ET3D: Edit: I removed the details about my life, which felt like bragging. They were just meant to illustrate that it's possible to do stuff even if you're gaming. Gaming doesn't have to take over your life. You can play a lot and still schedule other activities.
Hey, I already read and enjoyed your post before you edited it! It wasn't bragging at all, if it's true then it's true and it's you sharing about your life, it wouldn't cross my mind to see it as bragging. I talk a lot about myself etc yadda yadda and I don't give the slightest damn if anyone thinks it's self-centered or bragging. It's in the eye of the beholder - even if someone incessantly talks about e.g. his car and how great it is and all, it could be passion or it could be bragging, or both. Or just trying to sincerely answer and not being able to keep it short in terms of word count. Who am I to judge? If it doesn't interest someone, they can easily ignore it. In live conversation it's different as you don't want to just talk about yourself blablabla while the other person sits there awkwardly and starts thinking you're an egomaniac but in written conversation, things are very different. Anyway, don't worry and just write. This is a group therapy thread after all, you're supposed to share and there is no limit. There is also no overshare. If someone feels you're oversharing, they can always tell you -after- you overshared and then you can say ok I guess I'll tell someone else then, it makes no sense to preemptively undershare. No one is forced to sit here and read anyone's posts, so no problem at all.
Would you consider to re-share what you un-shared? The more info you share about yourself, the more therapy effect you (potentially) get and it also makes it easier for other participants to therapize each other!
ET3D: I really think you should lay off the "waste of time" issue. If you have a generally productive life and a hobby or two that you feel are productive, then gaming or even watching TV isn't "a waste of time". It's a way to unwind, and that's something that's pretty good to do. It's a good thing that you're no longer dedicating all your time to gaming, but you shouldn't be ashamed of dedicating some time to it.
Gaming doesn't have an unwinding effect for me and I don't have much energy for unwinding activities to begin with. Which means that even my hobbies must be productive in some way, shape or form. Sports in moderation works well but only the type of sports where you have to react to another person. Ping pong is fun, martial arts are even better because you have no time to be elsewhere mentally. I have contempt for team sports because they are played in an antisocial way most of the time. There is a way to play team sports socially but most people seem incapable of doing that so I don't bother participating or even watching.
There is no element of shame here as I believe that not having enough energy isn't my fault. Me is the victim! If I had surplus energy and would hang out on this forum or play games, I would most absolutely feel shame for not putting that energy to better use. Saying that "it doesn't matter anyway if you have no energy, might as well be on the forum or play games" isn't acceptable to me because it's no strategy with potential progress.
I'm talking it more easy nowadays with everything so lack of energy can't be attributed to doing too much, or overdoing anything.
I hope you don't feel I'm shooting down your advice, it's great that you write it here because it might help others but in my case, I must find another way.
vicklemos: Who in here has +1000 games, just waiting to be played?
You sound like a rather serious case. Welcome to therapy, vicklemos!
Now...how do you feel about having +1000 games?
dick1982: call me a buccaneer who should be charged as a violent criminal and thrown in for 7 years, but i'm more like "stop going to emuparadise to see all the ps1 games i used to play on a real console".
Well, at least that doesn't cost you any money. Plus, I think hardly anyone on here is not guilty of the sin of emulating...
ET3D: Bought Unrest on
Indie Game Stand for $0.25. I'll probably never play it, but it's a Kickstarter project I supported with $1, and I like to have the chance to check the result of these projects I back below game the game tier.
Another store I didn't know yet, of course I had to run over there immediately but fortunately I didn't find anything so I'm back here where I belong :)
Sale for under $1 are particularly dangerous, I recently bought something on Steam for 99 cents. I really need to update my relapse list, it's outdated.
Gnostic: I fail. I sinned. I only last 1/2 month.
Ah crap, sorry I didn't respond to your earlier post where you said you wanted to stay clean for one month, I'm actually trying to do the same in part thanks to your post. Technobabylon on April 30 was supposed to be my last purchase before going clean for all of May. But I failed as well, because they added
Black Mirror 3.
Earlier on, I had written an email to Nordic telling them that I won't buy any more of their games unless they come back to GOG and add Black Mirror 3 here (since the other 2 are already here), and because they did come back and added Black mirror 3, I was bound to make the purchase.
My word to someone else (=buy Black Mirror 3) takes precedence over my word to myself (=don't buy any games) in this case. It's still an infraction though.
Next time, I'll try to support you in time, before you go off the rails!
JudasIscariot: While our business model does rely on us selling games, we're not going to be so crass about it that we'll be taking down threads and all :) We're not all "Buy or GTFO!" :)
johnnygoging: Please make a T-Shirt saying "NO-DRM or GTFO!" Actually, there already is such a t-shirt, the "Join the DRM-free Revolution" one (see attachment)
