I could keep going to is the bad thing. But like I said, I'm just not playing pokemon like I used to, so it's probably best anyone else do an Adamant Venipede in my place.
While I feel bad, I'm just having fun with other games. I do think about it, but then I stop thinking about it. And at the end of the day, something else is still inserted into my 3DS.
If anything I'll keep doing the whole Venipede thing, but more casually, and not because I still want the shiny (because I do), but because I feel like a dealer of Venipede now. Maybe not selling my soul will allow for more shinies to appear, because apparently that's how life works for me :\ You know, stop hoping to achieve it and then it'll just happen naturally.
Well at the very least you can tell people "Yeah, go ahead and do it".