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You can also play co-op with a single PC nucleus-coop.github.io/

Maybe they wanna pay online. Why should they be punished for doing the right thing and supporting the product? Unfortunately in this age, that is the world we live in, but that doesn't make it right.

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https://nucleus-coop.github.io/

I used this to play Minecraft with my girlfriend on my PC and it works alright. I do use it with 2 screens though. There's other games too but I haven't tried any.

But yes I do agree there is a severe lack of splitscreens nowadays especially with the hardware we have available now compared to what we used to.

Don't buy Samsung anything

On the third hand some of us just want to be able to read a fucking article with information instead of a tiktok or ai generated garbage. That's wikipedia, at least it used to be before this garbage. Hopefully it stays true

Nothing else works but hey the blacks are blacker!

Ever heard of the Ouya?

I'm a fan of Piracy megathread

Zotify pulls from Spotify and uses your Spotify account to get your actual playlists and download the songs directly

Sometimes it is better to avoid the party or those situations where you will be around drinks and feeling tempted. I know it sucks to miss out on things your friends are doing but it is not worth the mental anguish as you have experienced. It takes over and controls your mind and makes it nearly impossible to resist.

1. It sounds stupid but it did actually help me quit in the beginning. I got one of those tracker apps that would count up the days that I was sober and maintaining that streak and seeing the number going higher helped me to want to maintain it even more. Then if I did fail it would give me a new goal to shoot for. "Alright I did 2 weeks last time so I'll beat that this time!". 2 weeks turned into 3, 4, etc and eventually it never reset. That was almost 4 years ago that I finally had my last failure. I still have the app on my old phone so the count should be around 1200 days or so by now. No way am I giving that up! I think the app was called quitzilla.

2. I'm not sure about that. For me I had to be done with it. I flip flopped a few times trying to quit and getting sucked in, doing the reward thing you are talking about. "Oh I'll just drink on my birthday" or Christmas or whatever bullshit excuse it was. but one day I finally had enough of feeling shitty and wasting my money and having random crying outbursts where I'm worried about the alcohol controlling my life.

3. Short answer, no. I still think about it some days and really want a drink. I know I can never have one. I always want to believe I can just have 1 but I know that 1 will be an extremely slippery slope that I have to fight back. So I just never give in. I can't because I'm afraid I'll go down that hole again and might never make it out. And back to the thing from #1 I still have that lingering count in the back of my head. I don't physically need to look at it anymore but its always there, counting up. Making sure I'm staying on track. Another thing that helped me was being honest with friends or family. Telling them I had a problem helped me to hold myself accountable. I was able to hide my drinking and perform my job and never got in any trouble or anything but being open and honest about it has helped to keep me accountable. I can only imagine how horrible it would feel to have to tell my mom that I started drinking again.

I don't think setting an end goal is a good idea because it gives you something to look forward to and makes it harder for you to fight off those urges for other random reasons. "Well if I can drink on new years day to celebrate, why can't I drink on Christmas too? Its just one more day" and eventually you rationalize it back to weekends and nights and youre back in the hole again. Unfortunately its a decision you need to make and continue to make every day. Some days are harder than others, but nowadays for me, most days are easy and I don't even think about it. Even when being bombarded with advertisements, drinks in movies, video games, stores on every corner, somehow it has become easier for me with time. Like all addictions we must realize it's bad for us and we must do everything to overcome it, when we decide the time is right. Knowing myself, I know I can never do that to myself again because if I do, I don't think I'm coming back again.

Hopefully any of this helps, I know it sucks being where you are but many of us have been there and you are not alone. Like I said before communicating about my problem to people I trust was an important step in holding myself accountable and maintaining my sobriety. Making this post asking for advice is a good step, please don't ignore it. Continue to ask for help when you are struggling and eventually, you too can look at your past self and go "damn that sucked and I was an idiot back then but I made it out and now I'm all the stronger for it"