I am addicted to video games and cannot draw. How do I break

>>2874261
> step one stop playing vidya games
> step two ???
> step three profit

>>2874261
Who the fuck actually remade the knights and made them amazing?

>>2874263
>This in the most simplistic form

But thats just like telling an alcoholic to JUST stop drinking.

It's basic but not very helpful

If I were you I'd download a Life RPG app on your phone and make it so that one of your "missions" or "quests" for the day is to spend 1 hr ONLY drawing and when you do that you get experience etc.

or if you're too lazy for that just write it on a piece of paper and put it on your doors and have a check box for the day and make sure you check it off at least once that day or something along those lines, gives more of a reason or urgency to do it

>>2874263
How do I stop?

>>2874261
Draw until you feel more like drawing than playing videogames, that's what happened to me at least.

>>2874261

If you are addicted to playing video games, it is likely that it is a symptom of something else. Of course playing games is cool and fun, but when it starts to hamper normal everyday life, that shows something's wrong.

Why do you play games instead of doing something else?

- does it offer you an opportunity to control your (virtual) environment? Control that lacks in your real life?
- does it offer you a way to escape the stress and pressure of real life? A way to avoid thinking of your problems and dealing with them?
- similarly, does it offer a way to keep you procrastinating, because that big plan you have is too big and you have no idea where to start?
- does it offer excitement, thrills and a feeling of discovery and adventure that you do not feel in real life?
- any or all of the above?
- something else?

When you know what the issue is, which might be hard to face, is to try to break it down in smaller pieces, so that you can tackle things one little step at a time.
Then it is not so scary anymore, because instead of one big insolvable thing you have little things you can solve. and solving those little issues will make you feel good quickly, so you will have more motivation to keep going.

>>2874329
>it is likely that it is a symptom of something else
This to be honest.

>>2874329
I fucking hate playing dota though. I feel like a subhuman because I know hundreds of years in the future I will be forgotten, and I did it to play with 16 year old south americans learning how to operate a keyboard.

just quit this shitty online TCG. I spent so much time on it, but realized in the end none of this matters. I was rationalizing playing it as a way of unwinding, but I could be reading comics, watching a movie, or anything that could be more tangentially related to my art than this shitty video game. Fuck this gay shit

>>2874261
What you need to do, OP, is realize that the only reason you play video games in the first place is to fill a void that's lacking in your life. It's easy to feel fulfilled when you turn to a game that's designed to give you a sense of accomplishment, instead of tackling the real problem. But once you fully come to understand that the game is just tricking you into feeling like you've done something worthwhile, you may find yourself disgusted with how much time you've wasted.

>>2874496
>But once you fully come to understand that the game is just tricking you into feeling like you've done something worthwhile, you may find yourself disgusted with how much time you've wasted.

And that's when the depression hits

>>2874261
What game are you addicted to?

File: 1481674087598.gif (756KB, 500x375px) Image search: [Google]

756KB, 500x375px

>>2874270
>it's basic but not very helpful

The question is basic and not hard to solve.
>how do i do the thing
by doing it a lot
>how do i quit doing the thing
by not doing it anymore

it's not fucking rocket science. it's self-control.

>>2874261
>How do I break an addiction easilly?
No such thing. If you really like video games it will never be easy. I tried everything. Get interested in comics, movies, tv shows, etc but nothing ever compared to video games.

One thing that really helped me putting things in perspective. I'm 21, I'm not working or studying and if I don't try to something with my life now, I'll regret it forever.

As I started to improve I got excited about my art, and it helped to live without it. Of course I miss it sometimes and I even play sometimes. But only after drawing and no more for 2-3 hours straight.

If you really serious and want to go "extreme" about it sell all your video games, your gaming pc, close your steam account and buy a crappy notebook that won't allow you to play.

>>2874261

you are probably retarded. usually it works like this:

>start playing game
>get really good at game
>get fed up with low iq teammates
>quit game
>rines repeat with other games
>grow out of games naturally

>>2875245
>playing online games
lol

uninstall lmao

>>2874261
stop being a fag, fag

>>2874496
Isn't art the same thing just marginally more useful?

