Do you keep a log of the video games you play? I do because I have a hard time remembering what I've played

I download hundreds of thousands of images and don't even sort them or back them up

what's certain is that absolutely nobody died saying "I wish I was more productive/made more money" like the OP of these threads seem to imply is what you should be doing instead.

anilist instead of MAL

I started writing my thoughts on games after I finish them earlier this year becasue I liked writing about the movies I watched when I started using letterboxd. I don't feel strongly about the logging aspect of it but I like formulating my thoughts on something and I like to go back and see what I thought of something right after watching it every now and then. Sometimes it reminds me of something cool about whatever it was that I had forgotten about.

Never heard of Hardcover before. How is it compared to goodreads?

I have a hard time remembering what I've played.

memory is something you either use or lose

It's important to document your consooomer journey.

They tried but it didn't work.
RapeApe/hiro are so incompetent that I bet they didn't actually fix the site's security so I wouldn't be surprised if it gets hacked again.

don't know those websites, but journaling is good for you and takes you briefly out of the endless cycle of consumption and stimulation for a bit of reflection, however mundane

No. Not only do I keep in memory what games I have played, I have like 90% perfect recall of every game I've played. I can direct you where to go and what to do and how to navigate any map or dungeon in any game I've played. Only gaps are autistically remembering the specific names of items or precisely what items are where as opposed to the general area or dungeon they are contained in.

MAL instead of anilist

I don't know about you, but I find it very easy to just get in the rhythm of playing the same couple games in rotation over and over again until I just don't want to game any more.
Actually forcing myself to take that step in trying something new often leaves me having a much better time, but there's still the compulsion to not leave the realm of the familiar.

ugh.... if only I'd spent less time... doing things I enjoyed...

*dies*

MAL was down for several months so everyone moved to anilist

I log but it's a text file to keep the experience relatively pure instead of something more gameified (pun intended)

I keep track of some shit just so I can refer to it later on if I need to recommend somebody something they might enjoy.

Should the joy of things truly be so itinerant? This question is all in spite "log" likely existing for most things you do online, regardless of your knowledge or intention, it's irrelevant. What I'm referring to is the notion that enjoying things really ought to be a fleeting and momentary experience. "Enforced" would be the wrong word, but something similar; the notion that happiness and frivolity are inherently linked, so latching onto every little thing you might enjoy is contrary to the joy of discovery. The things you enjoy the most will endure in your waking mind and memory, like a natural filter, while things you enjoy in passing are free to come and go just as you are.

"Cant we all just, get along?"
-Video games man

I keep a log of the video games I've beaten.

You guys don't just look at your steam or system library?

I started using backloggd this year because I want to look back at the end of the year at all the games I completed. I'm using it like a journal. I don't really look at other people's reviews or anything.

I don't like the idea of someone being able to look at an itemized list of all the games I've played. Who wants to know?

I pirate most of my games. Though I don't log them, tried doing that with anime once but it wasn't worth the upkeep.

ugly picture spam

website instead of .txt

log all of your shit into websites

websites that can just shut down without warning with all of your logs and data just gone in an instant

should've used a text file or a spread sheet champ

I do
I log everything

Why does logging a show or game when you're done with it feel good?
There's no social aspect of it for me. Yeah I'll talk about games I finish but it's not like anyone is ever going to see my anilist or backloggd (hell I was using a private goog sheet to keep track of my backlog before I got lazy).
Is it literally just number go up therefore caveman brain happy?

use less versatile and more bothersome methods because "uhhh it can go down"

Just export your lists if you're that afraid

I feel like its similar to journaling for me where I'm releasing all my thoughts on a game when I'm fresh off of the experience. It helps you collect your thoughts and express yourself

I just mark it as completed on a spreadsheet and write my thoughts on a .txt. I don’t get the need to put it on an online website. Imagine it goes down, then what? I get some suggest things you might like but I can seek those out on my own just as fine

The odds of your hardware failing are higher than the odds of online datastorage sites failing.

Imagine it goes down, then what?

then the reason i click this at the first of every month has finally been justified

Writing things down is like taking pictures of things and first experiences, it can be cathartic to go back and look through it all.

Yes but only because I have actual non-meme OCD

closest thing of a log for me is Steam's default one
I'm too lazy to make an animelist account ( even though I know I'll eventually do it): I just download the pics of the covers of the animes that I want to eventually watch, use their name as filename and add "anime" at the end. Then, whenever I feel like it I search for "anime" at my images folder.

What's the point of Letterboxd AND Serializd?

I dunno about that, I've had a 1 TB HDD that I've been using since 2014 that I still use for indie games and games that I don't feel like sticking on any of my SSDs.
In the time I've had that HDD, I've seen at least 3 dozen sites I used for piracy and tracking and the like go under.
Hell, I even have an even older 620 GB HDD from an old prebuilt from like 2009, and it ALSO still functions fine and serves as my secondary backup and storage for movies and shit that I'm not going to keep archived forever.

No, I just use my memory. If I forget about it, that means it's forgettable and not really that good. It's good to forget things you don't care about so you can focus on things you do care about or new experiences.

I don't. I don't take screenshots. Media is meant to be forgotten and rediscovered.
I get upset at people trying to catalogue every aspect of their lives. Live in the moment nigger.

If you're that autistic why don't you learn some scripting to automate all that?

I keep an Excel spreadsheet that autosorts upcoming games based on their release date so I just drag them to a "played" column after I play them