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I feel like there's a difference between "lose a ton of progress" and lose your whole damn save and start over. I've certainly done the second one more than the first in recent times. I don't want to think about how many hours I've spent on Fallout 4 thanks to playing multiple saves on my old computer until the files gradually wouldn't play any more and I almost never finish games of Civilization that I start.

OTOH, when I think about redoing progress, I remember my PC edition of FF8 that was so unstable that I had to keep playing everything three times because I wouldn't stop and save at every one of the tiniest opportunities. I probably put 80+ hours into the game and only ever got to what I presume is a bit more than the halfway point.

Today, I have no tolerance for replaying shit. I died on a boss in a metroidvania I was playing a couple days ago, and I almost bailed on the game even though what I lost really only amounted to about 5 minutes because it was the one place where they didn't put a save room immediately before a boss. (It was nearby, but I found the boss first.) I'm gradually playing Horizon Zero Dawn right now, but it doesn't do any autosaving for you, so when you die, you go back to the last time you legit saved, and that's so weird to me in 2021 that I haven't quite adjusted to hitting every campfire that I encounter. Eventually I'm going to have an experience where I lose a huge chunk and I know it's going to kill my momentum.

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