Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
In this new regular feature, we discuss the ways you can fill your spare time now that you’re no longer a gamer.
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Finding enjoyable pastimes is an important part of moving on. Last night, for example, I decided to clean the house, and ended up keeping myself so busy that I didn’t think of [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
So you’ve given up gaming. Trouble is, you write for a damn gaming site, and you’re obligated to provide people with reviews. What a pickle.
But hold on! You’re a clever fellow, and modern games are pretty self-explanatory. Surely you can work out the plot of a game by looking at the screenshots, take educated [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Tim Cameron
Why are computer games so damn catchy? What makes them such life sapping viruses, and is there anything we can do about it? Do we even want to, when we’re perfectly happy to be addicted?
Here are a few thoughts purely from my personal experience. I’d love to hear some of yours.
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Tim Cameron
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When you’re giving up an addiction, the important thing is to do something creative every day. You’ve got to feel as if you’re filling the void in your life with worthwhile activities; stuff that will help you grow as a person, and show your addiction that you’ve got balls and you mean [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Tim Cameron
OK. Let’s do this. If I’m going to quit gaming forever, I need a plan of attack. There are two classic ways of quitting any addiction: gradually cutting down, or going cold turkey. When I gave up smoking, I chose the former, and it seemed to work ok; I started on 20 Marlboro a day, [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
It’s been a month since I uninstalled Oblivion for the last time. It felt like saying goodbye to an old friend. The cruellest thing about removing this game is that you can’t just press one button and let the computer perform the euthanasia while you weep quietly and hug yourself; no, you have to delete [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
I spent the last three weeks in New York with Betty, away from the temptations of solitude that haunt me when I’m at home in Salford. One day we went to Crif Dogs on the Lower East Side for some of their stupidly awesome hot dogs (the one wrapped in bacon with avocado and sour [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Tim Cameron
Hello there.
I’m Tim Cameron, a struggling musician and freelance writer for www.cracked.com.
A couple of months ago, I decided to quit gaming forever. The epiphany came some weeks after I went to New York on a romantic mission to meet a girl whom I had only ever spoken to online. She turned out to be the [...]
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