im addicted to games pls help

>>129186860
Learn a new skill in life like the guitar or get fit.

>>129186860
Sort yourself out
or not

Because eventually you will get tired of chasing the dragon of Fun. Maybe not in a year, but maybe in 5. And you will realize that you have completely wasted years of your life doing nothing, learning nothing except for games. And all that experience is only valuable to those who sell you games. It's not valuable for any employer, it's not valuable to a mate, it's not valuable for yourself.

When you eventually loose your job, since no job is forever you'll be wishing you learned something, anything that has acutal value.

Even stupid hobbies can grow into basic jobs or careers.
Videa only leads to depression.

>>129187527
Take note õp,
Watch Jordan B Peterson video on procrastination.

Get fit

>>129186860
Bro. I would treat it as any other addiction. Go online for AA therapy and any advice they give for alcohol treat exactly the same just replace alcohol with games- i.e. phased withdrawal, replacement etc.

Gaming pretty much lights up the reward centres of the brain like any other wining/drug does: you need to understand this. That makes it a legit addiction. Gaming is equivalent to a drug to your brain.

t. Had same problem a while back

>>129187929
>>129186860
Estonia bro is 100% right

slightly addicted to Skyrim and War Thunder, but i'm getting better/more productive

>>129187929
p. much

I'm almost at the end now

I've started to get tired of games, I felt so disgusted with Batman Arkham Knight that I sold my PS4. I really want Tekken 7 now though since that's a series that's been a part of my life but I'm better without it. I still sometimes play steam or battlenet games on my laptop but it never goes over an hour a day.
Just fill your life with other more productive and fun shit, you'll notice how empty gaming is. It started feeling like a chore to me.

>>129186860
its escapism, you are trying to keep away from things you need to deal with and/or things that you know are good for you in the long run and/or hiding from things that could potentially hurt your feels.

if you don't address issues the gaming addiction will fade out because boredom, but it will be replaced by something else until you step out of your safespace.

its up to you, nobody cares but you.

>>129186860
asking this on a board where people probably spend up to 15 hours just shitposting political memes is not really a good idea

>>129186860
I recently got so addicted to a certain game that for the last 2 years I played it for about 60 hours a week. I went pro, one of the top players in the country. I had to get out though as it was damaging me to be obsessing about this game and living vicariously through a fucking character on a screen.

There's nothing wrong with games in moderation or with friends, but if you're addicted like you clearly are then you need to stop and assess shit. I really urge anyone who thinks they might be addicted to take a break for a week and see how you feel afterwards.

>>129189452
>not asking experts for their opinions

>>129186860
imagine yourself when 70 y.o

now look back at your life and all the wasted hours of "gaming"

now you gonna realize you wasted time for nothing

gained nothing

but wasted your best years

get an idea and work on it

>>129189618
this advice is good and should apply to any hobby or pastime. taking a break from an activity gives you renewed enjoyment with it afterwards i find.

i wonder how people become so involved in any one activity that heavily-for me i find most things boring to repeat every day or every time i have spare time. i suppose without onsession of a task we would lack all kinds of great artists though as obsession is usually associated with high complexity or quality results

>>129189803
>imagine yourself when 70 y.o
>now look back at your life and all the wasted hours of "gaming"

I have no regrets

>>129186860
My opinion has always been that if you can sustain yourself while doing it, by working and earning your own cash and that's sustainable, then whatever...it's your choice.

It may however be indicative of other problems like anxiety, depression, lack of motivation, being anti-social or a number of other things. Those things are typically not good to have and can be fixed with the right therapy or change in behaviour.

Was laid off for 45 days. Gamed enough to break it. Path of exile.
It hit me when I was grinding. It was like work, trading items/currency. Irl tho it meant nothing.
I had also hit my goal. recognition of my build. Was called a god.
Started lifting after that, dropped 30lbs with couple pounds more muscle.
The more addictions you can cut out the more you can transmute that energy into productivity.

i never had sex in my life but I have a Gold 4 main Draven, so its worth

I recently beat a Vidya addiction but now I just shit post for hours instead. I literally cannot into productivity and am only satisfied doing things that are a complete waste of time

all i do is play games, watch porn and browse pol

my reward center must be so fucked

>>129190168
same

and I love it

>>129188891
>Skyrim
>War Thunder
Sure is 2014 in here!

>>129186860
Playing video games 15 hours a day is all you will ever accomplish

>>129186860
Get a dog.

>>129190076
You gonna play next league though?
That update looks fun

>>129188891

Allan?

>>129187929
This.

I'm an oldfag and I eventually managed to get out of it, have a stable career, but I struggled and I've wondered many times why I didn't put the best years of my life to best use.

The psychological way it affects you is also very scary. Vidya are a very advanced cognitive-behavioral model of the global consumerist scheme and only the redpill (the understanding that vidya is just part of the (((mind-control matrix)))) can save you. It leads to failure and depression.

