Is anyone here a former internet/gaming/WoW addict that turned their life around?

Yea. Dropped ~1.5 gpa and took 3 semesters longer than I should have in college because all I wanted to do was play dota.

Stopped playing dota a while ago because I wasn't having fun anymore, but still played shitloads of other games.

Since I started watching my diet and working out, I've kind of forgotten about games. I play every now and then, but not every waking moment like I used to. Now I try to read more, hike, run, lift, or hang out with people.

There wasn't a big revelation for me or anything. I never had to hide my computer in the closet. I just kind of faded from one way of living to another.

I just replaced the gaming addiction with a lifting one.

Time to level up IRL user

>I just kind of faded from one way of living to another.

This will probably be what happens to me when my NEET way of living comes to an end. Terrified of it really, but I realize how I'm living won't last forever.

Believe it or not, one day you'll stop yourself. You'll get so burnt-out and angry at everything and absolutely hate your life. So all that anyone needs to tell you is you either stop voluntarily or you have a mental breakdown because you're so miserable and it'll happen eventually. Gl user

Already had several mental breakdowns over the past few years. Maybe three major ones.

I do think you're right though, I am losing a lot of patience with myself.

>You'll get so burnt-out and angry at everything and absolutely hate your life.

You read my mind.

Lifting is nice because it's like an RPG, you keep progressing, this can help you leave gaming.
It's also good that it doesn't take much time, you can do SS in 3 hours a week for example.
However you have to look out for obsessing too much, and shitposting all day on Veeky Forums for example.

Good luck!

Trying playing WoW now. That alone will be enough to turn you off permanently.

kek how bad did it get?

Honestly?
I played that GW2 shit years ago, and just..sorta stopped.
Games are pretty shit to me, now.
You do the same dailies, same shitty raids, with the same mentally/emotionally handicapped people over and over. The stories in games are always similar and I got sick of simplistic, fictional worlds.
After a while, it all seemed hollow. None of those places contained me anymore.

Did you ever play with action figures or toys as a kid? If so, do you remember the games and worlds you used to dream up for them?
One day, you didnt need them to help you imagine stuff anymore.

Thats basically what happened to me.

I drifted for a bit, and ended wanting to level up in RL.
I dont think I'll return to gaming for a good long while.

>play runescape/call of duty for most of childhood, be fat, etc. typical nerd
>get into LoL starting freshman year high school, give up on school cuz boring
>nolife that game, get top rank (top 0.01%~) and play semi-pro with a team for a few months
>parents had given up on me at this point, thinking i was gonna be stoner or 24/7 gamer and throwing away my future
>last year of hs, decide to not pursue gaming and instead tryhard in school go to good college
>this worked out fine because i was a bit of the "smart but lazy" meme and my country is a meme
>doing above average in a hard program
>spend the last year of high school and first year of uni working out
>change shitty negative attitude, got bored of gaming, become more normie
>spent most of freshman year in college having pretty decent social life, had lots of chances with girls that i fucked up by being a pussy, but otherwise some gym mires and generally more respect to opinions/etc.
>now have cool internship coming up soon and gains are starting to show (not completely dyel anymore), social circle expanding

I'm on the right path now, not there yet. Attitude + blessings from above Veeky Forums

bad enough for to be legitimate advice

>obsessed with games and masturbation
Also chubby shut in neet, afraid of people, with a boyfriend who cheated on me
>games/porn makes me late for class/work/appointments
>can't do class work because of games and porn
>try to find help
>Google real self help
>eventually find a modern philosopher named Dr Demartini
>read his books for past 3 years
>implement his work
It's hard as fuck to go through his process but it's helped

Pic related. His philosophy is
>don't be an overly optimistic hippie
>understand being happy all the time is unrealistic
>if you allow events to make you happy, then you allow events to make you sad
>be balanced
>understand you are both happy and sad, everything in between in the emotional spectrum

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Bunch of fags ITT. You can do anything in moderation. I drink, smoke cigs, and eat like shit on weekends, and I'm staying fit. Because I'm consistent with going to the gym every weekday. Shit.. I still play vydia after the gym, and go to work every morning.

