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Edited by I joey I:
10/5/2015 1:35:52 PM
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Who else can admit they are addicted?
I have known for awhile that I was in every sense of the word addicted but I self consciously wouldn't admit it.
I'm a father of a two and a half year old and step father to a 9 year old. They both suffer learning disabilities. My 2 year old is behind in speech and has early intervention out weekly, my 9 year old has adhd, disgraphiya, and some weird visual thing I can't explain without writing a book.
My wife is the most sexy, intelligent, amazing person I've ever met.
Thing is, I find myself thinking about destiny during, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and cannot wait until the house goes to sleep so I can play. I actually find myself getting angry when the baby stays up a little later, the 9 year old wants to hang out, or my wife wanting to watch a movie and spend time with me when the kids go to bed. I think o m g I just want s few f ing hours but I can't get it.
I used to power session 8-10 hour days in gaming while single, playing destiny for 1-3 hours feels pointless. I want my 8-10 hour days back but that would mean losing my family.
It all came to a head last night with my wife asking me if im addicted. Can I delete the characters, move on, play like I did before destiny. Which consisted of picking a game up a month and playing nightly got two hours until I finished it.
I said honestly, no. I can't. I started realizing I physically couldn't pull myself together to wipe it off the hdd.
I was a professional photographer, after destiny hit I stopped marketing, looking for jobs, and just let everything fall in my wife who has the stable job. I used to edit at least 5-10 shots a day, marketing myself, basically working full time to find gigs.
Since sept 14, I have finished maybe 12 shots in a year. My $15,000 worth of gear collects dust.
Why? Well cause I'd rather spend my time on destiny, and if not playing, reading about it, day dreaming about it.
I am addicted, I can admit it.
I've missed out on numerous other games because I didn't see the point in investing my time into another game when it could go to destiny.
I've lost interest in spending time with my family.
I've lost interest in my primary source of income.
I think I f'd up guys.
Today I sit wondering , trying to wrestle out out with myself, how to delete all content from my system.
Anyone else out there feel this way?
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#Destiny
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I will admit to it. I come home from work then persuade the girlfriend that she would indeed like a bath tonight or that she hasn't seen (insert friends name here) for a long time and should maybe visit her, all so I can have a couple of hours grinding for engrams to try and advance from 295.
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Dismantle that bitch.
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3 RepliesKill your family and just play Destiny again. It wouldn't be very difficult, oh player mine. Just do it.
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This is deep
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Can't tell if troll. If not, then you need help.
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I dont have a problem I can quit any time I want kappa
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I was addicted to games long before destiny. The way destiny is made is to be addicting. Rng, daily and weekly caps on stuff, it all makes you want more for that chance at getting something awesome. Clever Devils.
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20 RepliesEdited by Brick: 10/6/2015 5:41:05 AMI understand that trading one addiction for another is not really a good thing. In my case however, I look at it as one. I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes) the day before my 21st birthday in early 2009. I was prescribed pain killers throughout treatment to help cope with chemo & radiation therapy. I finished treatment in 2010, but by that time I had become full-on physically and mentally addicted to Oxy. As my tolerance grew and my bank account shrunk, somewhere in 2011 I made what I thought at the time was a brilliant decision (from an efficiency standpoint) to switch to heroin. First via my nose, then quickly my veins. 10x cheaper and 5x stronger than Oxy. Win, win.. Right? Wrong. I quickly became the scum of the earth, one of the people that I had at one point despised. I was in a very successful band at the time and made quite a bit of money, but not enough to support the massive habit I had formed. I stole from friends, family, coworkers at random jobs I had to pick up. I put my ex through a living hell (and couldn't understand why she left me in 2012 lol). My life completely fell apart. I had my dream of being a professional musician in the palm of my hands and I threw it away to get high. This went on until August of last year. I moved away from NJ, where I had lived my whole life, to Miami, FL. I forced myself through the most awful nine days of withdrawal you could ever imagine (worse than my experience with chemotherapy by a large margin). My parents supported me through this for some fu[i]c[/i]king insane reason since I had completely blown through the money I had made from said band, and I woke up one morning last September to an Xbox One with Destiny being