Legit Reviews

Hey Guys,

Sorry in advance if I waffle, and I think this is going to be my longest post yet, but i will get to the point so please, please read it (if you really are lazy/dont value my waffle/have a short attention span, then read from the bold line ).

My life isn't going so awesome right now. To start with I suffer from subsyndromal S.A.D. (read the first paragraph on the link), so priorities in my life are a bit messed up at the moment.

Lately I have gotten into a bad habit of wasting my time by aimlessly surfing the interwebs, often till stupid hours in the morning, and frequenting this forum a lot. I would even go as far as to say that I am addicted to the Internet and computer hardware! I'm on the sites so much that I've gotten to the point where I will be refreshing pages on places like kotaku and LR in a hopes that someone has written something new that I can read.

Staying up so late most nights means that my body clock has been messed up beyond reason, so I want to sleep all day, so far the latest I let myself sleep to has been 2.30PM, but I could quite easily sleep later.

So with not being able to* wanting to get up in a morning I've missed more lectures than I care to think about. Each missed lecture makes me feel guilty and because I know I've missed so much work, this leads me to not want to go to the next lecture without attempting to catch up, but instead of catching up on work, because I am so tired, all I do is more pointless Internet surfing. Which usually means that I miss the next lecture too.

As I hope the more attentive of you will know, I am a christian and co-president of the christian union at my university. However all my wasted time means that I haven't spent any time doing essential things like reading my bible and praying, and because of that, my walk with God is slipping. You're all entitled to your own opinions on my faith, but i know in my heart what i believe is true, and to me it has been irrefutably proved to be truth. This also means that I've been neglecting most of my duties as CU co-president, leaving the other person to pick up all the work which makes me feel bad too.

So this leads to my main point of this post...

...I have to cut down on the amount of time I am wasting online. So I have decided that I am going to avoid using all my regular Internet haunts such as; kotaku, ctrl+alt+delete, and with the most sadness LR.

Its upsetting me to have to do this, and there is a nasty feeling in my gut (confirming to me that I am indeed addicted) but drastic measures are needed to get my life back on track.

So instead of going online when I want to, I'm going to spend time reading my bible and praying. If I can keep this up I should finish the bible in a couple of months (go figure the time I'm wasting)! My aim is to last this week, and take it from there, but I know long term my goal has to be higher than that.

Don't blame yourselves for my time wasting/addiction to here (especially Nate, because LR is a kick ass website with kick ass reviews ) because its all my own doing.

I feel that I'll be losing a lot of good friends here, I hope that you'll feel the same about me, Maybe I'll still pop back every now and again if I manage to sort myself out. I think I'm going to keep folding, so watch out guy's! (I'm set to overtake most of you at some point in the next few months (maybe years )).

I'm going to miss this community more than I can express, and miss helping others less gifted with technology skills.

Stay safe everyone and have good lives. PM if something is really really good, I should still get an email notification so I'll know when I get one. Wish me luck! And if anyone else is a christian out her, remember me in your prayers.

Dan


*I know that doesn't work, want to implement it please Nate/Justin?

Its sad that you wont be going on as much, but isnt there a way you could just balance it all out? Going on either end of the extremes can be difficult as i have experienced. I was doing pretty much the same thing as you except i was gaming, but now i gave it all up for the next 6 months so i can finish my junior year in high school.

You should try to just set yourself a timer and go on websites you like for like 15 minutes (and not a second more ). You dont have to give up all the things you love, but i admit you should start attending lectures regularly as well as following up and reading the bible if it means a lot to you.

My opinion is probably not worth much to you, but thats my 2 cents.

Best of luck with your studies, Dom

Dan,

I know what you are dealing with and when I was in college I saw people crumble from online games and the internet. I hope that you can find a happy medium that will fit classes and real life. I'm sure you will still be here weekly, but if I still see you here many times a day I'll ban your ass myself ;)

Cheers,

Nate

P.S. you can't leave till after 4x4 launches and then you sure the heck better be back by the time the 45nm quad-cores come out! Then you have K8L and 8-core processors... hummmm addiction, yup... you just got to learn to conrol it! Rumor has it Greyhound is supposed to be the ****, but who knows and by the time it comes around Intel will be up to eight cores.

well my sadness is kind of the same.... i have an addiction to the net where anywhere i go it has to be there!!!! the main said thing is i only have like 2 sites i visit this being one. so i get bored VERY VERY VERY quickly. LOL


All i can say is doing something not involving computers. I learned to play the guitar as something to get my ass away from the computer, didnt help much, but it did some. LOLOL

Dan-

As a person who sees their shares of washouts from school due to drugs, online gaming and the like, I think you are doing the right thing: You gotta take care of business first - then play. Get caught up on your studies and concentrate on passing your classes first. There can't be that much time before your term break so go ahead and put the hammer down, bury your heard in your books and do well on your final exams.

The forums will be here when you break for the holidays. If you really need to scratch the online itch, you can check out the site on the weekends (even though you only have 15 minutes according to DeusEx....Man Law).

I'd rather know that you were lurking and taking care of your studies over posting ever day while failing out of school.

Good luck to you know matter which road you take....

Digital Puppy wrote:As a person who sees there shares of washouts from school due to drugs, online gaming and the like, I think you are doing the right thing: You gotta take care of business first - then play. Get caught up on your studies and concentrate on passing your classes first. There can't be that much time before your term break so go ahead and put the hammer down, bury your heard in your books and do well on your final exams.

I agree and have seen the same as Puppy... I was an SA/RA in college and helped run a LAN Party and a school sponsored counter-strike league, while also getting a B.S. in Biology, a minor in criminal justice, being a sig ep, being in AXE, working on campus 10 hours a week for my scholarship, and I still managed to put 40-60 hours a week of gaming in while having a girlfriend. How I did it I'll never know, but college and high school first and that's no joke.

Look after No.1

Give yourself the best chance in life.......your parents done that for you........you're in College for a reason.........don't waist it. Believe me, it's ALOT harder to progress in life after you've messed up your earlier years.


LR will always be here.......your more than welcome to visit.....infact I think I can speak for us all here........Your a credit to the site and and our Forums, and you will be missed if/when you go.
If I don't get to say it again........Stay safe, happy and healthy and I hope everything works out right for you........chin up.


Now get some sleep ;)

kenc51 wrote:Look after No.1

Give yourself the best chance in life.......your parents done that for you........you're in College for a reason.........don't waist it. Believe me, it's ALOT harder to progress in life after you've messed up your earlier years.

What Ken said!!!