Hey Jow Forums, how do you managed to stop videogaming?

Simple: I didn't. I'm an adult, I own my own home, my car is paid for, my student loans are paid off and I've got my M.D. so if I want to come home after a 16 hour shift and relax with my Xbones, then I goddamn will.

I can only fap so many times a day.

Screenfetch is a program.

Install Gentoo (literally).

I like gaming. I do it after work sometimes. Im not addicted to it like i was when i was a kid though and i enjoy it less overall usually

>If I want to play with toys and shit in my diaper after breaking my back for Mr Goldbergstein then I goddamn will

I have never stopped, but I don't have the same patience for some types of games that I loved as a kid (stuff like Neverwinter Nights and Daggerfall comes to mind).

I have developed motion sickness over the years.
3D games are a no for me unless I want to drop on the floor and vomit after 5 minutes.

So do that, Clockwork Orange style.

realize you're wasting you life on meaningless shit which hasn't any impact on the real world or your standing in it. Learn an instrument. Read a book. Videgames suck now anyway. It's all the same shit.

If you have any sense of self-responsibility and care about the quality of your life, you will grow out of it. You may not quit playing video games all together, but you will certainly play very little. If you do not grow out of it, then you are quite literally a manchild.

Once you have a full-time job, your free time becomes incredibly precious. This is is doubly true if you want to have an active social or romantic life, or engage in any other hobbies. You simply will lose the motivation to play video games in favor of other activities because of how unrewarding video games ultimately are.

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>implying being alive isn't pointless in general
Do whatever floats your boat OP, I stopped playing vidya simply because they all suck nowadays. Sometimes I go back to the older games, but they always end up boring me pretty quickly. Sadly, playing the same game for the 100th time is no fun.

>Breaking my back
Kek. I literally talk to patients all day then have an intern do all of my scut work, like charting and transcribing my notes. I have the easiest job ever. The "hard" work is when you're in med school and I've been done with that for almost a decade. You're the one acting like an infant because someone has a hobby you don't approve of. I could say the same about you, filling up piss bottles while playing with your ganoo loonix.

I never stopped but installing linux made me reduce the frequency a lot.

new games are pretty shit, you just get bored
I just fap more instead

It's a distraction, not a hobby. Don't flatter yourself.

acquire job

I lost all my friends, no reason to play games anymore, I only play solitaire

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It's what I do with some of my leisure time that brings me enjoyment. That's exactly what a hobby is. I don't really have anything i need a distraction from. If I did, video games wouldn't provide much of a distraction because they wouldn't occupy enough of my mind for me to stop thinking about other shit. I prefer the most tried and true distraction, possibly the oldest distraction there is: sex.

What did you do to drive them away? Why not go out and get new friends?

No, no no, it's not how this works.
You can't just 'stop' video games. You'll just play fewer of them, and you'll want to play the good ones, the ones with substance, the ones that you will truly enjoy.

Like a new game every month or two. Play on the weekends, etc.

You will suffer from "been there, done that" if you have played a ton. Especially with how shitfilled games are with withheld DLC, DRM and other shite. Even with gamews themselves after a while you will only see the next shitfilled sandbox, uninspired rpg or merely "decent" platformer.
This also

It gets easier with time.

I realized I could literally build skills/health that will benefit me for the rest of my life.

Now instead of vidya I lift and learn more by either working on coding side projects or reading books about math or programming design patterns. Also cooking at home almost daily.

I realized that video game culture is primarily a liberal thing to I cut that cancer out of my life before it could spread.

occupy my spare time with fixing arbitrary problems on ganoo lunix

this
also i realized that repeating the same thing over and over is retarded

I went through multiple tragedies that thrusted me into a lot of responsibilities. I have enough time to post this before being busy again. I still want to play video games but I don't have the time. I think when I overcome this I will have the time again, but not the need. I'll be able to play them in moderation.

Never did.

Just doing it less and picking games better, don't game WOW like i did in my twenties, fuck the grind or never ending shitfest, more in to indies like Subnautica and shit like that.

You won't necessarily grow out of it: anons saying that are the type that think not playing vidya makes them better people ipso facto.
You'll almost certainly play less provided your life is in order but if you still like them, that's fine.

That’s pretty gay, dude

Life is repeating the same thing over and over.

Which part exactly?

Don't get baited man, he's just jelly you accomplished something. I wish I would be done with university it sucks to be constantly learning but I do get some enjoyment out of it. I'm in my mid twenties and I also enjoy one or two hours of gaming when I have some time. Enjoy your day or evening friendo.

