Get a MacBook, that cured me.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Aight I had the nerve to delete all games on steam except CSGO. I can't believe I wasted 4000 hours (only 500 were worth because of friends) on this game. I love this game but I spent most of the time playing it alone. I used to no life 12 hours every day. It's a lot better today, about 2 to 3 hours playing two or three matches. I still remember back in May 2019 I played this game, and I still have so many memories with friends online to this day. After reading @RHL's post I deleted all my games but I can't press the uninstall button of Counter-Strike.
I know if I get rid of Counter Strike I'd be happy but I can't, too scary to live without it.
Aight I had the nerve to delete all games on steam except CSGO. I can't believe I wasted 4000 hours (only 500 were worth because of friends) on this game. I love this game but I spent most of the time playing it alone. I used to no life 12 hours every day. It's a lot better today, about 2 to 3 hours playing two or three matches. I still remember back in May 2019 I played this game, and I still have so many memories with friends online to this day. After reading @RHL's post I deleted all my games but I can't press the uninstall button of Counter-Strike.
I know if I get rid of Counter Strike I'd be happy but I can't, too scary to live without it.
Looks like you're the part of PC master race lolI googled it and learned that mac aren't designed to play games cuz the processor and graphic card aren't as good as for PCs.
And yet, they're much more expensive.
Why the hell do people buy mac then?
The keyboard?
I don't think you need to delete stuff. It's more just being self-disciplined and coming back to it time to time. It all depends on how aware one is of their pain and reward center in the brain. Pretty much you can get the same affect with Entrepreneurship since really it is high risk, high sensation seeking, challenging, the hunt, the warrior, and it's just using it in a different form then on the game.Aight I had the nerve to delete all games on steam except CSGO. I can't believe I wasted 4000 hours (only 500 were worth because of friends) on this game. I love this game but I spent most of the time playing it alone. I used to no life 12 hours every day. It's a lot better today, about 2 to 3 hours playing two or three matches. I still remember back in May 2019 I played this game, and I still have so many memories with friends online to this day. After reading @RHL's post I deleted all my games but I can't press the uninstall button of Counter-Strike.
I know if I get rid of Counter Strike I'd be happy but I can't, too scary to live without it.
Games are an escape.
They are the path of least resistance for your mind to either flee from something, or to obtain something it's missing.
I've been a gamer my entire life and I can honestly say that when life is good - I play very little. When life is shit - I play too much.
When work/life is overwhelming and I get anxious and stressed and feel out of control, games provide me with a universe I can control in a risk-free environment that makes me feel good. I escape life and obtain control. I replace a lack of victory and satisfaction in life with an overwhelming amount of victory and satisfaction in games.
All this is to say - deleting games doesn't fix the problem. The problem is your need to escape and/or your need for victory/control.
It's a brain thing, not a game thing.
If it wasn't games it would be alcohol or drugs or eating or sex or driving or a hobby or whatever else.
The smartest folks funnel that energy intro productive places - exercise, reading, journaling, meditation, helping others, mentorship, producing content, etc...
This is one of those areas of life where I think people should stop looking at games as the problem and start looking at their own brain. It's AMAZING how much of what we do that we want to change is simply a manifestation of your brain not being balanced correctly. Your brain WILL get what it needs, and it's not going to come out and tell you what it needs - it's just going to DO something about it, like give you an overwhelming urge to game until you give in and put your brain into it's happy place.
Books I'd HIGHLY recommend on related topics:
- Your Brain at Work (David Rock)
- Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
- Habits of a Happy Brain (Loretta Breuning)
If you have ADHD, or think you do, I'd also highly recommend:
- Driven to Distraction (Edward Hallowell and John Ratey)
If you have a drinking problem:
- Alcohol Explained (William Porter)
There are others but I know these off the top of my head.
I'll forever be a "brain" advocate. Those with working brains and balanced lives and healthy outlets will never understand just how debilitating it can be do be the victim of your own mind, which is made even worse when you don't have the "language" needed to define your problem. It's very hard to solve a problem you don't understand and I believe the books above do an EXCELLENT job of helping you understand and define what MIGHT be the issue.
