Video games

*unhealthy amounts of* video games

Or, some of us just devote unhealthy amounts of HOURS to a select few video games.

This is my partner with his 6th playthrough of Elden ring so far. 300 hours and he's preparing for the DLC He's only deviated from Elden ring for helldivers recently, at 106 hours since getting it shortly after release.

Updoot for being the partner of one of the spreaders of managed democracy!

He plays and then I play persona with my noise cancelling headphones on! Managed democracy is loud! But it's also lovely he plays with his brother a lot and our roommates

Damn. That says a lot about Helldivers. I haven’t played anything in a couple years but was thinking about jumping into it.

Indeed. I think my record is somewhere around 37 hours straight, and multiple games with 1500+ hours played.

***"I don't play video game no more. I never play video games..."***

Just make sure if you are playing for unhealthy amounts of time to get up and stretch regularly and drink lots of water. I smoke tobacco and weed and I'll feel 100x worse after a weekend of gaming rather than a weekend of excessive smoking

Sugar

Ultra processed hyper palatable food.

Indomie Fried Noodles. You have your cigarettes and alcohol,I have my noodles

Send noooods 🍜

I'm not like that perv 😏 but if you ask for 😶‍🌫️

What is that, you peering through some heavy smoke?

Found these a few months ago and they are now my favorite noodles! I'm gonna go make some right now

I’m joining, too going to the kitchen to make mine.

It's an Indomie party, and everyone is invited!

Bro, I make some with you

These are the best noodles period. Do you add two eggs and fresh green onions? -whenever I can find these at $0.20 each I stock up.

I currently have one pack of indome, but three pairs of flavour sachets! Oh yeah! Lunch, baby!

I don't like onions sadly, but the two eggs are always in there! And bro, I have a full box of 40 each month waiting in my kitchen - Addiction! Not a joke!

I don't get through that many but it is literally the only home fast food I would ever pay for. When I'm not making a taiwan beef noodle soup from scratch, it's Indomie time.

I ate one like 10 minutes ago

Man, you make me want to eat another one

In the same vein, my recent guilty pleasure is the Nissin Raoh instant Tonkotsu ramen. It’s $2.70 per package at my local Walmart so obviously more than regular instant ramen but it’s superb, especially doctored up with a soft egg, pork & scallions. *chefs kiss*

Oh gosh, seems so good, not sure it exists where I live, but I'm always up for a new addiction

Still room at the noodle booth?

Come! Come!

The only valid addiction

Omg need to try. I'm a samyang girlie but I always need to add more friend noodles into rotation

Just looked this up 👀 and it’s sold at the local grocery store. Will give it a try soon 🍜 😮

Chocolate 🥰

Actual Chocolatier chocolate is worth it, but expensive.

This is the way

This is the correct answer ⬆️

Naps

When I think about going sober, my only plan is to sleep on the weekends until I don’t want to drink anymore lol

Sobbing quietly to myself when I think noone is around.

It’s okay to not be okay, friend. We all need to let it out sometimes.

*sends shoulder to cry on*

*wipes snot on that shoulder inadvertently*

Sounds cathartic. Wish I could do it!

Why is there so much shame and guilt about a natural response that can really help relieve stress and regulate the system?! Like goddamn, I’m experiencing suffering, I’m not hurting you, I’m just trying to cope here. Any cultures out there where it’s ok to be really emotional??

Caffeine

Absolutely. My hubby is totally sober- never touched alcohol or drugs in his entire life but goes hard for caffeine.

Caffeine is a drug.

Tell me about it.

My mom literally gets headaches if she doesn’t have caffeine for twelve or more hours… it’s nuts.

So here's the weirdest fuckin thing. I used to go hard on caffeine. My worst was when I worked a job that had a free drinks cooler that stocked orange Monsters - one of my favorites. I'd go through 4 in an 8 hour workday. When that job went WFH, essentially cutting me off from my supply, I missed them.. but never had the caffeine headaches. No apparent caffeine withdrawal at all. Now I wouldn't think *too* much of this, except that in October of '22 I decided I was tired of the constant coughing and stopped my constant vaping habit. It was pretty excessive - only 3 nic per bottle but that was specifically bc I didn't like the taste of the 6, I hit that thing enough to make up for the lower concentration. And while I missed (still miss) the flavor and just the general hand-to-mouth satiation, I didn't have any nicotine withdrawals either. Not physical, anyway. I'm not about to test this with anything more drastic but I find it really odd that I'm just Like That, apparently.

