>Remember when you were younger and played video games all the time and got 1000 hours of that one special game on steam, remember how proud you felt so you added more to it? Remember all those awesome trick-shots, kill-streaks, high-scores, awesome moments, etc?
^Now think of how disgusted you are in yourself for using up 41 whole days(do the math(1000/24)) of your life staring at a screen developing sedentary related issues such as weight gain, Low test, lack of social skills, gyno, depression, perverse/deranged thought patterns, zero physical fitness, brain fog, etc^
>Remember that first time hearing the word Porn? thinking "what's that?", doing a google search and destroying your life, numbing your senses and comprehension for the next 5-10 years because society told you it was healthy and normal.
I fucking hate myself for having wasted all of my childhood a worthless nobody that destroyed his development and made himself into a loser. Only in the past year with Nofap, Nutrition, Knowledge and Fitness do I feel like a worthwhile human again but can never truly forgive myself for being so degenerate.
Porn and Videogames are escapes from discipline, we no longer have to seek entertainment or pleasure, it's at our fingertips, there's no "seek" anymore with rewards it's just "do".
If you still play videogames or watch porn just fucking quit already, it's a decision I promise you won't regret.
Brayden Robinson
Shut up loser. Ain’t nothing wrong with playing an hour of Madden after my all day shift at work.
Mason Robinson
The reality is that when you're playing videogames, you're getting little hits of dopamine each time you receive a reward. Humans have made evolution our bitch, and we've basically tricked our hardcoded reward system into giving us good feels whenever we want it to.
At a glance this seems like a bad thing, but I bet your ass that when you're playing videogames you're experiencing feelings of competence, autonomy and relatedness - all constructs of a flashy thing called 'self determination theory' (SDT). Fulfilling the psychological needs of SDT is heavily interlinked with wellbeing. Even when you're wasting time, you're being efficient.
I can for the most part guarantee that most people's survival isn't being directly threatened by playing videogames. The people who are chosing to play videogames are just embracing hedonistic principles. There's many a philosopher that would happily argue that maximizing happiness is the true meaning of life.
If playing games makes you happy, just keep doing it.
Adrian James
Video games made me more disciplined honestly, I was a faggot who used to quit whenever a challenge I couldn't easily beat faced me. Then I bought Street Fighter 4 years ago and all of that changed because I felt motivated to overcome obstacles and train to become better at something. That directly translated over to fitness.
Just like everything video games are fine in moderation, you don't want to spend 12 hours a day straight lifting weights just like you don't want to spend 12 hours a day playing games
Jaxon Price
fuck you, playing WoW is one of my best memories, i still listen to the TBC soundtrack to help study
Dominic Powell
>Remember that first time hearing the word Porn? thinking "what's that?", doing a google search
Shit how fucking young are you? AOL wasn't even around when I saw my first playboy.
Zachary Bennett
College
Joshua Brown
>those 4am vidya skype sessions with friends >all that laughter and fun >start exercising >slowly playing less >end up studying more >working more >socialising more >do better in life
Lifting sorted out my life but i still think back on those days where i would wake at 3pm after playing vidya with friends all night. The fun i had those nights ill never forget. When im out with friends until 3am and i wake up at 6am because my body is now the fucking terminator who has no concept of sleep only lift/run/work/cycle/clean/swim i cant help but miss the 10hrs of sleep id get after doing fuck all the entire night except stare at a screen.
Lifting sorted out my life in almost every way but i dont think its bad to look back on the fun i had.
Easton Powell
So you're telling me playing video games and watching porn releases dopamine in my brain? Which makes me feel happy? And I shouldn't be doing it? Why? In the end, whatever you pursue in life, it's that shot of pleasure hormone you are after. Why take the long say around?
Really makes you think huh
Jonathan Evans
Dopamine makes you feel everything is going good and makes you instantly seek more of it, leading to distractions and lethargy.
Cooper Diaz
Hey I just bought Black Flag on sale. It seems okay.
You seem pretty obsessed with this subject OP, I think you'd do well to seek some more balanced thought patterns.
Eli Murphy
I'm not it just came to me cause Today I relapsed on Nofap and saw some videogame shit for a few minutes on youtube and felt worthless
Aaron Reed
Don't worry after you get a little older you'll learn that you can do things in moderation without getting completely obsessed with something.
