Sure. But that's enough.

Demanding more than that isn't conducive to anytime but trying to make people feel inadequate​ for wanting to enjoy their time.

It's completely fine if you feel like you need to see the end of a story to determine if it was good, but not everybody is like that.

Incomplete doesn't mean invalid, though. I can say I didn't enjoy the first half so much that I didn't give the second half a chance. I will have enough information to explain why I didn't enjoy the first half and my opinion of the movie is completely valid.

I don't have to continue to subject myself to something I don't enjoy. I can explain what I don't enjoy. People don't need more than that to have a valid opinion of something. The only people I'd expect to have done more is somebody professionally critiquing movies.

Besides, if you haven't finished a movie, you can't claim to have a valid opinion of it.

I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound this way, but this kind of gate keeping sounds very elitist. I can have a valid opinion of a movie I didn't finish.

Usually, me not finishing it means that through the portion I watched I was disliking it so much I decided finishing it was a waste of my time. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. I don't need to see the ending to know i didn't enjoy the journey. The onus is on the creators of the movie to ensure I enjoy or am at least engaged throughout and I don't, nor does anybody else, owe it to them to see though the time I've set aside to watch it. Especially if they could be bothered to hold up their side of the bargain.

This is the last one for me as well. Though, my partner and I didn't even finish the first episode of Dune: Prophecy if you want to count that.

Dakota Johnson isn't what ruined Madame Web for me, though. The writing was truly awful from the plot to the dialogue. The costumes were really bad as well and the action was just terrible. It looked like poorly done wire tricks on CGI.

I didn't actually know about Dave the Driver being a big publisher until just now. I felt that game was kinda under-developed for how hyper it was and now I'm even more disappointed.

It only has like 6 major areas and the levels didn't have that much variety. Plus the side content is fairly under polished. I enjoyed it for the first 60ish percent but was kinda forcing myself to finish it by the end.

Do it 2 days before highly anticipated mod drops

Back in my day we just looked at photoshopped pictures of celebrities like respectable men!

Not gonna lie. I've never heard of Substack but I appreciate their stance of publicly announcing why I would continue to avoid them.

Where is the nearest fire to dump this comment in?

That's not a Reddit thing. That's just a thing.

I'm not sure I agree with the premise that gamification is bad. Many people need a push to do things that improve their lives.

The Fitbit example is one that jumps out in that it is there to motivate people into exercise. While I personally don't respond to comparisons to others, I do respond to data where I can compare my results and recognize that my watch telling me I did a good job feels good about the exercise I just did.

Kahn Academy is gamification of a form of education. Earning points for learning many subjects.

I think there is merit to the argument that Duolingo went a bit overboard with trying to guilt you into continuing, but I don't think it can reasonably be argued that trying to motivate people into language study is bad.

I think mentally, the author is probably just one of those like myself that doesn't respond well to gamification overall but the majority of people definitely do and it can help in self improvement.

That said, I totally agree about a gamified workplace. That strikes me as a slippery slope to an unhealthy relationship with work.