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| alanzo |
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. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | 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. |
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. |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beatflux
Depressed? |
No, not anymore. |
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| BshidoHEAT |
| 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. |
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| derail |
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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| Nightshift |
| quote: | 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. |
+1 and add on social networking |
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| KilldaDJ |
| you need to get a girlfriend. |
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| Kismet7 |
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. |
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| Magnus |
| 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. |
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| Waza |
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..... |
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| 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. |
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