Edz

Hehe, well funny enough I am fairly new here too, its my 5th day here and free from games 🙂 What you could do is maybe introduce yourself a little bit more. How you ended up being here and what was that final straw that made you turn things around? It's completely up to you! You could make a Daily Journal , on your journey of being - gamefree. Ask questions - get answers and so on and so forth. 🙂 Anyway it's good to have you here! It means you took already first step towards beating game addiction

Hey @Miltiadis! Welcome and Best of luck! Stay strong and positive 🙏

Oh man, I've been working in a different types of fields over past 10 years. Almost none of these working fields fulfilled me. Even up to this day, I do type of work that I don;t like that much, but the staff is cool, fun and very supportive - which is nice and that's probably what's holding me there (Bartneder here). I can't say that I am not free, it's still completely up to me what I want to do for the living, it's just that it's not thas simple.. idk ^^ stuff to think about. As for now, I am trying to make the most of my free time - Doing some 3D sculpting and once I get good at it I would love to make a living out of it (e.g. creating tutorials on Udemy and/or working for a film/game industry). Yeah, I guess that would be my dreamjob 🙏 Sorry for the late reply, I am still new around here - 5 days without games 🙂 Keep up the good work!

Congrats on 10months! There are many blackberry bushes in my area too! I am kinda reluctant eating them, because every other tastes like those stinky bugs 😄 I usually check them carefully before eathing, but apparently they're well hidden or simply left their stinkiness onto precious berries that I consume. Nonetheless I still love them, just have to blow them real good before eating hehe

That's exactly what I did. Bought myself a bycicle not so long ago, what a game changer! Rides outside the ever-moving city are the best. This is truly good investment. I am cycling now almost on a daily-basis for atleast 2-hours a day exploring places I've never been before. Truly exciting! There's an app I am using when I cycle called - Komoot, it has ready-built routes and also cycling spots shared by the komoot community. Neat stuff. Godspeed!

Thanks for encouriging, @BooksandTrees ! 90 weeks 😲 Holly molly, keep up the good work! Jeez, that's inspiring 🙂 I've noticed that for me the Discord was one of the biggest issues, because that's where all the gaming was sort of initiated (Before discord it was Skype), so by getting rid of it (Idk, prolly will come back at some point) it made it so much better and easier for me not to think and see the posts about games and any other distracting stuff, so yeah... Deleted twitch app too and I use youtube simply for some tutorials on 3D related stuff mostly. I lurk a lot in Imgur for memes tho ... this gives me a good laugh that I need so desperately 😄 As for the Zbrush, I am using the trial version (30 days), but before I was on a monthly subscription ($39.95 / Month), but after two months I canceled it because I wasn't using it often(guess the reason ... yeah THE games), and 40 bucks is far from cheap. So now I'm simply rewinding my long lost knowledge of the software and once I feel comfortable again, I might go back to the monthly sub. As for the Maya, I am still using my student version (It might expire any time soon, cause I'm done with my college classes). I was a big fan of a blender before, but college was sort of pushing us using Maya, cause it's industry-standard blah blah.. so yeah I switched from Blender to Maya and OH BOY I hated it from the bottom of my heart, because I found it to be less user friendly(super complex and slow compared to Blender), BUT somehow I got used to it and sort of even like it? Anyway will see, if my student version runs out, I might switch back to Blender again. Did some tutorial on youtube not so long ago on creating an Owl in blender 2.8. It's changed a lot since I used it last time, and it was sort of frustrating to get my head around it, but some knowledge was still there, so it ain't that bad. Anyway, wish you all the luck and good effort towards your animation! (Oh and btw - Looking forward to seeing your Blender animations once it's done! 😄💯) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NoGameDAY 3 Woke up at 9:00AM, feeling a bit dizzy and with a slight headache (used some medicine(ibuprofen) and it went away in a couple of hours). 10:00 AM - Me and my lovely mom packed our stuff and went for a ride to an English Heritage - Stonehenge. (It took us about 2 and a half hours to get there). Been living in the Uk for the past 3 years and haven't seen much of England. It was amazing seeing the well known Stonehenge within a hand reach - what a view and what special energy that place has! Gives you some good/positive vibes. The weather was lovely and everything was simply nice. We spent almost the whole day there. Once we came back, I called my Grandmother, and it's a good thing that I did, because her mood was off, and by reaching out to her I made her evening to be much better than it was! (I will make sure to call her more often from now on) Did some sculpting in Zbrush for an hour. Now It's Bedtime. The day was great and I am grateful for that.