>>2874270
There is a Life RPG app that is perfect and called.... Life RPG

I used to be pretty obsessed with games, and like others have said video game addiction is usually just filling a void in your own life. The addiction eventually faded away for a few reasons. One thing I have to thank is art, because as soon as I began to love self improvement and learning to draw, videogames suddenly seemed quaint. If I had learned feel invested in my own life and to look forward to my future at a younger age I probably would have never played so many games.

The other reason is sort of similar to the first: I overall just learned to become bored by popculture in general. A lot of people these days are addicted to stupid shit to fill voids in their lives, videgoames, movies, TV, alcohol, food, social media, basically any form of instant gratification. It's all so vapid. Learn to appreciate more nuanced things in life.

Also consider trying LSD, that shit will really make you realize how small and insignificant some things are.

>>2875252
>he has no friends
topkek

>>2877553
I-it ain't funny

>>2874261
Draw about videogames.

Stop being an autistic manchild trying to escape his impotence by immersing himself in products designed to give children a cheap, readily available sense of achievement, you pathethic faggot.

>b-but how
Step away from the computer, you stupid shit.

>b-but I'm addicted
An undisciplined faggot is what you are. This is not booze you fucking cunt. Your body is not reliant on outside substance to function.
You're just a worthless lazy autist that is too much of a spoiled child t leave his comfort zone of acting like a 5 year old.

unplug your computer. take the cord and put it somewhere that makes it incredibly annoying to retrieve (throw it on your roof in a plastic bag or some shit). now when you feel the urge to game, read a book or go for a walk instead. it doesn't matter if you don't instantly become asian level 12 hours of drawing a day, the objective is to remove the overstimulating addictive media.

fall in love and then get your heart broken

i havent played games in months and now i just draw to distract myself from her

>>2874261
>How do I break an addiction easilly?
No such method exists, anon. The best you can do is set realistic goals for yourself and gradually try to get where you want to be.

>>2874261
Get rid of your games, box up any systems, Uninstall steam.

Let yourself play again once you stop missing them and have some self control. I'd say a solid 2 months at least without them would help.
Once you go back set a daily time limit.

Or just give up games completely, I did and now anytime I try to play them they dont hold my attention more than a few minutes.
But hey now I have a job making games so that's cool.

>>2874329
Great advice.

Also try to reflect upon the kind of games that you enjoy.

For me it was games with really pretty painterly styles, but it might not even be necessary art for you. It could be problem solving (strategy games) or communication/cooperation (mmorpgs).

Games we play tell a lot about ourselves, so try to think it through, it was very useful for me.

I have a GENIUS idea for you OP : just draw gaming stuff!!!

Problem solved.

>>2874261
>How do I break an addiction easilly?
You don't, otherwise it wouldnt be an addiction. Its something you have to tackle everyday.

>>2874261
Not gonna make it.

>>2877299
No because art is entirely subjective and self-directed

If your goal is 'get good at drawing to make money' then it is not a "fake" accomplishment when you actually reach that point.

>>2878402
Two ideas for you OP

I was in the same situation. I was addicted to vidya, it was encroaching on my physical fitness, my socialising, my sleep, and i didn't touch a pencil for months at a time. However, you can recover (and recover you must, or you WILL be a useless NEET or frycook with no time to draw or play).

1) Stop with the small achievement mentality. Stop thinking you only need to finish this one quest, or grind this last amount of coins or levels, or test out this new loot, or finish a raid, or do a daily, 'and then I'll draw/shower/sleep'. The quests are endless, the gold infinite, the raids terrible. Instead, think about this. Choose the games you are currently playing, and pick the best 2 or 3. And finish them. Not all the side quests, not 100% completion, just experience the parts that really interest you, unravel the story, git gud, try out all the game modes and then be done with it. Like reading a good book, you don't reread a chapter and grind it, you savour the first time experience and then put it back on your shelf after the pleasure of finishing it.

