no i dont know what, what?

i guess you mean some game, simply put a timer on your pc so your pc automaticly shuts down at a certain time. set it for a early time 7-8pm and it will give you time to study and get a good nights sleep.

computer/internet

what can you do ? movies music friends gaming information, SHIT i AM addicted :(

http://www.daxtar.de/download/shutdown.html
stops me from staying up all night. just put shortcut to it in startup folder, set it to minimize automaticly and set the time.

Nice one gonna try that for work nights, permantly knackered at work from going to bed in the early hours.

same here koddy :P my eyes went from O_O to o_o to -_- now cause of gaming and internet :)

So you've got normal eyes thanks to the internet?

no i have lack of sleep x 100000000000 :)

cs kills souls

find some interesting about what youre learning

there must be something there

or just pay attention for a whole class/day and see how proud of urself u feel for actually bein a good boy ! lol

lol!

yes there is! but all we do @ school is calculations and shit, there is some good stuff about philosophy maths and physics, just not the school stuff :)

Sounds like you need some time off but you don't want to fall behind your m8's. Well you should definetly take a decision soon or else you might end up before summer with a feeling that you just wasted a part of your life.

Get away from it, don't turn on comp first thing when you get home, try to do some homework away from the computer e.g. math :) or read something (not on ESR or anywhere on the net - get a BOOK). Do that everyday, get used to and accept the fact that you shouldnt be playing whatever you're playing everyday after coming home from school.

aha but my comp is on 24/7
warez... :D

Get a part time job, in your actual/futur field of study if possible. It worked for me back then. Other than that, uninstall the devil Q game, burn the DVD along with it's box and cd-case, smash your head with a hammer to forget the CD-KEY and the addiction is gone my friend. And maybe 10 or more years of memories too but hey, such a small price to pay to get your life back! Besides, starting new is always a good thing, right?

Take care!

sounds to me like youre tired of skool. when i went to highskool i was only there. i did not try to get good grades on my work. i was so bored of skool. imo, thats no problem. i was home playing lots of computer. i regret that. but not because i did get good grades in skool. i regret that i didnt develop my social skills. wich you can do in skool, but if you want work right after skool. develop better social skills rather than good grades. if you have to choose one. now after skool ive worked alot on my socialskills rather than getting better grades, wich is paying of ALOT better than good grades. i am not saying you have no friends or so, im just telling you, go out more. meet people. get a part time job. get a girlfriend. just do whatever you can to make you stop thinking of the games!

good post, tried to express something similar but probably failed even with like 10 times more lines written :)

You're a twat but here you're kinda right.

My experience was about like this:

I was tired and felt asleep at school like 1/3 of the time as I was playing till like 1am with my clanmates/friends most of the days, and had to get up at 6:30 for school. It became slightly better when I came closer to my a-levels, but still I wasn't even close to disciplined. Somehow I managed to stay concentrated at school which safed me like the complete afternoon as I didn't have to rework anything and only made some written homework at times (you don't have to do that much in higher classes anyway, or at least you can get through with less trouble). Therefore I made some rather decent a-levels and then head of for uni. I moved out and had no pc/internet in my flat anymore, and I only came back to my parents' house like every 2-4 weeks. So gaming was pretty much over for me. Then the first lecture break took control of me..

I was pretty much back to gaming and buming around all night, but I more and more noticed that something changed. When I came back to uni I recognized that my holidays were pretty much completely wasted on gaming, and I wasn't really fit for the next semester. Back in my flat gaming was gone again and my life went back to normal.

The next lectures break I moved again (got rid of that lazy bum that called himself roommate) and moved to another flat - again without decent pc and no internet. I only rarely gamed anymore as I didn't go home to my parents anymore and - well - sp games are mostly shit :> . What I have noticed thinking back to the first lecture break is mainly that the Q3 community went dead and boring and shit, and it was less and less fun to play. Instead I more and more enjoyed spending time with my fellow students playing beach volleyball and running and hanging out. A new chapter in my life has started and so far I love it, I love it so much more than the gaming time. I highly recommend you to get rid of gaming and internet and enjoy all the other things life has to over.

long story short: gaming is wasted time and the addiction is a bitch really; if you can't break out yourself hope for your community/game to become shit so you'll lose interest. worked for me that way :>

also you might want to sum up what you think you're lacking in your life, e.g. regarding sports and health or social things. then force yourself to not start gaming the same day unless you've been doing sports or met some friends or did some housework or whatever, and do that every day. so even if you didn't break out completely you at least did something to improve other skills. get yourself a bad conscience :>

agreed. koddy, try this. turn of your computer for 48 hours. take some friends to your house. watch a movie. take a walk talk about life etc etc... i promise you. those tiny 48 hours will make you feel better.

I totally disagree! Gaming is very fun and there is way to have a really fun and deep social life while gaming.

Most people like you only suffer from really bad self-control.

ye, i'm a smart ass to myself, i always come up with a perfect excuse for everything :(

Yeah... well to be perfectly honest, i kinda went to that same thing than you.

What i did to get out of it was to try every day to exercise a little bit (not anything too crazy, just some push-ups and sit-ups), go to sleep early (i know it's hard but instead of just going to sleep right away, watch a movie on your tv to get the motivation to get to sleep), wake up early even if it's holiday and simply to eat a little bit more healthy (i'm not saying you should turn bio, but eating 3 meals a day is a good start).

Also, later on, i realised that my life didn't get as bad because of gaming, but it's more because my life was going bad (i was in a big depression but i didn't know) that i was gaming non-stop. Sort of a way to forget about everything. So, ask yourself, is it gaming that's making you feel like you do, or is it just an excuse and it's the other way around?

