Video Gamers Podcast - Bad Gaming Habits – [REMASTERED] Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

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CBC News. Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the video gamers podcast. Gamer ADD, blaming the controller, buying even more games from the next Steam sale. We've all got some bad gaming habits. and on today's episode, we're going to be confessing our bad habits to the world. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh. And joining me, he may be easily distracted, perpetually late, always hungry, and just a touch ADHD.

But he thinks he doesn't have any bad habits. It's right. I talk to you about that in confidence before recording. Oh, sorry about that. Well, world, know everything you need to know about Ryan right there in the first 30 seconds of this podcast. Next, next, next. And joining us, he asked if he could do this episode because he needs to get a few hundred things off his chest. It's ace.

Hey, I'm great at games, but I got lots of bad habits to come with those games. Now, that was not an exaggeration because when, Ace was like, hey, you know, credit to Ace, Ace came up with this topic, this idea. And then he was like, guys, like, I came up with this because like, I really got a lot of things I need to talk about. We're like, is this like confession time going on here? I got to get it off my chest, man. It's weighing me down in my cop games. Yeah.

So, I mean, maybe this will be a therapy session for our bad gaming habits. Who knows? But welcome in, everybody. Thank you for joining us for another awesome episode. are excited for this one. We're just going to start off by saying, hey, take a second right now to follow the show, hit that plus button, hit that follow button. That way you get all our episodes as soon as they release. It helps the algorithm, helps the show out. And hey, it helps you out too, so you don't ever miss an episode. Guys, we are going to be talking about our bad gaming habits.

Now, I don't know what this says, but when I started making this list, there were like two right away that came to mind for me. And then I was like, okay, well, those were easy. Everybody that's been listening to the show knows what a couple of these are. This is going to be no shocked to anybody. But then I started thinking about it. And then I was like, okay, well, yeah, that's a bad gaming. Yep.

Okay, well, there's another one. Oh, yeah, there's definitely that one too. And then all of a sudden I was like, dang it, man. Like, I don't know how I feel about it. So, you know, sometimes just putting it out to the world, man, and not being a ashamed of it is what helps it get better. I want to ask you guys a question. Are any of your gaming habits that are on your list,

habits that you intend to change? Or is this more just like, hey, man, I get it, I realize it. It's just going to be the way it is. Oh, yeah, nothing's changing. You kidding me? Yeah, nothing's changing for me either.

Yeah. Just because I told you about it, it doesn't mean I want to do better. With my gaming habits, I want to apologize for absolutely nothing. Yeah. I apologize for nothing. Oh man.

All right, guys. Let's just, let's get into this because I, this is going to be fun. I have to imagine, listen, if you're listening to this podcast right now, you're a gamer.

You're a gamer with us. And you have bad gaming habits too. You know, and we want to know about them. We want you to share them. So leave a comment in the episode. If you're listening on Spotify, there's a comment section.

If you are not already in our Discord server, there's a link in the episode description for that. We have over 1,100 gamers in our Discord. They are awesome. We love talking these different episode topics when the episodes release. The chatter is just amazing, man. And so I have a feeling like there are probably some somewhat universal bad habits with gamers. But then we all have our own kind of personal quirks and stuff too. And so we're going to get a nice little mix of like insight into us.

us and into the gaming world. I would start with Ryan on this one, but Ryan, Ace, he told us. He's perfect, Josh. He has got nothing. He literally said, guys, I had to think for like an hour to come up with like two things for my bad gaming habits.

So we don't want to just, you know, have Ryan be out of the show so early. So let's start with you on this one, Ace. Since, you know, this was your idea. And you were like, guys, I need this. I need to get these off my check. You know, let's just start with one. What is a bad gaming habit for you, buddy? Hello, my name is Ace and I buy cosmetics for games I haven't played yet.

Oh, wait. Oh, no. Okay. Okay. I thought you were just going to end it as I buy cosmetics. And then I was going to be like, cool, like, I don't care about cosmetics, but I can see that being a habit. But for games you haven't played? How does that even work?

Because sometimes they have crossovers with franchises I like, and maybe I'll come back to that game someday, and now I'll have that skin because, you know, it's related to something I actually care about. Oh, my gosh, dude. Okay, here's the worst thing. That's a bad one. Wait a minute.

