Originally posted by Digi
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Originally posted by Bardock42i agree. especially if we're talking going from poor/average to real rich and not just moderately well-off. you have to take advantage of certain unique opportunities for that to happen, which requires you being presented with them. that doesn't mean being presented with them is enough. you still have to be skilled and ambitious. but if you have the same skill and ambition without the same opportunities you are not to expect the same results.
There's an element of luck in it always (like, not being born in a particular war torn part of Somalia, for example), but I'd even agree that luck is a very huge factor in most people who are or become extremely wealthy.It generally goes hand in hand though, you don't usually become rich if you aren't hard working or skilled...
Originally posted by Stealth Moose
We need a Steam rehab group here.Of course, it would just allow us to better tempt one another into buying games. "Dude, just get it. It's 77.5% off. It will never be this cheap ever. Even if you can't fit it on your harddrive right now, maybe in the future you will find time!"
I'm at about 35. But I kept a LOT of my old computer games from the last 15 years or so, so I have ~100 available to me via non-Steam channels. If I hadn't kept most of those, I would have nostalgia-bought so much more stuff on Steam. As it is, most of the 35 are nostalgia-driven bundles.
But I've been slowly weaning myself off video games. Didn't go cold turkey, but I've been dropping franchises and such systematically over the last few years. So I may be out of the rat race soon. Like, this past month I've spent more time "playing" stock market investment simulators than actual games. Shifting priorities and interests. I just have to avoid Steam during the massive sales and I'm good.