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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Recently I posted a rebuttal to this list of signs that you’re addicted to Diablo 2. The list, while a good effort, was complete unmitigated horseshit, mainly because the people who wrote it were simply making stuff up. For example, most of the contributors have never been president of America, and I am insulted that [...]
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My efforts to shake my gaming addiction were going well. But recently I’ve started seeing Diablo everywhere. No matter where I look, it’s always there: in the smile of a child, in the subtle interplay of light on water, on the website called diablofans.com that I’ve just spent six hours browsing; truly nowhere is safe.
And [...]
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It’s the fourth hour of my gaming session. For the entirety of my evening, I have been hacking a bunch of monsters to bits with my axe, looting their corpses, then reloading and killing the same monsters all over again. I am hitting the Council for Charms, and if I don’t dick about, I can [...]
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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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Join us for the deeply moving final chapter in the story of Tim’s Galaga addiction.
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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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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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