Snerfflebarglast: Round Eight!

[smeddley]

I haven't forgotten! Just gotten a little sidetracked. Have you forgotten? Forgotten to play any of the previous rounds? All are still open, so get out there and get some points! I'll be putting up a scoreboard and some prizes (to give you an idea what will be offered) soon... how soon might be up to you.

Round Eight is simple. Obviously, I've been a bit distracted (obsessed) with Lego Star Wars. All you have to tell me is how to manage it! Cures, coping mechanisms, anything goes so long as it helps in some way.

No right answer, just points for helpfullness and creativity.

Comments

[aeamek.livejournal.com]

Eff managing. Get MORE into it. Start looking at web pages that outline where each red brick is for starters. Then move on to cosplay.

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

Go Preorder Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman.. At least you can spread the love around a little.. and download the demo for Carcassone off of Live.. Its good

[crimsonlotus84.livejournal.com]

Two ways:

1: Play with actual Star Wars lego sets. The action will take drastically longer to put together, take apart, and the sheer amount of collecting will either drive you to chainsaw murder or a complete and utter melt down of any interest you once had in the Lego world.

2: Lincoln Logs. So addictive. So simple. So classic.

[clare-dragonfly.livejournal.com]

Always go left!

[tjstein.livejournal.com]

The way I coped was by playing with my 6 year old foster son. At first, I thought I would feel all superior and stuff, but it turned out that he was actually better than me at most of the jumping on things right where you needed to be. But I was really good at using the force and figuring out puzzles and that sort of thing so we sort of balance each other out. But then he moved out and my 10 year old kid isn't nearly as good as the 6yo was.

But since you aren't likely to rent a kid in the near future, I suggest that you take a break from the game and go see a movie with me so that I can weep and provide much entertainment for you.

[nicked-metal.livejournal.com]

Don't rely on willpower - willpower always fails just when you need it most. Similarly guilt trips and self-abuse are addictive, and therefore won't help. Saying to myself "I'm doing this because I want to" has (gradually, slowly) reduced my computer game addiction, since I get to the point where I'm not enjoying it anymore and I remind myself why I do it when I do it, and I stop.

Reminding yourself just how much you like other things can help.

Working out what inner need is being satisfied. I find that computer games are especially enticing when I haven't been feeling like I'm achieving much (because they give the opportunity to feel successful), and when I'm feeling stressed (because they give me the opportunity to do the same thing over and over again (repetitive activities trigger an oxytocin release)).

Are you getting enough hugs? Are getting enough success? Are you simply enjoying the opportunity to have some mindless fun?

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

You could... WATCH MY ICON.

FOREVER.

'Lego' of addiction

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Well, obviously you need an intervention, followed by a strong 12 step program!!

1. You must admit you are powerless over THE FORCE—that your life has become unmanageable. (Beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will)
2. Believe that a Power greater than yourself could restore you to sanity. (Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness.)
3. Make a decision to turn your will and your life over to the Dark Side to the bleak existence of life without gaming. (You want to go home and rethink your life.)
4. Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of yourself. (Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.)
5. Admit to yourself and to another human being the exact nature of your wrongs. (Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
6. Be entirely ready to have The Force remove all these defects of character. (You must unlearn what you have learned...I find your lack of faith disturbing.)
7. Do or do not... there is no try.
8. Make a list of all the time you've wasted, and become willing to make amends by crafting.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. (We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.)
10. Continue to take personal inventory and when you are wrong promptly admit it. (Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.)
11. Realize your ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, you must tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all your affairs. (Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice)

[cazrolime.livejournal.com]

Replace it with an obsession for Lego Indiana Jones.

Failing that? Hypnosis.

[happyconfusion.livejournal.com]

1. Finish Lego Star Wars.
2. Purchase cloning machine on work expense account.
3. Create many Smeddley's.
4. Purchase new Lego video game and let the rest of the Smeddley's do the work.