Man you are not even at the real problem yet. The thing nobody warns you about is that once you catch up to the current episodes you get stuck watching WEEKLY, and that is a way worse sleep killer than any binge. I binged like 900 episodes in a couple months and thought I was done, but now every Sunday night there is a new one and I stay up for it even when I have work at 7. So pacing yourself now just delays the pain, you are gonna end up on the weekly grind either way. My honest take is just binge it while you can because the freedom of skipping ahead whenever you want goes away forever once you hit the wall. Also your roommate is right about Arlong Park, you cannot stop before that.

Is a firmware update really what broke it, or did the calibration just time out on you? I've seen posts like this before where people blame the update but it turns out their headset sat idle for a few weeks and the profile got wiped by some auto-cleanup thing. Two days to get back to 85% seems rough though, so maybe there is something real going on. Did support actually confirm the update was the cause, or did they just have you redo the setup as a default script? Not saying you're wrong, just that firmware and calibration problems can look the same from the outside.