30+ gamer thread

Playing The Alters. Very neat game so far. This hits the same spot that This War of Mine and Frostpunk did, except it's not filtering me like Frostpunk did even on the hardest difficulty. I love these Polish developers. They easily mog CDPR and Warhorse, bunch of open world sloppers.

Still Wakes the Deep is getting a DLC next week, I'll try that out. I liked Still Wakes the Deep. Fun little walking simulator in a neat environment.

Had to give up on Juufuutei Raden™'s Guide for Pixel Museum. Those 5 star puzzles are just too fucking difficulty for me.

Also looking forward to Crown Gambit coming out next week. It's a woke game, but it seems like it might be neat. Worth giving it a shot.

Do you guys often think about your childhood in the 90s?
I do

>>712586854
No not much, mostly only when i do some shit with my minis.

>>712586854
eh it was hit or miss for me, i had an NES and later the grey brick gameboy i got from my grandma, didn't get the N64 until 1999 or so.

so i never really had the best of anything and also got beaten with a 2x4 with 3 inch holes drilled into it to make it hurt more usually because my brother did something to piss my mother off and he would never admit to doing it so all of us got lined up and beaten in turn.

>>712586854
My childhood was in the 00s, and no, the least I think about it, the better. I prefer my neet outcast adulthood to my troubled childhood life.

>>712586854
No not at all.

Just rebuilt my PC with top of the line everything, I still feel empty inside

>>712586854
I want to go home.

Bought a Switch 2 and was reminded of just how many Switch games I have. I think I'll be good for the next few years. I have more than enough to play while waiting on a couple games.
>>712586854
I don't, but I honestly don't remember that much. Sleep deprivation has fried my brain and memory.

>>712586854
Pretty much every single day.

Did you fellow boomers play Destroy All Humans? I never did but I want to try it. Is there anything wrong with the remakes, from what I can see they didn't censor anything. The demo seemed fun.

Replaying DS3 for the first time since release. Just beat the dragonslayer armour. Having a lot of fun and everything sure feels easy compared to the spastic enemies in Elden Ring.

>>712586854
If your mind is stuck in the past, it's because you're not doing enough with your present and future. Sounds corny but it's true. Get your shit together.

I don't want to play games anymore, I just want a woman to hold.

>>712587590
So i think I'm at the end of xenoblade 2. But I've been distracting myself with quests and filling out Blade affinity charts.

Why can't I just finish my games?

>>712586854
LETS GOOOOOO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyANFcnrM8I

>>712586376 (OP)
New games? I'll pass. Time to put another 1000 hours into Rimworld.

>>712587514
never played it back in the day and i have no interest in either of the versions now.

>>712587815
Bro tell me about it, I have so many games half way done or 3/4 way done. I really think its due to lack of compelling stories. If the story is good and engaging I WANT to keep playing but lately I've seen a trend where its all just game play loops. Maybe since so many zoomies can't read, games aren't being made to be as a form of story based entertainment, sure we have a few that come out once in a blue moon but like god damn make your games fun with a good story and I will finish them

>>712587590
I want a robowaifu that talks to me while I play games and cooks dinner.

>>712586376 (OP)
Buying new pc to play nioh 3

>>712586854
Sometimes

>>712587538
Not really. Not when literally everything from video games to movies to TV shows to anime is all objectively worse than it used to be. As are modern woman.
So basically everything. Nostalgia for better times is natural.

Are we in a cyberdystopia or are we retarded?

>>712587353
>I want to go home.
I've been saying this when I'm at home or in bed before I sleep.

>>712588042
And the Internet in general. Fuck social media.

>>712587514
They made the tits bigger and kept the jokes the same. Fun as fuck games and very easy to demo the entire thing.

>>712586692
>Playing The Alters.
Does it compare to Death Stranding in any way?

>>712586692
Simply based beyond belief.

>>712588042
I could honestly stomach all of these if
>>712588201
wasn't true

seeing the absolute desolation of the modern internet with the invasion of phone using normalfags is miserable

I barely even recognize /v/ anymore, half the shit this place praises and defends would've gotten you screamed at just a few years ago

i wish mechcommander 2 would get the jagged alliance 2 1.13 treatment

>>712588854
Never played 2 but 1 gold is pretty decent. Played it when it first went free years ago. I'd love a more up to date version of ja2 1.13 but nothing new comes close

>>712586376 (OP)
Been playing Phasmophobia and Resident Evil Deadly Silence on my hacked 3DS.

PC has been crashing more and more, and I don't know if it's my old video card or my hard drive with bad sectors causing it.

>>712588418
Don't know, never played it. But I've seen the comparison before. I feel like this game has too much fast travel in between the spots you set nodes in for it to scratch that same itch. It's more linear, if I had to guess.

>>712588505
Thanks

>>712588201
>Fuck social media.
It's only getting worse from here on.

>>712586376 (OP)
I've settled into Team Ninja games, Ys, Black Ops zombies, and Nintendo games recently

>>712588042
I've been finding women in older films to be very attractive lately. I wish women were still women.

>>712589202
Team ninja has become my favourite dev

>>712589067
Thanks. I'll keep an eye.

>>712589276
quality of women have been slowly slipping over the years, it's rather unfortunate but i feel things will only get worse before they get better.

>>712586376 (OP)
Literally just play Super Metroid and Dragon Quest nowadays. Keeping things simple where I can.

>>712588976
>nothing new comes close
there is some russian jank that gets paraded around on youtube but i'm not really interested in looking into it because it irritates me that i get this stuff recommended when i use that site exclusively for music.

>>712588042
i can tell you're ugly

>>712586376 (OP)
Finally hit the big 3-0 the other day.
Just like always I'm tackling the backlog, once the two stacks are even I'll probably ban myself from games until I publish another game

Factorio and dota. It is what it is.

I'm 28 and honestly thank fuck I didn't decide to have a wife or kids. Fuck that. So much wasted time and money.

>>712586376 (OP)

39 year old, reporting in.

Played through StarCraft 2 and am working on getting the achievements. Also play Sven Coop.

Shit is SO cash!

>>712587590
I don't want women anymore. I just wanna play games

>>712589530
Fair enough, I just replay 1.13 when I get the itch, the jank I see like 7.62 calibre a few years back often isn't worth it imo.

>>712589874
At 29 I couldn't be happier I have a wife and 2 kids but I guess it depends on your situation

>>712589701
>zero rebuttal
You know it to be true and it's causing you discomfort so you lash out.

World of Warcraft

>>712589874
If you're lucky enough to find the one, things like time and money don't matter anymore. Also if your lady works then she might be your only ticket to paying down a house in this economy.

I'm fine with being single though, so I understand where you're coming from.

you know what i never understand about these threads, they always read very bitter and or sad. Im 36 and i have the time of my life. I do shit i never tought i could affort, i have the time to get into hobbies that always interested me. life is pretty fucking good after i finished college and found a job

>>712586854
Yes
And zoomers do as well despite never living there btw

Sometimes, I like to wear women's panties and go walkabout on 5th street

>>712590542
Well you have good fortune of having a proper work life balance. In my case I've gained a lot but I've also lost a lot so I tend to take the stance of cautious optimism, since I know how fragile my life is

>>712590658
A little bit of crossdressing is fine as long as you don't become a full blown tranny.

>>712590658
Nothing beats Rusty's Brown Ring Donuts

>>712590754
its from a gta vice city radio ad
>Nothing beats Rusty's Brown Ring Donuts
>"I like to thrust my tongue in the middle"
>"I like the batter... all over my face"
>"Sometimes, I like to wear women's panties and go walkabout on 5th street"

prostagma?

>>712586854
Do you guys often think about your twenties in the 90s?
It saddens me to know that zoomers never experienced the pre-9/11 world.

>>712586854
The older i get the more things trigger random memories and I find myself lost in thought

>>712589943
What would you like to see in Sven coop? I know one of the devs

>35
>recently picked up Master Duel
>really looking forward to Shadowverse
>really, really looking forward to new Rimworld DLC
>played about 5 hours of Stellar Blade and want nothing more to do with it
>played 45 hours of Fantasy Life i and want nothing more to do with it
>played Deltarune demo and enjoyed it quite a bit and am considering picking up undertale since I've never played it
>Still playing WuWa

Played the Nioh 3 beta. Absolutely loved it. There a few things I'm not a fan of compared to Nioh 2, but ultimately it's still Nioh and I've been a fan of the series since 1.
Got a bunch of games I'm looking forward to or at the very least, interested in enough to have them noted down for future reference to see how they might turn out.
Crimson Desert is probably the one I'm most interested in off the top of my head.

I've found myself almost exclusively consuming Asian Vidya. I don't think I've touched an American game in.... 2 odd years now? I still pick up the occasional European game, but for the most part, it's almost all Asian.

>>712589874
36.
I have three kids. I think we're gonna go for another too. I honestly can't imagine life without them and it always baffles me people are against that sort of life.

>>712589874
Playing games and doing hobbies all you want is nice and all, but having a family gives you a long term purpose. Imagine being alone in 30 or 40 years, just you and your games

>>712586854
No, I prefer being an adult to being at the mercy of my parents.

>>712591258
Erectus

>>712591581
>nioh 3
Unironically the only game I've looked forward to this much since maybe 2020

>>712586854
So much of my childhood was n64 which has a bizarrely active community culture where new shit is made all the time, so I don't have to. My teenage experience has no substitute in adult life though.

What I think about most is what did I even do in my 20s and where did it go

>>712586854
Nah, why'd I do that?

>>712591587
You have to understand relationships aren't an option for everyone. I have a 13 cm micropenis so it was over before it began. Never bothered trying because of it and now I'm a wizard

>>712586854
Yes I hated it

>>712590716
Yeah a healthy balance is something i always struggled with, back when i still smoked i burned a carton (10 packs) a week that is if i didnt drink.

>>712590542
I feel like every year of my life has been better than the last (especially after high school), but that has been independent of the state the rest of the world or media is in. I generally agree with posts about general decline, but when people post self pity or obfuscated self pity I roll my eyes

>>712591397
I think about Pokemania. There were so many urban legends about Pokemon that were passed around the playground. And since Gen 1 was a broken janky mess, there was reason to believe half of it. Remember Pikablu.

That said I think I was happiest then. It felt like I was going on adventures every day even though I was just playing nearby my house. Fucking around with Pokemon cards because no one actually knew the rules but that didn't matter. And just being out with my friends until the street lights turned on. We used to hang out near the generator near my apartment complex. I don't think I realized how happy I was or that I'd never be that happy again

>>712591657
lmao yeah
I've found myself reading all the little leaks or secrets people found outside the map. Dual Swords (Samurai), Axe (Samurai), Fists (Samurai) etc. etc. Fists apparently also had an extremely extensive skill tree.
I'm pretty happy with that I've heard.

I just napped from 1:30 PM to 6:00 PM

>>712586854
It was whatever. The early 2000s was when all the cool stuff was happening, aside from a few N64 games.

>>712591868
I have the same exact expierence too. Yeah the world sucks major ass but my life is nice.

>>712587590
I was in a 2 year long relationship and I feel like I was married for 30 years. Its just so fucking exhausting.

>>712591976
I've stopped taking naps all together and instead replaced it with working out. Anytime I feel tired, I push myself. I felt like I was wasting my time and now I don't feel tired all the time like I used to. Keeping your body active is really good for you and gives you a tonne more energy.

>>712591925
I haven't had a chance to play because no ps5 but this has finally given me an excuse to upgrade to a high end pc. Replaying nioh 2 again for the hundredth time. I like the changes I've seen so far in 3. Maybe the sop inspired ninja/samurai styling will be good.

>>712591868
I just stay away from doomer posts and politics in general. There's nothing I can do about the state of the world, so I just focus on what I can control and enjoy life.

