I didn't play computer games much as a kid, I was much more interested in programming and music composition, and in the first 4 years I owned an Amiga, I composed many pieces with FastTracker.

In 2006, I started to become the full out drunk that wasted most of my 20s, 30s and first half of my 40s.

I drank through 20L of unaged apple cider as I first played the game Half Life 2, and gaming and drinking became a fixture with me for a lot of the time since.

Now that I'm not drinking again, the same thing applies as when I was a teen. I prefer composing music and writing code.

I made the effort to get myself the modern equivalent of the original SoundTracker and related sequencer table based music notation, Renoise, almost 2 years ago now, and haven't hardly even touched it yet.

I just recently re-downloaded it, saw there was a bunch of extras I hadn't seen, some soft synths or patch sets or idk what.

Next weekend I am gonna sit down and read the Renoise manual and learn how to write music with it again, and make it my evening relax activity instead of gaming.

Games are just so pointless. For the most part, they are just like movies but much more interesting, and longer, some are literally days to play through, like Half Life 2, that one typically takes me about 24 hours or so in total... and my steam play history says I have spent over 500 hours playing it!

The game I'm playing most often on my PC now is chess.

I'm gonna get back into the music. I'd really like to make some sounds like Black Lung/Snog, like Noisuf-X, like the stuff in Stalker games, the spooky ambient stuff, the track Trailer Part 2, this kind of sound I would love to make... sounds like alien machines marching or something... ah man... And some sounds like Siebzehn or Aes Dana, I love that shit.