I'm out, I live a happy life, I'm invested in politics and I have a wife. But I'm pushing 40 and I still fantasize about going back to the dreamworld™.

what games you play? nothing but shit for a long while. I play about hour day maybe.

>>129186860
How old are you? I'm 23 and can't play anymore. I have Thief Gold installed on my computer, which I always wanted to play, but I did a few level and can't be bothered with it anymore. Guess you just need to wait to grow out of it.

Tho in my case the fact that I didn't have a laptop for 2 years and just didn't play any games because of that might have been a factor.

>>129190469
how does eating a meal would help?

I only become absorbed by games when I'm feeling down. If you have any troubling thoughts then you'll want to sort that out before you make a start on vidya.

>>129191523
becoming absorbed by games is the best thing that can happen desu

>>129186860
It's a patch on the internal chaos and powerlessness in a person who craves power and order in real life.

Clean your room.

>>129190003
get back to us when you're 70 and trying to have a conversation with humans about some shitty video game, that never meant anything to anyone in the real world, from 40 years ago.

Everyone here is being surprisingly supportive for a /pol/ thread. See I've noticed that games have basically become a chore, too. None of them are fun, and it's like I'm just playing to get my fix (hence my realisation that it's a problem). But for fucks sake I made the idiot decision after high school to skip college/uni because I thought it was a better idea to get a job and try to make a living off Twitch streaming. Ended up in the homeless shelter situation because I couldn't afford rent since I was calling in sick to work too much, and now that I have my own place again I'm falling back into the same routine. Gonna try and hit the gym though. Maybe that'll be a better use for my 14.99 instead of a fucking MMO subscription. And shit I thought the whole gaming being a scheme to control the populace belief was just me.

>>129191956
Gym seems a nice start.
Just find other things to do which you are also interested in but never bothered/were to afraid to do.
As somebody who loves games (over 350 on steam alone) even I started getting bored of games. Mainly because most games that come out nowadays are really only things we have played before.
And, even though you might not like it, if you don't have enough money for the things you wanna do try to work more.

>>129186860
Google ' Skinner's Box', and know that it really was the jews all along.
https://levelskip.com/misc/Skinners-Box-and-Video-Games

>>129186860
I recommend not stopping completely but trying new things; probably something you enjoy but don't pay much attention to.
Take on-board the advice in this thread, just don't feel bad about yourself because you're not currently an ubermensch (nobody is).

>>129186860
How fucking much are you getting paid to afford all of that with just a part time job?

Also you are living a virtual reality. Theres a big world out there with lots of things to experience, but you choose to play some video jew all day long in a dark room instead.

>needs someone to tell him gaming for 15h a day will destroy his life

Just fucking off yourself m8
And stream it

>tfw immune to video games because I have OCPD and whenever I play a game or read/watch something I close it so I can write a better version, never enjoying something on its own

Invest in an arcade quality mat and play stepmania.

That or a pair of dumbbells. It takes almost zero time to do a dumbell routine. You can do full sets during champion select/load times.

Just know that you will gain no job skills from video games. This isn't a problem if you can properly manage your money and live in a city with cheap rent.

>>129186860
>I need more reasons than just "it's unhealthy" or "it's unproductive".

OK so being poor forever or dying early are not good enough reasons for you? Neck yourself mate

Work full time, pick up another hobby you maybe liked as a kid, maybe sports or an instrument. Gaming is barely considerd a hobby as much as watching movies are. They're fun, but nowhere as rewarding as sports/music. Reading is also good. Just try to slowly reduce gaming. And when time comes you'll realize most games are garbage anyway.

>>129191876

Most people will not have memories from when they were young to share or talk about.

The only stories my grandfather ever had were war stories and stuff about the lions club. (Charity/local community group he joined when he was older).

People dont remember stuff. It's why we take photos and marvel at how things looked. We were all there, and they were shining moments in our life, but we couldn't recall any of it without being prompted.

I randomly will get caught up in games, where I will put in like 8 hours a day into a game for a few weeks, then I get bored and don't play anything for awhile, then get bored and do it again.

When overwatch first came out I was staying up late playing the shit out of it. Civ 5 will waste days of my life randomly, then recently Xcom (the original one) sucked away like 80 hours over a two week span. Terraria, skyrim, and CS:GO are repeat offenders too.

While I could have spent that time cleaning the house or not putting off paying a bill or selling something, I still do well in school and work. Still, it shouldn't take as much time out of my life as it does. I am trying my best to not play the video jew more than an hour or so at most.

>>129192954
What's a good dumbbell routine? I have 55lb adjustable dumbbells (from 5lbs to 55lbs) but I can already bench and squat them without much effort. The only thing they seem good for is arm exercises.

