And there is no point killing the Cold Turkey windows process. Once you start a block, you can't go back! If I set a week of Cold Turkey in the software, I will not be able to run the DOTA2 executable for a week. You can go 'cold turkey' (block everything) or set time ranges, time blocks, … Here is an example of my gaming list block : Cold turkey interface with my games blocked Cold Turkey is a very simple software that you install on your computer and that blocks certain applications from being run.

There are bigger forces at play here.Ĭouple years ago, I bought Cold Turkey to help me reduce my gaming time. Or rather, it helps me just as much as 'just eat healthy then if you want to lose weight' or 'just go to the gym if you wanna look fit'. 'You could just stop says my girlfriend'. It's also a vicious circle : I game because I don't have much energy, which leads to me being tired and having low energy. And the main reason is that I fill most of my free time with gaming. There are many things I want to do and that I used to do that I can't touch anymore now that I have a family. I am very happy about my life, so it's not that bad but this is something I see, and that I want to change. I used to work on side projects a lot but as a father of 2 kids now, I am always quite tired or low on energy and gaming has become the default option over reading / open-source / learning. After work and when everybody is in bed, I game.

My main issue is that it is a complete automatism. I accept it, because it's part of my life, and I also found many of my best friends online while gaming (like many of us those days) or doing LAN parties. I like team games very much, and for example I total over 3k hours of DOTA2, and over 1k hours of Apex. I total over 10k hours of gaming over the years. I've always had a semi-healthy relationship with gaming. But I also found many ways to go around it and compiled a list My relationship with gaming TL DR : I bought a software to block games and reduce the amount of hours I game per day.

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