How can I quit video games? Any tips? its driving me mad...
How can I quit video games? Any tips? its driving me mad
Logan Anderson
Levi Ward
Don't quit them? They're pretty cool
Matthew Allen
First thing, go for a long walk and get your head clear.
Ryder Nelson
keep cutting, frogfag.
Ryder Wilson
Second thing, boot that bad boy up, it's waiting for you.
Jacob Stewart
Like any addiction, find a replacement.
Kevin Gutierrez
have something else in your life you feel youre missing out on?
And you can play less often
Jace Morgan
I need too, so that I can became a functional citizen
Adrian Gutierrez
>go for a long walk and get your head clear.
I do this a lot of times (seriously) and I am still stuck
Noah Carter
like what? Any tips?
Grayson Cook
Sit out the addiction. Either it kills you or you get done with it, allowing you to leave.
Thats what did it for me.
I was MMO addicted untill depression told me it was a useless thing to do. Even though I then replaced it with other bad things, it was a step forward.
James Gutierrez
>have something else in your life
I am kind of a nihilist... no religion, no friends, don't care about family, I just don't care much about anything but I need to stop playing and grow up
Parker Phillips
Depends, what interests you? I started stargazing and moon watching to stop playing so much vidya at night.
Owen Powell
If you’re really that addicted sell your consoles and pc and get a shitty net book. Less drastically say for every hour you play you have to do something productive like clean or exercise.
John Gonzalez
>Sit out the addiction. Either it kills you or you get done with it, allowing you to leave.
That's what I am trying to do here fren
>I was MMO addicted
How are you now? Are you good? If yes tell me how
Benjamin Parker
Fuck society. Do what makes you happy bro. People are annoying cunts. Be you, be happy.
Logan Green
>I started stargazing and moon watching to stop playing so much vidya at night.
This sounds cool
What if every time I wish to play I read the Bible a bit? Do you think that could help? (I am not religious but who know, right? )
Ryan Gray
You can do both buddy
David Flores
Stop posting frogs stop posting frogs stop posting frogs stop posting frogs stop posting stop posting stop posting frogs
Gabriel Young
Dunno i like night walks. Lifting should help. If the weather allows for it go for a hike/ go swimm in a lake
Jack Davis
>Do what makes you happy bro. People are annoying cunts
Thank you, I couldn't agree more with you.... but I am in college doing a dissertation and I have no will, it's boring as fuck... but if I don't do it I just can't claim my degree...
Jack Stewart
WoW is bringing back talent trees and releasing an entire expansion based on flight and flight mechanics. They're finally listening. You're welcome. See you in November.
Ayden Powell
Honestly, just as ive gotten older and responsibility has take the spot of vidya. I guess get married kinda early, work and go to college at the same time. And that takes up ALOT of your time.
Landon Davis
No, that doesn't work for me; for me it is either everything or nothing, I am not the guy that goes for the middle ground... that never works with me. Either I am addicted or I get nothing, as simple as that
Dylan Rivera
Moderate your use. I get bored of things easily so after playing a game for a day I won't play for another month. I used to do GTA IV vehicle modding for LCPDFR back in the day and I got through only half of my projects on the 3D modeling software...the others dusted away because I moved on to the next one. You want to be somewhere in the middle, not addicted but not bored
Blake King
>Dunno i like night walks
I live with my parents so it doesn't work
>Lifting should help
Sometimes I run or go for a walk/hike
Asher Bennett
Yeah I live in northern Canada so I get to see the aurora borealis.
>Read bible
It's worth a try, any good book that can keep your mind off vidya for a little while is good, maybe you could start reading every different religions book and see which one speaks to you.
Christian Butler
Christian Martin
try finger but hole
Oliver Rodriguez
Yeah, probably that's the issue, too much free time...
Brody Gutierrez
>Moderate your use
Nicholas Powell
>It's worth a try, any good book that can keep your mind off vidya for a little while is good
Yes
>maybe you could start reading every different religions book and see which one speaks to you.
The future is a surprise, thanks fren
Michael Nguyen
I’m in third year of med school. I’ve spent my 12-19 playing runescape non stop 12h/day. I feel you.
Since my studies are so intense, the only thing that worked was physically cutting it all out.
-I got banned for botting (garbage autoclicker) and this kinda set me free. I would suggest either get banned, sell all your shit or permanently ruin your accounts on all your game. It’s going to be very hard and break your heart, but do it.
-Sold all my consoles, even my old gameboy since i could still not control myself.
-Make a note of everything relevant linked to your email. Create a new one and relink everything that is not video game related. Create a new youtube account and systematically mark video game/tech related content as «not interested». When you’re all done, either change password to a random one or ask a family member, just in case (be honest, could cause a relapse).
-Clear everything on your phone and computer.
-Look into parental control softwares (yes) and restrict everything related. You could also set limits for media, block porn, Yea Forums, etc.
It is extreme, but it’s the only thing that worked for me, especially given how 300% i have to be for my studies. That’s gonna be your silver bullet, but it’s not going to be easy. You know yourself, leave no room for relapse or tentation. It is 1000% worth doing so and you will not miss out on anything. My life has been better and i’ll bet yours will be as well. Just commit to it. Most effective thing was ruining all my accounts and progress, try to go out in a bang (or sell your gold idk). Good luck
Xavier Morgan
>If you’re really that addicted sell your consoles and pc and get a shitty net book
I am living with my parents and I have no money to buy another PC (my problem is PC not console)
>Less drastically say for every hour you play you have to do something productive like clean or exercise.
I already tried something like that and miserably failed, thanks fren
Liam Gomez
I took the SSD out of my gaming laptop and smashed it March 29, I’m almost a month clean and I still get the urge to play.
This is the second time I made a push to quit, in the beginning of 2020 i tried to quit and lasted 4 months but having the gaming laptop around made it too easy to relapse.
I think with my laptop inoperable I will finally beat this shitty addiction.
It also helps to release that gaming addiction is a mental illness like gambling and drug addiction, as well as its a coping mechanism for you.
Cold turkey is the best way to break a bad habit but knowing why you game is the key to beating it.
Michael Fisher
Exactly, if you have no control and no more time to «experiment» or for shit like «bro you don’t need to do all that just play a little less», you need a drastic measure.
I hesitated on doing that but i need my laptop for class. You could use crap gear for video games (no graphic card for example) and just enough ram to open a browser, a file manager, a pdf reader and a text editor. You don’t need a good processor either.
Cut all the shit man. If all your accounts are ruined you will have nothing to come back to.
Gavin Foster
>Clear everything on your phone and computer.
I have done this in the past, but I will do it again (I have games in my PC)
>Look into parental control softwares (yes) and restrict everything related. You could also set limits for media, block porn, Yea Forums, etc.
Do you know any that is good and for free (I live with my parents and I can't pay for it)?
>It is 1000% worth doing so and you will not miss out on anything. My life has been better and i’ll bet yours will be as well. Just commit to it
This is why I am doing it and came here for help, I want to be free of my vices, I want to become a better man and finish my master's degree. Thanks fren
Jordan Lewis
>It also helps to release that gaming addiction is a mental illness
I think the problem with society is that does not recognize it as such, too many people of our age are fucked up because of porn and video games, sometimes looks tabu
Henry Nguyen
I use a few extension to restrict my browsers (i mainly had a problem with YouTube). Could you describe what games you play or how you’re relapsing? I’ve only played one game my whole year and can’t relate to people having steam and hundreds of games on it.
Austin Bell
I’m the guy who smashed his SSD
Quit now before you waste years.
I’m 26 And avoided getting my shit together because I was cheating on fps games, shit is sad.
Your future self will thank you for quitting, and if you don’t you will be disgusted with yourself.
Jaxson Gutierrez
>Could you describe what games you play or how you’re relapsing?
I like Total war saga, war thunder, victoria 2, etc... basically strategy games that I have on my pc and war thunder that I have uninstalled several times to install it again
Joseph Baker
my whole life*
The extensions i use on firefox are DF YouTube, healthy surf, Impulse blocker and Leechblock. There may be more on other browsers.
Liam White
>and if you don’t you will be disgusted with yourself.
I am afraid, help me fren...I don't want to be a loser, I think deep don't I am not a bad person, I am just addicted and kind of retarded....
William Gutierrez
read dune, that shit is just like the bible but more engaging. Plus you dont have to pretend to believe it
Andrew Rivera
Aiden Mitchell
Well i went back and worth on runescape until I got banned. I was playing another game on mobile, i sold all my shit and ruined my account permanently.
I don't know your games, but i would still argue for the ban. Go on multiplayer and spam racist shit, use a bot to get banned, sell your shit, you probably know better than me what to do
Chase Williams
>read dune
I will, when I start working (I have no money, buying books online is not an option because I live in a rural land of a retarded country (please don't ask))
Chase Smith
Needles to say delete your account if the option exist. That also goes for your discord. If you truly want to beat this shit, in my opinion the only way is to permanently delete all your games, ruin/get banned so you don't have anything to come back to, distance yourself from temptation with in discord or youtube to avoid relapsing and finally physically limit your machines from running your games by downgrading your computer parts.
Jaxon Wright
>Go on multiplayer and spam racist shit,
I will try this, thanks for the help fren
Aiden Evans
>That also goes for your discord
I already deleted it, saves me a lot of time. Btw I also deleted facebook (is unrelated but was still an addiction)...I will do my best, have a nice life friend
Kayden Taylor
Final message while I'm at it.
If you have troubles with sleep, force yourself to go to bed early (10pm). If your sleep cycle is fucked, it's going to be hard for the first few nights (you're basically jet lagged). First night is gonna be horrible, you'll be tired as fuck the next day. Resist the urge during the day and you'll fall asleep at 10 the night after.
Keep your phone out of your room and don't use it after 8pm. Buy those 15$ mechanical alarms. If you can't keep your phone out, download the free version of Alarmy and set the disabling method as QR/barcode. Scan the barcode of a pasta box or some shit in your kitchen, that way you'll be forced to actually wake up and get out of your room. Don't worry, the alarm is paused for 15s so you don't wake up your family.
Now that you got rid of your addiction and got your sleep back, eat correctly, exercise/gym. You're on your way to greatness :)
good luck and good night
and good job! I have no social media (aside from my restricted youtube) and only good things came from it.
Logan Sullivan
>If your sleep cycle is fucked
Now it isn't that much but it used to be some months ago (I read Jordan Peterson's book and helped me with that)
>Keep your phone out of your room
Thanks but I never cared about phones, so I never got addicted to one
>Now that you got rid of your addiction and got your sleep back, eat correctly, exercise/gym. You're on your way to greatness :)
good luck and good night
I agree that it is important to have a nice routine to keep mind and body busy, I will try that one more (I will schedule my day)
Thanks alot for all the advices
Henry Davis
Just sell them all, worked for me. In 2014 I spent about 6 hours straight playing gtav. I went to take my dog out to piss, and just really noticed how beautiful of a day it was and was immediately filled with self loathing about how I just spent half a saturday playing with a kids toy. I listed every piece of vidya shit I had on marketplace for cheap and sold it all within the day. Haven't touched a vidya since, best thing I ever did for myself
Adam Bailey
geo outside
Benjamin Jackson
Console: sell it/them. if you get another one, sell it again. repeat until you get tired of having to resell until you just don't buy anymore.
PC: sell and get a PC/laptop that isn't powerful enough and/or doesn't have enough storage space.
Dylan Cook
Go outside
Jason Flores
I couldn't sell my PC....literally gigs of porn, tranny/BBC and other fucked up shit I've saved over the years. They could recover my data and I couldn't live it down. I don't wanna lose my BBC folders tho, took 3 years to get it to what it is
Leo Brown
I made a web app to forecast nhl hockey game outcome I use to bet. There's a graphic component so it's a video game. Do that. You'll get coding skills at the same time.
Ryder Peterson
Why'd my stupid picture turn sideways? Bummer.
Jaxon Torres
just take out the drive you retard. your harddive one of the cheapest parts of your build. But "saved up over the years" probably means your hardware is old as fuck and ain't worth shit.
Leo Rogers
>quit
also
why is he cutting himself
Jonathan Butler
>want to solve vid addiction
>literal gigs of bbc
i think you got other problems to solve first
Brandon Jenkins
This is Yea Forums... BBC has been around for years and is part of our culture. I'm a cuck and proud of it (not irl, just anonymously). What's wrong with jerking it to black dudes destroying a white girl's pussy?