>>129191956
>Gonna try and hit the gym though. Maybe that'll be a better use for my 14.99 instead of a fucking MMO subscription.
I say skip the gym and start investing in equipment to work out. You can cut into your game time with working out.
Buy some dumbells and a curl bar. They're cheap for a set if each.
Most of the sets come with an instruction manual.
You can find everything on youtube that you're not sure of.
Buy a bench in a few weeks and add that to your routine.
Or keep an eye on Craigslist for someone tossing one out.
A good hour workout for 30 minutes a day starting will get you on the road to getting in shape.
In 3 or so months you'll be blowing through an hour routine no prob.
Just toss out an hour of gaming for your bench. You can have both easily.
Add a cardio routine for your off days.
Get a bike somehow and start putting miles on it.
Go hiking.
Go swimming.
Do whatever it is that you need to do.
Hell do all of them and get a variety.
Also start taking multivitamins every day.

>>129186860

As someone who played at the vdry highest levels of 1.6, EQ and WoW I have intimate knowledge on this subject (american on vacation dont mind flag, London is beautiful.) Ablut seven years ago at age 25 I dropped mmos finally and got a career in IT. I made a lot of money for someone that works inside someones elses company. I will get my own later. I marred a very smart, pretty asian too. You can have all of this, I guarantee it.

You have to see it all for what it is. You are literally doing absolutely nothing ahen playing a game. You might as well be staring at a wall. I still play, I use it as a stress relief and recreational but for a addict, as I was, do not play anything you can not instantly put down and walk away from. For the first few years do not play a single thing. Just focus on yourself, not your pixel avatar. Then when you go to play a game much later youll find it very boring unless its something that really gets those dendrites going.

Go to work. Study hard. I suggest IT certs if you have already fucked up your life. I did networking. Depending on how smart you are you will move fast with certs and studying hou can make a lot of money. Exercise too, your body will thank you. Regiment. If your onlinr buddies were ever cool with you, they will cheer you on, as what happened with my case.

>>129194552

I need to put on the spell check shit my phone skills blow

At the end of the day you spent all that effort to rearrange a few ones and zeros

>>129186860
lots of /b/ tier thread here today

>>129186860
Find another outlet through which you can reexpress your gaming addiction. Playing music or drawing, or anything really, and it'll help you find a deeper appreciation for life.

Vidya ain't bad in itself, but like all things, it can consume your life.

The best way to reorient yourself would be to ask yourself "what did I do today?" That's how I dropped MOBAs because goddamn they are THE biggest waste of time on this planet.

who cares at this point, keep on playing. the real life is shit anyway and wage slavery is no fun either

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>>129186860
You need real friends,friendship is what elevates people above this hell world
find a way to force yourself to go out and socialize

>>129194117

I honestly don't know, I just play stepmania and do random curls and lifts durine champ selects.

I could tell the difference quickly though.

>>129195691
no you don't, most people are untrustworthy shitpiles who would stab you in the back the moment they could, women especially.

>>129195877
That's why i said real friends...i had fake friends too , who had no conscience betraying me
you need to find real people , not the mask wearing psychopaths...of course first you have to know yourself

>>129194357
Actually I'd recommend gym.
That's what I did. It's more motivating to go do it if it's costing you something per month. Also it's good to work out around other people since you can see their form cam spot you etc. And good weights are expensive. If you want to do strong lifts 5x5 you need a good bar and bench and rack. Shit adds up quickly. The 15 or 20 a month is much better then the hassle of creating a home gym. At least at the start.

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>>129196427
90% of people are fake, only real people you meet are people who become your bros, people who you have stuck with through thick or thin and actual real danger, most people are completely two faced.

>>129193363
>ever had were war stories
Like that's nothing, meanwhile Grandpa Gamertard is telling his boyfriends wifes son's new tranny lover about how he was such a badass when using TrackIR to fight Klendathu infiltrators during that epic Boss battle in Pixelland all while pissing in his 3-liter bottles he's kept stored under his triplewide surround-sound fitted loungechair as he munches on Prozac™.

>>129186860
monitoring this thread because I'm in the same situation, except that I know it's bad but I don't know how to stop

>>129196954

It means people only remember things if it was some serious shit.

The brain won't store much else without being prompted. It's in there, just not easily recalled.

>>129197487
What job do you have?

>>129187929
>>129188463

lol Estoniabro is not fucking correct. Video games are getting better and more immersive. if anything he's on the road to being completely smitten with each generation of gaming more than the last. You have nothing but a ball on a stick so I'm not surprised you didn't know that

>>129189618
>take a break for a week

I tried this, except for a day, instead of playing 15 hours, only 3, in the evening.
It was so hard. I've never done anything else. I read and read but still had this craving for the computer. in the end I was just going round and round. I limited myself to one game (PC), I have a PS4 but rarely touch it. I can't play for more than an hour without feeling bored, and launching another game because I have nothing to do between this and this website.

Unless you're in the top 10 in the world it's a waste of time.

>>129186860
I stay semi-current with the gaming world due to my interest in technology, but as soon as the 10-15 min mark hits nowadays, I start thinking "I got other shit to do". I think we Men have an innate need to "build" things. You can fulfill that need by building in a virtual environment or the real one. The real one will pay off exponentially more. Find a hobby you have interest in and consume yourself with it.

