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I'm glad I got out of playing games like that when I did. Having diablo 2 when I was young was bad enough. I wasted a good amount of my teenage years on that ga

I'm glad I got out of playing games like that when I did. Having diablo 2 when I was young was bad enough. I wasted a good amount of my teenage years on that game. It pioneered a lot of those Skinner box mechanics that those pay to win, I can't even call them games, scams have refined to a tee and use heavily. I'm glad I never grew up with games like that everywhere. At least I see them for what they are these days, I'd hate to think how hooked I might have gotten on those things.

joelx 7y ago
I am really struggling to ever put my phone down. I get stuck in a loop of checking email, then Facebook, then a series of news websites including hacker news. Then repeat all day.
- rolltiide 7y ago
  Block the sites, delete the apps
  - travisporter 7y ago
    Is there a hosts file for iOS 13?
    - SomeOldThrow 7y ago
      You can use the adult content restriction feature to blacklist domains. This only works for content loaded in a browser that respects resource filtering, like safari, and won’t affect things like apps at all. Or pihole! That’s the most effective.
- rchaud 7y ago
  Here are some things that can help: - Put your phone in Do Not Disturb mode. On Android, that hides the notification icons for IMs, texts, calls, app notifications. Often, I turn on my phone screen to look something up and immediately get distracted by the notifications. Then I forget what I was originally going to look up. - Remove your favourite sites "quick bookmark" icons on your browser's landing page. Often I mindlessly click those icons when I open the browser, even though I had a different purpose in mind when I opened it. - Use the grayscale mode on your phone if you have it. It turns the entire display black and white, and makes app icons, images etc look less vibrant and less noticeable. It's a hack that makes me want to go on my phone less often, or just use it for the exact purpose I turned it on for.
unicornfinder 7y ago
As ridiculous as it sounds a serious benefit to me of owning a Mac is that it's utterly useless for gaming.
- bdamm 7y ago
  OpenBSD, now providing safety in a whole new way...
- Fnoord 7y ago
  You'll be delighted to learn Catalina contains Apple Arcade (you can find it in the App Store). Yes, Catalina is the latest version of macOS, 10.15. Queue the "what would Steve think" memes. As for the topic. "(Computer) addiction" is a symptom of a (myriad of) problem(s). It could be depression, it could be the person is bullied, it could be autism, it could be "just" puberty.
- grawprog 7y ago
  I dunno, from what I can tell browsing through steam there's more often Mac ports of a game but no Linux one and almost never the other way around, yet I find more than enough games than I have time for on steam that run on linux.

joelx 7y ago

I am really struggling to ever put my phone down. I get stuck in a loop of checking email, then Facebook, then a series of news websites including hacker news. Then repeat all day.

rolltiide 7y ago
Block the sites, delete the apps
- travisporter 7y ago
  Is there a hosts file for iOS 13?
  - SomeOldThrow 7y ago
    You can use the adult content restriction feature to blacklist domains. This only works for content loaded in a browser that respects resource filtering, like safari, and won’t affect things like apps at all. Or pihole! That’s the most effective.
rchaud 7y ago
Here are some things that can help: - Put your phone in Do Not Disturb mode. On Android, that hides the notification icons for IMs, texts, calls, app notifications. Often, I turn on my phone screen to look something up and immediately get distracted by the notifications. Then I forget what I was originally going to look up. - Remove your favourite sites "quick bookmark" icons on your browser's landing page. Often I mindlessly click those icons when I open the browser, even though I had a different purpose in mind when I opened it. - Use the grayscale mode on your phone if you have it. It turns the entire display black and white, and makes app icons, images etc look less vibrant and less noticeable. It's a hack that makes me want to go on my phone less often, or just use it for the exact purpose I turned it on for.

unicornfinder 7y ago

As ridiculous as it sounds a serious benefit to me of owning a Mac is that it's utterly useless for gaming.

bdamm 7y ago
OpenBSD, now providing safety in a whole new way...
Fnoord 7y ago
You'll be delighted to learn Catalina contains Apple Arcade (you can find it in the App Store). Yes, Catalina is the latest version of macOS, 10.15. Queue the "what would Steve think" memes. As for the topic. "(Computer) addiction" is a symptom of a (myriad of) problem(s). It could be depression, it could be the person is bullied, it could be autism, it could be "just" puberty.
grawprog 7y ago
I dunno, from what I can tell browsing through steam there's more often Mac ports of a game but no Linux one and almost never the other way around, yet I find more than enough games than I have time for on steam that run on linux.