How do you stop videogames once and for all, Sup Forums ?

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You stop buying them.

You kill yourself

no

well I'm downloading them

please help me Sup Forums this is a serious issue

Well there's 2 ways I see this going.
Do you have a problem with video games taking over your life?

Drop all other games and play Haven&Hearth as much as you can. Get really good at it and build up your skills and shit. The first time you get to meet a bear without a river between the two of you, hear somebody speak Russian from a distance or learn the "trespass" skill, will mark the beginning if your game free life.

Are you one of those soccer moms that hate fun?
Buy a length of wire, glue and find a tall building.
Your imagination will do the rest from there.

Why would you stop ? Vidya are nice.

Get another time consuming hobby, like making music, photo editing, after effects etc. As long as its giving and gives you some feel of accomplishment (but with a real hobby its real and not just Xp or skins)

You don't. You limit the time you spend on them.

Just get a job, work out. You can still play games here and there.

First you realize they don't make good video games anymore and then you just stop playing them. Worked for me.

alright

I'll have to find real hobbies though

You enter the realms of depression. I can't crawl out of my bed and can't focus on a video game for more than 30 minutes. I envy you.

>can't focus on a video game for more than 30 minutes

I can't either.
I just keep switching between games and Sup Forums

You dont it's not that big of a deal, just so long as you're reading and educating yourself also

I just keep switching between plebbit, Sup Forums, animu and 4+Sup Forums. You are having it better.

Ho do you even deal with depression n this country?

I just go to school (I am in the 12th therefore not underage), return, take a nap, listen to some music, go on the internet, try to study but can't do it and most likely I will fail the final exam, go to bed and fall asleep after one hour.

Competitive gaming is completely pointless unless you are really on the level of a tournament player and there is real money to be won (eSports). Which you're not.

There could be real things you could be doing to make real money.

Hell, even the bad-at-math bastion of the casino has you leaving with physical tender at least some time.

Start playing online yugioh/any card game

I havent played video games in a year, but I spend many hours a day dueling people with cards

Bonjour my french friend, I am currently on my fourth day of no vidya and am planning to go a full 3 months to see how I feel. So far I am doing fine but every so often I get the urge to load up Steam and play a game. I used to frequently play Counter-strike, starcraft, hots and fallout 4. Right now my brain is craving that dopamine hit I would usually get from playing cs:go or sc2 but I am keeping my mind occupied by watching podcasts. Currently I am engaged in roleplaying games, like dungeons and dragons, you too should consider this, it is very enjoyable. I have in the past tried not playing vidya and made it 2 months and a half, and after the first month I was more interested in academic pursuits like learning programming and languages as well as reading books and novels. Good luck on your journey, check out gamer quitters on youtube for help.

This just pirate them instead

Competitive gaming is the memest meme. I was seeing myself a pro League of Legends player a year ago, but I am glad that filled a good part of my summer vacation back then and could get through it sane, after playing 8 to 12 hours a day.

I was 200% mad all the day if I started to tilt, I was having a glum grimace all the time when talking to my parents or friends.

MMOs are enjoyable actually, and if you can focus to learn one you can become really happy. I can link my whole childhood to this game Metin 2.

the four aryan truths of kek contain the answer and the way

thank you

>dungeons and dragons

If only I had with whom to play...

Why do you want to stop though? Do you want to limit your passions because the society tells you so? Fuck them.

In my case videogames stopped on their own.

>because the society tells you so?

nah, everyone plays videogames nowadays and no one is afraid to say it loud, even when you're past your teenage and early twenties.

You realize how soulless the gaming industry has become and stop buying into its bullshit

Don't give up, cunt!
Try a few things. Depression is chemical so you need to stimulate that shit.
Try playing Dar Souls if you haven't and don't give up playing it no matter how badly you fail. Just keep going at it until you get good.
That conditions you to seek long term rewards.

Try to go traveling. Anywhere, be it near or far, will do. This gives you head new information.

Eat better. Your brain is fucking starving.

Work out. Nothing big. Do crunches and push-ups every night according to your own ability, doesn't matter how many. This, in combo with the food, gives back nutrition to your head.

