Hello again and welcome back. It’s been seven months since the last update; all I can say is that some shits just can’t be rushed.
Today I want to talk to you about being alone. Really, truly alone. So put on some My Chemical Romance and get comfortable.
In terms of fatness, though, these markers are reversed.
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When you decide to give up games, you need some affirmative advice to help you through the bad times. The first thing self-help books tell you is that computer games can’t offer anything that real life doesn’t.
This is so fucking true.
If you make an effort, you can fill real life with all the [...]
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If you do not master your boredom… your boredom will master you.
And also you’ll be really bored.
Hello, and welcome to the July progress report.
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I finally did it. Three days ago I gave away all of my games worth giving away, and threw the rest in the bin. See the harrowing pictures below. If they’re blurred, it’s because the air was saturated with passion.
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I don’t know about you, but the previews for this game have made me poop myself nine times already. It’s going to be the dicks.
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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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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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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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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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