This is weird cuz so many softwares are available on both windows and mac now.Apple.
It used to be that Macs were the go-to for design stuff. But Windows software very much reached Apple's. Still, people will tell you Apple products are better for it.
Apple are also considered better for sound engineering work (go to any DJ set and you'll exclusively see Macs). Again, I think Windows has caught up by now, but it's hard to overcome beliefs radically ingrained in people's heads.
This is weird cuz so many softwares are available on both windows and mac now.
I feel that man, I had the same impulse as you to delete everything once or twice when I realized that my video game habit had the characteristics of an addiction.Aight I had the nerve to delete all games on steam except CSGO. I can't believe I wasted 4000 hours (only 500 were worth because of friends) on this game. I love this game but I spent most of the time playing it alone. I used to no life 12 hours every day. It's a lot better today, about 2 to 3 hours playing two or three matches. I still remember back in May 2019 I played this game, and I still have so many memories with friends online to this day. After reading @RHL's post I deleted all my games but I can't press the uninstall button of Counter-Strike.
I know if I get rid of Counter Strike I'd be happy but I can't, too scary to live without it.
You stole my words man! This is what gets me. I lose a game to some guy with an edgy pic and I start getting tilted. The more I play the more salty I get. This doesn't stop with competitive games like CS. Guess should had stuck to Vice City.I have the same problem with Warcraft 3. It's not just about the time you spend on it, it screws your dopamine and energy in general. And makes me salty, lol (not surprised on a game where you lose 50% of the time and it's so competitive). I used to play Zelda for an hour a week, or every two weeks. But once I installed this game, things went out of control and I would play daily, often more than "just one game or two" as planned (this is the alarm bell).
I said enough and uninstalled that stupid game on Saturday (let's see if this time I don't reinstall it as I did a few months ago...). I spent the rest of the weekend doing housework, updating my blog, and researching about crypto and Machine Learning; things that I wasn't working on recently that much. Magic? None. Just remove the obsession for some time-waster, and you'll get your restless brain to look for something else, which hopefully will be more useful.
I still played for 30 minutes on Sun night some (offline) silly game on the Switch, and it was overall a happier weekend than thinking you've wasted the entire weekend playing with other noobs.
The moral is: you can still play games and it's even healthy for you if that's what you like, but avoid this kind of competitive, absorbing games at all costs. Rather install some mobile game you can play for 30 minutes a day and let your brain focus on more important stuff.
Shit I wish I could like mac because I have apple everything else. But I honestly cannot F*cking stand mac computers.Looks like you're the part of PC master race lol
I am not addicted to counter strike anymore. I stay away from competitive games and mostly play offline maps with chill music. That way I enjoy myself playing itI had the same situation as you, but not with the counter strike but with city-building games and I forced myself to uninstall all of the games.
I've concluded one thing for sure. Competitive games will never make you happy. If I play CSGO now, I play offline maps with chill music and I enjoy those 30 mins very much.I have the same problem with Warcraft 3. It's not just about the time you spend on it, it screws your dopamine and energy in general. And makes me salty, lol (not surprised on a game where you lose 50% of the time and it's so competitive). I used to play Zelda for an hour a week, or every two weeks. But once I installed this game, things went out of control and I would play daily, often more than "just one game or two" as planned (this is the alarm bell).
I said enough and uninstalled that stupid game on Saturday (let's see if this time I don't reinstall it as I did a few months ago...). I spent the rest of the weekend doing housework, updating my blog, and researching about crypto and Machine Learning; things that I wasn't working on recently that much. Magic? None. Just remove the obsession for some time-waster, and you'll get your restless brain to look for something else, which hopefully will be more useful.
I still played for 30 minutes on Sun night some (offline) silly game on the Switch, and it was overall a happier weekend than thinking you've wasted the entire weekend playing with other noobs.
The moral is: you can still play games and it's even healthy for you if that's what you like, but avoid this kind of competitive, absorbing games at all costs. Rather install some mobile game you can play for 30 minutes a day and let your brain focus on more important stuff.
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