gaming - /g/ (#105988428) [Archived: 89 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:19:29 PM No.105988428
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Why do you believe that gaming is beneath you? Oftentimes, I come to /g/ and there are people here saying, "Gaming is for children" or "I outgrew gaming," when in reality, you didn't, you just don't want to play when there are plenty of adults playing games all the time. There's nothing wrong with gaming as an adult; you just don't want to see yourself as one of the normies

So what's the issue really, anon? Don't give me a /g/ answer, give me a YOU answer.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:22:32 PM No.105988450
>>105988428 (OP)
>Why do you believe that gaming is beneath you?
Because my mind literally does not derive joy from this childish activity anymore, no matter how bad the nostalgia and how hard I try to make it like it. I am an adult. I crave adult experiences in the real world.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:30:09 PM No.105988508
>>105988428 (OP)
It just takes too much time and you look over it at the end of the day and you notice you hadn't really done anything that makes your life better. I always come across people who are poor or uninteresting because they only care about their video games and spending all their money on it. Its like scamming your time and money. When you hit your 30's you'll experience this and the motivation is just about gone, those who still play video games full time (like you see on twitch) above 30 are really in a constant mid life crisis and dont know when to let go. Even relationships end over them, aside from that most spend so much time into games that they have no skills in anything else and that becomes a problem.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:31:17 PM No.105988521
>>105988508
What do you do to make your life better?

Captcha: xtgay
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:32:26 PM No.105988529
>>105988450
then find other games. Theres plenty out there, but calling it "childish" is a copout.

>>105988508
>when you hit your 30s
I'm 33. I still game. I often play TCGs and Fortnite, and BG3

>no skills
There's a lot of games that take skills to play.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:35:26 PM No.105988555
>>105988521
To be honest, nothing much. Catching up on sleep or more sleep each day is a start. I spend my days writing small python scripts to help with heavy tasks. But its something.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:35:59 PM No.105988559
>>105988529
>then find other games. Theres plenty out there, but calling it "childish" is a copout.
I've gotten too good at sensing the difference between reality and simulation so games no longer work. Your brain is still underdeveloped so you don't get it.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:37:25 PM No.105988573
>>105988555
I was going to shit on you but you're actually being honest which is a rare trait in this shithole, so I won't.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:39:11 PM No.105988592
you have to be 18 to post here
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:40:17 PM No.105988600
>>105988559
>Your brain is still underdeveloped
You're using that as a coping mechanism because your life likely is boring and all you do is watch anime and YouTube all day, vs actually trying new things. Living in a perpetual state of nothingness. Telling someone that if they like gaming, they are CLEARLY a child or "underdeveloped" is childish in itself. Going to cons, enjoying a night out, watching movies, nothing more.

>>105988592
was waiting for this comment. You haven't explained why it's childish. But it's subjective but I'm curious. Sorry 33.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:40:21 PM No.105988601
>>105988573
Im used to being shit on so its okay. But i also do consider eventually trying to get another relationship so i can disconnect myself from the online world as ive been on this for my entire life and i need a change, just want to be happy again.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:40:31 PM No.105988602
>>105988428 (OP)
just a bunch of angry grandpas ignore them
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:41:06 PM No.105988607
>>105988600
>33
maybe physically, not mentally.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:41:59 PM No.105988620
>>105988607
So no fun allowed at all in your life anon?
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:44:31 PM No.105988643
>>105988428 (OP)
cope. grow up, manchild
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:45:25 PM No.105988651
>>105988643
I noticed tat this is a trend. why pretend to look cool when the rest of the world uses a PC for more than just coding?
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:45:51 PM No.105988656
>>105988620.
Adults can find joy in actual productive activities or in the results that ensue from such activities, proof that you've cultivated actual useful skills and are reaping the fruit of said cultivation.
as for >fun
it's a word taught to children to help them express fleeting gratification they get from random, unproductive, activities.
Games are for children. Grow the fuck up.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:46:55 PM No.105988672
>>105988656
You seem angry anon. Wanna talk about it?
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:47:42 PM No.105988681
>>105988428 (OP)
>Why do you believe that gaming is beneath you?
in the meta-relations sense if we accept /v/ tier threads its all that we will see bc /v/ermin outnumbers /g/entoomen by a good margin
theres also the fact that you use marketing definitions which is annoying
like a thread we had like a week ago where a /v/ermin was juxtaposing rasterization with raytracing
these things don mean the same when youre actually dealing with programming
what we did with his thread was innocent, self congratulatory funn but thats still showing the difference and why it matters

also were an anti consumerist board
you might not perceive that, because actual /g/entoomen are few in numbers, and the shills are very loud
but we are. minimalism generals. anti slop and bloat. anti corpogroids, and thats a point where lefties and rightwingers agree

were not anti gaymers since many of us still play vidya
we even have a game dev general
were anti retards. slight nuance. and i think i can talk for all of /g/entoomen here
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:47:43 PM No.105988682
>>105988600
>your life likely is boring
It is. I require real experiences. None of your virtual cope. That shit is for children who struggle to tell apart real life from simulation.

