Falling out of love with gaming

Laura

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Carl_sl said:
The same way one studies anything, learn the definition of a word, then hear the word used in various sentences, become used to that word so that it you no longer hang on that word when you hear it in a sentence.
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You can get a PhD studying a language.
It's not only about linguistics; thing may include literature, culture, history, poetry...etc.
 
Miele

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I'm 40. I played the shit out of everything, while mantaining my habits in sports and life: martial arts training, weekends out with wife+son and or friends, etc.
I still love gaming. Sometimes I play an MMO for a while, other times, like the current period, I play some SwtoR/D3 with friends and mod the shit out of Skyrim because I'm addicted to that fucking game with ENB graphic mods, gameplay mods (Frostfall is so damn good) and I don't even consider TESO worth of my time, TES is a single player game for a good reason and for me that's immersion at 100%, something that a bunch of fuckwits jumping around me while we queue to pick up flowers for a quest totally prevent from happening.

For me it's usually 2 to 3 hours per night tops and it's 3 to 4 times per week, not even a shadow of what I played during the EQ days. Nonetheless I still love playing, but I'd never put anything behind playing in terms of priorities, it always comes second.
 
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Kreugen_sl said:
And you can trust Dumar on this, he's an authority on herpes-ridden whores. And don't let him near any horses.

But I don't get it. You enjoy playing games, so you uninstall everything and quit cold turkey because...? What are you punishing yourself for? Who the fuck really wants to go to the park every day or learn French?

I mean, I get that playing video games won't make anyone the Most Interesting Man in the World. And doing it day after day gets really old (see thread.) But running on a treadmill or loafing around in the park isn't going to do that either. The idea is variety. For all I know you just have an addictive personality and can only focus on one thing at a time.

Hell, mostly it just comes down to budget. Have good money? Well you can afford to do cool things and don't really need video games or tv or movies. If that's the case, what the fuck are you doing here? But if you're barely making it day to day, there's only so much cheap entertainment out there. It's that or get drunk all the time to take your mind off of your misery. Do you want to be the guy who has his own goddamn reserved seat at the bar? My stepdad's week is to work until he can't stand the pain any more, then rush home and get drunk alone in front of the tv.

Of course, I'm a bad example. Gaming has pretty much become the only thing I know how to do, and I'm bored to death of it. But that's not for lack of quality or trying to do other things. They just either didn't work out well, ran their course, or I couldn't find anyone to do those things with. And so for the last couple of years I've done basically nothing, and I feel worse off than ever. But gaming is not the cause, it's simply the effect of having shit else to do and nobody to do it with. Sure, if I won the lottery, I'd never touch a video game again. Who the hell would? Because money without obligation = ultimate freedom. But I'm fucking trapped and I have to fill the time with something that keeps my mind off of how god damn miserable life is.
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alavaz

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etchazz_sl said:
take it from someone who is a professional poker player, it sucks. doing it for a living makes it a job just like every other job. and tournaments are the worst investment possible, unless you're one of the lucky 1% of poker players that have sponsors who pay for their buy in's/travel costs.
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I've never had any desire to play professionally. Playing in a big event is just a bucket list / for fun thing. My dad lives in Vegas so this year I'll probably visit him when they are holding ME satellites and enter a few for shits and giggles.
 
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JTheRuler_sl said:
I've never had any desire to play professionally. Playing in a big event is just a bucket list / for fun thing. My dad lives in Vegas so this year I'll probably visit him when they are holding ME satellites and enter a few for shits and giggles.
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yeah, i rage against tournaments all the time, yet i still find myself playing in 20 or so a year.
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in fact, i just played in the parx casino deep stack tournament a few weeks ago. i've played in the WSOP the last 4 years: the main event once and some of the smaller buy ins several times. the problem with the WSOP is that you only get 3x the buy in amount as a starting stack. so if you buy into a $1,500 event, you get 4,500 in chips; which basically means if you lose a big hand early or you don't chip up early, you're fucked. i try and stick to the deep stack tournaments only now, where you have more time to maneuver and lose some hands without it crippling you. if you wind up going out to play this year, good luck!
 
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I haven't been able to dedicate any time to gaming for over a year - even when I've had time. I don't even dislike the games I'm voluntarily shelving.
Solforge is the only thing that I've been able to play.
That and playing Heroscape against myself, using Photoshop as the gaming engine.. not sure what's that about.
 
Laura

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Sacel_sl said:
I haven't been able to dedicate any time to gaming for over a year - even when I've had time. I don't even dislike the games I'm voluntarily shelving.
Solforge is the only thing that I've been able to play.
That and playing Heroscape against myself, using Photoshop as the gaming engine.. not sure what's that about.
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Yeah, SolForge is the only game I'm playing at the moment. (EQ P99 whenever I have time).
But what do you mean by Heroscape? You mean the discontinued miniature game by hasbro?

How do you play that using photoshop?
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After trying to get a Youtube gaming channel going, I've discovered it's affected me in two big ways: 1.) Killing my enjoyment of games I used to play constantly and 2.) Pushing me even further towards full-blown alcoholism. DayZ, Bioshock Infinite/DLC's, Planetary Annihilation, etc. etc. etc. Now, when I play I'm constantly thinking "Is this footage going to be worth a shit?" and "How can I make this worthless shit footage semi-watchable?" When I stopped recording and decided I'd just play for fun a bit to avoid burnout, I found myself thinking "I should really be recording this, in case something cool happens."
 
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just get a 18-25 year old chick with big tits to sit on camera while you stream on twitch. you'll be making 6 figures in no time.
 
Big Flex

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god damn it all these mmos fucking suck.

been fucking around with red99, mortal online, darkfall, nothing is really keeping me.

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Hekotat

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I've recently had the same problem. I've been unable to finish most games and nothing can keep my attention, not even GTA 5. Only thing that has really grabbed me was Tomb Raider, I was never a fan of the series but I think they did a really kickass job with this game, I also would have never tried it had it not been on PS+ for free.
 
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Hekotat_sl said:
I've recently had the same problem. I've been unable to finish most games and nothing can keep my attention, not even GTA 5. Only thing that has really grabbed me was Tomb Raider, I was never a fan of the serious but I think they did a really kickass job with this game, I also would have never tried it had it not been on PS+ for free.
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Tomb Raider was just below The Last of Us as game of the year for me last year.
 
Hekotat

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I have TLoU and I just could not get into it, I'll try to give it another shot when I finish up TR.
 
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