Does anyone have hobbies/distractions that they like less than reading but they end up taking up more time...

a common enough problem with the millenial generation. Personally, I just got sick of most of the games I grew up loving, all but a few franchises, so it's not often a game comes out that I really feel like playing, and making time for other people has gradually become more of a priority with me.

To be honest, I love it when a game comes out and I become addicted to it, because it so rarely happens anymore it's kind of enjoyable when it does.

Boggles my mind how anyone who grew up playing videogames can still (unironically) enjoy them. I get addiction part with online gaming, but gawd how can anyone stand this dull, streamlined, marketed to the smallest common denominator crap nowadays?

I quit playing games and watching TV around the same time that I realized I could read multiple books at a time. Until then I would typically read a single book for an hour or so a day and then go off and do other things. Over time I gradually started devoting more of day to reading because I had so many different books to keep up with.

You could take up chess too.

Consciousness is the final boss of the Spectacle. Wise up and kys

what was the last game that made you go on a binge?

what was the realization? like a platonic realization that what u are doing is bad and therefore you couldnt do it?

You literally set the controller down and walk away.

Japanese games are in a renaissance right now. The new Zelda and Persona are incredible.

i play stuff pre-2012 or before and i still hate it but it'shard to keep the habit.
>2016
>being a libertarian

I was really big on Doom last year, and kinda Zelda this year but not tremendously so. Doom is definitely my jam game of recent years.

Big fan of Hashino actually, Nocturne was a masterpiece, P5 is also great.

Bloodborne and Dark Souls lad. There's a new Monster Hunter on console/pc coming out at the end of this month as well.

I agree most games are shit though.

I got really into Bloodborne last year, it's very satisfyingly challenging, but by the end I was tired of the repetition of harvesting monsters for leveling up points. I find the swiftness of a good First person shooter never gets old with me, and certain games like Resident Evil four and The Last of Us are so expertly crafted that I simply never tire of giving 'em a playthrough once in a while when the mood takes me. I adore the Pikmin franchise and have played em all to death, except the dopey handheld edition for the DS too.

Because I still don't get to be a wizard in real life and even if I want to do a no-magic play-through, killing actual people with alchemical concoctions is unethical.

It was more of an epiphany knowing all of my nerd interests were just media consumerism. I was so disgusted with myself to the point where I sold all of my vidya and RPG books. It's been six months since I've played any video games, and I have zero regrets.

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I started reading and now I get no enjoyment from WoW. Please help

>Go gets btfo once
>chess gets btfo twice
superior nihongo reversi

Porn

But that's a good thing.

dude wow is fucking stupid never play it again

Hey guys, OP here! Glad this has become a /v/ thread : )

video games are made for children
discuss

try opening the image in a new tab first onii-fa.m

12+ hours a day on Veeky Forums
Been here since I was 11, am 19 now
I tend to branch out and post on other boards just for the fuck of it so I don't really belong here but I have read books recommended to me on here such as If on a winters night a traveler.
I suffer from ADHD/OCD type issues and that shit bleeds into whatever I try to do besides browse this website so yeah I'm a typical cucked millennial

*otoutochan

I'm doing a little better now than before. I used to be a NEET and just kept downloading PDFs to read them, but naturally, that didn't fucking work. And since I was doing EVERYTHING on a computer there were literally a million other distractions that I couldn't deal with no matter how hard I tried. I'm still tempted to keep coming here and look for new games/music/books, read news or whatever else... internet addiction is the fucking worst. The only fix is to step away from the computer and interact with physical objects. That and willpower, A LOT of willpower.

how do i quit wasting time on the internet when i feel like it's made me more informed? i get all my news and information on here but i also waste countless hours on boards and doing other shit

>reading news
>staying "informed"
Stop falling for these stupid memes.

I've bought almost every book (>99%) from a thrift store. In the summer when I was working, I would go almost every day, usually to 2-3 separate stores. I had routes mapped out. I'd sometimes hit a beat at lunch, and then hit another after work.
I have so many fucking books I bought for 1 or 2 dollars. I've definitely spent at least 3x as much time thrifting for books than actually reading.
It's better when I'm in school though because I don't have a car.
This winter break I read 3 books and bought 5. Fuck.