Okay, this is where this episode is going. You want to hear the worst thing I've done with the cosmetic recently? I don't want to know, because you were just showing off your new Marvel rival skin that you purchased. That was only $10. All right. Okay. All right, that's fair. I spent $80 to finish a battle pass in Dead by Daylight because I didn't feel like playing Dead by Daylight that month.

But I wanted everything in the back. Oh, no. So you're the guy. So you're the guy. He's the reason they have microtransactions. I was going to say, so you're the reason that we keep getting dial passes. I don't buy those kind of my. I buy cosmetics.

Because they're doing these like data analysis. And they're like, guys, look how many people bought. They spent $80 to complete the battle pass that you had to buy in the first place. Dude. So it's like, we need to give us money. Oh my God. But they give us more money because you spent money with us in the first place. I have a theory on this.

Let me, let me ask a question for a haste. Ace, do you use Uber Eats or, or do you door dash? Dooredash. Okay. And I pay for premium. That's the people who use the battle passes. And that's up. Those are the people that.

That is my correlation. If you use DoorDash or Uber Eats, you buy the battle passes and you spend a lot of money on cosmetics. I have to share a very quick story on this, guys. A good friend of mine, a coworker of mine, you know, he listens to the show. Ryan, we play pickleball with him all the time. Love you, Matt. So Matt at work accidentally put the company credit card on his DoorDash account somehow and door dashed things for, like three months straight without realizing that it was going on the company card.

And then the company kind of went, what are all these door dash charges going on? And then we discovered that it was Matt that it was accidentally door dashing everything on the company card. But the takeaway from this wasn't like, hey, you know that's fast, right? Because he was honestly, he had no idea. Yeah. It was more this eye opening moment where Matt went like, I think I might door dash a little bit too much, guys. It was $2,400. $2,400 worth of DoorDash that he had to pay back.

For three months? Guys, do you know how many times I've door-dashed food in my entire life? Three. Three times total. I think that's more than me. I'm too cheap. I'm too cheap. I'll either go pick it up or we'll just like, I'm not paying extra money for somebody to. If I'm getting food out, I'm going to go pick it up. Otherwise, you know, I'll, make food at home. Like that's what, you know, that's, that's, the ace is shocked. Yeah. And that's why, that's why he's like, I guarantee this guy's probably door dashed little Caesers. Like, I wouldn't pick Little Caesars up. Yeah. See? Yeah. Oh my God. But dude. It's hot and ready. All you got to do is walk in gravity. Like, what are you doing? The door dachers like, okay. Like, all right.

I'm so lazy. I love how we got into this already. Oh, my God. Okay, I door dash the same Bojangles chicken sandwich every Saturday morning. Oh, man. All right, A, ultimately, listen, it's July, we're recording this on July 24th. How many times this month, if you had to guess, have you door dashed? This month? Yeah. Probably 24 days into the month.

He's like, oh, no. Ace is like doing calculus. This is where all the little images are floating behind. I'm out of fingers. He's like a lot of rocket scientists, guys. 11? 11. You door dash every other day?

Maybe. Maybe, yeah. Oh my gosh. It's probably more if you want to be real. I was going to say, this is like this is Ace trying to like go on the low side. It's not every other day. Sometimes it's just twice in one day. So, you know.

I couldn't imagine. Because the door dash prices are two. Are there more like the normal? Oh, they raise the price of the food. They have the service fee. They have the delivery charge. That's why they have the brief. me we're losing our youth.

You still paying the higher price? Josh, we're losing the youth right now. They're like, listen to these old heads. Door dash is great, man. What's better than having the food show right up to your door? Yeah. Okay.

Well, we've learned a lot of, I mean, this one thing we've learned a lot of bad habits for me. Those are probably some bad habits I should work on. Oh, my goodness. Oh, man. All right. Well, I'll just get mine out of the way really,

really quickly. Guys, what is, I'm just, you guys know me, what is my number one bad habit when it comes to gaming? Josh doesn't finish video games, ever. Number one of my list, guys. Even if they're amazing, Josh doesn't finish games. I can't finish some amazing games. But yes, I suffer from gamer ADD. I fully admit it.

