/dep/ - Depression

>>300101
Games are hard wired to fulfill that sense of accomplishment and progress. Other activities don’t do it as directly as a game. You can practice an instrument for two hours and feel you’ve made no progress, but games tell you every second that you have more exp and more gold etc.

>>300101
Likely you just don't have anything else going on in your life that itches your brain the same way. You're using this thing compulsively, against your better judgement. You're an addict, simple as.

>>300101
>what the flying fuck is wrong with me?
People have been trying to figure that out for years. Your situation is an epidemic. The "Steam Market", Crypto website daily log-in gibs, pretty much every cellphone game… They're all sustained by mysterious people who can spend hours a day clicking and rolling to make their digital wallet go from 0.02$ to 0.15$ over the span of a week. Are you Chinese? A hapa maybe? Something like 8/10 Korean young adults spends thousands on gacha games each year and the similar patters show for other Asian countries. The numbers of freemium addicts in Western nations also correlate with Asian immigrant density. And look at how Chinese immigrants will bus across the country to go to a casino and play slots. You can argue that they do it for the money, but they never win and they know they never win but the "grind" is too alluring.

I just uninstalled all games from my phone that even attempt to block or slow your progress unless you make a microtransaction.

The last game I deleted was Rollercoaster Tycoon World. Good riddance.

I don't miss the daily logins at all. I only play old emulator games and enjoy them a lot.

>>300101
Monkey Brain likes when number goes up.

>>300101
Play team fortress 2, thousands of hours worth of fun for free.

dopamine trap idk


get a different game, say, CS 2

buy some cheapie skins

??????

PROFIT

>>300101
play xonotic or smth

Lol i grinded like 6 hours a day after work for a perfect setup to complete a perfect stat set. It's funny It just needs to roll 0~10 3 times, I just need 3 10's and of course it needs to be split into the right stats, there was only STR END DEX INT SPR, why on earth could I not get the perfect set? Stat corruption? I probably farmed well over 10k items none were perfect

>>301941
{0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10} is an 11-element array

The probability of rolling 10 out of 10 is 1/11


The probability of rolling 10 out of 10 ==3 times in a row== is 1/11*11*11 which equals 1/1331

>>301941
Aside from the 1/1331 chance, you have an array of 5 stats

3/5 chance to hit the right stat on the first roll
2/4 chance to hit the right stat for the second roll
1/3 chance to hit the right stat for the third, final roll

boom

(3*2*1)/(5*4*3) chance of getting an item with the right stats

>>301964
>>301965
6/60*1331 chance, basically. out of 13310 tries. IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND.flv

>>300101
Try Factorio's main campaign, see if the pleasant steady progress of putting something together towards a "tangible" goal in that context has the same effect on you.

if it does, then you're a dopamine microdose addict - if it doesn't, then you're vulnerable to the specific art/music/etc exposure and should arrange your life accordingly.