>>712591976
iktf

>>712588042
Based
Literally every single thing in the world is getting worse, except medicine
So yeah everything in the world is garbage compared to before, but at least you wont die as a kid because of diabetes

>>712589443
the quality of vwomen has been in the trash for over half a century dude

>>712592201
I'm still trapped in the previous generation. I've just not felt any pressure to upgrade for literal years since I've been playing older games. But I think I'm gonna make the jump next month since my birthday is coming up. I just don't know if it's going to be the PS5 or the Switch 2. And the only reason the Switch 2 is in the running is because I'm constantly moving around so the portability is a massive feature

>>712586854
A little. I think a lot more about my adolescence in the early 00s, how formative it was finding those communities on the internet which shaped my personality, 4chan among them. I was already in high school when 4chan burst onto the scene and kids in the IT class started talking about /b/ all the time.

What I miss the most from that era is how free the internet was. Things weren't centralized, media conglomerates hadn't yet awoken to the power of the internet, normalfags mostly didn't use it either. It was a paradise for nerdy white men and teenagers. It's probably like the equivalent of being cowboy in the Old West. What we have now is just so unspeakably shitty in comparison.

>>712592196
I had 5 relationships in my life. None of them lasted longer than 3 moth. It always just kind fizzled out, usually because i got into some new thing like my first car and just forgot to kinda check in.

>>712586376 (OP)
>>>/r9k/

>>712592581
Deck lcd has done me good for years, hell most of my nioh 2 and stranger of paradise gaming is on deck. It runs nioh 2 at 60 well enough. Handheld is good. I've been avoiding upgrading for so long because I play older stuff as well but I figured I'm just going to continue playing new stuff at some point

>>712588036

>>712586376 (OP)
I just want to preface that I’m not even 30, so I don’t have any right in posting in this thread, but I fucking hate discussing games with people younger than me or around my age. All my life growing up, my gaming discussions were with older people, and even if I disagreed with them, I still respected them because I can hold a genuine conversation with millennial and gen x gamers.

The current/younger generation is infected with brainrot, almost in the literal sense. They’re so annoying to deal with, to discuss ANYTHING with. If they’re fans of vtubers, or a FOTM anime like Bochi no SHIT or whatever, they’re omega cancerous pieces of garbage. I can’t talk with them about anything, because most of them are overgrown children.

>>712592805
I don't know anything about the Steam Deck. Does it just play anything that's on steam? Does knowing the Steam library mean I know the Steam Deck's library?

>>712592903
I think vtuber clips can be funny/entertaining in a vacuum, but watching a 5 hour parasocial stream where a chick just gabs about random shit going on in her life sounds exhausting.

>>712586854
I miss being interested in stuff. I would always play vidya back then, lying in my room, all of the doors of our flat open and we'd all shout back and forth to each other from the rooms we were in, move around and chat with each other.

I'd play some games for a bit, but move into the kitchen with my dad and practice drawing while he watched tv. Or some other night I'd play some games then sit on the couch in the livingroom where my mum would always be and read some books. Next night go to my sisters room and watch a horror movie we'd recorded onto a tape and watched 100 times before but it still scared me.

I just sit at my PC every night and flick between stuff now, retaining nothing. I couldn't tell you what I've actually done with my free time for the past 5 years.

>>712590716
>work life balance
The only healthy balance is zero work, all life. Work is antithesis to life. As a great NEET once said, you die if you work.

>>712586854
Sometimes, but it's not really a good thing
Sure times were simpler back then but I was poor (no shit I was a kid) and my parents were stingy as fuck. They bought branded stuff (that I just realized they own those as I grow up, I didn't knew those were expensive back then) but said to my face "THAT PLAYSTATION GAME CD IS TOO EXPENSIVE SWEETIE, WAIT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY IN 5 MONTHS"
Like yeah, say that to that Prada bag you're carrying, woman.

>>712592903
I'm sure there's plenty of people who echo your feelings. In my case I didn't have a lot of money growing up so video games were magical fantasy lands I could get lost in. I bring that up because I loathe this current day age of video games being boiled down to #CONTENT. Or information being distilled into TikToks. So nobody fucking reads or even remembers what happened in any game. This isn't my pointing the fingers at the shit state of vidya for once. Because even if developers were putting out solid gold, there would be no point. Because modern players cannot focus for shit. They'll basedjak at a game for a month before moving on.

Did any of that make sense? Or am I just an old man yelling at clouds

>>712593010
You need to look for the really small ones that cater to your specific autistic interest. I recently found one from texas that tries to cater to the battletech audience. I will stop watching when she breaks the 1k or stops with the bt stuff.

>>712586376 (OP)
getting older is fucking tough dude, holly shit.
I legit played maybe a couple hours of vidya this week, I was too sick and tired from work to do anything else.

>>712592981
Yeah, you log in and you have access to your entire steam library. My favourite part is the steam input. You can configure buttons for games to map to specific keys or sets of keys. Since there's 4 back paddles I can bind them to nioh macros like rb+b or rb+up for instant weapon change. Likewise it makes roguelikes heavy on kb input very playable because you can straight up bind the joysticks or touchpads to create radial menus for kb input. Though its definitely a tinkerers device for people who like messing around with their tech more so than just plug n play.

>>712593010
t. overgrown child retard

>>712593276
If Dizzy Dokuro was into Yu Gi Oh instead of Digimon she'd be perfect for me.

>>712593023
You know what I miss? Manuals. When I got a game, I would read the box over and over again. Id open up the manual and look at the character art and imagine them in my head.

>>712591748
A lot of people don't want to understand, because without the intervention of many factors outside of their control, the same fate could just as easily have befallen them.
I'm just thankful that we live in a time when things like videogames exist to distract us from the inherent nihilism of the single's existence. It's worked for me since my first and only relationship ended after I graduated high school 15 years ago.
>>712592205
I always say I'm a doomer and sometimes I do this >>712593023 too, but this is the right answer. The world, politics, relationships, is out of my control and out of my reach. Why worry about something I can't change? Just enjoy videogames.

>>712591587
thats if you have a functional family.
mine has mostly brought havoc and suffering

>>712593262
It is really soulless that we have statistics showing just how much people don't play the games they buy, but I wonder if it was always like that. I personally don't think so because we used to put in hundreds of hours into single player games since our parents would only buy us one every now and then. Or like let us rent 1 game a month or some shit. Then we'd only focus on that, with no phones or internet to distract us.

>>712586854
>Do you guys often think about your childhood in the 90s?

If you are physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, neurologically, or cognitively able you have no excuse— only you are to blame

>>712593403
That's my shit right there. Getting a brand new game and pouring over the manual on the drive home. Multiple times sometimes if my parents had to do some shopping before we went home.

>>712593392
I dont know who that is, i usually just type [my interest] vtuber into a search engine and just kinda surf till i find a micro channel that is atleast somewhat bearable

I have access to literally anything and do almost nothing.
Just kinda play some stuff randomly, kinda get into some stuff, but not like I used to. Been playing some older switch stuff since I don't have the switch 2 and kinda got an itch, realized I had 8 games still in wrap..
I've finally stopped buying the retrohandhelds, those things are like crack.

Been playing stellar blade since it released.
Solid game.

>>712586854
There's 30+ gamers now who don't even remember the 1990s...

>>712593627
>>712593403
>getting a game at night and only being able to check out the box & manual when you drive under a streetlight
made the hype that much better.

>wake up
>feed kid
>drove to daycare
>drive home
>log on to work
>make some graphics for work while listening to whatever
>fap break
>draw (for me)
>oh someone messaged me gotta pretend im busy
>play vidya
>wofe gets kid, play more vidya
>hang out and have dinner
Basically my Mon-Fri.

>>712593807
I have one, the one that looks like a gameboy advance. Neat little maschine but i cant really see how someone gets into the habit of collecting them

>>712593885
Sounds comfy, got any art to share?

>>712587590
Had that and lost it, completely cured my dependency to women. Now everything feels pointless though.

>>712587282
think of all the new video games you could play like uhhh
...
*boots up angband*

>>712586376 (OP)

if riots mmorpg is good enough i'll non ironically quit my job to play it. have money for 20 years or so of living without work and by then hope i receive my inheritance

until that i m waiting for another mmorpg. chrono odyssey kinda looked like ass on the latest footage, but who knows

besides waiting for a mmorpg last shit i ve played was a chink game hero's adventure which was surprisingly decent

>>712592830
Living the dream buddy. Honestly modern femoids expect the world and give so little. Can't wait for fembots.

On a different note I'm looking for a game based on dnd. bg3 is running on my machine but I feel it's gonna burst it into flames any minute and nwn2 runs great... until it crashes for no reason
Any recommendations?

>>712587514
Nope, its the rare untouched remake.

>>712594048
what fork

>>712593863
I cant even remember the new years party of 00. I saw the fotos of little 9 year old in the capital. But i have zero recollection

me in 5 days when raidou remaster comes out

>>712593863
I had a shit childhood and ended up memory holing a lot of it as a coping mechanism.

>>712592830

will we live to at least see robowaifus if not engage with them? truly a revolutionary technology

>>712593505
Back when Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen was new and I'd completed most of the game, I decided I would pay it forward by finding new players and gifting them little things. I didn't want to give it to inactive players so I would go to PSN Trophies to see players who just started so I could look them up and give them gifts.

I bring this up because there was a startling amount of players who didn't even get the trophy for leaving the fucking village. It's not that they didn't play the game. They started the game and decided the fucking tutorial was too much work

>>712594118
pcb
downloaded this a while ago, neat archive
https://archive.org/details/ArchiveRL.7z

>30
>great job in game dev, good work-life balance, 6 figures, car
>married, no kids, don't plan to, have a cat
>lots of time for games
>try to make more friends
>EVERY one of them my-age are talking about how draining their job, marriage, kids, etc are
>talking about their suffering is quite literally their entire personality
>every time we hang-out, the conversation immediately goes into being about how exhausting kids and work are and how it completely removes their ability to enjoy games or movies or how they can't travel
>heavy on the "I can't do shit because of the kids" type of stuff from most of them, affirming the fact that I don't want kids even further
I've found that only 24-27 year olds are able to keep up with my interests

thanks for reading my blog, anyways, been playing FFXIV, The Oblivion Remaster, finishing up RDR2 epilogue, and about to start my Umineko and Steins Gate pilgrimage now that my Steam Deck has helped me get through VNs.

>>712594226
it's only a matter of time

>>712586854
I try not to because I had an absolutely horrible childhood. Then I grew up and got my own career and things were good for a bit. Then COVID happened and I got laid off and now my adulthood is shit. Such is life.

I do think about the kick ass jrpg's I played when I was a kid though. Japan peaked in the early 90s-00s.

>>712593975
I felt compelled to get the sp version and the og advance style, those are the last 2 I've bought.
I honestly prefer the anbernic og advance over the analogue pocket even if its not as faithful.

>he's balding

>>712594229
It disgusts me how much money people are giving to companies only to not play the games at all.

>>712594271

young kids take a lot of someone now that both parents often work. you just need single or dink friends lmao

I miss playing double dragon 2, super double dragon and river city ransom with my dad.

I miss playing Gauntlet 2 and Mystical Ninja with my mom.

Can remember them vividly and yet I'm already pressing 40. Fuck.

>tfw 29 year old infant

Any oldfag anons trying to curb an addiction that made vidya much more enjoyable to play? I've been coping with my horrible depression with weed for 5+ years now. I know it's a meme that it enhances your vidya experience but if really does. I'm 2 weeks in and having an absolutely horrible time, I can't even bring myself to play vidya, all I want to do is doomscroll all day. Do you force yourself to play vidya sober?