>all you do is watch anime and YouTube all day
>Living in a perpetual state of nothingness.
Can you make your projection any more obvious?
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:48:06 PM No.105988685
>>105988428 (OP)
Video games are made for children and manchildren. Denying this means you're a manchild.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:48:36 PM No.105988689
>>105988672
>substanceless retort
yeah you really showed me anon, you're right, I'll go make an account at steam and start purchasing licenses. Thanks for enlightening me.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:48:56 PM No.105988691
>>105988689
Never said that, you just come off angry.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:50:13 PM No.105988702
>>105988601
>trying to get another relationship so i can disconnect myself from the online world
You don't need a roastie. What you need is to literally touch grass. Start from the lawn and progress to increasingly more difficult-to-reach grass.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:51:28 PM No.105988709
>>105988702
Requires me to bend over, and my lower back is already bad from the way i sit on my chair.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:53:57 PM No.105988729
>>105988709
>Requires me to bend over
How do you know your girlfriend won't also require you to bend over? It's the current year.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:55:10 PM No.105988739
>>105988729
>won't also require you to bend over?
nta but that would be a turbo red flag
unless thats his thing then more power to him
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:55:18 PM No.105988740
>>105988729
I'll make sure there are no activities involving me bending myself over unless its for a good cause.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:56:27 PM No.105988747
>>105988740
>anon, let me peg you, it will make you more inclusive to trans people
moralities vary between people
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:56:50 PM No.105988751
>>105988747
I will use WD-40 then
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:59:01 PM No.105988773
>>105988751
why? bc trannies?
lamao
the mental image of spraying a trany in the face with wd40 in the name of inclusivity and water displacement sure is hilarious
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 5:59:18 PM No.105988775
>>105988740
>I'll make sure there are no activities involving me bending myself over unless its for a good cause.
The only way to make sure no one bends you over for their shitty cause is to leave society.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:00:31 PM No.105988789
>>105988773
No not because of transgenders. Maybe you didnt get the reference.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:01:16 PM No.105988798
>>105988775
this
society demands you bend over for the whims and whishes of a cabal of pedophile retards

but if i wanna jerk off in that holocaust museum thats somehow bad
doesnt matter if i would be naked or not
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:01:20 PM No.105988799
>>105988773
I assume he meant use it as a lubricant
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:02:17 PM No.105988808
>>105988789
then i didnt
enlighten me if you will
you picq
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:03:41 PM No.105988825
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>>105988808
>you picq
you picqued my curiosity

>>105988808
its a bad lubricant for analsex because it gunks up with heat
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:04:13 PM No.105988833
Its not a lubricant for that. Using google search might help you.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:05:34 PM No.105988844
>>105988808
ona more serious note-
dont use wd-40 as a lubricant
its not one.
its in the name
Water Displacement (formula #) 40
originally it was used in rockets to prevent em from rusting
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:07:56 PM No.105988863
>>105988844
may not be a great lubricant but it's amazing for non-stick baking.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:08:58 PM No.105988871
>>105988428 (OP)
I don't think I speak for most of /g/ but for me it's not that I don't play games. I play stardew valley, minecraft, and osrs as a 30 year old man, and I like playing retro pokemon on my phone.
I don't like "gaming" as an aesthetic, personally. I don't really care for the light up fans/peripherals, and I don't really care to look at or admire my PC internals.
My PC is on the ground behind my desk where it is out of the way.
I also don't like hardcore gamers, because they make bad boyfriends. A guy who binges whatever the newest rpg is for a few hours here and there is comfy and nice, but e-sport players that make a fulltime job out of playing league of legends or whatever cancer are neglectful and messy people 9/10 times.

All that said, plenty of people enjoy aesthetics I'm not fond of, and I don't go around shitting up threads over it.

Also RGB everything is 1000x better than when every gaming product was black with red accents, so I will say it's a good evolution, and can just be turned off if it's distracting. (Remembering the black+red era actually just made me really grateful for light up fans)
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:10:36 PM No.105988883
>>105988863
good to know
i will put this idea right next to filling a condom with expanding PU foam and using it as novelty dildo for a woman whose pussy saw a world war
you never know when this kinds of tech heresies might come in handy
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:10:53 PM No.105988886
>>105988871
I use to play OSRS too. Even though my motivation is reduced there is still a bit left to play simpler games but even then i cant be bothered anymore.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:12:31 PM No.105988901
>>105988883
I got no idea what the hell that meant
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:12:36 PM No.105988902
>>105988601
>also do consider eventually trying to get another relationship so i can disconnect myself from the online world
Most people today are connected, youd maybe refrain the time you spend online, but ultimately you still would for so would she. At most just with diferent sites like instagram, women love that place.
And for just that you need not date, just get a non computer related hobby or get a pet.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:14:55 PM No.105988921
>>105988902
I had a dog before, he went away a few years ago worst time it was for me. I dont think about getting another. Im really unsure what new hobbys i should undertake at my age.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:17:44 PM No.105988948
>>105988901
maybe for the better
but what the hell
this is 4chan after all

