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Sometimes I’ll do the “advanced” maneuver where I love a show or game and I’m like “this is awesome, I don’t want to go through it too fast” and I’ll pace myself by never feeling like now is an important enough time, and never again experiencing something I was truly enjoying.
I’m actively working on “beating games I like” right now as, like, a skill I’m developing.
This is me 100% 😑 can’t finish XYZ because if I finish XYZ then there is no more XYZ…
That’s so me… Trying a new game, then “oh wow this is great m having so much fun! Finally enjoying a game this much again” the the next time “well since this is a good game I wanna be feeling 100% good so I can fully enjoy it” and then proceed to never play it again because any mild inconvenience or non perfect mood becomes a reason why I wouldn’t be able to really enjoy it. Waiting for the stars to align is my downfall.
This and “work on one thing” at a time are what I need to work on…
I’m the same with games.
I should get back into The Expanse.
I literally stopped watching halfway through the finale episode of the series.
I didn’t want it to end, so it didnt
I call it media separation anxiety
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Oooh the show is great but the books are even better.
That’s interesting. I heard the show was good, so started reading the books, and stopped after one cause the characters were so annoying.
I think they definitely improve from the first book. They have great politics and they’re kind of structured like 3 trilogies. Try 2 and 3 if you want a decently satisfying conclusion without committing to more. The break between 6 and 7 is much more clear, and the reason the show ends at book 6.
oh man, you really should.
It’s da right ting ta do boss mang
I had a good romp with it. I just want more.
Maybe in 20 years when the crew looks 50-60, lore friendly
Lol dammit, I just realized I did the same thing with The Expanse. And I also read the first book but not the others. And I did the same thing with the video game too!
I think it’s something I want to enjoy, but wasn’t enjoying as much as I felt I should be.
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Yea, that tracks…
You must have the advanced version, i just get the fin on mine.
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I do this with video games too
All the time. But I don’t see it as a bad thing. I love rewatching shows, and I can really enjoy a show, then years later rewatch it and realise I have a whole season and a half of new episodes!
“I feel like if it ends here I’ll be satisfied with the story” but there are ten more episodes…yeah i still do that.
Oh my god, I’ve done this forever. This is an ADD thing!?
I hate this community…
A love it.
It just hits too hard.
Idk it might also be a learned response.
I went through the story of FallOut 3 and then my character just ended. I had no save I could load that would let me keep playing all of the side content or to just wonder around the wasteland.
That was like the last time I did the story content prior to either 1) Abandoning the game, or 2) xompleting every single tiny piece of side content.
Climax of a movie… time to make some food without pausing it, for whatever reason. Last boss of a game… save and never finish it, because eventually I forget how to even play it
I did that with FF7. I knew I could go challenge sephiroth for the last fight but I also knew that there were still a ton of secrets like summons and materia, plus the harder mode if I maxed levels. But I didn’t get around to much of it and never beat the game.
And FF2 (snes) I made it to the final boss once, died to him, saw how far back the last save was, decided I didn’t want to go through all that just to get back to the boss and instead returned the game to the friend I had borrowed it from, deciding I was close enough.
Mario Bros 3, I could only ever beat the game if I used a cloud to skip that last fortress before the final level select screen. It was a maze level iirc and I just didn’t have the patience to figure out the correct path.
I avoided the final crater because I didn’t want the experience to end. I think about a year later I just decided to do it and it felt anti climactic. Still, great game.
Games I obsessively modded, played through as a completionist, yet never finished the finale/main quest to:
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Skyrim
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Dishonored 1
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Dishonored 2?
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Cyberpunk 2077
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Baldurs Gate 3, until family coop made me finish it.
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…A lot of games, actually… And TV.
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If I like the show, I will read the plot of the entire series. I will keep watching it, but my husband still hates it.
I despise watching shows as they come out because I can’t do that and I’m subject to their suspense building.
“Everything everywhere all at once”, but watching most of it standing in the living room, spread over 18 months.
I’m still at the Monolith in Expedition 33. It was really good, I’d like to finish it, just not a huge priority and I’m in no rush
I want to replay it. I got a library copy and need to buy my own now. That music…
I don’t want to rewatch an episode and don’t want to miss anything, but I’ve forgotten where I was up to. Quite the bind
Exactly!! Not rewatching probably hurts a lot with this…
Boredom with a show is a good reason IMHO. So many shows drag things out when they get popular and don’t hire good writers for the filler.
It’s not even boredom. I watched all the way up to mid season 4 of The Good Place, and then got distracted by who knows what and haven’t finished the show in years. I want to watch the end, but now, 5 years later I feel like I need to rewatch the show from scratch to do it justice, and that’s a commitment my brain can’t come around to making. So I’ll watch 7 seasons of New Girl or Parks and Rec for the 50th time instead.
If it helps, The Good Place managed to end it well, at least IMO.
The Good Place is definitely worth starting over and finishing, if that helps.
You can tend to find season recap videos for TV shows on Youtube. It’s been really useful for me, when I want to see the next season that came out but don’t really recall much of what happened since I last watched it.
I used to do this and then I realized I just don’t really like watching TV shows. So I stopped. And life is better.
I loved breaking bad but never watched the last season.
I forgot most of what happened now so I would have to rewatch it all.
I had to kinda force myself to watch the last season. I was kinda over it by then with the sheer amount of stupid shit Walter was doing. But I did finish it just to see the end. Cannot really decide if it was worth it.
