Exactly.

Wait,

You're going to college and you think you'll have money to buy more video games and time to play them?

... you could always drop college and become a professional gamer or layabout as my dad would have said.
... and you really don't need a gal as well - the gaming addiction is bad enough.

Life is ALL about choices. Make one - airline pilot or gamer.

Of course - you could do both, Check out MS Flight Simulator. Thousands of real live pilots play it all the time.

Find a way to associate gaming with a negative feeling (i.e. anger, sadness, fear, or just a strong feeling of discomfort or unease). If you feel that negativity every time you pick up a controller, or even think about gaming, you'll be much less likely to play them.

It's very difficult, but one tried and true method that works for me is finding another hobby that is more fun than playing video games. For example, other than video games, I am a fan of obscure rap music, so I would hit up all these record stores and try to find that obscure rap record. It was very time consuming and very fun. Eventually, I got lazy and went back to video games.

So it's possible, yes.

A complete lag of will power will see you through this.
You must have the will power to get up and play those games, so just like lose that drive and slump back in your chair.
There we go, nice and easy.

Unless your girl is a gamer too.

My advice:
Just don't play them.
Or become an Egotist, egotism provides self motivation, importantly,'motivation to prove yourself better than others.

And you can't be better than others if your getting bad grades.

Too human
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I find them annoying, but the post didnt seem very weebooy to me. Just tried to be something poetic, and failed horribley. (Also s/he may have been Japanese)
Best post I have seen in some time.

Guess you didn't read further down the thread? That's Adventure Time, and it rocks.

you either have a problem with a video game habit, or a video game addiction.

addiction is more serious. but habits can be a [censored] to break out of of and easy to fall back into.

I have used the 12 step program in my own life to deal with addiction.

you really have two options as for how to deal with video games

1) find a way to moderate your play
2) not play anymore.

I had to choose number 2 when it came to alcohol.

if you choose to moderate what you need are strategies.


1) never play a game without setting a timer. when timer goes off, you have to quit.

2) tell friends you tend to overplay games, and ask them to keep you accountable

3) tell roomies you either don't play video games, or only until the timer goes offf, and if they catch you breaking your rule, you owe the 50 bucks.

when you say "I can't help it" that makes me worry.

I feel like "I can't help it" could have two meanings.

1) you really can't help it. like my addiction to alcohol.
2) you can, but it is hard. I oversleep way more than my wife. if I can get away with it, and sometimes even when I shouldn't I do it. but for serious stuff I always get up. for example, I might oversleep and miss a class (i am grad student) but never enough to affect my grad/standing in class. I CAN help it, but often choose to oversleep. like today I had nothing major to do, told myself I would get up by 9, did not get up til 10:30.

if you really can't help it, I would look at http://www.olganon.org/

This will probably offend the OP, but honestly dude, video games are a habit, not an addiction. Comparing it to smoking is insulting, and relating it to alcohol should feel the same for you. Habits are broken with willpower, your body doesn't react to the absence of video games like when it's without alcohol or nicotine. If you want to quit playing games, just freaking do it. I've broken so many habits, and none of them were like when I stopped smoking. If you're coming on here for help or guidance, there isn't anything we can say to make you stop. You have to do it yourself. There's no gimmick, it's willpower and only willpower that will get you through. You're not helpless, you're a grown ass man, so do what you need to and don't expect there to be an easy way out.

Videogames can be addicting by the same principle as gambling. Most of the time it's not a biochemical addiction like that, but it can be.

Let me go a step further and say that addictions have become a scapegoat for responsibility. I hear some people say they just "can't quit" because they're too addicted. It seems to me that helplessness is being reinforced now. Biochemical or not, you can overcome it. The only thing holding you back is you. A rare exception is the heavy, heavy drinkers who can die from not drinking, but even then it's possible and requires you to persevere with the assistance of medical staff.
I'd say a majority of people realize this, but those who don't are just so pathetic I want to shake them. Coming to a forum for guidance leads me to think the OP is one of these people, however wrong I may be. The reason being that we've given him no answers that are enlightening, they're obvious and, throughout the course of this thread, have become redundant to say. He likely already knew everything we've said already. If he is asking for answers he knows, what other conclusion can I reach?
Well, I digress. This is hitting a little too close to home for me, it seems.

Addictions are related to screwing up your brain's reward system. Some have a chemical element that makes that more harmful. But if it is a compulsive behavior that you wish you could stop but can't, there is probably something going on with lower brain functions and related stuff like anxiety. You can still screw up brain chemistry even if it doesn't involve e.g. nictotine or opiates. In the end it is all a conflict between different brain modules, but some are tougher than others depending on the exact chemistry.