This is a problem, guys. I cannot tell you, like, I don't, we don't have time. I should go through my Steam list and actually, like, count how many games on my Steam list. I feel like, I mean, legitimately You didn't think it's Ballard's Gate 3, right? I've never finished Balders Gate 3. See, like, that's a crime to me. I know.

I know, man. That's crazy. I love it. It's not that I, listen, me not finishing a game does not mean I don't like a game. It just means there's something wrong with my brain where I kind of go, like, cool, I know what to expect on this one. But you know what I don't know what to expect? What's that game over there, man? Like, what's that game?

Like, you know, and then I literally, it's like a voice where it's like I'm hovering over the Balders Gate three icon and then my brain starts going like, but what's that one? Yeah. What's that one? And I'm like, I don't know. Norman Osborne and the green goblin mask. Click it.

Click it. Click it. The other icon. Go to another game coward. Yeah. I'll tell you what. What I legitimately, I'm going to go through my steam list after this. There's probably 200 games on there.

If I had to guess, there's probably six games. I was going to say, I don't know of many you've ever finished. Like you've gotten close, but, uh, but games. that you've finished, like, it's few and far between. It's bad. Have you ever 100% of a game? Ever? Never.

No. I've never 100% of a game, which I agree with. I don't understand that. Like, to me, like, then you're not, like, playing the game. You're just kind of doing chores. You're working. Yeah, that's kind of a lot. It's the same as, like, why you don't like. You're not ready to give up the game yet.

You're still happy in the world and happy experiencing the game. So there's still stuff to do. If it's not, yeah, if it's not, like, tour-based, like, for certain things. if you can do it while you're playing the game, but I don't know. That's funny. All right. Well, that one was quick and easy. Ryan? Me? I know, I personally, I know I have a big problem with this. I have an addictive personality, and I tend to get grasped onto things and hold tight to what I like and I enjoy and I feel like happy with. So I will disconnect from every other video game I play if I find one that I like,

which is why I had such a gap before I started the podcast because I just played Destiny or I just played God of War or just played Red Dead. Like, that's all I'll do. Like Ace, we did an episode on Tuesday. He played, or wait, when does that come out? They came out Monday. Monday. Yeah, Monday.

So he played Red Dead. I've been playing Red Dead online. That's literally the only thing I've touched for a weekend. and a half. Like, I get, I get super hyper focused on a certain game, and that's all all touch and all all play. And it leaves a huge blank spot in the rest of the world of gaming for me. Not good when you run a podcast, but, uh, Ryan, with our powers combined, we'd be a normal gamer. I know, right? We would, I would finish them. I can't keep playing games. I can't stop playing a game. Oh, man. All right, listen, we'll go, we'll come back to ACE's next, uh,

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And when you smell good, you feel good. Visit Dove.com to learn more. right, we're back. It's confession time. You know, hey, totally normal gamer confession for me, totally normal gamer confession for Ryan. Ace, we're discovering lots and lots about, Ace, what else is going to give us a glimpse into your psyche and poor financial decisions? You know what, we're going to stay away from the finances now. Oh, yeah. We don't want to. Wait, what's all that stuff behind you, Ace? No, look, look at the collectors' editions that I didn't need.

Oh, man. I'd like to point out that I'm married and I have no kids, so this is fine. They're infestments, guys. Rub it in, rub it in. Okay, whatever. Oh, man. But one of my bad gaming habits is using guides on games before I've beaten them to find items or get paths I want. Okay.

I used to hate this thought process, dude. Like legitimately, because I'm like, you're ruining the game. You're not even like having fun. You're like, you're not that you don't get the sense of discovery. You don't get the sense of like the triumph of figuring something out. I'm going to say in my old age and maybe it's maybe it's because of the podcast and we turn through games. You know, as far as that goes. But I have very much softened on this to where I'm kind of like, you know, I kind of want to just enjoy.

this game and see what it's about and I don't necessarily want to struggle for like 30 minutes on this one little thing that maybe isn't the best explained or and I have found myself Googling like much more often about like how do I do this or what's a good build or something like that I could kind of get this now ace whereas before I'd have been like shame on you shame the first example that comes to mind for me is when Assassin's Creed Valhalla came out they revealed that you could get a hold of the legendary sword Excalibur. I wanted it so bad and I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it. Pull it out of the stone.

