My ND NT husband will just like, play a game every once in a while when he feels like it. He’ll just pick it up every so often, maybe play a few days in a week, and then leave it be again for a while to come back to later.

Meanwhile I will get into a game and spend every waking hour playing it. My sleep, diet, work, hygiene, all suffer to varying degrees. I give myself wrist pain and thumb calluses. I will not rest until I 100% it. And if I can’t, I’ll stop and most likely never pick it up again.

Anyway, anyone else playing Silksong?

  • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I was like you when I was still playing video games. All the Arkham games and some of the early Assassins Creed games were my obsessions. Prince of Persia and Uncharted too. A few zombie games. Mario too.

    However, I haven’t played video games since 2015 for several reasons:

    1. I disagreed with the direction of games back in 2015 when I noticed they were becoming more and more online focused and predatory toward players in terms of microtransactions and stuff like that. I felt that if I was supposed to get to play the games I wanted to play, it would eventually cost me so much money to upgrade entertainment systems and computers and I would not get to keep any of my games because everything was digital and could be taken from me at any point. I learned my lesson early on Facebook of all places with the death of Restaurant City (RIP my beauty).

    2. it was too time consuming and I wanted to spend my time developing skills instead of playing video games.

    3. my fucking temper, bro. This is the main reason I don’t play video games anymore. I didn’t like how infuriated I would get when I kept losing in a game. I have a temper. I really have a temper, but when it comes to video games and certain electronics, I would just become a Demon when shit didn’t go my way. And I didn’t want to feed that beast so I just stopped.

    The only game I bought and paid for post 2015 was What Remains of Edith Finch. Played it once. Loved it. Watched a bunch of videos about the game, theories and so on and then I moved on.

    Now I have my best friend who is a gamer, who plays video games on Twitch once a week so we can hang out and talk about our lives. It’s cool.

    Ps: not officially diagnosed. Just have a lot of symptoms to the point where it’s a walk like a duck and quack like a duck scenario. So yeah, not officially one of you, but I can relate A LOT to things I read from and about ADHDers.