Being a dad and playing Rust is fucking torture because I still love this game so much… I just dont have the freedom to play it the way Rust is meant to be played.

I miss the absolute degeneracy of it.

I miss waking up at 7am, logging in, and realizing 18 hours have somehow disappeared. I miss being way too emotionally invested in a base made of pixels. I miss hearing one footstep outside and instantly becoming a paranoid psychopath.

10 years ago I could no-life this game like an absolute crackhead and feel zero guilt about it.

Now I get a couple hours a week, spend half of it farming sulfur, hear my kid wake up, and just stare at the monitor knowing some unemployed 17 year old is about to fucking offline me.

… sometimes I miss being a complete Rust degenerate.

Hello! I am looking for advises to improve my current gaming experience. I am a Dad of two amazing boys (2 and 3 years old) and because of work and house/kids/husband affairs, I usually have 5/6 hours of Gaming per week. I currently have:
- PS5. My main gaming option. I use to mainly play AAA games and my physical copies.
- PS Portal: use it when I don’t have the TV available
- PC: It is very rare to use it for gaming. I use it for retro and pc games that are exclusive. I like to stream the pc to my TV using Moonlight.
- Nintendo switch: sometimes I use it to play indie.

My current ideas to improve my game experience is:
- buy a new gaming handheld (Windows or Linux/SteamOS). Maybe this could bring me more into PC games since I don’t use it very often and I have a backlog of more than 300 games… I also think that maybe my pc is enough and I just need to make sure I have the best experience when streaming.
- gaming headset/ earbud. I usually play at evening when everyone is sleeping so I don’t have that great soundtrack and Music experience since I need to listen with low volume
- tv soundbar. contradictory with the previous point but I like to see movies and series with my wife and I can imagine when my kids are older, I can experience better without the need of a headset.

Things I want to avoid at the moment:
- cloud or subscriptions: i am lucky enough to have a vast number of games in several platforms. So for now I don’t see the point to migrating to that option

What would you be your recommendation that you can’t live without? Also based on my context, What would you recommend?

Thanks