Just dont over do shit

>Just o-one or two matches of league, r-right?

similar story brah. we're all gonna make it

Anyone here play overwatch? It's fun as fuck

hey FUCKERE!!!!!! I CANNOT CANNOT CANNOT HAVE A DRINK UNLESS I SMOKE AND I CANNOT QUIT SMOKING UNLESS I QUIT DRINKING SO WHAT WHAT WHAT DO I DO!??!?!??! HUH!??!?!

ANSWER MEE!

been binge playing for about 14 hours today
>still made it to the gym and cooked a good meal

feelsgood desu

And since reading his books, I've been getting my shit together
>decently attractive
Not fat anymore
>healthy and don't eat shit
Use to obsess over calories before
>read everyday
Didn't read before
>self taught how to swim, lift, run (because form helps distance running and I didn't know before), golfer, skater, certified scuba diver, web design/online marketer
>travel overseas
>have 2 jobs so I can save money while I'm healthy and young
One is an at home job, other is a minimum wage weekend labor job
>don't have much in bank accounts but it's the most I've ever had
>people try to be my friend and hang out
Pointless hanging out is pointless.
>people pay for my food or send me drinks because they think I'm successful
I'm not yet
>get asked out by attractive people, get asked to be fuck buddies often
>get asked out by friends from highschool, a lot complaining about why I won't date them or marry them
This is flattering but no thank you
>get sent gifts by my 2 cheating exes
Flowers, clothes, jewelry
But send it back if it's super expensive or feels weird
>druggies/liars/weirdos I knew stalk my Facebook/IG and send long messages of how they're proud of me, how they want to hang out, send me stuff
It's weird af
>get asked if I model
Makes me feel gud because I was an ugly fatty before
>fuck buddy of 2 years wants to public, wants to marry, wants me to move in
He's literally only good for sex. Terrible to talk to

You do both on a weekend faggot! Learn to balance

Define "turn your life around"

I used to be addicted to runescape when I was 10-15. I just got bored I've come back to it every now and then on the old school server. Idk it just got boring

>not destroying a workout before playing WoW with gym bros

Fuckin up OP

I'm 6'4" and used to be over 350. I stopped smoking weed (former gamer/stoner, I'll never fucking touch that shit again) and started exercising/lifting a little over 3 months ago and so far have lost over 50lbs went from 37%bf to 24%. I still have quite a ways to go to achieve my goals (want to be under 17% by the end of the year) but my progress is going steady and I have yet to fuck up. For the first month I ran 2 miles a day and did basic bodyweight shit (sit ups, push ups, etc). The past 2 months I've been following one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's lifting plans and I think I'm going to stick with it until I find something I like better.

My life is nothing but going to work, playing games and gym 4 times a week.

Run out of money

I played wow for about 8 years. Didn't care about what I ate or how I looked. Became a skinny fat. I stopped playing a few years ago now and my biggest regret is that I didn't start lifting sooner.

Any hardcore arena players here? I wanna hop on and gear a character to play some 3v3 but none of my friends play anymore.

I'm a 2200 multiclass healer if anyone is down. I'll play whatever. Balance#1328

I had a job for a couple months but got lazy and traded two shifts with a workmate so I could raid on WoW, used to get up in the morning after I got fired and got on WoW (around 7am), played it all day while snacking until like 10pm, then I went to bed and repeated the same routine all week.

Blew off my relationships because WoW was more important to me. Had two realms full of maxed out characters all with great gear. Was so happy with it. Couldn't get away.

Ran out of game time and sold a bunch of xbox games I never play (shit ones, my xbox broke a couple years ago) and bought like 4 months more game time. Kept the same routine.