Aiden Russell
I still play strategy games from time to time because they're stimulating, but otherwise have completely dropped vidya and started working out/going outside, etc. I can't even think of a game I've truly enjoyed since BF3 and having that be the pinnacle of my gaming "career" made me question whether I had ever even been interested in it in the first place.
Kevin Evans
Video games were the shit when i was a kid, it's like i was really in that world. They got boring by my late teens, once your imagination slips games just become another shitty habit. If they felt the same as they did when i was a kid I'd still be playing them and having the best time ever
Dominic Evans
Sad how we can’t lose ourselves in those worlds as much anymore
Eli Roberts
same but with dark souls, i grew into craving challenges
Hunter Powell
There isnt anything wrong with that, but a lot of people who play games do it for hours on end, especially the Veeky Forums dwelling types
Nicholas Cox
>tfw you spend literally 14k hours in CS
fucking kill me
Jose Sanders
this
last time I enjoyed something was when fucking Oblivion came out
Lincoln Rodriguez
>Videogames are escapes from discipline
Depends on when they're played and what kind of game. A brainless skinnerbox mmo is not the same as a good puzzle game
Henry Green
novidya: 146 noporn: 3
Cameron Anderson
I would watch anime and play vidya all day I would browse /v/ and stuff I would sit on my couch all day and be so lazy that I would only eat when I was starving Now I can't even play video games anymore. It hurts because I want to but everytime I start one up I think of how much is NOT being done and I quit I miss being able to just play my Xbox one man
Sebastian Moore
>I think of how much is NOT being done
Of all the hobbies I could have picked I chose the most fucking useless one. Wouldnt have stung half as bad if vidya conferred even a small skill applicable in the outside world. Over a decade of that shit and I can do what? Flick my wrist with some accuracy? Fiddle with elaborate button sequences on a controller?
Christopher Russell
I know I read now but ever day I look over and see that black box or see the classic fallouts on my pc and I get the nostalgia feeling only to just end up disappointed
Ian Butler
So playing vidya makes you feel worthless but shitposting on Veeky Forums doesn't?
Owen Jenkins
Yeah because at least on Veeky Forums I can give people advice on lifting You think in Rainbow 6 I can give life advice without being called a weirdo
Camden Thomas
tfw haven't gamed since March
Don't even feel like gaming anymore desu
Ayden Sanders
You think people on either platform care what you think?
Lucas Baker
Maybe
Austin Hernandez
brb booting up Black Flag
Connor Edwards
videogames are no different to any other hobby so long as you're not playing MMO, mindless multiplayer or skinner box garbage sit yourself down with a few hours of indie trash like shovel knight and tell me that's a waste of time, it's fucking fun, engaging and a legitimate challenge porn is a waste though, agreed
Samuel Clark
>tfw I could have spent 20,000 hours on learning an instrument or studying rather than playing videogames
I guess I'll drown out my regret by playing more videogames
Robert Reed
>tfw Dentist
Thank you based vidya
Easton Hernandez
Trying to forget about all the years Ive wasted and am powerless to change. Focus on the present. But regret keeps bubbling up. Get a bit green with envy seeing accomplished, efficient, hyper motivated guys younger than I. Know they're petty, ugly feels but they won't stop buzzing around in my head.
Nathaniel Thomas
This is fucking stupid. You know what else releases dopamine? Working out. How is vidya any worse than normies that spend the entire day on netflix?
You didn't waste thousands of hours on vidya because they are evil. You wasted it because you were a piece of shit that had no discipline. If you still can't play vidya or watch porn without relapsing into wasting your life, you haven't changed at all.
Robert Clark
I'm 20 and I've been looking at porn on the web since I was 7 years old. I started masturbation really early at around age 3 because touching my peepee made it feel good.
Jace Nguyen
Don't be such a hedonist. The greatest pleasures in life require acceptance of responsibility and a lot of effort. Not that a couple hours of Vidya here and there is a bad thing.
Jackson Jones
I don't regret those games, because during the time; they were the best. >pic related what I played a ton of.
Blake Mitchell
I'm actually pretty okay with having played video games in the past. Mostly good games like Civ III, Alpha Centauri, Dwarf Fortress, Creatures 3. Made me obsessed with computers, now I'm getting a master's degree in CS/AI at Stanford and looking at a six-figure starting salary and a chance to build humanity's successors. I'm happy I'm not like my high school classmates who spent their time on muh socializing and muh sports.
Really wish I never started watching porn or anime though. Also I need to stop browsing this fucking meme website.