Methods to Quit Playing Video Games
2024-12-29 18:37
video games

I played way too many video games most of my life. Because I was allowed to be isolated and do that.

But eventually I got tired of that and wanted to quit.

First, I started reading more books.
The problem with games is they let you take action and feel as if you are accomplishing something. Books are read and discarded pretty quickly for the most part. And I'm talking about non-fiction books here; fiction is something entirely different and is often as escapist as games themselves when taken to an extreme.

Eventually I got into computer programming. I wish I had gotten into automobile repair or plumbing or almost any kind of skilled manual work instead. But with programming you can pick your own goals and projects and generally accomplish them with little or much work.

You can also do something like get a job or get married and start a family, in which case playing lots of games directly interferes with your real life (rather than "enriching" your non-life).

Finally, having quit the games, you are tempted to play again.
How do you resist this temptation?

Well, it's a lot easier when you recognize that a lot of these online multiplayer games, you are fueling other people's disorders.

And it's way way easier when you see that a lot of these games (including most of the fun ones) use evil symbols, look evil, and sound evil. "God is probably going to destroy all these when He returns!" you realize as you think to yourself, (adding, "I wouldn't want to be caught dead playing Gal*Gun!").

Here, now you can play Tetris, some clicker games, and Solitaire also.
Oh, want a social game, how about CHESS? (You're probably so sick of chess at this point that you'd rather play Monopoly with your aunts and uncles. (If Dante were alive today, he might describe this experience as the 4th level of hell! Because Monopoly uses a square board, get it?))

You go to play a game of Solitaire. Before you are even 3 clicks in, you realize that you can still work on another project. So you close the game of Solitaire and go to work on that other project instead.

In all honesty, you think, if I was born on a farm and had to work it to keep things alive and moving, I wouldn't be able to play an hour of video games a day!

Yeah, well you try being born on a farm, you. It isn't that easy! There's probably a reason more people aren't born on farms...
(In all honesty, Harvest Moon in real life is a great way to quit. You probably already know how soulless most 9-to-5 factory jobs are. And if you ever think, "There's too much food in the world!" then perhaps you might grow enough food so that every single person in the world can have a horse. Is that a bad thing, anti-Henry anti-Ford?)

As far as other tips/tricks, throwing away or destroying your games / digital library might help: Are you going to waste more time/money replacing what useless junk was lost, or will you go and do something better the next time?

I sincerely regret having sold my games collection instead of simply throwing them all in a televised bonfire, which might have acted as an inspiration to help hundreds of thousands, even millions of people. But nope, I took a few thousand bucks (!) instead...

The announcer voice announces, "If you or a loved one would like to donate your video games and animes to be burnt in a communal televised bonfire, please dial 1-800..."

You wake up before you can hear the contact details.