not much to report, however i i have completed my reading goal for the year (35 books) with several months to spare thanks to The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana
not much to report, however i i have completed my reading goal for the year (35 books) with several months to spare thanks to The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana
Anyone else have the problem of having too many games they want to play but can’t settle on one so you play nothing? Facing that a lot lately the last week and need some advice. My backlog gets bigger but nothing gets played.
Ignore the backlog. Backlogs are a mental hangup, they are not a moral imperative.
About a year ago I just gave myself permission to start and stop games at will. 10 seconds. 10 minutes. 10 hours. Didn’t matter. If i moved on, I moved on. Let me tell you it has been a treat. I have discovered more games and I’ve played plenty of games 40 or 50% through and felt like I got what I needed out of it. Gamepass has been fantastic for this as well. I just view it as demos almost.
We don’t force ourselves to finish bad seasons of shows (unless we’re REALLY committed to the show). Why should we force ourselves to burn 20-40hrs on a campaign or whatever we just don’t care about? You’re not getting your money back, and you’re certainly not getting your money’s worth.
To add on to starting and stopping games at will, take some time to just organize your library of games too! I have mine sorted into several categories…
It takes a lot of focus and work at first, and a LOT of flipping between the page in your library and the store page to see if you want to play a certain game. I axed stuff pretty liberally and at different points in my life, I’ve gone back and pruned that list of what I want to play and see if I realllllllly still wanted to play it. I also found organizing my library a bit of that kind of “mindless enjoyable” that you can just get into a flow state to go through.
Once it’s done though, when a new game gets added to my Steam Library, I can immediately “triage” it into one of those categories because it’s the only thing not categorized. It’s taken my library of what is now almost 1300 games acquired over 15 years and given it some more structure. Of that list, today I have ~250 in some version of “want to play”, ~400 in some version of played, and ALL the rest in that zero interest/duplicate category.
Yeah I have a “nextlist” that I maintain in a Todoist project, that just lists the next book, game, movie, show, podcast, etc.
I add to it and rearrange priorities occasionally, but it’s super nice to have when I get into that analysis paralysis you describe.
I have that problem with most things- too many books I want to read, too many games I want to play, too many shows/films I want to watch. And no energy to do any of it so it’s back to watching the same thing I’ve seen dozens of times before.
Don’t get me started on books and watching things. I feel like it’s been years since I’ve sat down and focused on a book.
There’s just so much content out there and I feel like you’re nearly afraid to try reading new books or shows in case you waste your time by not liking them. That always ends with me watching my favourites over and over like you.