I should get back into The Expanse.
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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
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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.
I've never seen the 3rd act of Shadow of War. One of my favorite game franchises of all time. AC4: Black Flag, too.
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.
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I used to do this with JRPGSs all the time, I'd spend hours and hours grinding levels but when it finally got near the end I'd just stop playing.
I did that with Final Fantasy X twice before I finally beat it. I was literally two boss fights from the end of the game and just dropped it for no reason both times even though I absolutely love that game. Glad I finally beat it though because that game is amazing.
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Games are entertainment, not chores. You don't have to finish them, nothing wrong with enjoying a game for a time and then being done before the "end".
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I personally find a lot of media has pacing problems. I hate it when the main questline is supposed to be super urgent, but it just turns into a grind halfway through. Like, I'm the Chosen One who's going to stop the looming apocalypse, but the farmer won't help you unless you find his lost sheep first. I can't just pay him to get a replacement sheep and get on with it, I gotta do a stupid buggy escort mission, and quite frankly, I'd rather do the dishes.
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Most shows end like shit. I say this is a way to save ourselves the disappointment
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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.
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.
The Good Place is definitely worth starting over and finishing, if that helps.
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.
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.
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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
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I’ve got the gist already, time to move on. No point in letting the writers’ ending ruin what I’ve come up with.
Same, but with video games.
I swear, I'll finish Baldur's Gate 3 eventually... and Dragon's Dogma 2... and Cyberpunk... and Pillars of Eternity... and Planescape... and Death Stranding...
What sucks is when it happens to games you enjoy playing. You can just feel yourself lose interest while another part of you wants to keep going.
Yeah, I know that feeling. It is a weird one.
Does "I didn't watch the 4th season, because I forgot the first 3 while waiting for it to come out" count?
Yeah I did that with house of dragons, severance season 2 and the latest season of squid game. Sometimes it's just too hard to commit to a show and to choose random YouTube videos instead 🥲
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Oh my god, I’ve done this forever. This is an ADD thing!?
I hate this community…
And love it.
It just hits too hard.
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
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.
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.
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I do the same things with games. I suspect it allows me to fantasise about it for longer, since i binge everything and it allows me to not conclude it's experience by ending the show/game/book.
That's around the time in a season that a TV shows run out of budget and are 80% soft spoken dialogue while the coffee mug magically teleports around the room.
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.
Shit, I sometimes get half way through an episode and then all of sudden "I sure hope I dont start thinking about other things right about now, and put me off watching the rest of this show.... Fuck.".
“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.
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!
Honestly, I think this is a good thing. Sure, it means that I often don't finish shows or games, but I also don't care to, which suggests that it wasn't important to me anyway. I'm being more true to myself than to the expectations of society as a whole, which I think is healthy. I usually go back to an abandoned franchise when I'm ready, anyway, even if it's a decade or more later.
I completely agree with you.
OP: there was a reason… you had been watching shit. That’s why you quit. When you are watching quality, you don’t quit.
I’ll get 50-75% of the way through and just go find a written synopsis online.
That just means it's a bad show. You gave it a chance. It failed.
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