Hollow Knight for me fits this scenario to a t. I got it as part of a humble bundle, but couldn’t get into it for at least a year as the initial part felt really depressing, and didn’t at all grab me.
But once I managed to tough it through to greenpath, and started to get some power ups, it finally sunk it’s claws into me. I proceeded to nearly 100% the game.
I love the idea of it, but it hasn’t clicked yet. It never occurs to me to even tag things in order to leverage my notes as a mind map/second brain.
The absence of a clean means of using it from multiple devices and syncing between them without their cloud service is kind of disappointing. The git community plugin is godawful to set up on mobile/tablet, something native that handles git behind the scenes would be excellent.
Ultimately, what I’d like is obsidian but with the interface of confluence.
Agreed, Covid ties or is a close runner up for me as well in terms of people showing their true colors.
+1 for the third party Reddit app ban.
2016 US elections was a ridiculously sobering moment for realizing that we had not progressed nearly to the extent that I nievely thought.
Oh man, Hot Rod! Probably among the times I’ve laughed the hardest.
Step Brothers, Talladega Nights and Burn After Reading are three that consistently do it for me.
Super Mario RPG and Civ 6 still getting tons of mileage