Oh I just collect the things needed for the hobby. I don't actually do the hobby.

I put them all away except one per month. I rotate that each month (one of each board game / book / CD).

On the computer I have a folder with a shortcut to one game, movie, TV show, audiobook, album and ebook. I delete the shortcuts when I’m done and make new ones next month. The folder lives on my taskbar/dock.

I disciplined myself to beat myself (metaphorically speaking) over being wasting time. The resulting stress makes me agitated, and the agitation can only be qwelled once I solve the source of the stress.

Create artificial restrictions.

One year I decided I would only read ‘classics’ (pre-1950), one year I only read sci-fi, one year I only read Shakespeare’s plays, in chronological order as written.

In all of those years I read more than I did normally, with the added bonus that it pushed me to read things I might not have otherwise picked up.

For video games, something I’ve enjoyed in the past is a gaming alphabet: for a year, you keep a list of all 26 letters A-Z. Every time you start a game, it should be something you: A.) haven’t played before, and B.) the title should start with a letter you haven’t used yet.

It encourages you to scroll through your backlog and pick something different because it’s a letter you need. Plus, over the year you’ll build a list of all the games you played (you can add short reviews too!) which can be a fun look back later on.

Overwhelming choices and paralysis by analysis do that. You say you want to play EVERY game. That's a huge amount of games. There are so many choices it's overwhelming. Maybe try to at least narrow down to a genre? What usually works for me is that I'll just pick something at random and start playing. After that I'm good.

Sounds a lot like me. Now I have 8+ consoles and multiple pcs...but I spend more time repairing and modifying stuff than playing games ha!

I have a small SSD on my laptop. Only 500GB, so I can't install all of the games. I move ROMs to my external when not playing them and move them to the internal to play. I also package games up from Steam/other sources and do the same. That limits how many games I have installed at any time and helps make some friction to getting stuck in choice paralysis.

That said, for other thing is multiplayer. I an playing Hytale with my partner and we were playing Minecraft before that for a while, so playing together becomes playing that game together and is therefore simple.

I’ve never managed to develop one. I’ve gone many times down the “oh that looks interesting” only to quickly become bored path so I gave up on trying to adopt one. I focus on making my day less boring.

I wish I could get obsessed with satisfactory or something.

I find it hard to jump between things too frequently. It's all or nothing, more often. For video games I tried elite dangerous in VR and now that's all I ever want to play. I needed a break from VR so I read books for most of a day, which restarted my drive to read a lot.

I guess it's been, 'make it somehow something that I have to tone down, instead of pushing myself to do more.'