you take a trojan ultramax condom
or rather two of them
you take expanding foam, squirt some in it
pu foam comes in spray can

then you shove the device in the pussy
pu foam expands
femoid cums
incel technology for when you cant manage

i recommend it for pussies of size sufficient to accomodate an 18 wheeler truck and above
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:18:25 PM No.105988952
>>105988428 (OP)
A lot of dudes wrap their ego up in how good they are at (insert shooter game here) and when they get dunked on by someone half their age it leaves a sour taste in their mouth and stop playing and start calling vidya gay.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:18:39 PM No.105988955
>>105988529
>There's lots of games that take skills to play
He wasn't talking about game mechanics, he was talking about life related skills.
Nobody is so good at overwatch that it qualifies them for any job other than gaming centric fields like e-sport management, coaching, streaming etc... which is such a fantastically small percentage of the people spending an unhealthy amount of time on overwatch that it really doesn't make it seem like a worthwhile pursuit.

Nobody is so good at oeague that it helps their credit score. Being good at cs:go won't mean you can cook or clean. Being good at minecraft doesn't mean you can raise a kid, and so on.

All these skills and many more that actually matter in life aren't something you'll get by finally hitting platinum or whatever.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:19:36 PM No.105988964
>>105988948
I'll note this but at the same time this thread is derailing fast. Maybe we should just be ourselves here.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:20:18 PM No.105988970
>>105988955
Thanks for clarifying my point earlier with the skills part. Seems most here dont get what im saying.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:22:06 PM No.105988989
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>>105988964
i am myself and thats the problem
but youre right

i think gayming related threads should be kept at a minimum if we want to maintain a semblant of quality on this board
not because gayming threads are inherently bad
but because allowance thereof will invite even more gayming threads
and given that /v/ermin are more numerous than /g/ays
it will dilute the signal and this board will become /b/, but tech-flavored
even more so than it already is
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:26:11 PM No.105989023
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>>105988964
>>105988989
cont
pcbg is where /v/ermin shines
i gotta admit, youre on top of your game
but we need to keep things segragated
we have pedos on this board as we speak
but you odnt notice them because they stay in their threads
everyone has their own threads
everyone is happy
but thats because theres balance bw our respective groups
destroy the balance
and this board turns into a battlefield
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:27:14 PM No.105989030
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>>105988886
As I've gotten older my appetite for gaming has become strictly social. I play minecraft because me an my bestie have a server, and we have a farm on stardew. So it gives us something to do while we chat and update eachother on life tea.

OSRS, I have some friends and my cousin plays, and my account is 12 years old so I'm late enough in the game to just jump on and run whatever new content is out for a bit.

Also, in my teens/early 20s I was the kind of guy to play cs:go for 90hrs/week, and now I only play casual sim games with very saturated color pallettes. Maybe 10 or so hrs/week
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:27:42 PM No.105989035
>>105988964
>>105989023
and shitposting is how we maintain or restore said balance
this board saw jannies banned.
it is really a world unto itself
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:30:24 PM No.105989056
I get bored playing games. Some categories of games are outright pointless.
>the most excitement you will have in a race game pales in comparison to hooning a shitbox irl as hard as it will go.
>Farm/animal crossing/crafting games feel like a chore when you have a real house and plants and stuff to build and fix
>FPS games maybe are closest because shooting guns isn't the same as shooting at other players but it feels more dull
>adventure games aren't as fun as going innawoods or on trips with your friends
>everyday IRL is already an rpg
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:31:59 PM No.105989074
>>105989030
This is good info that reminds me of something i should've mentioned before. Another main factor of most video games i played were online but my friends ended up quitting and eventually i was just playing solo and reduces the fun substantially. The games you mentioned are actually better as they are easy and fun while as you said catching up with friends and talk while playing and it does feel a lot better too doing this way.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:40:00 PM No.105989149
I WANT to play games. I simply don't have the time anymore. I have a full time job and kids to take care of. Gaming is simply too big of a time sink and I can't afford to spend my free time in my home office behind the desk instead of spending time with loved ones.

Playing in the living room and thus hogging the TV the wife and kids are using is also irresponsible. Instead I sit on the couch with my ereader if I have the capacity while family is watching some family show or movie. Or I am doing simple things like browsing 4chan if I don't have capacity and the fucking paw patrol or cartoon network cartoon bores me to death.

This is what most people here mean by "gaming is for children" there is just no way you have the time to actually sit down and play a game. I might make an exception for one game every 5 years or so where I take a couple of days off just to play it. But most game franchises I grew up with are dead or the new ones have nothing in common with what I liked anyway.

