Retirement, I think
Posted on: October 1, 2021, at 08:54:02am

I find myself still wanting to play D7-level content and push for more skill sometimes, but overall I think it's for the best that I've effectively retired from being competitive with this. I've been dealing with alot of wrist/hand pain over the past month or two from playing, and that's finally starting to settle down so I'd rather not test things by trying to push myself again. But more importantly, the whole grind for D7 put me into a terrible mindset for improving, to where I've had almost all of my enjoyment for skill grinding pulled out of me. I started to feel like I was going for D7 more because I didn't want to let everyone else down, and while I'm happy I finally got it done, my suspicions were right that I'd want to just throw in the towel afterwards.

This RT makes me feel old. I first played FFR about 15 or 16 years ago, over half of my life ago at this point. Shit's weird, yo.

Do what makes you happy. <3

(btw, I might register for the next OT to see if I can grab that D7 forum title though, but I don't expect to make a run for any sort of stellar performance)

1. 1: Hakulyte
   Posted at 4:39pm on October 2nd, 2021

   Keeping your health is the real reward. I'm pretty sure your future self will appreciate it more than any additional levels you could have gotten past this point.
   I'd argue that this seems like a strategic hiatus to see how life unfold for now and then decide what to do next, but if it's true retirement then that was quite the journey.
   
2. 2: Pizza69
   Posted at 11:48pm on October 3rd, 2021

   wrist fuck retirement gang
3. 3: aarrghh
   Posted at 11:16am on January 13th, 2022

   aarrghh