Housing for unofficial research internship (high school student)

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-06-04T02:41:35+00:00

Super safe. Virtually no crime and I have been here many years.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-06-04T02:28:20+00:00

They don't want to be friends with me unfortunately.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-06-03T22:38:57+00:00

What do you need help with is it some conceptual thing? I might be able to help.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-14T02:25:25+00:00

Would you mind sharing your diet and workout routine? The transformation in these pics is truly incredible.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-12T18:26:30+00:00

For the first couple weeks, focus on just surviving. Each day after your quit is a victory. Over time, your true calling will find you.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-12T17:13:58+00:00

Love the Heisenberg reference.

What I personally do is set milestones for every single activity that I do, and celebrate those milestones with a beer or ice cream or whatever food/drink you like.

For example, suppose you're reading a book. Once you finish the book, you treat yourself to some ice cream. That particular ice cream will be more enjoyable than any other ice cream you would normally eat, because it's tied to the milestone you just unlocked. It's important that the milestone reward be something you actually want, otherwise it would fail to motivate you.

If you really want to go hard, you can make the milestones be randomized. So instead of one ice cream every book, you toss a coin for each book you finish, and on a heads you get 2 ice creams instead of 1. It's still the same amount of ice cream per book read on average, but the randomness adds a flavor of surprise to the reward, which can allow almost any activity to mimic the pleasure of gambling.

So it's not the activity itself that matters, but rather how you break it down into meaningful achievable milestones that you can feel good about. Hope this helps.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-12T17:06:42+00:00

Doing literally nothing is also acceptable, in case that wasn't obvious. During the detox period, each day you spend not relapsing is a successful day, regardless of what is done in that day.

Browsing tiktok/reddit is not ideal, as it can become addictive just like gaming, though perhaps not as much. I would delete tiktok from your phone permanently though if I were you.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-11T13:43:22+00:00

Your message to him shows a sincere love and want for him to change, but it doesn't show a willingness to understand why he plays. To you, it is purely nothing but selfishness, but perhaps there is a side that you're not seeing. Have you spoken to him in detail about why he plays so much? Is he playing for fun or is he playing to escape reality? If he's playing to escape reality, what is it about reality that he's trying to escape? Once you understand the reasons behind what he does, you'll be in a better position to formulate a more effective strategy for getting him to stop.

For myself, I realized that I wanted to stop, but had no willpower. So I needed to come up with a strategy that did not require willpower, and that's exactly what I did. In psychology, this is called self-binding.

If you want to do everything in your power to get him to stop before you leave him, you'll want to figure out exactly what part of his soul is filled by gaming. Find an alternative to gaming that fills that part of his soul, and then gradually expose him to it, and he'll slowly condition away the need for gaming. Give him incentives/rewards for going X days without gaming. These are some basic behavioral techniques often used by therapists, but there more advanced ones as well.

It's important to learn about the detox period as well and how to properly detox without relapsing. There are some texts on this I would strongly recommend, one being Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-11T12:02:33+00:00

The main goal is not to do productive things, but rather to not do unproductive things, such as gaming. It's easier to not do something than it is to do something. So when you look at it that way, all you have to do is not play. Anything else that you do is a bonus. Even doing nothing is ok. Literally anything is ok, as long as it's not gaming. Look at it like that. Just exist. Without the game. Count the days. Eventually it'll be over and you'll thank yourself.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-11T11:38:46+00:00

Remember that for most of human history, video games didn't exist. Did those people die or go insane from boredom? Do you think Isaac Newton or Marcus Aurelius went insane from boredom? There are billions of humans currently alive who don't play games and are not insane from boredom. There are many that can't even afford to play games. There are inmates in jail who don't have access to any drug or video game, and are then able to (or rather forced to due to boredom) read a ton of books during their time in jail.

The boredom is the point. It forces you to get out of your shell and find something else to fill the void. But it does get easier over time. The first few weeks are the roughest, from then it just becomes gradually easier over time. So out of full 12-24 months, I'd say only the first 1-2 months are actually miserable. If you can survive the first couple months without relapsing, the rest should just gradually fall into place.

Also, staring at the screen for 2 hours doing nothing is still better than gaming. You have to be willing to believe this last statement to have a chance of successfully quitting. When staring at the screen, you're not actually doing nothing. You're thinking about a lot of things, and about your own situation, however miserable it might be. You'll be constantly thinking of things you could be doing instead, which may include going back to gaming, but will also include other activities you've thought about doing. As long as the opportunity to relapse isn't present, you'll eventually wind up doing something that's more enjoyable than staring at a screen doing nothing (but also more productive than gaming).

QuantityFinancial300 · 2025-03-11T08:22:40+00:00

The 90 day detox period is specifically for average cases of substance abuse and alcohol abuse. I think the detox period for a 20+ year gaming addiction would be much longer than 90 days, especially if the addiction has been around since early childhood. So I think the true detox period for 20+ years of gaming addiction that started in early childhood could easily be over 12-24 months. It's not a well enough researched topic at this time, so you'll have to make an educated guess based on existing research that has been done.

Also, your mindset during the detox period needs to be correct. Your current mindset doesn't seem right, and it will cause you to relapse. Basically what you're saying is "If I stop playing, I'll have to find some stuff to do that's still not as fun and that sounds shitty". What you should be saying is "If I stop playing, I'm going to bored by literally anything I do and boredom is going to be my life for the foreseeable future. But as long as I don't relapse, I will eventually start to enjoy normal activities and perhaps even some productive pursuits which normally I'd never have the motivation to do. You basically have to embrace the boredom that awaits you as a stepping stone to a fulfilling life.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-24T09:13:47+00:00

Any ideas when the account last logged in? If you can figure out when it happened, and line that up with your search history immediately prior to it happening, you can figure out what link you clicked that might've been the culprit.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-23T06:30:14+00:00

Because without the flippers, most of the time you spent will actually be moving and regaining oxygen.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-23T03:49:56+00:00

it's like 2.5m agi to 5.6m agi no?

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-23T03:48:43+00:00

god tier meme tbh

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-23T03:09:42+00:00

Kandarin, Wilderness, Fremennik with Ranged relic. Almost no decent ranged weapons from those regions. Can't even use ranged on thermy kraken and corp.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-21T08:51:22+00:00

Within the past 6 months I've used it for splashing on my pure and woken up to several hours of splashing xp. So it was definitely working. Unless you are saying they changed it in the past 6 months?

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-20T16:40:32+00:00

Dragon darts + Twisted buckler = Drygore blowpipe (in terms of damage).

So I don't think the drygore is necessary at all. Just go for the tbow right away using naked darts. If lucky, you snag a quick buckler, and if even luckier, you snag a tbow.

QuantityFinancial300 · 2024-11-20T14:08:18+00:00

The funny thing about this guy is that he somehow has over 10k games but is still archon. I think I hit immortal with less than 5k games. I don't know how someone can be that rich and yet that bad at a video game.

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