No Grind Club

More games than hours. A weekly letter for players who can be interrupted at any second. One story, one game, no grind. Your hour is sacred.

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The whole story here: https://t.co/hGYSXloAoC

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I bought Cyberpunk twice.

Sixty euros at launch on PS4. Eight days later Sony pulled it from its own store.

Thirty five, five years on, patched and with the expansion in the box.

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Tell me the worst day one of your life.

Mine: Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4. Sixty euros for a diorama where cars materialised a few feet in front of me.

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I asked for the refund and got my sixty euros back.

I still felt robbed.

What I had lost wasn't the money. It was two nights hunting for the game from the trailers.

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The whole story here: https://t.co/ocyJD5P6Tf

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Your backlog is not a debt. It is not a portfolio either. It is a menu, and a menu does not ask what you still owe. It asks how you are turning up.

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How long did it take you to pick a game last time? No cheating: from sitting down to something actually starting.

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Sorting your library by purchase date is what a man does when he already knows he is not playing tonight.

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The whole story here: https://t.co/VTLbXu3jcf

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A female octopus lays eggs once in her life.

Then she stops eating, guards them for months, sometimes years, and when they hatch she lets herself die.

Your backlog does not work like that. Neither do you.

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Tell me the game you quit halfway and don't miss.

Mine: Alan Wake 2. Good game. It stopped being fun, I put it down and never looked back.

The credits don't validate your nights.

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I spent days pushing through a game I had stopped enjoying, purely because I had to finish it.

I was the one who paid. And it was shaking me down on top of that.

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The whole story here: https://t.co/nGLnLUsNYe

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The creator of Vampire Survivors used to code the screens on slot machines. He says that isn't where he learned to hook you, and I believe him: out of all those years he took exactly one thing. A jingle from a treasure chest.

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I installed Vampire Survivors one night to try it for ten minutes. Two hours later I was still there. I couldn't tell you what happened in between, and I was there for all of it. What's your slot machine?

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One guy. One jingle. One chest animation. And it ate half of Steam's evenings. Now imagine what forty people do when their only job is to drown your brain in the good stuff.

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The whole story here: https://t.co/hvtGdzR5Zw

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A dad asked a room full of dads whether any of them still managed to game.

A thousand and sixteen replies. A thousand and sixteen people with a controller in their hands and their eyes closing, each one sure they were the only one.

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The plan: kids asleep by 9:30, controller in hand by 10.

Nobody asked me for that schedule. I set it myself.

And when it slipped, I got angry at the only two people in the house who never signed up for it.

What schedule have you set yourself that nobody asked for?

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At 20 I had more time than taste. Now it's the other way round. Turns out taste beats time.