>>129186860
As long as you have enough time and money for your life, health, food, hygiene and hobbies, it's okay to play 15 hours in a day. And it's better, than being in social networks/doing drugs/etc.

>>129195362
Fuck off faggot.
Real life ain't shit, you just ain't playing it right. If all you do is wageslave get a better job. There's a endless amount of possibilities in life. Saying why bother limits it to a shit subset. You got to go out and find the cool shit, can't just be a pessimistic shit head and expect anything other then shit.


If you want something to do look at the working vacations in Australia. You'll make more money in a week doing simple labor jobs then you wageslave job. Then when you get back use what you've earned to improve your life. Get a better job and perhaps attract a mate.

People aren't back stabing fakes. Your an entitled bitch who expects people to just hand you good experiences.

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>>129197487
at least you admit you have a problem, and that's a good thing, now you just have to find something positive that will fill that time.
Here's what I did.
>cancelled any subs I had
>threw out my chair, not my PC
>got rid of smart phone and downgraded to just a shitty flip phone
>already saving money now
>bought a used supermoto, you Euros have the best bikes btw.
>rode that motherfucker everywhere all day and all night sometimes.
>met some REALLY GOOD people and travel everywhere doing wheelies, tricks, etc. and basically having more fun in 1 year than in last 10 years combined.

Seriously man, get a cheap bike and go have fun, meet good people, create a new beginning for yourself, and take your country back.

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>>129186860
Ill redpill you on (((gaming))) especially stupid shit hole companies like (((valve)))
they been making non-games now for like 10years. any objective in a game they had to remove as i was working on Multiplayer mod games for games and was hearing the fbi where telling htese modders they couldnt make a fun game
all games now are shitty if i was to think it up i could relate it to something very stupid, easy childish
half the games arent (((finished))) nowadays
stupid godamn mother fuckers dont even care
lets put for example
NO MANS SKY
WHAT A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT GAME
i actually bought it cause of the description th eguy who made it said the advertising for it
next thing i do is check the discussion on (((steam))) on it
everyone says everythign they said was in the game was a lie

no real 3d space
no multiplayer
nothing

your not flying your moving in a small bubble,they called a solar system to 3 objects away from you, that sun over there part of this system is only a mirage

multiplayer was a mirage

and some idiots who call themselves legit called this all "legit"
legit for SHIT its BULLSHIT and they sold it as a movie they gave a fuck less about

these idiots can get away with LYING TO YOU SO FUCK EVERYHTING EVERFYONE SAYS IN THIS FUCKINNG THREAD
AND UNTIL THEY MAKE DEMOS, STOP SELLING DRM
AND START LISTENNING AGAIN TO THE CUSTOMER AFTER (((STEAM))) STOLE TEAM OFRTRESS2 FROM THE BUYERS AND TURNED IT INTO A STOLEN GAME WHERE THEY JEW OUT HATS AND CLAIM THEY HAVE VALUE
YOU MIGHT AS WELLPLAY WITH YOUR DICK

BUT HEY GUYS (((LETS') TALK ABOUT GAMES

The only problem I see is that its not me playing vidya all day.

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>>129186860
I used to be addicted like you, then I realized there was more to life after throwing my 17th controller across room.I mean every single game they make now is trash, and most of the "good games" they make are clones of other games you already bought (or pirated).

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>>129198798
>next thing i do is check the discussion
>next thing
That should have been the FIRST thing you did before buying into the lie.
How much more time and money will you waste before you come back to your senses?

>>129197780
Nah man, I've been playing games for my whole life, basically addicted.
Look at any fucking game, they are so fucking simple using psychological hooks. In most games you can't unlock new items, you gamble for them.
The most other games are just games where you repeat actions in order for numbers to just increase.

It's not more immersive, it's more addictive.

>>129187929
This. I lived it. My life now sucks.

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Serious question, what games are there out there right now that are fun enough to even get addicted to?

The last enjoyable game I played was Diablo 2 it's like everything since then has been shit.

>>129187929
>tfw already at 25+ years of gaming

You kids are so cute. I have a full time job though, 10 years solid

>>129200578
Then don't gamble.

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>>129186860
>plays games 15 hours a day
>works part time. Essentially you play almost constantly when you're not working if you play 15 hours a day.
Dude your social life and practical things in your house/flat must be utter shit with that kind of stuff.
It also seems like you've essentially setup your life to play as much as you possibly can.
Every skill you make in video games (except maybe those requiring leadership and organization which is a meta part either way) is essentially useless in real life.
In those 15 hours a day you could have learned so many skills, and attained so much new knowledge etc. met so many new people and having so many potential opportunities open up for you, that you are crippling yourself tremendously by doing this. And starting a family? Nope. A woman doesn't want to start a family with an adult child. And what of exercize? You have no time to do that or do sports or similar whatsoever with that kind of situation.

