Vinny has 63 hours in steam for 'Manga maker ComiPo!' why?

playtime:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/mindcavity/games?tab=all#0|50

steam being weird? funny story? or have we discovered vinny's secret passion? i know he made a manga once, but i DOUBT it took 63 hours

What does it matter?

Maybe he makes manga gags for Max or something, who cares.

I want to read Vinny's mangas

Steam stalking.

Maybe he likes making mangas.

He likes to draw:

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/vinny/blog/when-life-gives-you-render-times/23194/

We all have our vices.

Who can forget

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/caravella-s-comic-corner-03-26-2014/1100-4885/

63 hour masterpiece? You decide!

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/caravella-s-comic-corner-03-26-2014/1100-4885/

i hope that we'ill see more of this when he's settled in New york,

i want to believe.

That's actually pretty hilarious. Where are all those comics?

The real question is why is Vinny not posting them?

There's some weird stalker-ass-shit going on in this thread.

Stalker-ass-shit? Yes.

Weird, as in unexpected? No.

@rvone said:

Yeah, I've come to expect this. If the GB staff isn't comfortable with users looking up their Steam profile, you can set a profile to private pretty easily.

No wonder Jeff send him to the eastcoast.

Leaving it running in the background when Max needs some attention? Not that hard to imagine.

I'm more interested in his 93 hours in ArmA III.

The real question is: why are you checking what games Vinny are playing and why do you care?

How dare Vinny keep parts of his life out of the public eye.

Isn't it obvious?

So he can bring joy to the world.
Also very possible he just left it running on his PC when family things suddenly happened or something.

@video_game_king: Vinji Ikari with Jeff being mad tsundere over him because Vinji's a Souls fan.

And of course, Brad is Rei.

All the people saying stuff like "why do you care" and "what does it matter" are being dumb. People care about the interests of the people they are interested in. It's not that hard to make that leap. It's no secret that Vinny is well liked in the GiantBomb community. Wanting to know more about a public personality you enjoy is not a new concept.

You know those times where we have to take a step back and go, "You're being a tiny bit creepy again, community"? This might be one of those times.

@ett: the Far Eastcoast?

people are stalking vinny because too much time has passed since he was here with all the NYGB

people are missing him and with a good cause

@rjpelonia said:

Yeah, because looking at Vinny's logged videogame hours in his public steam profile is like stalking his family pictures on his facebook account.

But it is weird to see what someone has been playing and then post a thread like this, calling out a specific title and the number of hours played as though it's some sort of strange phenomenon in need of futher investigation.

@sweep: I don't think it's any creepier than the comments about the crew's physical appearance literally every time they're on camera.

At least this has something to do with games.

I think you're inferring a more serious tone in the OP than there actually is.

Hey, who else finds it weird that he only eats pancakes for breakfast on Tuesdays. Right guys? Guys...?

probably just likes to draw

You'd honestly be surprised. We've had some seriously creepy creepers creeping on the staff in the past.

Hey, if Ryan was willing to drink anonymous breast milk, I think anything else goes.

That's really not the same.

I'm gonna go ahead and guess it's probably steam being weird. Sometimes I see that I've got 90 hours or so on a game I've never even played.

@hailinel: It's not the same as looking at someone's steam profile. You're right about that.

What game exactly?

It's not one specific game. When it goes haywire like that, it seems to randomly affect a bunch of games. But it stands out more when it's showing such a huge played time on a game I know for a fact I haven't played.

Wow... seeing that post by Ryan at the bottom of Vinnyies Steam page took me to his Steam account and seeing the last time logged in number made me super sad. I guess when we pass all these online accounts just float around in the nothing. Never getting used. A lot of people still have him on their friends list too. I couldn't imagine how hard that would be to see his name there always knowing it's never going to come online.

@sweep: curious about his playtimes compared to some of mine

@minipato said:

it was more partial joke. i was curious about some of his playtimes for stuff like sleeping dogs compared to mine.

@hailinel: I don't get it, why be so unhelpful?

Unhelpful? In what way?

He made a manga in 20 minutes, but then Max kept saying "Cars? Cars? Cars? Cars? Grover? Cars? Cars? Cars? Cars? Cars?" And Vinny went on for 2 hours straight impersonating as car turning Grover.

@hailinel: Well you could say something like "oh yeah he really likes that game, he mentioned it in a podcast", or "he sometimes leaves it running when he's not around so that he clocks up some hours as a joke" or just "I don't know, I guess that is a little weird". But no you decided to be counterproductive to the OP's goal in creating the thread by asking him his motivation in a snarky manner.

If it's that much of a problem for you, take it to a PM. I'm not going to discuss that any further here.

@hailinel: You are wound incredibly tight. This topic is clearly just some curiosity, of the kind for which public Steam profiles exist. The whole point is comparison and observation. Besides that, the tone is clearly good-humored. I think you might need to step back a sec.

Now, back to sane conversation.

I'm going to guess it's because he's found some functionality for his drawings on there that is useful, or that it has come convenient way of managing images for site use. Alternatively, it could be something even more obvious: He is editing himself into every issue of Pokemon.