I've given up vidya games Jow Forums, can anybody tell me how bad the withdrawl is?

just watch anime

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Once you realize what an absolute waste of life video games are, you'll be mad you didn't quit sooner. Go find a hobby where you actually learn something or something productive.

I didn't quit video games, video games quit me...

no.
>quit soda+pizza for 80% of my diet
>only calorie drink is a splash of milk in coffee
>food is whatever I can make myself buy and cook from costco or local grocery store
was 140-150 pounds, now am 180-190 pounds.

I tried drinking some soda the other day after not having any for two years and it made me ill. You'll feel a lot better if you only drink unsweetened coffee and tea.

Did you quit when you were 16?

>online game communities seem worse every year as I get older
>the era of fidelity in graphics increasing by orders of magnitude every couple of years passed long ago
>same goes for interactivity, devs have already completely saturated the potential of traditional controls
>The next step must be VR, but I'm not enjoying it very much at all.
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I'm fairly decent at managing my time and have a job so I never really got addicted like a drug to video games.
I haven't honestly played much in over a year, just little urges here and there every couple of months. I may play a game for a few hours a day for a week and then stop.
Also there's nothing thst peaks my interest anymore and games seem to be all designed to be a massive grind, or require continuous playing and a lot of work upfront before you can have fun.
Fucking don't have time for it. Now my pc is just collecting age and dust.

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i don't get withdrawal, but if i quit for a while and then see that a new entry in a game series i like is coming out, i instantly feel not only the urge to play it, but also the feeling that if i don't get it and play it at launch, i'll be missing out. it can be a hard feeling to break out of

>withdrawl

In my opinion if you have any doubts about it you haven't given up on them. After 5000 hours of Dota and a recently bought compendium something inside me clicked. I'm mad it took so long. Basically you gotta hit rock bottom and know to stay away from games designed to be addictive.

I can't give up on sodas, I have a jug of water next to me all the time, still manage an excuse to drink soda.

how tall are you? unless you're a manlet, 140 is fucking skeleton-tier

Video gaymes are for fucking faggots. Anytime I hear anyone over 20 try to relate to some shit I’m saying or someone else said with a video gayme they just played I make sure to avoid these people.

Idk, what kind of soda are you drinking?

For me, stopping soda was kind of my choice due to anger. It just tastes like ass nowadays compared to what it used to. No one makes any good soda and it's all just cheap crap.
I fucking just straight quit drinking it.
Currently drinking water, coffee, sugar free RedBull, and Bai.
If I get stuck eating out, I'll go with an iced tea, or an Arnold Palmer.

>If you require to test

I don't think you're qualified to be criticising others.

i'm a "manlet"

>But I have not given up /v/idya.

Have you realized that everything good on the compendium is behind even MORE money? Is just unfair and stupid, if I could get close to unlock the terrains or that one special skin doing the compendium activities and challenges you know what? I wouldn't mind spending a little more cash. But no, you have to spend tons of cash for that stuff.

Besides you're paying with your time to babysit retards the matchmaking sucks and I have never receive a single good item.

These days I'm playing stuff that doesn't make me mad and like I wasted 2 or 3 hours, playing games that make me feel I'm improving myself, you can't play these games 4 hours straight anyways.

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Red bull is a soda you dumb fuck

It's not nearly as bad as withdrawing from fentanyl and heroin.

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Sugar free RedBull is 5 calories and zero sugar you dumb fuck.
It's also an energy drink.

in highschool I was so bad with soda that I ended up drinking an entire 24-pack of dr pepper at a party once
when I realized what happened I decided to stop drinking it completely
I had cravings for two days and that was it
coffee is a whole different animal though
a couple of years back I was working an IT position that was really stressful, found myself going through two pots of coffee a day, decided to limit myself to one mug in the morning
took about a month for the headaches to stop, and even now if I have my coffee too late (or not at all) I get a really bad headache, and I still have to resist the habitual urge to get up and make a pot
started making herbal tea instead
I don't think I'd be able to travel to somewhere like Australia, it'd really mess me up

I drink coke, I know it has tons of sugar but I don't abuse candies, chocolate or cakes, I rarely have icecream during summers. I'd say its something else that makes me drink coke. I guess I like the bubbles and how its always cold.