Vidya is fine but if you can't limit it to a few hours a week or something or in some cases a bit more if it's really a hobby for you, but if it gets more than that, you should stay the fuck away from it because it then becomes extremely damaging for your life.
And unless you are making money off doing it like some popular streamer or similar. Nobody over the age of say 25 should be playing vidya whatsoever and it's mostly for kids under 18. And even then parents need to restrict the fuck out of it so that they do their homework and everything FIRST including making sure they do sports and other stuff.

Don't play that much vidya, you're going to ruin your life and future opportunities are going to become increasingly tiny and you're going to get old fat ugly weird and lonely before you know it. Stop doing it say yes to life instead.

>>129200937
>things

Max Payne 3, Bioshock Infinite. They are not new either, though.

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It loses the fun aspect over time and almost becomes an unpaid job. I understand the need for a vent, escape, etc, but it can easily cross the obsession line with false achievement fulfillment. It's a synthetic substitute for success with little consequence for failure. Lots of artificial gain for zero repercussions.
>Sim anything
A literal simulation with no investment into the build up, just the playing out of the critical part of a fictional life, the customisable character is the deepest hook to drag you into the simulation because it is your avatar that is accomplishing everything on your behalf with no involvement beyond getting your nose arc right on the character. Think porn, all the sensations and chemical reactions are there, but the other human is a 2d video simulation. You can never have children or a family as a result of using porn, all the pleasure, none of the work, none of the legacy or reward of it's original purpose.

I'm a manager for an arcade.
40 to 50 hour work weeks and play video games and smoke weed in my free time.
If you like video games just make sure you can turn that into a skill somehow.

>>129200937
>The last enjoyable game I played was Diablo 2
Really, running through the same levels at different difficulties over and over again in hope of epic loot which makes it easier and no real accomplishment other than that but a massive waste of time?

Diablo II was the original heroinware. And they've just gotten more sophisticated from thereon using the same recipy so that it almost becomes a job to play them. A job in which you don't get paid, but pay a game company to work in a digital world in which months or years of effort is completely gone by the flip of a switch.

People who don't want to mess up their lives and don't have some medical problems or mental problems where they can't work don't get involved in those games, and those that do can end up with the aforementioned like depression because of all the shit they missed out by wasting their time on this bullshit.

Eu4 suck my life away and my engineering degree help

>>129201703
It's called role playing you fag

>>129186860
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POL/ GO TO FUCKING VIDEOGAMES BOARD FOR THIS SHIT. FUCK OFF

>>129187929
>chasing the fun dragon

Thats the problem with most gamers, and im only taking about PC gamers here- They only care about winning to make themselves feel better.

If you occasionally play strategy games in order to challenge your mind and think about things in a different way, its an entirely different thing.

Stop playing competitive shooting games and start playing strategy/engineering/puzzle games. They will actually help you be a more rounded person, unlike modern AAA games.

>>129190168
This. Every day I chide myself for pissing away my time instead of lifting or advancing my education/career skills, but I still shitpost on here or play games.

>>129201880
>diablo II
>role playing
Yeah falling for the heroinkike and running around the same levels fighting the same bosses 320139123012 times with the main variation being
>oh epic loot now i can kick even more ass look how awesome i am, follow me if you just beat the game 1239812 times
>you too will get this very cool item so you can do the same as me.
Rather not.

Vidya is fun for NEW experiences that can expand your horizon, when games become too repetitive or requires you to spend MUCH time to even accomplish basic thing or similar most people get bored and realize it's not cost/benefit efficient whatsoever, but that's where the addictive people fall right into the trap and get consumed by those games. Hence is why it's called heroinware because of how it starst to interfere with the persons normal life.

There are two games that a person with an addictive personality needs to stay away from. Very repetitive games like first person shooters where they get hooked on constantly honing their skills to do it slightly better than everybody else, skills which are ofcourse completely irellevant and in a real life scenario with a real life skill this would otherwise be a good thing but since it's a fictitious reality/situation it's detrimental that this kicks in.

Games that are deliberately setup so every task is so incredibly time consuming that they guarantee you playing a certain amount of hours or not at all whilst earning money off you for doing so. Where the addictive personality gets hooked by it's desire to complete the task and the potential reward eventhough it's meaningless to their real life and few even care if they did it or not.

If you stay away from those kinds of games or be EXTREMELY careful when encountering such a game i think most people even people with addictive personalities will be just fine.

>>129186860
Wasted potential. There is a word called neuroplactisity. Go look this up. Youth is an opportunity to achieve intelligence that is relevant in adult life. Gaming often has little to offer in personal development any more. It is a frequent occurrence for me to yell up the stairs at my nephew, "Knock off the Xbox mouth!". Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like less and less games are adding to useful personal development.

>>129200937
Dark souls 1 really had that late 90's feel of quality imo. The games after that were shit.

>>129201312
>games with unskippable cutscenes

How are those games addictive?

>>129200937
>>129203760

I will second Dark Souls 1. One of the best games ever made, period.

