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Watch anime.

Vouch for Soultrap. He's knows the shit.

anime makes you good at dota

yeh, anime is the way.

You could try playing something else too. If you can't actually do it, play AD. It's more stupid and different enough from regular dota to be considered a different game.

Get a girlfriend, go out party.

If you quit dota to start doing something else in front of your pc it not worth it. Definetly go outside of your room, doesnt really matter what to do, just leave your room. Find a club (not a pub i mean, a group of people doing the same hobby, whatever is interesting for you), or go drink, or start to do some sport, it doesnt have to be gym, it can be anything you always wanted to learn or what you did before starting dota. Nice starting point can be to read a book, a really exciting novel, like game of thrones if you havent read it yet, or something else if you have read or dont like it. Point is, it will keep you occupied while you are quitting dota, and when you finish, you will already have left dota behind, but you cant continue reading that book couse you finished it. Point is to do something that has a definite end. And dont read in your room, go outside, go to a café, go to a park if its not that cold or you dont mind cold, somewhere where you have a chance to meet people. Or a more "forcing" way is to get a pet animal that needs your time, so not just a cat that you can simple put down, but a dog that needs you to walk often and teach couse its a smart dog it would be a waste not to teach... Or any kind of more complicated pet if you had simple pets before. If you never had, start with a dog or cat. Dog is better in that way (though i prefer cats), that you can go to a park and talk to other dog-walking people, so you already have a chance to get new friends and have something to do.

You need to get new friends. You are allowed to talk to your dota-friends, but NOT through steam chat. Thats tempting to start the game. If any of them likes you enough to use facebook / whatsapp / skype with you, it worth keeping the friendship, otherwise it was just a dota-mate and you can catch up later again if you fail at leaving dota, but if you can quit, just leave them behind.

Also, gettin a (part time) job is always an option.

Just choose something you are comfortable with and do it. Dont just sit in front of your pc and watch something you dont even enjoy, then you could actually play dota instead, whats the point.. Do something ELSE. GL!

Ah, another tip. If you have a dota-friend (or any other game will do) who wants to quit, do it together, share your progress, yell at the other if hes even thinking about starting the game... :D I mean, in a friendly way. Its easier to convince each other how bad the game is for you than doing it alone.

Before Sampson starts to argue again, im not saying the game is bad for everyone. But if you think it is bad for YOU now, quit it.

If you're struggling that badly at O-levels, have fun when you get to A-levels :D I'm at that stage now, I have time for 3-5 games of dota a week on average, even while working on a computer I've learned to avoid dota simply as viewing it as a reward for working hard. My advice, if you're getting really distracted, is to uninstall dota, although that should only really be a last resort. If you can get a balance right between working hard and playing hard, you shouldn't have to quit dota at all.

Unless you want to quit dota in addition to all this, in which case I advise many of the things mentioned above

1] you are addicted to pc game(abused based)
2] you wont be able to perform at your best or close it if your delusions/thoughts about dota 2 went from positive to negative or neutral
3] your social skills are most likely trench tier
4] being bored most likely means u are clueless sheep detached from own emotions/true self (due to some sort of abuse) awaiting for others to direct your life ( therapy awaits )
5] you are boring pencil neck or fat ass nerd(again abused based O:) without any cool stories which goes back to point 3]
6] dont listen to females they literally live in different reality when it comes to life (if you dont believe me pretend to be one on internet or ask any non deformed female u know in rl to guide you through her day especially when it comes to any social interactions)

my advice for you uninstall steam, cut all e friendships, go to therapy and when shit starts to clear up - set up goals that you rly want which wont be related to reliving/fixing your childhood

and avoid looking for gf especially when your reality is deep in trench because even if u find one it will be a trench tier female

^U know that you are probably the worst here to say that right ? you know that everyone heres knows that you must have insane amount of problems in your life to waste time being a dick on internet right ? you literally play just to suicide with furion so you waste your time doing nothing, jesus you have fucking insane level of problems dude.

To OP, just quit the game, just unnistall steam and search for shit to do, personally i would say GYM or to just start a book or something, there is a lot of shit you can do.

I guess Vaeldiithia already told you everything you could do with your free time.

i am fuckin insane pretty sure i mentioned that in few of my threads before but what my mental status has to do with op

+i gave him legit/honest advice without bullshit

i really cant see any lies or missinformation in what i wrote as advice for him

Try skyrim. User created mods just make it an unlimited experience. Last night i downloaded a modbthat added BDSM to the game lol

well i guess therapy is never wrong

he is addicted ? there are ppl on this forum with much more matches/time claiming they are ok :D

Nice thread, fits for me . I just uninstalled steam. I quit dota in September, started playing again January and deleted it 5 min ago again. A friend of mine talked me back into it, since the new mmr was so awesome. Plain bullshit. The mmr is still invisible, the game still has no FF function, so you have to sit in 40 min games that are allready lost, the fucking noobprotection aka report for flaming is just so annoying. If someone does not want to get flamed, he can mute the flamer ingame. Revoking his communicationrights punishes the rest of his team and his future teams.

Have to finish my phd and do more social stuff. Its more rewarding. Dota is fun, and the best game ever. But its also very addictive. Since it is so complex and has so many aspects you can lose yourself in it and end up playing 40+ hours per week. If i had put the nearly 2000 hours of dota 2 in my phd, i would be done with it 1 year ago.

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Dota is a huge waste of time, even in terms of having fun. If you have not a decent stack or are a uber gifted player, you will end up losing 50% of your games.