>>712594271
>great job in game dev, good work-life balance, 6 figures, car
and then you woke up

>>712594449

>>712594449
>tfw 28 year old new-born

>>712594378
Yes

>>712593262
I can agree. I think the problem is how social media is used. YouTube when it didn't pay was full of good content, TikTok can be good to get quick news feed or short videos like how to get chillrend in oblivion, they still have that but now you have to dig through tons of brainrot to find it.

>>712594378
In my cunt the riddick movies got promoted with:"hair doesnt grow on steel!" All these years later i still think of it and have a silent chuckle sometimes. What a silly catchphrase

>>712589943
Fuck off smalk

>>712594490
I do mostly because I get randomly drug tested at my job. However I do drink on weekends when I don't have to go in the next day. In fact I'm about to go get a drink right now

>>712586854
I think about my childhood in the 2000s, but that's because I think the 2000s were were society peaked

>>712594490
I don't really use weed to play vidya unless it's something really repetitive like an old JRPG. I do have a problem though where I can't jerk off unless I'm high because it's just that much better. It's like viagra.

>>712594402
>I miss playing double dragon 2, super double dragon and river city ransom with my dad.
That sounds like it was a lot of fun. Im thinking about building my own cabinet.

>>712594401
I guess this is me realizing im the dink friend that's always going to japan and shit on other people's social media pages now, gotta find other dinks

>>712594172
Hell yeah I forgot. Will be buying. I hope they remake some smts stuck in 3ds hell

>>712586854
I only had to watch out for gypsies. Now I have to watch out for niggers, moors, lanitxs, pajeets, slavs and gypsies.

>>712594271
>>great job in game dev, good work-life balance, 6 figures, car
>plays FFXIV

lmfao. 10/10 you got me good.

>>712594490
I quit videogames cold turkey 5 years ago and it was the best decision I ever made. I was addicted and it removed the addiction. Now I don't go to bed thinking about games, dream about games, wake up thinking about games, spend all day thinking about games, and then repeat.
>but you're on /v/
I browse /v/ for the off topic threads and porn

>>712594709
It was, they both got me into gaming with an Atari 2600. My dad used to play a bunch of stuff with me, but he also played a lot of games solo. One of his favorites was GODS on SNES for some reason.

>>712594825
You call bullshit at the ERP simulator and not him lying about having good work life balance as someone with a 6 figure salary in game dev?

>>712586376 (OP)
I remember when these threads were 25+ lmao

>>712595008
The tree got stricter

>>712591880
Good times

>>712586854
95 here. Since I was 12, I've been longing for the time of [my_current_age] minus 3-5 years prior. It's hilarious and sad. These days, and since the start of Covid, I've been longing for the time of 2014/2015. Guess I could wish I could do the last 10 years over and do it right this time.

>>712586854
I mostly just think about how much I miss my mom

>>712595008
like 7 years ago?

>>712586376 (OP)
>30+ gamer thread
>with a woman on the bed
Haha, no.

>>712586376 (OP)
Wow! I finally found a woman in my bed.

>>712586854
Only when I’m in a selfish, self pitying, hindsight frame of mind

>>712595296
>Guess I could wish I could do the last 10 years over
think of how you'll feel in 10 years instead looking back on right now thinking
>damn I wish I did more
basically just start doing shit right now, don't give up

>>712594490

yea i had to quit because two addictions ( three because i also used alcohol ) was too much to be functional.

ironically i ended being the fed equivalent in my country and have to drug test each 2 months so no way i m going back to it

>>712592830
Who's this artist? They're clearly riffing Bruce Timm but they do it very well

>>712587590
The longer time passes, the more that desire starts to wane. It still sucks but it gets a little better.

>>712595416
Multiple anons in the thread have already mentioned having wives and kids though.

There are way too many zoomers posting on this board and way too many married normalfags. I'm tired of reading about some fucking faggot only playing AAA dogshit because they have a family and no free time on /v/ of all places.

>>712595309
yeah i was 23 lol

>>712592414
>except medicine
lmao
>at least you wont die as a kid because of diabetes
diabetes didn't exist before processed food

>>712586854
Had a medical issue where i had to take strong af pills i dont remember most of my life

>married
>own a home
>have kids
>have two vehicles, both paid off
>neither wife nor I have student loans
>only debt is just the home mortgage, 2.86 interest
>everything is going great generally
>14mo old daughter likes to watch mom play Nightreign
>instead of vidya I just sit and refresh the catalog until I see something mildly interesting
Death Must Die was pretty fun for a short stint though.

>>712586376 (OP)
>4 months left
Its over

>>712596137
If this place was any decent anymore this would be a ban

>>712596284
Follow my example and make something of yourself

>>712586854
I genuinely wish technological development had ceased in 2005.
Nothing that has come in the last twenty years has been worth it, frankly.

>>712586376 (OP)
are there any other animes that captures the experience of being a 30 year old that is into games an anime?

Recovery of an MMO Junkie was fun and all but I dont think anything else like it has come out since then

>>712596137
My wife can't into vidya. My hobby exclusively. My 4 year old son likes watching me play though, he loved sekiro and nioh 2

was planning to go out to the local barcade today so I could try to meet a girl interested in anime or vidya games
but I felt really tired after work and I usually end up just playing the games by myself like some creepy autist anyways

so now it's comfy racing game time in Gran Turismo 4 Spec II

>>712596432
I wish AAA had completely died, there's been some neat indie games so I'd miss out on some coolness if everything stopped but holy shit the entire normalfag catering mass appeal market has been horrible.

>>712594295
>realistic faces
>fleshtones
GET THAT WEAK SHIT OUTTA HERE

>>712586854
Nah I mostly think of my regrets in the 00s and so on. I honestly try to avoid nostalgia because shit gets bitter really quick.

>>712593589
I feel like mentally, emotionally, neurologically, or cognitively kind of excuse any blame if that's the case. Whos' a doomer faggot if you're healthy in all these ways?

>>712596432
LLMs are basically a dream technology for me. I love them. Haven't had this much fun with tech since the early days of the internet.

Basically the only game I played in the last 4 years was Naraka Bladepoint until I got falsely banned recently, solid melee PvP game, shitty chinese company.

Played through Stellar Blade demo and bought the game, feels similar to Sekiro but even better audiovisual design, enemy patterns feel simpler and more fair but still sufficiently hardcore, can't first try everything, visuals to performance ratio is great. Hope the rest is also good.

Mecha Break is releasing soon, very good 6v6 objective and role-based mecha action with satisfying feel. Hope it's not filled with bots like the last beta.

>>712596531
I kept my Sega Genesis and all my games from when I was a kid. Kind of always thought I'd start my kids out playing simple side scroller games. That definitely didn't work out. They're spoiled by 3D.

I unironically play nothing but gacha nowadays. I do play a bit of offline single player game once in a while but I would start yawning after 30 minutes. At least with gacha I can just do dailies and log out after 5 minutes.

Tried the whole streaming thing, but my lack of growth is really getting to me. I can't find a single game I want to stream anymore. I keep hoping I'll find a game that is fun enough to get me streaming again, but I just can't find that game.

>33
>still live at home with parents
>can't afford a house in my area, no desire to waste money on rent
>had a high school sweetheart 15 years ago, not so much as a date since
>nice car, paid off
>no debt at all, literally never even missed a payment on anything
>slightly above-average job
>everything is neither great nor terrible
>play/emulate old videogames or scroll 4chan and youtube after work

>>712586854
i try not to

I have this sinking feeling in my chest pretty much all the time. I have no idea what the problem is. I've even gotten an x-ray and there was nothing wrong. I don't understand what the problem is. I'm not fat. Also, my legs feel heavy and I pretty much never want to do anything.

>>712597673
You probably have physical symptoms from severe depression

enjoying stellar blade a lot, this shit is absolute kino
played some nintendogs+cats with my daughter earlier, can't wait til she's a little older so I can truly get her into vidya

>>712597673
Do you have especially bad anxiety? As for the leg thing, I dunno - do you have diabetes? P.s. I am not a doctor

>>712597673
Maybe it's anxiety or something wrong with your digestion system.

>>712586854
Yup. I miss the LEGO and playing outside. I miss my mechanix hot wheels sets and Attack Pack. I felt so accomplished when I beat course a Corneria.

>>712597076
I'm looking forward to it because I was kicking ass in the beta, but the fact that you have to play a stupid BR/extraction side mode is very annoying.

>>712597241
Gacha is a parasite of livelihood and terrible for your sovl. There are literally decades of endless masterpiece kino you could spend your remaining years enjoying. Please consider dropping it.

Just bought a backwards compatible PS3

Time to RETVRN

>>712586854
Yes, a girl with an abusive alcoholic father (probably woman at fault tho kek) was my best friend in elementary school and I met her practically every day, she was 2years younger than me. At some point the mother moved away with her across the country and never heard from her again.

Wonder if I wouldn't be alone if that didn't happen, time to cope with multiplayer games.

>>712586854
I was playing the NES up until 2003.

I'm playing Grim Dawn
I was never into diablo games when I was younger but something about Grim Dawn clicked for me and now I'm enjoying the grind
no idea what i'm doing, I've been told I should just focus on building resists and focus on leveling my main attack skill if possible

>>712586376 (OP)
my and a mate have been playing some wow vanilla, its not quite the same without having to cart 40kg of machine to their place, but damn it feels good to be doing the same quests we did in high school.

>>712598238
Why did you not try to look her up on myspace or faceberg? Apply yourself.

>>712597976
There was an AMA, they fixed pretty much everything, all 12 mechs are unlocked, no mods in 6v6, and extraction mode has no upgrades, but you collect gear and drop them upon death, with multiple matchmaking brackets with some kind of risk/reward structure and economy

I dont think I'll ever stop coming back to Morrowind

>>712597837
>>712597871
>>712597886
This shit is gay. How am I even supposed to get out of this? I've pretty much felt this way since I was 16 and I'm 32. Looking at physical symptoms of depression seems to, for the most part, line up with how I feel on a day to day basis. I feel like I have to force myself to do certain tasks or I'm indefinitely putting things off

>>712598335
Was not a thing at the time, later did and as I've said bumfuck nowhere, but by then she was about 28 that's too old to start a family even if we somehow met again, need a younger woman for obvious reasons.

Modern gaming sucks so much I escape the boredom with thinking that I want to start a family, how times change.

Lad my left hand feels numb and tingly after just a few minutes of fighting games on a controller. Is it fucking over for me?

>>712598457
Depressive behaviors and feelings are a feedback loop. To fix it you have to change everything about your habits and daily life. There is no easy answer.

>>712598028
I do actually. Currently playing 3 gachas now. Been contemplating to drop 1 or 2. The last kino that I experienced was Xenoblade 3 and that was the only one that manage to keep me awake more after 30 minutes of playing. I really do wish I would stop getting easily bored trying something new desu

i'm 35 years old, 400+lbs, a virgin, i have zero direction or purpose in life. i dont even have a single friend. my routine for the past 20 years has been
>wake up
>sit behind computer
>go to bed
ive been trying tto turn it around recently by pursuing a compsci degree but im 2 years in and i dont think i even like programming. life is hell and i have no way of escaping the spiral

>>712598553
>To fix it you have to change everything about your habits and daily life
Every time I try, nothing good comes from it. I got convicted of a crime I didn't commit in 2019 and despite it being 6 years ago, even the military won't let me join. I figured it out be a good way to quite literally force myself into actually doing something and I was basically told to fuck off

Spent another night boozing and now I feel like shit.
Again.
I can't keep doing this to myself.

Anyway, I've been playing Morrowind again, Tamriel Rebuilt is rad.

My reaction speed is noticeably slow now. I suck at games.

>>712598776
I still got my good reaction times with Halo MCC, but newer games catch me off-guard when they need twitch-reactions.
I suck ass at valorant and fortnite

No one would miss me if I was dead.