Uhm.. Hello to new me I guess? 🙃 Hello beautiful people and welcome to my Journal! I am not promising to do daily logs, but definitely will post at least once in a Week! So yeah, here I am! This is my second day without games and I feel weird, overwhelmed, and happy at the same time. I don't know what to think, but I definitely feel better already! I finally started cycling again! It's a great activity and my legs simply carve for some pressure to be applied to them after all these years and hours spend on a chair. Cause of pandemic I am still out of work (Bartender here), and thus I have plenty of time on my shoulders to improve my self in every possible way! So I will create a to-do list, where I can follow and report how things are going for me. To-Do List: I am willing to improve my social skills, get out there and meet some new, exciting people (Maybe not the best time when COVID is still present, but with some precaution, it can be done) Revisiting my purchased tutorials on Udemy and Gumroad and finally completing them up to a good standard. Daily body stretches (ooh boy how my body feels stiff) _______________________________________________________________ This should do for now, but it will be expanded over the upcomming weeks, that's for sure! Anyhow, I am super excited and can't wait to see how much can be done when games are put aside and forgotten! Oh, and one more thing that was kinda bothering me. Is creating game assets/props (like 3D environments and characters) has anything to with game addiction? I mean if I produce some 3D stuff, is it going to affect me anyhow towards creating like temptation on playing games again? I do some sculpting in Zbrush and some Modeling in Autodesk Maya as a hobby, but that's about it.

Much obliged, @chiliflavor ! Funny enough, it's my 2nd day games-free and I don't have an urge to play anything.Hope it stays that way! Maybe it's because I cut myself off from using discord too! It is where I usually would get some invitations on playing games and such. Maybe I will come back to discord at some other time, but for now it seems like it had an affect on my gaming addiction aswell, so I will leave it be for now. Apparently it's going to get harder as you say 😅 Have to stay strong. Thanks once more!

Oh boy, where do I even start? Hello my fellow gamequiters, my name is Edgars (Or you can refer to me as Edz(That is how my friends and colleagues call me )). I am 30 years young/old man who's been playing games since the age of 7. I never saw myself as a game addict up until the internet era (which for me began in late 2003). Around that time I was introduced to my very 1st MMORPG - Ragnarok Online. Who knew the things would go crazy from there? I fell in love with the online games, spend every possible free moment towards getting my levels up, and had a strong grinding urge for in-game items. It affected my grades drastically, I would barely do anything towards getting my grades up to a good standard and it's mostly because I was young, naive, and addicted to pc gaming. It boiled my blood and I would swear a lot if things didn't go my way within a game. World of Warcraft came next. This game was like a drug to me. In secondary school, I would skip my lunch every day just so I could save the money that I was given by my parents for a WOW monthly subscription fee. After barely graduating, it was time for me on deciding on my path(university-wise). I didn't know what I wanted to do and there was nothing really I was good at, except for playing games. So I simply followed my parent's advice on applying for the Maritime academy. And guess what? I dropped out after 1st two months. I simply couldn't get things done in time and it has a lot to do with my gaming addiction at the time. Of course, I didn't really like the idea of becoming a Mariner/seaman but maybe I would if I did well in the academy? Who knows, it's a past now. Nonetheless, after I dropped, I had to make a living somehow, so I started to work as a construction worker. As not having much skill in that field I would usually end up doing some dirty/ hard work on site. And after my shift would end, the very 1st thing I did coming home was enabling my PC. Once I had my shower and supper I would play the games until 1 AM and that was my daily routine for the following two years. Boy.. If I would be more of an extravert type of guy, maybe things would go a different path, but as being quite shy of a person - this was my ideal life. Games. Don't get me wrong, I still had some great time with my friends in RL, but there wasn't much going on. I mean I had a job, a roof over my head, friends and even a girlfriend, but was I happy? I thought I was, but something bothered me. I felt like I am not the person I would love to be. So I started exploring things online, and I thought to my self - What if I could create the things I see in games, wouldn't that be awesome? So I got myself into 3D modeling, and Blender was the right software at that time because it was free and had loads of cool tools available within. At last, I found something that would keep my attention form gaming so much, but unfortunately, it didn't last for too long. More and more exciting games kept on coming out and I simply couldn't resist(At that time it was the year 2012 and games such as Diablo 3, Dishonored, CS:GO and many more kept me away from anything else). I feel like I could go on and one with how my life was spent up to this very moment, but it would be very much the same where I simply kept on living regular - gamer life and feeling like it is OK to live like this, so I will cut it short here. The very reason why I am here is that up to this day, I was getting more and more depressed. And there were many reasons for that, but the major killer, the biggest impact was done by the games themselves. I am not blaming games or game developers for anything that they've produced and delivered. I learned and gained a lot by playing games (such as friends, better English knowledge and some positive emotions on singleplayer games with some outstanding plot), but I realized that I've lost so much more... and at this point, I am angry at my self for not being able to control my addiction over the games, and if it can't be controlled then I would be more than happy to completely cut away gaming from my life and start living life to its fullest potential. I feel like I should've been here ages ago. I am very excited to be a part of this community and I believe that together we can make wonders and become happier versions of ourselves. Stay strong people and the best of luck to all of you. P.S. English is not my 1st language so I apologize in advance for any senseless sentences and typos!