Have day off

>what you "really want"
Spooky.

But seriously, I don't understand this reasoning. If you "really wanted" something, you almost certainly would have felt a strong pull to do it. Why don't we just admit that for some people, doing intellectual things is boring? For OP, reading all day is just an ideal he wants to achieve because he thinks that's what he ought to be doing. He doesn't actually WANT to read in and of itself.

Similar scenario. Remember in high school being able to jump from game to game all day, now 20 can barely play for an hour before I get bored. But I don't do anything productive either I just watch people play games instead.

This is me desu. I'd love to fit that ideal, be able to be engaged in a book for a better part of the day but I can't. I still try and read a bit everyday though. I'm just not the type of person that can do it all day.

because you're weak. Don't worry I was too until I gave myself to a higher power.

marxists.org/subject/students/index.htm
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

do some reading and soon you won't even go near that bread and circus machine you call a video game player.

Welcome to the revolution comrade

Like others said, go cold turkey. I had to when i moved out and couldnt afford a good PC or console. I started reading much more. Went from 5 to 50 books a year

Yeah, it's a big reason why i started to read more in the first place

because you're a faggot like the rest of this board.

You don't actually want to read, you just found yourself on Veeky Forums one day and liked the idea of being a "reader", however you soon found without realizing, you don't actually enjoy reading, you just like the image.

I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on /b/ooks anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

This. The point of Veeky Forums and other similar boards is to connect with people who like a particular hobby (like reading books or drawing or going outside or playing video games, etc.). But for some reason Veeky Forums is filled with tryhards who don't actually like reading but just want to fit in and feel smart. Hence why we have so many threads like this instead of threads actually discussing literature.

Akrasia.
The mind is not an indivisible unit with a unified will.

You lack discipline and determination. Markiplier has made himself a millionaire by playing videogames, telling questionably funny jokes, and crying. A half-Chink Yank Kraut managed that, and you can't even close a video game down to read? What chance do you have?

I know that feel
I stopped playing as much since my toaster cant run that much stuff, and I figured its just not worth it to me to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars just to get a PC that can play shit like player unknown on it. I have a PS4, but even then its expensive as fuck to buy games for it. Even if it wasn't most games these days just don't appeal to me, the last one that I really loved was probably bloodborne. Persona 5 is pretty cool, but I don't have too much time to play it, and will have even less once the semester starts up.
think allot of it is the industry desu. Most triple A games are bloated messes or e-sports cancer. most indie games are also pretty bad, usually fitting into being shitty nostalgia baiting platformers, emotionally manipulative and disingenuous tripe (think Limbo, inside, brothers or any other "innocent big headed kid in scary world" type games) or walking simulators about lesbians.
There also seems to be a widening gulf between what I like in games, and what critics and the normies want in games. It blows my mind for example, that so many people love overwatch, when I found it to be mediocre at best. Honestly, it makes me wonder if critics will give 9/10's to any game that has good graphics and is marketed aggressively enough.
But yeah, these days I mostly play persona 5 or tf2 if anything.

i actually just left an entry level position that was abusive and have been recently grappling with this.

whats been helping me a lot is setting micro goals for the day.

todays:
duolingo and alternate pushups
20 pages of appolonaire
20 pages of goethe
10 pages of kants first
15 pages of joyce

1 hr of thesis work
train (for sport)
clean a part of my new apartment

apply to two new jobs

this at least gives me some semblance of structure instead of me wasting time because it seems like i have a lot of it.

>20 pages of appolonaire
>20 pages of goethe
>10 pages of kants first
>15 pages of joyce

>"micro goals"

Cos you gots no friends.

Believe me when I say it's not your fault

Hahah cool, can relate to the Duolingo and reading. What language are you learning?

I have never had a more productive time of my life than when I got a notebook and physically made myself a checklist of things to do each day. Unfortunately I've never been able to make it last for more than a few weeks before I give up on that too.

Don't get me wrong, I like some vidya every now and then (adventure-oriented gmes), but I put reading on highter importance than vidya. You'd do well to follow the advice here:

Same here

If you still can even enjoy videogames after picking up a good book, you aren't ready yet.

I can barely play 1 round of a videogame before I get an empty feeling, like I'm wasting time but with a slight dread, and then even moreso when I remember how much time/space/money I sank into videogames.