Furthermore, I'm not completely hateful towards gaming. If that is your Friday night beer league with coworkers and friends (real life). I see no problems.

>>129203469
(cont)
In essence if you see what types of games the addictive personalities fall for that will dedicate 15 hours of gameplay time to do them, it's tasks that would be good in a real life scenario, that kicks in in a fictitious scenario.

a) addicted to constantly honing a specific skill to be insanely good at it
b) desire to complete the task they are given no matter what. (yeah yeah i'm coming just gotta get this fucking shit done!)

If this kind of discipline and work ethic was applied in a real life situation these people would be fucking workhorses but since the psychological triggers kick in in a virtual reality situation none of what they do fucking matters. So they just end up like fat and lonely gamers playing 15 hours a day like the OP. It's fucking tragic.

>>129186860
It's merely achievement porn within such a restricted confine that bots can do it better and the whole genre seems as though it was designed to produce followers that feel like they are leaders. Status is where ever you think it is though and you will continue to do it for ever because you have no self-control.

>>129186860
Its literally as easy as just stopping. I used to play waaaaay too many games too. I failed classes, missed work, skipped social functions, fuck one time I even skipped going to a party with a girl I KNEW would fuck me just to meet up with my tribe and go on a raid on ARK.

so I just formatted my gaming rig, sold it, sold all my consoles, and gave away all my games. I bought a weak-sauce laptop that can basically just send emails and write word documents.

You go through withdrawal, ignore it. Cold turkey. When I get feeling the compulsion to play any game I go for a run, hit the gym, or read a book.

I also cut out fapping too. Im 25, I dont gotta be jerkin off 3 times a day like a frustrated 15 year old anymore. It made sex way better because now instead of comparing every encounter to porn im just enjoying the sex.

Ya gotta admit electronic media is an addiction and treat it just like a heroin fixation or alcoholism. Cold turkey, no compromise, no excuses, just run away.

I dont even permit myself to have a casual modern warfare session at my buddies places cuz I know I will imiediatley begin obsessing over getting a new console or gaming rig and will just end up back where I started in an endless cycle of masturbation, junk food, oversleeping, and antisocial reclusiveness.

Im not going back to that. Not ever. My l8fe is good now, im getting married, Im getting ready to buy a house, I got a dog.
Im not giving it up for pornhub and MMORPGs.

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>>129200937
I still play Halo 2 a lot, but so far you're right, most games fucking suck balls these days.

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The positives of gaming aren't being recognized in this thread.

I have no doubt it sharpens mental faculties, and RPGs can have as rich of plots as the best novels. It just shouldn't be the center of your life. Career/family/friends/relationships/personal development should be.

Then on the other hand, it's a good opiate for the truly hopeless 300 lb beta autists out there. It's better than shooting up heroine, drinking all day, and watching tv.

15 hours a day might be over doing it, but when i was an ignorant blissful useless idiot (stay at home daddy) i was incredible unhappy and played video games ALL DAY. Got rid of the parasite that had spawned two more blood suckers, now i barely ever play video games anymore. Your gonna need to change up something in your life. Make it so YOU HAVE to get out of the house and do regular shit or you will be glued to that screen and keyboard until your a mushy pile of wasted carbon bASED life form

>>129186860
you don't need any redpill, don't listen to those shitheads here telling you to learn a new skill or to find some new hobby... don't believe you're gonna be SOMEONE if you play a fuckin guitar or a famous fuckin painter if you learn to paint... life ain't a cartoon, no one cares! play the games if you like it, otherwise you'll end up in despair looking for some shitty way out and you won't find any... you should do what feels good to you

>>129204080
Agreed. People will spend 18 hours killing the same boss over and over and over for the chance to get a gun with +3% damage so they can kill the same boss over and over faster.

If they spent just 90 minutes a night studying a language or practising an instrument or pursuing a skill theyd be fuckin experts in 18 months, but nobody fuckin does that. The vast resivoir of wasted man hours sucked up by heroinware is fuckin staggering.

>>129204572

are you good?

>>129204709
Games are also good for keeping the weight off. When you're bored and having nothing to do, you are more likely to eat something just to fill that void.

I know when I got rid of all my gaming habits, I gained a good 15 lbs and had to conscientiously start cutting to get back down.

Sometimes I think about getting back into gaming just because it fills that little bit of void in your life, but eh

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>>129204879
>don't listen to the shitheads telling you to learn a new skill or a new hobby
What is wrong with opening your horizons?I'm kinda glad I got off the vidya jew addiction.Not only am I learning more about life, I can actually blink.

>>129205372
I used to be really good when I was a kid, now i'm like....kinda garbage.

Think of all the wasted time. With that time you could have taught yourself a language, hobby or skill. Being sedentary leads to weight gain and poor health.

>>129186860
if youre skinny you should post dick pics.

