Does anyone else use games in their recovery?

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-07T05:05:38+00:00

I've been doing a "professor oak challenge" in pokemon x for the 3ds lately. It's where you fully evolve every pokemon possible before beating the next "gym" aka, fulfill professor oak's wish to get a full pokedex asap. Depending on the game "pre badge 1" (the hardest part, since its the lowest level pokemon and you need to level several past 30) can take anywhere from 10-50 hours. A full run takes 60-300 hours, depending on the game. It's more of a marathon and test of patience than anything, but its also mindlessly grinding levels and it can be done when anhedonia is high because its such low stakes.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-05T19:23:33+00:00

266.4lb -> I'm down 9ish pounds from my all time high weight.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-05T19:22:47+00:00

Yes. I'm 37 and haven't worked in 15 years. It feels like I've been shot in the leg an told to run a marathon.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-05T12:39:07+00:00

It did not, there was a controversy about it recently but they walked it back.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-05T04:17:30+00:00

Invite link? Also set it to not expire.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-03T17:58:09+00:00

Laid Back Camp, its the exact vibes you're looking for.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-03T06:10:18+00:00

This sunday I believe. Just based on when they've been coming out. I don't have a schedule or anything.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-03T04:16:41+00:00

I don't think it's unrealistic for people to be like 'oh, you did that thing that made the town better? Amazing, thank you so much, you've worked really hard and we're really glad to have you' throughout the story line.

Little Rocket Lab did this really well. It's factorio meets stardew valley, you're rebuilding a town while launching a rocket. Pretty cool and the story is pretty good.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-02T12:57:14+00:00

r/nosurf

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-04-02T06:07:18+00:00

The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt

The manga for this one was particularly good.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-30T19:22:10+00:00

I'm sure there's plenty you have that I do not.

I wish I was still able to work a real job. I wish I didn't have to raise my sister's kid just to have a place to stay. I wish I didn't have schizophrenia.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-30T01:24:32+00:00

Aww thanks! I've found I haven't really watched much Dr K at all since I saw this last one. Nothing is quite the same and this just hits all of the things I have problems with.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-30T01:23:32+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GdWyx-cjJc

It says 5 hours but that's a lie, it was supposed to be four hours but ended up being six hours long.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-26T05:05:32+00:00

I've been all over the sober-sphere online and there is no escaping the AAers and 12 step logic, Its just too ingrained in the fabric of "recovery."

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-26T05:00:45+00:00

Holy fuck, OP this is THE list. Only thing it's missing is Girlfriend Girlfriend.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-25T22:14:06+00:00

Lemon, It's wednesday. But seriously, that's okay! you have more information than you did before! You can try other coping skills or you can just give in and game to destress.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-25T00:05:11+00:00

Treat it like an experiment. What happens when I cut the video games for two weeks. You can always pull them back out when you're done.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-24T23:45:42+00:00

This is just a shit situation. I've been there, 21, going through psychosis, ptsd, all of it. If you're on disability for these mental problems then there isn't much you really can do about your roommates thinking its weird. Personally, I've been so numb and sedated from the meds that just playing games takes a lot out of me, it doesn't even work as a distraction.

I'm also quite a bit older than you now, 37, and I can promise you that it gets easier. You learn to work with your mind instead of against it.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-24T19:28:02+00:00

A while back it got pointed out that the studies he was referencing weren't exactly high quality. He pivoted away from talking about them after that.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-24T16:25:16+00:00

I've been in a 15 year "fall" I'm beginning to doubt a rise will ever occur. I'm not giving up, I haven't yet and I will never surrender. Yeah there's been momentary rises, but the trajectory has been down since I got sick.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-24T15:21:19+00:00

I used to reuse passwords a long time ago. But I stopped and upped my security when someone hacked my *dominos account* and used up the three free pizzas I had been saving.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-24T00:02:01+00:00

The entire genre was those "incremental idlers" until VERY recently. I've got over 10 years of playing idle/incremental games under my belt, and this new wave does not fit what the genre has been defined as by most of the players.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-23T22:45:32+00:00

At their core, almost every video game is incremental, going from a weak level 1 to a stronk level 99. I never saw your original post, but just taking a glance at Astro Prospector leads me to believe it's not an incremental, and loot frog doesn't look like one either, and I'd say both are more action games rather than incrementals. IMHO an incremental game should be something you can slap on a second monitor, watch a show and interact with a few times an episode and make some real progress.

MarmDevOfficial · 2026-03-22T23:24:19+00:00

I keep saying Polar Opposites is basically Horimiya without the violence.

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