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Okay @rafik gk you're right. I am wrong. (whatever)

@Cam Adair The pop out for videos works in Opera browser you may not see that pop out if you are using a different browser.

When I was a young girl and started dating at fifteen, my mother and Grandmother sat me down and explained some things to me. How to wait for a man to open the door. Always have a little mad money with you in case something goes wrong on the date. That the man should pay for the date. etc. One of their pieces of advice was to listen to what the young man said, find out his interest and ask questions that get him talking about it. Then to listen to him. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If some person sat down and started to explain something to me in the simplest terms as though I was stupid, on a topic I had no interest in, it wouldn't last long. I would find such behavior condescending. Combine my advice about a compliment with Robert's on listening and you have a good start to a conversation. Sorry if this seems condescending.

I used to have a copy of this. Good read and very informative Larousse-Gastronomique

Guess I need to fix this. Almost everything is game related

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@Simon E If you can take or leave it... Why do you need to go play?

kingstravy? wow really sad Sorry to hear that.

I got my computer working by installing libraries from Mate. Onward to better things now. Still have to tweak puter some more but can do that later.

Looks like you're starting to have High Quality Problems instead of low quality ones like I have.

This is what we call stinkin' thinkin' Your disease is talking to you.

I slept through the night last night! I guess my body decided it wasn't going to get rewarded with a game at 3:15 AM. Eating, hygiene, sleeping, not playing games. It gets better. Oh and writing here in our journals

On 104 days I don't understand why people feel like after 90 days they can go back to gaming! 90 days is the detox. If you detox cigarettes for 90 days do you think it's alright to smoke then?

@phpsmith ha I can't take the total silence and non-connectedness. I put Wagon Train on Youtube and use the little popout feature so it plays while I work. It's like having a tv playing in the background. Day 3! You're doing great

Welcome Anners You're in the right place!

@kingstravy I'm not really sure why you gave me a link to a game. Is that a game? How odd. I meant more like this Pendulum @Reno F I bookmarked that link. Thank you I will check it out more later. Day 12 Not sure what time it is... 8? I am cold. The day is cold. I am wearing sweat pants, long fuzzy robe, t-shirt, socks, fuzzy slippers, thermal jacket and coat, and hoodie. My fire is burning but that only does so much. I have put a pan on the stove for humidity. My life is so messed up My fault for sitting here playing games for a year and a half and still didn't get my damn character levelled. Playing as hard as a good for incredible long stretches. I object to a game that has years of grind just to take care of yourself in the game. Let alone developing a super, awesome character. My computer crashed it's desk top cinnamon It's in fall back mode Linux mint 17.3 I think it's a problem with the updates I just did. It's been making funny sounds for two days. I restarted and now it don't work Ah checked time on google it's 9:36. Well I'm running out of propane soon with the cold weather. My electric will soon go off. My check doesn't come until the 28th Guess I have to go borrow some money from someone. *sigh I hate to borrow money. If things are all shut off you may not hear from me until the 28th. God has his own way of getting me off this computer. lol If I was playing Ryzom none of this would stop me. I would still be playing until I was a cold, shriveled husk starved to death lying on my floor with the rats eating me. @Cam Adair Thanks for starting Game Quitters. I'm going out to face the real world...

Woooooot! 125 days without gaming!!!!!!

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oooooo you got a dog! Good job from the Humane Society! Welcome to Game quitters

One time I was trying to quit smoking. I was wearing the patch. One day I went to work and had forgotten my patch. So somehow with my stinkin' thinkin' it seemed alright if I bought a pack of cigarettes to help me quit since the patch was also nicotine. Just one or two ciggies to help me over the rough patch. lol

@Koolman Welcome. I am checking out the link on dopamine. I don't know why everyone keeps acting as though 90 days is the end of it. 90 days is the beginning. It may be the end of detoxing our brains from overdose of dopamine I don't know. But I know that when I belonged to AA they said don't try to start a relationship for a year. Some advised five years. It takes a while to put our lives back together. Everything isn't hunky dory magically at the end of 90 days. But it's a great place to start! On 73 days

@Pierce I have made it a goal to read one journal a day! DING, DING, DING! You are today's grand prize winner! I have read your journal! Man you are wicked hard on yourself! Just a suggestion.... On your timer it would be helpful to me if you put that time is currently for not watching Youtube Videos about gaming. What might be good for you and your readers is to also include a timer for your amount of time away from gaming... You have had some wonderful successes! I love to dance. Salsa, Meringa, Combia (spelling) lol I have to admit those are my favorite. I think it would be fun to learn how to Tango! Just a thought have you tried keeping track of how many hours a day you beat yourself up? I bet you could save about 10 hours a day not doing that! Oh have you tried this book? Like Water for Chocolate Just a good read. Also, I think a big lure that games have for me is the social aspect. Seems almost every activity other than dancing or journaling here that you have chosen is solitary... Might be something there.

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