Write shit down. If you can't seem to keep up with shit, try to write out what you need to do in the long term and post it somewhere where you can see it every day. Sign the paper, draw a pentagram and spill blood on it if need be. This will keep you true to you word. Let other see it too. The more the better.

Try weed. Not much of an explanation needed.

Love, Psychology Student.

>If only I had with whom to play
There is no good online alternative either...

Same for magic. Im too old to go to the card shop anymore..

ultimately i think the video game issue should involve as much philosophy as science; discussions are rife with dopamine this and reward center that but i think relying on that explanation alone as a justification for breaking the addiction traps you - how many other things that you do are just to get little dopamine hits? what if your entire existence could be reduced to being nothing more than a rat pressing a feel good now button? but if you explore it philosophically and ask whether it's appropriate for you to live out your life in unreal worlds where your accomplishments, which took real time and mind energy, mean nothing in the end, and all is like an illusion. boredom can be intellectually stimulating, as the mind detaches from instant sensory stimuli to its own self reflexive cognitive activity examining life.

It's weird. At one point in my life, playing with little plastic Ninja Turtles and Batmen and GI Joes suddenly disintrerested me and the appeal never returned. I still play video games occasionally, but nowhere near as much as I used to.

>Try weed
This. Use it well though, it is not a cure itself. Use being high to think. Don't do it in your room frogbro. Go outside, walk. Think through reasons you are depressed, (think hard, what you think of as a cause may be a symptom) then analyse from a third person how to solve it, don't let emotions rule.

Also dude, only S.T.A.L.K.E.R and mods are worth playing tbqh.

What games do you play? You could learn from some games or train your reaction time and logical thinking

>Eat better
>Work out

Most important ones.

You find an actual hobby, like a sport, a language, an instrument, painting, etc. Your vydiashit time will get smaller and smaller until you just don't care

Just ration yourself to an hour a day. That's a healthy normal limit. If you have trouble keeping time put on a video, movie, lecture, etc for the length.

If you can't manage this you need to develop and train your willpower.

If you have to try to stop then you aren't ready.
it stops being fun at a certain point and you won't want to play them.

Like with any other addiction. When the crawing comes pray until it goes away.

Ah yes, forgot about that...

They got filled with normalfags, "womyn", LGBTQWERTYOP and the such. Let's not forget about the "nerds XD". This is why it has gone to shit. Once those normalshits were only going outside and eating sunflower seeds, and now they are shitting the games with their subhuman behaviour. One reason for which I have started playing only single player since a year ago or so.

>Dark Souls

I have tried Bloodborne and haven't enjoyed. I like games in a Medieval setting, I like dreaming about those days.

>traveling

Social anxiety won't let me. I am really frightened when away from my /safe space/.

>work out

I am trying to exercise, to do some abs or push-ups, but I usually stop after 5 minutes because I become too lazy.

>try weed

I'm not a degenerate, I am straight edge actually, don't get myself intoxicated with all this crap. I might try hemlock if the depression doesn't fade away after 5 years or more, but haven't thought intensively about this.

Thanks for the good thoughts!

Internet is shit nowadays. If only I were born earlier and not in 1998, to view it as a teen in 2005-2006...

>can't even play videogames now, since Sup Forums takes most of my free time

>I am really frightened when away from my /safe space/.

/anxietysurvivor/ here. If you never step out, you will never improve. If it's too scary, start out smaller. But you have to step out.

Weed's good for calming your nerves like hat, yeah, but it's also more than just thinking while high though. There's chemistry to it too.
It basically inhibits some parts of the brain temporarily, forcing the body to divert more blood there. When they high wears off, the blood still circulates like that for a while giving you a post-high boost for a while.
The reverse happens with drugs like cocaine or ex though. Those guys actually stimulate things thus making the body shut down production.

>Also dude, only S.T.A.L.K.E.R and mods are worth playing tbqh.

God, I already 2 bros in love with that game. What kind of brain washing is going on here?
I picked DS since it's hard and actually makes you struggle to get the reward.

This.

But try the new Doom m8, it's breddy gud

>because I become too lazy
Force yourself, it's really the only way.
If you keep it up for long enough you should get addicted to the chemicles your brain releases after physical activity and it should become a habit.