If a new Zelda game comes out in the style of ocarina of time I might buy the first console in 3 generations and take the time to play it.

So yeah count yourself lucky and cherish this freedom to play and experience things without being locked down, because life will not always be like this. Eventually you will not be able to just play games anymore.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:40:04 PM No.105989151
>>105988428 (OP)
It's just insecure underages (literal or just mentally underage, doesn't matter) who are insecure and feel the need to virtue signal how ADULT and GWOWN UP they "are".
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:44:59 PM No.105989196
>>105989149
It's true that a lot of us including myself abuse our freedom and devote it all on games as we are basically granted endless hours to play them. I look over the 2 decades i spent playing video games, sometimes i think if it really was worth it or not, sometimes a little regret, but still made some friends and memories along the way. And everything is temporary, theres a time and place for everything even priorities. Which for me now is my health because it isn't doing too well lately.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:47:48 PM No.105989229
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>>105989196
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:50:12 PM No.105989253
>>105988428 (OP)
Most people on /g/ are contrarians. They will go against anything that is popular. Even if they are wrong.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:58:05 PM No.105989321
>>105988428 (OP)
the satisfaction from activities that actively have you learning/improving like playing an instrument/art/3D/programming etc is far beyond the temporary satisfaction of playing video games
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:05:22 PM No.105989390
>>105989151
It's because gamers are fairly stigmatized as spending an irresponsible amount of time on games.
Plenty of people have hobbies, waste time on netflix, or do otherwise not entirely productive shit.
The problem is gamers are not known to balance their hobby with real life very effectively. I know a guy that makes 100k/year and does very well at work despite also putting in 12+hrs per day on fortnite (he games on the clock after finishing early)
Still, that doesn't leave a ton of time for playing with his dog, hanging out with his girlfriend, checking in on his mom, maintaining the house, etc...
All of which are being shorted because escapism is such a powerful cope.
And that's one of the better examples I know.

I know plenty of people playing video games all day, with shitty jobs who are relying on parlays to hit so they can have a decent amount of money for the month.

I know like 1 person who is a high functioning gamer, and he all but quit after getting a dog like a year ago so he could train and enrich her.
That's what I don't see in a lot of gamers, I find they are making sacrifices in life to game and not the other eay around.
There are high functioning people that can handle it, I just don't think it represents the norm. Like heroine use.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:09:36 PM No.105989429
>>105988428 (OP)
How old are you, bro?
I've "wanted" to play a JRPG for the longest time but I just can't do it anymore. They were fun when I was like 13-18. But now if I try, my brain tells me that I'm wasting time. It already knows what the general story will be and how the gameplay will shake out. The battle system might be slightly different but, it doesn't think the juice is worth the squeeze, and I cannot force myself to play the game anymore. I would rather do anything else.
You might not get this feeling until you're 30+ or 35+.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:13:04 PM No.105989476
>>105989429
From my perspective on video games after 30 it starts to look like someone who either has no irl commitments, given up on life, not wanting to pursue anything new cause it might be too hard. The problem most face is they just dont want to try anymore and game to death maybe not a good way.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:16:20 PM No.105989512
>>105988428 (OP)
/v/ermin here. I do not believe that games are beneath me, rather I've come to a conclusion that it's best for me to restrict myself to avoid a situation where I can do nothing but play games to relax, even when I'm fed up with videya. Nowdays I treat playing games as a dedicated session of escapism, where I dive in deeply, focus intently and forget about irl. And here's a problem - modern games are slop. I'm irritated and bored by them. They dont do their job of being engaging. And when anon talks /v/, anon talks modern slop. Why should I encourage this? Fuck no, I would rather say gaymers are kids and unemployed neets who shit up a tech board with bs unrelated to globohomo corpo mental illness, retarded tech questions, tinker trooning with your os, brand faggotry, llm slop and bait coooding threads nocoders fall for without fail every single time. All while implying being a kid and a neet is a bad thing, when it's not, of course. Hypocrisy is fun like that.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:20:29 PM No.105989553
>>105989512
guh.... i'm gayming!
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:20:38 PM No.105989556
>>105988428 (OP)
it's just socially isolated or flyover midwits
sure, the gaming as discussed on /v/, i.e. gacha and tendie autism is childish, but gaming doesn't have to be about escapism
1) VR chat, multiplayer games with friends, etc. is a great way for normalfaggots to socialize
2) nothing wrong with taking gaming as a normalfaggot hobby they do in moderation in between real life activities. There's a difference between op pic's generic clean and "tasteful" normalfaggot battlestation and asmincel-level trash hive
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:24:46 PM No.105989606
I find the worst part is when people publicly broadcast their webcam with a video game streaming it all day. To me i find it really embarrasing, although someone sit there and play games and watch others play games but its the fact that a grown individual is displaying that online, people get the idea this is this persons life. I cant understand how people expose themselves like that.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:25:37 PM No.105989616
I think women and children kill the joy of gaming
>me without a woman or children and still game
Probably also work and worrying about politics. Ever notice how politics run the world since 9/11? What I think is hilarious is i've been ignoring it since then and my life has been fine, its when people bring it up in casual conversation that it starts a problem and people will block me or not be my friend anymore cause I don't talk about politics with them. Its sad really. Politics ruin everything.
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Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:27:40 PM No.105989649
>>105989556
I play a game once a week for a couple hours with friends that are in all different states
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:29:33 PM No.105989670
>>105989616
Exactly. I cant eat dinner with my family anymore without my mother bringing up Israel or Trump in the first 5 seconds.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:30:05 PM No.105989678
>>105989390
>grifter mcfaggot told me
Nobody cares, retard.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:32:20 PM No.105989707
>>105988428 (OP)
They pride themselves in discarding their hobbies and becoming the perfect wageslaves
Replies: >>105990540
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:32:39 PM No.105989713
>>105988428 (OP)
It's people with sticks up their ass OP.
I don't play many games these days in favor of tinkering with shit, and I imagine they're no different, they just want to feel more mature even though they've just replaced it with a different hobby.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:35:40 PM No.105989754
>>105988428 (OP)
>Why do you believe that gaming is beneath you?
They do it because it pisses you off.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:54:15 PM No.105989964
>>105988428 (OP)
I "mostly" outgrew gaming. It is only the old stuff from my childhood or connected to my childhood/teenage years that interests me. So I guess I mostly outgrew gaming.
I am semi-fighting my gaming addiction by using Linux and trying to develop an artsy skill. Any artsy skill really. Like I became a /tg/ anon and I paint some miniatures. But I'm lazy at that.
I am also trying out drawing using Krita.

