So.... How much of your life has disappeared into your Pi box?!?

ClassicGMR

@clyde Well that's weird but glad you got a view of it. Just a generic, standard Xtension cabinet my wife surprised me with for my birthday back in 2012. LOVE IT! 😍

As a slight derail (SORRY!) I have given some serious thought to swapping out the system in there for a Pi but with all the extra controllers I have running into the USB hub then into the system, the emulators set up right, GameEx set up the way I want it... I would hate to have something not work right or even "not as well as" it does now. The heart of my emulation cabinet is an AMD A10-6800k Quad Core @ 4.1 GHZ processor with 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD OS drive, 2x 7200 RPM 500GB data drives and an nvidia GeForce GT 240 1gb. Its weakness is obviously the video card but if I upgraded that the PC would be a modern gaming powerhouse - and would be for a couple of years. That's a lot of power just to play:

THAT project would easily make at least a week or more of my life go poof!

Lurker

I'm just going to leave this here.

"I'm not addicted... I can save/exit at any time"

VictimRLSH

@lurker Don't these guys know there are Pi boxes that will fit on your keychain and they can be smuggled in?!? :P

BuZz

@herb_fargus said in So.... How much of your life has disappeared into your Pi box?!?:

Too much...

That's probably due to all the drunk phonecalls you get from me ;-)

Kleenax

I've spent about 3 weeks trying to get an NFC tag reader to work to finish my Genesis II build. Right now if I were to calculate it all up I've probably spent somewhere between 2-4 hrs actually playing a game and 10+ tinkering and customizing.

Clyde

@lurker said in So.... How much of your life has disappeared into your Pi box?!?:

I'm just going to leave this here.

Very interesting, thanks. In return, I'll leave this report here about a young German internet and online gaming addict. It also mentions a counseling center for online addicts and an addiction clinic in Germany.

A friend of mine went this way, too, after nearly losing his flat and most of his social contacts, including me and many of our mutual friends. Today, he's reclaimed his life, his friends, and is even in a happy relationship with a woman who he met on an annual festival for fantastic and scary movies. :)