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This is the reason I procrastinate finishing games, like I don’t want to be done yet! My gameplay loop 😭
Also why my average game completion hovers at about 83%
Wait, other people do this? I do this constantly unless the game is purely story and it’s closer to a movie than a game.
I’ve still never actually beat Skyrim but I have spent hundreds of hours scouring dungeons and looking for fun loot
I'm in one of those story hyperfixations now and I'm legitimately scared of it ending. Finding it was my solution to a terrible slump I got stuck in. I finished a great game that hit just right, but there was nothing like it to follow up with. Now I'm several months and hundreds of hours into a massive series and I'm going to crash so hard when it's over. But I don't want to slow down either, so I'm just enjoying it while I can and barreling towards my own oblivion.
I do it all the time. The deeper the gameplay (and the more I like it), the higher the chances that I won't finish it
83% is quite good. It should be totally playable at this point, wanna share?
They're playing games, not creating them.
Aah ok.
Oops my career. Again.
Listen, I didn't check Lemmy while avoiding getting ready for work just to be personally attacked like this. I have a full day of meetings ahead and they will be interesting and novel and absolutely not require pharmaceuticaly supported masking and dissociation to prevent a panic attack. 🫠
Don't worry, this will only happen after you've spent thousands of dollars on fixation-related supplies and equipment that can't easily be resold
I keep thinking that I wish there was a way to just sell all that stuff and start afresh, but then I slip back into something many years later and rediscover all the cool stuff I had stashed away ...
AuDHD and it comes and goes, it comes and goes.
Same, and I hate it.
I've been playing a lot of minecraft, but my hyperfixation is leaving and my base is only half done :(
Sandbox games are the wooooorst for what this post is describing! Currently the sims for me.
This is just a depressing cycle I go through. It takes me a long time to find something I’m interested enough in to get over the hump of starting anything -> I spend way too much time and thought on it to the exclusion of other things -> I finish it or get burned out on it if it’s something I can’t finish -> Go back to being depressed at not having anything to occupy me and feel too u motivated to even start stuff that I might have had on the back burner before. -> Repeat
And it sucks if you made a commitment when you were hyperfixated but aren't any more or you lose your hyperfixations without getting any new ones.
This is a larger problem when your hyperfixation needs you to water it or maintain it regularly or it will die.
tbf i was glad i stopped hyperfixating on sudokus. it really took a toll on my mental and physical health
Never this, I know fixation is pretty permanent