Author Topic: How to really stop my brother's videogame addiction? (Read 4785 times)

Foopster · August 28, 2015, 01:12:41 AM

Sign him up for after-school ~~gulag~~Program. Take the computer and his other devices, give it to your grandparents or somebody and hide it.

If he doesn't go to the after-school programs, he gets bad grades and parents won't do stuff for him.

If he enthuses about afer-school program, give one device to him. Something small, like his phone.

If he doesn't, too bad that is his fault.

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Steve5451� · August 28, 2015, 01:51:35 AM

Find some program that stays hidden and instantly closes any DirectX or OpenGL application.

phflack · August 28, 2015, 02:08:45 AM

not sure why everybody is against this
I game and code all day because I don't have much else to do right now, and before
i'd say just wait for him to go to college and dorm life should reduce his gaming time on its own

Duck Quackington · August 28, 2015, 02:09:07 AM

Put parental controls on his Laptop. Its all I can think of

�l��kf�ce · August 28, 2015, 02:12:54 AM

stick it in his pooper

shitlord · August 28, 2015, 02:17:02 AM

Quote from: �l��kf�ce on August 28, 2015, 02:12:54 AM

stick it in his pooper

excellent meme my friend

espio100 · August 28, 2015, 02:55:26 AM

Sister? Is that you?

Tokthree · August 28, 2015, 03:08:17 AM

If he only plays games that require some form of internet connection to play or "tough stuff" then you can check if your router settings has a way to block internet access completely for individual devices during certain times of day

espio100 · August 28, 2015, 03:30:34 AM

Quote from: Tokthree on August 28, 2015, 03:08:17 AM

If he only plays games that require some form of internet connection to play or "tough stuff" then you can check if your router settings has a way to block internet access completely for individual devices during certain times of day

Root phone
Install wifikill
???
Profit

Tokthree · August 28, 2015, 03:41:42 AM

Quote from: espio100 on August 28, 2015, 03:30:34 AM

Root phone
Install wifikill
???
Profit

Except that would do nothing but shut him off the internet 24/7 preventing him from doing things he actually needs the internet for. Besides, you don't need a loving app to do that; you should be able to block devices from connecting to your internet through the router settings

Trogtor · August 28, 2015, 08:57:26 AM

Quote from: Narkro555 on August 27, 2015, 11:54:28 PM

What's a really good one?

windows already comes with one

he would need to be on a different user that doesn't have admin privileges

i can relate to your brother a lot and im not sure if that would help though. It would just make him more angry. honestly i don't think any action would actually help besides wait it out and hope he grows tired of it.

Majorth · August 28, 2015, 09:01:24 AM

Quote from: elm on August 28, 2015, 12:00:43 AM

I can write a script, fully open-sourced to disable games of your/parents choice. This will make it so any game he tries to play that is blocked, will require a password of your/parents choice.

This.
Why is everybody ignoring the most responsible post here?!

Pie Crust · August 28, 2015, 09:02:57 AM

User Account Control. You can set the time when the computer will force logoff a user. Of course, this will make him learn how to go around it like I did...

Trogtor · August 28, 2015, 09:04:38 AM

Quote from: Majorth on August 28, 2015, 09:01:24 AM

This.
Why is everybody ignoring the most responsible post here?!

because that would probably just resort to hatred.

does your brother play games with any friends? whether they are only online friends or real life?

MoltenKitten · August 28, 2015, 09:06:20 AM

Turn on remote desktop and use command prompt to force a shutdown