I have no decent stack, and playing soloque is just so lul sometimes. Im not nearly at a toplvl and I know that i will never get to. Lower 4 k mmr, more is not possible for me. Dota is no fun for the losing team in 80% of the games, because of it snowball nature. Most games are not close, so one team fucks the other team deep in the ass.

Beein fucked in the ass is no fun. I tried to create a decent stack with some dudes I met ingame, no chance. We disbanded, cause 1 dude raged so fucking much and the other dude was a bit low on iq.

Playing soloque is gambling. Too often players that do not want to teamplay, or russian kids. Today a russian feeder clock flamed me (spectre) for "stealing" a kill. He had simply no idea of farming priority. The worst that can happen is a stack on your team, that tries dumb things or just has 0 coordination. So you get a russian 2 stack, both press random and get a carry, none repicks.

Whats the point of this?

Since I lose 50% of my games, 50% of the time playing is not fun. If you add up the waiting time on every match (3-4 min for game ready, 1 Min picking, 1 min selecting heros, pauses etc.), the fun dota offers, seems to be uneffective.

Even dendi loses 45% of his matches.

Well you are not always losing straight from start so it is way more than 50% fun..
If you are enjoying only "winning moments" then y bad for u

I thought o levels is at end of year? If you take your studies seriously you must start limiting your playing time.. don't be like me

Thanks alot guys for your advices and taking your time to help me out, really appreciate it...and

@goodamongpeasant
1] you are addicted to pc game(abused based) (true)
2] you wont be able to perform at your best or close it if your delusions/thoughts about dota 2 went from positive to negative or neutral (maybe)
3] your social skills are most likely trench tier(false, good social skills and flirting skills but dota keeping me away from doing those)
4] being bored most likely means u are clueless sheep detached from own emotions/true self (due to some sort of abuse) awaiting for others to direct your life ( therapy awaits ) (never been abused in life, most emotionally stable guy in school)
5] you are boring pencil neck or fat ass nerd(again abused based O:) without any cool stories which goes back to point 3](not fat,16 this year, 173cm and 53 kg)

The important thing is to balance your life. I'm a competitive sportsman, got six As for my A Levels, did military time as an Infantry Officer while being in a happy long-term relationship while playing a fuckton of Dota over the past near-decade.

The key is what you do when you're not playing Dota. I do waste alot of time on Reddit and this forums trying to reason with the unreasonable, but I still find plenty of time to do other stuff.

Quitting Dota isn't the solution, because you'll just find something to replace it. It is perfectly healthy to spend your free time doing something you like. But when it spills over into your productive time, however, that's when you get a problem.

Thanks Zenoth, I usually end up wasting my time on twitch not being productive and all, my O levels I did decent got all A's for mocks except for english got a B for that..but I just wan't to start concetrating on my studies until I get my 6 months break after my O's ...just deleted both Dota and Steam as people have said it helps more when steam is deleted..thank you guys :D will update on this thread If I ever get addicted again <3 See you all in a few months

^ nice e stats to keep face on forum bro but i am sure u are crying right now at home

join me on my quest to murdering sub 6000 mmr players

I deleted it also but came back to doto after 2 weeks of it.Thing is,after i delete dota,it has never been the same like before.Playing really less amount of games(1 game per 2 days or 1 game per day),all i can say is deleting dota helps.

Oh I just saw, that O Levels are something in school... School is nothing you should worry about. Every dumbass gets through school. After deleting dota yesterday I find myself now surfing more the Internet and watching twitch the whole morning. Its not that I do not do other stuff in life, but I really hate my thesis. Writing an academic book is just fucking boring. So instead of working I just do dotastuff.

So I found another sollution I may share with you:

http://getcoldturkey.com/

A programm you can block parts of the internet and certain programs (aka steam) for a prior set amount of time (9 to 5). The programm cannot be uninstalled during the time. It helps to lower distractions and its free. It sometimes resets itself, so the only discipline you need is to set up this programm every now and then.

from my experience if u dont have will in you to drop something stuff from outside like programs/people wont help at all

^^ I think Im gonna need that one later, thanks for sharing!

SPORTS. I find that being healthier physically and mentally helps in getting through tough school requirements.

@God

Your experience is wrong. It is statistically proven, that those kind of stuff helps, since you do not have to invest willpower during your worktime to keep off distractions. You simply have no chance to distract yourself. The internet is needed for academical work but distractions are just 1 click away. Even the small "im gonna read 15 min this newspaper" is a huge damage to the workflow.
If he does not want to drop dota, but just regulate his gametime, this will help him.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/22/text.iq/

Many Gradschool students I know use stuff like this tool to work on their thesis. The "normal" Universitystudent or for Schoolstuff may not need this. But have fun working 2-5 Years on a Book, without major accomplishments and lose control.

If you want to know more about discipline and self regulation I strongly suggest:

http://www.amazon.de/Handbook-Self-Regulation-Research-Theory-Applications/dp/1462509517/ref=sr_1_3?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1393592616&sr=1-3&keywords=Roy+Baumeister

@Pilot

You are 100% right. Sports improve evey aspect in your life. You are healthier, your bloodpressure is better regulated, and your academic potential is affected in a positive way.

Thanks for links german bro got my hands on that book allrdy

Your highest winrate on top heroes is on a support. You clearly lack the quivk reaction and knowledge to know when to fight. Become a support only player and you wikl start winning more