gets really, REALLY hungry sometimes!

The Launcher Graveyard

The Launcher Graveyard
Remember when we dreamed of a unified game launcher? The top panel shows all the major platforms (Battle.net, Epic, Rockstar, EA, Ubisoft, Steam) marching along like they're going somewhere important. The bottom panel reveals the grim reality - all of them dead and buried in a graveyard... except Steam, who's still trucking along like the immortal cockroach it is. Eight years and 17 launcher installations later, my SSD is basically a digital cemetery where game launchers go to consume resources and force updates when I'm trying to play literally anything. Yet somehow Steam endures, probably because Gabe Newell made a deal with some eldritch horror in exchange for eternal market dominance.

He Can Have My Data

He Can Have My Data
OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of these tech giants! 😱 Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all like "you will NOT have my data" while we're frantically scribbling our objections like some deranged privacy advocate. But then... BEHOLD! Gaben (aka Gabe Newell, the lord and savior of PC gaming and founder of Valve/Steam) appears, and suddenly we're all "TAKE MY DATA, TAKE MY WALLET, TAKE MY FIRSTBORN CHILD!" The hypocrisy is ASTRONOMICAL! We'll fight tooth and nail to keep our data from big tech, but the second Steam has a sale, we're throwing our credit cards at the screen faster than you can say "my poor bank account." The duality of geek-kind in its natural habitat!

Steam Sales: The Publisher's Nightmare

Steam Sales: The Publisher's Nightmare
The eternal battle between game companies and Valve's Steam platform in one perfect image. On the left, major publishers (EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, etc.) screaming bloody murder while Steam casually responds with "I like to provide good discounts and customer service" alongside that sweet -95% tag. It's basically the gaming industry's version of that meeting where someone suggests actually making customers happy and gets thrown out the window. The difference is Steam actually did it and now has everyone's wallet in a stranglehold.

The Thousand-Hour Hater

The Thousand-Hour Hater
The AUDACITY of Steam reviews! On one side, we have 1.1 MILLION players screaming "Overwhelmingly Positive" like it's the second coming of digital Jesus. Meanwhile, this ONE dramatic soul with nearly 1,400 hours invested has the sheer NERVE to give it a thumbs down?! 💀 This is the gaming equivalent of eating at a restaurant every single day for FOUR YEARS straight and then leaving a one-star review because they changed the napkin color. The commitment to the hatred is almost... beautiful? *chef's kiss*

The Open Source Paradox

The Open Source Paradox
Ah, the classic Linux purist paradox. You've got your system running pure FOSS, compiled your own kernel, and refuse to install proprietary drivers... then proceed to spend 8 hours on Reddit complaining about Nvidia while downloading Steam games. The cognitive dissonance is strong enough to power a small datacenter. Next you'll tell me you use Signal on your Google Pixel.

Patient Gamer: The Ultimate Optimization Algorithm

Patient Gamer: The Ultimate Optimization Algorithm
The same energy that powers our debugging sessions at 3 AM fuels our Steam sale vigilance. Staring at that $70 game with the intensity of a thousand suns, checking price trackers daily, setting up alerts, all to save $55 that we'll immediately spend on four other games we'll never play. The sweet victory of getting that AAA title for the price of a sandwich... only to let it rot in our library alongside 200 other "great deals." Financial optimization at its finest – just don't calculate the hourly rate of your price-watching efforts.

Pope Gaben: The Holy Sudo Authority

Pope Gaben: The Holy Sudo Authority
The programming world's benevolent dictator has been canonized! Gabe Newell (aka GabeN), founder of Valve and overlord of Steam, dressed as the Pope is absolutely perfect. He already controls what games 95% of PC gamers can play, might as well make it official with some divine authority. His blessing would turn bug fixes into miracles and his patch notes into scripture. The ultimate sudo command—not even root access can compete with papal infallibility. Just imagine the Steam Summer Sale being declared a religious holiday!