What do you do whilst waiting for Steam games to download?

[SimuLord]

63%. C'mon, zeroes and ones, get through the Intertubes faster!

 

[Kajt]

I watch TV or play something else (World of Warcraft!).

 

[Daedalus1942]

I ask this because I just bought Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition and my Internet connection sucks like a porn chick on uppers. 41% complete...and it started almost 2 hours ago!

How do you guys pass the time? Gaming? Posting? Twiddling your thumbs? And as games get bigger, is Steam going to lose some of its advantages when you could just walk to the store, buy your game, bring it home, and install it in less time than it takes Steam to do its voodoo (and when I say "walk to the store" I mean "Best Buy could be six miles away")?

Reading the Constantine movie novel. (10000000000 X better than that horrid film)

 

[rabidmidget]

hyperventilate until I faint

 

[MorsePacific]

I sit at my desk and read a book. Reading passes the time really quickly.

 

[ianwulf]

play WoW or watch paint dry

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Start it before bed/work.

Thats what I do.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Sit and stare... forever and ever and ever and ever and PING! - 100%... goes by in no time.

 

[Suikun]

Sit and stare... forever and ever and ever and ever and PING! - 100%... goes by in no time.

I look inside myself and see my heart is black...

I don't know what prompted my mind to think of the Rolling Stones when I read that, but I figured I might as well share.

Emo-sounding lyrics are silly...

 

[Glass_House]

TV, troll the escapist forums, read and etcetera.

 

[Dommyboy]

Make threads about what people do whilst waiting for their games on Steam to download.

 

[Mr Companion]

spelunky is our best friend here.

 

[Dauntlessidiot]

Make music

 

[Caliostro]

Interesting that you made this thread while I'm installing STALKER...

Well, my connection is fairly good, downloading at around 2 mbs, so it doesn't take that long... But I go around forums, do anything else I have to do... etc.

 

[Amarok]

Trawl these forums.

Or tvtropes.org

as games get bigger, is Steam going to lose some of its advantages when you could just walk to the store, buy your game, bring it home, and install it in less time than it takes Steam to do its voodoo (and when I say "walk to the store" I mean "Best Buy could be six miles away")?

Chances are that as games get bigger, internets will get faster too. You might aks "HOW!?" and I can't tell you, but hey, those technologists are crazy SOBs, they'll make it happen.

 

[Player 2]

Invade France

But that would take a whole fortnight.

 

[Woodsey]

I dance!

Or sing!

Morning Glory is the best!

I wouldn't want to be dancing with one of those.

OT: Play another game or wank.

 

[Kaymish]

only a 5 hour download you don't know the meaning of long download it took me just less than a week to download fallout 3 and that's without any of the expansion packs

OT: i go to this out side place and wonder how they change the big light bulb up there and then sometimes i put on loud music and dance to it

 

[AlphaOmega]

Play other games on steam

That or loose countless hours on TvTropes.