![]() ![]() The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that Australian families waste about 14% of their food purchased per year, and that constitutes a mild national crisis, so clearly me wasting 75% of my digital gaming software is a problem worth at least dissecting. What’s the issue? A cursory glance through my library reveals that I’ve played approximately 75 of those games, and completed even fewer. The PC is such a robust and friendly platform for developers, and games are so varied and accessible to the average consumer, that it’s impossible to imagine any other platform matching it for output.īut ok, I’ve got a lot of games. I’ve been collecting physical games for almost 10 years, to the point where my consoles and games have taken up the majority of useable space in my bedroom, and I still don’t think there would be 500 unique games there. A few are stand-alone DLCs, or HD remakes of games which I also own, but even taking those into account that’s a lot of software. What about the dreaded gaming pile of shame? What about digital Tsundoku?Īt the time of me writing this, there are currently 498 games in my Steam library. But the idea behind Tsundoku can also easily be applied to the medium of video games. It makes me visualise a really comfy home, or a preloved second-hand bookstore, with mahogany everywhere and thin windy staircases crowded with stacks of leather volumes. As silly as it sounds, when its put into a concise form like this it takes on a kind of romantic imagery for me. A contraction of tsunde-oku, meaning to pile things up and leave them for later, and dokusho, the act of reading books, it describes a person who buys books to read later but they end up in piles around their house. One of my favourites though, is Tsundoku. ![]() Koi No Yokan is the feeling that you will eventually fall in love with someone that you just met. Boketto describes the act of gazing listlessly into the distance without thinking. One of the beautiful things about studying foreign languages is that you discover a lot of phrases built to concisely convey concepts that English doesn’t have a translation for. ![]()
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