>it's not so bad if you pretend that Veeky Forums is a cafe for young men to pretend to discuss high minded topics
lmao

This. I thought I had grown out of video games but bought a PS4 a few months ago and I almost feel like a kid again. P5, Bloodborne, Nier, and Yakuza 0 are fantastic

>I don't like playing video games but I keep playing video games
>I totally prefer reading but I neglect reading to play games
>It began because my Mom let me do it

If you want to have self control begin by having some God damn self possession.
You choose to play games
You choose to not read
You could act otherwise at any moment but you choose not to

Get over your own narcissistic fantasy and admit this to yourself and maybe then you can come to act differently. Until then you're a sad sack of shit afraid to face the reality of your own mind

Yeah, listen to morale imperative! If that isn't enough, then you are a degenerate!

You have to ask yourself if there is something more to gaming aside from availability. If you find that it is about their presence, get rid of them! Sell your games. Uninstall the games you do play.

If you can't remove the old habits, then you have to build new ones.
Leave your house and read at different venues.
Find other people who like reading.

what did you do today user?

I've been pretty much addicted to video games for as long as I can remember, got out of it for about a month or two last year then relapsed
problem is I have quite a lot of free time after work and I can't focus it all on just reading quite yet, is it so wrong to spend an hour or two on some brain-dead fun?
the challenge for me is regulating it to just an hour/two and it seems simpler to go cold turkey

Browsing chans.

>it's not so bad if you pretend that Veeky Forums is a cafe for young men to pretend to discuss high minded topics

abort thread

Drinking and YouTube account for 90% of my post-work free time. I actually crunched the numbers.

You have to go back.

>the challenge for me is regulating it to just an hour/two
Set an alarm and when it goes off, turn off your game.

Probably chatting on IRC.

Is still enjoy grand strategy from time to time.

Boggles my mind how anyone who grew up reading books can still (unironically) enjoy them. I get addiction part with buying a nice collection, but gawd how can anyone stand this dull, streamlined, marketed to the smallest common denominator crap nowadays?

Children and fitness and a bunch of church/community stuff. i also play a lot of strategy games

vidya has been great lately

>If that isn't enough, then you are a degenerate!

Yeah you are, thats the reality.
It would be great if we could choose what we value and enjoy but we don't. OP enjoys playing video games more than he enjoys reading. He would like to think he doesn't but he very clearly does
If he admits to that, maybe then he can deal with arguments that he should behave differently but until then he's operating in two different minds and has no reason to change because he gets to pretend he's a patrician genius trapped inside the behavior cycle of a degenerate loser. Best of both worlds isn't it

There's the rare really great video game now and then. Also certain competitive stuff like fighting games RTS games that suck you right in.

>gawd how can anyone stand this dull, streamlined, marketed to the smallest common denominator crap nowadays?

I can't enjoy those types of games either but there's a lot of great games out there. I suspect many of them are right up Veeky Forums's alley too. You just have to not expect the same level of depth from them that you would a book. Same for any medium really.

>i get all my news and information on here

Understand that all you're doing is conforming to the principles of networking: placing trust in others to deliver news for you instead of being an active participant by finding it for yourself. Contemplating this will make you realise how passive you are even if you've chosen to network with individuals who you consider to be elitist and worth your time. The realisation will shoot up your sphincter faster than a V-2 rocket in wartime.

youtube.com/watch?v=UJRd1ZQM64w

Watch this from 10 minutes in after he stops telling the story.

This, especially the last part. I remember that for half a year after really getting into books I couldn't take movies, tv or anime seriously at all because I was expecting the same level of depth in the storytelling. Look for other qualities as well, if I'd given up on video games 8 years ago I'd never been able to play my favorite video game franchise.

I don't see why this realization would be so disturbing, in the end of the day we're always relying on other people for our information outside our immediate perspective.
Its not as if Veeky Forums is such a closed network, there's millions of people browsing here from all different persuations and ideologies even if certain ones predominate.

Well I'm having so much fun these days playing Battle City (NES online on my kaillera server) with a friend. We play also CS 1.6 changing maps often (when we conquer one of them) and it provides unlimitless fun

The sociologist in that video would agree with you and I see the positives too but I found it to be an interesting reveal about how network technology supports information consumption. If simply because it highlights that we're not as individually enlightened as we probably believe.

They drip feed dopamine to addicted brains, nobody really actively LIKES gaming

>quitting film
>the definitive artform of the 20th century

Tell me how video games are any more of a waste of time than books?

