Torn Addiction

When do you people realised that you're addicted to Torn?

I'm sure many new players registered and said wtf this game have more words than my Facebook and quit instantly.
Players around 15-30 age have a high chance of quitting too if they don't really understand the mechanics of this game. For me, I'm only clicking the sell copied media crime and attacking random new players at that age, and almost quit as this shit is boring. Who even sell copied media nowadays.
Until I hit the forums and saw this much toxic, read all the wiki and joined a faction, then I get addicted to Torn in about 2 months age.

So yeah... when do you realise that you're addicted to torn? And don't forget to spread me all the toxic. This is the Internet and I'm probably too drunk to care Load image: smiley

Lol my girlfriend caught me on the phone buying some DP's a few weeks ago.

What henny will do to a man.

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So from what your saying..... you think it's boring

Then you see its toxic.....

And now you like it........


Sounds about right

Honestly, This is the best addiction I've ever had.
No money loss, no health issue caused by it, you meet awesome people.

I mean, what else could i ask for ? (Apart Crimes 2.0 of course..)

My main goals to play torn were to recruit players for my other game and to please my bestfriend who already played Torn before me.

A month later I announced my retirement in other game and successfully recruited a friend from there to play Torn with me. Still trying to get my other 2 friends to play Torn though.

N that's how I realized I may have Torn addiction.

Ps: Oh forgot something, I have always loved text base games for over a decade though. So I wasn't really that surprised about my addiction.

I went a few months without Torn and this was me

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I still don't even really understand what is addictive about it and this is my third ID number having been here since almost the start.

Originally it was a social thing because a group of us friends in rl came from another couple of games. Then it was a lonely clicking thing, passing time in a bubble as my friends stopped playing. I became pregnant, moved countries, changed jobs, got married and the grey screens were a familiar if meaningless refuge.

And then it came full circle the day that Kath, Hank and Midknight all mailed me at the same time asking if I wanted to be in a proper faction. So it then became a learning experience and a social, almost family thing again.

Ched sure has his faults like we all do but he's provided a lot of us with something over many years.

When I noticed a year had passed.
Sometimes I wake up at night just to turn my plane around and come back to torn

Dude, I realized I was addicted to Torn when I set a timer to wake up at night to fly back.

When you are talking about taking xanax and buying erotic dvd's in public, you have a problem. .-.

Edit:
This culture is def toxic and fraught with paranoia that everyone is a multi. I digress.

Just embrace it.

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I will be your new boyfriend

Since I joined. Torn is really easy to play at work alongside a brackets.io since it looks just like another important website

Under rated and awesome

Lolz

Edit: Hcom3 dislikes. Hes your teenage girl, take it up in faction chat

hi I'm advert and I'm an addict

seriously, there's some RL psychological mumbo jumbo going on here

ched is pulling a fast one on us #blameched

This is a very sinister and psychologically additive game. I have been playing it for about 7 years and I just came to the realization that I must try to divorce myself from it. I have been trying to do so for about a week now and just cannot get it out of my mind every time that i sit down at my work station. I should not even be posting on this forum but i am compulsively doing so with the knowledge that it is harming me.



None of the senseless repetitive link clicking means anything meaningful in real life at all .. With the time that i have been vacantly staring at my monitor doing this i could have actually accomplished something that had real a benefit in my life. All this time gone, pooooof ! I know this but i am still here on this forum reading and posting.



To aid myself in quitting I have quit my faction, moved into a shack, quit my job, closed my bazaar, and hid my money. I fly back and forth from Africa, standard class, thinking that this will lessen my activity. All of this is to no avail because i keep coming back to log in one more time just to "see". I am a fool.



Other players have recommended that I can: Self fed myself, or that i change my password to something complicated that i will be unable to remember. If I self fed what happens to all the city finds and BB payouts? I do not want to lose them. If i change my PW then i will be throwing away 7 years of activity.

Its not the game you are addicted to at this point, its the time you've invested.

My wife whom doesn't like this game is constantly finding herself playing anyways because she doesn't want to "waste" the time she's put in today.

the sunken cost fallacy

that is a possible explanation for some individuals yes

I don't think it's sunken cost for me tho

Ha! I've actually written down instances of what I blatantly considered to be "Actual Torn addiction" when I saw it happen to me and others so I could watch for it and take action where necessary.

Here are 9 signs of actual Torn addiction that I've seen over the years:

• You feel relief upon OD'ing on Xanax.
• Torn is the first thing you open on your phone upon waking up. Especially if you wake up to train energy / do crimes / attack before your phone's alarm goes off.
• You are either late to important meetings because of the timing of NPC loot raids or check when Loot raids are going to be prior to scheduling meetings.
• You are playing Torn while driving.
• You check the forums for a particular purpose, get distracted by another post, and forget what you originally went to the forums for.
• You start to develop actual romantic feelings for a player and daydream about meeting that player.
  
• You refresh your browser more than twice an hour when Torn goes down.
• You take time off from school/work to watch a chain.
• You can't sleep because you are anxious about what other players think about something you posted in the forums.
  
  
  

I have suffered from four of these, personally. Load image: dizzy

don't torn and drive