2) Realise that most games are fucking crap. Seriously, I understand the comfort you can derive from familiarity and satisfying gameplay, but these are not artistic works, or cerebral, or life changing, or deeply philosophical. They are juvenile, cynically crafted to get good reviews and appeal to every fedora tipper and GameStop customer, to weebs and to young teenagers who get addicted and spend huge amounts of their parents' dollaridoos on every expansion pack, every skin, every shitty bit of tie in merch. These games are cynical and derivative, especially in the modern era where gaming as a big industry with e-sports and huge investors drives the development to mindless sludge designed to empty wallets. Sure, enjoy classic games, labours of love by small developers, one-offs like Dark Souls etc, but don't regard them as 'Art' - they mock the term. You can do better.

I had the same problem like you OP.

>>2878090
>>2878124

Listen to these guys.
The thing about gaming is that it really is enjoyable. Nobody can deny that.

Also most people that play too much have a computer in their room and basically when you work on something at your desk like drawing, there is always the computer right in front of you. It's just natural to start thinking about it when you see it.

My solution to the problem was, getting myself a working laptop. A device specifically set up for productive stuff like drawing, programming, working and so on. Then delete all those programs from your gaming rig and just let the games stay. Now you have to realize that your old computer is just a powerful console with Internet access. Put it somewhere you would put a PS4. Maybe next to your couch or in the living room. Just get it off from under your nose. You wouldn't put heroine in front of a heroine addict all day, would you?

It's okay to play games every now and then but just do it in the evenings. It will be much more enjoyable after a day of hard work at your laptop.

>>2874261
You might think you are addicted to video games, but it's more likely that your brain is just hooked up on the slow drip of instant gratification that video games offer.

Find a different source for that rewarding feeling you crave. Make your brain associate that feeling with getting gud in drawing. Draw a bunch and when you have even slight progress, post it here to get compliments. That should give your brain that positive feedback it craves.

After a while, instead of playing video games, you will actually want to draw. You'll draw because your brain knows that it can get a better reward out of it. It will get not only a decent drawing that you can physically hold and show off to people, but it will also get the approval that you desperately want. Then you'll start to see video games as a lesser way of spending your time.

Keep in mind though that you're gonna be pretty shitty at drawing in the beginning. You will be shitty for a while. BUT if you really stay with it, like just bite the bullet of sitting down and actually drawing, you'll actually create something and improve. And that finished piece will be meaningful to you because you spent a lot of effort to achieve that. It will be just like video games but better because it's real life and it counts more in some sense. You don't have to believe it. You already subconsciously know that video games don't amount to real life achievements.

Just have your supplies always ready and nearby. Put on music and just get started. Also read the sticky and try to have some direction in your learning process. Make sure you know what you're working on and focus on that, otherwise you're gonna get overwhelmed and confused.

File: 1436864799034.gif (403KB, 426x267px) Image search: [Google]

403KB, 426x267px

I don't even have anything I procrastinate with. My brain would literally rather stare at the god damn wall than draw.

I don't even know if you could call this procrastination. It's not like I put it off and do it far later than I should. I just don't do it at all. The last time I drew was in January.

>>2874261

Remove videogames from your computer, unistall everything related to videogames. Get drawing.

>>2878559
So it's just lying to yourself.

>>2879533
>. Draw a bunch and when you have even slight progress, post it here to get compliments. That should give your brain that positive feedback it craves.
lol

>>2879601
Are you me? I just lay down in bed and feel bad for being alive.

File: 1426044078015.png (574KB, 1112x1600px) Image search: [Google]

574KB, 1112x1600px

>>2880053
Yeah, I've spent entire months in bed before. The worst part is people say "just do it", but I don't know why I can't.

File: 1479668389972.jpg (40KB, 1024x564px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 1024x564px

>>2879533
>post it here to get compliments

>>2880067
Sauce?

File: 1487805668500.jpg (433KB, 1357x1500px) Image search: [Google]

433KB, 1357x1500px

>>2874261
You're addicted to fake pats on the back by nonexistent entities.

Stop being a faggot.
>pic related

>>2882257
>implying real pats on the back even exist
I guess they do if you have social media. Must be nice.

>>2880067
second this >>2880079

>>2882262
>social media
>real
You need real friends, dude.

>>2874280
>>2874261
Uninstall your games, retard.

>>2880079
>>2882266
ニート女と小学2年生