Hi. My name is Bill and I have the lamest addiction ever.
It’s not a cool addiction like drugs or sex. It’s not sad or relatable like food or porn. It’ not even sad-but-interesting like the stuff you see on that “My Strange Addiction” show –
My addiction is online video games.
Not even ones that other people get addicted to like World of Warcraft. I’m addicted to playing those stupid in-browser flash games on sites like kongregate and armor games. Simple little shooter and tower defense games that most people play for five minutes but I end up playing for hours.
When I made that one of my resolutions I knew I was spending a little too much of my free time dicking around on these sites but I guess I never thought I’d have any trouble quitting. Since January I’ve had some easy success and some stumbles with all my resolutions but this is the only one where I flat out have not made any progress at all.
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Shit. Let’s see if I can do a week with no flash games and we’ll go from there. I went a week without biting my fingernails, let’s see if I can go a week without playing Gemcraft as well. Then I can get back to using the internet for it’s intended purpose. Pornography and social networking.
…or I could write and spend time with my family I guess.