I know I'd get hooked on drugs, thats why I've avoided them thus far.

There is no withdrawal, it's just now you have nothing to do and have to get a job.

I do not play the game for the cosmetics.

>A soft drink (see terminology for other names) is a beverage that typically contains carbonated water (although some lemonades are not carbonated), a sweetener, and a natural or artificial flavoring. The sweetener may be sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, sugar substitutes (in the case of diet drinks), or some combination of these. Soft drinks may also contain caffeine, colorings, preservatives, and other ingredients.

Wow guess what Red Bull is soda you little cum guzzling bitch

Not him but, when they say 0 sugar doesn't that mean they are just using something else to sweeten it? Don't know if its the same but I don't like the aftertaste Coke Zero has, it doesn't even taste sweet more like sour.

I've been playing it for years, you eventually expect something out of it. I guess it wouldn't been so bad for me if I had friends to play.

I nave never voluntarily drank soda in my entire life.

If only you could give up offtopic posts.

>coke
Coca-Cola, Pepsi?
You couldn't have picked a better example.
Fucking absolutely terrible, those. They are so bad that I can't even finish a can of it.
It's alright if you cut it with water or have it almost frozen over to mask the most of the flavor.
And the feeling in your mouth afterwards is horrible.
I mean, everyone has their own tastebuds but I would guess anyone can take a drink of come and get the strong taste of harsh acidic grot with a fake and overwhelming sugary feel.

I mean just 8 years ago it used to be good. Now it's fucking ass.

It sounds really bad. But at least a coffee addiction does not harm your body as bad as soda, nicotine, or alcohol. My friends who tried to quit smoking described experiencing withdrawal symptoms quite similar to yours.

Makes you wonder how much better we could be, if we could overcome all our addictions. Or be addicted to something constructive, like studying (as mentioned by )

I don't really taste a sweatener in it.
But yes, they use an artificial sweatener in most cases. And it isn't glucose based, so it's probably fine for your health.

thats a really shitty situation to be in OP, kind of being stuck between knowing that you have to quit and not really having tried. I'd say go for it and see.

An addiction like this can have many causes, a coping mechanism for stress or perhaps you saw games as a substitute for something that is missing in your everyday life

point is, without games, you'll have to either deal with these things or find another substitution

I'm not american, so maybe they still use sugar in South America? It's all a habit, I don't even use sugar with other beverages, we have stevia I don't really use that shit either it's not like I dislike sweet stuff I'm just not used to it.

I'll give it another shot though, Ill just stop drinking it.

This OP, without games you'll have to face your problems or shitty situation. Is somthing you'll have to deal with eventually better start now.

you're only one of the tripfags i like who actually has done anything worthwhile
but that is some shit taste my nigga

>t took me 2 full years to go from two bottles of soda per day to just water.

How? Make a guide.

I have more games, but I do not have more time to play them.

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Good for you OP go learn something.
Honestly this. There came a point when I stopped being able to enjoy most games because it all just felt like a waste of time.
But also this. Thankfully I live in a shed on my parents property and can live rent free for as long as I want to keep pretending that I'm working on anything worthwhile. But I mean at least I'm not playing video games.

Starting point: You are addicted to soda, and you drink 2x 1.5 litre bottles per day, as well as an extra 3-4 cups when ordering fast food.

1- Start calculating how much $$$ you are spending on soda per month.

2- Realize that you are spending too much $$$. Buy large bags of iced flavoured tea packets. Drinks those for cheaper. Same amount of sugar, but at least you can move to step 2.

3- Slowly increase the amount of water you mix with each packet. Yes, you are taking the same amount of sugar, but you are getting used to the more diluted taste.

4- Once you manage to double the amount of water per packet, try drinking self-made lemonade. (1 lemon, squeeze into water, no sugar added)

5- Slowly increase your intake of no-sugar lemonade, and decrease the flavoured tea

6- Start increasing the amount of water you add to each lemon. 1 litre per lemon is a good goal.

