My dear daughter,
Every time I finished a Dark Souls game I would tell myself it was the last one and there was no reason to keep playing for a new game, that I would focus on other things. But it was useless, I would end up doing again what my brain was already accustomed to. It was an endless cycle. There were times I really wanted to just finish a game and go do something else, but then I restarted it just so I could stop at a specific point at the beginning of the game, but it never stopped.
Eventually I managed to stop, mostly because I would go on to play something else. It was the case when I got the PS4. I also stopped playing when my graphics card burned out and I waited about a year to get a new one. That year I was very productive, started studying Mathematics, learned new computer languages, went back to exercising – you get the point.
After the PS4 I began the same cycle with Bloodborne. There was also the release of Dark Souls 3. A few times I went back to play Dark Souls 2 or 1 again for nostalgia, but I wouldn’t stop until New Game +++.
Together with Bloodborne I was playing Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, a terrible Dragon Ball game, but you could create your own character, level up, gain new skills, choose different races, etc. It was mostly a multiplayer game, but I just played the single game campaigns.
After a while I bought Diablo 3 on PS4 because I had read it was a popular game among gamer’s wives. It was not enough that I was addicted, I wanted your mother to play with me. Luckily, she never took an interest in it.
I played Diablo 3 to exhaustion every day. A little bit in the morning before breakfast, then a little bit more after breakfast (actually it got me late for work several times. There wasn’t an obligation to get to work at a specific time, but the sooner I got to work, the sooner I could go home at the end of the day). And also every weekend, I usually sat down to play after breakfast and would only stop around 2 or 3pm with your mother begging me to quit it so we could go out.
And it was really stupid. After a while, the game got very repetitive. I must have gotten my monk till level 2000 and something.
I quit the day you were born.
Love,
Dad
Aspergers Dad 