JME10135 2024-09-23 10:01:29

Well, it just happened. First I only wanted medals for certain games I found were worth it but then I started to try to get as many medals as possible and that is basically where I am today.

Yatsufusa 2024-11-05 16:25:24

Poor decision making, for the most part. ;)

A good friend brought up Newgrounds and more or less pushed me into registering here, so medals I had earned would show to them. Leading to me making an account and re-playing games I had already finished. Then I came across a user's list of medal games that were worth the time investment. (That was so far back, I think I actually still used Google search back then.) At some point, aforementioned friend quit medal collecting and I kept going, discovering a (now defunct) 3rd party tracking site for medal score, user levels, etc. which got me interested in exploring how far I could get.

Fast forward to a few years back when I stopped logging into NG entirely, because I had stopped caring about medals (mostly because there was no quality control anymore for which games could get medals). I had less and less time for games in general, so I didn't want to spend that time by chasing medals.
While I had always had an interest in art and animation as well, NG became associated with all those crappy medal games I had sunk way too much time into. A mix of the bitter taste of having "wasted" that much time and never wanting to experience "medal-FOMO" again kept me away for... "around a decade" I'd say.

What brought me back to NG in July(?) of 2023 was actually the NSFW content that "certain users" love to bitch and moan about. After a while, I decided to stay with this community again and help it out where I saw good opportunities to do so. (Which is a nice way of saying: "How can y'all be so bad at things that 'I' am able to help you...?" ;p )

ShangXian 2025-04-23 13:50:02

To me medals/achievements were always linked to complete a certain task and seeing them filing the empty space of a game I'm trying to complete is linked to a sense of finishing what I started. It's not always easy because some medals' difficulty may be linked to skills or luck and this gets frustrating when you try over and over. Because a game must first relax me and entertain me, I avoid those games whose medals almost make me ragequit. I like completing them but I prioritize my mental health and getting angry at a game it's a waste of time. I wonder how can some people engaging in ragequit-inducing games.

My love for medal hunting actually derives from real life and more specifically a personal motto of mine developed from my personality: either things get done or they don't get done at all. It's linked to a sense of duty to complete a task to its fullest. Even in real life if I don't get done something in the most complete and detailed way effort-wise, I am not satisfied. For example I could remove by hands every single grass that I don't want in my vegetable garden. Or I can study until my mind begs me to stop because I want to achieve my mental schedule of completing a certain task.

Plus I love exploring games in every parts possible and taking my time, this is why I am not a speed-runner and fast time-linked medals are the ones I like the least because they are anxiety inducing. I want my time to experience a game.