>>129205553

Yeah probly same here. That game was so fucking busted though and 3v4i had absolutely zero interest in fixing it. Saddest fucking shit i've ever experienced in video games. And haven't touched my xb1 (that I bought for that game) in probably 2.5 years now. Or however long it's been. Played for like 4 months after that piece of shit came out, or so.

>>129205196
I disagree. Whatever floats your boat and get you past this life is good enough.

>>129199996
this game was mass false advertised. people should be able to trust the game developer that he isn't straight-up fucking lying.

however, you're right. people shouldnt buy games without letting others vet them first. Bugs are rampant in the first 2 weeks after launch anyway in any game. thank DLC culture for th-

wait why the fuck is this on /pol/

>>129186860
Unemployed welfare niggers who game 15 hours a day are still niggers. You will be roped when the day comes.

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>>129205781
>be burger
>quit all games
>learn german
>work out
>learn carpentry
>get skilled position for $20 an hour
>go to germany for the summer
>meet awesome red pilled girl, get married eventually
>back in germany now completing her immigration stuff so she can come live in merricuh with me
>between our two savings accounts we got enough to buy some land in Montana and build a house.
>pic related, gonna be our house
>since skilled carpenter with lots a connections in the buisiness now house will only cost $40,000 to build
>fuck games. Games didnt want me to succeed, they wanted me to keep wasting my potential on a digital pay to play hamsterwheel

>>129205468
there's nothing wrong with opening horizons as long as you don't force yourself to open horizons and don't quit what feels good

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>>129205969
They still haven't fucking fixed it, the spawns in halo 1 and 2 are trash, and the controls on halo 3 suck balls, none the less the lag in halo 3 makes it unplayable.But yeah you're right, the Xbone was a fucking rip off, considering that microsoft is now pandering to the (((diversity))) crowd.

>>129206536
Thats pretty much the gaming slacker in denial equivalent of "so what if im fat? It feels good!"

>>129206439
Lies and more lies.

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>>129206703
Huh uh.

>>129206702
welp, I don't play video games, I'm just a realist... tried to do productive shit for the last 5 years and guess what, "in the end it doesn't even matter"... and I hate my life now because of false pursuit of being SOMEONE

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>>129186860

I have a friend who is just like you.

We are a group of 5 friends.

While everyone was working or studying, he was playing vidya. That was 3 years ago.

Now, everyone has a job, a family and a normal life. We all make plans for the future and are advancing our careers.

Not him though, he only got some playstation trophies and steam achievements out of his last 3 years. He is still at square one of his life, he hasn't advanced anything at all.

We have whole family barbecues at one of our places from times to times. He comes alone from his mother's.

Take that as you like.

>>129201994

This, But ofc i'm biased because the first PC game I played was Red Alert 2.

>>129203517
you saw this in a commercial for pleb TV

Used to be top 500 in bf1 skill, played 5 plus hours a day, staryed failing out of school, got my xbox ston by some nig, got it back but he broke it, grades have gone uo significantly since

>>129186860
Everything bad people said here applies to TV as well. Just have a balanced life and don't play all day. Go to the gym faggots.

>I need more reasons than just "it's unhealthy" or "it's unproductive".
KYS

>>129209178
True, I've noticed this in myself.
Really it's impossible to not have a vice it seems.

At least TV has an end, MMOs and multiplayer games don't.

>>129200937
3 is 2 with more leniency

>>129207027
>Aboriginal flag on passport

BOONGD

I dont know why but video games to me suddenly became very boring. Especially since the newer trend in games where you can never finish them, just constantly chasing some daily goal.
>earn this much xp and unlock this skin!
You know bullshit like that. You can never complete a game like that.

>used to play 15h a day
>got fit
>got gf
>moved abroad
>got cucked out of $60k

so many regrets. could have spent it all on vidya :(

t. leaf

>>129186860

doing anything you're not getting paid to do for 15 hours a day is a problem. if you haven't figured that out, you're dumb.

>>129187929
Nail on the head, I played some games professionally and used to make some money on the side to justify spending 90% of my time while awake on the pc but damn I'm just thinking of all the shit I could have done in those 4 years. Some people can just stop while for others you need to just keep continuing your lifestyle until you eventually just get bored and fed up. Sadly I fell into the latter. Depression and social anxiety didn't help either

Though I'm lucky I'm still young and in college otherwise I'd have probably offed myself at this point

>>129204561
>

rare achievement unlocked, congrats on leveling up!

>>129186860
do drugs instead like a normal-barely-functioning member of society, faggot.

At least you're forced to go out and look at people and even maybe make a cool friend or two who'd point you towards some of the better things in life you probably only understand on a "oh I read about someone doing this" basis

>>129200937
Nothing afaik, last fully addicting game was probably wow pre cata

>>129204561
You sound like a larper. Nobody ignores a girl to play games, that's cucked to all hell. You just want OP to stop what he's doing. HEY OP, WHY DON'T YOU EXERCISE WHILE PLAYING? GET SOME PEDALS ON YOUR CHAIR!

