On the rare occasion I decide to do a group dungeon in ESO, I feel like I get a text from my husband “wanna go to the store.” Every. Time.
And it’s hard to explain that I can’t just quit right now, it wouldn’t be fair to the nice little people in my PC.
Just tank the dungeon.
No one will notice you’re gone.I’ve only ever been a FPS scrub, so they’d notice.
At least I’m not a healer! Everyone blames the healer!
Everyone blames the healer
… at their own peril.
I tried tanking a few times. It’s hard ass work if you don’t have every single mob location memorized.
Healings fun though. People actually thank you some times. But yeah I’m just DPS loser most of the time.
A few times when I first started engaging in multiplayer stuff, I forgot to unequip the Ring of the Pale Order which prevents being healed. Oopsie daisie.
This, but always during an unpausable cutscene.
And they come in and just start talking and don’t stop even if you try to explain you are watching that
Fuck unpausable cutscenes
…and the game doesn’t has a pause button.
There’s an app for that!
It’s called UniversalPauseButton (no link because on phone, but you can Google it). It basically makes the PAUSE/BREAK button pause any active process. Press it again to unpause.
Will likely cause issues with online games, but if you’re playing offline or in single-player, like Witcher 3, Remnant, Baldurs Gate 3, etc it works wonders.
Signed, a new parent who often has to go comfort a waking baby at night.
I remember when I was a kid my buddy and I were raving about some game because you couldn’t pause it. It was so cool. Emersive. You really had to make good decisions with you inventory, etc etc.
Today I’ll just turn the game off if it tries that bullshit lol
Link here: https://github.com/ryanries/UniversalPauseButton
There’s also https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna
which supports linux, and I believe takes a slightly different approach on windows so where one app might not work for one game you could try the other
Wow thank you, I knew something like that existed but I thought it was a per game hack/mod not an universa solution. l
It instantly turns me off any game. Much of my free time for gaming on the weekends is really when I’m doing less active chores, like laundry. If I can’t pause to change loads and fold, I can’t play that game.
This is my whole life.
I go out of my way to make sure everything is good and then start my game. Suddenly nothing is good haha.
Been trying to wake up two hours before everyone, everyone just started waking up two hours earlier lol.
I love my family though. I knew what I was getting into.
Baaaaabe?
Can you come hand me the remote that’s 2" from my hand?
“I can’t help with dinner, the dog has his head on my lap.” “Well, sure, that’s fine, honey. I just made a cat move off my lap because at least ONE of us has to be responsible.”
Every god damn time. Whether it’s sitting down to work on something or to play a game, the wife needs something. Hell… even my work is the same. It’s an easy job with random amounts of downtime but the moment I decide to start cleaning or just scroll lemmy on my phone suddenly everyone needs help.
This was me at my office anytime I sat down and put my headphones on.
Without fail, quiet night nobody around, open game to enjoy a nice casual session.
Discord beeps from someone needing help troubleshooting my software.
Every dang time
Story of my life.
It is the worst thing. When you’re not doing anything nobody needs you.
Me when my parents visit me randomly and want me to help with some random project.
Conveniently enough (at least in this case) “everyone in my house” boils down to just me.
