Do any of you here plan on curing your video game addiction?

[tential]

Same with fallout 4. It kills me that 90% of the time I can max out everything and get 60fps, but in town that drops to like 20fps. Had to turn the shadow distance down to medium to fix it, and I effing hate it. AMD needs to release some optimized drivers or something, but at this rate I'll have finished the game before they do.

I have a hardware obsession of testing games font enjoy playing as much.

I don't see ops position as a problem until it ruins your life or makes you unhappy otherwise you're fine.

Actually I've found that forcing myself to be social led to a decrease in my happiness. I started gaming again recently since I prefer my alone time and I play single player games mostly now compared to multi-player in the past.

People spend their time watching movies, TV, drinking, etc. Even working out can be an obsessive bad hobby.

There is no right or wrong way to live life.

 

[tential]

I was actually thinking about posting a topic on something similar. I was going to ask people how they balance video games and life, because it's currently a huge issue for me.

I usually go thru stages:

1. Desire to play video games
2. Look at Let's Play videos on You Tube
3. Download Steam and 1-2 games from my library.
4. Play games for hours on end.
5. Get depressed that I'm wasting my life.
6. Watch a few personal development videos that confirms that I should be doing better things with my life.
7. Depression intensifies.
8. Delete Steam/video games from my computer.
9. Feel relieved that I'm bettering myself.
10. The need to play video games comes back.
11. Tell myself that I can do both! Play video games and lead a productive life.
12. Download Steam/video games again...

The cycle continues.

I've probably downloaded and deleted Steam 100 times so far. I get so upset with myself, because I get this feeling that video games are a waste of time. That I should be this ultra productive person whose making a dent in this world.

I just downloaded Steam for the last time. I'm going to try to put my game playing on my day to day calendar. Maybe if I can pencil in my gaming time for the day that I can enjoy gaming without feeling that it's a waste of time. We need down time. I don't care if you work 80 hours a week. You need time to enjoy your hobbies. The problem comes when your hobbies start to infect other aspects of your life. Then you will have life issues.

That cycle you describe I find the depression starts not because we think we're wasting our lives. It's because we think other people think we're wasting out lives which is depressing. When you aren't worried about everyone else's judgements, you end up doing exactly what you want to do and you realize you're a lot more happy. I love gaming, but gaming depressed me at some point not because I didn't want to game but because I let my family influence my feelings about gaming. Now, I don't worry about my gaming. I come home, play some smash or a single player game, and I'm much happier than I was going out to bars or whatever since that's not what I want to do(although maybe I'll go to bars and drink and do other things but right now I want to game!).


Do what you want, be true to yourself, screw everyone else or everything inbetween and you'll be happy.

 

[n0x1ous]

AMD needs to release some optimized drivers

they did today.

 

[local]

No, never.

 

[BoberFett]

Zaza sent me a PM confessing that he's addicted to bestiality. And I don't mean watching twisted porn, I mean actually having sex with animals.

It's sad to hear that instead of finding the help he needs, he's trying to distract himself by focusing attention on others.

Zaza, please, if you're listening. Get help.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Zaza sent me a PM confessing that he's addicted to bestiality. And I don't mean watching twisted porn, I mean actually having sex with animals.

It's sad to hear that instead of finding the help he needs, he's trying to distract himself by focusing attention on others.

Zaza, please, if you're listening. Get help.

This begs the question..I have this uh..friend....well anyway is doing werewolves bestiality?

 

[Midwayman]

Meh. I have a job. I have a family. I mostly play after the wife has gone to bed. Studies have repeatedly shown mental benefits to playing games. In any case its certain better than the alternative- more TV.

 

[Mai72]

That cycle you describe I find the depression starts not because we think we're wasting our lives. It's because we think other people think we're wasting out lives which is depressing. When you aren't worried about everyone else's judgements, you end up doing exactly what you want to do and you realize you're a lot more happy. I love gaming, but gaming depressed me at some point not because I didn't want to game but because I let my family influence my feelings about gaming. Now, I don't worry about my gaming. I come home, play some smash or a single player game, and I'm much happier than I was going out to bars or whatever since that's not what I want to do(although maybe I'll go to bars and drink and do other things but right now I want to game!).


Do what you want, be true to yourself, screw everyone else or everything inbetween and you'll be happy.

Thank you for your statement because it's what I needed. It started with my mom telling me that video games are a waste of time. It's funny because my sister is a huge gamer and has a great job as a programmer. She makes six figures and plays video games. Go figure. I don't get along with my sister, but the times that we've been close was always when we played computer games together.

I'm going to continue to play. If I feel like it's interfering with my life, then I will put it down and move on.

