The four-day period following my purchase of Subsistence consisted of watching the movie (part of the highly coveted Limited Edition), finishing the single-player campaign, creating an online account, watching all of the extras, ingesting the saga documentary, capturing all of the monkeys, and even watching the cutscenes I may missed. . . again. Now I can't rally even bring myself to look at MGS3, much less finish my second pass through the game.

Even Thanksgiving is no comparison to how much of an MGS3 glut I am suffering from.

In order to give myself adequate time to digest the game (read: not reject it for life), I have gone back to Substance. My first time through the game I certainly did not cover all of the content, much less understand it all.

I have followed the basics of the story, but I still feel like I am missing the more sublime items to be digested in the context of both current and future MGS releases.

To keep myself from melting down from the maddening content, I am trying to also finish the side missions, and thus finish unlocking various items for later use.

I suppose now that I have finished all of the MGS games I can safely join a veteran's union without encountering spoilers. Or, I could just go to therapy.