There's a massive population of people on this site dedicated to pointing out that vidya isn't a hobby at every possible opportunity.
Only productive, creative pursuits are hobbies.

you grow up

I realized that I wasn't doing it out of enjoyment but convenience. I realized that the friends I played with were not as much friends as a group of relative socially marooned strangers I happened to share an island with. Everything is in the end pointless and you've no say in that particular matter, but you can make yourself enjoy the pointlessness.

Pretty much this.

In variations which is why gaymes becomes so exceedingly boring for most people since they tend to nuke their brains with it 8 hours a day in their teens.

The same way you stop masturbating

Don’t read this

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So just because Linux sucks at gaming you fucking pathetic 6% Linux market share faggots want to stop gaming because Linux can't compete with windows ? instead of actually improving your shitty distos you sons of bitches.

Gaming and windows and everything you fucks hate ain't going anywhere and you fucking hippies cant do anything to stop it

this. same goes for anime and manga

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What's wrong with video gaming?

Job+fitness+studying leaves me no time.
Besides that coming to the realization that I've wasted most of my life because of them and that I have a issue with it helps a lot. I'm staying away from them like a alcoholic should stay away from alcohol.

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I just got bored and feel like I have better things to do and 100% of the new games don't interest me in anyway.

grindfests are only fun if you're not already going through the daily grind

game respect game

i stopped watching tv, i still play two or three games per year

why is this thread still alive?

By being poor so I can't afford new console or gaming pc.

>also i realized that repeating the same thing over and over is retarded
So you decided to go repeat the same day over and over and not have fun in your free time at the end?

This happened to me but then it realized that it was just an edgy phase. Now I game harder than ever.

>installing steam in linux is very easy to do
And then you have no games and the ones you have don't work, and the ones who do work work better on Windows anyway.

I didn't. I actually quit my developer job to be a server administrator and work from home. And by work I mean that I play video games and enjoy other hobbies, I really have to work only when something goes wrong.

Valve games are mostly available on Linux now and wine works on a lot of things.

Still a Windows VM with PCIe passthrough is worthwhile.

Realize that games kind of suck and are the most unrewarding and uninteresting hobby there is.

Almost all ideas have been explored by now, only difference is shinier graphics. Until we get actual VR, there's no reason to spend time on that trash.

Still better than TV which has all the same problems, isn't interactive, and always seems to leave you with a cliffhanger.

They're unrewarding and boring to me now. I've taken up other hobbies that I enjoy much more.

They "got bored of it".
That is to say that they like to think their time is better spent ricing their desktop.

By watching anime

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i realized around the time microsoft bought out mojang that creativity no longer exists in games, they're all corporate spoonfed bullshit. the exception of course, being a handful of nintendo games.
i've invested my free time in teaching myself guitar. am i good? not really. but at least i'm doing something productive.

Gaming isn't necessarily an anti-social hobby. This isn't the 90's anymore, grandpa.

Games have never been an anti-social hobby. I used to have a gang of people over my house everyday playing vidya before and during the 90's.

Hey dude, don't sweat it. I didn't figure out what I wanted to do with my life until I was your age then i dog my heels in and didn't let life push me in any other direction than the path I chose. And there were people I went to college with that were older than me.

By being a poorfag with old toaster that cannot run all of the newer games.

I stopped gaming for 3 years and it was a huge waste of time. Gaming or not gaming won't make a difference to who you are.

>Valve games are mostly available on Linux
And they run better on Windows
>wine works on a lot of things
And those things work better on Windows
>a Windows VM with PCIe passthrough is worthwhile
You know what works better? A computer with Windows. If you're gonna install a hipster OS and then jump through hoops to use a ton of apps that are native to a different OS you're a clown. How can you not see it?

literally just did the same

>same goes for anime

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rehab for 4 months, more time /out/, install Gentoo, replacing all my friends, outdoorsy wife

As I get a little older, I find myself being more particular about which games I choose to play and less tolerant of bullshit.

Whereas before I would buy a game, start it, and commit to playing it through- I'm now quicker to abandon it if it stops holding my interest. This does mean that a single-player game that keeps my attention to the end is all the more special for it (and similarly for a multiplayer game that is well designed enough that each match still feels unique after a long time).

I'm not sure this is particular to games, actually. It's the same with movies and TV- I still binge a netflix series on occasion, but the quality bar to be engrossing enough to make me do that is much higher than it used to be.

I don't see why I would ever want to give it up entirely. Pic related was a masterpiece. Battlefield 4 still gives me an adrenaline rush when I'm doing well in a pistols-only Locker match. I plan to buy a PSVR soon after seeing clips of the new Wipeout.

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