Got into some no-doz, got up at 6:30am every day and played it until I got tired, then popped a few no-doz and played even more.

I was about 295lbs at my worst, completely fat and disgusting.

Then I got banned on accident, permanent ban. No going back.

Look at my shelf and see all the game time boxes, quite a lot of them actually. At least 25 boxes of 60 days. 4 years minimum of game time boxes on my shelf.

Went out and bought another copy of the game with all expansions and more game time.
Low and behold, got banned again after maxing out characters.

Took a look at myself in the mirror at a clothing store one day when I went out to buy more game time and the whole game again. Tried to fit into 4XL clothes and they were way too tight on me.

Got rid of all the game time boxes, uninstalled the game, locked all the expansions away in a box under my bed.

Found a cheap deal for a gym, $44 a month, 24/7 with 5 locations and three free personal training sessions.

In 6 months went from 295lbs to 180lbs.
I'm now pretty Veeky Forums and I am very happy with my life.

The only video games I play now are CoD Zombies (Black ops 1, 2, and sometimes 3 on PS3)

I actually get queasy whenever I see adverts for the new WoW expansion. All that time wasted on a game. It really does ruin lives if you get too into it.

Get addicted to drugs
Make social gains
When it gets to the point of killing yourself get involved in 12 step recovery

>browse reddit

You have to to back

Used to jump from mmo to mmo to 'make friends'
I've never been good with people, took the whole friend concept too seriously, panicked about not being enough of a friend to be a friend to the people I associated with, the loop repeated way too many times, I always became 'that guy' or something like that and that's when I left
I realised if I'm going to make friends I'll probably make them in passing or whatever, I've lost some potentially great friends thanks to my insecurities so I'm going to stop trying and stop being mopey when I haven't someone to talk to at every minute of the day. Now I have nothing there I get restless an leave the house, go do "whatever else that's not this"
Can't stand the void so I started learning the piano so my guitar playing can get better (theory bs) and walking for several hours a day after the gym. Kinda felt like venting there

tl;dr - Chances are you're using it as a time filler, go do something else. You'll be better off

>former wow addict

There's no such thing

People always go back eventually.

I haven't played since 2012 but I plan on playing Legion for at least the Launch.

I have been addicted to:
LoL, FFXIV and porn

I don't do any of those things now, and quit them all in a few months. What really drove me to quit? The community actually. In XIV you had your hugbox community that obsessed over how much digital shit you can collect and stats that don't even really matter (especially those who didn't even run the "hard" content). Then in LoL you had the most toxic community that wastes even more time and money if you let it.

If you quit then you don't have to care about the things you could miss out on. You don't have to care about being optimum, the best, behind or ahead. Remember it's just a fake world and it only makes your real world worse - if you just worked on the real world you would see that it's not as bad as you think. Those in game stats and knowledge about the game? Turn those into real life achievements. Do things that are actually going to help you become your own REAL "fantasy" character.

I'm not gonna shit on all gaming, minor console gaming is great. So are handheld things that take little investment or time. It's all about balance, happiness and health man.

Also the porn thing? I did that because I realized I was becoming a degenerate through the influence of the internet. I realized how much time I was spending jerking off to a sreen and the weird shit I was doing it to. People argue that it's fantasy, but in reality you're fucking up your association with sex and emotional connections to other people.

Now I'm going to the gym 5x a week for about an hour and a half each time. I spend more time with my family, go outdoors, find other things to do. I have a lot of other interests back and from no-porn I've begun to truly be honest and free of disassociation and desensitization.

MOVE THE FUCK OUT YOUR HOUSE.

IF YOU HAVE A CAR, LIVE IN IT.

RENT A SMALL ROOM WITH A BIG WINDOW.

DESTROY YOUR DESKTOP AND BUY A NOTEBOOK AND LIVE LIKE A SPARTAN.

IF YOU LIVE IN THE 'BURBS, GET OUT.

