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[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Ketchup@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Happy cake day!

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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%

[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I’ve still never actually beat Skyrim but I have spent hundreds of hours scouring dungeons and looking for fun loot

[–] TheBluePillock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

83% is quite good. It should be totally playable at this point, wanna share?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're playing games, not creating them.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FiddlersViridian@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

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. 🫠

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

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 ...

[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AuDHD and it comes and goes, it comes and goes.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago

Same, and I hate it.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been playing a lot of minecraft, but my hyperfixation is leaving and my base is only half done :(

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Sandbox games are the wooooorst for what this post is describing! Currently the sims for me.

[–] darthelmet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

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

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

This is a larger problem when your hyperfixation needs you to water it or maintain it regularly or it will die.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

tbf i was glad i stopped hyperfixating on sudokus. it really took a toll on my mental and physical health

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 month ago

Never this, I know fixation is pretty permanent