Well, you have to do more than just pull it out of the stone because it's not just Excalibur. It's related to the alien stuff within Assassin's Creed. But I didn't want to miss out on it. And I was, and I know how games are. Sometimes you do something and now you're locked out. So I looked up exactly what I had to do to get that sword. And you know what?

I cleared the whole game with Excalibur in one hand. and mule near in the other because I knew where to find them. I love it. No, I don't, I don't blame me at all, man. That's, um, dude, I don't know, old heads, uh, if you were gaming in the 90s, you know, Chee code central, cheat, CTC, like, that's, that's what you went to, uh, game FAQs. You could also go to that.

Uh, when you were stuck, like, it was, do I beat my head against the wall or do I go look for a guide? Now it's so much easier. Like, even I now, playing certain games. I'll be sitting there. You know, my phone's sitting on my chest and I was like, and you just Google it. It's so easy now.

It's right there. And then they're like, oh, that's where you go. You saved yourself two, three hours, like just hunting around. Like,

we're not, we're not all kids anymore. We're not, we don't have the time. Like, the ability to just search and find something and, and have 50 different video guides is, is pretty awesome.

There's two parts of my brain that are screaming like right now where like, one is like, this is terrible, but the other one's kind of like, it's kind of nice. It is nice. It's kind of nice. Yeah.

All right. Well, this is the other easy one for me. I am way too competitive when it comes to games, man. To the, listen, I'm just, this is me in life. If you challenge me to a foot race, I don't care. I'm like, I'll race you, man. Like, I can't turn down a challenge. I'm way too competitive.

I can make things, anything competitive. The problem with this is is that occasionally this, like, actually is bad because, like, a game like Overwatch or Marvel rivals, for instance, where it's like, hey, we're playing this to have a good time. No, we're not. We're playing to win. And why are we winning? Everybody sucks.

All of my teammates suck. Like, I'm not getting heels. Like, everybody except for me sucks. You know, and it's like, well, wait a minute. Okay. And then I do. I get frustrated, man. And I cannot help it.

Then you get chat bands. And then I get chat band, you know, because maybe I'm trying to educate the people. that don't play as well. Yes. Educate them to uninstall. Yes. You don't have to deal with them again. I can't.

Recently, Nexivis, I've been playing Street Fighter 6 with Nexivis, dude, shout out to him. And Nexivis is a fantastic gamer. He's well beyond my level. And Nexivis is kicking my butt in Street Fighter 6. And I just like, the competitive side of me hates it.

I hate losing. And it's like, dang it. You know, but I can't help it, man. same time it's kind of like what drives me to want to be good at games and you know uh get into like the the ranked modes and stuff like that but it is a detriment because a lot of times it's like bro just have a good time and i'm like no i want to win the thing is well that's the thing is like it's not it's not bad being competitive i'm very competitive but like when you get super mad when you lose that's that's when it like becomes it's like all right hold on chill up buddy hold on relax relax

Whatever. What are you talking about? Get mad about losing? This guy didn't heal me and I just, I did everything perfect. The worst is when he says like, our healers suck and it's me. It's just me. Then I look and I go, I mean the other healer. Which has absolutely happened. And then Ace is sitting there with 22K heels.

Sorry, didn't mean to blame you, Ace. All right, Ryan, what's your last one, apparently? of your two bad habits you've got. Last one. Hold on. I had to search hard for that first one. What are you talking about? My other issue is that, man, I have a, gosh, I have a real hard time with, like,

the hierarchy of gaming. Like, I, and to Aces credit, I have been exposed to a lot of indie games that I otherwise would have never played, But one of my big issues is that I look at these games. I look at these indie developers and stuff and I'm just, I kind of scoff at them. Like, yeah, I don't want to play that. I don't want to waste my time.

I don't want to deal with it. I've been thoroughly surprised, but it's still every time I'm like, yeah, I don't know. You know, every time I look at a game like that. So I definitely look at these games that maybe not have, you know, they may not have the budget or the ability to create some of these worlds that I've, known, you know, are grown to love and adapt to, but it doesn't mean they're not good. It doesn't mean that I wouldn't enjoy them. So yeah, I, not being as open to other types of games is probably one of my issues that I, that I face the most. That's fair. I think a lot of people have that kind of issue when they've played superiorly developed games that had a lot more

money thrown at them and they look visually a lot better, but maybe they don't play a lot better or they don't have as good a story. It is hard for people to look past certain indie games graphics and graphics snobs. And call me out, Ace, you stole my third one.