Valve isn't helping my gaming addiction as there are a lot of games compatible with Linux now, but the constant crashes I get from whatever distro it is I use helps fight the addiction a little bit.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 7:56:09 PM No.105989990
>>105988428 (OP)
>Oftentimes
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 8:33:50 PM No.105990430
>>105988428 (OP)
Gaming is bad for you
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 8:42:59 PM No.105990540
>>105989707
>discarding their hobbies
what's next, watching sitcoms on tv is a hobby too?
Replies: >>105991046
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 8:54:46 PM No.105990692
curiosity is a children's trait. it's one of primal instincts that forces you to perform mundane activities and tricks you that you're having "fun".
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:22:41 PM No.105991033
>>105988450
fpbp
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:23:38 PM No.105991040
>>105988685
Mature men play military simulators. Tinkering with Linux is for manchildren.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:24:20 PM No.105991046
>>105990540
is playing chess a hobby?
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:29:08 PM No.105991100
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>>105988428 (OP)
consume more hardware at x9897217 the price mark, golem, is fine by me
it no longer entretains me, I feel as I'm being fooled
>grind this to get this
how about no?
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:31:42 PM No.105991129
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I keep trying to quit video games because they're a waste of time but I crave violence and don't know how to satisfy that need. I literally want to bash someone's face in, I want to destroy things, I want to flail my fists around aimlessly and just wreck shit up.

If I get in the mood for it I find that I still enjoy reading for example or I sometimes pick my guitar back up and continue practicing etc. but if I don't satisfy that craving in the back of my mind to absolutely tear shit up it sort of "itches" inside of me all day and I don't know how to satisfy it (legally) without video games.
Replies: >>105991581
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:39:28 PM No.105991206
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>>105988428 (OP)
I don't think gaming is beneath me, but I don't really do it as often as I used to. When I was a kid (16 and below) I used to spend every moment I wasn't sleeping or studying in MW2 or WoW or whatever else. This was fun back then because I had a lot of IRL friends who wanted to play these games.

When I graduated HS and headed to college, I immediately lost access to most of those friends. My college friend pool was smaller and far more career focused than before. It was the same when I graduated college and got my first job: all my coworkers were 20-to-40-somethings who spent 50 hours a week working and most of their spare time doing shit outdoors like hiking or rock climbing. Even the ones who do nerdy shit prefer physical gaming like MtG or board games to vidya.

At first I hated that I couldn't find people to grind nolife games with me anymore, but eventually I just became one of these people. I might play a match of TF2 once or twice a week, usually by myself. My gf and friends usually want to play friendslop like REPO which honestly I've come to enjoy a lot. I spend much more time nowadays socializing, exercising, and learning, and honestly, I don't miss vidya at all anymore. I'd much rather live the life I'm living now than to sit on my ass all day grinding XP in a game nobody will be playing next year.

