Thank You All of You Hippies!
I wasn't hip enough to be in your square. :(
Best wishes for your continued perseverance.
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I understand your comments, and am glad that you have come to the realization that you have. Good luck!
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I don't know you, but I wish you the best of luck. I hope you get all this under control, you're lucky to (hopefully) have a supporting family :)
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Take care of yourself first & foremost! It takes strength to admit your vices to yourself and even more to others. Good luck & hope to see you doing better healthily & wealthily soon, even if you decide not to come back 😺✌️
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Wow, that's heavy. Good luck! I really hope everything will be fine for you.
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Farewell and good luck in your life... And BIG thanks for a part of your time, which you put in order to make SG a better place, for everyone here :)
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I may not be on that list, but I certainly understand addiction. Take all of the time you need to truly stop your addiction, hopefully the site will be here when you decide to come back.
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Wow, what a story! Thanks for sharing so much personal stuff with us and good luck with getting your addictive behaviour under control. Sadly I can't offer any advice on that, since I can't seem to stay away from this website nor gifting nor winning games either.
All the best to you, AdmiralP, and thanks for everything you've done for this community. Hope to see you again sometime.
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Wow, this post kinda floored me for a few moments. I honestly wish I had known so I could at least try to help in some way or another ...
First (and most importantly to someone like me), a huge congrats on your sobriety! That's an amazing step to take and one that's a lot harder than people think. I wish you nothing but success in that endeavor, and hope to see you around when that few years becomes 10 or 15. It's a constant fight, but I'm sure you've found it a worthwhile one.
As for SG - we'll always be here whenever you want (or need) to come back. Real life is much more important, and I'm so glad to see you've realized that and are taking care of yourself and your family. Hopefully, life gets back on the right track for you soon, I sincerely mean that, and if you need/want to talk (even if it's just bullshitting around), feel free to add me on Steam.
I wish you all the best, bro. Take good care.
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Honored to see my name on that list. That was a tough read. I wish you all the best in the future and know you will always have a home here...We all have our demons but actually admitting to them and working to make things better for yourself and those around you is something not everyone can do. Congrats on that.
So, for now:
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Ouch you got a strong story and a accurrate eye on you.
Believe or not but i understand addiction.
I hope you find the solution and peace in the heart.
Thank you for your generous behavior.
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It takes a certain amount of rather grim introspection to acknowledge our faults, yet decidedly more courage to face them; for that, if nothing else, you have my admiration. Becoming acquainted with you, even by proxy of your giveaway remarks, has been a sincere pleasure of mine as, whatever your motivation, there was a very real and generous spirit in their intent. I've no doubt you brightened the day of many users on this site.
Be well and, as ever, know that I'll be wishing you and your loved ones the very best of luck...
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It's great to see you've come to the realizations you have, Admiral. Addictive personalities are a constant struggle and while it's easy to transform one addiction into another, it's certainly not nearly as easy to notice that it has happened. I commend you for acknowledging this and taking control and making a difference. My sincere best wishes to you and your family. May you work together through this and come together and be stronger because of it. Truly, be well and be free. ^_^
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Good luck beating your vices, sounds like you come a long way so I'll boldly assume you know the deal and are more than able to pull through it all ;>, just don't ever forget you ain't alone and you don't have to hide for who you or what your inner demons are. Even if we don't know each other, I just wanted to say that. Best wishes.
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I hope the future holds good things for you. You'll be missed.
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Not sure what I did to be mentioned here, but I want to wish you the best of luck going forward.
And as far as i'm concerned, you are always welcome back. :)
Sorry, I'm a man of few words
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Good luck, man. Congrats on recognizing your issues and putting your family first now. I hope it all turns out well for you and that we see you around here again some day in a much more moderate format. :)
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I'm so sorry to hear about your obstacles in your life, I can't imagine how hard that must have and currently been for you. I wish I was able to help in some way! So please please I sincerely mean this, message me whenever, and whatever you like! I will be there for you! You have been such a big influence in these forums and you were always one of the first names that were memorable for me. Continue fighting and I hope it all goes well for you.
I feel so blessed to be in your list, however big or small my influence was. Take care of yourself and your family :)
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That's quite a who's who list you have up there! :)
Best of luck to your in your continued recovery from addictive behaviors, but congratulations on your sobriety! That's huge.
I sometimes worry that generous givers on SG maybe shouldn't be spending so much money on GAs, but we're all adults (well mostly) so we can all make our own decisions.
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It wasn't the most pleasant read, and I'm sure going through :( Thanks for being with us, and while knowing the consequences I feel a little guilty, but thanks for the game you gifted me, just out of goodwill and I won't forget about it.
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Sorry to hear about what your struggling with, but goodluck in your future :)
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Sadly though I have come to the realization that this giving (for me) has just become another alcohol.
I perfectly understand this. Hope everything will turn out alright for you! After what I've read I see you as a fighter so I'm positive about it :) Probably you don't recognize me but I do recognize you and wish you all the best <3
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On October 10th, of 2014 I joined SG. Today I must leave for a bit after just over 2.5 years.
Some of you may know me, and I know that for some of you I have developed a great deal of admiration and respect in that short time.
However, over the last couple of months I have been grappling with one of those bitter truths we never want to accept. I have a lot of faults. As some of you may know, I was a prison guard for nearly fifteen years. What most of you do not know is that the career (along with many other factors) drove me to drink excessively. That affliction cost me my job in mid-2012. It was the end of the Great Recession, and there was little work. That was especially the case for a recovering alcoholic - especially since I still had not accepted that I was an alcoholic and obviously was not yet in recovery. The handful of jobs I was able to land were short lived. Who knew people did not want you to show up sweating booze all day (yes that's sarcasm)? My family and I ultimately lost our home. I didn't accept my condition and begin sobriety until January of 2013. I finally found steady work again in July of that year.
So back to the bitter truth; after a year of full time employment I stumbled upon this site from a reference over at CheatHappens.com by a friend there. I got hooked pretty early on. Don't get me wrong, I like winning, but the real hook for me was giving. I loved the thought of some person I did not know at all getting a game they may have really wanted... and thinking that perhaps that made their day... or even their week. That's a large part of the reason I was usually pretty picky about what I gave away. There was a short period I veered from that goal, but the enjoyment I got was less. So I went back to trying to give primarily AAA games or games that were high on wishlist counts. Sadly though I have come to the realization that this giving (for me) has just become another alcohol.
There have been too many months over the last two years where I dumped money into GAs that should have gone to rent, bills, food, and other necessities. I'm not going to say that SG is my only vice (not at all), but what I have come to realize is that I am just replacing one terrible addiction with others, and those are causing just as much damage to my family as the bottle. What's worse is that since I've been sober the whole time I've seen all of it, but still kept going. Last year we lost our apartment because I kept going with my spending (again, not just here... but eating out, buying video games for myself... and other things that served to provide immediate gratifications). My family and I have fortunate enough that friends took us in, and those friends have been unfortunate enough that I have taken advantage of them and not stopped this train wreck.
Now it has to stop though, and part of that is stepping away from here. Again, most of you don't know me, and this message isn't really for you. However, to those of you that have been influences on me here I did want to say thank you and so long for now. With any luck I will return in the not too distant future and be able to participate in moderation, or maybe even just leech for a bit (doubtful, I still have an enormous backlog I'm trying to quash). Hopefully there will still be a place for me then... though I suppose there isn't really anything that could stop me aside from cg (whom I give a great deal of thanks to!)
I'm certain there are some that I'll miss here, so please forgive me, but I wanted to drop special thanks to the following for making this place a bit more awesome from my perspective:
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