Start small, something like 10 pushups, situps, squats a day and each day add another rep, eventually add different exercises there's plenty of body weight and core exercises you can do to get healthy

They are stopping themselves, all games realeased since like 5 years are dog shit

You realize that they are all jewish propaganda as well as simulate masculinity when you could be out doing masculine things. I just stopped playing because they are boring compared to real life.

>I just stopped playing because they are boring compared to real life
Funny you say this, because most people use them to escape their mundane lives into the fantasy realms that the games offer them

Being far from home for more than one day is really frightening for me. This can't be overcome, it's the point of no return.

45 year olg

Game 10 hrs a week

Married with children

Drink while gaming

My only time to self and fun

Kill me

Man up pussy, go camping

>I have tried Bloodborne and haven't enjoyed. I like games in a Medieval setting, I like dreaming about those days.
It doesn't matter weather you like it or not. Force yourself through it. you're not doing this for fun, but to stop feeling like shit.

>Social anxiety won't let me. I am really frightened when away from my /safe space/.
That's bullshit. I know what social anxiety is like, I've been through it my whole fucking life. Push through; that's your only choice. You simply cannot afford to stand still anymore.
Try going to a bar and sitting at the counter for starters.
If you're scared people won't like you, I guarantee you that everyone HAS indeed met people worse than you.

>I am trying to exercise, to do some abs or push-ups, but I usually stop after 5 minutes because I become too lazy.
WRITE IT THE FUCK DOWN AND DO IT.... BITCH!
>I'm not a degenerate, I am straight edge actually, don't get myself intoxicated with all this crap. I might try hemlock if the depression doesn't fade away after 5 years or more, but haven't thought intensively about this.
From a scientific, psychological and philosophical perspective I can conclude that you're doing life wrong. Give up on straight edge. As somebody with experience in life, I guarantee you that you have nothing to gain from abstaining from intoxicants and nothing to lose from having fun with them.

You can do it if you fucking try. All you need is to push through your own shell. It seems hard before you try it and embarrassingly easy after you do.

Install gnu/linux.

just play osu! and feel your reaction times plummet

Oh wtf is osu?

Amen to that. Praying helps too.

>pray until it goes away

how do you know I believe in God

Stellaris begs to differ

Have you tried it?
Do you have money for a cheap hotel and a healthy hooker?

Do that and spend the night.

Sage and report

nah, Sup Forums can't stand these threads.

I doubt self-improvement has its place on Sup Forums

Stalker is god tier. The modding now has finally given us the game we dreamed of, honestly. So much has been done. Try it some, and dive into mods. CoC is a great thing now, and keep just giving. RADIUM soon.

This. It's more fun too if you only have 1-2 hours for it.

>can't focus on a video game for more than 30 minutes
Me too, at least during my holidays and NEET days.

You should try warframe my friendo

You buy your self a gun, take all vidya toys to a shooting range, you set them up 20 meters away, you load the 8000 round banana clip with .50 machine gun rounds, you clip the clip to your AssaultRifle-15, you put your finger on the trigger, place the muzzle of the assault gun on the back of your head and hold said finger down on the trigger and empty all 8000 machine gun rounds into brain full of mush, once banana clip is empty you place the gun on the ground and crawl inside a duffle bag and lock it. Easy peasy

Stopping to play video games means you have beat the true final boss of video games.
Lol i think i will still play when i am 70

The same way you battle an addiction. Find a New addiction.

Fine, I'll try it once I get past my KSP obsession.
Give me a list of good mods and tell me which of the games I'm supposed to play.

>I am not playing a video GAME for fun

Lame logic.

>You simply cannot afford to stand still anymore.

I-I do. Although I will soon have to move to university in another city, but I guess my parents will rent a one room apartment for me and it will be fine.

>WRITE IT THE FUCK DOWN

What to write?

>straight edge

It makes me feel more special. It's like the mental version of fingerless gloves to give you an example.

I always felt bad when I was going with my parents on vacations (at 15-16 for example).

Hookers? I am still a kid, I am still yet to finish highschool. What the fuck?

And for the matter, I am no longer attracted to most of the real women, let alone the average hooker from Romania.

Osu! Is amazing, it's a PC rythem game.
I hate typical rythem games but this is something else entirely.

dont stop just limit your time

no thanks

>grindframe