real life vs. crack life.
That's it. I'm done being a completist.
DC Direct is a line which will (theoretically) never end, as long as there are comics and fools who will buy heroes' likenesses in poorly painted plastic.
I realized all the other lines I collect are finite, and will end (or have ended). That one will not.
I will now focus any DC Direct purchases, and sell off the rest. It will be hard for me to part with them, and I will most definitely have lost money (I opened practically everything), but I need to rid myself of those things that are taking up space that I either am tired of walking around, or find myself caring more about money and living comfortably and having the nice things (dining room furniture, a new bed, a new laptop, closing costs on a new home) that selling those things (and not buying them to begin with) can bring to me.
Yes, I will still buy the occasional favorite character, or something that catches my eye, but all of the crazy extras? No more.
And yes, I realize there are still JLU and Titans and The Batman, and BTAS and STAS figures I don't have. This rule does not apply in those cases, or to the upcoming Legion of Superheroes animated line, unless those figures are butt ugly. Mass market figures are still cheap.