I do this with games too. It takes literal years for me to beat games because I always reach a point where I get distracted by something else and then drop my current game for over a year and feel no motivation to continue once I've pivoted. These days if I want to beat a game I'll lock in and do nothing but play that game for days on end. New game came out? Nah, I gotta stay locked. Friends hanging out online playing games together? Nope. Locked in. I'll even turn off my phone and other monitors just to make sure I don't get distracted.

With TV shows it's almost impossible to lock in sometimes because they just take too long. I can keep my attention on one thing for a few weeks at a time but I can't do it for the amount of time a show requires unless I somehow habitualize it into my day like watching it when I eat dinner. And even then I'll often times switch shows about halfway through.

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I've never seen the 3rd act of Shadow of War. One of my favorite game franchises of all time. AC4: Black Flag, too.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I stopped RDR2 somewhere in the middle on a relative high note. People say the plot is traumatizing so I think I accidentally made a good call.

[–] king_comrade@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

You're doing yourself a disservice by not finishing rdr2, my bro

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