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I'd imagine that could be arranged. I live with an unusually fast rate of forgetting. With effort, I suspect my condition could be reverse-engineered and replicated. After a couple years, I can re-experience something not knowing where the whole plot goes, but always knowing where the current scene will go. In games, I experience that with the plot, but still have my muscle memory. Great time for re-plays on hard mode; by this time I have almost all the skills, and almost none of the plot spoilers. After about 5 years, I'll remember roughly how something made me feel overall, but little else. This is often about the time when I seek out a re-exposure for the things I remember as being unusually high quality. It's unclear how long it takes exactly -- matters are often unclear for me where they rely on my memory as a key input -- but after some amount of time, my level of recall fades to "vaguely familiar" and then I completely forget that I've seen a thing at all. I'd estimate on the order of a decade or so. I have the exact superpower people so often jokingly wish for around great media. As you can imagine from the nature of memory loss, I completely fail to appreciate my situation.