Is videogame compulsion/addiction real? If you quit completely right now, how would your life be different?
Anything can be addictive. It depends on the person.
>>339547006
if I quit videogames completely I would probably spend even more time on /v/
>I have to quit this thing I like so I'll have more time for things I don't like!
This is the normie/wagecuck mindset.
>>339547006
Well it wouldn't be any better because I don't revolve my life around them. I'd probably just spend more money on clothes and movies without them though.
>>339547339
This, it's not my fault that every other hobby out there is complete shit.
>>339547006
If I wasn't spending all of my time on video games I'd be spending it on something else just as inconsequential.
>>339547006
anything can be addictive. and if i quit videogames id be out of a job
>>339547006
I want to say I'd go out and get a life but I'd probably just watch TV instead of play vidya.
I would be bored more often.
I don't know. I would probably just spend more time on the internet and watching anime to compensate. Losing my internet would be far more devastating.
>>339547170
this
I can quit videogames whenever I want but I can't quit this shithole of a website
>>339547758
this
It's like I'm addicted to wasting time
>Is videogame compulsion/addiction real?
Probably.
>If you quit completely right now, how would your life be different?
I'd be bored and read more I guess. I made a career out of the only other hobby I enjoy doing.
>>339547073
Truth, anon.
*ALL* addictions, whether they have severe withdrawal symptoms from the physical brain changes they caused, or are an addiction to 4chan or hentai, operate on the same parts of the brain. Every one of them operates on the same principles.
>tfw when low on dopamine receptors
>>339547708
>every other hobby is complete shit
wew lad
>>339547804
>>339547758
like tabletop gaming, it's basically video games but IRL and with actual other people
and the stereotypes are wrong, onlyabout 1//3 of people who play 40k and D&D are neckbeards
>>339547006
I'd probably sit around fucking bored a lot. Everything else is garbage.
>>339548065
>It's like I'm addicted to wasting time
This is the cold hard truth of the matter.
I would probably replace it with something else to keep my hands busy. Like learning an instrument, reading a book, or masturbating non-stop.
>>339548301
>it's basically video games but IRL and with actual other people
You say that like it's a good thing.
If I quit right now I would never ever enjoy the life of a normal person.
I'd never go to the movies or anything anymore. There wouldn't be any reason to.
>>339547006
>Is videogame compulsion/addiction real?
Probably. Just about anything can be an addiction.
>If you quit completely right now, how would your life be different?
I wish I could go back to being addicted to gaming. It was a lot less bad for me than my current compulsive eating addiction.
>>339547006
It's real in so much as it is a form of escapism. All forms of escapism are addictive if your real world sucks eggs.
Sometimes I can spend absurd amounts of time playing video games over a certain period, but I can also be completely content to play nothing for a while.
For example, right now, I literally haven't played a video game at all since last Tuesday. It goes by so fast I don't even notice.
>>339547006
i would be fucking bored and not know what to do with the extra time.
>>339547073
Fucking this. I never thought I could get addicted to a website and yet, here I am, among you faggots.
It's become a compulsion for me now.
I open a new tab in my browser and I unconsciously go to 4chan.
On a phone? Open up Clover and constantly refresh the catalog or the threads in my watcher.
I fucking hate this. but I'm forever stuck on Mr. moot's wild ride.
>>339547006
I play videogames because i have not much else to do. If i were to quit videogames right now i would probably spend that excess time doing something just as useless and unproductive.
>>339547006
Went to spain for a wekk, no internet
>Last 3 days
>Extreme anxiety/paranoia
>Thoughts of being followed or about to be kidnapped
>General unpleasant feeling until I got home
Internet addiction/Game addiction sure is a real thing.
>>339548770
You better be fucking careful about that eating addiction, anon. Stretch marks have fucking ruined most of my body, and I feel pretty hideous most of the time. They're long, deep, and everywhere on my arms, stomach, shoulders, and even my back.
I'm pretty far from the maximum weight I've been in my life (45 pounds away from it), have bulked up considerably with muscles everywhere on my body and legs, and generally am pretty active with good stamina, but fuck... rapidly gaining and losing weight constantly will ruin the elasticity of your skin. I was near my lowest-recorded weight in a decade when it started happening.
>tfw when you know you're on the verge of gaining or are already are getting stretch marks
>can't stop eating
Seriously, pivot your addiction onto something else if you can. At least with that, you're not gonna subject your body to something irreversible which you'll have for the rest of your life.
>>339547006
I compulsively buy steam games on sale.
I've never been a compulsive spender until I started PC gaming.still cheaper than console though
>>339549447
Weird trick: Every time you feel like eating something, shoot up some heroin instead. It works!
I would spend more time watching movies/series/anime, listening to music and browsing the internet. I would probably also spend a little bit more time on my creative hobbies, since other kinds of media just aren't as good as video games.
