Thread 518773829

>>518773829 (OP)
If you are over age 20 playing computer games you should feel ashamed

about 2 hours ago

If you are over age of 15 and still browsing /pol/ you should feel ashamed

>>518773829 (OP)
Slowly lost interest in it over a couple of years, but around 25.

>>518773865

>if you are 1 year old and don’t [insert pedantic overbearing societal standard that your great grand father fucking ground his hands into dust just to have a chance at you should feel bad kys trope here]

Who’s listening in 2025?
Who’s watching in 2025?
Succinct short and straight to the point, great video!
Axm67 to the moon!


And many more classic pajeet bot kiketube hits.
Now that’s what I call gaslighting vol . 5

Shut the fuck up, societal dynamics will never be consistent, there is waxing and waning and no manner of brow beating and boomer posting is going to manifest a safety net for your pillowface destined ass.

>>518773865
yea let me focus my efforts on collecting a currency that is beging debased 20 percent a year so I can give 80 percent to Jewish settlers and welfare sheboons. After all the purpose of my life is to contribute to building a digital prison for humanity for forever.

>>518774129
>>518774181
there is nothing more pathetic than you fucking neets

I'm 36 and I still play video games

>>518773829 (OP)
When I died

>>518774247
I don't know, people with faith in the system are much more pathetic.

>>518773829 (OP)
>More organized and disciplined.
Sadly is easy to be organized in a game where you can make endless storage and own all the land and resources you can harvest.
If I could actually keep all the fruits of my labor I would be extremely motivated to work more in real life.

>>518773921
>You

>>518773829 (OP)
About 10 minutes ago,this the only game i need & have on my phone.One of the very few games i never clocked as a kid in the early 2000s,still enjoying playing it my early & close to clocking it.

I only play indie games

>>518773865
>>518774247
Seethe foid

>>518773865
the best time to mature is when you're a kid
you need to learn something useful like architecture or metallurgy
instead we teach them about chocolate and minecraft and e-drama

>>518774427
>Early 30s*

>>518773829 (OP)
2010ish
last game I played was world of warcraft right before I went off to college

It’s called being tired Reddit

>>518773865
You post on pol.

>>518773829 (OP)
Real life is fake and gay. Videogames might be fake but at least some of them aren't gay.

>>518774577
I am 30, I have a wife and a six figure job. I only browse here to laugh at you retards

>>518773829 (OP)
i prefer woodworking. with hand tools. i build beautiful things out of mahogany and walnut. in fact, I've had some of my pieces valued over 100k.

>>518774938
Your shitty average wageslave job and ugly fat wife are nothing to boast about grandpa

>>518773829 (OP)
I didn't. Good games are still enjoyable, and as long as I took care of everything that needs to be done, there is zero reason for me to not just do something I enjoy afterwards.
I have more than enough money to cover all necessities, and also enough money to cover all the reasonable luxuries. If I decided to sacrifice my hobbies and slave away even harder, it would be because someone else wants me to pay for their unreasonable luxuries. Why would I do that?

>>518775022
What's the time in that? 50 hours?

>>518774938
>I am 30,I have a wife and a six figure job I only browse here to laugh at you retards.
Says every faggot beta male dork who lurks here,the cliche old cunt!.

>>518774938
your job makes you do an endless amount of unpaid overtime, and your wife is fat.
why else would you be so miserable than you feel the need to seek out a place to "laugh at others" to cope?

>>518775216
six months building that table, a month to finish it, a month for each of the eight chairs. probably another month just building jigs, although i don't use them so much anymore.

>>518773829 (OP)
When my PC died then down the line I got a job and a new PC now I'm a gamer again now all I need is a gf to live with before my dad dies

>>518774427
Digimon World for playstation 1? An absolute masterpiece, I never took another game seriously after finishing it 100% during covid, with all the medals and everything; have you found the place in gear savanna where chain melon spawns? It's really helpfull

>>518774938
So you're currently posting on an anime and gaymen website with /lgbt/ section to laugh at retards? If you were forced to what would you show your imaginary wife and workmates first? You playing a video game or you posting on this website?

>>518773829 (OP)
>easy to be organized in videogames

It's simple effort in > reward out
Doing things in videogames feels rewarding, it's designed to feel rewarding.
And the better and more organized you are at the videogame, the more it rewards you.

But in real life, there is virtually no reward for your actions, you are forced to work anymore because you'll die if you don't, but you are not rewarded, you are merely punished for not doing so.
What rewards you do recieve in real life and seemingly random and often trivial.
From both a biological and societal point of view, there's no reason to enjoy living right now

>>518773829 (OP)
So what you're saying with your post is that, people who play games don't lack organization and discipline, but that modern society is so fucked that games are the only place where they can apply their natural human talents?

gotcha

>>518773829 (OP)
You didn't hit rock bottom, you just came to the realization that society doesn't give a fuck about you whereas your video game friends actually do appreciate you. It's a harsh reality to know.

There are good games that are enjoyable, and bad games which are not enjoyable.

