Hi Jow Forums as a 19 year old I understand that videogames are bad for me but my issue is that it's simply become apart of my life and I'm struggling to let go. I've played video games for fun since a young age and as a completionist I tend to always go for those trophies. My friends are also in the same boat but I know they can't be redpilled but I at least can admit that videogames are bad for you. So Jow Forums I ask you guys to help hit the nail on the head and redpill me about video games.
Redpill on Vidya
Start lifting
It's going to be an established medium for left-wing propaganda within the near future. It might replace school lectures.
Be honest with yourself about how addicted you are to them. If you are addicted, and if it has effected your social/love life (why go that event when I can just game, I might not be good with girls but I'm a beast at halo) then I would HIGHLY suggest selling or trashing all of it WHOLESALE. that is what I did in my first year of high school. I got rid of some serious collectible games and rare trinkets. But it was worth it, I know I would have missed almost all the opportunities that I ended up taking if I had just been at home gaming instead. Life is for living
I'm trying but as beta as it sounds I prefer to go during times people aren't there and I can't find a workout buddy who's schedule line up with mine. I also hate working out alone.
learn an instrument
far more challenging, far more rewarding, and if youre good enough you become legend
A game has rules and its easy to understand. You may even win if you play long enough. But in life there's no guarantee. Video game isn't necessarily the problem. You can make tremendous efforts to succeed in life and not make it. Problem is life.
I never really collected items but I do play a lot but I can't say/ don't want to admit it's an addiction (I very well could be in denial though). This has helped a lot, thanks user.
As always, stick with the Japanese (or retro, which is literally what "indie" games are anyways when they're not Gone Homo shit) and you can minimize the bluepilling effects.
You mean interactive cinema, right? Because actual video games are going to be just fine. Pic related.
A reminder that half of Jow Forums is made up of former /v/irgins burned by Gamergate.
You make alot of excuses. Stop doing that and you'll solve all your problems. You know what you need to do. You know where you're going wrong in life. Do the next best thing that the Father (your conscience) has set on your heart to do, and get er dun. Or make excuses and go no where that you want to go.
Get a PS2 and set up OPL with FMcB. Only play the good shit from the golden age of console gaming while sipping your favorite caffienated beverage or local craft beer. Then you can live with the fact that gaming is something you enjoy but take comfort in knowing that you aren't throwing money into (((their))) pockets.
Literally just stop. Cut it out more and more each day you don't have to go cold turkey immediately. The hardest part is just stopping and getting past the uncomfortable feeling. Your getting a dopamine hit when you play so you won't feel good for a little while till your brain rewires. Everyone complains they don't have willpower, you do, you just don't ant to feel uncomfortable.
I'm 21, don't feel addicted but because of where I am in life right now I play games just to kill time. I'm basically temporarily stuck in life atm because I'm waiting for greencard to US so I can live with my LDR gf.
Until then I can't do much other than work. I talk to my gf on discord all day cus luckily our work hours match up perfectly even though we're in different time zones.
I did stop playing vidya for a while about 1 year ago. It helped a lot and I got rid of my addiction. Now I just see it as a way to kill time I would've just spent doing something else that is no better than games. Although I have toned it down significantly. If you aren't tied up in life situations or relationships, it's ok to play vidya. Just don't let it control your daily life.
Not all of us are meant to become successful entrepreneurs and that's okay.
Oh and start lifting. Never stop lifting. It will boost your mental health, make you feel great, and you're doing your future self a huge favor.
for me its like this:
vidya is simply deception. it appeals to your competitive and creative drive as a man, HOWEVER, nothing of it manifests in the real world!
so you dont create something that a woman could be attracted to or that makes your country a better place. its all just in your head and your computer. its like dreaming of work - nothing gets done by it. everything will go to shit while you are satisfied to get some gay e-sport trophies. its a very sad thing, much like a drug.
i played at least 10k hours my self and it hurts me to realize what i could have created in that that time of my life.
No one will ever give a fuck about your gamer score or any other kind of imagined accomplishment in non-reality. Women you want to fuck think you're a joke, your attainment across the board will suffer and you'll end up a miserable shut in who kills himself... and that's the whole point of it these days user. Don't play games with the tools of your own destruction.
You're right, thanks user
Your post also is a major wakeup call, thanks user
Jesus helps with all addictions!
You waste time, only good thing is that I learned good english and thats practical in uni. Best thing is quitting porn, vidya and excessive boozing while rather fucking girls instead
Be serious about this:
>sit on the edge of your bed, and honestly say, out loud: " I am willing to know what is that I'm doing wrong", you don't have to pray, just say it.
>think about it seriously 24/7, otherwise you're not really caring that much, and you deserve the miserable life you're letting to be created around you.
>happy nightmares.
>start to do something else instead of playing vidya.
>learn an instrument, learn to write, learn to read (you can't), start lifting or calisthenics.
>your options are limitless only in theory, what are you already sorta good at? what is necessary for you to do? what could you do to improve yourself that also better the lives of those around you?
>stop listening to degenerate music, you know perfectly well there's some stuff you shouldn't listen to, fuck off.
>STOP LYING.
>listen to Adolph's speeches while you workout.
>Watts wave by akira the don.
you most likely have a shit ton of work to do, and that you know you should do, do it or die like a fucking dog.
I don't want you to be better per se, I want to make sure you either off yourself and remove your shitty genes from the table, or take the alternative and take responsibility for everything you do, all the in-betweens are fucking garbage solutions, don't come ask us, cunt, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING WRONG.
Stop upgrading your computer and the problem might fix itself.
Hey is better than getting STD'S
thank you
Videogames are just an incredibly time-inefficient form of entertainment.
An average videogame nowadays takes 20+ hours to complete and you get nothing out of it, when you could have read multiple books (or watched a dozen of movies/documentaries) in the same time and not only be entertained but actually learned something.
Now look at the average multiplayer game that takes multiple hundreds of hours to "get good" with so you can actually begin playing the game and think about what other more important life skill you could have developed in that time instead of "proficiency in a mode of a computer product made by some random corporation".
Games were more respectable and better when they were shorter more social events (eg. arcades, a lan house or going to your friend's house to play coop) but now they are mostly a lot of time sank into nothing.