Being addicted to a video game is the highest sustained dopamine release

[Titansfan08]

I remember skipping school the day WoW came out to get it... oh god damn i miss it. The SS and TM battles and the 70 arenas were amazing. I would stay up on school days with my brother playing until like 5 am until my mom would wake up lol, I would be dragging ass at school the next day.

[BRAHzzers]

Agreed completely, but now if I play for too long I start feeling low self worth and feel like I'm wasting my youth. I cut back a lot of my gaming and noticed my social life improve and feel better/happier now. Always happy when gaming, but feel like **** when i stop and realize i just spent like 10 hours gaming on a nice day

[BlueSasquatch]

Can we get a Misc guild/clan going and pick a game to flood with aesthetics?

[LePhaggot]

Deus Ex :,)

[colbski]

Supreme Master First Class crew checking in -- business owner on the side, full-time employee, husband and I workout regularly. It's about that balance boys n girls.


edit -- if I could play all night and day... I would. I'm an addict.

[kkash]

Amen to that... the only game i play now is league and Runescape private servers

[therealistwat]

Can we get a Misc guild/clan going and pick a game to flood with aesthetics?

lol i could get behind this. pick a game where we can troll /shout chats

[Comstarr]

Who are the people that make them look like amateurs brah?

They're long gone from the scene, they quit back when WotLK first hit, just a couple of very close friends, you wouldn't recognize the names if I posted them.

They sold R1 boosts to top players like Greenranger, Mengy, Phazed, etc.

[Theanine]

Feels. I'm old so it was CS, Red Alert 2 and Warcraft 3.

I can honestly say that during those times I was completely engrossed and entirely 100% happy while playing.

- brb nothing else around me mattered
- brb life was simple
- brb climbing the ladder and playing on teams, reading forums, tournaments.
- brb coffee and games - all nighters
- brb eading strategy all day at summer jobs getting paid while waiting to be off work to go play

I could have had several PHDs for the time I spent on games and know three languages. I even passed up on some hot girls at the time, but those are really my only regrets.

After the gaming life and graduating university, high-speed internet, porn, bills, 70hr grinds, depressed in a corporate job. Games don't mean much now, don't get any enjoyment out of them, go weeks without playing a single hour. Fuking sucks getting older and living in the current age as an adult, I long for the simpler times again.

Thanks for trigger those feels of better days OP, repped.

[Destor]

Agreed. I lost 2.5 years of my life to Star Wars Galaxies before cutting it and realizing what mmorpgs can do to you. I legit did absolutely nothing but powergame to achieve celebrity status on my server and it took a long time to recover from the isolation and dopamine overload.

[Comstarr]

Agreed. I lost 2.5 years of my life to Star Wars Galaxies before cutting it and realizing what mmorpgs can do to you. I legit did absolutely nothing but powergame to achieve celebrity status on my server and it took a long time to recover from the isolation and dopamine overload.

The real question is.... did you get to jedi pre-combat?

[Destor]

The real question is.... did you get to jedi pre-combat?

Brah I wrote the book on pre-cu Jedi. I was probably one of the first to reach the highest rank before the revamp (4444 Guardian) and you can still find my guides online.

http://www.swgemu.com/archive/scrapb...0070210143002/

[Comstarr]

Brah I wrote the book on pre-cu Jedi. I was probably one of the first to reach the highest rank before the revamp (4444 Guardian) and you can still find my guides online.

http://www.swgemu.com/archive/scrapb...0070210143002/

Holy fuk son mirin hard

[Answer1o1]

Thousands of hours on S1 & S2....S3 was meh.
Gamebattles ladders where just amazing, was started as socom battles.
US Central (420)

Brb tossing grenades at the start of every match and hoping for a lucky kill.

Too many feels brahs

Game battles was so fun. Brb on AIM to find a clan battle on gamebattles. Brb taking pics with chit 1.3mp camera of wins in case the other team didn't report

[xvicknumber7x]

i was like this with pokemon. wish i could relive the time when pokemon blue came out. i remember the night my parents bought it for me. brb playing everywhere, on toilet, in church, at dinner table.

[gwem32170191]

10+ years with Everquest - and every mmo that failed to hold my interest since then.

Youth wasted. No ragrets.

Many ragrets. Woke up, uninstalled all my video games, bought a bottle of Aventus Creed, life changing entirely too fast.

[_grape]

2moons/dekaron for years, then pserver after pserver

[retardedtroll]

Fuark I miss arenas in Wow. So many long nights grinding rating. That was the only time in my life where the virtual world was more important than reality. Not trying to hijack the thread but I'm gonna go a bit off topic here.

