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The 'Kill Your Backlog' Masterlist (theworksofegan.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by grrgyle@slrpnk.net to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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As the author says in this article, it's not their original idea, but this is the first time I'm hearing about it.

It basically boils down to play a game from your backlog for a bit, and whether you liked it or not, or kept playing it or bounced right off, you now have permission to remove it from your backlog. It sounds very freeing.

I take perhaps a little too much pride in having a very small catalogue of unplayed games (not because I play games a lot, but because I am dreadfully cheap and hardly ever buy anything lol), but even an old miser like me could probably benefit from a little tidying.

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[–] pibfyhd7g57gd5u64f@piefed.social 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've actually grown to love having a sizeable backlog personally. Almost everything that ends up in it are purchased at about the lowest price they will ever be, and it's pretty great to always have a new title I'll probably enjoy which I can jump into when I want.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

That's a fun way to look at it. I do have a weird sense of minimalist-adjacent purity fetish with my library that is undoubtedly unhealthy.

That's kind of how I view the internet--there's always something interesting to read of watch.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem is that this is pretty much where you enter a restaurant with 100-page menu and after endless searching you leave the restaurant still hungry.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This has been me lately and I'm trying to do better