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Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Lito on September 19, 2004, 08:48:19 PM
Well, ever since getting into high school, my dads been an absolute whore about my studies.  He worked me like a horse to get my marks up, and then breathed down my back for two years to keep them that way.  Now on the third year, i've become self sufficient, and while he doesn't breathe down my neck now, he's become an absolute nazi running his nazi camp.

"These next two years are critical in your life!".  Get a tape recorder and tape that, and then play it to yourself at random intervals 10 times a day atleast and you'll have a similar feeling to what i'm getting + whatever random bs he thinks up at the time.

Needless to say, the first to go were my gaming habits.  So basically you won't be seeing me on the server for a while.  Atleast not on weekdays.  Weekends maybe, but the next time i'm on would probably be the winter break.

I'll still be on irc to harass you guys and share hentai though.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Diablus on September 19, 2004, 09:09:57 PM
i quit my gaming habit for 1 month. mainly because my girl is a asain crazed study freak and makes me study. so my grades have actually gone up ALOT :lol:

But now ive started to play games and getting into thehabit again :). But i must say, it was a great feeling to cut the gaming habit  I must say. It feels like you accomplished something. kind've like someone breaking the habit of smoking :)

but anyhow, good luck and see ya around irc!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Asal on September 19, 2004, 09:11:02 PM
Sounds like me, my parents are just coming off a spree that says I can't use the internet at all...I'm not allowed on more than one hour a day (11 to midnight) and not allowed games.  So I understand you perfectly.  Good luck with life.  It's a scary place out there.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Ulatoh on September 19, 2004, 09:11:56 PM
ive experienced a de-facto cold turkey stoppage of games
due to college
and the lack of time for such activities


...and girls
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Legionnaired on September 19, 2004, 09:23:23 PM
Fencing+ work + church + school = No LM skillz.

I'll hop on when I can, but Generals is absorbing a lot of my gameplay time now too.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Grimm on September 19, 2004, 10:44:33 PM
Loads and loads of free time here. My parents are happy as long as I keep a B average, which isn't hard with the classes I've got. I'll have less time when I get a job sometime in the next couple weeks, but I'll actually game more then; I don't have much money currently to buy games, so I only buy the games I know I'm going to like, although everything eventually gets old. I've spend more time on IRC and with Photoshop than I have with games in recent months.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 19, 2004, 11:06:24 PM
You know, sometimes I wish I actually had something else to do besides play games. I mean, I work, and I've got laundry and I eat occasionally. But when you get right down to it, I don't really have anything else important to do. I'm not sure exactly HOW to feel about that...  :help:
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Seth on September 19, 2004, 11:49:50 PM
bob, buy a truck!

everyone else, go outside and explore the world sometimes, and i'm talking more then 50k (dunno in miles) from your home... get some scars, get some stories, get a life.

n chicks dig scars.




i used to miss days/weeks in highschool just because i was stuck in some god forsaken mud hole 3 miles from nowhere... just me, my truck, my beer, my gun.

n did i mension chicks dig 4x4's and scars... strange though i'm still single, funny world eh?




/edit i ment a REAL truck not so panzi grocery getter soccer mom SUV crap

see, www.bc4x4.com for details. wewt go BC!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Grimm on September 20, 2004, 12:24:53 AM
The only "chicks" I've seen that are into trucks, guns, and scars are the air-headed bimbo cheerleaders or the white-trash Britney Spears wannabe's. Thanks, but no thanks, I like a girl who knows the difference between a microwave and a computer. Also, I'm not sure you can get any "stories" by driving drunk with a gun in your lap, except for the 'fun times' had with Bubba back in the jail cell. I'd like to see you walk those 50 kilometers after your license is revoked for driving under the influence; I'm sure that would be a great life.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Avs on September 20, 2004, 12:27:36 AM
Money + jobs + work + always reading some damn book learning something about programming + business trips = get owned by life. Dont even get me started on women...