Vidya is like alcohol or pot: it's a lot more fun when you indulge in it sparingly with friends in social settings rather than doing it 8 hours a day every day by yourself in an unclean smelly studio apartment.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 10:16:27 PM No.105991581
>>105991129
Why do you have to frame it that way? You want to blow of some steam. You could achieve the same effect by lifting weights or having sex, but you're the kind of person to assuage violent ideations by playing mario kart, so here you are.
Replies: >>105991751 >>105992489
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 10:36:32 PM No.105991751
>>105991581
>lifting weights
so becoming a retard
>having sex
hes probably ugly, you really think he can have sex?
Video games are made for us incels so we don't go on murderouress rampages, cause fuck if we even tried to have sex we'd just probably be raping someone and wind up in prison anyways.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:39:15 PM No.105992431
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I tried to enjoy video games. I couldn't.
I use to game a lot when i was in my teens, but after hitting university and graduating.. I'm a different person.
I feel less human by having to do an adult job for a lifetime. I come back home tired.
> Grind to get X
No. I cannot. My boss orders me 24/7. I cannot let a game control my life too. I tried to enjoy VNs, but they were just.. not for me.
I just want to rest & sleep and perhaps watch a good show on the coach.
Been years I've been living alone. I'm tired of cooking my own food. I forced myself to play a few video games, I couldn't play for more than 30 minutes then I get bored.
Let me rest anon.. I'm already a slave IRL.. Don't want to be enslaved in the digital world too..
Replies: >>105992937
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 11:44:26 PM No.105992489
>>105991581
I probably lift more than you. I also additionally run 25 miles per week.

Others IRL have also suggested sex, I guess I'll give it a shot, I'm pretty tall with an average face and visible abs but personality is the biggest issue. I'm autistic and I also find it really difficult to give a fuck about people IRL in general, I've tried dating through family twice and through friends once and I was the one to ghost them every time. I just can't fake attachment where there's none.

I was thinking of picking up MMA or boxing actually, I think that would help.
Replies: >>105992962 >>105993400
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:29:23 AM No.105992937
>>105992431
how can you live like that?
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:31:28 AM No.105992962
>>105992489
k you can't be helped, enjoy being retarded I guess. Then again I probably would enjoy being retarded too but unforunately my dopamine addicted brain won't let me become a gym bro/sex enjoyer.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:23:07 AM No.105993400
>>105992489
It takes you a whole week to run 25 miles? LMFAO
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 2:59:01 AM No.105994166
>>105988428 (OP)
I think the problem is people either got too whipped by the real world or fell off the wagon because it either isn't how they remember it to be or they went from being able to play multiple hours a day most days to maybe just a few hours a week and just gave up.

I'm 31, me and my wife are both avid gamers, and despite our careers taking over we still make time for our hobbies. We take 30 minutes a day to walk and work out with each other for another 30 minutes a day most days to make sure we stay in shape. I work 45 hours a week, she works 32, we take in a combined 110k-ish. We cook in the evenings, prep lunches, yet despite all of that we still manage find time to play, not just together but separately as well. Some anons have mentioend Stardew or Minecraft, but sometimes one of us will play a smaller game like Faith and the other will watch, or sometimes we'll just play games separately. We go to cons yearly, we cosplay, despite all of our responsibilities.

To the people saying that you just "grew up" I don't think that's necessarily the case. I think you got jaded with the world and internalized the doomerism, you embraced the idea of if you aren't being transported back to 1999 then you might as well not play period. Find a little joy, a little whimsy, not everything is as serious as you paint it out to be. The real world exists, yes, I live in it just as much as you do, I'm some basement dwelling NEET who games 13 hours a day and is getting on some high horse, I'm not even saying you have to devote all your free time to it, just maybe stop hating so much and you might enjoy it a little every now and then.

Hate on NEETs and their lifestyle, sure, I can understand especially as someone who works 9-10 hours a day. But hate the player, not the game.
Replies: >>105994210 >>105994822
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 3:04:46 AM No.105994210
>>105994166
Oh, and before anyone says it, we're not going childless and spending every last penny on games and cosplay and conventions and useless junk, our firstborn is expected in November. Am I gonna have less time for games as a father? Absolutely. It doesn't mean I won't find time to play, just that it becomes less of a priority. Doesn't mean I'm gonna treat people who still play games like immature losers, get a life instead of hating someone for wanting to play Monster Hunter
Replies: >>105995614
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:20:23 AM No.105994736
>>105988428 (OP)
I regret the amount of time I spent playing vidya in my teens and early twenties I’m 26 as I type this.
I wasn’t even consuming games right as a stress release and fun activity it was just to cope with how bad things got like an alcoholic does with booze.
I just tinker with modifying a fedora xfce build and sometimes try to draw or paint miniatures in my free time. The only time I come here is for technical support for my linux machine.

Plus I lost my main game group I knew since my 2016 Roblox days.
Maybe even farther back than that.
We made a discord server and I don’t know what caused it but out of the three main groups I was in this was the only one with problems.
It seemed like every time I tried to help someone or raise a voice of concern a fight would start.

