Video Games

Are video games like porn? Should we give up on them as well? It is incredible how addictive video games are, so stronger that people not even eat.

 

I'm asking because two days ago I accidentally fell over Civilisation, the game I played when I was 15. I remember playing if for weeks. And two days ago, I installed it and played it for 10 hours straight. I did not eat or do anything else, it bothered me that I had to take a piss a couple of times.
Porn is not doing that, when I was watching porn, I could take a break at least.
And after those ten hours I felt terrible, I blamed myself for wasting my time as I did 20 years ago. I had the impression that my brains was decomposing, I felt like a dumb.

To me I think, porn addiction is just a piece in a larger problem, I am very responsive to electronics, internet, video games and so on. Which is why I successfully stayed away for years from that.
And now, I feel the urge to play again, but I promised myself to stay away, it was an exception and I removed the game from the PC.

 

I'm going to be honest with you. To me you sound like those smokers that say, they were not addicted and they could stop whenever they wanted, but they don't.

 

So I replayed a video game for two or three days. A game that I played 20 years ago. And my libido went down, I guess NoFap would be a Sunday promenade if people could play Video games. So I googled it and in fact: video games affect libido because the make you go on dopamine like porn.
So from now on, no more video games.
I felt like after edging, somehow numb. I feel like I cheated NoFap, maybe I should reset my counter, what do you think?

 

yeah, it was hard to think about resetting the counter, but still, playing video games is kind of a replacement and it is a waste of time.

 

I thought the same things as you write. It is so true, and it sometimes helps to get even stronger and to say no.
We should always keep in mind that when we choose to do something in some time slot, we don't do anything else. Saying yes to Video Games for 2 hours means saying no to everything and everybody else.
Still, sometimes we fall back and waste our time.
And time is so precious because you cannot buy it, you cannot win it back.
I mean, when you loose money, you can win it back, you can get your relationships back together or build new ones. Even health, if it is not too dramatic, can be won back again, even evil diseases like cancer can be beaten.
But time is gone forever. When you waste 2hours on a Saturday evening in Porn, these particular two hours will never come back again, no matter how many billions you put on the table. You can do the important thing next week, you think, but hell no, because then you will not do the other important thing that you should have done next week.

I know what I'm talking about, I always thought I could do things later. And now I'm 38 and I am married for three months only. I am happy that I found my wife, but... I could have had kids that are 10 years old now. That pathetic adult infant that Jordan Peterson is talking about, that was me. And no matter what I do, I will never win back this time. My kids will have an old fuck as a dad and I only hope that I will remain physically and mentally fit enough to give them what they need. Like doing some sport and so on.

 

Time is the same for everybody. The rich and the poor, they both have 24 hours a day.
In Italy they have some fancy speed control systems for vehicles. When you drive faster than 50km/h it does flash, but you will not have to pay a fee. There is a red light 50 metres down the road that will turn on, only when you drive too fast. And you will loose a minute.
My Italian friend told me how fair these systems were. Because if you make the guy pay 50 bucks, it depends on the means of the guy. A rich will not give a damn, but it will hurt the poor. However, loosing a minute of their life, that is the same for both.