Legionnaired, lets fence sometime!
Lito, just wait till college. Once you g3t that time management skill down you can game/study/socialize all you want and not skip a beat.

To anyone who cant game because they have to study, study hard and you can game "later". I once knew a guy who gamed 6 hours a day but also studied for about equal time and did well in his classes. Gg that bastard.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Clashen on September 20, 2004, 01:37:24 AM
In school = GAMIN IN SCHOOL WOOP WOOP WOOP!!!










WOOOOOOP!!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Zero7 on September 20, 2004, 05:39:45 AM
Grimm : I a B Average? How lucky :( My parents go crazy is my average in any course falls below 91% I've already got the basic time management skills going. Work my ass off in school. Get Home, finish whatever homework I got. Then game like no bloody tommorow. HUZZAH!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: lolfighter on September 20, 2004, 05:42:04 AM
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You know, sometimes I wish I actually had something else to do besides play games. I mean, I work, and I've got laundry and I eat occasionally. But when you get right down to it, I don't really have anything else important to do. I'm not sure exactly HOW to feel about that...  :help:
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Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: johnjacobjingle on September 20, 2004, 09:10:21 AM
yup yup!  killing the gaming habit comes easy once you get more important things to do.  school, work, women, work, money, work, spending, work, women, school, and work.  oh, and of course, the stuff that never gets done in between, like chores around the house etc.

god i can't remember the last time i got a chacne to sit down and just play computer games for hours.  must've been sometimes this summer or something.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: sonic on September 20, 2004, 09:26:40 AM
nuuuuu lito  :(
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: fatty on September 20, 2004, 09:27:56 AM
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You know, sometimes I wish I actually had something else to do besides play games. I mean, I work, and I've got laundry and I eat occasionally. But when you get right down to it, I don't really have anything else important to do. I'm not sure exactly HOW to feel about that...  :help:
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Hell, you're married. Time to get janitorlings.
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Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 20, 2004, 10:17:16 AM
Lito, give me your dad's email.  I need to tell him to let up on the anti-gaming because it's rotting your soul and making you turn to hentai.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: sonic on September 20, 2004, 10:28:12 AM
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Lito, give me your dad's email.  I need to tell him to let up on the anti-gaming because it's rotting your soul and making you turn to hentai.
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Thats a bad thing?  ;)
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Geminosity on September 20, 2004, 11:21:49 AM
I'd ignore the truck advice ><

To be honest life is just about enjoying yourself.  Getting boozed out on your own in the middle of nowhere is about 50 steps below playing games... why?  Because you're drinking beer in a truck XD
With games you can kill dragons, blow up planets, explore places that couldn't exist in RL... it's all good.

I'd like to try caving though.  I hit a roleplay club every saturday to do some table gaming with a big bunch of people and it's fun.  It's social and it's gaming, what more could you ask for? ^^

Don't forget; games aren't a waste of time.  They're a piece of entertainment; if you have time to wittle away sitting brainlessly infront of a TV (somehow deemed acceptable in society rather than noted as a blatant waste of life) you have time to better spend having a giggle on a game.  If you're watching TV at least do it with friends or something and make sure it's a decent movie/series =3

Also you can get into the games industry so it's not just a hobby it's a potential career  ^_^
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Black Mage on September 20, 2004, 01:07:38 PM
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sounds like my dad. my responce: i got a laptop in my room for irc and i'm writing this during an essay/test over "brave new world"

jr/senior years are important? odd, i don't recall learning anything useful last year and have yet to do anything with the few bits of random trivia picked up last year. however, putting up the gorgerush server i've learned about:
ssh
bash
vi
smallscript
metamod/adminmod/amx/amxx
ipv4
dns
hlds_l
a bunch of other things i forgot to mention

all of which i may be asked to work with in this place called "the real world" lets see fscking ap calculus do that.

