ywhtptgtfo
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Crimea has some rich salt provinces in that game.
My horrible video game addiction.
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Crimea has some rich salt provinces in that game.
Regarded OP: What I do is that I take regularly week off from work and go nuts and then I go back to my normal life of productive worker and stop playing games alltogether. But I have to admit I even had a year of my life when I almost exclusively played PC games....
Regarded EUIII: recently I have played as Hungary and I managed to turn that poor(which is nonsense since historicaly Hungary had bigger production of gold then France in late medieval times), backward and depopulated country into technological superior to Holand or any western European country - which is quite satisfying way to play...
Regarded EUIII: recently I have played as Hungary and I managed to turn that poor(which is nonsense since historicaly Hungary had bigger production of gold then France in late medieval times), backward and depopulated country into technological superior to Holand or any western European country - which is quite satisfying way to play...
Aye, this is what I do, minus the timed part and the addiction.
No video games until after all my work is done. That way not only do I have nothing on my mind when playing, but I get nice long uninterrupted gaming sessions.
I recommend you do that, Mouthwash. If you can't, well, yeah, then you have a problem. There's nothing wrong with playing games a lot (according to Steam, I play around 30 hours a week), but if it's getting in the way of work/life, then that's where it's serious.
It's very very hard to go from high to low, so this is probably the only thing to do. But when I sit down and study my laptop screams to me.
civver_764
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So?
So?
There's nothing wrong with having fun. But if you want to stop playing RFC so much you have to look at why you like it so much. My personally opinion from reading your posts is that you place way too high of a value on being "educated" and "productive" that you have a hard time enjoying more mindless passtimes.
Maybe through playing RFC you'll become interested in creating your own mod, and you'll find a whole new passion in programming/game design. Don't just look at the downsides.
I've considered it, but I know what I'm saying when I talk about learning history. It's the only thing I can imagine actually making a career out of.
civver_764
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How old are you? 17 or 18 I think? That was only like 2 years ago for me, and already my idea of who I wanted to be has changed so much. Give yourself space to explore, you're still young. All of the stuff you've learned about history isn't going to go away, and you can go back to learning it whenever you feel like it. You may just be burnt out on learning about it, which is perfectly natural and not something you should beat yourself up for.
Being overly concerned with one's future is a huge cause of anxiety and unhappiness.
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Solution: Study without the laptop. Whenever I need to get real work done, I almost always go to the library. That way, either my laptop is not with me, or if it is, I'm discouraged from playing games/wasting time on youtube due to the fact I'm in the library and I really should be working.
You don't need to have a career in history to use it frequently. I'm pursuing an Econ/International Studies double major and I routinely use my history background in that field.
Even moving outside of formal work, my history background comes in really handy when I'm DMing a RPG campaign and I need to flesh out the world.
Yeah, I know that feeling. There are two things I do to combat it:
1) Just keep telling yourself that your next civ session is going to be that much greater knowing you have everything that you need to be done done. With nothing hanging on your mind, you can entirely dedicate yourself to enjoying civ. This does a pretty good job of motivating me, as I hate the feeling that I still have unfinished tasks when gaming.
2) Split up your work! This one is probably my favorite way of doing things. Need to write a paper? Read a book? Study (this one not so much for me, at least)? Break it up over the course of a week or two. Instead of studying 4 hours 2 days in a row, study 1 hour (or 30 minutes) over the course of a couple weeks. That way you're making progress on work while at the same time killing that feeling of wasting time playing games. You progress small steps at a time, and play more to reward yourself; essentially the same principle as number one except there's less work and more gaming.
Blech, this is too true. There's a great quote about this, lemme see if I can find it.
EDIT:
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
Google attributes it to Lao Tzu, no idea if it actually came from him, but I like it nonetheless.
ywhtptgtfo
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You are in IDF right? Just stay there forever.
OK, I just won a Domination victory without meaning to and I'm beginning to realize just how pointless and monotonous the late game is, especially when you essentially own the world. I also find myself interested in what I'm currently reading (Xerxes' invasion of Greece) for the first time in a couple of weeks. Things may be looking up.
ywhtptgtfo
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You can start modding Civ 4. The game would instantly become less fun. Modding killed my appetite for Skyrim because the mystique's gone.
There's a philosophical point to be made here. If I was God, would I be bored of everything? Or am I just anthropomorphizing?
ywhtptgtfo
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Or that if something that was fun became work, would it be fun anymore?
caketastydelish
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History is an awful field, pick something that makes money.
Or crusader kings 2.
But yes. Doc is really good modmod and I have as well played it way too much
Why do you think there is some sort of universe in the first place? God has got bored and now your weakness is Its entertainment....
Crezth
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You only have one life. Don't waste it doing or obsessing about what you think you should. Live, play video games, die. It's all the same anyway.
LamaGT
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Usually my addiction with RFC stopped abruptly as soon as I got into a war or some new civilization apparently had claims to my stuff. The first because of the bullsh*t concept of complete unit kills on defeat, the second because it's just impossible to fight it, even my troops from Africa would defect to the Spaniards (as Carthage).
Anyway, my mother has got a similar addiction, but she's also a terrible self-controller in all other things of life. I can more or less manage it by guilting myself into work. The advice I can give you is, try to seize a moment to do work every day, don't wait for a special moment or something like that. Eventually you'll just get used to it.
Anyway, my mother has got a similar addiction, but she's also a terrible self-controller in all other things of life. I can more or less manage it by guilting myself into work. The advice I can give you is, try to seize a moment to do work every day, don't wait for a special moment or something like that. Eventually you'll just get used to it.
I kind of misspoke. I meant more of a field that involved history, perhaps an IR scholar.
