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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago* (7 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%

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • 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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • 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. 🫠

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Never this, I know fixation is pretty permanent

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