• brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      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

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Games I obsessively modded, played through as a completionist, yet never finished the finale/main quest to:

        • Skyrim

        • Dishonored 1

        • Dishonored 2?

        • Cyberpunk 2077

        • Baldurs Gate 3, until family coop made me finish it.

        • …A lot of games, actually… And TV.

    • Rooster326@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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) completing every single tiny piece of side content first.

      I’m sure we’ve all watched/read/listened-to a spectacular piece of media and then felt empty after it ended. Maybe we’re all trying to avoid that…

  • zout@fedia.io
    3·
    2 months ago

    I never watched the last episode of Good Omens S2. And this was before the Gaiman controversy.

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • KaChilde@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
    6·
    2 months ago

    Oof, I was watching stargate sg-1 while my second kid was young, but at some point I stopped and never quite got back to it. I started trending towards social media instead. Basically when it became easier to set her back in the crib, but also combined with her being more aware of her surroundings and the uncertain nature of how long she’d sleep/be awake/how much attention she’d need meant I became less inclined to use media that’d I’d get sucked into/not want to be interrupted

    • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      When Daniel Jackson took a season off for heaven it got really weird but his guest episodes were some of the best… but then it became Farscape and that was weird and then kinda getting used to it and it’s done

  • Mechaguana@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    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