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Similar experience for me, played all through my teens and early twenties. Something has clicked in the last year, that I want to spend my time more productively

What's worked for me has been using a blocker. For example "cold turkey" I'm using ATM. I normally set blocks of 1 month or so, then end up binging a gaming weekend when it becomes unblocked, then go again

Seems to be working pretty well. Considering just setting it away for 3 month blocks, but I'm still hanging on to there being a nice middle ground :)



That's awesome! I really like the idea of setting blocks, and still playing once in a while.

Tried playing less before, but never succeeded for long.

Just not playing at all will probably suit me better. Especially when I know I will be able to at the end of the block.

Starting with it from now! Thanks for sharing :)


Glad it's helped, good luck on your journey to reclaiming some extra hours back!




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