If you didn’t enjoy this strawman, you just didn’t consume enough of them.

Luckily, there’s plenty more on thebad.website.

  • @Graphy
    9•20 hours ago

    This has been me playing Avowed this week.

    I got twelve hours in before I decided to cut my losses and realize that it likely wouldn’t get better.

    It had alright reviews so at each step I kept going “oh it’s probably just me… I’m sure after this chapter the next one is where things get interesting.”

    • Miles O'BrienEnglish
      2•18 hours ago

      A lot of people have trouble feeling like this, and is a big part of the sunk cost fallacy I think. “I know I’ll like it more later” then eventually becomes “well I’ve made it this far”.

      You like what you like, you don’t like what you don’t like. You can’t really change that. It’s okay to put something down if you aren’t engaging with it.

      Anecdote ahead:

      I keep telling my wife if she doesn’t like one of my books, I won’t be offended if she stops reading.

      But she feels like it’s just her “being dumb” and that she’ll like it more next chapter.

      I took her to half price books the other day so we could get a bunch of books she likes, and the only reason she decided to buy as many as she did was because “we can sell them back to the store” even though I fully intend in giving away any books she won’t read.

      The $2 I’ll get back for it isn’t worth the 45 minute trip there. And someone will probably get more than $2 worth of entertainment from it.

      I created a nerd, send bookshelves…