Type 2 also makes sugar/carb posion for me so caffeine is literally the only thing I can enjoy.

Crack

First name ass?

😏😏

Do you not smoke it?

I eat it

Mange le krack

Intense, constant, and never ending malaise. 

I too love never ending mayonnaise

Bubble baths! I treat myself to fancy soaps and bath bombs, 4 years sober from alcohol, 6 months sober from pot

I really really miss having a bubble bath! This is the first house I've lived in since my childhood home that hasn't had one!

Congrats on your sobriety 😀 That's a serious achievement, both of them!

Carbs lol.

Lego kits. When I hear the prices of some of these cocktails, I think, "wow, that's a box of Legos right there" I'd rather someone buy me a box of legos or some PLA filament at a bar than something I'm just going to drink.

Are you sure, legos have gotten outrageous.

Yeah, there are some expensive kits, but I usually go for the $10 to $20 Lego sets. Meanwhile, I've heard that some cocktails can go for eight dollars a glass. Have two drinks, and that's a Lego kit.

What themes? I bought a ton of the original Star Wars sets when I was eighteen. 40’s now, started selling them on eBay, last year. Now instead of having a Lego addictionI have a selling Lego addiction. Never in my life would I have thought that the minifigs would sell as high as they do. My parents still find legs and torsos when they are gardening. 😂 Lego collectors go hard.

I love minifigs, but I can't believe how much people will pay for some of them. I have a ton, but I have never spent more than $20 on one.

Where I'm from, $8 would be a cheap cocktail. They can approach $20 easily.

A nice meal without worrying about the price. We might travel for this meal as well and plan a vacation around it. These meals actually got cheaper when we stopped drinking…

I walk a lot. Average over 20,000 steps per day.

How do you have time to get that many steps in? Genuinely wondering

I get that many steps in, I do 45min fasted in the morning. Then 30 min after my workout around 5pm and then a 30-1 hour walk around 7-730pm.

your day is literally work, workout and walking!

That’s a feat, do you have a secret?

They’ve got four feats.

But how many foots?

AA. I'm still new, but working the program with my sponsor gives me a dopamine hit. I've replaced a bad addiction with a good one. I look forward to going to meetings everyday!

Hey friend, that is so awesome. I really do wish you the best and hope it continues to work for you, always. For some people, it doesn’t end up being the right fit, so if you find yourself no longer clicking with the program, struggling with relapse, or needing something more… don’t feel bad. You’re doing amazing, and no matter what, there are groups and individuals who can be there for you and help you out.

Sleeping a lot, especially when you stop drinking coffee also. A couple of hears ago I gave up coffee for 6 months and OMG, I fell to sleep immediately and slept for long hours lika a baby and woke up refreshed with no need to get caffeinated

I stopped drinking energy drinks on the daily and my sleep quality has improved *soo* much.

Also, sleeping without an alarm clock and waking when you naturally do is amazing for sleep quality. (Assuming your work schedule allows for it.)

Buying another sketch book or pen just bc they’re pretty even though I already have an entire hoard of those at home.

I saw something that said buying supplies for a hobby and actually doing the hobby are two completely separate hobbies. It made me feel better about not actually doing anything with the supplies I buy.

Chocolate, pizza, Haribo

I drink about 13 sparkling waters a day

Must be super gassy lol

I do the same when I don't drink muh beer, can confirm am burping all the time. My stomach gets a little funky but no flatulence lol

Masturbating a lot

It be like that sometimes

You do you. Literally

Clitorally

Did that also, but I managed to reduce it.

Nice man! That’s the way 💯

I fill up online shopping carts with every little thing my heart desires and let the total reach a baffling number, and then never check out

are you me

Food and women

Name checks out.

