This is a post i've wanted to make for the past 4 years on tftv but never got around the time to doing it.

I spent a majority of my middle and highschool years playing video games. I used to play wizard101 and then moved on to team fortress 2. Looking back at it I wasted a lot of time playing these games. I don't think its wrong to play video games for hours on end, but I, like many others let gaming take over much needed time to do schoolwork, socialize and spend time with my family. I used to tell myself that I just enjoyed gaming more and that since I was playing with my friends online I was still socializing. I used to tell myself lies about my gaming and tell myself it wasnt a problem. Looking back at that time it definitely was. Although I enjoyed many of those hours gaming I also completely let go of everything outside of the game. Anyway, if you are a gamer and you're gaming instead of doing your homework, if you are telling your friends you are busy on a Friday night just to game, if you game when you are sad because its a coping mechanism, or if you game when you have something more important to do please stop. Don't lie to yourself.
Theres nothing wrong with spending a lazy sunday gaming all day, but if you have a paper due on monday, don't do it. I stopped gaming cold turkey in 2016 and it took 4 months to stop thinking about it all the time. At first, it was so hard to not think about gaming always, it took a whole 6 months to get used to the normal life.

Now on the other side of the tunnel, I have to come to find I have an easier time sleeping at night and my overall mental health is a lot better.

I still game now, but I don't game when I have work to do and I dont when my friends want to hang out with me.

i thought i was having a stroke reading this

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hey man just straight g chilling right now. fucking drinking a coffee CHILL to the max

This thread is going way off topic about some dumb religion shit. I am really sorry to all the families and people affected by these shooting, personally, I think that at this moment we should just think about the peoples lives that were lost and think of their families, politics and discussion about other things are just stupid right now.

Just wanted to give a quick update. What happened was that my ssd broke, I re-installed windows on my harddrive. Computer is back and working.

Hey tftv,

I haven't used this forum in a long time but you guys have helped me out in the past with pc issues so here is my situation.
I just decided to start up my gaming pc that I haven't really used in 3 years after about 2 minutes of use it started to freeze and I decided to restart it because it wasn't responding. Since then every time I try to turn on the computer I get error message, a blue screen of death or just a blank screen. The only error message I got was "unmountable boot volume" ive tried to fix it using my windows cd, starting in safe mode but nothing seems to work. I think the problem is with my hard drive but im not sure. Any help is appreciated.

bc in america we have bigger houses thus bigger rooms thus bigger desks thus bigger mousepads therefore lower sensitivity therefore smoother aim its a clear relationship between population density and aim.

why do i keep comparing myself to others, also why is it that when you have nothing to do(vacation) you are often the most depressed, thank you.

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I've always used video games in times of stress or trouble. Once i'm playing csgo or tf2 its hard to think about the real world. Basically every time you get an urge just start playing.

it honestly depends on how high the stakes are and how many people on your team are ok with throwing. for example joining a 5 que csgo match at 2am with your 4 buds and throwing a game is complacently fine. The other team still gets elo and you get to have fun. Throwing in a 6v6 match in esea open where people on your team have paid good money to play. not cool.

Germany is the clear favorite but I think they are overated and don't have the leadership and experience that they had lat year. As a German I am optimistic but would not surprised by an early exit.

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honestly taking a gap year is a great idea, most people who do it don't regret it as long as you still end up going to college you are fine.