>we

yah
in college I pretty much realized I only liked games with good stories, not for the gameplay but the stories themselves, and that vidya stories are absolutely pathetic compared to even shit tier lit

>have work
>bring book hoping to have couple hours of free time
>end up having nothing to do all day
>read for 6 hours straight
feel good

Video-games are meant to keep you a slave, they sink all your production into meaningless entertainment instead of real life -- the ideas they present are mere caricature to those you'd find in books.

once a year, usually around thanksgiving break, i buy a triple a title off steam and binge play it, i usually tell myself i will play until i win or the long weekend ends which ever comes first, but then after like a day and half i stop playing

these days i've been play about an hour of the new doom on team deathmatch just to unwind and fuck around, it's fast paced enough that u don't bored like call of duty or counter strike where you have to camp in one spot forever, etc. and the rpg/leveling elements are weak enough that you never get the urge to grind

i went totally off vidya like 5-10 years ago, but now i find a little bit here and there can be nice

to be honest playing vidya is more productive than shitposting since at least you're experiencing something

shit, didn't mean to reddit space this, but everytime i went to hit post i thought of a new thought

i can only play hack-n-slash rpgs and multiplayer shooters, anything with a story turns me off

>Video-games are meant to keep you a slave

they are, and so is Veeky Forums

Your conscious mind merely guides your unconscious mind and emotions. It's not fully in control by design. On some level you want the instant gratification and different sort of stimulation video games provide.

In other words you're a weak willed faggot.

>Reading 4 books at once while learning a language and doing thesis work

I've got to think that actually lowers comprehension and makes it harder to get though everything.

There is about one or two threads like this per day through out the whole catalogue

I wish I could give some sage advice OP. My parents didn't really push me and I did well in school, so in my downtime I booted up my PC and played Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment or whatever other games I had. I've grown out of video games and instead Game Master some tabletop games, but I still have trouble not getting discouraged from doing things I'm new to. If you've ever ready the Odysseus, I think there's one passage that helpful about the virtue of trying to figure out everything for yourself and do things because you want to rather than go to an institution to do it as when the shackles come off, you'll just revert back to your old self.

Kill yourself faggot

I honestly don't understand how people still find video games compelling it's an expensive and derivative hobby. They're usually a combination of boring activity and obscene movie sequences.

I think I know you. Are your name initials I.G.?

Also, OP stop deluding yourself. Fuck reading, do whatever you like. Otherwise, I would suggest cold turkey.

>are your initials I.G.
Not even close

How the fuck did you know I was Irrepressibly Gay?!

I kinda feel like most of you guys, most games I play eventually bore me and the only gaming devices I've bought in the last 5 years have been a 3DS and a Vita to play on the shitter. But there's one game, Mount and Blade, that I can binge on for hours and will never get boring, it gets so bad I've wasted weekends playing it nonstop, any MaB bros in here?

I get bored with MaB pretty quickly.

This so much.

Sometimes when I get a brand new game I will binge play for a day but then I get bored of it quickly.

The last game I actually finished was The Witcher 3.

Sweet sixteen
>If you're not you should rethink your life

Yeah. I can play CS:GO, but single player games just bore me 99% of the time.
I think it's because they're targeted primarily at teenagers and follow the same old formulas which I've seen many times already.

>marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm
>Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
How the hell people didn't chuck these things into the next garbage bin after just reading the title?

>staying at friends' house
>sit through them playing rematch after rematch after rematch of Tekken
It's maddening. And I can barely read during this.

If you think that's maddening try watching Twitch streams of speedrunners.

People actually like watching someone restart a game over and over again.

Read up on the basic theory behind how games are constructed. The reason I have become sick of all video games (fun little stuff like LBP to play with others beside) is because with a little thought into how barebones the shitty experience would be without the tired cliched artwork that tries to convince you that the experience is unique or worth putting time into you would feel just like a rat on a wheel. That's the way I feel now when I play video games and that's how I like it. Most games are simply basic reward systems dressed up with graphics. Even complex strategy games are just convoluted puzzles.

I guess this sort of attitude might just be because I am growing out of enjoying videogames as I mature. Maybe I'm lucky.

>If you "really wanted" something, you almost certainly would have felt a strong pull to do it.

Most junkies "want" to get off their habit but have no recourse.

this image wins.

>tfw when you realize you're never going to be a great writer because you wasted all your teenage years in video games instead of reading books

>I can barely play 1 round of a videogame before I get an empty feeling, like I'm wasting time but with a slight dread, and then even moreso when I remember how much time/space/money I sank into videogames.

iktf so much, but the problem is even tho i didnt play any video i still wasted the whole fucking day doing nothing at all

They watch twitch streamers for the same reason 's friends play tekken for hours, for companionship. The game is just second to that

>the Odysseus