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This is a friend of mine, hope you like his music. He is a German artist currently struggling with the corona situation. But he somehow manages. BLOOD FOR THE BLOODGOD!

The major difference between watching movies and playing video games is the alert level. You can easily calm down by watching a movie. Compared to gaming where you need to have good reflexes and a high alert level all the time. While it is the better thing compared to playing video games, it can be a waste of time. In other words: If you watch a movie instead of doing your laundry and you have no clothes left to put on, it's an addiction.

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics#:~:text=Around the world%2C more than,8.9 percent of people globally. https://ourworldindata.org/internet#:~:text=Globally the number of internet,online for the first time. But what would be interresting if being loneley is a correlation of playing games that are focused on group activities. What would invert to if you have friends and a nice family you would be more focused on singleplayer games. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4080869/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314092644_Achievement_and_Friends_Key_Factors_of_Player_Retention_Vary_Across_Player_Levels_in_Online_Multiplayer_Games

Most importanly hadcore gamers priorize spending money on games than spending money on something good to eat.

Unfortunally I do not have steam on my computer anymore :). haha. man that hurts

Awesome idea. Now i Know once more how it hurt when I deleted my steam account. Yet, the deletion did not have bigger impact for me. I spent tons of money on tools. Suppose how it will hurt selling my tools, compared to that crappy steam account :).

Arround 50% of the world population do have internet access. A even smaller ammount (arround 10-15%) are playing video games. Even a smaller ammount do play them regularily. While the numbers increased in the last years seeing so many video gamers in your surroundings is a social effect impacting your location not everyone arround your country. It really depends if your living in a city or if you have good places for sport etc.

I actually built my own speakers. Music was always > than movies. Only when I gamed I did not listen to music. My music taste totally changed after quitting gaming. And I totally love the silkroad ensemble. A mix of people all arround the world making music together.

It is dangerous to think that way in my oppineon. I know tons of people and was on and off with gaming for over 20 years. In my experience social skills who you learn in a gaming community can not be applied to interactions in person. There is one exception, though, it's if you run your own Guild or Clan or whatever. Simple speaking, becouse you learn to manage people. I give you another example: I stopped gaming. I started repairing electronics, what is a real skill that gives even other peoples real advantages. I got to know tons of people throught repairing electronics, people still call me today. I got to know more people in one month than i got to know people in gaming since 20 years. My point is, if you learn a real social skill you will have a much bigger value for your gaming friends than just being good at some games. Suppose you learn the social skill motivator. You suck at the game but if you are with your friends you win every round. It will be hard and take longer to get there but it is possible and your live quality is beyond measurement by then becouse you do not limit yourselve only to gaming.

I totally disagree. Becouse of the text I written above. Short: Gaming communities have the problem of being anonymous. I never had someone in a gaming community helping me to move my furniture. I never had people in the gaming community being honest. Compared to real life friends, gaming friends are not real friends. There are exceptions, but those are so rare. Even real friendships get destroyed by computer games often.

Very interresting topic. Since I had the same problems but that will be a long text. If you want I can write down my own life experience. It seems you lack empathy, no offense (what I lacked myselve alot when I was younger). Empathy is the ability to put yourselve in some others place. After you learn that, life will get much easier. I suggest you try to learn this single skill at first. It is the most easy skill to be learned in a social society. As for the silent part: Remaining silent is not a bad thing, unless you keep silent all the time. If you add a sentence like: "Let me think about it" or "I do not know anything about that". It would be a good start to let people know you listened to them and you are not bored by what they say. It is not a conversations if only one of the participants is talking. After that you can go on to more advanced topics, for example: - Reading peoples body language - Learning what is important to you (in other words your mindset but that's a much more complex topic), becouse it allows you to have conversations about topics that interrest you and seem to be boring to others - Learning whats in trend right now - Building up activities you can also share with others (mathematics is a mindes, swimming is an activity everyone is interrested in) - Learning and building up your social status (being able to repair a car has much values for a society, and if your able you even entertain people while you repair something you can earn money with it) - Learning psychological topics, like rhetorics, complimenting etc. - Learning to get teased and being funny about it - Learning that you did a mistake

Yea, mostly the easy tasks are so obvious, I do not think about them at first. But usually the easy tasks are the ones who give you good results. And thats even more important for gamers becouse of dopamine intox and easy results.

