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| Re: I have a question [message #2768 is a reply to message #2764] |
Mon, 13 May 2019 20:42   |
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Wolf
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Registered: July 2017
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Looks interesting. I dunno though. You know how it goes in giving Satan an inch, and he'll take a mile. My attitude regarding gaming has changed a lot PTL. Especially since I dropped $100 on Steam credits (I've never paid for games before). The following day I deleted all gaming accounts and all email accounts associated with them so I couldn't restore access. The accounts I couldn't delete, I changed the passwords to an impossible to remember password. So then that drove it home on just how futile and vain gaming is.
I slide into despair if I find myself gaming because what am I doing with my life? All these hours and for what? Why can't I improve myself, my life, my relationships, etc in real life instead of improving a fake character or army or country on a computer screen? See if you can adopt that kind of mindset, cuz that's what really helped me. Another way to look at it is to treat real life like a game (sorta). So the character(you) needs to get stronger, send him to the gym. Character is bored, get in car and go to park or whatever adventure. It's a real life FPS adventure/RTS/whatever immersion. You are low on resources? Send your "character" to a job, accumulate resources.
So while that game may be completely fine to play, ask yourself if you want to spend valuable time on it. We have only so much time left on this planet, and the more it is wasted we get that much less opportunity to do our part in getting to heaven where we'll have eternity in the best "game" ever. Skyrim couldn't hold a candlelight to what we'll experience up there. So let's work and fight on towards that destination shall we? 
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| Re: I have a question [message #2772 is a reply to message #2771] |
Fri, 17 May 2019 13:22 |
Michael32
Messages: 40
Registered: May 2017
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I can pitch in!
Not so long ago i was stuggling with games again. Not those on steam, origin and other platforms, big games like you mentioned above. I dumped them on 1st July 2017 and haven't played them since. PTL! But it was those little browser and android games. Last game i had was on android device and it was Tiny Space Program. It was about shooting rockets into space, reaserching and crafting, setting bases on other planets, developing. Nothing strange, weird, bad. I downloaded it so i could 'kill time' when i was bored or when i couldn't focus on anything because i was at work and had a short brake for example. But because i noticed that i was actually wasting more time than those "5 minutes", and because i very often heard a reminder in my mind that i shouldn't waste my time, i uninstalled this game also. My take on it now is that i don't want to fall into trap of playing again. At first it's like: "i'll play for 5min and leave" but soon it can get to the point when you think "why i can't stop playing this game?".
I was a gamer till 1st July 2017. I could easily play for 6-12h before. So when i thought that i'm not into gaming anymore and that i'll probably control myself more in that matter... ... yeah, no. It's my weak point and satan still tries to get me into playing. But i choose Jesus over satan and i choose not to play anymore. Developing an account, earning points, etc is not worth it. It's something that will perish soon. But as for the education in games: it's cool to have fun and education combined but the gameplay, mechanics and visuals could overtake the mind making it harder to focus on the educational part. I know from experience that when i played i wanted to get more action than reading.
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