in conclusion: meh, i guess i still have to go to school (as useless as it is) but i'll still find time to hop on irc and play ns (any maybe learn something not pointless) and the secret project of dewm will go forward. (lito, i need to talk to you about the secret project of dewm. find me on irc)

edit: three years of advanced computer courses have not taught me how to touchtype, excuse the typos :p
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Jefe on September 20, 2004, 01:18:31 PM
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Lito, give me your dad's email.  I need to tell him to let up on the anti-gaming because it's rotting your soul and making you turn to hentai.
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Thats a bad thing?  ;)
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Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Legionnaired on September 20, 2004, 01:56:06 PM
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Money + jobs + work + always reading some damn book learning something about programming + business trips = get owned by life. Dont even get me started on women...

Legionnaired, lets fence sometime!
Lito, just wait till college. Once you g3t that time management skill down you can game/study/socialize all you want and not skip a beat.

To anyone who cant game because they have to study, study hard and you can game "later". I once knew a guy who gamed 6 hours a day but also studied for about equal time and did well in his classes. Gg that bastard.
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Holy crap Avs, that makes 4 of us!

Necro and U235 also fence.

Just goes to show that the ultimate measure of the greatness of any organization is the number of fencers within it.

Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Necrosis on September 20, 2004, 01:59:20 PM
I'll do you all left handed. Then right handed, just for emphasis. Phear the ambidextrousity.


As for study incentives...

Lito, you remember Colonel Oates, from the Alaskan Military School?


Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Seth on September 20, 2004, 02:11:28 PM
you dont drive drunk! i hate people that do that!

i should clairify, you get plastered in the time spent in the bush where theres no one to crash into but rocks and trees. you then spend time out in the bush gettin plastered and driving around exploring ( dont forget your CB! ) sleep of the drunkness hugging a tree at night looking at the beautiful stars, wake up the next afternoon feeling like ^^ make some coffee on the fire pack up and drive home relitivly sober.

i've never had a DUI and i get piss tanked in my truck almost everyweekend if i can. its just a matter of where you get piss tanked, and in a truck where could be ANYwhere! anywhere that you truck can make it... eg, mountain tops lakes vallys you name it got a boat bring it along and go fishing it'll give you something to eat tomorrow when you struggling to stand upright....   :lol: good times, oh good times!

i wouldnt trade one moment i spent out in the bush under a cannopy of stars huggin a tree that i could have sworn was speaking to me FOR NOTHING!

then there is always the bitching campfire parties out on the flats, just stroll over and everyone is in a good mood, it'll be about 3mins and you'll have a beer/paraphinalia in your hand. there are plenty of chicks that 4wheel also and they are not bimbo's most are college girls looking for a weekend away from it all, and 2/3 of them could proly knock most of you little "guys" on ur ass.

oh i forgot, they might not know a toaster from a computer, but they know a wrench from a canopener, and everytime they look at me my NUTS tighten up!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 20, 2004, 03:23:51 PM
Admit it, folks, deep down you're saying to yourselves "Seth would be a really interesting guy to go out partying with, at least once."
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Niteowl on September 20, 2004, 04:05:02 PM
hm, i'd have to say, no, no i wasn't thinking that.

bob on the other hand...  <3  <3
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Lito on September 20, 2004, 05:30:38 PM
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I'll do you all left handed. Then right handed, just for emphasis. Phear the ambidextrousity.


As for study incentives...

Lito, you remember Colonel Oates, from the Alaskan Military School?
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Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 20, 2004, 06:19:18 PM
Seth sounds like the kind of guy you run into when you're out in the gorge camping with your buds, and some big Canadian redneck pops out from behind a tree, wearing only a loincloth made of leaves, a 6-pack of beer in one hand (3 of which already crushed) and a shotgun in the other.

