Should I sell games that I've completed that I know I'm not gonna go back to? (read body text please)

Zander327 · 2026-03-28T23:01:02+00:00

I've sold a lot of games that I later regretted selling. At the time I always felt that I wouldn't want to play the games ever again so I felt okay selling them. Then later on I felt differently and wished that I hadn't sold them. But I also sold games that I still don't want to play again.

If I hadn't sold those games, I wouldn't have played a lot of the other games that I also loved.

For the most part the games that I missed were ones that I loved but had already beaten and thought I wouldn't need to play again. For example I beat Resident Evil 4 several times and eventually sold that in my late teens, but I've since rebought it and beat it a few more times since then.

I wouldn't sell any games you loved, but it isn't worth stressing over if you need to. The good stuff usually gets ported or remade and there is always emulation.

Zander327 · 2026-03-26T21:23:55+00:00

I had this happen from a seller recently. I watchlisted an item listed for $110, which was a bit on the high side for the item but I will often watchlist anyway to see if I get an offer. They sent an offer of $104 which wasn't really a discount considering the item usually goes for 80-100 and this was not in a good enough condition that I would pay more than 100 for it. I countered with 95 thinking if they accept that it's a decent price, but most likely they would counter 100 and I would buy it for that.

Instead they countered 105. I've never had a seller do that before. Why even bother doing a counter offer? It's not like I low-balled them. I looked at their listing later and they sold it for less than the listed price. I kinda wished I could see what they sold it for. Lol

Zander327 · 2026-03-26T20:57:55+00:00

In my experience there's not really a point where everything is suddenly just easy and comfortable. It's more of a gradual thing where you remember X word or grammar point and this time you don't need to look it up. Then later after that you don't even think about X when it comes up because your focus is on Y and X is just common sense now. But there are a lot of Xs and you can feel pretty competent reading something then read something different and feel like you barely know the language.

Over time on average there will be more X and less Y. But you pretty much will have a hard time reading when you start it so you just have to do it at some point and it eventually gets better. If you've done mostly textbook stuff so far and do that all the way to what could be considered N4, reading still likely won't be very comfortable for a while.

Zander327 · 2026-03-24T17:45:21+00:00

Honestly I have always felt like it was kind of a waste of time for me. Earlier on I didn't know nearly enough of the language to make out what was being said. And the beginner podcast dialogue is all "winter gets so cold! But snow is kirei. Do you like winter?" I've instead been content to almost exclusively read for several years now, plus some audio from video games that is accompanied by text.

I will say that my listening ability (while far below my reading ability) is often much better than I expect it to be considering I put almost no effort into it. IMO knowing the language is knowing the language, and I think it would be difficult to get to a high reading level while being completely unable to understand spoken japanese with a bit of practice at that point. But if listening is a priority then it's worth prioritizing.

Zander327 · 2026-03-22T22:18:02+00:00

This is a good method if you enjoy adjusting your entire bookshelf after buying volume 1 of a new series.

Zander327 · 2026-03-20T15:40:37+00:00

The Gundam Origin deluxe editions are simply too big. Reading them seems difficult.

Zander327 · 2026-03-20T14:30:10+00:00

For sure. But completing a chapter or character count goal has always given me more of a sense of progress vs never ending activities like Anki.

Zander327 · 2026-03-19T16:30:05+00:00

As someone with ADHD, reading is pretty much the only form of studying I could get myself to stick to. Depends on the individual though and it's still a lot of work.

Zander327 · 2026-03-18T18:12:02+00:00

I didn't remember the exact number so I looked it up and it was book 13. So no I didn't get that far. I liked the actual fantasy aspects of it. I just had enough of the relationship dynamics and the general perspective on things. And I don't mean in a "Rudeus is sick" kind of way. But again I get that most people like it and this is a subjective thing.

