Quit gaming

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Think about what you wish to do if you were you quit gaming and you have found yourself a great reason to quit.

 

If you really are determined to quit gaming, you may need a reason, because people don't do stuff if there is no reason for it: the best one I could think of is that gaming takes up precious time that you're not getting back: time that you could use to learn something and better yourself.

 

While gaming does not offer great benefits, there are hobbies that do and others that don't, for example, there's this Youtube channel called Linus Tech Tips that teaches you about all sorts of hardware. You could spend all of your waking time studying to be the very best in your class or to learn a subject you're passionate about.

 

In my opinion, it would be good to set yourself to a mindset of gaming is only a hobby and go from there: it could help quitting if you tell yourself gaming is a secondary part of your day, because it is. Consider investing more time into your main projects and priorities while keeping gaming to a tiny amount. There's nothing wrong with playing just a little bit.

 

Instead of quitting completely, you could use gaming as a mean to lay off the stress from school, work, and your main goal, but that's about it.

 

If you can work the self-control, set a timer for a few hours a day and decrease it from time to time.

 

[KingKeith55]

when you're truly bored of gaming, that's when you'll stop. you won't want to play them.

 

 

[Eduard the weeb]

tbh ifs its not affecting work, health, or personal time/goals then there really isn't a point to do so, gaming should be done in free time, but if you need a reason to quit then its most likely for one of those reasons and you should be able to get one on your own.

[handymanshandle]

7 hours ago, Canada EH said:

LOL

Go to bed around 2 or 3am, wake up at 11am or noon

computer, games, porn, eat, porn, games, computer, eat, drink, go out

Anything over 4 hours a day, non work related, is a problem.

Your wording is confusing lol...

[wasab]

5 hours ago, Technicolors said:

any resources that can ease me into those topics. i'm not particularly great at math but algorithms are pretty interesting

Descrete math is cancer. It is like common sense made 10000000x more complicated. What’s more, you will need to rigorously prove the obvious like even integer is divisible by two. Don’t go into it unless you love killing your brain cells. Do learn Boolean algebras tho, it is needed if you plan on creating digital circuits. You can actually create some very flashy light works using an adreno uno, a breadboard, and some rgb led lights.

[Xander Cousins]

Your asking us weather you should continue gaming or not? I'm assuming since you say you can't get a job yet that you a student in high school. To be completely honest it is down to you. The only reason I still Game (With moderation) is that depending on your line up it builds up skills that can aid in work etc. 

 

It really comes down to you and what your doing. if you want to quit gaming due to wanting to focus on something else. unplug the console or have someone block you Consoles IP from the Router so it won't get connection. 

 

[Sn1p3z]

Alright I couldn't be bothered reading all of these comments. I can't just sell my integrated graphics xD. I can't sell my laptop because nobody wants this piece of crap. I have homework to do but I am too busy staying up at 3am in the morning playing games.

[jefire411]

On ‎2‎/‎25‎/‎2018 at 2:52 AM, FmPhenom said:

1.Make new friends

2.No, you just suck at sports (practice you lazy ass)

3.MAKE NEW FRIENDS

get into a small pc building business or just mess around with cheap hardware. The first time I built a pc has now got me "addicted" I want cheap parts now and I want to mess around with software and try certain settings in stuff or just do something out of curiosity. I have yet to see whether my local universities see old PCs cheaply like I see in some videos.

[Nate Tsirlemes]

On ‎2‎/‎25‎/‎2018 at 2:27 AM, valdyrgramr said:

Gaming isn't exactly an addition.   Sure, you might do it over and over because you're bored yet it's not the same traits as being addicted to a substance.

Why isn't gaming a addition? Explain

I would say I am also addicted to it. I need to play everyday and if I don't, I don't feel like my day is complete. 

[jtmoseley]

15 hours ago, Sn1p3z said:

Alright I couldn't be bothered reading all of these comments. I can't just sell my integrated graphics xD. I can't sell my laptop because nobody wants this piece of crap. I have homework to do but I am too busy staying up at 3am in the morning playing games.

This might sound dumb- But I was way more addicted to gaming before I got a good rig. I kept thinking it would get so much better and that it was just my low frames that was the issue, so I would play games at like 20 fps and deal with it. It sounds terrible but I actually played a lot more than I do now, before I built my rig. So if you ever want to do something tech related or content creation, just get a good rig that can game but can also do other stuff. For me it wasn't that I loved gaming, it was just that I got so bored during down days. Just get a hobby, perhaps get a new rig if you think that strategy would work with you. Get new friends, learn an instrument, there is so much you can do. Reading your comments it sounds like you are an edgy kid that thinks he has a problem but is just bored and has nothing to do.

[wasab]

21 minutes ago, Nate Tsirlemes said:

Why isn't gaming a addition? Explain

I would say I am also addicted to it. I need to play everyday and if I don't, I don't feel like my day is complete. 

Exactly. If you want to redefined it as substance, some people are addicted to chocolate and coffee.