7- 1 lemon per litre of water is not too far off from just normal water.

8- Congratulations, you are now on water!

It took me 2 years, because I am lazy and weak. You can probably do it in just a few months. Once you are on water, going back to soda becomes impossible, as the taste of soda is disgusting to a non-addict.

I'll try it.

It was fine for me because I replaced it with the gym and I can fulfil the same autistic sense of progression and accomplishment I was getting from vidya with making actual progress with lifting. If you really don't want to do that or you already lift just find something else you can progress with to replace vidya (e.g. learning something new or starting a business).

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Literally no side effects. Look at the exorbitant prices and the mediocre shit you get for them these days. I regret nothing.

You don't have to give it up. Just play good oldschool games. The new stuff is all shit. But nothing will stop me from playing ME3 eternally.

I never watched Anime. Its better to watch Outer Limits when high.
No, its a modern form of entertainment. Actually I think the same of what you said when people tell me they regularily watch television. I have a TV, but it was never connected to any broadcasting system except of my HTPC.

It's not bad because the market has moved on and they don't care about producing good games for your demographic anymore. I stopped playing and had 0 withdrawal and I used to love gaming for 8 hours a day.

I quit back in February and now ask myself if there is any merit to even quitting if you can't fill it with something meaningful ? I guess I'm still developing other hobbies, but it's a slow process.

Video game addiction is more of a symptom not a cause, if you start doing things to better yourself like start exercising you will naturally quit games. I had a video game addiction but after I started taking antidepressants, improving myself like start running, games became boring and I couldn't stand to play 24/7 I was playing 70 hours a week, now I play like 10.

Good luck, mate.

Ever since I've stopped games completely there's been a large void in my life that I haven't been able to fill yet.

>require continuous playing and a lot of work upfront before you can have fun
Fucking this.
If I could hop on GTA online and drive some fast cars and blow some shit up then I would actually still play the game. But now all the most fun looking games are designed to make you grind for tens or hundreds of hours to get to the fun stuff.
This is especially prevalent in MMOs. I want just one goof MMORPG that isn't grindey, the interaction with other players is really fun but they all seem to be based around grinding for no real goal now. Maybe I just used to like shitty games, but it seems like multiplayer games are going down the drain.

I fell for T420 meme, best thing I did. No dedicated GPU limits your ability to play games. You can still play Baldurs Gate and shit like that.
Other than that find something that you find interesting, and force yourself to make it a habit.

> games seem to be all designed to be a massive grind, or require continuous playing and a lot of work upfront before you can have fun.
Fucking this. This is why the only game I play anymore is tf2, because I already sunk enough time into it back when I had time that I'm pretty decent at it and can just hop into a server and have fun. I don't have the motivation or time to actually get good at any other modern games.

Depends on how much of a heavy user you are. Just like any addiction, withdrawal can be crippling depending on how much you use. How often do you play OP?

It's bad. I gave them up, and made it about a year before I was given a Xbox one S for my 36th birthday by a relatively tech savvy friend that actually bought it for me because it's capable of 4k video from streaming services and has a decent Blu-ray drive for the few movies I have physical copies of. I made it about a month before I bought a games pass subscription because for like $10/month you get access to over 100 of the top rated AAA and Indy games, and some of the backwards compatible popular 360 games. Plus it was a used console and already had a bunch of expensive ass games in the "ready to download" section as soon as I registered a live account, like GTA5, CoD WWII, all of the Tomb Raider games from 360 onward, Skyrim SE, Fallout 4, and the xbones version of Saints Row 4 and Gat Out of Hell. So yeah. Relapsed. So hard.

Worst part? I'm literally an addiction specialist physician. I'm a fucking doctor of dealing with dependencies, from food, to drugs to Pica to sex, and yes even recently... Video games. It's not uncommon for doctors to be addicted to SOMETHING, but usually it's sex, nicotine, caffeine, alcohol, or some combination thereof. I've never known another doctor that actually exhibits signs of dependency on the endorphin rush from the reward centers of the brain from scoring a ridiculous long range sniper shot with a bow on the hardest difficulty in Skyrim with a bunch of realism mods. I'm pathetic.

