How do I convince myself to stop playing videogames? Anyway to tell myself they are a complete waste of time?Especially gacha games since I'm insanely unlucky in those.
>>1563915The OP pic makes me want to suggest reading yuri instead. It's the purest form of love after all.But also I envy you a little, I have a huge backlog of games I'd love to play and I cannot find the energy to go through them because something in the brain fucked up my dopamine and is causing a nasty brain fog. I did stop actively playing gacha a year ago but I still log in to two to read new stories and get free gems. I'll try to at least stop doing the dailies, I managed to do it twice before...With gacha how I managed to mostly quit was just not opening Blue Archive for a few days. I already lost all enjoyment from the gameplay side of it and was only playing it by force of inertia, and after I broke my streak - within a few days I was, like, "meh, whatever, I really don't care anymore" and that was it.
>>1563917>But also I envy you a little, I have a huge backlog of games I'd love to play and I cannot find the energy to go through them because something in the brain fucked up my dopamine and is causing a nasty brain fog.Not OP but your issue may be you can't bring yourself to click on new games because the older games you've played are familiar and you've become stagnant and lazy. If you just click on the new games and play them a little you'll become absorbed and spend a good while on it, at least that's my experience. The huge list of games might also subconsciously make you percieve playing them as a chore.
>>1563921I don't even play old games anymore, although occasionally I boot up some of those 90s strategy games that I gloriously sucked at in school and uni. I just sit and stare at the screen most of the time, or distract myself by staring at the ceiling instead. I can barely even work at work, in a way the LLM agents are actually saving my ass and employment since I know what needs to be done but actually doing it myself takes energy I can muster only twice a week maybe. It's all also connected to awful sleep to which neither me nor my doctors have found a solution so far. At least Trazodone keeps me from waking up after every damn cycle but it's still barely passable but non-restorative sleep.The only thing that my brain lets me do is turn on some stupid news or politics podcast that I give zero shits about but it's better than listening to tinnitus at least. I've been trying to listen to yuri audio dramas instead but listening to Japanese requires concentration so it's not been going terribly well either. I cling to a faint hope that things might just randomly improve, but after six years of this it's unlikely.
>>1563926>Trazodone>I just sit and stare at the screen most of the time, or distract myself by staring at the ceiling instead.Detachment is actually a common (40-60%) side effect of SSRIs. I took Prozac myself and experienced this in the first month. You just feel numb to your environment.Also, SSRIs apparently may delay sleep but this never happened to me. Although for some reason, maybe a mild allergy, I would get intense itchiness in my upper palm. >The only thing that my brain lets me do is turn on some stupid news or politics podcastThis is terrible. All this does is create unneeded anxiety. You might argue you have to be aware of politics and the world around you, but I personally wouldn't subject myself to this.>tinnitus Have you tried going to a doctor about it?I wonder if listening to white noise audios (e.g. fan heater) helps or worsens tinnitus.Anyways, I hope you get out of this slump you're in, and apologies for the annoying Reddit spacing.
>>1563927The detachment happened without Trazodone too. I was on Sertaline once for a month, and boy did the apathy kick in hard on that, never again. I'd rather be miserable than that. Anyway, I take Trazodone in a small sleep aid dose, not in AD dose. So far it's the only thing that prevents me from just crashing into lethargy during the day and unlike other sleep aids it doesn't make me drowsier either. Yet to try a few more meds, but probably this is the best I will have without finding a proper solution.>All this does is create unneeded anxietyI mean, I know and it did during some of the events that (only figuratively so far, thankfully), hit really close to home. But I'm not too addicted to news at this point, I learned not to invest into this shit too much over the past few years. It's more like sometimes there just isn't anything else I can plug into my ears. Right now looking for some decent world history podcasts for that exact purpose. Audiobooks aren't working, sadly.>Have you tried going to a doctor about it?Yes, my doctor said he also has tinnitus himself and that there is nothing that really helps other than listening to something, be that white noise or music or whatever. According to him medication that doctors typically prescribe for tinnitus off-label is not particularly effective. Listening to noise certainly distracts from tinnitus, but then it's another distracting noise instead, lol. Usually I just drown it in j-pop during the day.Thanks anon, not gonna let this shit ruin my life for good, there's still some fight left in me. Not much, but there is.
>my thread got hijackedAnons...>>1563917To me, reading helps with fixing my dopamine levels. After a bit, I get the urge to play games and enjoy them a lot more.>Blue ArchiveFor me, it was HSR. Today I lost A LOT of premium rolls for a single character and didn't get anything at all sadly. I was stockpiling for almost 6 months only for it to go down the drain for nothing. I am a F2P, but it took A LOT of my time, which is limited.These disguised gambling games are a problem. It kind of just crushed my soul and hurt a lot more than I thought.Thanks for the advice though.
>>1563915this thread belongs on >>>/adv/
>>1563947>lost A LOT of premium rolls for a single characterThat's when I first dropped BA for year, just out of range and spite. Came back and still played for a long time after that though.>stockpiling for almost 6 monthsJust how bad is pity in HSR? In BA you nearly always have enough to get/spark all limited characters, or at least one if there are multiple limited banners at once, so every few months you'll be getting characters you need/want for sure.>F2P, but it took A LOT of my timeThat's my problem with these games too, it's a huge time sink that doesn't really bring enough dopamine after the first few weeks. At some point you just have to internalize that there is a big corporate team of psychologists and designers working together for the sole purpose of manufacturing addiction, not to make a fun game. They don't even need >(You) to spend money, >(You) just need to keep logging in and inflate the numbers so that the whales can feel superior to a larger group of people. There are no exceptions in the gacha world. Some games end up having nice stories, but that is more of an accident. The core game loop is one big manufactured deception. Sadly I still get baited by the graphics, as normal offline games don't tend to have anime graphics that good, so I'm not one to talk. But internalizing helps at least reduce the time wasted.>disguised gambling games>crushed my soulI don't think they even bother to disguise it anymore, it's just literal gambling. This is what gambling does. My dad used to gamble and I've seen first hand just how identical it is to lootbox/gacha, or these newfangled betting markets too. Everything in this world becoming a fucking casino is what's truly crushing my soul... Even my bloody bank now has a gacha where you can pay to re-roll for random cashbacks/discounts.Really though, to quit gaming you need to think hard about what it is that you want to do. Without having a clear idea you'll likely fall back into your usual routine.
>>1563936>It's more like sometimes there just isn't anything else I can plug into my ears. Right now looking for some decent world history podcasts for that exact purpose. Audiobooks aren't working, sadly.I just listen to certain YouTube videos I find interesting in the background. I have NewPipe on my phone so I can just put a video in the background while I do something else. YouTube Revanced also works. I hope your tinnitus gets better. It sounds terrible to have it.
>>1563936>world history podcastshttps://youtube.com/@asmr_historian
>>1563998>betting marketsNta but I was nearly going to bet $300-500 on the Ayatollah staying in power before the Iran war started lol. Glad I stayed out of that.