But yeah, no, I get I get it. Credit to you, dude. Like, Ace, man, you've opened me up to so many more games that I never would have touched that I've grown to love. Like so, yeah, dude, I mean, a lot of those lethal peak, you know, and then even like, uh, Rogue lights with, um, Risk of Rain, you know, two that I play with you guys. I have absolute blast.

It looks like crap, but it's such a fun game. Like, don't let graphics fool you. Like, it does matter. It is important, but it doesn't make a game, you know, so, so, uh, take that for what it's worth, I guess. My man. All right. What you got next, Ace? I have an issue with over grinding levels to the point where I'm overpowered in games. That's a dangerous slope, man, because it's like, if you enjoy the combat in a game, you're like, cool, I like this combat. This is fun. And then all of a sudden, now you're like, this game's so trivial now.

I did that in Bloodborn. So what I did in Bloodborn, I basically got up to max level, just grinding the lower level areas because I was struggling. And then I just started sweeping. And I was like, oh, no. then you get to like the halfway point and the game kicks up again and it doesn't matter what level you are. So I was like, okay. Here we go. It's funny because I am so intentional about not having that happen that I will actually fight a boss or something where I'm underleveled because I like the challenge of it.

But if I get to something where it's trivial, I feel like it ruins it for me. And so it's funny because it's like I'm actually the opposite of you where it's like I don't, I consciously don't want that to have. happen. So I will rush through levels because it's like, well, I don't want to be overleveled when I get here. And then now it's all just trivial because that bores me. And then it's funny because it's like I, I'm very conscious of that and don't want that to have to happen. And Josh makes it like halfway through at level two. And he's like, oh no. Yeah. And then I quit it anyway. So yeah. I just get like so much satisfaction from seeing all my numbers maxed out. And I'm like, who. Yeah. Well, mid maxing is a big thing in gaming, man. I mean, there's a lot of people that love

like min-maxing stuff and then that and none of itself is a challenge to them but then it's like yeah but now if you're all maxed out like how does that affect how you actually play the rest of the game. That's why I never understood too like um you know old school like wow like wow classic and stuff like uh back

in the day you have your twinks where they were like what is it level 14 or 18 or whatever before you go to the next section in battlegrounds like they would just max everything have the best daggers you'd have some crazy rogue that would kill everyone and it's like what fun is that? You know, but I mean, I get it.

I get what people do it. But yeah, that's not one I like to do. All right. Well, my third one was going to be my confession that I am a graphics snob and I put way too much emphasis on graphics in a game. But since we kind of already covered that one, this is a legitimate confession, guys. And this may actually come as a shock to everybody. And you got, this one doesn't make me happy, man. I cannot quit Blizzard games.

And as much as I hate it, I am still, and I made it very public that I uninstalled Harstone and that I uninstalled Overwatch and I did all these things. And guess what I play almost every day now? Are you on league? What's that? No. No? What are you playing?

I hope not. No, I'm playing Harstone. I assume he's back on Harstone. Here's the thing, guys. Confession time, safe space. I've been back on Harstone for like two months now, but I hide my status. I hide my status.

I'm not going to lie. I do invisible every time because I don't want anybody to know that I'm still playing Harstone after I trashed it. And I told everybody how it was garbage and I hate it. And I'm never going to play it again. And then my daughter even, it's funny because she came down one day And she was like, dad, are you playing Hartstone?

I was like, no. No, what, yes, I am. No, honey, don't look. She was like, I thought you said you hate that game. And I'm like, yeah, I know what I said. You relapsed on that one, huh? Hey, dude, guys, I'm not going to lie. I literally have been in, like,

Harstone even did the thing now. Like, when I log in to BattleNet, it goes, hey, you've been invisible for like two months. Would you like to go online? And I go, no. I don't want to go online. Because I don't want anybody to know. Do you hate us?

Why don't you want people to know? That'd be funny if it kept poking you. Oh, man. Hey. Don't you want to tell your friends? Tell your friend. No, I don't want anybody. I've been hiding it from everybody.

