Finally hit 100 days of watching anime every day

So I started this dumb challenge back in January where I would watch at least one episode of anime every single day. Yesterday was day 100. But around day 45 I hit a major slump where I couldnt decide what to watch. I was stuck in this loop of scrolling Crunchyroll for 30 minutes then giving up and rewatching old episodes of Gintama instead. So I made a rule for myself. I grabbed a random number generator on my phone and let it pick an anime from my Watchlist that had at least a 7.5 on MAL. Ended up with Space Dandy which I'd ignored for years. That show was so wild and fun it got me back on track immediately. Now I keep a list of like 12 shows queued up so I never have to make another decision when I'm tired. Has anyone else tried a daily watch challenge or do you just binge when you feel like it?

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the_daniel16d ago

Start calling that random number trick the "decision fatigue hack" because honestly this same problem shows up everywhere not just anime. I noticed the exact same thing with my music playlists where I'd spend 20 minutes picking a song then just play the same old stuff. It's like our brains freeze up when there's too many options and we end up defaulting to comfort picks. You figured out that removing the choice entirely lets you actually enjoy the thing instead of stressing about the menu. Pretty telling that once you let a stupid app decide for you you went from stuck to having a blast in one episode. Makes me wonder how many other hobbies we overcomplicate by giving ourselves too many choices when the real point is just doing it.

wesley63916d ago

Let a stupid app decide for you" is basically the story of my whole life now. The number of times I've stood in the grocery store aisle like an idiot trying to pick between 47 kinds of pasta sauce is honestly embarrassing. Maybe I need a random number generator for dinner decisions too.

mason.drew16d ago

Nah, sometimes the thinking is half the fun of picking something out.