I've been there before. 30 years old playing League all day. Sought therapy, didn't help. Made myself voluntarily homeless. Rented a piss stained room for Chinese illegal immigrants in NYC for cheap. Still live there. Happier than I've ever been.

It's the house you live in OP. I promise you. Get the fuck out. Go far away from it. Join the military. Just go really far away and do something that involves interacting with people, human interaction heals even if you are just talking about stupid shit, it helps repair your brain.

This is the way.

I was addicted to LOL for 2 years, but i was unemployed and depressed. All i did was LOL and work out.

What help me quit these kind of games was warframe. I got so pissed at the blatant jewing i quit games alltogether. Now the only thing i play is skyrim with mods.

Nah

I played for 2 days, it was fun at first but then there's not much else to it. The overall themes of the characters are a bit too shoehorned and forced too.

If you can find interest in it still that's pretty cool, but I honestly don't know how people play that thing for more than 2 days. So boring.

Lmao reading all your posts you remind me so much of myself.

This last year I did nothing but play lol and smoke all day after spending the prior year doing the same + working +65h/week(played all night)

Sup, I lost 85kg in like, 11 months so far
Still losing, still play wow
:^)

Really?Everyone is so hyped screaming that it will kill lol and what not.

I played WoW, when the whole game and most importantly arena turned to shit I switched to dota to replace arena with and started playing FFXIV when that came out.

I didn't have any internet friends for FFXIV because the people I used to play wow with either stayed with it or just disappeared so I went on Veeky Forums to find people to play with. Those pathetic excuses for people with their petty drama about efucking each other and generally acting like 13 year old girls despite being grown men put me off of playing any MMOs.

Later down the road I hit 6k in dota and the game just stopped being fun. So I just replaced tryharding in games with teaching myself how to write code.

All my friends are going/have gone back for legion, but I'm not. I would though if blizzard hosted vanilla/tbc servers.

Here i am over 420 days /played on main warlock. Used to be fattie 82kg 177cm now im 65kg and can do pull ups with additional 50kg.
Eventually games started to get boring and once i noticed results of working out it became my priority. I still play in free time just not that much.

nice e-statting on those pullups faggot
>177cm 65kg
kek

Mobas are the worst.

Bit of cs:go is all you need

mfw people dont believe i can actually do that. feels good man.

in terms of fitness? yes im in the best shape of my life

unfortunately making new friends solo is hard as fuck, harder than any lift.

Why do you think so?

I probably just failed my second attempt at studying because I didn't manage to sit on my ass and learn.

I'm a complete retard, seemingly with a brain that is simply meant to lead to a life of failure.

It's funny, all I had to do is sit in my ass for a few hours a day and read the fucking scripts.
And I didn't.

I honestly don't feel like any of the characters feel that different. You align the crosshairs, like any shooter, you fire x times, you reload, you move and do it again. I get some can fly, some "teleport", some have turrets etc etc. But the game is so severely limited, especially right now since it's still early.

I really don't find it that interesting, and I think that the hype is rather undeserved. But it has the players to back up its hype so it really is just my opinion here. I've lost interest in games in general over the years anyway, so that could attribute to it.

It could never kill LoL because LoL is free and has a massively diverse range of champions. LoL will probably reboot eventually.

But ya idk overwatch just wasn't that interesting.

Same thing happened to me more or less. Was big into pc gaming, fired my motherboard and decided not to replace it. Replaced gaming with lifting and am p happy with it

