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Anyone have a video game or a movie or a book or anything else like that that you want to get into, but you just can't every time you try?
For me it's Red Dead Redemption 2. I just can't get through the winter prologue. It has idiosyncratic controls that I can't remember and the fucking lasso just doesn't work after I rebind 200 different buttons to adjust the controls to ESDF. And there's no quicksave, so every time I watch people enjoy the open stage of RDR2 it wants me to replay a long enough segment before I even can try and fail to lasso a dude again. I guess I should just mod the game to skip it and try again.
As reminded by some other discussion here, Outer Wilds. It should be satisfying, but I can't get past the boredom of the initial stage into actively solving the mysteries. In a similar vein, Pathologic 2. The original left an incredible impression on me, but I can't muster the willpower to dive into this one.
For a non-game example, Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Sounds like a show I'd really enjoy, but each time I think about its runtime, I flinch.
I would never play the Pathologic games but I'd certainly watch Mandalore review them for hours. They can get wild.
At that point in 2020 where toilet paper and staple crops disappeared from the shelves all I could think was the moment in Pathologic where the period from Day 1 to Day 2 had inflation of 1000%.
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