Amphibian220

Just received an opportunity for a higher paid job, hard to make a choice. I need more information about the vacancy and a break to clear my head. There is too much work atm. what would you guys suggest for our motto?

A game is addictive just by having great visual and audio effects and great story telling. A multiplier effect is the gambling aspect. If you add the competition aspect with money prizes, it becomes more harmful.

Welcome! I am always happy to see people returning to fix their lives. Its a great motivation booster for me. Hope your journaling will help you uncover necessary changes in your routines.

When I see you doing well I feel better. How physically taxing is drumming? Do you get a good cardio workout from it?

I am feeling more able to express my emotions, this is a great return on my discipline. Two years after. I get dejavus when I encounter people that talk big business matters. Its very strange, I have to study how I can better articulate my experience and areas of work. Went for a workout today. I miss boxing and sparring.

Hello and welcome Can you carry this passion over into an actual amateur football league?

Most worrisome is pressure groups influencing government policy through financing bills and journalism. It does not matter that the film industry, music and gaming is very harmful, so long as profit is made on it. Government function is now perverted. I can reliably say that most of our grandparents would recoil at the boundless predatory method that is present in media. The advertising that constantly interferes with independent thinking causes many great youngsters to lose potential. We are a new pressure group. This is why we are not just here to stop manipulative online multiplayer “pay to win” games. I cannot speak for everyone, but from Cameron’s posts, he acknowledges that boundaries between film, games, music and gambling are becoming blurred in new products. The way to win at this is to be faithful to ourselves. When we come home, we stay away from our phones and spend time with our family.

In the world of finance, the question stands “why design a highly fragile, volatile system prone to failure and try to remedy catastrophic market crashes with currency devaluation?” In the world of food production: “Why research enhanced diabetes medications for people who overeat, don't exercise and stress a lot, if you can try to change life styles, get a greater percentage of people to work on the land, produce healthier food with a higher cost base and become diabetes free?” Answers have something in common: over time it becomes customary to do things in a certain way even if it is harmful and dangerous. To go against these accepted principles threatens the system but allows you to have a real purpose in life. How do you threaten the system? Well the real solutions mean that many medicines and “optimized” food production becomes redundant and goes out of business. One of the authors I read reported that in his childhood it was impossible to find sweet oranges, they were too rare. Producers increasingly switched to sweeter varieties as time went on to stimulate demand. Striking issues head on takes guts of course.

To all blokes out there who consider that gaming isn’t bad on its own. Take a look at research posted by Cameron that games are being designed to be addictive.

I was tired, but i spoke to family instead of reading or watching tv. Great habit to start.

Welcome, hope you find real benefits in journaling. A great way to recover after stress is kicking a football against a wall. You can vary the exercise from rapid bouncing at a close distance to powered shots from further out.

Had a long work day, feel stressed now. Need to work out tomorrow. There is no way to get out of the rut.

Game quitters is about a greater idea of quitting all habits that harm your health. Most delinquent gamers have other harmful habits- unhealthy eating, spending time on social media, refusing to undergo therapy, choosing not to communicate properly with their family. When the gaming industry has established a higher net worth than the film industry it is an indicator of serious failure to produce healthy members of community.

Will try shifting all of my distractions to physical books for this week.

I don’t appreciate lack of oversight over my work. Scrutiny and management is better for everyone’s motivation. I’ll start looking for a job closer to my research field and with greater accountability requirements.

I’ve had my first workout. Feel much better. Memory pain activated today for a reason I can’t pinpoint. I put action films on the same level as video games at this stage because to a former addict they restart his habits of avoiding responsibilities. @ Cam I like the concept of your website, but ideally your mission is about a return to a community that is governed and commanded by masculine authoritative figures, 2. where there is no hidden advertisements and consumption of harmful drugs, 3. there is a humble approach to increase in wealth and a greater concern for charity, helping others. What i mean by this is that you can’t offload hidden environment costs to the community at large, you can’t create addictive video games that manipulate the target etc. 4. greater group feeling, maintaining family relations.

Applied for one job. Going to revise for my exam today. Did not get distracted by media. Reading “Resurrection” It may be fun to rob myself of time with distractions but its better to enjoy ordinary moments and put more energy and soul into them.

I was asked for advice and I said where exactly I wasn’t qualified to give it. At one point I had to get distracted with poems because of tiredness. Did not exercise in the evening. Today I’m going to exercise, check my exam dates and plan more to get more done.

