Does anyone play videogames

[Jassu]

let me know

[Jacfsing2]

i'm trying to quit video games

[MisterrSingh]

On 4/17/2022 at 11:29 PM, Jacfsing2 said:

i'm trying to quit video games

Try harder. It's a waste of time and emotional effort. Learn a practical skill that you normally pay another person to do (home repair / maintenance, etc) or a martial art to aid fitness. Or just read something.

I was a little more than an average gamer but not quite hardcore. I was in my late 20s, mindlessly bashing buttons one day. Opposite from where I was sitting was a mirror. I saw myself, a grown man, playing a video game, and it hit me like a ton of bricks; a tide of overwhelming shame washed over me. "You soft b*****d" I said to myself. Next day I sold my consoles and all my games. One of the best things I ever did.

I feel the same about spectator sports such as football. I was heavily into football. I was a proper statistician. I could've told you the teams and squads up to the reserve team of every club in the domestic European leagues. That's hundreds of players! Knocked that 5hit on the head in my early 20s, too.

Bread and circuses bukwaas. They get you to invest your heart and soul into this 5hit so that you ignore or neglect the actual important stuff you need to be aware of. Moderation isn't the issue at all. It's all corporate cr4p that chips away at your aatma.

 

[proudkaur21]

18 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

Try harder. It's a waste of time and emotional effort. Learn a practical skill that you normally pay another person to do (home repair / maintenance, etc) or a martial art to aid fitness. Or just read something.

I was a little more than an average gamer but not quite hardcore. I was in my late 20s, mindlessly bashing buttons one day. Opposite from where I was sitting was a mirror. I saw myself, a grown man, playing a video game, and it hit me like a ton of bricks; a tide of overwhelming shame washed over me. "You soft b*****d" I said to myself. Next day I sold my consoles and all my games. One of the best things I ever did.

I feel the same about spectator sports such as football. I was heavily into football. I was a proper statistician. I could've told you the teams and squads up to the reserve team of every club in the domestic European leagues. That's hundreds of players! Knocked that 5hit on the head in my early 20s, too.

Bread and circuses bukwaas. They get you to invest your heart and soul into this 5hit so that you ignore or neglect the actual important stuff you need to be aware of. Moderation isn't the issue at all. It's all corporate cr4p that chips away at your aatma.

 

I'm always surprised by how invested men are in football while so much is going on in the world. Like no worries about anything just obsessed with their favourite player or club and what not and then constantly talking about it online. 

[MisterrSingh]

1 hour ago, proudkaur21 said:

I'm always surprised by how invested men are in football while so much is going on in the world. Like no worries about anything just obsessed with their favourite player or club and what not and then constantly talking about it online. 

They drain you of your passion, your vital energy, elements of your soul that drives the need for competitiveness, etc. These are vital aspects of us that we should be channelling into making ourselves better people. Things that you should transfer into your family and your home are wasted on the narratives of multi-millionaire sports-people, celebrities, and billion-dollar corporations. It's actually obscene when you've stepped away from that scene for a while.

[Jacfsing2]

22 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

Try harder. It's a waste of time and emotional effort. Learn a practical skill that you normally pay another person to do (home repair / maintenance, etc) or a martial art to aid fitness. Or just read something.

I was a little more than an average gamer but not quite hardcore. I was in my late 20s, mindlessly bashing buttons one day. Opposite from where I was sitting was a mirror. I saw myself, a grown man, playing a video game, and it hit me like a ton of bricks; a tide of overwhelming shame washed over me. "You soft b*****d" I said to myself. Next day I sold my consoles and all my games. One of the best things I ever did.

I feel the same about spectator sports such as football. I was heavily into football. I was a proper statistician. I could've told you the teams and squads up to the reserve team of every club in the domestic European leagues. That's hundreds of players! Knocked that 5hit on the head in my early 20s, too.

Bread and circuses bukwaas. They get you to invest your heart and soul into this 5hit so that you ignore or neglect the actual important stuff you need to be aware of. Moderation isn't the issue at all. It's all corporate cr4p that chips away at your aatma.

Totally agree with you, at least in my experience pornography and video games seems to create the same triggers of wasting life.

[MisterrSingh]

 

On 4/19/2022 at 10:51 PM, Jacfsing2 said:

Totally agree with you, at least in my experience pornography and video games seems to create the same triggers of wasting life.

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

[dallysingh101]

On 4/19/2022 at 6:42 PM, proudkaur21 said:

I'm always surprised by how invested men are in football while so much is going on in the world. Like no worries about anything just obsessed with their favourite player or club and what not and then constantly talking about it online.