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theres this uncomfortable obsessive quirk of mine where i get way too attached to like, consuming All of a thing no matter what
im sure a lot of people have this but god its so powerful and it happens with everything i get into. if its a game i gotta 100% it, even the parts i hate, even the parts that just involve doing the same thing over and over. if its a series i gotta do this with every game
if its some other media, same thing. for example with the sonic comics i felt like i had to read every issue and run in existence even though so much of the early stuff is bad. i did hours of research so that i wouldnt miss anything, no matter how obscure and hard to find
i never /finish/ these missions of mine: i dropped the sonic thing over a year ago and still haven't gotten to the actually good stuff despite there being multiple good jumping-on points
and i severely underestimate the amount of time it will take almost every time. "i'll just put together a quick list of what i need to read." *10 straight hours of scraping the sonic wiki later*...
"ok this is a lot of comics but if i read fast and dont do anything else with my spare time it shouldnt take TOO long to get past the bad parts..." *2 weeks later i get burnt out and drop it because obviously.*
and honestly theres a lot of weird and interesting stuff in the old comics! i even like doing the research, it makes me feel like an archivist digging thru old records
its not a bad thing if i can just find a healthier way to do it, like interspersing reading the early issues with newer ones or something, and at a slower pace
i started this thread cus i was thinking about video games though... and i still don't know how to deal with them because so many are literally designed to take advantage of and exploit this urge
