What is your EQ hangover remedy?

[jazzman_so_fresh]

How do you stop your brain from incessantly thinking about EQ after a long play session? Music? Drawing?

[DinoTriz2]

death

[Llandris]

other games

[I Felt Nostalgic]

I watch videos of kittens on YouTube.

[jazzman_so_fresh]

death

Anyone outside of Aftermath have ideas?

[d3r14k]

Anyone outside of Aftermath have ideas?

Dino's not in AM, is he? O.o

To OP: Swimming, or your preferred choice of physical exertion.

[jazzman_so_fresh]

To OP: Swimming, or your preferred choice of physical exertion.[/QUOTE]

I thought you knew me personally... Love a good swim.

[solleks]

going to work :thumbs down:

[GnomeCaptain]

If you seek relief from incessant, compulsive thought consider any activity that allows you to focus on the process or surroundings.

Go out in nature, take a walk or hike or jog.

I see you like swimming, that's the best.

Or you can focus on your body itself, without thought. You can feel if your body is tense or not, if you're breathing is shallow or not.

Once you do this can you relieve the tense muscles, take deeper breaths.

This will calm you, and help silence the mind and rid it of polluting compulsive thought.

Find a cozy spot and engage in light 'meditation' by focusing on your inhalations and exhalations as you breathe deeply.

If the incessant thoughts come back, just return your attention to the physical sensations of breathing, or to the beauty of nature around you.

Or you can engage a 'mindless' task as a meditation. Clean up around the house, focus on doing it right, let it require no active thought.

What people today call 'yoga' is the warm-up for actual yoga. Engaging the body in such ways to ultimately quiet the mind-stuff. So consider doing 'yoga' stretches (you probably need it from sitting at eq) and then, the body primed, engage in meditation.

Perhaps this can be of help.

[I Felt Nostalgic]

If you seek relief from incessant, compulsive thought consider anything mechanical that allows you to focus on the process or surroundings.


Thanks for reminding me I have a fidget spinner to take my mind off EQ.

[Jlpstrtkng]

I eat papaya while listening to Celine Dion and jerking off into a sock

[Rygar]

I eat papaya while listening to Celine Dion and jerking off into a sock

Still a popular song in the '99 - '01 era. Confirmed classic.

[ScottBerta]

I suffer from this too.. good post.

[DMN]

Don't really have that problem these days, but way back when the game was really in its classic period I'd dream about it all the time. I fixed that by getting a good book and reading a bit of it right before bed.

[Foxplay]

Sleep, and then my job the next day?

[mcoy]

https://www.factorio.com/

-Mcoy

[Voland]

How do you stop your brain from incessantly thinking about EQ after a long play session? Music? Drawing?

Why would you want to stop thinking about EQ? :)

[Jimjam]

The only thing better than Everquest?

MOAR EVERQUEST!!

I'd like to say I've been thinking about Everquest less, playing less than weekly, but yet I am still here (forum) fairly regularly. I guess chatting about Everquest is an easier commitment than playing it? It's not easy to get the several hours uninterrupted play time Everquest deserves!!

Instead I've been getting my fantasy/rpg kick from an old Games Workshop tabletop game, Mordheim: City of the Damned. The classic displacing one obsession with another!

[Randarn]

My take away, after reading books and articles on this subject, is that by doing something else that takes your full concentration..(full body exercise like rowing on a lake (not a machine), dancing, zumba, or even playing tetris on your phone for 5-10mins). They all take your full concentration and have the ability to break the thoughts or eq rushing in easier to turn off. Best to repeat them on a daily basis at all possible to form the new habit. From what I grasp, its all about replacing the que and reward system with something else that will eventually clinch the thirst for eq.
Books sited: "the power of habit" by Charles Duhigg (science of habits)
"Super Better" by Hane Mcgonigal (science of games)
Hope this somewhat helps.
Trys.