I usually load up Steam with the intention of clearing some of my backlog but then just end up doing another run of Binding of Isaac or Noita

Full steam ahead until I beat the game. See I have just 3 achievements to earn until I have 100% completion.

They're all "collect/perform action 1 billion times" things.

Never play again.

Have 100% in Prepare to Die Edition of Dark Souls; have not done the ones where you need to collect every spell and ring in the Remaster.

Or maybe even 2 minutes.

Or any heavily modded game.

Load game… Turns out there are updates, connect to the internet, wait for it to update, then get to loading screen and want to play something else.

And when you’re about to start playing you get the obligatory 150 GB update.

That's exactly me, I hate depression cuz I want to play and enjoy games but can't get myself to do it because there's just emptiness.

I feel singled out.

If I'm lucky I can find something new to hyperfixate on to get me out of a rut. Old stuff doesn't do it for me. Discovered my favorite genre this way actually.

I mostly play on the Xbox, not very often. so when I do, it's the update game. I play update for a few minutes, get bored then go do something else. By the time I finish there's no more time to play and I forget until a couple months when I only get to play update again.

Brain hack: Go stare at a wall for 5-10 minutes and try again, repeat until the game/activity seems fun. Your brain will start to crave any stimulation when faced with unbearable boredom.

Note: This may cause emotions you were suppressing to surface in the absence of stimulation, which will likely be uncomfortable, but also might be the reason you were struggling to enjoy things in the first place.

I do this thing, where I'll play a game for 2-5 minutes and then I'll stop again.

You can bet your ass that I only play games that load and close almost instantly. Well, and basically only games that I'm already familiar with.

This exact thing happened 3 times in a row to me yesterday

I hate it and how much joy it saps out of my life

I’ve done that a lot with mods.. get the mods I want set up and then realize I don’t actually want to play..

I'm interested in playing. I am just so fucking exhausted from all my jobs and the loading screen is where I go through all the stages of grief until I accept i am to tired to do the one thing that brings me joy in life.

Then I go to bed and my daily torture session begin anew.

At least they added the rematch feature at the end of a battle. I often find myself stuck on a particularly hard fight for many attempts till I get it right.

Why not just take a walk outside instead of bending over backwards to enjoy computer?

Even a SATA SSD is gonna cut that down almost as much as an MVMe! I have both types in my machines and basically… as long as it’s not a hard drive hahaha

Update game

"Oh hey, the console doesn't need to update this time! And this 5-year old game is the one I just updated last month, and there hasn't been any news or anything about the game."

needs to update

"Wow, these minor bug fixes are (probably) amazing.
Especially when it's 300MB!"