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Video Game Addictions
Everyone! Feel free to step up and admit the fact that you are addicted to video games and it's detrimental to what you really want to accomplish in life, making great music. I'll be the first. Hi, my name is Alan and I'm addicted to PC Games. There, I said it. The first step is admitting, right? Yesterday I said goodbye to my World of Warcraft guild, deleted my character, created a new one with the same name, and changed my password to "dontbealoser".
But it's not just WoW for me, it's many well-done PC game. The PC Games I have become addicted to in chronological order: Starcraft, Kingpin, Unreal II XMP, Warcraft III, World of Warcraft, Unreal Tournament III, Left 4 Dead, World of Warcraft (again). I've tried so many times to game for just an hour per day, or one day per week, and it has always failed. I just have to have it all, or none. That's the kind of personality I have. So I've decided to treat it as it is, an addiction.
Saying I can control my gaming is like alcoholics saying they can control their drinking. Really, I have no control over it and must remove it entirely from my life, forever. I never let it get in the way of my job, friends, or school, but I definitely let it get in the way of myself and my own goals. It's OK to miss it from time to time, but I need only to remind myself that I'm a better person with out them.
Anyway, the point of the thread is to spread video game addiction awareness, hopefully get a few people to admit to the problem, and let these people abandon their false worlds in hopes of bettering the only real one we know of.
Depressed?
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| Originally posted by alanzo Saying I can control my gaming is like alcoholics saying they can control their drinking. Really, I have no control over it and must remove it entirely from my life, forever. |
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| Originally posted by Beatflux Depressed? |
You never get sick of WOW? I played it for two years and got bored with it soon after the announcement of WOLK. And I've been competitively playing Marvel vs CapCom 2 in tournaments for around eight years now.
If you have an awareness that this is a problem, you'll get better at realising what's happening, and putting an end to it sooner.
As you said, delete your character, make the time you've invested in the game worthless. Otherwise you'll still have something in your mind telling you that maybe the time wasn't totally misspent, and talk yourself into more late night gaming sessions.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with gaming occasionally, as a break, the same way one would watch a movie or meet up with friends. It's only if you have an awareness that it's getting in the way of what you want to do that you need to deal with the issue.
It gets easier and easier to live a productive life if you just keep saying "no" to the things getting in your way. The more you say "no", and spend that time working on music, the less hold these other things will have over you. Along the same lines, the more you give in and say "yes", the stronger their hold will become.
You may still slip into it from time to time, but it will take up a tiny fraction of your time every few months rather than heaps of time each week/month. When you do slip up, don't beat yourself up over it, don't make it a question of "right/wrong", just focus on what you want to do and do it. Feelings of guilt/ of "being a bad person" are pointless - all people are imperfect, we're all doing the best we can, based on what we know. Just get on with what you want to be doing with your life.
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| Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Most of the time I feel the same way about message boards. I always wonder how much music I could have written if I hadn't spent so much time posting on here and other places. |
you need to get a girlfriend.
Nothing gets in the way of making music more than message boards. Video Games to an extent should actually feed creativity, the mind is constantly in a creative mode when playing a game. And to play well you have to be creative and be able to make wise descisions.
I dont mind getting banned and playing more video games lol. I'd probably be more productive at the end of the day.
I feel you Alan I'm addicted to games as well. In fact I just got done building my MAME cabinet piece by piece over 9 months. I try and keep tabs on my gaming though and really only play when I'm burnt out from music. Even then when I do play, I like quick gratification games that don't require a lot of commitment, hence the arcade cabinet. I'll usually play a couple games of SFII, MK2, Rastan, Contra, Shinobi, and a shooter like 1945 to get my fix. Xbox 360 I pretty much only play Geometry Wars 2. On the PC its SF4 and Bionic Commando.
Well why don't you try to do this, 1 day of games then the next day music and so forth.
I want to get back into playing games as i do miss it. But yes it can eat up all your time, I wish there where more hours in the day to do stuff like this.
