I can definitely relate to the counter strike stuff. I played faceit and esea for a while and the competitiveness eventually ruined the game for me. Also it was incredibly frustrating to start a regular game just for fun and have an opponent start spinning immediately.

Oh cool, most of them are open source and / or free as well, if anyone wants to try them.

DS 2 is probably the worst game to start with 😅. Glad to hear you stuck with it and enjoyed most souls games. I have also not played nightreign and don’t really intend to.

Honestly, the good thing about that is that everything is hand crafted. So exploring is really rewarding IMO. A good example is an area where you find tons of power slugs.

I tried factorio and didn’t like it. I really enjoyed mindustry though. I have Dyson sp widllisted, maybe that’ll be the next game I try. Thanks for your recommendations. Have fun in Minecraft 😊

This is most likely what happened to you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

I didn’t even know that game existed 😅 I guess everyone has their guilty pleasure games.

Christopher Larkin is a genius composer. I hear the first note of dirtmouth and instantly get goosebumps everywhere.

Maybe it is a good thing that Activision ruined blizzard, if wow was consuming so much of your life. I lost interest in Satisfactory when there was nothing cool to unlock anymore. And I think Minecraft remains so popular because it is the most modded game in history (I think). I am in my early 30s and only play single player modded. Tech mods can make Minecraft incredibly complex, but even without mods it is crazy what people have built in that game (like a working computer and pokemon red, the whole game, just with Redstone and command blocks).

Oh I don’t care about the graphics at all, as long as I know what I’m looking at. I should try again.

I considered playing calamity, but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea. 😅

Ouch. That hits home man. I’m sorry I can’t give you any special advice, probably just things you’ve heard a million times by now.

Interesting. I have been diagnosed with ADHD since childhood and besides rare Hyperfocus, this doesn’t happen for me. But everyone is different, of course.

Make sure to talk to people you trust when you are feeling down. I made the mistake of “not wanting to burden anyone” and I just got worse and worse.

Edit: I am fine now btw.

“at gregtech eu” checks out 😀

I hope you are doing better now.

Wünsche dir ein schönes Wochenende 🙂

That sucks. Honestly I never played it, but my friends did back in the day where pretty much everyone did. I was mostly playing Valve games then.

You are right, that is part of an actual addiction diagnosis. It’s good that you did the right thing.