vamp_emily wrote: »

GimpyPorcupine wrote: »

Yeah, my SO sent me a link to an article about gaming disorder, which I promptly shared with a guild on Band, adding my own caption: "I wonder if they prescribe cannabis for this."

There is an article in the Wall Street Journal today, titled "Videogame Developers Are Making It Harder to Stop Playing". That is how I found out I have a gaming disorder. I think they lied about gamers only spending an average of 7 hours a week playing games.

#SomeoneFixMePlease

With all the possible negative vices out there that can degrade a persons life, Id wager a prescriprion for ESO would do more good than harm...

p00tx wrote: »

kylewwefan wrote: »

I have to put the game down on the drop of a dime. All the time. Some might call it adulting.

Really sucks when you’re trying to do something and 11 other very real people are waiting for you on the other end.

Good luck explaining this to your significant others. They just won’t understand.

Mine does. I simply explained to him that Wednesday evenings after work are for Guild Officer meetings, and Friday night is scheduled PvP night. Everything else is negotiable, but Wednesdays and Fridays are "me" time. I also bought him a brand new PS4 and TV for the other room so he leaves me alone. It generally works.

I've been a gamer back since the very early 90s living alone with my NES... years ago my husband complained that since I was playing Oblivion on my PC and he was at the opposite end of the house watching sport we never spent much time together. These days I game on a PS4 / large TV next to the kitchen table while he watches TV series and movies on a TV next to mine. (When he wants to watch sport he does do on his large TV, which I bought him.)
I never neglect chores... but I do spend a lot of time in ESO these days...

Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm working out 1h earlier because we got a trials guild running at the usual time^^

I was thinking it hasn't really, but I suppose it has in some small ways. For example my husband is a TES fan and currently doing a history degree and we've had some interesting conversations about the 'unreliable narrator' issue and how it affects both Tamrillic and real history.

LadyLethalla wrote: »

p00tx wrote: »

kylewwefan wrote: »

I have to put the game down on the drop of a dime. All the time. Some might call it adulting.

Really sucks when you’re trying to do something and 11 other very real people are waiting for you on the other end.

Good luck explaining this to your significant others. They just won’t understand.

Mine does. I simply explained to him that Wednesday evenings after work are for Guild Officer meetings, and Friday night is scheduled PvP night. Everything else is negotiable, but Wednesdays and Fridays are "me" time. I also bought him a brand new PS4 and TV for the other room so he leaves me alone. It generally works.

I've been a gamer back since the very early 90s living alone with my NES... years ago my husband complained that since I was playing Oblivion on my PC and he was at the opposite end of the house watching sport we never spent much time together. These days I game on a PS4 / large TV next to the kitchen table while he watches TV series and movies on a TV next to mine. (When he wants to watch sport he does do on his large TV, which I bought him.)
I never neglect chores... but I do spend a lot of time in ESO these days...

This is one reason I wouldn't actually want a bigger house. At the moment the PC and TV/consoles are all in the same room so we're all together, and the kitchen is just off the living/dining room so even if someone's in there they're still not left out of everything. (One reason I hated our old house was the kitchen was down the hall, separate from everything else so whoever was cooking was shut away.)

And if anyone does want privacy there's always the bedroom.

I meet my now wife in the game and through our marriage I moved across the Atlantic from Sweden to the US. I got married in Baltimore while I was at ZOS HQ and had one of my friends who was then, but not longer, a dev of the game as our witness for the marriage. ESO has also brought me friendships that have come and gone that have had a long lasting effect on me as a person.

It also helped me cope when one of my cats died, I made a khajiti in his name and honor. Its funny cause while I DPSed on him for a while he eventually turned into my material farming toon, and my cat is one that would never sit still when he was being petted, he would walk around in circles around you, so I find it fitting.

I also found my love for theorycrafting here and I could let it grow and have fun doing tests and stuff, things I would not really be able to do in other games. Its something to help calm me down and let me focus on so my mind doesn't wander into bad territories.

All in all I owe a lot to ESO and I love it a lot.

ESO RNG is a bit like life... no matter how hard you try, and how much you want something, sometimes its just not gonna happen. Also, not as deep but just as important: some people are very VERY rude xD

Just here to say this is a sweet post

I'm retired, but gaming takes up less of my time than before. I guess it's because of the general lack of stress in my life. Spend more time with the wife and grandkids. I love ESO although I also play GW2, but content is a lot slower there.

I go to sleep thinking about Cyrodil battles that I lost, then wake up in the middle of the night with a new battle plan hatching. I feel like I need to start keeping a journal, if for no other reason than to show my future therapist once this game takes the rest of my sanity.


On a lighter note, I found myself in a guild with some of the most successful, driven, brilliant humans I've ever met, and I watch them balance gaming, family, career, and personal well-being like pros, and everyone is supportive of everyone else's success, both in-game and out. They inspire me and motivate me on a daily basis, and I've been promoted twice since I joined them and now have an amazing career with a real future.

I always assumed gamers were weird misfits with poor social skills, but after meeting these guys and interacting with so many of you, I realize it's a rich, diverse community with a wide variety of intelligent and talented humans from all walks of life, and it's nothing like I imagined. That one arbitrary purchase 3 years ago at a game stop opened up a whole new world to me, and the Anthropologist in me is constantly being surprised and fascinated by it and by all of you.

Wasted allot of time and money.

I pay a lot more attention to wild mushrooms than I used to.

(Saw numerous kinds on my walk today, actually.)

Sometimes after killing a spider in real life i check to see it dropped a bag of coins.

Ive had dreams of eso
yeah
rip

When ESO first came out, I was finishing my senior year of college. I ended up with B’s instead of A’s.