Regardless of the perceived merit of your post I think we would all just appreciate a little more participation here.

Yeah that’s definitely how I am. I can tell what’s coming and so I maybe just lose the “need” to complete the game.

I did that with Morrowind finally last year and just had an amazing time playing through it all the way.

Yeah same here. I have found myself playing almost entirely sandbox games these last few years. Where there isn’t really and end goal (or at least one I’m not required to complete) and I just get to build something or manage resources, etc.

Yes, same here. I have the last mission (I think, “Meet Hannako at Embers”) in Cyberpunk still to do and I pick it up and do a handful of side quests every few months. Maybe I’ll finish it, eventually.

I can count on one hand the number of games I’ve finished in the last 4-5 years. Off the top of my head

• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Spider-Man (PS4)
• Red Dead Redemption II
• L.A. Noire
• Middle Earth: Shadow of War

Games I stopped playing:

• Horizon: Zero Dawn (PC)
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Disco Elysium (I know. right.)
• DEATHLOOP
• Spider-Man: Remastered (PC)
• Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
• Divinity: Original Sin II
• Dying Light 2
• Half Life - Alyx
• Boneworks
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (I think I did complete this game once when I was 14 or so)
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Fallout 4 (I did complete the story to this a long time ago but I wanted to give it another go a couple years back)

RDR2 is actually one of the few games I have finished in the last few years.

Is the appeal process literally just resubmitting the application multiple times?

Would it be helpful to reach out to her former manager and ask why/if they made those statements or is it just best to keep our heads down and hope the appeal works?

I prefer it. The concept of federation has been hard to wrap my mind around, but I think the issue with current-day reddit is that many communities became so large that interactions between users and even interactions with posts that are more than an hour old almost completely dried up (or at least that was my experience) which made the website a lot less interesting as a social platform and more of just a time-wasting doomscrolling link aggregation platform.