I was particularly concerned for the queers that came out in the friend group but they just had this way of getting offended and I would try to explain myself and then things would escalate and it would be branded a fight and I was always branded as the one who started it when I just wanted to help. Most of my concerns was them validating bad stereotypes that /pol/ had about queers. It reminded me of my right wing phase.
Now I’m no longer with them because after some soul searching I realized we had grown incompatible and I was being used like a punching bag it was practically emotional abuse looking back. Despite everything I still hope that they’re doing fine and hopefully overcoming their problems and growing for the better.

Anyways I don’t really game as much as I used to after having left them. I just tinker with linux through downloading stuff to my fedora xfce build.
Replies: >>105996646
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 4:32:09 AM No.105994822
>>105994166
>you embraced the idea of if you aren't being transported back to 1999 then you might as well not play period.
Almost all new games are like new movies, absolutely horrible and for normal fags. It's not to say to never play anything but it just makes the likely hood of people being put off by new trash significantly higher. Imagine someones first 10 movies were random shit from the 2010s, they would probably think every movie ever made is horrible and the same is true for games. There are definitely some good ones out there, at least that are 10 years old by this point, but seeing the absolute disaster that happened to pretty much every 'esport' title is hilarious, no wonder people are beyond jaded by it
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:02:04 AM No.105995351
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md5: 4418a18ccdbdd8ec50dd8bdb6c226302🔍
Gaming =/= gaming

You could be playing mindless smash or mariocart binging wahoo

Or you could see it as a virtual diorama like I do. Study a certain era, recreate a battlefield, install lots of mods, customise your army skins, limit yourself to maximal historical accuracy etc. That's what I consider fun nowadays
Replies: >>105995538
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:17:35 AM No.105995443
Games these days do a lot to fight the person that wants to actually play them. I don't want any gaming crap on my computer.

The only acceptable solution is a handheld maybe the the Ryzen Z2 chips won't suck and they'll finally do 60fps minimum and be worth it.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:33:48 AM No.105995538
>>105995351
Cringe
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:38:24 AM No.105995564
>>105988428 (OP)
Over the years I’ve just found other things to do with my free time that I enjoy more than playing video games. I’ll still occasionally get the itch to (and do) sit down and play something for a while, especially in the winter, but most of the time where I used to spend playing video games I’m doing other things. I wouldn’t necessarily say I “outgrew” playing video games but if you want to call it that that’s fine with me.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 6:48:22 AM No.105995614
>>105994210
Gaming will end when your child gets born trust me. Happened to me as well. During pregnancy gaming peaked as she had maternity leave and we had more time to game. In retrospect that was the last time we could dedicate time to games.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 7:02:36 AM No.105995711
I'm jealous of people able to game. I want to play expedition 33. I've been "playing" it since launch. I'm about 5 hours in now... This is with my trying to arrange my schedule to have time for gaming.

I will finish it sometime in 2027... Every time I start it up which is once a month or so I will have to remind myself what happened.

You know what I really notice in games? In music albums games or books I can skip segments or chapters. Not possible with games.

At this point I'm considering just watching a walk through on YouTube and skipping all combat sections while having speed at 2x.

It's simply infeasible for me to play games. I'm sure this is true for most adults. I can consume podcasts during commute. I can watch movies with the family. I can even read books in very short 1 chapter bursts during breaks. Gaming just has too much investment needed. Not just time investment also effort investment, setting up the play area, getting the game ready (downloading, updating etc) starting it and orienting yourself on what is happening. By that time you will already have burned through your free time budget.

You need to sacrifice sleep, hygiene, family quality time or your career to sustain this hobby. That's just not viable after a certain age.
Replies: >>105995739
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 7:07:10 AM No.105995739
>>105995711
yeah, I think people like you and I need to skip the epic 30+ hour games. I think we can play some indie puzzle games or maybe the big mario games.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 9:56:46 AM No.105996646
>>105994736
i join servers on discord and most of the time there either full of transfolks or trolls/manchild. I end up getting booted from many servers because people come up with a reason to hate me and brag on about it and i don't get why they do that all day. Anyway it's taught my a lesson that i just cant fit in with these younger ones they aren't as mature as they seem online and i seperate myself entirely from drama now and no longer use discord or any form of contact of randoms because 90% of the time they start something and carries on and im sitting thinking what the hell is this persons problem. They really just talk about sex jokes and spamming gifs as responses and its real strange online communication on there has drive down to that - almost as if they can't talk.
Replies: >>105996725
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:07:43 AM No.105996695
Literally just get a steam deck and stop whining about your inner gamer being oppressed.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:13:19 AM No.105996725
>>105996646
These weren't exactly teenagers I was dealing with. They grew into their twenties. There was one guy I forgot to mention who would just throw potshots at me behind the block button. I don't know what I did to him it was like a switch just turned on, but during the soul searching it was that nobody raised a finger or so much as said: "hey man that's immature and you blocked this person knock it off" or something like that made me really see their true colours. At least that's what I had felt.
The guy has been depressed for years and is a pornography addict that makes me look tame. So I kind of pitied the guy instead of hating him in turn.