No thanks.   :lol:
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 20, 2004, 06:23:56 PM
He'll make you squeeeeeeeeal like a ... uh ... moose!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Keyser59 on September 20, 2004, 06:36:07 PM
Nothing like scrimming NS at 3:00 in the mourning unable to form coherent sentences. My clanmembers have a few demos of me stumbling in scrims trying to find the jump button.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Necrosis on September 20, 2004, 07:33:37 PM
Oh yeah, Seth lives in Deliverance country all right.

Now let's you just drop them pants. Soouueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Avs on September 20, 2004, 10:48:42 PM
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Nothing like scrimming NS at 3:00 in the mourning unable to form coherent sentences. My clanmembers have a few demos of me stumbling in scrims trying to find the jump button.
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Oh yah Keyser? 3:00 in the morning after partying all night at a club, then going to a 24 hour burritto place for the munchies to come back and scrim on NS and then forgetting about the scrim sitting in the game afk while eating the burritto!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Grimm on September 20, 2004, 10:49:57 PM
One thing people seem to forget is how whatever work you do for a living doesn't have to be a "Job". I plan on doing my best to get into a career that I'll be more entertained with than stressed with; I want to wake up in the morning and think "Hey, today's going to be a productive day" rather than "Ugh, I've got work again today...".
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Avs on September 20, 2004, 10:59:57 PM
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One thing people seem to forget is how whatever work you do for a living doesn't have to be a "Job". I plan on doing my best to get into a career that I'll be more entertained with than stressed with; I want to wake up in the morning and think "Hey, today's going to be a productive day" rather than "Ugh, I've got work again today...".
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My job kicks ass :p
The part about me getting owned about life is that sometimes its hard to find time to game when so much other crap is happening. But then gaming is apart of my job sometimes so that kinda balances out.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: esuna on September 21, 2004, 06:08:40 AM
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bob, buy a truck!

everyone else, go outside and explore the world sometimes, and i'm talking more then 50k (dunno in miles) from your home... get some scars, get some stories, get a life.

n chicks dig scars.




i used to miss days/weeks in highschool just because i was stuck in some god forsaken mud hole 3 miles from nowhere... just me, my truck, my beer, my gun.

n did i mension chicks dig 4x4's and scars... strange though i'm still single, funny world eh?




/edit i ment a REAL truck not so panzi grocery getter soccer mom SUV crap

see, www.bc4x4.com for details. wewt go BC!
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is enough reason to stay in school, study hard, go to college, get a degree, get a good job and live a happy life rather than being some neanderthal redneck who'll be found dead in a gutter and nobody will give a ^^.

Thank you and goodnight. :)
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: johnjacobjingle on September 21, 2004, 07:52:34 AM
or, if you want to meet more people like seth, spend a couple days up at michigan tech!  seth, you sound like 1 out of every 2 guys in the dorm i lived in when i was up there....and the dorm was a quarter mile long, 5 stories.  the other half of the guys were gamers and nerds like me.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: That Annoying Kid on September 21, 2004, 09:12:37 AM
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I hit a roleplay club every saturday to do some table gaming with a big bunch of people and it's fun.
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that had better be during the day on Saturday...

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sounds like my dad. my responce: i got a laptop in my room for irc and i'm writing this during an essay/test over "brave new world"

jr/senior years are important? odd, i don't recall learning anything useful last year and have yet to do anything with the few bits of random trivia picked up last year. however, putting up the gorgerush server i've learned about:
ssh
bash
vi
smallscript
metamod/adminmod/amx/amxx
ipv4
dns
hlds_l
a bunch of other things i forgot to mention

all of which i may be asked to work with in this place called "the real world" lets see fscking ap calculus do that.

in conclusion: meh, i guess i still have to go to school (as useless as it is) but i'll still find time to hop on irc and play ns (any maybe learn something not pointless) and the secret project of dewm will go forward. (lito, i need to talk to you about the secret project of dewm. find me on irc)

edit: three years of advanced computer courses have not taught me how to touchtype, excuse the typos :p
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^^

Lito, why don't you try succeding in school for the mean time, get all your S in order, do all your assignments and then when they are done tell your dad to go sit on his thumb becuase you've done all your school work / assorted chores and are spending your free time in a way you see fit, and since all your school work is done he can't go nazi on you. It's all about nullizifying their arguments.

