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Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Want to hold an intervention for you but due to lockdowns and other issues the only plausible way to do this would be a Zoom meeting and I feel like that might send a mixed signal.

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Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
So you remember how your dad would make you smoke a whole pack of cigarettes when they caught you?

Read all gaslight threads front to back taking only bathroom and snack breaks.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped

pnac attack posted:

spoken like a man who has never even tried to quit computer. been there, done that, still posting

Withdrawal can be a b**ch so I recommend getting a slower, older computer to use first and then after a few months stepping down even more to one of those toy laptops for toddlers which play word and math games.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
If you drink a glass of water in between each post you can avoid drama as well as a nasty hangover.

Buttchocks posted:

So desperate for a hit that I'm licking an abacus.

You're certainly not the first person to admit this to me and I want you to know you know that with help you can and will get better.

Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Nov 8, 2021

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Replace the addiction with another bad habit.

I recommend gambling or pornography.

Just remember to do it analog.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Hipster computer-user using a craft PC running on cables like a small Cesna. Pretending that they're not like those "junkies" using a stock Lenovo.

Even quit his job as a dishwasher to work as a programmer just to get his fix more often. Real sad to see.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Counselor: Has anybody ever told you that you go on the computer too much or too often?

Me: Uh. In 5th grade my parents got me a MacBook and Dillon Thomas told me to stay off the "nerd box". That was thirty years ago and boy has time changed like for instance...

Counselor: *nodding and checking off a box on a list*

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Sigmund Freud *clacking away at a MacBook Pro*: Sometimes a computer is just a computer.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Mainlining a stick of RAM.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
I avoid addiction by only using the computer in social settings.

My dumb friends "inform" me that gold farming all day in my car parked at the McDonald's lot doesn't count as social.

Hello!? Do they not see all these people around? I bet you some of my so called friends use their smartphones in the toilet, alone, like degenerates. But they're on my back.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Do you use the computer or does the computer use you?

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Stigma is bad but so can be people underestimating the problem.

I've had people tell me "it's not a real addiction" or that I'm "lucky it's just computers" as I mainline a Dell desktop.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Someone posts a link to a Newegg Black Friday special.

"NO SOURCING!!"

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
It started innocently. My pal had a 2-for-1 card at the local internet safe. By next year my room had posters of Steve Jobs. Didn't care when my parents found out. I was too far gone. It was when my little brother walked in on me boofing a Rasberry Pi that it hit home: I needed help.

Too bad all the support groups were online and it pulled me right back in.

Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
Selling motherboards and cheap phones right outside the detox facility.

Am a total piece of circuit.

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Bright Bart

False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped
I am Col. Doctor Senator Esquire, a pilot.

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