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Relevant Lemmy communities:

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Do any of y'all play video games like a normal person? (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by pleasestopasking@reddthat.com to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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My ~~ND~~ NT husband will just like, play a game every once in a while when he feels like it. He'll just pick it up every so often, maybe play a few days in a week, and then leave it be again for a while to come back to later.

Meanwhile I will get into a game and spend every waking hour playing it. My sleep, diet, work, hygiene, all suffer to varying degrees. I give myself wrist pain and thumb calluses. I will not rest until I 100% it. And if I can't, I'll stop and most likely never pick it up again.

Anyway, anyone else playing Silksong?

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

I rarely have the discipline to actually 100% anything, but I do play with that goal and tend to hyperfocus on games, often to my detriment. Not every game though. Sometimes it'll be months until another game really grabs me, and maybe I'm playing stuff more casually in between. Also I tend to go back to old favorites a lot.

For example I finally picked up Horizon: Forbidden West and for the first time in years even my favorite archaeology channels have unwatched content. My 4am bedtime is not great and last week someone at work asked me if I forgot to brush my chompers. But before that it was a 3rd or 4th playthrough of Witcher 3.