Dealing with parents is so highschool  :rolleyes:
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Geminosity on September 21, 2004, 10:53:08 AM
sure it's during the day... why would doing it at night be bad? o.O
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: That Annoying Kid on September 21, 2004, 01:01:55 PM
Saturday night is... ah... how to explain this?

It's a night that takes special significance to some people along with friday, becuase the days following them you can wake up at any time you like.


 :rolleyes:  :D
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: sonic on September 21, 2004, 01:16:28 PM
Translation: "I get drunk and stoned on a saturday night"
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: That Annoying Kid on September 21, 2004, 01:34:45 PM
actually I'm not that much of a drinker, but good look on catching the reference.

:D


but this is offtopic, back to helping lito escape his father

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and come to think of it, I wasn't actually trying to point that out, I was just pointing out that friday and saturday are typically party nights.
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Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Lito on September 21, 2004, 09:35:49 PM
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Lito, why don't you try succeding in school for the mean time, get all your S in order, do all your assignments and then when they are done tell your dad to go sit on his thumb becuase you've done all your school work / assorted chores and are spending your free time in a way you see fit, and since all your school work is done he can't go nazi on you. It's all about nullizifying their arguments.

Dealing with parents is so highschool  :rolleyes:
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The problem about my father being a nazi is that he doesn't need a reason to be a nazi.  I finish all my work, assignments, and homework, so what does he tell me to do? Study, do extra work, etc.

Its not an argument if only one side has argument and the other refuses to honor them.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: That Annoying Kid on September 21, 2004, 10:27:52 PM
in that case, stay under his radar until you turn 18, and get the eff out and go far away to some lesbian college
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Mr.Bill on September 22, 2004, 05:34:37 PM
heh, with people not being able to play on lm, it makes finding the server with people you know and want to play with a bitch. I check lm a bunch but theres always... NEW people *shudders* and it scares me. So I just stay away. Mind you Ive gotten into better habits with less of the ns too I spose... mabe Im fazing it out!? OH NOES!
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Satiagraha on September 22, 2004, 08:52:58 PM
NS has always been a game, a hobby for me. If life demands something else take priority, so be it, I play less NS. NS is something I play in my spare time. Spare meaning when I have nothing else to do. That's how I believe games should be. They shouldn't get in the way of your real life, although they can be an important part. I play games to relax and enjoy the company of fellow people.

But I never forget one thing: Life, Work, School, they all come first.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: lolfighter on September 23, 2004, 07:08:54 AM
Life is defined as a chemical pattern capable of autonomously copying itself. So yeah, gaming doesn't really get into the way of life. Unless you forget to eat...
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: rad4Christ on September 23, 2004, 12:52:17 PM
Actually, I'm playing less, but it's okay with me. I'm doing more things IRL that I'll gladly trade for sitting in front of a PC. It's camping season for me so I'll be shuffling off to the mountains on weekends for some backpacking and stuff, but I won't disappears from NS.

To me, it's all about balance. It's funny to me that people go from one extreme to the other. Either they play games all their waking moments, or they give them up totally. I just play them as I feel, and make sure they aren't impeding on any other area of my life. Right now, I keep the same amount of time in front of my Pc, ubt since I'm "attempting" to map, it's replacing my normal NS time. And someone my wife works with just left to go into the gaming industry, and she just told me she's all cool for me trying to do something similar. SO I might spend more time learning programming or some such than playing. TBH, that  blink MOD of tankefugl's has piqued my curiosity in game programming.
Title: Killing The Gaming Habit
Post by: Niteowl on September 23, 2004, 01:57:35 PM
i got a few game dev hookups rad, pm me if you would like them.