 

[tential]

Thank you for your statement because it's what I needed. It started with my mom telling me that video games are a waste of time. It's funny because my sister is a huge gamer and has a great job as a programmer. She makes six figures and plays video games. Go figure. I don't get along with my sister, but the times that we've been close was always when we played computer games together.

I'm going to continue to play. If I feel like it's interfering with my life, then I will put it down and move on.

It is a way to connect sometimes especially over distance. I can talk to my bro on the phone, but we play Dota 2 and talk and it's much nicer like almost being in the same room gaming together. It's a way we can do something together where before we couldn't.

Ya my parents throughout my whole life hated every single hobby I had and told me how useless it was. It wasn't until after I left home I realized just how insane they were with how much they wanted me to work (24/7). That's their life and they want to live their ideal life through you at times.

Now though, I never stress about how much I game.

Also gaming is only the tip of the iceberg. Soon, with vr taking off you think we'll always communicate in person? No, we'll increasingly use tech to communicate.
Things I see on the horizon:
Group watching movies/TV shows online.
Shopping online in vr with friends
Cool hangout spots that are vr to explore with people
Sports casting for general people taking off (vs listening to lame commentators) etc.

There are tons of ways we'll be using tech to communicate in the future.

Sure none of it replaces face to face interactions which will always be nice to have but I see more time being spent online not less moving forward especially for the casual Internet user /gamer.

Vr really will change the way we use the Internet, just give it 10 years or so to go from niche to mainstream and see how it changes things.

Imagine instead of liking a photo on Instagram, you walk into someone's photogallery.... I mean, the possibilities are endless....
Just watch Battlestar galactica/caprica.

I really think that's our future and we're close to where caprica starts.....

 

[moonbogg]

Same with fallout 4. It kills me that 90% of the time I can max out everything and get 60fps, but in town that drops to like 20fps. Had to turn the shadow distance down to medium to fix it, and I effing hate it. AMD needs to release some optimized drivers or something, but at this rate I'll have finished the game before they do.

Sounds just like me with Far Cry 4 actually. I get bothered by the FPS dropping in certain towns or random spots. For me the situation is especially complex and confusing because I started playing FC4 when I had my old 1080p monitor and two GTX670's in SLI, so I am constantly trying to compare the experience from before to the experience now with my new hardware and monitor to get a relative feel for how things have changed.

I try to estimate, in my mind, how the new cards would perform at the old resolution and how the old cards would perform at the new resolution and how any CPU bottlenecking might fit into any of those scenarios. I try to remember if I used to play with AA enabled and if I had any game works settings enabled with the old setup, or if I had them all disabled. I can't remember, so I run the scenarios in my mind both ways which further complicates the mental gymnastics I must participate in just to quell my nagging gamer brain.

Then I get confused about how far along I am in the game or how things started because I don't remember starting the game but I don't want to start over, so I try to ignore these odd mental naggings and just play.

 

[JSt0rm]

addicted to videogames? I guess I'm lucky in that I never got that addiction. I do play videogames after everything else is done.

 

[JSt0rm]

Zaza sent me a PM confessing that he's addicted to bestiality. And I don't mean watching twisted porn, I mean actually having sex with animals.

It's sad to hear that instead of finding the help he needs, he's trying to distract himself by focusing attention on others.

Zaza, please, if you're listening. Get help.

Please dont kink shame. This is a safe space. Breath deep. Exhale.

 

[werepossum]

I plan to change from playing games for 2-4 hours per night, to only watching TV for 6 hours per day. I heard watching TV is very good for you.

lol Yeah, it exercises your brain, unlike gaming. Specifically, television exercises your brain stem, which is, you know, probably an important part or something.

Besides, if I gave up gaming I might turn into a self-righteous prat trying (and failing) to tell others how to live. Wouldn't want that on my karma. Or is it "wouldn't want that in my karma"? Hmm . . .

 

[Jodell88]

Troll, troll, troll your boat...

 

[Zodiark1593]

Most if not all people who refer to themselves as "trolls" or "hardcore trolls" are suffering from an impulse control disorder, it's an addiction like that to drugs, alcohol, and porn.


I've noticed the results of forum trolling addiction on an individual tend be the following: Emotional instability, irritability, lowering IQ, deteriorating social skills, etc. It slowly turns an adult into a man-child with the sensitivities, behavior, and reasoning of a schoolyard kid.
Like porn, it is a selfish unproductive activity that causes an individual to become a burden on society.

Obviously this applies much more to PC and Console trolls than it does to mobile trolls, as mobile trolls tend to lurk forums at most for 10 minutes in a waiting room or on a bus and can easily put down the forum page once they have something important to do.

