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Yup, that's me. Hamster extraordinaire. I always hoard everything that isn't bolted down, carry around 150 medpacks and I usually go for some kind of health regenerating capabilities which I prefer to use before I use medpacks so now I have 250 medpacks just in case for the boss. Then I finish the game with 245 medpacks left coz boss wasn't really that hard and my regenerating health perk did most of the heavy lifting anyway XD
Maybe that's an early manifestation of hoarding disorder?
I bet there’s a much larger percentage of gamers who do this, compared to irl hoarders.
I think it has to do with the fact in the game you don’t know what’s coming next. But irl you know you can get more shit at the store next week, so you can throw out this week’s trash and you’ll have more soon.
Except the hoarder mentality is mostly "I can't throw this away, I might need it later". Knowing you can get a new thing from a store, doesn't enter into it, just like in a computer game.
Though in fairness, boxes and drawers of many things have indeed provided a lot of value through years. I also do lets say yearly cleanups where I comb through things, throw away what hasn't been used to for a while or what doesn't have a purpose anymore so it's not just endless hoarding. I don't just hoard clutter and junk.