>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.
