Professor Daniel, reporting in!

I know it's been a while ... and I haven't spoken in a long time. Now, to fix Quake Live we need to:

1) Take me off ESR probation.
2) Take me off ESR probation.
3) See step one and two.
4) ???
5) Do it.

But anyways, jokes aside. I think that I need to really motivate some of you. And you might ask with what? With what can you motivate us? And I know some of you hate my guts and want me to shut up, but I'm going to keep going because I think I'm onto something.

I'm going to talk about how I overcame my internet addiction.

First of all, a lot of you may not realize it, but playing a video game for more than an hour is not normal. Spending more than two hours on the computer also isn't normal. Once you create the desire to do something it becomes habitual.

Remember when the kids at school told you what "wanking" was? You probably didn't see the point, you didn't even have a big enough willy to see the point, and rubbing a chubby off was a concept that seemed profoundly silly to you. But, then you did it! You felt guilt. The guilt subsided. And somewhere in your head, you convinced yourself, rubbing one off wasn't so bad. Then it becomes an everyday thing. Or a once a month thing... or maybe, someone on ESR has never rubbed one off. But anyways, the thing that you once had no desire to do, becomes a desire for you to do all the time.

What about meat? Most of you probably, eat it everyday ... you don't even think about it... Chicken, steak, it doesn't matter. What if it was okay to eat "human" meat and it tasted good? You would probably eat it all the time too. We would just eat each other. Why? Because it feels good and it tastes good! But what if you never had eaten meat in your life? What if it was taboo, like eating people? You would probably be okay with just eating tofu, veggies, and grains. But look at us, I mean really look. We just eat and slaughter, poor sentient creatures because at the end of the day, nothing, nothing tastes better than a dead slab of meat on your plate.

The internet. It's the same concept. You go on it one day. You never get off ... the rest of your life. Is anyone immune? I mean ... maybe I'm over-exaggerating and doom-saying, but I think it's only going to get worse. You can tldr; me all you want! Tell me that this is too long! You're probably right, and it's probably because you are too accustomed to the easy and short readability of twitter and twatter.

A serial killer will take forever to plan his first kill out. Maybe even ten years. After his first kill, his second kill will only take maybe two years. The next one a year. Why does he get caught? By his eighth kill, he is killing people each day! It's contagious.

What's bad about addiction?
daniel` from ESR land. If it feels good and makes me feel really good? Why can't I do it? Well ... you could. But do you really want to be a slave to your organ, that chubby of yours? Do you really want to be a slave to a slab of meat on the table? Do you really want to keep murdering innocent cows cause "COW GOOD TASTE" ... I mean, sure, cow's aren't nice like dogs, but there are parts of the world out there that EAT DOG! So look... do you want to be a slave to your desires? Or do you want to walk the path with Buddah. With daniel` from ESR into a beautiful world full of opportunities, women, lots of women, too many women to have time for, women that need men like us, but too many men like us spend time on the internet ... are you ready?

Don't become addicted to stuff. Become addicted to being un-addicted. I think therefore I go HAM.

daniel` from ESR, currently 18-years-old, practicing a vegan lifestyle, free of Quake and the internet, and hoping one day to be free from ESR