This depends completely on what you connect the values to, i'd say. For example: If you do have a nice community to play with but are not able to talk to people in real live, that explains alot. If you manage to socialize and then remember your experiences there, you find that real interaction has alot more value. People always stick to their place where it's most comfortable for them. Once you put a little bit of work into socializing you will find that more comfortable than sitting in a dark room watching animated pixels. Games do have value, that is true. But they are a 100% time waster. I like that you stick to your own oppineons, regardless of what other peopel say. Thats a big lesson in live. In my oppineon that is. Good luck.

Hello Actually I been thought that myselve. What actually may look like a lot of time will shift to much less time. So at the start it looks like you have so much time left. You only feel that way since you stopped gaming and having free thought about yourselve. Time moves slower without gaming. After you found hobbies or different activies you shortly notice that 24hour a day are to less time. Greetings

Hello, so I did quit for half a year now. I was on and off with gaming, recently deleting all accounts and quitting it completely. What I do alot is going for a walk in the city. Mostly at places where people sit, like parks or streets whre much coffee to go shops reside. I always meet some random people there, also having a short talk from time to time. So my recommendation is, just to go out at places where usually people sit and relax. Had good experiences with that, good luck.

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Hi, i hope you are successfull on your journey! There is also the Introduction forum. Maybe you find something interresting there https://forum.gamequitters.com/index.php?/forum/5-start-here-introduction/

I think this would fit better into a relation ship thingy like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/ (Read the rules before posting there!) To give you a better advice, i would need more information like: * How is your relationship going, did you have arguments over it, or do you have arguments a lot lately? * Did you do activities together recently, if yes what activities? * Do still you love her much? Like are you currently better arround your friends that arround her? * How long have you been together? * Does she have a full time job? * Do you have money problems? * How does she behave if you see friends? * Do you have children? * Do you still spend bed-time together? (To name it family friendly <3). * Did she start lying to you? From the information you given: It looks like she misses romantic activities. If you know here long enough you should know what she is interrested in, other than gaming. Maybe you need to work to long times? Try to talk to your boss about it (I do not know your working circumstance so take that with a grain of salt). She definately lacks attention. Talk about here what she is doing in that game, share your interrest. If she blocks you walk away, do not stress here. Try to get to her with different activities. Cook some awesome meal for example. If that does not work talk to her about how she is feeling. Talk to her about activities you can do allone. Also it helps with rationalizing, showing her the activitiy has no point at all, other for her own amusement. The people she met online can me douchebags/casanovas/assholes becouse they are anonym. Maybe she seeks that fire in your relationship again. Not everyone of them, becouse there is always the nice guy. So try find/spy out whom of the people she met, she likes the most or what jokes she laughed the most. That depends, on weather she games becouse of the game, or becouse of the people (take that with a grain of salt if she was lying to you once). For normal, if there is a girl present in a voice chat, the next three jokes are about se*. I am not saying you have to offend her, but try to let hang out the "man" side of yours a little more. It is important that you do not overdo it (And if you trigger her, do not say sorry! just do not do it again for a while and think about how you can reach out to her again!). Careful the last tip with overdoing can kill your relation fastly, but you know where your staying in your relation at least. Good luck!

Only at work, when it is related to work Repair projects/Politics/Volunteering in social projects/Sports/Reading Biggest part: meeting friends and going out for a walk Everything that helped me meet people in general. Books never helped me much. I just did got out to meet people.

This is normal in any forum/reddit/discord/life, cam already noticed once in his videos or podcasts. Most of the people who leave, successfully stopped and got a wife and kids or moved on. Regardles of the communities (unless it's a good friend) you will notice that behaviour always. I do not critizise those people (no one does) and wish them all the best and feel good for them. Regardless of that, I will always try to come back here from time to time and read throught stuff here. I like this community and the people here and it's always a joy to watch conversations.

Disclaimer: I am no doctor. This is a misconception I read a lot now in this forum today. Medicine and health is so much more complex than this. What did not help you had helped a lot of other people. Since studies found out that overdose helps to normalize production and behaviour for some people (if it's a controlled overdose!). People are different. That's why we have doctors :). And there is no world formula for health (yet?), or we all would live infinite. More importanly you need to get a feeling for yourselve and if you think something does not help you at all, stop it and see if it gets better.

Going throught forums or social media about gaming wasnt ever a big problem for me. I usually do not make friends or get repurtation on social media. Mostly becouse I hate typing stuff into an electronic box when I just could go out and talk to people face to face. I am glad for you, you took the right turn. We all made mistakes in life, time to make it better if your about to make it again!