If life was a videogame, I would have taken the disc out and quit playing years ago.
All talk of "seeing a beautiful natural landscape makes all the hardship worth it" is just cope.
From the metric of a videogame, ie from the metric of something enjoyable and worth willingly spending your time on, life is not it.

>>518773829 (OP)
I’m 30 years old. I’ve been employed but never had a real job. Been a NEET or in college most of my adult life. I’ve lost interest in playing most games even though I like the idea of gaming a lot. The constant prompting in Civilization IV keeps me busy and is one of the only things that will distract me from depressive episodes, whereas in a game like Factorio or Minecraft I just end up as disorganized and directionless as I am in real life. I know Civilization IV will be one of my deathbed regrets (I have easily 3,000 hours on it, probably more), but even if I had the money and rig for newer games I feel like they just wouldn’t hold my attention.

>>518775365
>Digimon world 1 for PlayStation?
Yep the one & only,I found 2 chain melons but they super extremely rare but they come in handy it made my Megeseadramon live another 3 more days.

This fucking thread again

>>518773829 (OP)
Well I can understand feeling insecure about playing fucking minecraft. That was always a shit game

>>518775420
I wonder when Western cultures decided that the carrot should be discarded and the only tool to ever be used from now into infinity is the stick.
It's clearly not working, but they double down on it every single time anyway.

>>518774247
>>518774359

>>518773829 (OP)
Video Games > this piece of shit board. Both not great for your mind but video games at least can be pretty complex

>>518773829 (OP)
27 year old NEETbux recipient since i was a kid. video games are getting extemely old and boring, ontop of every new release is trannyslop or chinaslop, and probably runs like garbage. i'm tired of constantly having to upgrade for graphics i don't give a fuck about. i'm very likely going to break the cycle and get this decent job i may have lined up for me in the near future. time to actually step out into this fagjew society and take what i want.

>>518774427
>clocked
Is this some hot new South African slang

>>518775762
A decent job after neeting all your life? What the fuck kind of job is that

>>518773829 (OP)
What’s really sad is setting up a redditposting slop bot

>>518775420
>>518775716
People make fun of "corporate pizza parties" - but psychologically they work really well.

>>518773921
hi, kike.

>>518775840
Nah that shit is always an inconvenience. Give me a real employee discount on food I can eat whenever or suck my dick.

>>518773865
>>518774247
Nah, being a fat fucking pussy living in your dystopian shithole is far worse.
>>518774938
>I'm only here PRETENDED to be a massive nigger hurr durr, I'm secrety just above it all.
Lmao, cope, seethe and dilate you massive fag.

>>518773829 (OP)
Videogames are to Zoomers as TV is to Boomers.
Be glad you're not a Boomer TV zombie, they never grew out of their brainwashing device.
At least vidya is interactive.

>>518773829 (OP)
when nips and gamers sold out and videogames like minecraft and dead simple "push the button for next cinematic experience" games became popular. i hate sandboxes, multiplayer, and shooting games. i appreciated the genius of god of war but thought the combat was fucking retarded. if it doesn't have a story and good gameplay, i'm not interested. it gave me much more time to read, i'm happy uncreative western faggots took it over.

>>518775795
connection through someone i know very well. basically some office job without faggy coworkers, no HR department, no dress code, WFA sometimes an option, many paid days off for (((holidays))). only 2 downsides which aren't terrible are commute might be an hour or so average, and pay is ~40k a year but it's salary with potential for early raise. not bad for first job no?

>>518773865
Why?
>>518773921
This poster is a pajeet.

>>518775840
I find them very annoying. I want to fuck off from work as quickly as possible, I don't want to waste even more time after work in the office just to eat pizza.
if I want a pizza, I can just buy one myself. no amount of slop in the office is going to compensate for the fact that the government steals more than half of my money to give it to foreigners. plus the 10-20% inflation on my wealth every single year that they decided to throw on top of that since COVID

>>518775840
I worked security at a mall for a few months. There were baby strollers patrons could rent, and the machine gave out a $1 refund when they were returned. These guys (some of whom were cool but most of whom had serious socialization issues) told me they put that money towards a Christmas dinner. I just pocketed it the whole time I was there as I had no interest in spending any time with them outside of work.

By contrast when I worked at a family member’s office he would find an excuse to get high-quality overpriced food almost every month, sometimes twice, and we would all sit around talking for an hour instead of working. It was nice and helped me to connect to at least a few of my coworkers. The advantage smaller companies have over the larger ones is that they can be smarter with their discretionary spending because the principals are in direct control of it, whereas in a company if you let that kind of spending go on you’d have people abusing it in no time.

>>518776119
>WFA
meant to write WFH fuck

>>518776117
What was God of War like? I saw it advertised everywhere as a kid but when I saw the gameplay later in life it looked terrible. Same with Mercenaries.

>>518776169
>After work
No anon. I meant during work hours, on company time.