True this

>"gaming"
kill yourself

welp, guess i'll contribute, was a huge WoW addict

>play WoW for years and years
>feel really really bad while playing, even though its still fun
>thinking of ways how to make my life less miserable
>already have a job, that shit isnt special at all
>already have friends, doesnt make my life better either
>go out from time to time, doesnt help
>still playing WoW and thinking what is it that could fix my shit
>all the normal things that normal people do doesnt help, because its normal and everyone does it, its nothing special
>try different hobbies, they dont help either
>start lifting for the lolz
>not paying too much attention to it that much
>after a few months realize i suddenly look much better and manlier
>face looks more masculine
>realize i made decent gains, never checked the myself in the mirror before
>start lifting hard, playing less WoW
>2 years later, have a 9/10 body by normie standards
>finally feel good about myself, confidence is sky high solely because of my body
>start roids, feel like a god, look like a god
>3 years now, feel so good about myself i ask friends if they want to play WoW again
>playing WoW 12 hours a day right now, not feeling bad about it
>tfw can play WoW 12 hours a day like a loser and still look like a slayer
>tfw i dont give a shit if someone makes fun of me, i am superior in every other way
>gf cant complain either because i am a god next to her and could replace her in an instant
>tfw super fucking happy right now
>this is the perfect balance
>this is what i wanted in life

So I have a question for you guys. Did you completely gave up on gaming/anime etc. or are you just doing it less? I need to stop spending so much time on this shit but I don't think I can completely abandon it, mostly because I still like doing it and let's be honest there is no escaping internet these days. So, is finding that golden the only way? You know, just combine this with other hobbies that are more socializing.

*golden mean

I don't know if this can really help but I think people can eventually grow out of severe gaming.

I use to be one of the those koreans that would stay in the PC bang for like 7 hours and skip school but I just suddenly grew out of it. Every game I played got seriously boring and now I only find social events fun.

You'll reach a moment where the game is simply not that fun and just suddenly lose all desire imo.

well done m8. I know how u feel.

I watch anime or play vidya for a while, it's better than the millenial alternative to socializing

So guys I have 4 more years of college left.
I am an engineering student and will have more work and reading to do soon.

I'm considering buying a gaming PC (I live at home). Is it a waste of money or not, I really don't know if I will get bored of gaming since I already got bored of XBOX?

Currently, I'll go to school, do reading/work, try to find a small part time job, lift and stretch/yoga and I think I want to teach myself guitar soon and maybe acquire gf/go /out/.

Do you think I will still have time to play games, is it a waste of time if its not excessive? How long is a gaming PC good for? (It will cost me like 300 after selling my current PC so not bad).

I just work all the time

That's about it

Exactly. You have to find things worth living for. Find joy in nature and be at peace with yourself. Some of us have endured more pain than you could possibly imagine and we still press on.

We could use our rage and become monsters but that does no good here. Go into nature and see it for yourself and you will have a newfound appreciation for your own life. Don't waste your mental capacities playing a creation of someone else

You lost like 7-8kg/wk? What the fuck

*month

Video games are not the devil, but they can become a gigantic time suck for people who don't know how to manage themselves. It all boils down to discipline, which is something every damned NEET in the world is missing.

> Did you completely gave up on gaming/anime etc.
There was nothing interesting to me in the anime/gaming world anymore, so for the most part-yes.
Im keeping my eye on Berserk and the new Vampire Hunter D anime, but im not holding my breath.
Im doing other things now.

I think its sort of a waste, of youre not using that horsepower for some other outlet. PC kind of a shit, if your using it for singleplayer (most decent pc games dont require a fuckload of graphical fidelity). The mmo bubble has burst, so you dont want that either.

Do you do any graphical/ 3D-design? Or video editing? Pirate shows or books? Thats the only thing Id use a workhorse like that for, nowadays. Not really worth it, imo.

Gaming and anime are forms of escapism. As you improve your life you'll find fewer reasons to try to escape from it.

Veeky Forums is also another form of escapism, and a massive timesink. Don't forget to leave this place.

what makes them forms of escapism when books and movies are not? Or are you saying they are as well and we should give up on them?

If you could read books for 10 hours a day you'd be way better off than if you watched anime or playing games.

