Kramsikler

There can only be a maximum of two video games on the On-Hold section of My List.

You can skip cutscenes, cinematics and dialogue if you get sick of watching them―after you've watched them at least once in a previous playthrough/s. If there are ones you can't skip, wait through them without paying any attention to them.

A video game is not character-driven or story-driven. → Focus solely on enjoying feels derived from its ludic elements or ludology and beating the game.

A video game is character-driven or story-driven. → Focus only on two things: enjoying feels derived from its ludic elements or ludology, and enjoying feels derived from absorbing narrative components or narratology―using osmosis.

Novelty is the only thing that you should seek in any and all playthroughs started―with whatever video game.

Ignore all freezes, crashes, and glitches or bugs―unless it breaks the game.

After gracefully ushering-in the new era of video games with Braid―whatever comes next is whatever you feel like, or is subject only to your whims.

If you wish, you may choose to stop what you're doing and admire the environment or other art design elements in a video game. However, this desire has shown to be very rare and far in-between. Another option would be to watch a Let's Play of that certain game on YouTube.

If you find your mind has wandered and isn't in a state of osmosis―that's fine. Calmly redirect your attention towards achieving an optimal state of osmosis until you do so.

Ignore all trophies or achievements if they were earned in a previous playthrough/s which was cut short or had its save progress deleted.

Osmosis refers to the act of experiencing dialogue, cutscenes, cinematics, world events and interaction, and NPC behaviour and interaction within a video game without any conscious effort.

When referring to exposure to any of these aspects of a video game for the first time, osmosis specifically refers to the state of being effortlessly (almost passively) engrossed in―getting lost in whilst being enraptured―the intriguing novelty emanating from a new video game you've never experienced.

In the notes of my list―gameplay refers to the sum total experience of of all visual, ludic and narrative elements a video game (including splash screens, loading screens and menus) between the time it boots to the time you quit game.