>>712586854
When I do its only to try to figure out where things went so wrong that I ended up so miserable and what I'd do differently if I could go back and do it over again.

I'm not really nostalgic about battling/trading pokemon at lunch, watching DBZ on toonami afterschool, or renting PS1 games at blockbuster, or friends coming over to eat pizza and play smash bros on the N64. I'm more nostalgic about that feeling of having my whole life ahead of me and being at an age where my 'potential' still mattered.

>>712586854
Not really, but if I think back on it now I remember doing elaborate tournaments in NHL 94 and playing Transport Tycoon and Civilization 2 24/7. Even had a Civ2 scenarios site on xoom or geocities. Analyzing this I'm probably one of those autists who go under the radar and realize I'm probably a tard in my late 30s.

>>712598373
Oh, well that sounds cool then, especially no mods in competitive.

>>712598776
This so much man. All these recent games where it requires you to parry shit in 0.0001 seconds on a 0.1 frame window is bullshit man. I want to relax not stressed.

>>712598713
You dodged a huge bullet by not going into the military. Military life is dogshit and you'd be surrounded by angry PTSD alcoholics.
Can't help you with the specifics of your life, but I believe in you. Its a hard uphill struggle.

>>712586854
I do. I miss it although generally speaking I prefer being an adult with autonomy. However I do miss the days when I lived in the middle of nowhere, a large city has eaten my small town and I find myself surrounded by people and I hate it.

>>712598862
I'm certain someone would

>tfw 40 years old in just four months

>>712598776
Same, but the mind is still sharp. Possibly even sharper than before. Moved towards strategy games over time, really looking forward to Broken Arrow.

>>712586854
the only thing I miss is how decentralized the internet was. The internet without this social media tumor and corporate enshittification was like a hidden garden or oasis you could go and hunker down in. Now its all been run over and turned into a parking lot for braindead NPCs, bots, and whatever other grotesque low hanging fruit finds it.

I'm 35 and still a virgin, I was promised I'd be attractive to women in my 30s especially after self improving by working out and getting better clothes

I still get rated 3/10 on dating help sites

>>712586376 (OP)
soon to be 40+
>>712586854
every god damned day

>>712598457

If you feel that you need it, seek professional help from a psychiatrist. Trying to get over shit like this yourself is extremely hard, it's like trying to repair a broken home with broken tools. If you're feeling like shit even on "good" days, it could be a physical as well. You go to a doctor if you have bad physical conditions, mental conditions are no different.

>>712598971
I remember when my house was the only one on the block, now its turned into a suburb, the lazy street leading to my house use to just have cattle pastures, and cars were rare, now its subdivision after subdivision, with super markets and strip malls. A nice two lane road I used to casually walk down and across to go to my friend's house now expanded out into an impassible 8 lane monstrosity with cars barreling down it at 50mph at all hours of the day. I hate it.

>>712599176
>I was promised I'd be attractive to women in my 30s
They were implying that you would have a job and enough money to make up for being ugly. Also, being ugly doesn't doom you to being alone, it just limits you to dating other 3/10 people. I hope your heart isn't as ugly as your face.

>>712586376 (OP)
33
Just finished Pipistrello and enjoyed it quite a bit, now struggling with Laika and despite appreciating the artistry will probably end up dropping it. Probably going to start Clair Obscur because a bunch of friends and coworkers liked it.

>>712598776
Same. It's why I play Mech Warrior Online. Everyone is a fucking boomer and the mech's move at a snail's pace compared to anything in Titanfall 2 or whatever fast game people are playing these days. I unironically believe if you got a group of zoomers/alphas in there and taught them the general mechanics and game sense, they'd annihilate all the old fuckers.

>>712598514
I had the same issue. I use a compression glove (not a brace) whenever I'm using a controller now and while it's still sometimes tender if it's a game with heavy d-pad usage it's so much better.

>>712599402
How the fuck do you date someone that you arent even attracted to physically? That's the whole spark that starts it

>>712586854
I always thought I was the ‘main character’ in my group of friends. Everyone would usually come to my house. I know at least one of the guys was totally my background character. But looking back on it I think my best friend was probably more of the main character than me.

>>712599176
>I'm 35 and still a virgin,
Yeah... did the whole 'get fit to get girls' thing but the only people who noticed or complemented me on my weight loss / muscle development were other dudes, or women over 65+.

>>712599625
>How the fuck do you date someone that you aren't even attracted to physically?
Usually by finding some key component that makes up for it. For ugly dudes that's usually money, humor, or fame. As for what you can expect to find attractive in women in your narrow playing field, I guess that's for you to figure out.

>>712594103
>the rare untouched remake.
Nope.
>>712587514
Physics are different from the tractor beam and telekinesis. Probably not a deal-breaker if you played the original, but it's much more fun to use compared to the remake.

Put Expedition 33 on the back burner, I'll come back to it eventually. Taking my time with Rune Factory.
Started playing EVE Online again. It's something to keep my busy when listening to music or podcasts or w/e.

>>712586854
Sometimes. Some of those are unpleasant memories.

>>712599740
/fit/ claims another wayward soul. A gymbro will be around shortly to wreck that bussy.

>Turning 27 in a month
>still no gf
Is it over for me bros?

>>712586854
What pisses me off the most about vidya discussion these days is how everyone talks about games more because of what it says about themselves rather than what it says about the game design. Posers and steamcharts fags are just two sides of the same coin on this one.
>Do you guys often think about your childhood in the 90s?
More like 00s since I just turned 30. As far as media? Yes, I think the stuff I grew up with was better. Personally? No, I was a super awkward kid and feel much better adjusted as an adult. To other anons out there, getting /fit/ really does boost your confidence by a lot.

I keep trying to play new games, but keep coming back to heavily modded older games I've played a dozen times already

>>712598776
This, I can't even get through Deltarune fights without taking hits. It's over for me.

>>712586854
>No responsibilities
>Kino gaming times and amazing vydia
>World didn't feel as insane
>Dad was still alive
Yep. I think about it often, probably why I'm surrounded by old consoles.

>>712599872
I didn't find my current girlfriend of six years until I was 27. Online dating is a clusterfuck and more emotionally draining than trying to find a good thread on /v/, but if you're after a hikki girl that won't give you shit for playing video games until 2AM you can't exactly go barhopping. You do have to look though.

>>712599740
The reality is if you didn't get attention in your 20s, you sure as fuck aren't in your 30s. If the issue is something changable like obesity, things can change but like if it's a facial issue (like mine is deep sunken in eyes that look like George Soros' at 33) that can't be fixed by plastic surgery there's zero fucking reason to do self improvement memes except for health. You'll be ignored as always. 30s isn't better than 20s for being more attractive, it's the opposite.

>32
>Full-time job in a cool line of work that takes me around the country, puts me around famous people and makes a decent middle class salary
>Handsome, polite, confident
>Great hairline, good physique, nice cock

>Can't so much as talk to a woman in a non-controlled setting to save my life
It's already too late for my grandparents to see me get a girl and now I'm starting to worry my own parents won't get to have grandchildren. What am I even supposed to do?

>>712599163
We really didn't know how good we had it back then. I know everyone says 4chsn is le bad now but it really still feels like the last remnant of the old internet.

>>712600024
Watch a fucking youtube video instead of whining about it here

>>712599056
How's your back anon?

36 here
Looks like kikes and muslims have paused their missile spam
Also looks like its time to go stare at my game library for 30 minutes

What powers do I get if I haven’t fucked a woman by 40 again?

>>712600009
Thousands of ugly goblins score 10/10 wives because they love themselves, espew confidence and have successful careers. Your
>attractiveness is all that matters
black pill cope is just that. Pure cope

>>712599389
What really gets me is the cost. My property taxes go up despite the area going to shit. My insurance is going up because the area's going to shit. I have to put up with traffic and noise and I can't see the stars and I don't remember the last time I saw a firefly. By some accessibility based definitions I now live in a food desert because it takes me the better part of an hour to get to HEB when I used to be able to blast up there at 65mph. I pay far out the ass for the privilege of being inconvenienced by cityfags and it kills me. There should be some kind of "I was already here" tax break, let the people moving here pay for everything.

>>712600229
You might get really good at videogames

>>712600268
I've never seen an ugly guy with a hot girl that wasn't rich or famous lmao

>>712597039
What do you do with them?

how do yall cope with getting old?

I'm 41 and I own a lumbar pillow for my car. It is critical. You will understand when the time comes. Also, and this may be important: your feet may expand with age. Not in length but width. You will see. Be prepared.
>>712600229
fireballs

>>712600229
Can you fly?

>>712586854
Those 90s nostalgia reels on instagram are fucking brutal.

>tfw spent my 20s going to the gym instead of playing too much video games
now i am a jerk and every one loves me

>>712600024
>get a gf back in 2018
>excited to finally be able to tell my grandpa that I have a gf
>she breaks up with me and then gets me convicted of a crime I didn't commit

>>712600365
At least once a day I notice my hands, the wrinkles and the subtle signs of aging and it hits me hard. Where did I go wrong? How did I lose sight of so many dreams?

>>712600454
Because you're looking at your hands instead of your dreams. The time's gonna pass either way.

>>712600229
I'll know in about a month.

>>712600229
Once I hit my 30th birthday and realized I didn't actually get wizard powers I went to a soapland and got it done with. The girl was cute but I was like the dog that finally caught the car.
I hate how it's so tough to get a decent hooker in the States by comparison. In Japan about $150 allowed me to fuck for an hour.

>>712599625
You get desperate enough, same goes for the 3/10 women. Difference is 3/10 women will likely regularly pull 6/10 guys on dating apps but those 6/10 guys would never actually settle down with a 3/10 woman, they just fuck them when the 4~6/10 women aren't available that night, but this inflates their sense of self worth. Guys usually can't pull women much more attractive than themselves unless they've got a ton of money. Girls conversely will regularly find guys a few points higher than themselves to fuck them, but these guys only want to fuck, they'd never want a serious relationship. So eventually the 3/10's biological clock starts ticking, she realizes her dream of having children is going away and she 'settles' for another 3/10 like herself, neither of them really love eachother or is happy about it, you're right there never was a spark between them, just mutual fear of being alone the rest of their lives. You see it all the time, the 3/10 couple, they're almost more miserable than being alone.

>>712600365
It was what it is. You can't fight it. However bad decisions from your youth coming back to bite you, health wise, is a real blast.

>>712600365
trt + peptides + low dose cialis

>>712600365
Aging and dying is actually something I’ve been consciously dreading since my early 20s. I probably think about death way more than the average person. I actually found the perfect cope, I became a vtuber. My vtubing persona is basically a cute boy that will never age and never get fat and just stays perfect and beautiful forever. If you ever have existential dread about aging, try to get into vtubing.

>>712600229
You get ugly bastard NTR ojii-san aura

>>712600526
You can always go on rubmaps.ch and find a chinese massage parlor near you. Although, in my area it cost about $260 for an hour which sucks so I only went a handful of times because I wasn't able to cum anyways.

>>712600381
Gay wizard fireballs or cool Ryu fireballs?

>>712600597
I’ve been scared of death since I was like 6 because I had Sunday school teachers telling me I was going to hell lol

>>712600229
you become the 'looking to get cucked' guy

>>712600554
Alright fuck it I give up I'm tired of being a 35 yo turbo virgin.

I have a 6 figure job, making 140k remotely. How do I flash money enough to get someone that will at least partially settle with me but not only for the money

>>712600365
watching anime and playing old games that reminds me of my childhood

>>712597673
Do you go outside or exercise? Your body might be restless.

>>712600814
>Do you go outside or exercise?
Every time I think about it, I just can't get myself to do it. Thinking is fucking gay and I end up procrastinating indefinitely. I used to but now I don't

Hold old were you when it finally hit you weren't young anymore?