That's not necessarily true. For some people, caffeine is one of the hardest addictions to kick. I've seen people that conquered alcoholism and heroin addiction that can't kick coffee and soda. Nicotine is another one some people can't kick where others can shrug it off like it's nothing.

Vidya and soda aren't the same. For some people, vidya is there only source of social interaction. Soda is just personal indulgence.

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You don't need to "give them up". You sound like those newspaper scaremongers, comparing games to digital heroin.

(Me)
Just be more selective about what you play, take frequent breaks, and make sure you have other healthy hobbies.

soda isn't hard to quit. whenever you go to a restaurant or fast food place just get water instead, you will slowly adapt. after 2-3 weeks try drinking a sip of soda. it will be so sweet and the fizziness will be hard to stand.

so far i've had about 2 months without it and dont plan on drinking another sip. the thing is water always quenches the thirst better anyway fuck soda'

lucky for me coffee doesnt even give me a buzz, i can drink like 2-3 cold brews (no sugar added) a day and i dont feel anything

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You're not pathetic for relapsing. Most people live their entire lives in a constant oscillation between overcoming and succumbing to their vices. You're pathetic for being an Xbot.

>for like $10/month you get access to over 100 of the top rated AAA and Indy games
Yeah, until you stop paying and then they take your access away and you don't get your money back. It's literally blockbuster/gamefly/rent-a-center but with downloading.

Not that bad once you start being productive and/or taking care of your health. But there's no reason to stop playing altogether. You just have to get your priorities straight.

Every addiction needs a healthy replacement. Specially when it comes to things that filled a time gap in your day.
If you used to play 3 hours/day and to quit you stare at the wall for those 3 hours it's gonna be pain.

I quitted videogames because they got boring. They didn't have the kind of characters I enjoyed anymore so I started drawing. I'm shit right now but dedicating a couple of hours to it seems far more productive.

Nah, you can still play the games you've downloaded. If you delete them to make room for other shit, you have to either buy it or resubscribe. The other catch is, if you delete a game after they take it out of the games pass rotation, you have to buy it if you want to install it again. I'm aware it's a racket, but I'm a single dude with a condo I inherited that's paid for, with a $274,000/yr salary. I could buy all the games if I wanted, but I'm in the typical addict mindset of rationalizing it as "it's not so bad, it's not like I'm buying 10 $60 games a month or spending hundreds of dollars to keep a gaming PC upgraded"... But I know, deep down, that I'm still an addict even if I'm hiding it behind being a console casual the way people hide drug addiction behind being "recreational users" that can quit anytime.

>not exclusively drinking sips
millenial detected

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>Literally sipping hot coffee as I read this
>36 year old millennial
What do? I'm a sipper and a millennial.

Weren't all MMOs actually like this? Or maybe I've never seen any MMO that wasn't focused on grinding...

It's complicated. From today's perspective WoW used to be very grind focused. But that grind was the fun part. Questing had you exploring, socializing and overcoming problems. Leveling in WoW today has lost all of that. It's just a process that you have to slog through.

Back in the day the grind was all most people had, they didn't have access to high adrenaline dungeon clears, boss fights or PvP. But now that people can experience that kind of content more easily, the grind becomes a slog in comparison.

It's just a game of hot potato with physical and mental dependencies, one drug can take the place of another no problem, but it's just all part of the escape from sobriety

just watch movies, 99% of current AAA games are movies anyway

Not bad at all if you can substitute it with something else productive that you enjoy. Like for me, I've been coding and masturbating instead and no longer feel any reason to pick Vidya games back up.

>36
yea you're more gen-x than you are millenial.

>and that's a good thing.html

For some people, soda is their only source of hydration
Your argument is shit

I was never much of a soda drinker, but try club soda or mineral water, use lime for flavor of you want.