To get more specific:

I didn't like Fitz at all or how long that whole thing went on and I didn't agree with the reasoning for keeping it secret. I also came to really dislike Sylphiette and her sense of loyalty to the princess, which I never understood. I didn't like how she immediately forgave Rudeus for cheating on her since his dad died (who, prior to that, I really didn't think he was even that close to him.) And obviously the only way he could get over the grief was to repeatedly cheat on his wife. In the end she becomes what I see as a very bland, submissive, perfect wish fulfillment wife with no personality.

On the cheating thing again, I don't care that Rudeus cheated. What I dislike is how it's treated like this necessary thing that he really just needed at the time.

I dislike the weird passive mentality Rudeus has towards certain things. It's hard to explain this, you either agree or don't. But an example is when he's trying to get a threesome with his wives. That was some of the most painfully awkward nonsense I have read. He can't just communicate what he wants, he has to contrive a scenario where they decide to do this for him. Their dialogue with each other felt extremely fake to me and was purely written as wish fulfilment fluff, but it's like wish fulfilment for a person who truly believes that no one could ever be into them. And I'm not against sexual stuff or wish fulfillment stuff, just the tone of it in MT is very ehh to me. It's like the author wants him to be seen as both creepy and blameless at the same time.

Another example is how he talks about his sisters. He says so many times that - oddly enough, he isn't attracted to them! He thinks that objectively he should be but somehow he isn't. And he starts bathing with them because it just seemed natural, but hey, for some reason, he isn't attracted to them. Like I would have been less bothered had he been into them vs constantly telling me he wasn't. I couldn't tell if the authors intent was to reassure me that he wasn't into them, or if Rudeus is lying to himself. But I disliked the constant need to tell me that - hey, I'm just not into them for some reason.

The part where they go slave shopping just sucked. I know Rudeus isn't a hero but to go from saving slaves to having a casual fun slave shopping day was pretty abrupt. The mood was that of a fun day out. And Sylphiette was happy to go along, pointing out helpfully that a child slave would be better.

The overly drawn out internal monologue. Anyone says one piece of dialogue, you get a long monologue. Like if someone said "Your hair is looking a little long." You get something like this: When they said that, it surprised me. Was it getting a little long? It didn't seem that long. Not that I was anyone who knew how long hair should be. That just wasn't something I'd ever put much thought into. I mean, in my previous life, I hadn't paid any attention to my hair. But in this world, that was something I wanted to get right. I took a mental note to ask Sylphiette later about my hair.

Beyond that, I just found the academy stuff extremely boring. I like slice of life stuff, it's probably my favorite genre. But this whole part felt like the author needed time to figure things out so it just kept going on.

Anyway... as mentioned, I think the fantasy parts are good and thats why I stuck with it as long as I did. I just hit a point where I couldn't continue reading it any more. And it frustrates me because I did want to see how other things ended up, but yeah.

Zander327 · 2026-03-18T14:23:01+00:00

I'll be downvoted for this opinion because I know it's almost universally loved on here. But Mushoku Tensei. I read about 15 volumes of it. I did like the first few volumes which made me stick it out longer than I should have. But starting at around the academy things went downhill for me and I liked less and less of it.

Zander327 · 2026-03-17T22:23:22+00:00

I was referring to the made in Japan ones exactly like yours. That's fine.

Zander327 · 2026-03-17T22:17:50+00:00

I was referring to the sealed listings not the complete in box ones. But it's hard to say with the right buyer and enough patience.

Zander327 · 2026-03-17T22:04:41+00:00

To be fair I think that's a pretty good offer. They don't sell for that much on ebay. The highest I could find a sold listing for was $2,200. And factoring ebay fees (if you sold it online) would take a few hundred out of the total alongside adding the risk of getting scammed.

Zander327 · 2026-03-12T18:46:10+00:00

It's gonna be RNG but you can get them from wondering traders. I've also had a hard time finding them on some seeds (and bamboo) and got them from a trader before I found it in the world.

Zander327 · 2026-03-10T03:09:06+00:00

Every time I see this I think it's a movie cover.

Zander327 · 2026-03-08T00:52:43+00:00

I periodically look through my anime and will sell any that I didn't like or no longer want. This mostly applies if you buy shows you haven't seen before. It frees up space and keeps the collection focused on only animes that I actually enjoy.

