This blog is about a phenomenon I have dubbed after-game emptiness. Most people on this site have felt it before. It's the feeling you get after you beat a game that requires a huge time investment. It can come in many different forms. A feeling that you just wasted a lot of time, a feeling of disappointment that the game is over, or just a feeling of emptiness. Everybody may not experience after-game emptiness, but all my friends I've mentioned it to knows what I'm talking about. The reason I can deal with it is because it's accompanied by a sense of accomplishment equal to the emptiness. It all evens out in the end.