Oh, man. Okay. I think I feel better now, maybe? I don't know. That's a big confession, man. That's a big one, dude. I can't believe you were going to try to get away with the other one. Whatever you were trying to say before.

Like, this is way bigger, man. freaking playing Harstone for two months. Oh, and Overwatch. I'm back in Overwatch now. And Overwatch. I blame it on my kid, but guess what? I'm not going to lie. I figured you are on Overwatch

because I know, I know your daughter plays it, and then you're not playing rivals. It's the only reason, guys. It's the only reason I'm playing is because she's playing and she came to me. She's, you know, with the cute eyes. And she said, Dad.

Dad, please. Dad, please. Dad, we play Overwatch with me. And I went, okay, fine. Fine, kid. Yeah, right. God. let me get off this other Blizzard game and I'll come play with you.

I mean, props to Blizzard, man. They got some good stuff and they, they know how to hook a consumer, you know? Yeah. For sure. I didn't spend a bunch of money on their cosmetics.

That I haven't played the game of. Yeah. All right, Ryan. What's the next for you, buddy? So, my last one here is that I have a real hard time in life and then, in video games in general is that I

am a troll. I very much like to take anyone that takes anything too seriously and blow their world up because we are specks of dust floating through the universe. Like I say, time is relative.

None of this matters. And nothing we do matter. So don't take life too seriously. Don't take your video games too seriously. Anybody that is hardcore, I love to blow up their world. It makes my world full of joy and life and happiness. If I can destroy a tryhard, it brings all my hopes and dreams together. I have been doing it on Red Dead Online. I am level

like 15 or something, but if I can run around and lasso up, the dude's trying to kill everybody in town, and then I'll take them and carry them and just like throw them into a river or do whatever, anything I can do to troll people, it's what I love to do. In, uh, Black Ops, back in 2011 or whatever when they had sticks and stones. If you threw a hatchet, you reset everybody. Or you reset that character. All I did was run around with the hatchet. That's all I did, because it was so much fun.

And everyone would message me, play the game right. What are you doing? Play the game. You know, so I just, I am a troll. I love to poke the bears, people who are tryards. It's my goal in life to make you mad. So that's, that's, and I apologize for nothing. I will never stop that.

Yeah, we're not getting better from this episode. We're just putting it out there. Yeah, this is a bad habit and I love it. I'm going to try. It's a bad habit and I love it and nothing is going to change. So come try hard with me and we'll see if we can have some fun. Ace ordered DoorDash during the break, man. Oh, wait, who's that guy?

Where is? Oh, there he is. Maybe. Okay. Maybe, I guess. Oh, man. All right, Ace, what's up next for you, buddy? next for me would be save scumming

I save scum Oh me too that's not a bad habit It is a bad habit No You need to accept the consequences of your action sometimes And I wanted to save scum so bad When I lost my Arabian to the train Just reload dude and then it's all good

I guess what? It's saved after that So I lost that auto safe I save scum too I get that I'm with you and that the like it seems like a bad thing, but at the same time, it's like, I tell myself,

well, this lets me, like, experience what would have happened if I made that role or that saving throw or that successful lock pick or something like that.

Yeah. I was bad about that with my first, or my second playthew with Baldur's Gate 3. Bro, you should have seen me on. I was just like, on Skyrim. Dude,

you should have seen the amount of times I reloaded on Skyrim just because of like lock picks. I'm like, oh, I burn 10 lock picks. I'm like, reload. Was it Diablo or Diablo two?

where the I like the whatever was in the chest like you could save scum there and I remember like saves scumming like hundreds of times to try to get like the legendary drop out of this chest kind of oh gosh oh yeah so it is technically a bad gaming habit it yeah it is I don't mind it I don't mind it yeah that's one of those like it's like I bite my nails I know that's a bad habit but like bro I'm always going to bite my nails okay like don't so all right uh another one for me we'll have to speed this up here a little bit. Another one for me, I get way, and I mean way too hyped for some games. Like an unhealthy level of hype. Like, cyberpunk is the famous one because like I like legitimately requested time off of work because of all the delays I had to keep changing my days off and stuff like

that. I mean, my hype level for that was like it was not healthy. Expedition 33 kind of the same way. I mean, there are games that come up where sometimes I just go, like, it starts to like just, you know, climb its way into my brain. So much so that the night before a game release, I don't sleep a lot of times. Like, and my wife will make fun of me for this. Like, I have some sleep issues anyway, but like every time she's like, your game's coming out tomorrow. And I'm like, I know. And she's like, you know, you're not going to sleep tonight. And I'm like, dang it.