So i did all the stuff i wrote earlier and it helped me get a new really cool job and a lovely girlfriend (that i'm still with after 9 months). All you need is a little effort. You can do it.

Hope it helps and btw your demos are really nice ;) don't stop gaming completely, you'll miss a great deal of fun, but just try to moderate it and do something else constructive of your life. gl!

as said, i take care of my physical self, by exercising mon-wed-fri, taking a walk every(almost =D) morning, and eating 4-5meals a day.
and the school trips (~4km) i walk/bicycle.

i can't wake up early @ weekends 'cos i usually end up staying awake 'till like 4am? (mostly hanging out :) ), can't help out my mates :(

i can do *pretty much everything* if i have any reason for it (but school - no goal - no effort :( )

tho sometimes it's fun just to read a chapter of history to surprise the teacher, ahh the slacker knew smth... ;)

thanks for tips! appreciation :) !

nobody cares what you do now. you made a post about how bad you feel. face it. maby you need more exercise?

well ehm i was recommended to eat 3+ meals a day ? exercise more etc. :(((

yes. eat more.

stop gaming for a while and u'll see how worthless tis

having fun is worth it

if you become a loser because of gaming, it's your fault... gaming is like anything else that's addictive: drugs, alcohol, etc. there is absolutely no harm in playing with moderation

exactly, there is no harm in doing drugs with moderation - still people get addicted and can't control it anymore

I agree that it's possible to have a decent life with both all the social stuff and gaming, but you'll hardly be able to go competitive (which imo still is the goal of many players: not CPL, but decent). And as gaming is usually time consuming you'll either end up with a tight schedule every day or you'll have to drop something. And at least nowadays I'd clearly drop gaming over other things. That's just my experience: reduce/stop gaming and you'll have much more time for other things, and enjoy it.

it's not the gaming that's draining my time, computer is. i don't want to play games all day, but when i leave a server, i see these guys giving some awesome links to some pages and i usually end up browsing every possible pic / getting every piece of info possible of the subject. got proven last summer when got into quantum physics =P, didn't realize half of the shit but it was hell of a fun reading those books!

moderation... gosh.. a word i can't stand :(

tisn't

Trying getting into self-mutilation.

Play for another 4/5 years and the motivation for the game will dillute.

Get other hobbies and get social, force yourself to go out with your friends, not necessarily clubs but just be around people. I'm on that myself, really reserving space and try to hang out with other people for an afternoon. It's actually quite amazing how many new people and nice girls you encounter if you actually step off the computer and leave the house ;P

Deleting irc would be a good start (just removing the desktop link did it for me), horrible for many reasons (clans etc ;) ) but it cuts off a big chunk of the motivation to go online.

i do take walks(wonders of life aye)! i dun have a gf (atm)! i watch movies with my friends ~every weekend! i do go out! i do keep myself "fit"! i got a lot of stuff in my life.. and yes i'm pretty much tired of school, i got no idea whatsoever i am going to do with my life after high school. that's why the main lack of motivation of studying. a good example: my mom, finished with ~best poss. grades and what does she do now ? unemployent. can't go to work 'cos there is no work for ppl like she(not retarded but over educated).

and i don't want to cut down the things i love. ( just limit a bit )
if i quit irc i'd lose many contacts with great ppl (for example those i met @ heffa lan (all great guys + girl(s) ;) ). it's just that it feels like i don't have enough of time for everything :(

+@ poub, everyone in our high school is a great person, got no jerks around. they all went to ammattikoulu ( :D )

yes i have kept at max like 2 weeks off computer(without leaving my hometown) ? but then i just feel bored most of the time (eventhough i go out more)

internet friends are nothing in the long run, in my opinion.

you can have friends that use internet right ?
i got many friends from *real life* using irc daily =P, + i care about nice ppl, the ppl don't mean *much* over the internet, but when you get to see them personally face to face and when you notice how good persons they are(if they are...), you can't just say stfu go to hell and leave it all behind :P

A lot of people go for the sake of going (extra education) with no set goals. That was my problem. Hated it so much and just did pathetic when I was more than capable of getting very good grades.

If by high school you mean compulsary education then everyone gets bored of it dude, but it's a standard in life like work and you have to do it so you just gotta bite your tounge. The same things get boring eventually no matter what.

high school as in after compulsary =P (i'm 17 atm)

Ask yourself why you are going then? Parents forced you? Wanted to study a specific subject? Stepping stones for a certain university? :)

didn't want to keep a year off, parents didn't force me, i chose high school myself, wanted time to think where i could be going after that.
:( and i like the ppl there very much! :)

you can always throw school easily and stop learning, but it might be damn hard to get back into it

It's easy to get back into education however, courses with higher demand usually go to younger peeps, well most do. Also you will have to pay for courses, exams and the like. That was one of my benefits if I would of went on to university, since my parents earn little I wouldn't of had to pay. Lost that now though. :(

just put the god damn shutdown timer on

SChool sux, just bare with it til u get out of there ;D

With wow addcits now dieing!?!? from gaming....

this whole internet addicited sub culture has to be addressed or thousands of people will never see the light of day.


Being the best at a game means you have to sacrafice other stuff. But real life should take prioroty over the gaming routine we can so easily fall into.

Time away means you get shit at that game then it's not as fun to play so you wont play as much....


BREAK THE CYCLE.

SELL YOUR PC

uhh yeah. i would like to.

Give it away. You'll get over it.