Fucking hell /pol/ anyone else have a problem with video games?
Any advice on how to kick a gaming addiction?
>I have over 140 games on steam
>Literally play Dota 2 and EU IV
Any former gaming addicts here? I'm making some decent progress, just wondering if it would be easier to quit cold turkey or bit by bit.
>/pol approved methods of kicking gaming addiction
>>73543380
do so.ething creative, learn to draw, write poetry, make music, whatever.
>>73543380
Just keep playing until you get bored of them. If you're old enough to post here it won't take very long
>>73543380
When you get an education/job you get so busy you forget about stupid shid like vidya. When you do have spare time, read /lit/ books
>>73543380
Get a hobby that involves something outdoors maybe hiking or camping. Reconnect with the outside world.
>>73543380
>The electric jew
if you think Jews have anything to do with videogames you've been playing some shit games senpai
>>73543537
Yeah, this. Over time you will get bored of them. Hell I'm even bored of movies now
Kick one addiction and you replace it with another/multiple.
Be glad you're addicted to something stimulating that has no long-term physical effect on the body. If you're having fun and spending your free time in a way you want to then just keep doing it. Break it up by doing some exercise, reward yourself with time spent playing vidya, find something about a video game you enjoy and see if you can expand into a different hobby with it.
You probably aren't addicted, more likely you feel like you're wasting your time and want to do something better. Eventually you'll realise you'd just be replacing it with some equally as lackluster.
Start drinking
>>73543380
I played euiv and iii until I got bored. Until then, keep making the Netherlands rule the world
>>73543988
t-thanks senpai
>>73543380
Lift, Find a hobby, Just try to better yourself overall.
I barely play video games anymore. Maybe some Hardline for an hour each night when I'm smoking.
Get a job.
I started working 60 hours a week
No energy for vidya in me.
>>73543380
The old adage is true about everyone having a vice. You can't just quit something and not replace it with something. I still hop on my old vidya games every once in awhile but I don't play them constantly like I used to.
I am always drinking and doing something so instead of drinking and playing vidya I replaced it with drinking and shooting pool. Been playing for over a year now and go to local bars and actually get a bit of a hustle on sometimes. Great way to meet people too. Really fun playing in the tourneys as well.
Just gotta find a different hobby is all. People don't just stop doing something they love with nothing to fill the void.
>>73543380
Make a game. Go to Agdg to see how.
>muh vidya addiction
>muh fapping addiction
Holy shit at least try alcoholism
>>73543380
>Not Quitting the Nat Soc idealogy (the nanny state jew)
>I hate the Jews so much, I will become the biggest Jew
>>73543380
just dont play it. if you think this is a huge addiction problem that you'll need help, that easy as fuck thing will get harder for you.
just dont play
>>73543380
Playing vidya isn't degenerate anymore than listening to the radio was in the 1940s.
>>73543380
Read a book nigger.
>>73543380
I feel like spreadsheet games like EUIV are all I play lately too.
Occasionaly I'll play some truly mind numbing games like overwatch or Halo or whatever.
>>73545688
Vidya is ok in moderation but I know people who live in WoW. WoW is fun but its literally years these guys play it.
>>73544447
What a boring bleak life
>>73544447
Sure wagecuck, keep telling yourself that
>>73543380
I have over 100 games as well, just stop being a degenerate fuck. Uninstall all your games.
>>73546798
HOW the fuck would you know?
Working can be very rewarding.
People who play lots of vidya are addicts. You need to wean yourself off your addiction, you'll find real world interactions more enjoyable.
>>73543380
just dont play multiplayer ones...settle for games you can blast though in 4 days max like Jrpgs
>>73543455
This. I started writing, very little desire for the vidya these days.
>>73547720
this is where I am now.
4chan is a bigger addiction for me by far.
have no trouble putting down a game when I need to get shit done, but 4chan is ever present and never ending.
I'm sure it's a very different experience for MMO addicts though.
>>73543380
You are addicted to games because your self-esteem is poor. You have depressive/anxiety related tendencies because of fears/doubts about your character, and the position you occupy in the world in regards to society. The games are an anxiety release which you have grown to depend upon.
The answer lies twofold. The first is with other people. Make an effort to interact with others, exceed your comfort zone with how you interact with people as a whole and break into the group of people who are socially accepted and are part of society. Stop taking pride in the things which make you an outsider, anything tainted with being hostile, hateful and aggressive.
The second part of the answer is to work hard, and get the job you fear and envy the most. You know what it is. Become what you hate, or hate what you become. Join the Army, the Police, other Emergency services, take further education and land that role in business which will get you what you want - the money, the items, the lifestyle. Be brave, for there is nothing worse that could ever happen to you than to slowly decay in a life you hate, and then one day realise that it is too late to do the thing you always wanted to do, that there was nothing to be afraid of, there was no need to be so scared all your life. So go out there an surprise yourself, and everyone who thought they knew you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjffIi2Pl7M
>>73543380
Have your best friend die.
Kills your sex drive and your will to play video games. Worked for me since 2014.
>>73545986
Same. I play Eu4 and listen to Molyneux on autoplay in the background.
>>73543781
>anime got boring after literally 6 months of entertainment
I don't understand how there are 10+ year anime watchers on /a/.
>>73543380
I got a job.
The more I keep myself busy the less I indulge myself with vidya and weed.
Most of the time when I'm home I just want to eat and sleep, which are more important to me than vidya. I'm usually too tired to want to play games anyway.
Of course that doesn't mean I stopped completely. On off days I maybe play 2 hours at most (FIFA, CK2, Euro trucksim) and I actually get bored and feel the need to move around and do stuff.
Just keep yourself occupied with productive things and you'll naturally stop wanting to play as much.