>>518775635
If you get a digivolution wrong (let's say, sukamon), go to the specific screen where the chain melon spawns, and go in and out constantly until your digimon dies, you can harvest a lot of them like this, and it will help a lot to complete the game

>>518776356
ah, in that case, that would be something different.
that never happened at any of my employers though. if HR comes up with one of their new splendid ideas, it is always after work, on your own time. definitely never on company time.

>>518775716
After the Soviet Union collapsed. Communism sucked but the existence of a competing system did at least force the ruling class to play somewhat nice with the working class.

>>518773829 (OP)
i think my dysthymia finally caught up to me in my old age.
i no longer find watching films or tv enjoyable.
i no longer find playing video games enjoyable now that i understand the basic mechanics of the gameplay loop skinner box.
going on youtube and getting caught in youtube reels feels like an addiction i want to escape by my desire for more information keeps me there.
its like that one portlandia skit about being stuck in a technology loop.
i put twitch streamers on in the backround, i don't play games I just silently lurk twitch streamers as they play the latest games.
I honestly dont see why people buy games any more. just watch other people play theses games.

honestly if you like playing games.
and still can appreciate it.
then i will forgive you if you have a job or a family etc, and use it as a bonding expierence and/or just a time waster to destress.
when i was working playing league of legends and masturbating to porn was the best way for me to destress, however it kept me inside on the weekends instead of hanging out with my friends.
but then again my friends just want to stay in their homes, drink and smoke and watch amnime.
cool for a bit. but I like to wander. and people here are too scared of getting stabbed or robbed.
they don't know that if you walk around in a posse and stay mindful and if you are dudes people wont fuck with you.
but whatevs.
anyways i digress.
other than time waster/bonding. dif you are 40 and playing games and aren't developing a video game or do some sort of artistic vision you are absolutley fucking up.

>>518773829 (OP)
He's more organized and disciplined in that virtual world because he has control, anon on Reddit does not have control over his life which is why it's a mess.
I suggest less carbs and dedicating time for exercise before Vidya, if he has free time for 3 hours to play Minecraft he can cut that down to 2 and do 1 hour of walking and squatting.
Remember to love yourselves.

>>518773865
If you play anymore than 8 hours a week, I agree. But a couple hours or so a day doesn't hurt and can be a good way to kill time. So long as you actually do other things with your life that warrants it.

>>518773829 (OP)
consider the effort in game you need to expend to "get organized" vs real life.
in game, you press buttons with your fingers and manipulate a keyboard and mouse or controller and those inputs translate to moving an avatar aounrd onscreen.
also consider perspective too.
the abililty to reload saves and a bunch of other things.
good news this whole uncomfortable feeling you are getting with videogames and the dissonscne you are getting with real life is the first step to change.
sure you may not have the stamina or real life resources to be organized IRL.
but this game has taught you the basics.
and you can kind of understand the philosophy behind getting organized.

the thing is games often have goals spelled out for you, with a clear way of acheiving them.
and anyone with a walkthrough can achieve these goals.
IRL isn't exactly that cut and dry.

>>518776119
Sounds good. Get your sleep schedule in order before you start. Like months before

>>518776540
I'm not reading all that

I just play old stuff and maybe the occasional indieshit, modern mainstream gaymes are complete shit. Don't really understand why it's assumed by so many people nowadays that playing vidya games occasionally after work is the same as being some NEET addict playing for 12 hours a day, but if it leads to gaymers being demonised again I welcome it because it means normalfags will finally leave us alone again.

>>518773865
fpbp

>>518776840
understandable

>>518777078
>demonised again
I remember after a school shooting the enemies in cs source would just lay down slowly and give up after you shot them. That was by far the gayest shit i have ever seen

>>518773829 (OP)
When I start drawing and take the hobby seriously. Part of my phyche desperately wants to cling to games and I have the urge to play them now and then but they do abosolutley nothing for me. I always come back to drawing my comic.

>>518773829 (OP)
around the time the pandemic started, ironically enough.

I worked in IT and business was real good during the pandemic. then around 2021-2022 there was a lull that allowed me to catch up on projects, then as stay at home orders lifted and RTW orders hit, things got even busier.

Sitting down to play games at any age over 30 is impossible if you have any form of responsibility. Free time only exists if someone else is sacrificing theirs. I have no parents anymore, I am the man of the house and have to maintain my home and the two women I live with who help maintain it as well. They have needs as well.

>>518773829 (OP)
As soon as I finish this Bannerlord campaign I'm working on. The East Empire isn't going to liberate itself after all.

Most people I know who get preachy about video games spend hours everyday sitting in front of the TV dribbling. They aren't watching the classics of cinema or French art films either. I usually end up on the side of games because the unstated alternative is mindless TV (I personally don't watch much made after about 1994).

There is nothing wrong with good video games in moderation. There is a lot wrong with spending any time at all playing slop which is what being "a gamer" seems to be about as a lifestyle thing.

But there is nothing virtuous about reading books if your books are Tom Clancy and Dan Brown.

Media and probably hobbies in general have this character to them. Quality in moderation is fine, stay away from the slop end of things and don't use them as displacement activities from real life. I work hard, I do what I have to do, I see no problem with hobbies in that context.