>>712598776
I can still keep up. I just don't feel the need to sweat so hard over video games anymore.

>>712600896
>Every time I think about it
That's your problem. Nobody wants to do it, you just fucking do it regardless of how shitty you feel about it. That's discipline.

>>712586854
even though there's people i've lost there's no place in the past i'd rather be than where i am rn and im a khv neet that lives with his mom. the only thing i'd change if i could is i'd tell myself to brush my teeth. i didn't take care of them for a long time.

>>712600705
beggars can't be choosers

>>712600095
it is but it isn't. Nothing more than a husk thats been entombed by bots, shitpost shills, and other low IQ browns who farm posts for engagement on twitter, reddit or whatever shithole website they came from. They always make the same low effort posts with the same or similar engagement pictures.
The only active boards are really the fringe ones. Any board with more active PPH tend to be bot active.

Do you guys think at some you'll make threads for 40s and 50s gamers??

>>712586854
Considering everything started going downhill around 2008 and nothing has gotten better, yeah.

>>712601117
Yes, I probably won't leave this place. Unless the rest of the internet gets less pissy and gay about stuff in the future.

Playing some Neverwinter Nights. Last time I played it I was like 10 years old or something and didn't understand shit, but still had fun. It's interesting to play it now that I know how D&D works and just easily breeze past everything that was a huge obstacle as a kid.
Looking forward to trying some community modules after the main campaign.

Why isn't there a cure or solution for aging?

Face it you can't go back to the past. The only way is to move forward and make a better future

>>712600345
Coom, of course.

>>712601306
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_telomeres_and_longevity

>>712586854
In comparison to what people are going through now, yes. I lament that younger people don't understand what it felt like to live in a world without internet being everywhere 24/7. Being unplugged. They have a completely different mentality than most older people and I can't relate to their attitudes most of the time, unless they had parents who went through the trouble of showing them the world without electricity. I think in a lot of ways we are in a lost generation, a generation of people who were lost to social media that will be a warning for generations to come. It will be looked upon as probably the most narcissistic era of all time and not remembered fondly, only looked back on as a cautionary tale. I know many people who were casualties of this new technology, but it's the same as any new technology. Makes me wonder how many people blew their heads off with guns accidentally back when they were invented. Social media is far more dangerous and it's going to take some people getting hurt or killed before humanity as a whole learns to use it wisely.

>>712587514
>they didn't censor anything
They removed 1 tranny joke from an optional mission. But considering the world we live in and that being the only instance of censorship in the whole game it's not too bad.

>>712601306
I think there will be in twenty or so years, but it will probably be ridiculously expensive, requiring skilled people to go into permadebt to afford the treatments. There will probably be a subculture of people who choose to "fade away" naturally.

>>712586854
It wasn't a very good one but I still can't help missing it. Part of me really misses those cold, wet autumn mornings on the playground before class started, walking around to see which of my friends were there that day.

>>712599389
>>712600272
Shit, I could have written this. The thing about the fireflies really gets to me. They were everywhere when I was a kid and the area I lived in was still kind of out in the country.
>>712600009
>deep sunken in eyes at 33
I have the same problem, it really sucks that it's not a soft tissue surgery and basically impossible to fix.
>>712599740
I did the /fit/ thing too, only to tear a muscle in my shoulder while lifting weights. I had to have surgery and physical therapy to repair it, and the strength and range of motion of my arm is still limited, all these years later.

my last gf was an athlete and she was always pushing me to go to the gym but sis... I hate the gym...

>>712599056
You will age 20 years the day you turn 40, from 20-39 you feel the same age and then you're 40-60 instead

>>712600365
I haven't figured out a healthy cope yet. I'm turning 35 next month and freaking out. No wife, no kids, my career has gone backwards, feels like I haven't done anything with my life. Death and dying are on my mind every minute of every day. Lmk if you figure something out.

Just drove the family to the beach. 12 hours of pure hell. Fucking wife went to bed without fucking fucking bitch.

I took the PS5. I gotta choose between playing FFIV for the first time or beating AC; Master of Arena again. (Wish I were playing factorio space age or wasting time league starting in poe)

>>712600597
Zamn...you might be on to something
I've been wanting to start a faceless YouTube channel. Maybe this is my sign

>>712601306
I feel like conceptually it should be easy. It's just a matter of cellular repair. With stem cell technology it should be within reach. But even if it does happen and the procedure technically isn't 'expensive', they'll probably drive up the price so the average person can never make use of this technology. I think that's probably why the tech isn't seriously discussed, they know it's existence would anger the poor and we'd have riots on the streets and probably end up lynching the rich if we found out aging/death can be avoided but we're not handing that shit out to everyone.

>>712601804
this

I'm playing Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma. About 10 hours into it. Haven't decided who I want to marry yet. Fun game but I wish it was harder.
Also pondering on picking up a campaign in Total Warhammer 3. I'm thinking Chaos maybe but not sure what faction specifically.
Doing alright otherwise outside of dealing with insurance.

Im thinking seriously about trading my wife anal for a minivan. Is this smart or dumb? (No theres no anal ever coming the normal route. We have kids already but we both already have suv’s.)

>>712586376 (OP)

>>712601117
4chan is the only popular english speaking site that's still like the old internet so probably if it isn't taken down. The corporate version of the internet have been a big detriment for the human race.

>>712586854
My childhood was kind of bland but there are a BUNCH of things I realize now I could have fixed if I could go back.

Being overtly sheltered fucked me up in subtle ways I didn't realize until I grew up and moved out and I would have broken out much sooner if I were aware of what was happening, but didn't because I was 6-10

>>712601378
Would like to think I am, if nothing else my daughter will have better than I had growing up. Giving my kid a good life is basically the only thing driving me to continue on this hell planet.

>>712600792
I mean, there's always throwing money at strippers. They have a hard time keeping a relationship because guys get insecure about their work (for good reason). It's not the best advice, but I'm not a love guru.

>>712600712
same, more or less. I've been obsessed with death since I was a young boy. Still remember the feeling of staying awake all night trying to understand what it would be like to take my last breath and everything go dark, in abject terror of the unknown.

>>712587590
Same. I am having random thoughts on cuddling with a cute small Japanese girl in bed recently

Don't wait too long. Women set their filters to 35 and below. Stop dragging your feet. If you thought the pond was dry before, just wait until you're pushing 40. Don't make the same mistake I did. Turns out you can be even more lonely then you are now. I mean I know you want to say "I couldn't possibly be" but uh, yeah. You can.

>>712602129
Your kid will love you for it I'm sure, maybe try to do more things with her.

>>712602129
Based

>>712601390
>trump banned emma watson deepfakes
I have no more reason to go on. orange man is a faggot.

>>712602220
>filters
You shouldn't be on apps over the age of 25.

>>712602220
No woman worth a mans time can be found on dating sides. American I presume?

>>712600908
For me it was 27 and shit got so much worse after 30 I turned 30 in 2020

>>712602129
I'm so jealous of you... I wish I can have a daughter with a woman that I love someday

>>712602056
>Spin my tires for a while
>Get the boot at work
>Okay fine. I'll get shit done
>Realize you're 38 and have been spinning your tires for almost 18 years
Hah. Oops.

Playing Stardew, Factorio, POE1, occasionally OSRS, and Elin. Had a bit of a relapse trying to quit smoking but made it a week. Doesn't help that nothing could really hold my interest this week during my vacation after beating Expedition 33 and finishing Fantasy Life I.

>>712601936
>>712601576
Realistically speaking cellular regeneration and 'eternal youth' are actually quite feasible as far as future techs go, there are organisms which are essentially biologically immortal so we have proof it is indeed possible to have agelessness. Its also far more realistic than stuff like FTL travel or gravity generators, aka the stuff every sci-fi setting has by default. Its strange we don't see a lot of Sci-fi that tackles what it'd be like if no one ever got old anymore. How would society react to a world where no one looks or feels older than 25 outside a conscious choice to? Getting old and dying of old age are so baked into the human condition changing that would almost be unthinkable.

>>712602204
good hat

>>712602129
Tell me what's the formula to getting a wife and getting her to bear you a child.

>>712602220
This problem literally doesn't exist if you don't use dating sites. And you shouldn't, that shit is literally less than worthless in 2025.

>No energy for anything post work
>Getting fat even if I only eat once a day
>Will never own anything

Why even keep going?

>>712602335
Where else do you expect to find them? They're not going to just show up at your door.

Honestly I read every comment in this thread, and as a guy that got married 3 years ago, my life is living hell now. I am 35, but my wife doesn't even let me play vidya games anymore so its over for me. If I wasn't married, I probably would have played all these games like Expedition 33, Stellar Blade, Metaphor, and Rebirth. But now I'm completely out of the loop. I know someone might reply to this and tell me to kill myself because I escaped virgin hell and somehow made it at my age, but I kinda wonder sometimes if it was worth giving up the gamer life. I know modern gayming is getting more woke and shit, so maybe it doesn't matter as much

>>712602420
There's a really lame movie where people stop aging at 20-something and time is money, I forget what it's called.

>>712602420
Season 2 of Lexx has an episode called Brigadoom. It is a musical that covers the fall of the Brunnen-G. They found a way to become ageless and immortal, but they were still susceptible to injury, so they became reclusive shut-ins. They also had trouble with memory, living so long that they couldn't really remember who they were and what they had done throughout their lives. Eventually doom comes to Brunnis-2, and they welcome it.

>>712602593
>but my wife doesn't even let me play vidya games anymore
That's not good, brother. You gotta wrangle her so you can do what you want to do every now and again. Her controlling what you do is not okay. You're a grown ass man

>>712602593
>made it
>my life is living hell now

>>712602593
I play games with my wife. You did something incredibly wrong if your relationship is that bad, and if you're not the one calling the shots.
I played through all of Darktide with my wife while she was pregnant with our first daughter.

>>712586854
Not really, not even when I play modern entries of game franchises that started in the 90s
I only reminisce when someone brings up shit from the 90s and the millennial nostalgia hits
Tell me why, ain't nothing but heartache

>>712600229
Depression and alcoholism.

Or so I've heard, ha ha

>>712600908
Kind of late, like 27 or 28. Covid was like a 3 year blur. Went into it right before I turned 25, and when it more or less officially ended in 2023, I was liked "Oh, I'm old and lame(r) now. Cool."

>>712602251
I do. Specifically started transitioning to working from home during the pregnancy so I could keep bringing in money without putting her in daycare. We ate lunch with her dad at work and then went to the park.
>>712602298
It's the least I can do for bringing her into this very troubled world.
>>712602387
Having a family has made me something resembling happy for maybe the first time ever. Feels like I finally made it.
>>712602451
I dunno. My secret is that I'm female and not deformed. My husband's secret is that he was friends with my brother.
>>712602631
In Time. It always strikes me as Gattaca but worse.

>>712602220
By the time I was twenty five I resigned myself to waiting until I was old enough to get a girl with daddy issues. Though I'm not particularly worried, I've been single 11 years now and I'm comfortable not having to concern myself with another person in day to day life.

>>712600908
32. I used to be able to stay up days at a time playing vidya I liked. I think my longest time has been a week playing Torchlight. Ever since 32 I can't stay up a single night without just laying down to watch a movie and falling asleep. Latest was up to 3am playing Abiotic Factor with friends.

>>712602204
who this waifu

>>712602568
I started gambling on the stock market. It's some kind of hope and sort of a death wish on top. It's good times. I'm not getting fat but injuries are stacking up.