>>339549561
I compulsively buy steam games when they'renoton sale.Help.
>>339549281
Video games aren't useless. If you're getting some kind of enjoyment out of playing them but still think it's useless, then that says a lot about your self-worth.
>>339549352
>Extreme anxiety/paranoia
>Thoughts of being followed or about to be kidnapped
>General unpleasant feeling until I got home
None of this seems to have anything to do with internet or gaming. I think this is symptomatic of a serious mental issue, my friend.
>>339549447
I really haven't gained all that much weight, except for a bigger gut. I was thin when it all started. Stretch marks probably aren't a concern right now. I'm confident that I could be back to perfect shape in a month or two if I just stopped eating unless I absolutely had to. I've tried several times in recent months, usually being able to go for days without eating anything (or hardly anything), but then the depression kicks in and I lose my resolve. Exercise is the same way - I can get into a routine of doing a hundred pushups a day (or more), but if I go even one day without doing them, I lose all motivation.
Honestly, I don't plan to live much longer, so I don't think it'll make a difference either way.
If you quit coming to /v/, your life wouldn't magically get better.
>>339549278
Literally nothing wrong with being addicted to the only sanctuary one the web that you can actually speak your mind.
>>339547006
People always bring this shit up and ask shit like "but anon, what if you were born in the early 1900s?"
I always just reply that I'd probably just read books instead if I couldn't play video games. It's not that I'm addicted to video games, I'm just easily bored and video games is the best cure for that.
What these people seem to fail to understand is that it really isn't about video games it's about personality traits. I'm not gonna become more sociable if you magic away video games.
As someone who has been entirely about video games since he was three;
I recently got into a relationship with someone who wasn't into video games at all. They're super sporty, into stuff I've never tried, but spending time with them wasn't at all any less enjoyable due to pining over video games. I found I just thought about them less due to my time being taken up
However I do wish I could convince them to play stuff with me. While I don't mind getting into their hobbies, it would be nice if I could talk to her about the games I like and stuff. But I don't get antsy over it when I'm with them like I thought I'd be
>>339547170
Me too.
>>339550835
I like how you used "their" for most of your post and then used her at the end.
Why not just use her throughout?
>>339551024
I didn't mean to use 'her', was trying to keep it ambiguous. Accidently slipped
I actually had to stop playing games for a couple weeks a while ago when my PC broke. I thought it'd be hard, but after the first couple days didn't miss it at all.
Honestly if I dropped gaming completely right now all I'd really miss is the fun of playing with friends, the creative outlet ofmaking maps for TF2and maybe the very rare game that's actually artistically good
Kind of makes me wonder if I've been wasting the last 20 years playing vidya
>>339551065
Yeah I figured. Why though?
It's not like it matters when you're anonymous.
>>339550496
>reading books
>1900
You'd be plowing fields or sent off to war
>>339551292
I find mentioning genders on 4chan, especially /v/, does nothing good for a post. A lot of green texting and >implying
>>339551326
>he doesn't come from a proud lineage of merchants
>>339550496
I read that as early 1990's at first
I was scared
>>339549278[User Was Banned For This Post]
>>339551397
Using their seems weirder though. Like you're dating a tranny honestly. Not that it matters, I just found it weird.
>>339551521
Maybe she is a tranny. Lady bois are in right now.
>>339551520
Fucking 'ell.
Meant for
>>339550484
I'm not addicted to video games, I just hate my life and living it. I could just as easily lie on the ground staring at my ceiling.
In fact I do do that.
For a non-anecdotal response:
>>339547073
>>339547006
I've gotten a lot less happy since I've had to spend less time on vidya due to university and a job.
>>339551397
YOU KNOW THE RULES
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It would be very boring. I'd have to watch anime instead.
>>339547006
It's real but unlike smoking it's not for life.
A lot of people experience gaymers farigue starting around 18.
I barely play games more than an hour or two a week now anyway. It's been a long time since a game was able to keep me interested past the first half hour.
>>339547006
There is no video game addiction
You simply have nothing better to do.
If you found a sport or a hobby that's better than video games then you would stop playing them.
Unlike heroin addiction which is actually causing your brain to need heroine
>>339553621
While this is partly true I think you're very much underestimating how games like LoL and Overwatch play on real addictions
>>339547170
This
>>339553798
This. Games like LoL are built on a model meant to be addictive. I know people who don't do anything but play one game all day.
It's built on the idea that if you keep playing, you'll eventually be on that big stage on twitch streams being one of the best players in the game. A lot of people don't realize that that is only a handful of people and this is barely realistically true. It's like chasing the perfect high
>>339553621
You're partly on the right line while also aren't. Physiological addictions do have physiological effects. Either way, about videogames addiction, call it escapism.
>>339554223
>Physiological
Meant Psychological and physiological
>>339548065
>that episode.
