Friend suffering from gaming addiction, it has ruined his life

[Coal Man]

Looking for advice.

A buddy of mine is addicted to playing on his Playstation. He lives with his parents who enable him. He has no job, no real friends besides me and no social life. When he's not gaming or sleeping, he goes to forums to argue about "Playstation master race" and all it's amazing exclusives though he admitted to me he never played those exclusives.

How can i help him get a life? This is his gaming stats from last year

[freeburn]

Damn he really ****ed you up in that other thread. This isn't a good look for a multi millionaire

[phaginator]

lol what miscer is this?

[Coal Man]

Damn he really ****ed you up in that other thread. This isn't a good look for a multi millionaire

Unsure what you mean, he's my PSN friend. He begged me for months to add him and I finally did.

[freeburn]

lol what miscer is this?

Mgftp, the guy who shills Sony but hasn't played any Sony exclusives

[TitusVI]

Better be addicted to gaming then meth.

[freeburn]

Better be addicted to gaming then meth.

Spoken like someone who's never tried good meth

[KilaByte]

Spoken like someone who's never tried good meth

Lmao, repped.

[TitusVI]

Spoken like someone who's never tried good meth

Let me guess good meth plus an evening with a good game....

[Guyfawkes1010]

I dont know, does it really matter for the average person? What would he otherwise be doing with his time if not gaming? Solving world problems? Cause if not it doesn't matter.

[OneLegSquats]

Damn that's an unhealthy amount of hours srs. My end of the year review was around 450 hours and I deadass rotted for a solid month doing nothing but racing on GT7 and 100%ing HFW and I thought I was overdoing it. I can't imagine clocking that many hours in a year.

[TitusVI]

I dont know, does it really matter for the average person? What would he otherwise be doing with his time if not gaming? Solving world problems? Cause if not it doesn't matter.

I know guys who spend thousands of hours playing chess and working on strategies and that apparently is so much healthier lol

I was a gaming addict for several years doing nothing else. But looking back i seriously think off all the addictions gaming is the least hurting.

You still use your brain to solve problems instead of drinking alcohol and watching tv.

[freeburn]

Let me guess good meth plus an evening with a good game....

If the meth is really good, you are the video game

[SipNPiz]

That’s only 8 hours a day 5 days a week

[taskmob]

Damn Coal man, I hope you get better. Logout of misc and go buy a kayak. Not kayak simulator a real kayak.

[Coal Man]

That’s only 8 hours a day 5 days a week

Strong math lol

A year has 8760 hours. This dude plays 4084 hours which is 11.2 hours per day, 7 days a week.

[Guyfawkes1010]

I know guys who spend thousands of hours playing chess and working on strategies and that apparently is so much healthier lol

I was a gaming addict for several years doing nothing else. But looking back i seriously think off all the addictions gaming is the least hurting.

You still use your brain to solve problems instead of drinking alcohol and watching tv.

I think you missed my point. Im saying any addiction that isnt killing you are all the same. No better no worse. I would say someone like asmongold who all he does is play video games for a living and makes millions is still wasting his life. But at least hes making a lot of money doing it. But even then its still a waste because hes going to die one day and money wont mean a thing then. It was all in vein. Its not like hes helping other people or changing society.

Some fanbois will say chit to him 'like oh asmon you helped me get through x and x period of my life' which is BS. He didnt 'help' them, he distracted them from whatever it was. Not the same thing as help.

In the end it doesn't matter. As long as you were a good person, believe in God, and helped some people along the way who cares if someone 'wastes their life' playing video games, watching tv, etc.

[Guyfawkes1010]

If you were to live the 'perfect' example American dream life, it still wouldn't matter. It would amount to nothing in the end. You will be forgotten in a generation or two at best. Genetic material is not immortality or legacy. If you managed to create a small business it will die with you. If somehow you created a large corp it will turn evil like all others. And you left the world in a worse way than you found it.

You would have to be someone like Einstein or Elon Musk for it to matter even a little what you do with your time.

[bongowongo]

Dont let xbox crew divide us.

[anonkunbrah]

he mind as well stream and make $100k a year from it

[obmas]

That's an insane amount of hours. But it's his life. He can waste it however he wants.

I love following up on video game and tech news, but realistically I barely play videogames for more than 12 hours.... a month.

If I didn't have a life and got everything paid for me, I probably would do nothing but play videogames all day too lol

[JayJ350]

Sounds like the average Sonycel.

[JayJ350]

Mgftp, the guy who shills Sony but hasn't played any Sony exclusives

Well lets be honest, nobody really wants to play those games.

[Strawng]

Spoken like someone who's never tried good meth

You mean math? Not even once…

That’s only 8 hours a day 5 days a week

It’s over 11 hours every single day of the week, bro.

[Fred87nc]

I have so much free time, My business runs on passive move and I rarely play video games, dont like to "waste my time." But in reality I waste so much time doing nothing every day. Pick your poison.

[Sergis]

2.5k hours on nhl

lmao what a phaggоt

coulda played the real thing instead, the little bitch

aint nothing to do but leave the dude behind

[akferd]

Just get him to switch to Xbox. That way he wont have any good games to play.




Problem solved.

[TheAdlerian]

Looking for advice.

A buddy of mine is addicted to playing on his Playstation. He lives with his parents who enable him. He has no job, no real friends besides me and no social life. When he's not gaming or sleeping, he goes to forums to argue about "Playstation master race" and all it's amazing exclusives though he admitted to me he never played those exclusives.

I recently worked with a teen who was living like this.

He lives with his mom and just flatly refused to go to school any longer. Instead, he just played games and his mother wasn't strong enough to take the games away, so he does not go to school.

The kid and I talked about how games make you feel like something is happening, when it's really nothing, a simulation. Meanwhile, the kid was not learning things in school, he was not meeting girls, he was not meeting guys, he wasn't not doing or learning anything.

Meanwhile, his call of duty stats and achievements were probably great. However, he would never ever get to do anything like call of duty in real life if he never goes to school.

This kid and your friend have a cowardly issue of wanting to have simulated adventures instead of real ones.

With the kid, I figured out that if he couldn't have perfect grades, he did not want to go to school at all. So, games gave him a sense of fake achievement because he didn't think he could achieve in real life, although he was not a terrible student.

So, your friend is avoiding real life likely because he doesn't think he can do much that is fulfilling so he is hiding in his games.

[TheAdlerian]

Just get him to switch to Xbox. That way he wont have any good games to play.




Problem solved.

I have an Xbox One and barely played much of anything since I bought it, shortly after it came out.

There's hardly any games for this thing and now the new xbox is out and I barely care.

Sad.

[cavillac]

There is nothing you are going to do, if you want to help him start by pistol whipping the parents for creating another parasite that will leach off me when they die.