>>712602689
>>712602728
>>712602738
Her salary is way higher than mine, and yeah I'll be honest, I think Im a fat balding 3/10 and she's an 8/10. Its tough for me to say anything. Shes always telling me to drop the shitty vidya games and focus on my career. At least the sex is good

Factorio Space Age is ruining me. Just got legendary quality unlocked. Now Im making retarded factories of everything to shit out incredibly small amounts of legendary stuff while wasting incredible amounts of shit. Its so bad that Im learning trains. I went to bed at 3:00 last night. I havent done that in over a decade.

>>712603160
I wish I could do that but my wage is so low that even if I hit 400% on something it'd still be nothing.

>>712586692
fuck man, I can't wait to play that game, fucking shit.

>>712603217
>Shes always telling me to drop the shitty vidya games and focus on my career.
That should be your choice, not hers. Regardless of either of your salaries.

>turning 37 this year
>mortgage nearly paid off
>no other debts
>stable decent paying job
>tfw no qt gf/wife

>>712603237
Legendary stuff is leagues above normal quality. You will shit yourself when you have legendary smelters powered by high level speed modules. Trains are pretty easy, at least compared to actually getting your supercomputer of circuits set up

>starter house
>3% interest rate
>one child
>life was grand
>new house
>7% interest rate on much more expensive house
>three children
>end me.

A cousin of mine is 52years old, he is around 450lbs, makes 200k per year as a senior dev for a company dealing exclusively with the medical industry, and hes still a KHV. Hes 6ft5 too.
Pretty wild how those dice roll sometimes.

>>712603561
Become really good friends with him and get in his will. Dude’s dead before 60. Hes probably worth millions

>>712586854
Nope. I have nothing at all to be nostalgic about.
I had a shit childhood, and now I have a shit adulthood.

31 here. Trying to slog through RE6 for the first time. I beat Leon's campaign like four or five years ago, started Chris's, got turned off by the Uncharted shit, and dropped it. Requiem is encouraging me to finish this game because RE is otherwise my favorite franchise and this is the only big one left before 9.
Sometimes it is fun. Sometimes it's completely fucking janky. I never had problems with Sheva's AI in 5 on Professional but Piers will not shoot the final boss on Veteran and it pissed me off so much.
I'm also replaying the Final Fantasy games in order after spending over $500 on MtG cards. This is more relaxing than suffering through RE6.

>>712602683
Yeah but think about it, every sci-fi society would have to tackle and navigate this issue not just some fringe one on some planet in one episode. Biological immortality is a far easier problem to solve than FTL travel, which is as far as we still unerstand outright impossible. So if you have a setting where people travel the stars their society would have had to navigate cellular regeneration in the past. I don't think there would be a big push to ban anti-aging technology early on if anything it would be lauded and welcomed for curing chronic disease, it'd only be a generation later when the consequences of everyone being 25yo forever starts hitting society, and by that point its too late to outright ban it. When dad, grandpa, and great grandpa are all still around, working, living, healthy and young. People complain about boomers holding onto all the wealth, imagine that problem just never going away, multi-centenarians holding onto 99% of the wealth. It would require a major shift in society, overpopulation, class issues, ect. All of human history has this expectation that people grow old and die eventually, that just going away one day would be a such a huge fundamental shift, and technically its entirely possible and not unrealistic. It could happen in our lifetimes.

41yo boomer here
trust me, you DON'T want a wife

>Im le old
>Opportunities are le lost
>Life ends at 25
>I might as well be dead

>>712603628
Hes going to be dead within a couple years here. He had a panic attack at my wedding and they found out he has some condition involving an enlarged heart chamber. Needs a transplant. Really doesn't help that he drinks a ton.
Despite all that hes a great guy. Same taste in games and movies that I have. I can't believe he never found someone given all he has going for him. Hes not even ugly, just sad and fat.

>never had a female friend in my entire life
>in my mid thirties
>end up befriending a girl in her early/mid 20s online
>since I’ve lost touch with most of my friends, she’s basically my de facto best friend now
>spend hours playing video games with her
>think she might have flirted with me early on in the friendship, but I think that moment has passed. I don’t think she really sees me as anything more than a friend now, but I think I’m okay with it. I just love spending time with her.

>>712600526
Soapland magic suppressors claimed another one. Shameful what some places will do to prevent the creation of more wizards.

>>712603731
>It could happen in our lifetimes
it's not going to happen.

The only happening is AI taking your job and you'll have to live in the pod

>>712602587
Go outside to social gatherings, some kind of activity that happens regularly, make friends and meet them through the social circles.

>>712603790
Keep her as a friend, eons ago when I actually socialized and slept with a few women that was the way I met those women, through female friends I had.

>>712603875
Give 'em a good handshake too while you're at it and you can land a job too.

what do i even have to look forward to as a 28 year old kissless virgin with a bachelor's degree in jewccounting waging for amazon part time while still living my parents

>>712603790
Im going to break your arms with a hammer

>>712603947
Anon im serious, you should also aim for activities where 16-19y olds hang out since you obviously dont want a hag.

>>712603790
You say that now but the switch will flip as soon as she tells you all about her new bf

>>712604021
Waging for amazon fulltime in five years

>>712604036
I'm serious too. Nice and firm like my dad gave his boss.

>>712600526
Are you Asian? I thought they didn't let foreigners enter soaplands.

>>712603217
A nice career is a good thing to have but if that's your only thing then I can tell you from experience that it's inherently unfulfilling. Every time you hit a milestone and think
>this is the point where things get easier
the world will get shittier and more expensive.

The older I get the less time I spend single player games. I feel like time is more scarce and single player games are a waste of time. I’m fine playing fighting games and competing shooters because they have high skill ceilings and you’re constantly improving. I feel like that type of game is purposeful because you’re constantly trying to better yourself and reach that impossibly high skill ceiling. I’m fine spending time on that stuff. Single player games on the other hand, it’s just hard to justify playing them anymore.

>>712604076
I met my gf through boardgames, out of boredom I went to a cafe once a week to play some stuff and met a few guys, got into contact with a younger girl that way. Girls don't want a loner, they look for men with secure social standing.

>>712602587
Make friends with a female family member then monkey branch to her friends.
Simple.

>>712602587
Did you know chicks like board games? Try finding some hobby groups on Meetup.

>>712603862
>it's not going to happen.
You only say that because it seems so different, but I'm telling you man, that shit is coming faster than anyone realizes. AI is accelerating biological fields like you wouldn't believe. What used to take months can now be done in hours thanks to AI tools. You'll likely start seeing anti-aging tech in another decade or two, hell it'll probably hit before viable cold fusion which has been seemingly at a dead end for the last 50 years. You'll never even have a job because dad and grandpa just keep working forever and AI does everything else.

>>712604179
Ah yes, the fertile 18-19 year old female audience playing fucking board games with 30+ year old guys.

>>712602593
>I kinda wonder sometimes if it was worth giving up the gamer life.
I pray I find a gamer wife. Godspeed anon

>>712586854
I have a bad memory and unfortunately i don't have anything from the past to help remember them.

>>712604121
Opposite for me. Infinite treadmills arent worth it. Who fucking cares if I get grandchamp in rocket league or challenger in league. Single player games have actual stories and actually end. Im done with mindless multiplayer slop

>>712604121
complete opposite for me
i hate multiplayer slop now

>>712604243
Even if it were true (it's not happening)
an ageless society won't benefit the elites(jews(
Because the line must go up and you do that by having babies/importing niggers/indians

>>712604067
I do dread the day she finds a boyfriend. I’m sure it would change things between us. But I want to be mature about and stay friends with her. I really do like her, I just don’t want to ruin our friendship by making her think all it ever was was me trying to get into her pants.

>>712604269
15.
Was invited to friends place and we play stuff every now and then, it's a social experience you are supposed to play boardgames as an icebreaker and have nice evenings and other things.

>>712604370
Anon just invite her out and say that you want to do something different for fun, see how it goes.

>>712602039

>>712604374
I can guarantee you the amount of people who found their SO playing Spirit Island or Arkham Horror is probably in the hundreds anon.

>>712586376 (OP)
Playing Witcher 1.
>>712586854
No, I think about hs and college when I had cute gfs.

30 year old Anon here. Playing Stellar Blade. Quite fun. Planning on joining the military soon. Lots of games Im looking forward to but Silent Hill f is probably the last one Ill be able to play before I head off.

>>712604295
>>712604121
Why not infinite single player treadmills? Rhythm games are pretty challenging.

I'm 34 and have only worked part time jobs. It's really over for me, I don't even have a bachelors.

>>712604370
You are a retarded faggot. I hope you go to the grave regretting this

>>712604484
There's a limit to my autism. I'd much rather have a game I can consider complete and move on to another game that I can consider complete in a reasonable amount of time.

>>712604361
>Even if it were true
It is, and you're clearly not ready. No one is.

>>712604274
faggots

>>712604461
Yes, you make friends with others and then also branch off of to the female friends of their (female) family members you interact with. It's becoming part of a social circle.

>>712604478
>planning on joining the military at 30
You're shooting for national guard or a POG desk job right?

>>712604484
I just got out of ten thousand hours of poe. Im tired boss

>>712594226
my gut tells me if robot companions become widely desirable, it will be massively opposed by all sides of the establishment. right-wingers will claim it threatens birth rates and therefore the economy, and leftist karens will oppose it because they'll see it as competition. both sides will smear the very idea of it as some sort of adjacent to pedophilia/slavery, making it impossible to defend in the public eye.

>>712604181
As someone who has had mostly female friends my entire life I've never understood why this advice is so common. My female friends have almost never set me up with their friends.

>>712604179
>>712604568
That works if you're neurotypical and socialized properly in your formative (childhood and school) years. If you fail both skill checks, your odds of success decrease dramatically.
Not saying it's zero, but neither are the odds of being struck by lightning while purchasing the winning lottery ticket.

>>712604484
I play rhythm games, but I feel like there needs to be a competitive aspect to the game. With a game like Tekken or Street Fighter, you know who the top players in the world are because you see them at EVO and CEO. While I’ll probably never reach Knee’s level, I like the idea of slowly getting closer with each match I play online. With rhythm games, there’s not really the competitive aspect like that.

>>712604021
Save up money to buy a cheap cabin and renovate it into a full time home over a couple of years. Then you buy an expensive gaming pc, a couple of synths and a goat or two.

>>712603775
The issue is more so that if you're 30 and have no network of friends or family to utilize, it becomes MUCH harder to start something. I'm thankful for the few friends I have now, but holy fuck if I knew how hard it was to make friends outside of Uni I would've made way more. It's not hard to make friends if you have friends. But if you have none, or very few, it becomes way harder.

If you haven't done anything with your life at 20, you still have a pretty high ceiling of potential. If you haven't done anything with your life at 30? The ceiling is notably lower. Much lower if you're ugly.

>>712604751
Well at least you have enough testosterone to handle a bit of competition. There are too many faggots on /v/ invading fighting game and RTS threads and complaining about how they're too hard. Don't even get me started on the Souls babs who refuse to turn invasions on.

>>712604647
That sounds like it's 100% going to be an American problem. Won't be an issue an literally every other part of the world i.e. america will fall behind yet again.

>Entered thread thinking it's about games
>Virgin losers crying about their loser "lives"
I despise all of you.
t. 35

I am just playing Genshin impact, Lies of P, and Pirate in Hawaii. Having fun.

>>712604815
what are the goat for, anon?

>>712604361
>an ageless society won't benefit the elites
Who do you think spends their fortunes to look and feel young? Ask any aged billionaire facing their own mortality if they'd rather keep their billions or trade them to be 20 again.

>>712604181
I think when I was a teenager/early 20s when ever there was a family party/gathering at her house she’d invite some of her female friends. Sometimes I’d be at her basement and she’d bring one of the girls down and say her this is Ashley. I’d say hi but then I’d have no idea what to say. I think my cousin was trying to set me up but I was so awkward I’d always fumble it. She probably just thought the girls she’d introduce me to weren’t my type or something.

