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I stopped playing computer games like two years ago, and then towards the end of last week, I decided to download one game on my phone, and then I downloaded another… basically, five days later, I am really addicted. Thank G-d nobody has the ability to confiscate my phone anymore… but I need to stop being so addicted. What will I do when I start working?
Hopefully, your responsibility to your employer will supersede your “addiction”.
You can always delete the games, and download an app blocker to disable the ability to downlad games.
There’s a free (ad generating) app lock (probably more than one).
You will get bored of them after a while, It doesnt take long to figure out the game.
I got addicted to Angry Birds and when I finished the game I was done and didnt want to play anymore
STOP the games.
I never played any games at all.
A smartphone is good for email, following the news and weather, checking maps and finding info on public transportation, and listening music and taking pictures/videos whenever you want. I don’t see anything wrong with any of that.
Better to listen to music. Also, what can be fun and is much less addictive, is to study maps (of Israel, for example). Add Street View to that. I’m a map addict combined with a pretty good topographical memory – I love studying maps.
Not for everyone, though.
TCG
Im with you, I love maps. I didnt think anyone else liked them
Ill even read a Road Atlas just for fun.
ZD – Same here, I already did that as a child. For me, Google Earth / Maps / Street View is just the BEST invention ever.
I still read them.
It has sort of fed my addiction to see the world (Not sure if that is good or bad)
I wonder if the ideal of “working at something you love” can be correlated with the rise of available distractions.
You can solve both problems at once by being a video game tester. You won’t be cheating on your employer when you play, and you’ll hate playing so much that you’ll rather read the tax code cover to cover.
It’s hard to imagine anything less interesting than reading tax code.
It’s hard to imagine anything less interesting than reading tax code.
Even section 7701(a)(17)?
(17) Husband and wife
That looks like a form of torture.
What does the last part even mean. Why randomly switch genders?
The point is that all the code sections that talk about when a spouse pays the other spouse money are written from the perspective of the husband paying the wife. But the law is the same if the wife is paying the husband. So they put in the definitions section that if the wife is paying the husband money, then the definition of wife is husband and the definition of husband is wife.
Was that section writen by a YCT grad?
if I didn’t know better that comment would have had me peg popa as a closet feminist.
Was that section writen by a YCT grad?
if I didn’t know better that comment would have had me peg popa as a closet feminist.
Come now, that paragraph is so elegant. It is so beautiful. It so perfectly and easily makes the whole cohesive. (It’s a paragraph. The first number is the section; the lowercase letter is subsection; the second number is the paragraph; the uppercase letter is the subparagraph; the lowercase roman numerals are clauses.)
“You can solve both problems at once by being a video game tester. You won’t be cheating on your employer when you play, and you’ll hate playing so much that you’ll rather read the tax code cover to cover.”
Far-side ripoff I think. Though he had the boss yelling at them for working on spreadsheets when they should be playing games.
OOM: Feminists belong in the closet, regular women in the kitchen.
It’s not hard.
Just cut the rope.
Brony
Good one.
So OP, which game is this that has you so addicted? I’ve been looking for a good Android game! 😀
Wow. You should write an inspirational book for teenagers.
I wasted $20,000
Real money, or game money?
So what’s the big deal? Why did you have to delete it?
ok
Also, what can be fun and is much less addictive, is to study maps…
Studying aviation maps is a lot of fun, but it can be addictive to some people.
Captain™
One should purchase electronic devices with “off” switches.
“You will get bored of them after a while, It doesnt take long to figure out the game.
I got addicted to Angry Birds and when I finished the game I was done and didnt want to play anymore“
Zdad,
I don’t know what you mean, I can never finish my game (BubbleWitch3) every time I get close to the end they add more levels
Just a suggestion (maybe I should try it!) – each time that you play a game, set aside another quarter for tzedaka. It will slow you down, and make you more conscious of how many games are taking up your time.
what I do for all sorts of things of this nature is make a cheshbon hanefesh chart. Make a table in Word with a column for every day of the week plus Total and a new row for every goal you keep track of. Set a goal: maybe you think you can go without it completely, maybe limit it to just 30 minutes or so. Check off if you met your goal the next day and also check off how many times you met your goal after every week, month ,etc
What’s the name of this game?
Define “Addicted”. There are some games which encourage spending and make most of their money off of “whales” which are gambling addicts that spend 10k+ every month on a game. There are other games which are just really fun and distracting so you find yourself pulling out your phone every few hours for another go round.
Where do you fall on that scale?
Yserbius123, agreed!
A relative introduced me to a word game that really stimulated my brain to make connections. This game also expanded my vocabulary. I found that playing this game until the final level was a great stress relief.
Granted, I wasn’t “addicted,” so even if the OP is playing a fun and intellectually or mentally stimulating game, if the game is getting in the way of basic life necessities and/or relationships, there might be an addiction, and thus problem nonetheless.
What’s that word game, Lightbrite?
Bump.
I’m curious because it sounds similar to Codenames, but Codenames isn’t single-player.
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