Videogame addiction and Holla Forums

Excuse this for being a blogpost, I have no idea where else to seek advice (all the people I know are liberals including my family), I'll keep it short. So basically I've been playing video games almost non stop since I was 5 years old. 17 years later I'm 23 with no skills, talents, complete fuck all. I started looking at Holla Forums around 4 years ago and everything started to become increasingly depressing. My video game addiction got a lot worse when I went down the rabbit hole because I wanted to escape the terrible reality of what I was reading. Then I become nihilistic about everything. I tried fixing this by joining the military. I was a POG and that's probably why it didn't help me.

Right now I have no clue what to do, I'm getting out of the military in a couple of months with a job that I don't want to do in the civilian sector. I believe in National Socialism whole-heartily, but this doesn't really lead anywhere in terms of making a living. I've stared at a computer screen for pretty much my entire life. I have no social life anymore because I can't stand normies. I don't view them as human anymore, including my own family. Before I came here I used to have friends and more motivation and ambition. I feel so incredibly defeatist I wish most days I wouldn't wake up.

Has anyone else been in the same situation of despair and hopelessness and managed to see the light at the end of the tunnel?

I was sort of in your situation when i was 16/17 but depressed because of family issues etc
I got a new girlfriend, got a new job that wasnt the family business, its outside in the sun and doing physical work (both those factors help a lot in my opinion)i got my car license and stopped playing shit games non stop all day.
My daughter turned 1 last week. Im honestly in the best mental health since i can remember.

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You've identified the root of the problem. The first step to detoxing from vidya is to become comfortable sitting alone in silence. All of the mental distraction from video games has made being alone with yourself increasingly more unbearable. This is because once you start sitting alone with yourself, you'll be forced to really confront anything you haven't fully processed yet, such as the paradigm shift in worldview that occurs when you are "redpilled".

Try a few new hobbies that perhaps revolve around practical skills (shooting, since you're in the military already, maybe?), and just enjoy spending time with other humans now and then just on the level of the hobby. Part of the way I've found to "cope" with stressful shit in life in general is to have a hobby I enjoy a lot and go do it occasionally with others, and when I do so I "leave work at work", so to speak. I never bring up politics or anything else, just focus on being on the hobby and being in the moment. Interaction with other humans, at least sometimes, is fairly important for mental health.

Try to see the subhuman zombies as victims of the Jew, but yeah I know it sometimes doesn't help.

The light at the end of the tunnel is deciding to become that light for others.

Replace vidya with gambling addiction and that's me.

Congratulations man, good luck to you and your family. I was thinking about using my GI bill for some software engineer job and that just sounds horrible. I think I'm going to try and find a trade where I'm in the sun all day if I can.

user I'm in a similar boat but I'm a bit older. It's a tough hole to climb out of but tbh the current collapsing of the vidya industry is really helping me pull out of that hobby. Depending on your tastes you may or may not experience something similar. I think both of us and many others here would do well to remove vidya from their lives and redirect that effort to something else, and despite how hard that might be, the real difficulty comes next. Like yourself I've developed virtually no practical skills. I'm not handy at all, I really don't know my way around computers, and every day that passes just makes going back to school for something that much harder once you're in your 20's.

With that said, that's what we have to do, we have to go out and fucking FORCE ourselves to do something else, to make something of our lives, to learn things that can not only help us perform worthwhile, fulfilling and lucrative jobs but also improve our abilities to be men, to be husbands, to be fathers. I have been lucky enough to find myself an Italian qt that I've hit it off with, I find her to be very good wife/mother material but if she's going to move here and we're going to make a go of raising beautiful white children and having a great relationship, I am going to have to get my shit together. That pressure is starting to wake me up from the daze I've been in but it's still going to be an uphill battle.

I hope for your sake you can find a similar inspiration, I know I would struggle to follow my own advice without this new driving force behind me. People here talk a lot about bettering yourself for your own sake and they are not totally wrong, self-reliance is a valuable asset but it comes more easily to some than to others.

May sound crazy user, but iron working is amazing. Come in as an apprentice (25-30 an hour for apprenticeship) and go and learn to weld. You can then make easily 35-75 an hour welding and more so if you're on a shipyard.

Well said, I think a lot of what it is finding a purpose in helping others. I've lived a very narcissistic brat life and maybe this is a sign that I need to change for the benefit of others.

I'll look into that, thanks for the advice.

Can you into programming/modelling/art? That's one of the rare things people learn when they have gaming as hobby.