You get that same fizzy "bite" but without the sugar.

I stopped playing videogames after getting a desk job. When I get home after 8 hours I don't even wanna look at a computer

I relate to this heavy user, falling for the T420 meme objectively improved my life. I can still play Touhou and roguelikes and whatnot but other than that it's also forced me to start finding other things to do.

My type 1 diabete was the best method to quit sugar and start eating healthy balanced meals and exercise regularly because if you don't, you die

It's manageable. When my friends talk about video games it gets to be a bit uncomfortable/sad, but just try to find other things to fill the time, and if needed, associate less with "gamers".

But you can literally jump in fast cars and blow shit up. I play GTA Online and not a one of my characters is over 23, and I have a blast. You can steal cars and drive them around, do fun world events for cash to buy weapons, grab a homing launcher almost at the very beginning, and blow up literally anything you want. I've never had more fun in an MMO before GTA and I've been playing MMOs since UO. Sure, if you want to *own* a "supercar", you'll have to buy them with in game cash, but that's an easy fix: steal decent cars and sell them at Los Santos customs, or do a few races, etc. The "grind" in GTA is actually playing the damn game and doing the fun stuff, like riding the longest wheelie, or flying lowest to the ground for the longest distance, or kicking ass in awesome stunt races. Not to mention every week you get "guest list" benefits, which over the last two weeks has been a total of $400,000

Nah dude. My 18th birthday was 1/1/00, had I been born 4 hours and 37 mins earlier I'd not be a millennial.

soda is a soft drink, but soft drink != soda

Hehe, I'm 35. Born on 01/01/1983. Games to me anymore tend to be shit. I like the "classics" better. Nintendo NES, Gameboy, PS1/PS2, 80's - 2k4 PC games.

just broke my nose the other day while out drinking. Don't quit playing vidya my man, this could happen to you.

>steal cars and sell at lsc
Max payout is $9500 every 40 minutes for a felon GT.
Maybe I want a car that’s $1,000,000. So I have to sell 106 cars to cover that.
But I can only do it every 40 minutes so that’s 4,240 minutes if I time it absolutely perfectly, or 70 hours and 40 minutes.
That doesn’t account for added costs like the rent, utilities, mechanic, dying, bringing cars to be sold in with damage. And oh yes you do have to buy a garage first or already own one to even buy the car.
Tell me this isn’t a grindfest.

>It doesn't feel right to play video games in the middle of the day
>Spends all day on Jow Forums

MAKE IT STOP

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Nigga just walk away from the website, just like close the tab lol

It's not that easy. So much useful information in this site

So you're literally doing nothing else at all ever? Why even buy the game then? I have never wanted for anything I can't get, and I play casually. Cash falls into your lap in stupid amounts. Want a garage? Cool. Wait for the event where you have to fly the longest distance low to the ground, grab a helicopter, head to the airport or the northernmost air strip and fly carefully in a circuit along the runway. Even if you only nail second place, that's still halfway to the cheapest garage smack in the middle of LS. I'm not sure how, but I ended up with a free apartment with a huge garage and a constant supply of free Elegy RH8, so I've always got a fast car when I need it and room for tons more, but even on my alt character that doesn't have a huge garage, it took me less than an hour to buy one just from playing the damn game. You only have to grind if A) that's what you consider "fun" (and let's face it, half or more of this board fall into the autistic spectrum somewhere so that's for them) or B) you want something like a mobile command center to run doomsday shit and don't want to wait to save up the money by just playing the game, running races and having fun. Oh, or C) you're too poor to just skip the grind with a shark card, but most players have no respect for sharkers because they usually spend RL money as a substitute for actual skill. I work a ton of hours at 4 different hospitals and have very little time for grinding shit, and I still manage to get everything I want and buy nice things for my crew and MC without using shark cards, so if I can do it without running crates, and grinding for hours, anyone can. They just need to look up guides on which activities give the most money and make a list of the ones that look fun to them. Rockstar did a really good job at making mission types for almost every style of play, so there's ways to make money by just doing what you think is fun if you like gta games.