So I Fired Up Celeste (after Having Owned It For A Year And A Half But Ignore That) And I'm So Very Conflicted

So I fired up Celeste (after having owned it for a year and a half but ignore that) and I'm so very conflicted about it. I love everything about it, but the compulsion for optional items is too strong and impossible for me to ignore.

This isn't the game's fault, and it actively tells you that they're purely optional and to only go for them if I really want to — as a challenge (an optional one, to reiterate). But like, I can't not go for the carrot (or strawberry in this case) dangling in front of me, the mind goblins are too strong.

Too strong.

Game's good, though. I'm just getting filtered by myself.

I really like it, though. Maybe I'll go back to it one of these days, but my completionist brain just kind of ruins my own enjoyment. Once again, this is not the game's fault. I just spend time going for an optional collectible and work myself up into a frustrated mess and then don't even feel anything once I've accomplished it.

It's like that Defunctland tweet. I hate going for optional collectibles (for the most part), but the only thing I hate more than going for optional collectibles is not going for optional collectibles. Dammit. I constantly turn something that's supposed to be fun into completing a checklist. But then again, I suppose that's the only way to trick my fucked up brain into wanting to do things.

Either it's gotta be complete sensory overload (racing games with loud music) or the illusion that I'm accomplishing something (achievement hunting) or both at the same time in some cases.

How the hell do normal people enjoy things? I'd really like to know, cuz I ain't that.

i dunno sometimes i just get this vibe from them

Comic I made based on this tweet that I loved ⬇️

i was so good at this water sort mobile game and i’m stuck on level like 348 and i’m convinced this one is impossible. i was stuck on it for weeks like a year ago and then quit and came back to it recently with a new hunger and vengeance and it’s kicking my ass i swear

I don't know where I read it but one of the best quotes I've ever read about the nature of sci-fi was "A good sci-fi story is one that predicts not the car but the traffic jam"

For the 1st anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I unleash comics where Rauru & Sonia are just weird people.