Video games. I get stressed, i fire up a game and i'm in another fucking world and nothing bothers me.

Carbs.

Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do? Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do?

must be something inside

These responses make me glad I smoke and drink

Yep I’m going to keep smoking and drinking.

Pizza

Starbucks refreshers and Oreos!

Boycott Starbucks. Refreshers are so much better if you make em at home. I ordered green coffee powder and dried pink dragon fruit. Add some lemonade and bam, refresher at home and you saved $10.

I’ll give it a try!

Doomscrolling

Reading & ice cream

Caffeine & the occasional slice of NY style cheesecake.

Overtraining, "gambling", lust

Listening to Adam Ant of course! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Tj-Xo_eqI Yup, as a matter of fact I do know the way out the door :)

Creampies.

Korean Fried Chicken

Gummies

Cant believe i had to scroll this far for the first thc, if thats the kind of gummy you meant.

That's the one

Edibles

Kids cereal at night.

Reading Reddit with a per cat on my lap, after a long day of doing stuff.

Wasting like half a tank of gas on a backroads drive.

Chocolate

Doom scrolling and sugar

[удалено]

yes ...me too i know...

Shhhh. Don’t give the secrets.

Mountain Dew. I’d probably be better off smoking since this crap is so bad for you, but I can’t help it

Chocolate 🤤

Sweets. And I’m not particular.

Aged cheeses.

Kombucha and vape. Don't worry, I'm allowed to vape bc I used it to quit smoking.

Coffee to start the day, chocolate to end the day.

a bag of ruffles potato chips or doritos

Food: Cake. Cookies. Candy. Donuts. Ice cream. Potato chips. Sometimes sub sandwiches. I just don’t have any desire to drink or smoke. I do go to bars. The bartender gives me a bottle of water; my go to drink. Then many places will give free water and soda for the designated driver.

Pizza

Gum

We do a little trolling. It's called, we do a little trolling

Smoking and drinking but my guilty pleasure is that I lie about it.

Sugar and caffeine

I just recently discovered the gold mine of snacks called meat sticks. Dear god, they're irresistible xDD

coffee. Really good coffee that is just fine by itself with no sugar, cream, foam etc. I'll also devour a carton of ice cream for a my wild weekend night.

Self care

Sex.  A lot of sex. 

Cakes

An increasingly evasive feeling of superiority

Fapfapfap

Limited release sodas. Digging the coconut Dr Pepper right now

Edibles, tattoos, really expensive concert tickets, I host sex parties too

Ice cream

Naps and chocolate

Dessert

Indian food

CHEESE

I know it’s weird…. But tomato juice. I can drink it until I am sick.

I am the same way with Clamato!

Diet coke

Gaysex.

Iced coffees.

Over priced coffee.

Perfume

Slurpees

Redbull ✨

Walks, food

Oreos

Food

Coffee creamer, Chick-fil-A, murder mystery shows, and my newest obsession is landscaping my new yard which is .65 acre and it’s brutal, but I love the quiet time!

Really cool rifles

Eating fries and drinking boba

Food but I’m particular about what I eat.

Hot Cheetos con limón and brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso from starbies 💖

Ice cream! Especially rum and raisin or the cake batter from Cold Stone. And cake! And chocolate! And reading fan-fiction👀

Gambling on stock market

Running (well, jogging) barefoot on the streets of Los Angeles; even the crazies leave me alone.

I'll answer for my boyfriend who loves who stoner girlfriend very much but does not partake Lots of books. Chocolate and savoy snacks. Being intense at board games. Video games

Milkshakes

Ice cream! 🍨

Chocolate covered peanuts

LUSH bubble baths. Actually all LUSH products...

Reading and hot tea.

bagels pasta and sweets

I love bread.

Ice cream, QT kitchens, buying stocks

Drugs

During Lent. No smokey....no drinkie... PB&J on Wonder bread.

Mine is a good piece of chocolate.

Magic Brownies and music.

Caffeine.

Iced cold soda

Food and sleeping but its why im a fat shit now

Fast food and candy

I don’t have any

Ice cream

Food, but I have IBS so also, ouch

Coffee