Because girls don't find it attractive

There far more girls who play video games than read high literature

we're in the 21st century now, gramps, television and movies are boomer-tier

So what? Doesn't mean they find it attractive

yeah for a shithead like you i guess so

That's nonsense since your adult brain is formed the way it is as the result of your youth.

His mom literally made him this way.

If they do something and you do something, then there is commonality and social chemistry. Thus: attraction. They will be more interested in you and you in them, due to being alike.

You're thinking about it from a guys perspective not a girls. They want someone grown up and serious even if they're basically children themselves

I am a musicfag so I spend way more time listening to/playing music than reading

The best books provide more insight and knowledge than the best videogames.

There are some gems that still come out. I enjoyed cuphead and overwatch but yea, mainly shit.

I keep it pre 2011 mostly

And you're still spending your time posting on a weeb image board
So much for an insight

What does my personal behaviour have to do with the answer to your question?

it is nice to feel not so alone on this. such a passive and effortless form of relaxation. the guilt and shame that i feel on the other hand is tremendous as i have bookcases of works that i collect but have not read

>chosen to network with individuals who you consider to be elitist and worth your time
>Posts a TED talk video
You are part of the problem.

what do you guys even watch?

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fucking anything. last night i watched some stand up clips of todd berry and norm macdonald, a couple compilations of courtroom footage of teenagers being sentanced to death, some videos of guys getting bitten by venomous snakes, a documentary on ants, a couple opera performances of Maria Callas (my waifu), there is an endless vault of shit to watch on youtube. some videos i go back to, but the lineup is different every night.

i laugh, i cry, i sing along. i know its purely unhealthy escapism , but im working on it and i still got straight A's last semester

>overwatch
>a gem
Am I misreading something here?

>a documentary on ants
So I'm not the only one who gets THAT bored huh.

they don’t want men who play vidya and don’t shave, they want to imitate male behavior without the consequences of low status male behavior. if you spend more than 2 hours a week playing vidya you’re a fucking man-child. its not at all stimulating

>buy darksouls on sale
>controls are retarded for PC
>ordered an xbox controller yesterday

I am so excited that going to take a soyboy selfie with my xbox controller ...what am I in for? I bought all 3 darksouls games

Death and despair.
Seriously though, just accept that you're going to die a lot and make a point of not getting frustrated. Take it easy, if you try to rush things you'll just die

lol faggot

I quit gaming cold turkey and for the better. But time after time it still saddens me looking back at how much time I wasted for videogames but what's done is done.

Darksouls is Veeky Forums

Take it slow. Lots of DaS1 bosses can be beatem by hugging their groin and dodging through their attacks so you're at their back and just spam attacks til they come to face you again. The story is told through item descriptions. Watch out for the frogs in the sewers. They don't look threatening, and they are pretty squishy, but if you pull too many of them they'll just swamp you with noxious Curse gas and kill you like that. DaS is pretty great if not super dated-looking and clunky-feeling until you get the rhythm of it.

I still prefer keyboard over controller but DaS does need community patches to even be playable like that so I don't blame you.

>i know its purely unhealthy escapism
>i still got straight A's last semester
Your accomplishments do not validate your deficiencies.

A lifetime of unfulfillment along with a barely audible nagging in the back of your mind telling you to stop indulging in consumable media and improve yourself. I wasn't just speaking of Dark Souls either.

ignore the graveyard to start with
ignore the lower path with the untouchable ghosts
take it cautiously, try and take them on one at a time
learn to parry

I think DS1 actually looks amazing for its age. Fromsoft designed it to upscale wonderfully

LEARN TO FUCKING WRITE WITH MORE ARTICULATION AND ZEST YOU EVIL CUNTS IM SICK OF THIS FUCKING HOMOGENOUS WIMPY VERNACULAR ALL OF YOU SPEAK IN, LEARN TO EXPRESS YOUR SELVES OR DON’T BOTHER SHARING I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT. YES VIDYA IS EVIL AND IRONICALLY SHARES A NAME WITH THE VEDIC TERM VIDYA (DIVINE KNOWLEDGE) NO THAT DOESN’T ABSOLVE YOU OF THE NECESSITY FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT OR EXPRESSION FUCKING ZOMBIE MEAT BAG CUNTS

>a documentary on ants
which one?

that's the least boring thing in his list, followed by norm