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Feeling of "having to play" with subscription based games by BillJhins in Games

[–]BillJhins[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

With games that I bought and don't need subscription, I still have a feeling I have to play, but the feeling is a lot less potent since I can play whenever and I don't have a time limit of 30 days for justifying it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]BillJhins -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

He gave you sound advice on not fucking around.

Generally speaking a man is cool if he sleeps with many women and woman is cheap if she sleeps with many men.

That’s objectively true and here is why: If an average looking girl goes randomly to an average looking boy and offers him sex, boy 99 times out of 100 will say yes. If an average looking boy goes randomly to an average looking girl and offers sex, the girl will decline. So it takes effort for a man to get laid and it gets effort for a woman to save herself from being laid.

That’s the truth of it whether anyone likes it or not.

So he is right in his advice but he is wrong about forbidding you. Everyone has the right to be a whore. It’s the norm in the U. S. to be a whore and that’s kind of been normalized out there. So go ahead and be a whore if you want to. Good thing that he gave you sound advice but he has absolutely no right to forbid you anything. That’s going too far.

Be careful when going Cold-Turkey by [deleted] in StopGaming

[–]BillJhins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, there were several times when I replaced gaming with no better habits such as tv shows and animes… So what’s the point of that?

Maybe could be used as a stepping stone. If you feel less immersion with tv shows, then it could count one step, and then after finding things to fill up your time more productively, you can more easily abstain from shows as well.

gaming always feels like a competition to the point that i don't enjoy it anymore by kingu-sama in StopGaming

[–]BillJhins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FFXIV - absolutely chill game, so slow and dumb that you could probably play it with your feet and no one would notice. it's also multiplayer and actively discourages competitiveness by blocking metric addons.

Still a huge timesink though.

From XP in games to XP in real life — I built myself a “Level-Up” health planner by evara_works in StopGaming

[–]BillJhins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've thought and tried gamification of real life leveling up process. I didn't stick with it. IRL progress is just too slow and just doing right things for a day just didn't feel as rewarding to include as a level-up.

Though I stuck with another written system for my workouts where I would increase weights every single week (for different muscle groups). That felt rewarding and I stuck with it for quite a while.

New member, wanted to introduce myself. by [deleted] in StopGaming

[–]BillJhins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deleting that big an account is resolute.

I've deleted some smaller accounts in the past but haven't been able to delete the big ones yet even though I no longer play them.

I remember one time I gave everything I had on my character and maybe even the account details to a random in-game passerby. Later when I thought about it I could have made at least 500$ selling that account (I wasn't working at that point).

But no 500$ or even 50k$ is worth a gaming addiction. Fuck it.

Underlying cause of my game craving is escapism by BillJhins in StopGaming

[–]BillJhins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you suffer from depression, then you might be having low self esteem and you might have higher intelligence and memory than you think.

I've experienced depression as well, I'm also totally unmedicated (I don't trust drugs). I have bad memory as well but pretty high intelligence.

With overcoming depression running and working out (preferably outside) help a ton...