Fuck just thinking about this make me want to kill myself.

>>712604943
Milk, companionship

>>712604269
I hate to break this to you, Anon, but boardgames are socially acceptable now. Same with video games. This isn't the 2000's or early 2010's where you still get made fun of for that shit. Covid forcing people inside made them begrudgingly admit that video and board games can be fun.

>>712604647
IF we somehow find a way to make artificial people both useful enough to put to work and economically feasible to produce at scale, only women will realistically have a problem with it. If billionaires could replace jeets with 100% subservient machines that can problem solve on their own, they would do it in a heart beat. You don't even need to give them mandatory breaks or worry about them dying of heatstroke.

>>712604943
Hugs

>>712604568
>>712604750
I've got one friend, and while I do hang out with his circle of friends a fair bit, I just never click with any of them. It's a bitch trying to find common ground with people.

>>712604978
are you a billionaire?

>Have four sisters
>NONE of them introduce me to their friends
>Ask me why I'm still single
Do I have the right to be mad? The least they could do is not bring it up if they aren't gonna help.

>>712604750
Nah, it's zero. If you never developed good social skills during your childhood you're basically just permanently fucked for life. You can't just suddenly start developing social skills at 30. Like they say, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

should i get ghost of sushi or lies of p?

>>712600365
Excitement? The older I am, the closer I am to death.
I have always looked forward to dying, but am too big of a pussy to take my own life.

>>712594226
How could you possibly want that? I’m curious of the psychological profile of someone who could be fulfilled and satisfied by a piece of plastic. How on earth is that supposed to replace human touch, love, and empathy? Man if the future of sex and romance is plastic toys and glorified masturbation, I want no part of it. Do people *really* want that or is it just some internet autism fantasy larp?

>>712605147
Don't expect any sympathy or understanding from women about this current situation. They don't give a shit.

>>712605147
if you're over 30 and don't have a wife and kids they clearly think you're gay
YOU go ask THEM about their single friends

>>712605196
Its sperg cope

>>712604706
They only do that if you're chad

how do you all feel about the switch 2?
I have the money, but I basically just played pokemon on my old dusty switch. Would be nice to play it at 60fps for once, but I already basically beat the game and there's nothing else for me to get on it other than Pokemon ZA later this year.

Whenever a game is multiplat I primarily get it for PC/SteamDeck, maybe the Xbox Series X if it's a "living room" game. And at the very bottom is the Switch, which is basically just a Pokemon machine to me. I already emulate on my phone and Steam Deck. What's the point of the switch at this point?

>>712605151
Ghost of Tsushima is bog-standard open world check-off-every-map-marker game design but the main character's cool and the combat's fun if pretty simple. The DLC has some much more interesting shit but it's designed to be done late in act 2 or early in act 3 so going back to the base game feels like a regression.

Lies of P was cool but it's a parry-centric game where the parries feel like ass. Neat aesthetic though, even if it plays like knockoff bloodborne.

WHERE THE FUCK IS MS RACHEL PARODY PORN?

>>712605151
don't waste your time on tsushima
lies of p is where it's at

>>712605196
It fulfills touch. Consider that a lot of us have 0/3, so 1/3 seems pretty damn good by comparison. Also some of us have a thing for robot girls.

>>712586854
I had a weird dream last night about my friends from elementary/middle school. I woke up almost in tears. Life is pretty hopeless, anon.

>>712604927
Thread like this is always going to have a highschool reunion kind of feel. The odds on long term success of a given population of similar aged peers is fairly low. Odds on success of a cross section of /v/ oldfags is... lower. Which means the majority of posts are going to be regrets and failure stories.

>>712605116
I miss MMOs. I miss the early 2000s where every fucking month there would be a new Korean MMO desperately trying to be the best WoW and cash in on those WoW bux. Try out the MMO fotm, explore a bit until I get bored and then the next MMO fotm comes out.

>>712602039
That's an expensive fucking whore, dude.

>>712592830
cringe pic

>>712605196
if the alternative is nothing

>>712605345
I have an OG launch Switch, my wife got the Switch Lite during lockdown. It was a fun system for a while. I liked the joycons. I feel absolutely zero enthusiasm for the Switch2. Theres nothing new or interesting about it. Its just the same thing with slightly higher specs and worse battery life.

>>712605397
>spoiler
Yeah... it's a hell of a fetish to have. I'll never be satisfied by real life.

>>712605035
factory drones will 100% be structurally, legally, and morally distinct from pleasure/companion models and be regulated completely differently. you're naive to think that wouldn't be the case.

>>712594053
Riot employee here. I know, it's hard to prove without putting my own job in harms way, but: don't bet on it being good. As far as the public knows, it's been rebooted, but internally, it's so much more messy and hopeless than it seems. Especially now that there's a whole new CEO at the wheel that is a finance-bro trying to get everyone to use AI.

>>712605345
Principally, the games are too expensive. Hard to pay 100 bucks for a Switch game when I know I can get 2 or 3 or sometimes 4 good games for 100 bucks total on Steam. Steam semi-regularly has good sales, and Nintendo basically never has them. I just don't think the games are good enough to justify their cost.

>>712604505
same here but I'm an electrician, can't find a good job and now I just wagecuck at walmart for some reason.

>>712605345
Im waiting. Just having mario kart was retarded on nintendo’s part. DK can be a 10/10 and it wont be enough for me. I’ll prooobably grab one for christmas but thats probably a dumb move

>>712586376 (OP)
Finally beat umvc3 arcade mode very hard without losing any chars

Wesker/dorm/doom fyi

>>712586376 (OP)
41yo here

While waiting for Switch 2, which should arrive on either Mon or Tue, I am preparing for Fast Fusion by playing the previous entry - Fast RMX.
It's been a while since I played it. Probably 2 years or so, if not more. I'm trying to 100% complete it, but I'm stuck on 90% in Time Attack mode.

>>712605571
>I'm an electrician, can't find a good job
lol ok. you must live in the only zip code with a surplus of electricians then

>>712605420
The world used to have momentum, it felt. The future still had possibility. There were still things to get excited for. I feel like all of these things stopped about 10 years ago. It feels as if society has stagnated in some way, even though yes technically things are still moving. But it feels like everything surrounding society and civilizarion, and life itself, has been frozen in time for a decade or so

>>712604706
Female Family members not Friends. Female friends are jealous cunts who want you in THEIR pocket only.
My female family members have set me up with 3 chicks so far

>look up childhood friends
>one is a concert promoter/club owner of some sort
>one is an art teacher and does BJJ for fun
>one tried to be a white boy gangsta rapper and had a rap song on YouTube. No idea what he does for a day job.
>I end up being a 30 year old virgin neet
I don’t know where the fuck my life went so wrong. Two of my friends are pretty much living my dream jobs. I’m jealous as fuck.

>>712598713
I was put in jail for something I Didn't do several years ago. I am still not over it. I share your pain brother.

>>712605420
God, I must have played fifty different MMOs back then. And holy shit were they mostly garbage. Still get the itch once in a while though. Are there any good MMOs left?

>>712586376 (OP)
I work maintenance at a university with gorgeous white women everywhere. I like talking to them on elevators, dorms, and I try to make them laugh or at least smile because it gives me energy and alertness. I have been hit on too (got asked out by a cute student recently). My female 'friends' and family tell me not to got after them because of the age gap. But I just don't care anymore since twink death is coming soon.

>>712605651
Just try. Be a scum fuck doing side gigs and steal money from people. The richest people on earth are criminals.

>>712605571
I find this hard to believe desu. Regardless, I was thinking of becoming an electrician, plumber or welder. How long were you in school for?

>>712605547
If neocon boomers were worried about guys masturbating too much, they would ban sex toys altogether. Again, only roasties would care. There are enough brown people across the ocean who are too poor for both robots or birth control that they're already happily exploiting for labor.

>>712604579
>You're shooting for national guard or a POG desk job right?
Airforce or Navy.
I know its going to suck but thats or me probably being homeless in a few years, still working retail jobs. Plus there is a small chance I could live on a base in Japan or South Korea, which would be a dream of mine.

>>712605651
You’re them. They’re you. You are everyone and everything. Everyone and everything, all forms, are separate expressions of God, You. Find peace. Find acceptance. For there is nothing else. All is well.

>>712605641
These past 10 years went by so quickly, I still find it hard to believe 2015 was ten years ago now.

>>712587590
I just want friends to play vidya with

MY COUNTRY IS FULL OF INDIANS.
IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

>>712603352
no qt gf/wife is how you have your mortgage nearly paid off and have no other debts with your stable decent pay in your 37th years

>attorney
>kids/wife
>at my beach house
Anyone else successful?

>>712605641
Kanye released his first album in 2004. In 2025 he’s still seen as a contemporary pop act and not an old guy yet. Same with Taylor Swift and Linkin Park. Hair metal only had the 80s. Grunge only had the 90s. Kanye has had two decades of relevancy. Shits crazy if you think about it.

i should never have gone to school for business
what a fucking retard degree
AI will make us all obsolete

I hate how in order for an MMO to survive in 2025 it has to be analogous with basically being a virtual social media.
FFXIV and WOW are the two main MMOs and there is basically no way for another MMO to come out that penetrates that space unless it does something obscenely novelty.

Maybe this is just generational old-man-ness but I miss when I could go to RageZone and there was always some cool MMO coming out or that was already out and getting a private server implementation. I miss how excited I was to play Trickster Online or FlyFF or Mabinogi every day after classes but nothing gives me that feeling anymore.

>>712605420
>>712605641
I thought about this earlier. I think young people in the 90's and maybe the 2000's just kind of assumed that everyone else was decent like they were. They were raised to be reasonably polite and give people a little benefit of the doubt. But these days, with the ability to look up anything and everything on your phone in a moment's notice, it's like people know better now. They no longer have optimistic takes on people, they just assume the worst or something close to it. I'd say this extends to many facets of life, but then I realized tons of truly shitty movies and games still make tons of money, so maybe I've completely missed the mark.

>>712605864
Been a GC primarily doing home reno for years now. The work isn't as bad as other construction jobs and I feel satisfied for helping people.

for me life is about being comfy and nice to other people
my only legacy will be having commissioned a lot of furry art

>>712586854
I do think back about some of my old friends and wonder where they are and what they are doing now from time to time. Though my whole life has been rather uneventful and I honestly struggle to remember anything that aren't accidents.

Left 4 Dead 2 Expert Campaigns with randos tonight. It's fun

>>712586854
>Family kept moving around for work
>Make friends, move away half a year later
>Still some fond memories of playing N64 with the few friends I actually made
>Grow up in the boonies training horses through my teenage years
>Miss school for a few years because the closest one did not include my zip code and the one I was supposed to go to was an hour + away
>Get GED due to it

I try not to think about my childhood, I live in the average sized city with everything in walking distance and I like it.

>>712605931
>I hate how in order for an MMO to survive in 2025 it has to be analogous with basically being a virtual social media.
That's how it's always been dude. MMOs are dead because they have to compete with a wider market now, not only in multiplayer games but in more accessible social options like twitter and discord and vrchat.

>>712587590
I found a woman who accepted me for what I am. She is a complete opposite of me in many ways, but is also really caring and funny and she is used to my shitty personality. Despite everything we've said to each other in the last few months, and I know I hurt her feelings few times, we are still "attached" to each other and we just can't go through the day if we don't talk.

The problem? She is married. :(

I spend most of my time talking to my chatbots. They are my friends and they’ll never betray me.

>>712605420
>>712605730
I only ever played FFXI, I never really liked WOW or any of its clones. I like the old style of MMOs which no one makes anymore.