I'm like a kid on Christmas, dude. I was going to say you're like a kid on Christmas. I absolutely am, dude. I absolutely am. And the problem is, is it's so stupid because I'll be like, I got to go to work tomorrow. I'm not playing this game until, like, the afternoon. You know, so like, why is it? But, dude, I'm a kid on Christmas morning with a game release that I'm really excited about.

And it's so stupid, I'm a grown old man at this point. And yet I still will just, like, not sleep the night before a game or something like. It's so dumb, dude. But it's a, yeah, it's a bad habit. I can't control it. I wish I still had enough life left. me to feel that way. You know.

All right, Ryan, is there any others you can think of? I do have one other. It's kind of along the lines of that is where I am, unfortunately, extremely susceptible to very good trailers. Video game trailers. Oh, yeah.

I will wholeheartedly buy the worst game ever. Famously, I thought Redfall was going to be fantastic because I loved the trailer. The gameplay and other stuff that came out, from it looked horrible and then that should have been a clue but man a good trailer with good music will sell me every time no matter what i'm like man this is going to be the best thing ever battlefield 20 you know million two 52 whatever it was like love letter i feel loved oh here we go bring it home you know and it's just it it's uh that's all it takes good music good good uh look and

trailer and I will be all in, you know, and it's not a, it's not a good thing financially too, you know. Ubisoft gets me every time with a good Assassin's Creat trailer. I'm like, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, we're going, we're return to form. That's what they said, return to form. Yeah, yeah, it's, they just never is. I know they lied on the last two, but this one's going to be different guys. This is the one.

Did you see it? This is the one, guys. They said so. Yeah. that's that's a bad one for me it's a financially uh not very good yeah uh easily excitable is uh is a good term for ryan yes yes that is actually a very good term yeah what else you got buddy i would say i have a bad habit of avoiding mainstream games to seem cooler that's fair that's fair yes this is a good like we're making progress here people i will admit i will avoid a big real

to seem like I'm a cooler gamer and that I have more niche picks to play. You know, you can play Indies and AAAs. I know, all right. I knew that when they were indie, bro. What are you talking about? Oh, yeah. Oh, I feel like we're getting stuff off our chest. Guys, I could breathe.

Oh. I was part of their Kickstarter, bro. You don't understand. I was. Yeah. I was in their merch video. Like, come on, man. Did you see me in the merch promo?

I was there, dude. Oh, man. Real quick, another one for me. I, listen, I cannot not look up a review for a game that I'm interested in. I don't know why. And listen, you know, we say, hey, form your own opinion. You know, if a game looks good to you, play the game. It does not matter, dude, that I physically cannot not look up reviews for a game.

that I'm interested in where it's like, let me just look at the review. And they're like, no, do go into this one blind. I'm like, why would I want to do that?

I want to know what other people think. You know? And so I say it's a bad habit because it's like sometimes it probably is better to go in blind. And especially as a podcast and people that like, you know, hey, we give our thoughts on games too.

It's like, I don't want to be influenced, but at the same time, I kind of want to be influenced where it's like, if other people are liking this game, it gets me really excited about it. And then it's like, if people are pointing out like things,

don't work necessarily. I almost feel like it's like tempering my expectations at that point so I can go into a game with like the right mindset. There's no benefit from it whatsoever. But dude, I cannot, I literally cannot like not look up a review for a game either. Yeah, I'm with you, man. I look up a lot of reviews too. Yeah, I got a bad habit of that too.

All right. We got to shut this down. Any other quick hits, Ryan, for you. You're done? Not that. I'm perfect. That's it. Okay, Ryan's great. Ace, I know you have a really big list, but do you want to take, like, the next, just like some 10, 20 quick fires here?