What's your job situation? Money=happiness to me. I can pursue things in life and have NICE things :)

BEFORE
>19
>virgin, kissed 1 girl
>playing games and never going outside
>manlet

NOW
>24
>not virgin
>stable-ish relationship of 3 years
>on roids
>good physique and better facial aesthetics
don't play games
>still a manlet
>have really good days
>most days are very depressing and I hate myself
>the feeling that I am wasting my life and that one day it will all come to an end for nothing increases in intensity every month that goes by
>only have 1 friend and he recently became semi-homeless
>feel like OP's pic related still

If you truly want to find yourself I recommend 3 things:
Yoga (know your body)
Meditation (know your mind)
Psychedelics (know your insanity)
>Breathing in that good ass prana baby

Find hobbies you can do. Go to college and join the college gym. You'll be automatically accepted by people there if you can pull off having a GF.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

This guy has got it in one.

Get the fuck away from your PC. Boredom is a great motivator; if you're bored you'll start working out just for something to do. Games and TV make us into zombies.

>Psychedelics

This. LSD changed my life. People have commented on much happier and fun I am now compared to pre LSD tripping.

I learned lots; including my place in life. Being happy is a choice. Bad things happen but stressing over them is your own karma. We only live once so we gotta be happy with what we have and make the most of life. People and experiences make us happy, not material possessions or status.

Psychedelics are an incredibly powerful learning tool, but they are not the salvation or quick enlightenment everyone thinks they are.

>take drugs
>say things that single moms post on facebook
>changed my life

Well, The past 3 days I haven't tracked any of my calories and overate by a shit ton, I know it. Homemade hamburgers with mayo and bbq, snacking on pistachios, drinking hot chocolate...
Haven't been to the gym in a week. I'm sliding hard. Started playing Dark Souls 1 and Warframe again... Please send help. SOS

I gym, I party, I drink, I eat and I game

Moderation is the key brehs

best tip I can give you stop WoW and never go back. I had similar problems with CSGO, in other games it was no problem but in that game it is either all or nothing for me. If I play it just for fun I always think to myself "if you would spend more time on it you wouldnt have made this mistake" or "you used to be better, just play some DM every single day and you will get way better fast"

It is a vicious cycle but after my team disbanded I looked in the mirror and noticed this is not what I want so I looked at my steam profile and thought to myself "if I would just spend half of this time on something productive I could really turn my life around" and so I did.

this is just stoicism m8

for me its the exact opposite, i dont care about my job or the money i earn. I have a normal job, earn 20€/hr which is enough for me to be happy, not giving a shit about earning more and im not going to put effort into earning more or getting a better job. I felt different when i was still a twink though

My PC broke around the time I started going to the gym, I decided not to fix it and to just browse the internet on a laptop that can't run games, I still waste a load of time on Youtube tho

I actually quit gaming almost a month ago now.

It was wholly my own decision, I just snapped one day and decided enough was enough, it was 7am or something and I still hadn't slept, looked at myself and asked myself what the fuck I was doing awake at 7 in the morning playing video games and getting mad over them. I cried for about 5 minutes then unplugged all my shit and put it up on ebay the next day, never looked back since, don't think I ever will.

It's a good feeling knowing you're in control of your life, but you gotta find it within, you can't rely on other peoples inspiration or motivation to pull the switch and take action, it HAS to be your own decision.

My life has been significantly better ever since I quit, (joined a gym, fapping less for some reason, more self control, drive to accomplish shit, self confidence skyrocketed etc...) and it's only getting better.

I wish you the best of luck.

focus on your other interest, try new stuff and don't be afraid to suck at it- nobody cares. just develop an interest in something else which you can be passionate about.

do this all the time except crying like a bitch but i always go back

>Is anyone here a former internet/gaming/WoW addict that turned their life around?
>Please give inspiration and share how you did it. My mind is slipping everyday thanks to this shit.

Former top 10 world SK gaming rankings WoW player + top rated in other competitive games etc.

You have to want to quit. Nothing else will change that. Also, quitting one game to go to another game is not a positive step.

Not really sure what else to say, if you want to ask me something go for it.