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#1 Nov 27 2005 at 8:14 PM Rating: Sub-Default
I sit here before you leaden with guilt and shrouded within discontent. For you see,I let the overpowering clout of addiction clasp its iron grip around my conciousness which set into motion a self propeled delusion that has lasted until this very day.

Thinking back on that enamored autumn day six years ago I can hardly come to terms with myself. A day unlike any other. A day in which I kissed the lips that would plauge my thoughts, actions, and behavior for years to come. In hindsight I wonder where I would be today if I had not decided to sojourn with "the one" that had so unknowingly enticed my palate with the infection in which I speak so loathedly of. I curse him! I spit upon his very existance. Alas, I cannot blame him. For I know it was me and me alone that walked through that door of compliance. He just told me where the key was under the mat, so to speak.

So where does this leave me? It would be easier to subtract from the list the non accomplishments that have left my soul in an array of disbelief than try to formulate a coisive aurgument for anything I had attempted to accomplish in the last six years.
For christ sake, I quit smoking after thirteen years of that "pack a day" habit in less time it took me to subjugate this erroneous avocation.

But today I sit before you absolved of my sin. I seek forgivness in the light of humanity and acceptance back into the world of men. Although I will make my thirty second'ith trip around the sun next month, and that my marriage is on the verge of collapse, and that for so long I neglected my skills as an artisan to which have receded into infancy, and my well being is in gross neglect, and I have not worked tward any semblence of a career since the infestation took hold of my conciousness...

I now wonder if I can bring my self back from the brink of dispair. Will I beable to resolve my marriage woes and endow my significant other with a sense of compliance and prove that I have cut the stem at the root? When one crys wolf too many times they realize all too late that they have aggrevied the sacred endowment of trust, in which I feel I have already wrought. Will I beable to reconcieve what once was and bring my essence forthwith onto a canvas knowing that from years of neglect, the hand and eye no nonger conjoin in the symmetry that once was an intuitional prowess? Will I yet beable to fabricate some form of dignification and formulate a career out of six lost years?

Will I ever be a whole being again?

Will I ever say the acronym that begiled my life for so long?

I cast the stone into the water and bequeath its mark upon the ripples of eternity, forever never reapeating the name...MMORG

this is a true story, and I do need help.










#2 Nov 27 2005 at 8:20 PM Rating: Excellent
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Not only a true story but a long and overly ornate one. You let your job, marriage and other relationships slide for six years while you played video games. Nothing to be proud of for sure but good luck in fixing it nonetheless.

But it's not like quitting smoking or something where you're tempted to borrow a smoke or pick up a pack at the store while you're buying milk. Cancel the accounts, uninstall, toss the CDs away. If you can honestly get the files again, reinstall, repatch and renew your accounts before you say "Hey, I don't want to be doing this" then there's nothing anyone can really do for you.
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#3 Nov 27 2005 at 8:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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Delete it all! Don't be a bush! Do it right now! Don't fu[b][/b]cking wait, and don't look back. It's not over till it's no longer on your hard drive.

Take the extra time you gain, to learn how to spell all those big words.

You can thank me later.

#4 Nov 27 2005 at 8:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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If you're going to wax intellectual on the subject, at least spell check your shi[i][/i]t first.
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#5 Nov 27 2005 at 8:44 PM Rating: Excellent
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Whom, exactly, do you ask to forgive you, you sniveling cu[/i]nt? For fu[i]ck's sake, put down the thesaurus and go talk to your wife. It's amazing you have one, you loser.

Oh, and to help you break your overwrought addiction, you should never, ever frequent message boards on game sites.

Go on, now. Shoo.
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#6 Nov 27 2005 at 9:30 PM Rating: Excellent


This is something I wonder a lot. Is video game addiction a cause of marital problems, or a symptom? Were you escaping your relationship, or neglecting it and causing a new problem? That is a question you need to answer for yourself. If you want to save your marriage, I think everyone else is correct in that you need to just stop playing now. Couples counseling may be good here.

Oh, and good writing does not necessarily mean flowery words. Actually, I have found more times than not that good writing is clear, concise, and to the point. People should not have to read a sentence more than once to try to get what in the hell you are saying.

#7 Nov 27 2005 at 9:43 PM Rating: Default
Wow. It is ironic how the most obvious stares you right in the face yet you conciously don't realize it.