[Hip]

I'd advice you to sell your gaming hardware and just get a working pc/laptop instead.

 

Try to cut talks about games or even block gaming news websites in your browser.

 

If you need further help in a case of addiction consider to get professional help from a doctor.

[TheElectronicGeek1]

That gaming disorder kicking in. Try to challenge yourself to do something productive.

[Hip]

Just now, valdyrgramr said:

That's a little excessive, it's not an addiction they just need to find a hobby or something else to relieve their boredom.

I always recommend going into a fight club. This is something you can use in your life.

[Majinhoju]

When you're old enough a full time, wife, and kids will suck up all that gaming time

 

If you're looking for alternative hobbies or interests.  Pick up an instrument, go outside and start going for walks or go hiking, start drawing or do some sort of art.

 

But honestly, unless your grades are suffering I'd probably keep gaming.

Gaming was a huge part of my childhood and I'll keep gaming as long I still have eye sight and movement in my arms and fingers.

[TheElectronicGeek1]

6 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

It's not a disorder either.  It's called boredom.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gaming-disorder-is-an-actual-disease-world-health-/1100-6455852/

[asus killer]

buy No Mans Sky, you'll be cured in no time 

[wasab]

21 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

That's called relieving boredom, not addiction.

Because it doesn't have the addictive traits of an actual substance.   Nicotine, alcohol, hard drugs, and even caffeine have addictive traits that you are putting into your body.  They are all drugs that enter your body and stimulate your body through chemicals.  One thing that they increase is the production of is dopamine, iirc.  This causes addiction.  "Drugs are addictive because they either mimic or stimulate the production of brain chemicals that cause feelings of pleasure."  While you could argue that video games do it outside of the body that's normal stimulation for the body not a chemical overhaul of it that drugs cause.  

What are you talking about? Chocolate’s chemical compound, particularly its sugar and fat are transmitted by sensory cells in my tongue and nose and passed to the neurons in my brain and stimulated them to cause  pleasure. Why wouldn’t it be an addiction???

[wasab]

7 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Chocolate has caffeine in it which is technically a drug.  I'm saying gaming and other things people keep calling addictions are a misuse of the term.

Cheese pizza gives me the same pleasure too and study by neurologist has confirm that gaming stimulates the same area of the brain as an addictive substance like cocaine. google it.

[Canada EH]

16 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Chocolate has caffeine in it which is technically a drug.  I'm saying gaming and other things people keep calling addictions are a misuse of the term.

IT IS A DRUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A substance that changes your mood or how you feel.

 

Caffeine is a drug.

Sugar is a drug.

Coffee is a drug.

Alcohol is a drug.

Cocaine is a drug.

Heroin is a drug.

Cola is a drug.

[wasab]

Just now, Canada EH said:

IT IS A DRUG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Caffeine is a drug.

Sugar is a drug.

Coffee is a drug.

Alcohol is a drug.

Cocaine is a drug.

Heroin is a drug.

Cola is a drug.

Food are all substances that affect our body chemistry so yes, all can be said to be drugs. 

[wasab]

3 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I did it and it has been highly discredited.  People confuse normal productions of dopamine with an overhaul and or mimiced production of it which substances do.  Gaming is not an addiction people just do it when they are bored to produce normal levels of dopamine.  Using nothing but gaming is not causing an overhaul nor mimicing production of dopamine.  As for a disorder that's just profiting off stupid, lazy, and bored people who refuse to find a different hobby then whine over it.  Just because you're whining and refusing to interact because you find something boring, or you're just fucking lazy, doesn't equate, to a mental disorder.  If it did then we should put every kid going through puberty on pills shouldn't we?  Don't most kids going through puberty find things boring, change their attitudes towards things, and so on?  Why is puberty not a mental disorder?  Even further, their same classifications are saying that Asperger's Syndrome is a mental disorder.  Well, that's not a mental disorder anymore nor called that anymore.  It's a form of high functioning autism that is actually a developmental disorder causing various social issues.  Their research is lazy as fuck.

Dude, read the definition

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/addiction

tell me what it says. Funny how you automatically think addiction is associated   with substance abuse. 

[asus killer]

if games have the ability to create and addiction then they are an addiction. There is another forum i participate that have a rule "you're allowed to your own opinion, but not your own facts"

 

[asus killer]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

Well, according to people I talk to daily who have been in the mental health profession for 30 plus years as state social workers and have taught classes on mental health also call this lazy research which is where I got my "opinion".  But, hey what would they know?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42541404

 

 

[wasab]

13 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Yes, I've seen this read above the response by me formed off the words of mental health professionals in the field for 30 plus years.  I just love how they constantly fail to mention developmental and mental disorders that they could potentially have that causes these types of behaviors.  It simply mentions funding and research.  Ya, that's credible right there.

Sure and maybe people are addicted to cocaine because of their mental issue too and not actually the substance so not an addiction. I had used your own premise against you.

 

Edit: funding has nothing to do with it if that is what you are actually arguing.

Edited February 27, 2018 by wasab
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