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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 01:24:33 +0000 From: Rin Stowleigh Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: How Much Do I Spend On Gaming Per Month? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 21:24:38 -0400 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.0/32.1071 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-sQGdbV5jc5PAejnSexBAjaWi0atrM1VO19kKXAgKpQvxYVrDe8VYlSQK5ZZZZafdHauRSlTlxVuCj5X!xGeNI2kl4z6RaTV0Tlw7lYNuiczYrrKa9tcNfc8zZul/nWEy6wazzE4eKGW3YVFYB94w X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Thanks to Steam transaction history where most of my gaming purchases have been made since 2007 or so, it was not as easy as I'd like it to be to work out, but not too bad. I needed to clean up a lot of shit in a a spreadsheet (balancing negative amounts due to refunds against positive). Overall it came out to a little under $20 a month over an 18 year time period. I might have had more fun automating the spreadsheet editing than I did playing most of the games listed as paid on it. There have been a few outside of Steam purchases over the years, like RDR2 from Rockstar store direct (the "special horse" I got from that turned out to be a fantastic decision that I went into skeptical), a few purchases from Blizzard etc over the years but its nothing that would put the average over $20 a month. Overall honestly that's pretty cheap entertainment given what I got out of it. Especially up against shopping allowances for instagram models, the weekend hotel and travel they liked, and all of the other shit I've fucked away money on. I suppose our resident troll might have something to say about all of this. And, if that's the case I'll make a decision on whether to fully dox him here and now and at other life impact points, as I know who he is and if he turns the clock back a few years I think he knows I know who he is.