delivered to my apartment. I had white knuckled through the last month, and I guess they were proud of me. They remembered that I have an undying love for the Halo universe and Bungie and sent me Destiny shortly after release. How or why they trusted me not to immediately sell it, I'll never know. To that point, I had obsessed over heroin every minute of every day. I couldn't sleep, barely eat, and hardly interacted with anyone. I loaded up the game, selected my hunter (who is still my main to this day) and off I went. Fast forward 13 months and I'm still sober. I don't obsess over heroin whatsoever any more. I rarely ever think about it, except when I see yet another Facebook post about someone I know from up north having overdosed and died. A close friend of mine just passed away two days ago, and she marks the 26th person that I at least considered an acquaintance to die since I got out. It makes me feel incredibly lucky that this game exists, and to a degree, I owe my life to it. I can have a job, friends, an incredible girlfriend who knows my past and accepts me for it.. I can have a life, because I found something to replace the drugs that took my life away.. Figuratively and almost literally a few times. You bet I'm addicted to this game, and I probably will be for a long time.. But if it keeps me out of the hood and a needle out of my arm, I hope they release a new one every year for the rest of time, because picking up TTK from GameStop is much better than what I could have been doing on the other side of town at midnight.
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I'm not afraid to admit I'm addicted to this game. If I had the option I would probably just sit and play it all day getting fat. The hard part is trying to juggle destiny with life commitments. You need to find a nice balance point of getting enough play time while still managing your life's duties.
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Dammit man I am not addicted. Its addicted to me. Oh shit. Its back. Please help. Guys. Please. Anyone... Oyrx cp 310+ light touch of ghallahorn required no warlocks.
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Not as addicted as you, but I'll admit it's detracting from uni and my family, but hey, they say do the things you love, and if you love destiny, don't feel any shame or regret for putting in all the hours, because chances are, you've enjoyed them just as I have
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Oh -blam!-
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I used to be
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1 ReplyI'm addicted. I know that I have been since I loot caved enough strange coins to buy Gjallarhorn on week 2. I needed a heavy other than a green heavy. I didn't know that Gjallarhorn was so good until I was light level 25 being accepted into the raid just because of Gjallarhorn.
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Im 18 years old, dropped from college due to financial aid issues(going back in Spring) and i work about 35+ hours a week.(i know its not that crazy) i see my girlfriend once or twice a week and i spend any remaining time playing Destiny. I feel addicted. Ive put about 550 hours into Destiny so far.
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I am reporting you for your own good. Sorry.
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I have done a test and I am close but not clinically addicted.
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A) you can delete the game, but your account stays at bungie, B) ever think the turning to the game, isn't so much about the game, but could be masking a burn-out in your job? It's easier to play the game, than think about possibly needing to switch careers. c) in the game, you have control (except of RNG). In life, with a wife, two kids w/ some challenges, and a job that possibly doesn't motivate you like it used to, it might be nice to have a world where you DO have control. A little escapism can be good and healthy. But, like most things, too much ain't good...
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I was until ttk dropped. Something clicked in my head that it just doesn't matter. My grind in year one becoming obsolete saved me from this game. I still play but I won't take days off from work and miss out on life for the grind.
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I'm getting there
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I guess you need to ask yourself if a game is worth throwing everyone else away. You're kids are only young once and I am going to bet that you'll regret it for the rest of you're life. I've got 3 young kids myself and gaming is all about moderation for myself. My kids are getting older and my middle child who is 8 loves gaming and last night I spent 4 hours with my 4 year old son playing diseny infinity and had a blast, I'll probably play again tonight. Just remember you'll miss it when it's not there and by that I mean you're family not destiny.
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1 ReplyTotally. I'm 17, so basically I don't have much to do, but I'm getting close to having to grow up. XD
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Very much addicted.
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I mainly play pvp, so a few good games and I'm out. I know how you feel though.....
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1 Replydo yourself a favor dont try hard drugs.