Today: I’ve had no online distractions. I did dream about action films which I had watched in the past. i will refrain from discussing things that don’t concern me at work. I will exercise in the evening. Wish you all faith in yourselves.

Welcome. I hope your son recovers. On a fundamental level this sort of issue requires critical thinking about the needs that particular video games serve for him. There are slight variations, but the most common is to escape from a reality that induces fear and stress to a young person, to feel accepted by a group in a setting where chances for rejection/bullying are much less, to have a sense of achievement and progression. the history of the son’s interactions with his family members, classmates and teachers, other persons (crucial) in his life, media sources will better bring out the history of what stresses he faced and how video games became an unhealthy activity for him. This should be done discretely, in no way to offend the son or anybody else with attacks. There are many things that can be undervalued or overvalued in the course of life. This then leads to blinding parents/guardians to critical situations that can change the attributes of the child’s character. I have read so many things in journals over the years: 1. Endemic bullying at schools where one pupil attacks other pupils due to his personal stresses and sets off a chain reaction. 2. Bullying by teachers done to pupils due to personal stresses that they have not found a method to effectively tackle . 3. media platforms causing stress to youngsters by showing violence and indecency. 4. media platforms convincing the target that his race or nationality is inferior. 5. Parents’ confusion about their goals in life will transmit into limited understanding of their roles and the needs of the child. Child feels anxious from the conflicts he sees, or lack of attention he gets, or lack of interaction with his close ones. sources (Well worth reading and re-reading): “Atomic habits” by James Clear “Power of Habit” “Systems thinking” by Donella Meadows A complete change of environment, like moving to a different place where the old factors (like a person who has firmly developed a habit of abusing a youngster and cannot do it anymore) may not be enough, because a new harmful activity has already firmly established itself- gaming. The gaming addiction is in full force without external stimuli now. What truly wages war on old habits is both a physical new place and a new person (or group of persons) that: 1. Interests the youngster with a beneficial subject of study. 2. Teaches that youngster the new subject and his craving to learn starts to effectively distract him from old thinking ways. 3. The new subject , people, place isn’t just a distraction anymore, it now intrigues the youngster and becomes part of his new life. 4. New people that enter the life od the youngster have to be healthy themselves and be interested and happy in teaching the son. Hope this may be of some help.

Distant dreams can interfere with our work.

I think i understand your emotions. Maybe these emotions are natural and necessary? Can we always remain in a state of excitement? For me game quitters’ aim is an example of a greater aim in my life which benefits communities because it goes around many non solutions- 1) non solution of moderation 2) non solution of finding “better” games. GQ speaks out in a militant tone that we must go without games and I find it attractive because its honest. I also think we can become more meaningful by stipulating the non-negotiable values for us in media and books. (Just remember that video game designers do not have any misgivings at all about imposing their values on you. Thats why there are games and films that propagate indecency and violence). I want to pursue a goal in my current job like that. I am consciously aware of this need and I think so are you. If my department has an unnecessary function or could operate much better I’m going to talk about it. Edit: If you are making cartoons, you could do a PR clip of young person throwing away games and going after becoming an achiever in life?

I think stressors like these can make you stronger if you don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Overpressure can hurt your health. “Placing a system in a straitjacket of constancy can cause fragility to evolve” C S Holling. I think healthy stressors have to reinforce your different aspects. In this kind of scenario you fought fear of not passing, overpowered your habits, revised material, increased your memorization ability. Another necessary stressor for all of us is the physical. Something like a cold shower or a workout that mimics survival mode. But Unfortunately, society aims to eradicate that and puts immense efforts to that effect. It aims to replicate its own function within its subjects. People must be as passive as possible, their conversations and interests dictated by popular media, never questioning the foundations of society. Society can’t accept another Napoleon in our midst. Way too dangerous. But that way we will become too fragile. I'm psyched, way to go man!

Hope your mother gets better, Is swimming part of your fitness routine? I found from a range of articles that a well thought out swimming therapy can help with most back problems. I want to start swimming, but am worried about swimming in a public swimming pool due to the Covid endemic.

Could you draw a chart of how good your revision went over the last week? Maybe that will help to identify leverage points for you to use? Fear of not passing makes it harder for you to memorize. But then any exam is designed for a successful pass if the student puts a reasonable effort in. Also are your health reinforcing activities not being sacrificed for studying? Kind regards