I feel for you. I'm in a similar hole, but for radically different reasons. Right now you are just tired and have lost the will to fight. This feeling often comes to me at night and it's natural if you don't have friends to fall back to and support you, or something good to live for. Get some sleep and you'll feel better.

A trade is a going to be a fucking goldmine in about 10 years.

Heh, you sound just like me. I had a very easy upbringing and I never realized that life is always an uphill battle until really a couple of years ago. Sounds insane, but that's what happens when you shelter yourself from reality.

Thanks user, and yeah I need to get to bed. Late night blogposting isn't good for anybody, lol. I kinda just wanted to vent and feel sorry for myself. Mods can delete this thread.

I've always taken the path of least resistance, and of course it's never worked. I am definitely getting into a trade, bricklaying sounds like a fulfilling profession.

At the end of the day i look at the section of wall or pillars we've bricked up and their is a satisfaction, you can physically see your efforts done in the world and not wasted your day filling shit out in excel or word or whatever it is officecucks do.

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Videogames are not an addiction. It's a time wasting activity much like reading, watching movies, et cetera. Unlike those it can be potentially very engaging and much more fun, with average game providing more incentive to keep doing it than average movie or book. Then again, it's not like it never happens with people, to stay up late and skipping on other activities over watching movies or reading shit.

As such, that wholly depends on availability of games tailored to particular player's liking. As soon as the gamer doesn't feel like playing any of the games he has at his disposal, he stops playing them. Some may put their time elsewhere, some may search for different new games to play. Consider that before "le gaymen addiction" the boogeyman was "roughhousing outside all day".

As for such behavior in adults, they're fucking adults and just do what the fuck they want to.

At least you're lucky not to have the mind-crippling vidya addiction that I have, the one that makes you an uncoordinate social retard and gives you a cocaine-like crave where everything else is boring and suffering. Even when not playing them for months the suffering is still about, they say there is no cure for cocaine addiction so I'm stuck on this ride.

Not him but I would argue with you a bit on this, vidya can be overstimulating for some, especially those of us who use it for escapism. The dopamine rush that comes with playing them is as likely to cause addiction as anything else that triggers the chemical, such as jerking off all the time, smoking weed, etc.

Clearly the problem is in one's head, not in vidya. Guns don't kill people and all.

So do you think an old cunt like me would be able to find an apprenticeship? I tried to get an electrical apprenticeship a couple of years back, but I couldn't because nobody wanted to hire a >21 due to minimun wage laws. (Thanks, unions.)

Don't blame yourself too much, OP, if it wasn't video games, it would have been something else. Bread and circuses always take over at the end of a civilizations cycle. You are simply becoming aware of the time you're in and the fact that petty distractions took over your life, since you were never looking for more than hedonistic pursuits as that is what our society is built off of.

This is a painful, hard awakening, but if you can punch through it, in a few years you'll be in a much, much better place. Just start improving yourself day in, day out, and keep in mind you don't have to go from 0-100 right away.

The biggest thing I would say is don't beat yourself up and don't feel like a failure. As that quote from Goebbels shows, you are simply dealing with the effects of demoralization, and you must fight that off first and foremost.

Keep in mind this is just a bad time, in a lot of ways, to get things done. It's hard to find a job, it's hard to acquire skills to GET a job, and it's hard to find decent places to socialize with your people. Places like /pol are the best we get, more or less the equivalent of the taverns our forefathers would visit in times like this, and from here we have to recognize what's plaguing our society, and revolutionize it, and of course, we'll have to start with ourselves.

The two big things to remember is we didn't create this time, and that times change. When you're staring at all this shit and then looking at your own life, and how bad it's gotten, it's easy to get despondent because of how overwhelming it sees. There is no simple way out of the morass, we just have to survive it while the winds of change move things in our direction, slowly, but surely. Sooner or later it will explode and we will have our time of reckoning, so keep that in mind and don't beat yourself up for a hell that you had no part in creating.

You should feel proud that you're casting off the chains and waking up from the dream world. The fact you have the intelligence and the willpower to do that is something to be valued. A mans worth isn't defined by how well he's doing economically in a Jewish system dominated by their fiat currency, so remember that.

It is indeed but you could say the same about every addiction. Video games aren't necessarily to blame but you can't deny that some people are far more prone to end up dumping all their time and effort into them. Was it their fault for doing so? Certainly, although many of those people started when they were kids and were too young to understand the risks. I'm one of these so I should know. Yes, any time I continue to do it, I'm choosing to do it but it isn't so easy as to just walk away and stop.

Maybe I'm just being a bitch about it and I need to learn some self-control but that doesn't come overnight.