I have a feeling that Discord is mostly for broken people at this point.
Not sure why it attracts such people.
Replies: >>105996752
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:17:01 AM No.105996752
>>105996725
I can say similar stuff most people i met were massive porn addicts/gooners even the women (chinese). Discord seems to be the place for that now and drama.
Replies: >>105996822
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:29:38 AM No.105996822
>>105996752
I have a feeling that I'm not the first person to have a story like this.
I still sometimes wonder if I was the asshole. I don't wish anything bad on the people in the server though.

Maybe this scenario will one day have a meme-name for it if it becomes common enough. You can't really predict the currents of memery, and I know for a fact that I'm out of the loop with slang now.
>Discord seems to be the place for that now and drama
Yeah it seems you can't avoid drama. They probably love the pain.
Replies: >>105996827
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:31:18 AM No.105996827
>>105996822
The people on there spread false accusations about me and seems to happen often and i get booted - not even any proof or server mod bothered to check they just do it. Maybe it's their way of self entertainment.
Replies: >>105996852
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:33:05 AM No.105996834
>>105988682
>That shit is for children who struggle to tell apart real life from simulation.
The cope is supreme
Nigga are you really out here touting the "video games cause school shooters" argument around
Replies: >>105996887
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:36:44 AM No.105996852
>>105996827
One tactic one person would do is just leave the server during a fight and people would dogpile on me as if I am at fault for the person leaving. I've seen it happen in the server I eventually left and in a public server.
Is there a "meme name" for such a tactic?
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:37:25 AM No.105996855
>>105988428 (OP)
Generally only ever happens anymore when I have to call in sick and can't get out of bed. Time to take out one of the bajillion indie games I've amassed through the early days of Humble Indie Bundle offerings, when they were still good.

I rather spend my time working on or driving with my cars. Sometimes I take them to a race track or go drifting or whatever. Going to learn TIG welding in the coming weeks.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:42:20 AM No.105996878
>>105988428 (OP)
IMO, all sources of dopamine are acceptable vices in this soul sucking world. Games, porn, drugs, anime, binge watching garbage rom coms, whatever! This place is a fucking hell hole, do whatever you have to do to take some stress off, stay sane, and acquire a shred or two of satisfaction in your life. Nobody should judge anyone else's coping mechanisms until it begins harming other people, like billionaires LARPing as dragons and hoarding money just for funsies. Fuck billionaires
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:43:15 AM No.105996884
i get that there are people who genuinely dont enjoy video games but the people who bully gamers on g are horrible, like they have so much contempt for gamers. they use technology and dont even consider the fact that a large proportion of the advances in computer technology came from engineers trying to enable playing video games better.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 10:43:32 AM No.105996887
>>105996834
Nice strawman you got there, but actually look at that anon's post. He's projecting problems with his life (it's boring, it's empty, nothing to do except to consume media slop) on mine. And what's his solution? Is he willing to do something with his life and introduce actual substance into it? No. Just kiddie escapism because his underdeveloped brain can't sense the difference between abstract fantasy activities with abstract fantasy rewards and actually living.

Prove me wrong. Protip: you won't because you can't.
Replies: >>105997166
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:33:40 AM No.105997166
>>105996887
Why are you arguing with me. I don't disagree with you. "The kids can't tell reality from fiction" is literally THAT argument. Not a strawman. Stop being an argumentative retard.
Replies: >>105997172
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:34:37 AM No.105997172
>>105997166
You're not a kid. You're retarded in the clinical sense.
Replies: >>105997336
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 11:50:22 AM No.105997247
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Gaming is not beneath me. It's just that I've largely have lost interest towards modern games and I can't really embrace the past ones either - life only goes forward, after all. There's always a few games that tickle my fancy, and spending 2-4 hours a week on those is typically enough.

The argument for "growing out of gaming" is stupid as fuck - anything outside securing your survival is a waste of time. No, making more money to buy nicer things is not survival, it's excess. Time is the only currency with any weight in this world and as a limited resource retains it's value. If you're having a good and/or meaningful time, it's time well spent. If you have regrets after putting time into something, maybe you need to re-evaluate your choices. Personally I feel that slaving away for Mr. Shekelberg for some additional jew notes of diminishing value is one of the worst things one can do with their time, but people like different things - who am I to judge? Some people appear to love their slavery and couldn't imagine their lives without it.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:08:10 PM No.105997336
>>105997172
You're the one who can't understand what I'm posting m8.
Replies: >>105997393
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 12:21:37 PM No.105997393
>>105997336
I understand what you're posting. You're posting your unrefined 80 IQ opinions.
Replies: >>105997869
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 1:46:07 PM No.105997869
>>105997393
you shrimply misunderstood what I was saying because you're not as smart as me. Must be all those video games.