I think we should only work 4 hours a day and the rest to play or do whatever you want.
A third of the day working sucks, everyone would be alot happier, i know i would.....
I always have these peaks and valleys. Peak would be couple of hours a day and valley would be no games for a couple of weeks/months or so.
Downloading GTA4 (again) as I'm writing this though. Just switched to Windows 7 64bit.
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| Originally posted by Storyteller I always have these peaks and valleys. Peak would be couple of hours a day and valley would be no games for a couple of weeks/months or so. Downloading GTA4 (again) as I'm writing this though. Just switched to Windows 7 64bit. |
I got everything I need working thus far 
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- email
- wireless usb thing drivers
- internet
- audio drivers
- renoise sequencer
Haven't come round to installing any VST plugins yet though, I have more important things to do now (deadlines 
). But all seems to be working just fine right now.
No problems whatsoever.
I love the new window size manipulation features. Incredibly handy.
GTA should be finished in a couple of hours. I hate this game it's so friggin large. Even with 1.5MB/s it takes way too long hehe.
yeah i'm just wondering if i will get any compatibility issue's with my vst's i hope not.
So i'll wait on your outcome 
Now if I play a game I'm bored within a few minutes as my brain is just saying 'this is a totaly pointless meaningless thang' - great.
You can reprogramme yourslef this way to remove the lust for fast food too. I homed in on the smell of a Macdonalds restaurant and decided they stanck of melting butter - life a babies highchair does, and that really now puts me off Mds. Check out that putrid butter smell next time you pass one.
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| Originally posted by Richard Butler Now if I play a game I'm bored within a few minutes as my brain is just saying 'this is a totaly pointless meaningless thang' - great. |
i used to be into video games as a kid but I just don't find them fun anymore. I'm not sure if it is because of the quality of games or I just grew up.
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| Originally posted by RichieV i used to be into video games as a kid but I just don't find them fun anymore. |
As a video game developer, I approve of this messsage.
I stopped playing WOW 2 years ago, but the last track I had that was signed, back in late 2004, was made on a weekend where WOW servers were down between the first beta and Release. Pretty depressing
I'm too busy making games these days to really have an addiction to playing them though. That said, I'm really looking forward to Dragon Age coming out in a couple of weeks!
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| Originally posted by KilldaDJ you need to get a girlfriend. |
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| Originally posted by Waza Well why don't you try to do this, 1 day of games then the next day music and so forth. |
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| Originally posted by alanzo I've tried so many times to game for just an hour per day, or one day per week, and it has always failed. I just have to have it all, or none. That's the kind of personality I have. So I've decided to treat it as it is, an addiction. |
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| Originally posted by Magnus Even then when I do play, I like quick gratification games that don't require a lot of commitment, hence the arcade cabinet. |
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| Originally posted by Richard Butler Now if I play a game I'm bored within a few minutes as my brain is just saying 'this is a totaly pointless meaningless thang' - great. You can reprogramme yourslef this way to remove the lust for fast food too. I homed in on the smell of a Macdonalds restaurant and decided they stanck of melting butter - life a babies highchair does, and that really now puts me off Mds. Check out that putrid butter smell next time you pass one. |
hi im a drunk bully and addicted to hitman blood money. rofl
i have a drug addiction, that's why i get high and *then* produce. multi-tasking yo.
i suggest you insert a solitaire plug-in on the master channel in your composition. problem solved.
I'm not addicted to video games, but i'm addicted to my IT studies. At the moment I'm studying to be windows (server 2008) server and enterprise administrator, Citrix certified administrator and Cisco CCNA (/CCNP)+ some others. It's sunday and i'm in the school studying WTF.
Yeah i'm addicted to my games 100%. Got xbox 360 and pwn newbs on halo. Haven't produced in weeks. i'm not even in the same boat as alan, i'm in a submarine very deep down there.
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