If I think I already know how to play a game, I'll skip the tutorial. I have a bad habit of picking up documents and not reading them. And then I'll complain about not knowing how to play the game. Yeah, exactly. How do I get a map? I don't know the map. They didn't tell me about the map. There was no map tutorial. If you ever played a rock star game, you would know that there's a map, but that's all I'm going to say. Guys, I had a guy, I won't name names, but I had a guy reach out to me personally and say, hey, I heard you touting Expedition 33, you know, like just going like you, you, you were glazing this game, dude, you were talking about this game so much.

I don't get it. I'm two hours in. And I'm like, really? Like, dude, that's so weird. Dude skipped every cutscene and every dialogue option for the first two hours of Expedition 33. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. But then I'm like, what are you doing?

What do you mean? And he's like, I don't understand. anything that's going on, this game sucks. And then I'm just like, what are you doing, me? And I was like, of course you don't know what's going on. Like, why would you do that? And he was like, I don't know, you said this game was great. I wanted to get to the great part.

I'm just like, oh, no. The story is the great part. The good news is, to his credit, he wrote me back like a month later and said, listen, I started over. I watched everything. This game's awesome. Like, okay. And then I was like, whew.

Yeah. Hello. Oh, man. Last one for me real quick. I can't leave games installed, guys. I don't know if this is an OCD thing or if it's just a bad habit. But if I don't play a game for like five days, I uninstall it. Like legitimately. And it bugs me because right now I still have risk of rain too on my desktop,

but I know I'm not playing risk of rain like in the next five days. And like my brain is going like, why is that still there? Like uninstall it, dude. It's a weird, weird thing. I know this has nothing to do with space. I have a huge hard drive. And you have unlimited internet now too. I can't leave it there, man.

And so I don't know why, but I cannot leave games installed on my computer if I know that I'm not going to play them like within the next few days kind of thing. I can attest to this because I've reached out to Josh a couple times. And he's like, oh, I don't have it installed, but I can download it. We're like, oh, come on, man. We just played that like two weeks ago. He's like, I installed it. There's zero harm in leaving it on.

my computer. I'm not running out of space, but I have to uninstall. Like, it's like an organization thing or something. It could be like a gig and a half. Like we had schedule one and Josh uninstalled it like a second after we stopped playing. The moment we closed the game. He's like, all right, I'm done it. And then boom, uninstalled. It's a condition, guys, okay?

This is why we're here. It sounds like you guys got a lot of conditions. That's what I'm hearing. All right. Anymore? Last one, Ace week. The last one I want to say because we mentioned at the top is buying games when we still have games to play. even though it's just because they were on sale. Buying games just because they are on sale.

Yeah. This is weird and I know that people do this. I do not do this. I do not buy games. And this is like maybe this makes up for a lot of my other quirks. But like I have never bought a game that I don't like actually download, install and play right away, dude. Am I just financially irresponsible?

Well, yes, obviously. Yeah, we established that at the time of the show. Look behind you. That's already. Little Caesars is stacked up next to you. all those guys behind you. We've already established your financial woes. Listen, I do do this, but not like to a crazy level, but it is funny because you don't think about it, but like, I'll see Black Mesa. And I'm like, I'll get around to playing that and I'll buy it, you know,

or different things. Like I'm like, ah, you know, not all the time. Do I do? I see stuff. I do stop myself, but I do do it more than I would like. I do buy games that I don't play more than I would like to because I think he'll get around or it's a good sale and I'm like, yeah, I want to get back to that series and then I don't ever get around to it. So now that's props on you, Josh, man, you got some good, uh, control. I refunded Bellatro twice and it was like a $5 game. I can't, like, that's the thing though. I will, I do not buy a game unless I intend to play that game like right away.

Play it three quarters of the way through and then uninstall. That's, yes. That happens for sure, but at least I play it right away, you know. yeah the i know steem gets a lot of people man i know that's a common bad habit is like just buying games and then you you don't wind up actually playing them and so they just sit there yeah it's good it's good business plan for sure it is it works all right well listen this has been great we have learned a lot we've got a lot out into the world i don't have to hide on hearthstone anymore i can finally go online and quit getting that pop up uh from blizzard all the time let us know what your bad gaming habits are comment on this episode let us know

what you think your bad gaming habits are. Join our Discord server. You know, let's all just, let's all confess these things together, man. You know, maybe we can help each other out, get a little bit better. Help me help you. Yeah, exactly. I'm just going to start like, gifting games to people and be like, that's your

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