I’m a fucking idiot… This is the obvious answer to my problem lol.

I have several old androids I could toss a cheap SIM into and just pay like a flat fee for a year service.

Thank you for pointing out the most obvious thing that I will be punching myself for not thinking of lol.

I’m like actually disappointed in myself for not having that thought cross my mind once. Haha

I was curious so went and looked at my top 3.

Free now (paid 30 bucks for csgo back in the day) CS2 ~7500 hours

$30 Hunt showdown ~1200 hours

$25 beamNG ~1000 hours.

Now those cost per hour figures don’t take into account the thousands of dollars on skins in CS I spent over the years, but still. Even with the money I spent on skins and keys I got way more than my moneuss worth out of counter strike.

Hunt I bought a bunch of DLC to support the devs until they drove that game into the ground and now I wish I could refund all of it. Fuck Crytek and David Fifield. If that man ever gets hired at another company run from any game he touches.

beamNG I actually bought before it was even on steam as a tech demo on a stand alone client. Easily the best investment in terms of fun per dollars spent. I would give them more money if they let me.

Idk man. I do think 80 bucks for Nintendo games is a bit steep but if someone is having fun and they feel they got their moneys worth out of it I ain’t gonna bash em.

Which I recognize. I still feel like there is a weird disconnect between gamers and cost. If I spent 80 bucks on a game and I get hundreds of hours of fun out of it that was easily worth the money. I have spent far more on significantly worse fun per dollar events over the years.

I just find it kinda funny how gamers get with the costs of games when compared to their spending on other media. Like how many people complaining about the 80 dollar games have rented a movie on Amazon for 5 bucks or something. That’s a 2.50 an hour for entertainment at best.

I won’t be buying the console or the 80 dollar games but I find the conversation and interesting one.

I’m not defending this behavior but keeping up with inflation games that cost 60 bucks in the early 90s would cost well over 120 today.

I know they don’t do physical media as much or at all in some cases.

I’m just pointing out that technically 80 bucks for a game is still a good ways behind inflation.

Not defending it. Just pointing it out.

I have ~10k hours in counterstrike across multi game versions and accounts. I noticed a similar thing over my years. The players doing well in a match were often neutral towards gamer girls, but the guy having a shit match would be the fastest sack of shit every time. Especially if one of the top fraggers pointed out they were being beaten by a girl.

Obviously there are always exceptions to any rules but in my anecdotal experience the guys who were confident in their abilities didn’t care about women but losers would attack them just for speaking.

This is why I just stay home on Saint Patrick’s day. Green is my favorite color and I pretty much never wear it, but if some random person pinches me I am very likely to react by punching them.

I hate being touched by people I don’t know. Holiday be damned.

I keep my Grinch ass home.