Real gamer right here.
Comment on How do you moderate yourself?
NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 8 months ago
I don’t moderate myself. I do whatever I want to do because I’m an adult. As long as your bills are paid and you are satisfied with your life who cares?
Play until you have one foot in the grave. That’s my plan anyways. You’ll need to bury me with my gaming pc.
Enzy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
SamXavia@kbin.run 8 months ago
@NumbersCanBeFun Hey, So my main problem isn't that my life isn't 'paid' for, I've been registered as never being able to work due to my Autism and Fibromyalgia and have moved out of my parents place. My goals are to feel more to feel accomplished by doing some tasks I feel like need to or could be done in my life such as Video Editing being a big passion, making that into a career of some kind.
I feel as if gaming has taking over my life and is sometimes a way of me finding a way to no get on and do the things I know rather need to be done or should possibly be done. I could easily spend the next 30+ years of my life playing games day in and day out on autopilot but rather take control of at-least some of my life without 100% giving up gaming as it still helps me relax.
fluke@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Autism is where I think that this get difficult, and where I think a lot of the responses might miss.
Gaming is really seems to be a ‘specisl interest’, especially if it’s one game in particular. And taking that away without any replacement isn’t good, since it’s what your brain needs to self regulate. It’s not so much an addiction as nicotine or alcohol can be, but more like food, or hydration. You need a method of regulation.
If you’re worried about the effects of gaming specifically, then the only thing is to find another special interest that grips you in the way that games/that game does. It sounds like you have an idea already on what that might be. All I can say is that you should try and throw yourself into it head first!
SamXavia@kbin.run 8 months ago
@fluke Thank you, yeah I think I know a more healthy hobbie to get myself into that I am passionate about just going to try and see how today goes when I turn my PC on and it could go one of two ways, back into gaming and can't stop or working on the project that I should do and pushing for it.
Enzy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Video editors can get paid by content creators.
Follow your passions. Do what you want.
SamXavia@kbin.run 8 months ago
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Words to live by.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In a way, I understand. There are no rules. I do think there is a good chance that living out that idea in any or every aspect of life can be very damaging. My motto is everything in moderation, including moderation.
SamXavia@kbin.run 8 months ago
@somethingsnappy Thank you, Yes I'm trying to take control of my life back from just mindless on video games, been doing it way to long and it seems it's become an addiction.