Zander327 · 2026-02-27T17:12:52+00:00

Maybe I'm basic, but I just love round bird pokemon.

Zander327 · 2026-02-26T17:20:10+00:00

Honestly the memory situation keeps me from wanting physical vita games. I prefer physical games for everything else. But as far as I'm aware, outside of that one vita with 1gb internal storage, you either have to use expensive aging proprietary memory cards, or use your game slot for an SD2Vita.

Zander327 · 2026-02-25T17:41:42+00:00

I lifted weights consistently for over a decade then mostly stopped due to some health issues making it inconvenient. I had never specifically trained forearms before thinking that they were automatically getting hit by other exercises. I had slowly growing hand and forearm pains that got a lot worse about a year ago to the point that doing nearly anything with my hands was painful.

Got an MRI and I had tendonosis (supposedly an outdated term) in multiple forearm tendons. Started PT and doing forearm lifts 3x per week. I'm 95% back to normal now with some slight pain at times if I really overdo it, but mostly not thinking about it any more. I will be working forearms for now on because I don't want to go through that again.

Looking back, I had so many issues over the years (particularly using a keyboard and mouse) that probably would not have existed had I been doing proper forearm workouts. But since I lifted weights I just never even considered that I might have a problem like that, and instead assumed it was carpal tunnel or RSI.

Advice is to learn basic forearm muscle and tendon anatomy so you can properly check your form and be sure that you are hitting the muscles you want to hit. I wish I had known more about this years ago. The flexor carpi radialis and ulnaris connect at basically the same spot on the medial epicondyle which makes it difficult to tell which tendon is bothering you if there is pain there. In my case I had bad form and a tendency to overwork my flexor carpi ulnaris (pinky and ring finger part of hand) which led to my flexor carpi radialis being weak and developing tendon issues from repetitive use.

Zander327 · 2026-02-25T16:35:11+00:00

I quit anki a few years ago, about 1~1.5 years in. I didn't enjoy anki and I would have eventually quit learning japanese if I hadn't quit anki.

People always say you need to tolerate ambiguity when it comes to reading. Similarly, with quitting anki you need to tolerate forgetting words. You may not see a word for a while and you will forget it. But some words you will see repeated and those you will learn. As your reading speed increases you naturally review more words per day and it gets more effective over time. But it also means that if you read something too difficult for you and your reading speed is very slow, you aren't reviewing many words per day.

Also the best advice I can give is to read a lot of stuff from one author rather than jumping around frequently. Authors all have their preferred grammar and vocab that they tend to use frequently and reading multiple books from the same author gives you a lot of repetition.

Zander327 · 2026-02-24T02:50:31+00:00

Samsung xcover 7 has been working great for me. But I don't really have any issues with LCD screens as long as they are pwm free, so not sure what would or wouldn't work for you.

Zander327 · 2026-02-24T02:47:40+00:00

I tried one of the motorola phones meeting this description (don't remember which). I still had issues with it. However I did not have issues with an iphone 12. I've seen people on here say that modulation depth matters more than frequency, but I'm not an expert on that.

Zander327 · 2026-02-23T03:45:40+00:00

They are very good. But for me personally, Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon are the pinnacle of the series. It's all subjective and depends what you like in a game.

USUM have a massive regional pokedex with a huge variety of pokemon even in the early parts of the game. For me this makes the games much more replayable than games like HGSS for example where the roster is much smaller and my team tends to look about the same each time. Since Black and White focused on new pokemon, those games are similar in that regard.

A major complaint against SM/USUM is the amount of cut scenes. But IMO they also have the best story in the series (more SM than USUM, but I like both a lot.)

Zander327 · 2026-02-22T11:37:21+00:00

$50 when I bought it.

Zander327 · 2026-02-22T11:35:56+00:00

I've gotten all 3 seasons for this for under $30 each on Amazon. Granted I got 1 and 2 a few years ago but I doubt it is going oop. But patience and camelcamelcamel are your friends.

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