I graduated within the top 5% at the undergraduate level, yet I can hardly string together a cohesive sentance with correct spelling and punctuation.

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good writing does not necessarily mean flowery words. Actually, I have found more times than not that good writing is clear, concise, and to the point. People should not have to read a sentence more than once to try to get what in the hell you are saying.


My creative writing professor said the same thing. It was meant to be "flowery". The premise was an attempt to use an overt sense of drama to humorize the subject. Um, yes, bottom line, I have an gaming addiction and it is ****** up. Does that sum it up for you on a more understandable level?

let me know if I spelled any of this wrong too
#8 Nov 27 2005 at 10:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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so, the real question on everyone's mind here...

Can I have your stuff?
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#9 Nov 27 2005 at 10:48 PM Rating: Default
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so, the real question on everyone's mind here...

Can I have your stuff?


Actually, you might. I noticed I went from 2.69 to 2.06 in this one post.

Give me a few more to hit sub default and I'll be but a memory.
#10 Nov 27 2005 at 10:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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Um....bye?

I didn't read anything past the first three or four words. I'm just assuming you're gonna kill yourself or something.
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#11 Nov 27 2005 at 11:03 PM Rating: Default
Naw, I'll just come back reincarnate and continue my haunt
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Wouldn't you reincarnate and then come back? And it wouldn't really be haunting if you were reincarnated.
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#13 Nov 27 2005 at 11:14 PM Rating: Excellent
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fishermanbmr wrote:


Actually, you might. I noticed I went from 2.69 to 2.06 in this one post.


That was someone rating that particular post a 1.00. I haven't rated anyhting in the thread. you would notice if i had.
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WTF -- rate me up, Kao.
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#15 Nov 28 2005 at 12:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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Sure, why not?
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#16 Nov 28 2005 at 7:01 AM Rating: Good
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Sometimes I think I might go through and rate down all Joph's posts just for sh[/b]its and giggles. Yes, I realize it would do nothing to his karma.

And then I also realize that I don't care
#17 Nov 28 2005 at 8:18 AM Rating: Good
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Is this another one of those coming out of the closet threads?
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#18 Nov 28 2005 at 3:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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Does that sum it up for you on a more understandable level?


I'd be hard pressed to believe understanding was ever the problem.
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#19 Nov 28 2005 at 3:55 PM Rating: Decent
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MMORG


Massively Multiplayer Online Role Game? Never heard of it.




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#20 Nov 28 2005 at 3:59 PM Rating: Excellent
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Katarine wrote:
This is something I wonder a lot. Is video game addiction a cause of marital problems, or a symptom? Were you escaping your relationship, or neglecting it and causing a new problem? That is a question you need to answer for yourself.

A cause of marital problems, or a symptom? It could well be neither. Single people wind up being terrible gaming addicts, too. It need not even be to MMORPGs; you find people addicted to first person shooters, or tabletop gaming. Hell, there are people addicted to LARP.

It's tough to lay out clinical causes for addiction, but there are a few areas where correlation is high. One of the biggest reasons for full-time gamers to play is escapism; for a brief while you get to be something you're not. If you like it enough, perhaps you opt to stay there.


It's been linked a thousand times, but it's worth one more; Check out the Daedalus Project. Mouse-over `Explore What's Available` and take a look at the articles in the Psychology section. The guy who runs the site spends a lot of time collecting statistical survey data from gamers. Conclusions are hard to come by but the data is interesting.


Edited, Mon Nov 28 16:10:36 2005 by Wingchild
#21 Nov 28 2005 at 4:05 PM Rating: Default
my eyes hurt a bit after reading that dinosoric post but i think i understand it.

the problem with posting such deep and personal things on a forum is you never know how people are gonna react and whether they will be comforting, mocking or the odd commentator, this is the kind of thing that you need to have a real 1 on 1 with someone about, my personal opinion is that marriage has plenty more longlivety and fulfillment in it than any game (or any other type of addiction for that matter) could offer.
#22 Nov 28 2005 at 4:24 PM Rating: Default
damn double post

Edited, Mon Nov 28 16:35:28 2005 by yohme
#23 Nov 28 2005 at 5:05 PM Rating: Decent
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