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Being into vidyia =/= being a fat neckbeard with no life. You are into vidya BECAUSE you are a fat neckbeard, not because vidya turned you into one.

look at the biggest Twitch streamers. They dont just play games, they work out, cook, go out, etc..

>>129186860
Over the past year, I'd barely touched any fucking games despite how many I have.
When you're in an overabundance, it wears on you after a while.
The only exceptions to this recently would have been P5 and Zelda. I'd finished em all about a month ago, and haven't really touched any games since.

Before that and even now, the stress and depression of not even being able to enjoy the only thing I'd consistently been able to do well and communicate with to people, more and more people around me had started to catch up on the 'Young Woke Person of Political thinks' and in order to cope with that, reading became a kind of replacement addiction.

Philosophy, economics, business, history and psychology kept me hooked from paged to page (or mp3 to mp3)
While I wouldn't be as arrogant to say I'm one who truly sees at last and knows all better, I can at least engage with people a little better, and I even communicate with people twice my age even better than my own.
Even playing games had a new spice to it in some small ways.

I'm pretty motivated to not necessarily just get a job for money and living, but to assist an employer in actually making some valuable input towards the business that is their current lifes work. To know I am at least that much more than just a hand to serve and clean, motivates me to look forward to the shit I thought I used to dread.

Granted a lot of people my age outside of the vidya and meme shouting sphere hate my guts on anything more than surface level interactions.

>>129186860

Get a job ya fuckin bum

Cured my gaming addiction almost immediately. No longer had the drive to sit and focus on a game instead wanting to relax and just browse the internet / listen to talk radio in my free time.

Considering that life is meaningless, there's nothing wrong playing 15 hours

>>129212220
That's a lotta boids.

>>129199934
Fucking this

I played GTA5 a bunch and when I would die I fucking throw my battle controller across the room. Had a 60' inch plasma and I was playing hijacked on black ops 2 and broke the plasma. Playing games is costly if you get pissed easily like me.

>>129212220
The Jew advocates gaming... hmmm

>>129186860

How old are you? I used to be a video game addict up until my mid twenties. I just sort of lost interest. I still play games but I don't know any game that is fun enough to play for 10+ hours. I get a headache after playing for 2 hours.

>>129188038
is it bad i've bookmarked it to watch later

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>>129199996
how does anybody ever have the game then know whats in it first go suck gaben your god off more faggot

You're spending 15 hours a day improving a useless skill and gathering items that have no value except in a virtual world whilst everyone around you is improving useful skills and gathering items with real value

>>129187929
This. Gaming is for fucking losers. You get NOTHING out of it. You spend hours and hours doing it and there's nothing at the end. Vapid shit. Stopped long ago.

>>129186860

How can you even have any questions about why it's a bad thing? You get about 75 years on this earth. The first 18, you're a retarded kid. The last 15, you're a crippled old man. That means you have 42 good years to live. And you want to burn three or four of them doing something that doesn't even exist?

But it's worse. Because your window to have kids basically closes forever by the time you hit 40... along with your chance to build professional contacts and experience + social skills.

But the WORST part by far is that you only have one chance to be young. You only have ONE gust of youthful exuberance and tenacity. And, when you hit 35-40 as a poor, socially-anxious, marginalized loser and realize (for the first time in your life) that you'll be dead before you know it and it's too late to do much to change things, than you'll understand.

People think that they can ALWAYS make a drastic u-turn in life, and just change things whenever they feel like it. But that's not really true. Your age is very much tied to your ability to make meaningful changes. And the longer you go, the more windows just close forever.

>>129186860

I can help you out. The truth is you don't really like or enjoy video games. The truth is you hate regular life and you need
something to escape to and the safest place for you to do that in is a video game where there are no consequences no
suffering for mistakes and if you do fail you can start over and reset the game without suffering permanently. Man up
stop being a bitch and face life head on, or keep hiding like a little bitch behind your video games and live your life
that way. Either way its your life and youre the decision maker, you will get whatever you decide even if it is a whiny
little bitch life thats beaten by a video game. I CANT STOP PLAYING MOMMY PLZ HELP ME A VIDEO GAME IS HOLDING ME DOWN! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA lol HAHAHAHA :D

>>129201157
I'm with you bro. Gotta smoke through that shit.

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>tfw used to love video games but now it feels like a chore

I dunno what happened. I mean once in a while I find one that I enjoy, lately I've been playing RS2 on the weekends, but I used to enjoy it so much more.

>>129210448
>got cucked out of $60k
I want to know the story

>>129186860
GAMING IS SIMULATED ACCOMPLISHMENT. IT RELEASES THE SAME CHEMICALS AND FEELINGS IN YO BRAIN THAT DOING SOMETHING DOES, EXCEPT YOU AREN'T ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING. THE LONGER YOU DO IT, THE MORE MEMORIES OF GOOD FEELINGS YOU ASSOCIATE WITH IT.

STOP IT. GO OUT AND LEARN TO FUCK WHITE CHIX.