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I finished Cyberpunk 2077 last week. Story is interesting, but gameplay is meh. That forces me to focus on main story and don't waste my time with looting, exploring, killing NPC's, etc.
If ther is no story, I'm not interested at all.
Btw, I buy only DRM free games on GoG, so that also gives you some limits.
>According to Steam I played over 2.000 hours during 2020 and 2021. Less than three hours a day for passive recreation is hardly out of line with modern western lifestyles. The average American spends more than that watching television. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-07-22/... I obviously wouldn't want to deter anybody from productive work in favor of entertainment, but physical and mental rest…
I should understand so because I was also hooked into watching movies and TV series during lockdown. After that, I need to get back to my working routine and stay productive.
So good luck Volrath89!
You obviously can't have a healthy relationship with video games or else it would never come to posting this.
I mean one of the hardest things with beating any addiction long term after the initial battle is what to do with all the free time and the boredom.
I would think some kind of time consuming, non-digital hobby would be best as a replacement.
Maybe try reading too about other people going through gambling addictions or other types of non-substance addictions to see how what you are asking is almost stereotypical in a sense with addictions.
My youngest son actually had to go to a detox program for video games (in the Seattle area). It didn't entirely remove the addictive behavior patterns, but he's much more self-aware in his struggles.
One positive thing did come out during his stay there - he was officially diagnosed with ASD (which we always suspected, but he had other learning challenges that seemed more pressing). I wish we had gotten him more accomodations when he was in school - which would have been easier with the official diagnoses.
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There is nothing magical about other addictive substances either… I don’t believe anything about the definition of addiction has to do with how it “hijacks your substrate”. As far as I found - OP is describing addiction: an overwhelming desire to do something one knows is harmful, which provides no benefit to one’s life, that one cannot maintain a healthy relationship with.
Addictive substances directly effect the biochemistry of motivation. Directly acting on some subset of receptors (or other mechanisms) in the brain on neurons and glia is entirely different from something coming in through your senses. One is direct and one in indirect. For video games to become addictive they actually have to be fun and rewarding; probably in a random interval operant conditioning pattern. For metha…
I do not need an appeal to “the literature” without a cogent argument to begin with. Video game addiction (and other forms of non-substance addictions) are real.
By believing that Dark souls (the first one) is an unrepeatable masterpiece and not liking any other game (except hollow knight) And then feeling tired of finishing it more than 5 times and being unable to play it again.
Elden ring?
When you get the urge to game you need to do one of:
* install windows and games from scratch on a new drive
* get gaming working on Linux( good luck)
* get an angle grinder to bust open the safe
* drive to your friends house and get the backup physical keys
With these barriers, I almost never bust out the windows hard drive for gaming.
I do the same thing with beer.
This technique mostly works for me.
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This is a psychological technique called "pre-committing".
https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Hand-Time-Lock-Safe/dp/B00NFIDT...