Gaming has taken a new form as of late. Not sure how many of you know about esports, but gaming can be lucrative and a potential career now. I'm a top player in a fighting game. I have a sponsor that pays a monthly salary, provides flights/hotels to events, and get delivered computer equipment to stream with.

People are starting to see how skilled/dedicated gamers can be

[OneWayFS]

After you experience video games, real life is meaningless. Disregard females, currency.

Well cant disregard currency unless you dont wanna be able to play videogames anymore

Back in the OG Runescape 2 days real life felt to poverty compared to the in game world. srs.

[Theboy314]

I have a cousin who turned 21 recently, unlike everyone else here that stopped the gaming addiction at like 18, he hasn't

he dropped out of highschool at 16,and hasn't stopped since, his daily routine is:

Wake up, sit on the computer, game, eat, get back to gaming, eat again, get back to gaming for the next 8 hours until like 5-6 am, then go to sleep and wake up at like 3 pm, and rinse and repeat

he lives with his grandma who keeps the house clean and cooks/brings him food, and with his mom that lives off welfare and government benefits,

she also has him under disability (autism) and with that money she buys him all the newest games/consoles

^ This has been his life for the past 6 years, and going strong. No joke. the only game he plays 90% of the time is League of Legends,

ive tried getting him to stop but its impossible, if he cant stop himself no one can, i truly feel sorry for him and only wonder if when he hits 30 years old and misses out on his prime years of life that he is in right now,

if he is going to regret it, probably not, since he will probably still be gaming 24/7 by then too.

truly sad man

[juvefan]

Fuarrkkkk i know them feels OP. Havent been able to hold interest in games since my first gf at 18. Whenever i play a game now i cant help but think i should be out enjoying my youth, smashing sloots, and just experiencing life rather sitting in front of a TV and rotting

That said, games today are severly lacking.

[Greg14]

I have a cousin who turned 21 recently, unlike everyone else here that stopped the gaming addiction at like 18, he hasn't

he dropped out of highschool at 16,and hasn't stopped since, his daily routine is:

Wake up, sit on the computer, game, eat, get back to gaming, eat again, get back to gaming for the next 8 hours until like 5-6 am, then go to sleep and wake up at like 3 pm, and rinse and repeat

he lives with his grandma who keeps the house clean and cooks/brings him food, and with his mom that lives off welfare and government benefits,

she also has him under disability (autism) and with that money she buys him all the newest games/consoles

^ This has been his life for the past 6 years, and going strong. No joke. the only game he plays 90% of the time is League of Legends,

ive tried getting him to stop but its impossible, if he cant stop himself no one can, i truly feel sorry for him and only wonder if when he hits 30 years old and misses out on his prime years of life that he is in right now,

if he is going to regret it, probably not, since he will probably still be gaming 24/7 by then too.

truly sad man

please tell me he's at least challenger and trying to go pro

[InfinityThor]

Going on 8+ years of TF2, still play every night after work and a lot of weekends.

Nothing like stomping the fuk out of people on pubs.

[Greencore]

lmaoooo. There was no purer joy than playing WoW after you first got it. The sense of exploration and adventure was so immersive... Nowadays it is tough to just start up a console...

[jamesbwbevis]

I get addicted in the sense that if a games really good I'll want to play constantly, but I don't actually end up doing it.

[Theboy314]

please tell me he's at least challenger and trying to go pro

hes silver 2 i think, and yeah trying to go pro

honestly don't think he will get that far tbh

never was good at PvP games, never liked them either, he always hated PvP, league changed that i guess but hes still nowhere near skilled enough for playing professionally

[VascularLord]

So much this.
Look up Migutu/Dropout on WCM/AJ, checking in

That feel when you grow up playing with friends you think are good and now they're sponsored professional athletes who make a good living streaming.
That feel when you knew players who were the absolute best to touch the game but have now quit. I'm talking about people who sold R1 on ANY class back in S1-S4, still to this day they are the best players I've ever seen touch the game and make people like Reckful and Hydra look like amateurs in achievements (dead srs).

Now there's no point of even coming back as the game is so different and the only friend I have that still plays is Tenderloin (better known as Cdew now)

lmao you knew chuck? dude is such a pain to play against as melee. wanted to kms everytime i que'd into him as TSG, won maybe 5 out of 15 games against him in the seasons i got glad

[paul_v]

Former UO, EQ, WoW player here. The good ole days

[Arkileon]

best summers of my life were playing maplestory 10-12 hours straight every day with my buddy. legit better than sex fuuark

FUQ that was some good ass times

got in when maple was like on patch n 13 LOL

[Who?]

Just imagine what it'll be like when we have high end virtual reality headsets.. brb living a second life in a game.