So what do you think? Do any of you "Hardcore trolls" plan on turning your lives around?

Note: It's not as hard as you think. Unlike drugs, forum trolling addiction doesn't result in withdrawal symptoms if you suddenly stop it, in fact if you just put down that mouse/keyboard/or controller, look away from any monitor, and just look out the window at the sky, you will feel refreshed and liberated. You will notice your old mind coming back to you. Try it. Start today.

Fixed for some truth here.

I don't game much myself, but those addicts play a big role in supporting my hobby as I too am in need of ever more powerful GPUs. Without gamers, the hardware I need will probably cost me as much as a small supercomputer. Seriously, you try waiting a full day on a single image 3D render on a quad core cpu, then go GPU and have it finish by the time you get back from lunch, and then go and thank those addicts for funding said GPU development.

BTW, thank you gaming addicts for funding the R&D for my miniature sweatshop-on-a-board.

 

[ibex333]

There isn't need to cure the video game addiction. It goes away by itself when you turn 30 and realize how much your life sucks compared to those who didn't play games from 12 to 30. I used to be the most addicted person ever. I still want to be, but I just cannot afford to do so, or I will end up like one of those bums on New York City's trains and sidewalks.... or worse..

 

[WiseUp216]

This thread did more damage to my brain than years of gaming.

 

[Mai72]

There isn't need to cure the video game addiction. It goes away by itself when you turn 30 and realize how much your life sucks compared to those who didn't play games from 12 to 30. I used to be the most addicted person ever. I still want to be, but I just cannot afford to do so, or I will end up like one of those bums on New York City's trains and sidewalks.... or worse..

So, you're going to be a bum because you played video games for too many hours? lol, I seriously doubt the homeless that are on the streets are ex-video game players. My guess would be they have more serious issues, such as drug and alcohol abuse. Also, mental illness.

Not video games.

 

[flexy]

Nominate this for most stupid fail post of the year!

 

[slightlyhuman]

I'm 30 and don't play near as much as I did 5 years ago but I still sit down on my PC 5-15 hours a week. My wife has known since she met me my passion of games(and a lot of other hobbies). She even went to quakecon with me one year and hung out for a bit.

It's easy to play the video gamer hags no life/loser card, but that was 10 years ago. I'll be a gamer(hopefully) the rest of my life. I would also game with my kids if they were of age(and I had kids ofc). You are who you are. You can be addicted to cheese burgers, strip clubs, crossfit, etc and still be a loser.

 

[Mai72]

I'm 30 and don't play near as much as I did 5 years ago but I still sit down on my PC 5-15 hours a week. My wife has known since she met me my passion of games(and a lot of other hobbies). She even went to quakecon with me one year and hung out for a bit.

It's easy to play the video gamer hags no life/loser card, but that was 10 years ago. I'll be a gamer(hopefully) the rest of my life. I would also game with my kids if they were of age(and I had kids ofc). You are who you are. You can be addicted to cheese burgers, strip clubs, crossfit, etc and still be a loser.

It just depends. Define loser. There are grown adults on Twitch who play 40 plus hours a week, make good money, and have a wife/gf. Do they escape being a loser because they are lucky enough to make money from their hobby?

People are so worried about status, and what other people will think of them. NEWS FLASH: life is so short. In 50 years most of your friends will be either dead or dying.

 

[JSt0rm]

Last night I almost had to suck dick for videogame but luckily my family came thru with some videogame to hold me over till I get my unemployment check.

 

[PlanetJosh]

The publisher of a game kicked my habit. That's right. It wasn't me coming up with plan to cure it. After NCSoft released Guild Wars 2 in 2012, over the next few months it wiped out much of the gamer population in Guild Wars. They went over to Guild Wars 2 which I don't like very much. So I played far less Guild Wars because I couldn't stand being in such a sparse online world. Was playing it over 30 hours a week on average for 6 years in a row up to 2012.

All that may sound convoluted like what the heck is he talking about. But to those of you who played Guild Wars back in that time you'll understand it. Or a short version for others is NCSoft killed most of the player population in Guild Wars which made me lose interest in playing very much of it.

 

[Mondozei]

Epic trollthread is epic.

OP comes across as someone who has the "zeal of the converted".
Or as Lenin used to say, the best Russian Communists are actually Polish(which is what he meant by the converter's fanaticism).

But seriously, there's no serious research being done showing "lowered of IQ" because you play games, even a lot of games. This is such a bait thread, but I'm still reply simply because some people out there could fall for this BS. Probably someone with a weak mind like OP.

 

[Sonikku]

I'm not addicted. I can quit whenever I want. I just don't want to.