When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.
Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.
What are your own examples of this?
Why would you ever have a backlog in the first place? Why would you buy a game and then not play it?
Put the games you want to play in the future on your wishlist. When you’re ready to play a new game, pick one from your wishlist, buy it, play it.
The games aren’t going away, they’re not going to run out of digital copies. Why would you ever buy it before you’re ready to play it? It doesn’t matter whether it’s sitting in your wishlist or your hard drive, so let them sit in your wishlist, where it’s a lot cheaper for them to sit.
(Okay, sure, games go on sale on steam occasionally, and you might want to pick one up while it’s on sale. Even then, though … games tend to get cheaper over time as they get older. Just waiting and buying it later might ultimately be cheaper than the ‘on sale’ price.)
Several reasons: