why do you waste dozens of hours by playing online shooters?

[masscarriers]

Sorry if it seems harsh, but most of what you just wrote up there doesn't make sense.

It feels terribly wrong to put real addictions some people are struggling with, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and to some extend gaming, to playing football for an adrenaline rush. Drug addiction modifies the way the brain is wired and can lead to real, devastating withdrawal effects. You seem more like someone who's just really into gaming and is confused as what do to with his life. The physical world doesn't suck, we've all been there at some point and it clears up with time.

Want to do something productive without exercising? Try learning to code.

[ehh]

reminds me of the guy who used non stop talk shit in rencorner with 0 point in spawn

[masscarriers]

Funny, I was thinking of UltmaWepn :P

[StJohn Gumby]

2 hours ago, ehh said:

reminds me of the guy who used non stop talk shit in rencorner with 0 point in spawn

You thinking of Mr0rris0, or sth like that nick?

Gumby

[ehh]

yes!

[Nickname]

3 hours ago, masscarriers said:

Sorry if it seems harsh, but most of what you just wrote up there doesn't make sense.

It feels terribly wrong to put real addictions some people are struggling with, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and to some extend gaming, to playing football for an adrenaline rush. Drug addiction modifies the way the brain is wired and can lead to real, devastating withdrawal effects. You seem more like someone who's just really into gaming and is confused as what do to with his life. The physical world doesn't suck, we've all been there at some point and it clears up with time.

Want to do something productive without exercising? Try learning to code.

 

thers a recent update on physiological aspect of a drug thing.

anything that can deliver joy ("stresseat") is a drug, an addiction. remove drug and one's vulnerable , unstable, no longer self sufficient. there is no external things which are necessary to be happy. everything is relative and for one having white hair is a discomfort, while other can like it.
seemingly "informational" addiction like gaming does little with physiology. thats why i wanted to know what do addicts like to do and why, what do they feel. i am addict myself but still cant find "it", thing which is all about. social interaction or progress not hooking me that much. just enjoying process itself. that leaves little space for searching of "it". i just like to aim and shoot. but why? what is so special about it? and there is nothing special about me and this is not connected to me. this is a major modern trend. noone probably conducted studies yet.

online game can deliver this. offline (bots) cannot. thats the main point. ofcourse sometimes i also like progress(like teamplay and win) and funny moments like sbh stealing veh. but i can understand it and can see why i like it. contrary, thats not the case with "aim and shoot" thing. and i get excited doing that, getting refreshed, feeling more energized _physically_.

coding cannot deliver "it". if one can code why still play? be it a mod developer or non game programmer. regarding coding, right now i dont like that instead of creating something new, i wasted all that time, years. quake, cs, hl, now its ren :3

those who managed to set themselves free of this kind of addiction are welcome to describe the details, u r helping the entire human race by submitting to this research. "not enough time" is not the real reason of ceasing. its just environment forced one to cease activity. but the reason still inside, not understood and uncontrolled. and one can return to activity but in a way  which is forced by env. like "played pc games then quit and started to play poker". there are many instances like this. oh btw, before pc gaming i was a unique content author. computer mini games. but that just fade away. its like when you have bike, why ride car? it is a way too slow and obsolete. ofcourse its usefull and more safer than bike, but the point is motivation, rush, "it". speed maybe. driving slow car one has wide rich view, but driving bike is almost complete absence of view. its just pure speed. these are widespread, not yet understood things. and even if one can control its body, its basic needs, one cannot actually just cease to do addicting things like gaming. and it consumes alot of potentially productive time.

why this forum? i have failed to find offtopic board, so decided to post here, hoping mod will move thread to more appropriate board.

i have described my personal experience. hoping someone will share too if there are some moments missing. in hl online you have much more frags and much more speed is required to survive. but ren has vehicles and lots of different weapons :3 but thats just temporal, soon new content will became normal. personally i like HD textures and much more detailed maps. i dont think i'l return to hl online until ren servers there. but this does nothing with "aim and shoot" thing. i think snipers have this kind of addiction in a more developed state.

[vlatkozelka]

[Guest rackz]

Get a job, a real job. Then you understand why peoples waste their time on gaming, drugs or both at the same time.

btw this topic is fucking boring

[ice187dna]

 

/me goes back to studying games design.

[Theboy]

I would personally play ren all the time if I could, for whatever reason it never gets boring to me. You could also just try different games. Its a free world, let yourself try different stuff than shooters. Sometimes I load up ra2 and play ppl online (I get destroyed all the time but its still a blast!). At the end of the day nothing is forcing you to game, work or do anything except yourself. Go after your dream in life and accomplish it with no excuses!

[Goonhaven]

Happened upon this thread in a search, don't mind me resurrecting.... seems an interesting topic that I can relate to very strongly. Gaming addictions have affected me adversely in the past.

Gaming rewires your mind because dopamine is released whenever you accomplish a goal or do something well, which is very easy to do in a game and not so much in real life. But real life is more rewarding when you get good at something because of the lasting, physical rewards.

I have to agree, trading and coding are good ways of accomplishing goals to get an alternative release of dopamine without expending much effort, but in order to make a habit of them like it's so easy to do with gaming, you have to create a routine and make it an ongoing challenge.

Balance in life is also key to overcoming the need to game unhealthily often - the three pillars of contentment are competence, connectedness, and autonomy (from a book called 'Tribe' by Sebastian Junger; good read). In other words, being good at something, having friends / a community presence, and a feeling of control in your life should make you sufficiently happy to achieve anything you want.

But to answer the original question, how to snap out of a gaming addiction: the only thing I've found that works (in times of weakness) is a forced change of environment (maybe install Cold Turkey) or being mindful of why you can't face real life in the first place, then making a decision about how you'll retake control.

[WNxH3adSh00t]

4yo thread btw

[Joetorp]

He knows, he is now of the age of reasoning...

 

[GetPastMe]

OMG, are you saying REN is not real life????

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