>>73543380
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>>73543380
Give me your steam account
You vidya cucks crack me up.
It is easier than you think. Just pick up a different "addiction" like playing an instrument, fixing things, lifting, etc... or better yet just shut down the PC right now.
>>73543380
Replace it with another mind numbing hobby like musical jews, ink jews, wage cucking in a circle jerking job.
>>73543380
find something else to channel you obsessiveness into. Just keep it simple and repetitive. Creative pursuits don't work because it's too easy for your mind to wander and lose focus, as are things that require a long time to prepare for.
For example, I'm trying to learn a foreign language right now so I'm learning vocab on Memrise. Simple: look at word, type out translation, move onto next word, and repeat until you get it right. There are a lot of online learning sites that are good for this sort of thing - for example, if you preferred learning computer programming to language learning, you might try Code Academy.
After a while you realise that you were playing vidya not so much because it was fun, but because it gave you something you could really work out your desire for accomplishment on. And when I say accomplishment, I don't mean that you're using it to escape the fact that you have a dead end life. Just that human brains evolved at a time when you had to hunt, successfully, every day or two or you'd starve, and they're hard-wired to demand more immediate satisfaction than 'in 6 months I might get that promotion and in two years i might have a deposit for a house'. If you're smart you'll use that.
You need things that offer steady learning progression with regular, visible waypoints that you can use to measure your success. Your brain doesn't care that the work you're doing means that two years down the line you'll have learnt a new language, but if a little number on your vocab revision list goes down after every ten-minute lesson then it'll release reward chemicals (dopamine or seratonin or whatever the fuck it is) like you're back on the savannah and just brought down another antelope.
>>73551438
His comment is a long dick but he's essentially right
>>73543380
I just got bored of them... Got other things to do.
23 y old.
I mean if I got some free time I might play a little, but it's not like when I was 15/16 and could sit there for hours.
>>73543380
1. this thread is offtopic
2.
>literally
go back to /v/eddit
>>73543380
>140 games
that's cute
>>73549223
maybe you should stop watching seasonal garbage
>>73552279
t. Alberto Barbosa
>>73552279
Account worth
>>73552402
t. John Smithberg
>>73544534
I have all 3 addictions desu senpai
>>73546112
Holy fuck my friend plays WoW every day for like 9 hours straight. We're studying for the GED together but I suspect he isn't even studying and he'll just end up not taking the test and living with his mom the rest of his life. It sucks that people just ruin their lives like that but you just have to leave them in the past so you can become a better man than them.
>>73543380
>tfw 143 games on steam
>people are seeking help for this
>didn't even think of it as weird
>>73552279
>look at me I'm a bigger loser than you
Why even go this far?
>>73552765
>Studying for the GED
GED is pitifully easy. It's like, 8th grade math, 4th grade everything else.
>>73552279
>>73543380
Why don't you plebs play some Vicky 2 instead of that casual jew filth?
>>73552279
Show me how bad your steam accounts are, mates. I'll just eventually get rid of my account when I become a family man.... if I do become one
>inb4 2k hours on "free" games
>>73552960
I liked Trails in the Sky, too
This cap is a bit old but it's pretty much the same now
>>73552960
I think my list is pretty /pol/ approved, albiet unintentional.
My only regret is the 211 hours in SR Ultimate...
>Quitting video games
Shit, I wish I could start again. Something happened. I can't play video games and find the same enjoyment I used to. I bought 3 bran new games; Fable I for Xbox 360, Battlefront 3 for Xbox 1, and Ryse for Xbox 1. It was been several months since buying them and I've hardly played them at all. I just get bored playing them and return to doing drugs and reading which is kinda weird.
Anyone played Decisive Campaigns Barbarossa? Trying to decide if its 'realistic' enough to play. I'm not a fan of WWII themed board games. I do like sims tho.
I've played enough Diablo 2 to see Tyrael's Might drop
if you are quiting video games, you should quit the internet itself, become an Amish or go run a marathon. There isn't gonna be any good games coming out soon anyways.
>tfw spent my entire tax refund on CS:GO cases
>>73553130
Loved TitS, I have the second chapter and still haven't gotten to actually enjoy it. But it's a really pleasurable chill game.
>>73553377
I have all those games but I'm salivating right now. Never really got to play CKII even though I tried it. Still haven't gotten past that initial steep learning curve, same for Wargame. I have absolutely no clue how to be good at that game.
Paradox has absolutely some of the best GSGs ever
>>73553636
Those are shit games. Try good ones.
Yes, Fable was shit.
I have 200 games and haven't played 60% of them. I quit csgo cause it's really bad.
>>73543380
only game you need
I'm pretty addicted to vidya right now. Dad died two weeks ago, work sucks hard. Fuck it.
>>73543380
I'll never give up the interactive jew.
Who /darksouls3/ here?
>>73543380
Play them until you are absolutely disgusted with the trash they're putting out these days.
Then block /v/ on your preferred browser so you can't spend the rest of your time bitching.
Then dont look up cool games that are in development like War of Rights, Mordhau, Exanima, and dont keep up with games in early access like Squad. It would be a shame if you got hyped.
>>73553969
I was around when there was still a Wargame general on /vg/, don't know if there even still is one, stopped looking as the devs stopped caring and updating their game. Many good times in there, especially when they fucked up reddit. Pretty much went downhill a few months after Red Dragon came out if I remember correctly. Got most of my info from there though on how to git gud.
No matter how many times I try to get into EU4, I just can't. The mana system (among other things) just ruins it for me.
>>73543380
delete steam. get a new hobby like guitar or getting wymynz
>>73543380
Turn /fit
>>73543380
quit cold turkey video games are for children or for playing in bars while intoxicated, if you are a sober adult you have no use for them
