1 hour down, 2 years to go

On the one hand, playing a nearly perfect game like The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker is a great thing. On the other hand, eventually you finish, and then you realize that even under the best case scenario, you’re SoZ for a good two years plus. Even with F. and my habit of extremely slow play, that winds up with an anticipation to fun ratio of about 12:1.

Granted, movie series are far worse: years of waiting for 90 minutes of feeling like this one isn’t quite up to the standard set by the last one. And books; will the next volume in A Song of Ice and Fire ever come out? In fact, for nearly every cultural or computational product I enjoy, the gaps spent waiting for the next one in line and imagining how cool it will be when it finally gets here are a lot longer than the amount of time actually spent enjoying the product.

I guess the moral here is: kids, don’t be an obsessive nerd.

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