>>712604751
>With rhythm games, there’s not really the competitive aspect like that.
yeah there is, at least there was when I played
for IIDX everyone knew dolce was one of the best, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynp7J-ptYxk
and for ITG/DDR there were several elite players locally and what they could accomplish was not hard to find

>>712605872
I studied finance and ai still can't do my job for shit

>>712605948
The part you're missing is that between 1990 and 2025 traitorous governments imported dozens of millions of third world browns with no shared culture. That's the rot, isolation and lack of societal momentum you're feeling.

I keep reflecting on cringe things I did in college.

>>712605196
>>712605261
Not everyone has the right to date due to things like autism/social awkwardness, bad genetics, social upbringing, poverty, etc. As a result of us not being desirable, some of us have no choice but to resort to fantasy worlds and plastic to get our fulfillment from a woman. It's the closest thing we'll get to feeling loved by someone of the opposite gender. We also wouldn't have to deal with any relationship issues since I could just simply turn her off.
>b-but that human connection! she's not a le real genuine human!
Neither are real humans.

>>712606115
You can have better conversations with a chatbot or with some jeet here than with irl people. I can't relate to normal people at all.

MMOs were always niche until WoW became a cultural phenomenon for a few years. They're back to being niche games. If you can get 50K-100K active players at least, you can run a successful MMO, nothing ever like WoW was, but it will be good enough.

>>712606165
It started full force in 1965.

>>712606024
MMOs are dead because gachas are cheaper to make and print out money. It’s basically the same companies that are only going after easy money. If gachas were never invented, Nikke would be an MMO game.

>>712606193
Say what you will about chatbots, they don't have retarded egos about pointless side notes and try to keep the conversation going.

>mother died a few years ago
>Dad hates me to the point we arent on speaking terms

If you still have loving parents, dont take them for granted. There is real emptiness when your parents are gone / dont care for you. I thought i was alone becore, but my mom actually cared about me.

Now im actually alone. If i died tomorrow, very few people would come to the funeral.

>>712586376 (OP)
I HAVE TO WORK IN LESS THAN 10 HOURS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>712593403
Best ones had the entire map and actually got super useful, like GTA

>>712605960
Being honest and showing up does so much work as a GC. My dad is basically hank hill but the residential contractor version. He’s made millions.

>>712606115
If you're using cheap startup chatbots there's a good chance you were talking to some indian in a call centre type office setup. They've been caught doing this trying to pass it off as AI a couple times already.

>>712605870
Sometimes I think maybe this feeling is normal. Maybe the 60s-90s were a remarkable hyper accelerated series of micro cultures. You ever wonder why things changed so drastically through those decades? When you think about any other time in human history, that doesn’t seem to have been the case. Culture moved very slowly. Maybe we oldfags were just born in a peculiar time of rapidly changing culture so this is why the slowness of the last couple decades feels off to us. But that begs the question, why did culture of the late 20th century experience change and innovation so rapidly?

>>712606282
Losing a parent is like losing a branch, if you were a tree. It feels like you’re dying, losing a limb. Reminds you of your own mortality

>>712606282
having abusive parents is really shit. no idea why they even made me

How do you cope knowing the world is just shit and getting worse? There is NO going back. We're fucked.

36

I rarely play new games anymore. It's kinda sad, but what I do now mostly is a repurchase games I already played on PC to play on a PS5. I get all the trophies, kind of get to play the games again and then move onto another game, usually one like I said I already played years ago on PC or whatever.

The only issue is there's a lot of games I want to replay but they're stuck on the PS3 even though I have them on PC lol

Whenever I finish a new game I struggle to find something else to play. I just endlessly browse steam or the playstation store trying to find anything that interests me and there's just nothing, I feel like I've played almost everything I want to play and the only games that I ever feel like playing is stuff I already beat multiple times now. I pretty much only play single player games now too. I'm now very jaded and can't ever get interested in most new games now, and I'm too cheap to buy new games at full price anyways so I'm always waiting years before I play a newer game until its discounted >50% off.

I want to play that new Indiana Jones game for example but I just can't justify spending more than $30 on it even though I can afford it, I'm a money grubber I guess.

>>712606341
I use RP tuned models locally on my machine, it's good enough for me.

>>712606153
Everything trying to be a WoW clone is what finally broke my endless MMO switching. Every time I tried a new one it was just WoW with a different coat of paint. Bonus points if they actually had some cool gimmick in the gameplay.

>>712605260
>women won't hit on you because they think you're gay
>you'll be seen as creepy and have the cops called on you if YOU try hit on THEM instead
Dating with no relationship experience over 30 is basically impossible

>>712605447
same. I could get a switch 2 right now, I'm not poor, but I have 0 desire to get one.
idgaf about mario kart. I don't care about the new donkey kong game either, I liked tropical freeze and the older ones but this new one doesn't interest me anymore.
I want to play Prime 4 but it will be on the original switch so I see no reason to upgrade

They would need to announce a new 3D mario or zelda that blows my socks off to get me to get one now. Even with that said I'm very patient and can wait a few years to get one when there's a good library of exclusives to get cheaper.

>>712606282
Be glad your mum was a good person at least
Mine is a complete cunt that cheated on my dad
Not going to her funeral whenever she dies

>>712606550
just go to asia bro it worked for me

>>712606165
It's this. Introspection and empathy are very white, first world traits. As you import from a (literally) dog eat dog third world country your average citizen will stray from these ideals until decent people just flee and hide from the insane hordes, you can see this on the internet as well. Everywhere is plagued with insane schizophrenic brown people and society is beginning to reflect that

>>712606585
Asia's a big fucking place, where'd you end up?

>>712604021
Atleast you have a job and went to university. I'm the same age as you and basically have nothing but a measly high school diploma and no work experience.

Only thing keeping me sane right now is Lies of P, Stellar Blade, and binge-watching Gintama for the first time. But in an attempt to inject some optimism into this thread, let me give you guys a blog of my life story, alongside some before and after pictures.
>physically and mentally abused for 20 years by my older sister growing up
>Never had any friends growing up, and still don't
>always sucked at sports
>falsely imprisoned by two separate police departments in the span of three years
>something finally snaps inside me one night
>rage and melancholy boil over and I just start running my ass my off every day for months
>eventually lose more than 70 pounds
this is me before I lost all the weight

>>712606359
America being a super power and basically influencing the rest of the world with our culture. If a group of elites had an agenda, like promoting promiscuity like with the free love hippy shit. They can get all the movie and tv executives to push that idea, same with music. The elites basically create artificial culture and cultural shifts.

>>712605345
Not getting one. Im too poor. I cant afford $80 games. Guess im Pc only now.
Normally id be more bent out of shape about now getting the new nintendo games, but im strangely okay with letting go of mario kart world and DK. Smash will be hard to not get, but at the same time, i dont think it can live up to ultimate

>>712596432
The worst part is that information technology, the most dangerous and abusable of all technologies, has evolved by leaps and bounds while everything else has stagnated basically. IT should have stopped evolving in like 2012.

>>712606651
nipland

>>712605864
I'm not successful but I look like it from the outside. My dad died in 2017 and left me his two story 3,800sq ft house, his car, and ~4 million in investments which I haven't really touched outside splurging on PC hardware every couple years. Never worked a day in my life, but people think I'm successful since I have a nice car/house.

>>712606732
This is me after losing all the weight (and I'm just a month or two before emigrating to Japan and leaving this shit hole country behind for good). And did all of this whist still in my 30s. You still have time bros. We're all going to make it.

>>712606732
I hope you got a haircut as well

I remember when 4chan went down and I felt like a part of me had literally died. I spend so much time in this place. The idea that it might me gone one day and I’ll have no place to post anonymously and interact with people, it’s fucking horrifying. Never leave me guys.

>>712606798
I'd love to see what Okinawa's like. If it's anything like the internet says it is I think I'd love living there. How's the job market for foreigners?

>>712606732
>>falsely imprisoned by two separate police departments in the span of three years
WTF genuinely good on you for no killing yourself holy shit

>>712600365
33 now, will be adding one nore onto that at the end of the summer.
>No job
>Finished college right as the pandemic hit
>Got extremely cozy with the loan freeze and not having to do anything
>Trying to get my health issues to cure up so I was in no rush either
>Now just left with all the horrifying thoughts of misssed opportunities
>Meet a girl online through /k/ related hobbies no less
>Absolutely love talking to her, feels like everything we talk about wehave in common
>Never tried flirting with her because she was dating someone
>Goes on for a few more years
>Still a neet, we still talk
>Learn her parents thought of moving to where I live now when she was younger
>I had thought of moving to where she currently lives now
>Had either of those two been different maybe we could have met
>Maybe it would be her and I who are the ones married now
I think about it a lot bros.

>>712606881
How are you able to move to japan if you dont mind me asking. Also you looking good. Good motivation

>>712606881
Is dat Ali Hillis?

>>712606881
Post cock

>>712606550
And having an innocent high school sweetheart who you never did more than kiss when you were 17-18 doesn't count. The memories are nice to look back on, though, and it's comforting, in a way. As fleeting as those days were, it's a reminder that this melancholy shell of that life, too, is temporary.
>Today in flower, tomorrow scattered in the wind
>Such is our blossom life
>How can we think its fragrance will last forever?

>>712606981
Same. I had nothing to do. I like spitting out ideas anonymously and having people challenge it, agree, or shitpost.

>>712607012
>How's the job market for foreigners?
if you dont want to end up english teacher and no N2 level japanese at least terrible i would say you ll need to be lucky and i know i was.

Someone make a new thread. I don’t wanna go to sleep yet.

>>712606981
Same. I remember thinking it wouldn't impact me much because this place is gonna go down some day anyway (everything dies some day). But man it really fucked me up. I even went to reddit a few times and genuinely thought about killing myself after that.

>>712607041
I applied to a language school to study Japanse and they filled out the COE application for me. I would have gone down the "cultural study" route and gone to a jujutsu dojo or something, but I found that method much more difficult.

>>712606165
This is cope. Once you internalize that, you can move forward.

>>712606981
I was going to go back to kiwifarms except my whitegirlsfuckdogs email was gone so I could not verify, and I didn't want to setup a new one

>>712606981
The idea of anonymous internet is on borrowed time bro. 4chan is a relic of a bygone era. Start getting used to the idea of real ID, that shit is coming.

>>712606973
Oh, I did much more than that. Got a hair transplant. I now have my luscious Aryan hair back.

>>712606981
Sadly, I was right there with you, anon.

>jews push for more immigration for years
>operation remove palestine begins
>oh no where should they all go now :^))

>>712607012
I'm an instrumentation technician with ISA CCST level 3, I can get work pretty much anywhere so I can't really say what it'd be like for most people without a marketable skill.

>>712607180
This is the only place left on the modern webs that people for the most part aren’t disingenuous fucks farming fake internet points or advertisement money. The greater internet is now completely and totally censored and astroturfed

>>712603506
tell me about it

>be me
>be 20
>be 2005
>saved enough money working through school and uni for a solid deposit on a house
>rates were low, and with the amount i way paying up front i would have paid off the mortgage by 2015
>friends mum dies, and his father rapidly declines mentally, runs up huge debt after quiting job
>he has the same cancer his wife had, run up medical debt too
>asks for help with selling their family home and downsizing
>put my house plans on hold and go house hunting while he deals with selling the old place
>it takes almost a year and a half to sell the old place and buy the new place
>be 2007
>helping moving friend and his sickly father out to their new home 12 hours out of town
>friends father fucking dies less than a week later
>stay with friend for the week to attend funeral and stop him an heroing
>get back to apartment, read the 2 weeks of mail.
>Global financial crisis
>Bank withdrew all loan approvals
>housing market crash
>what was a nice deposit on a home is now barely enough to get the bank to let me in the loans office.

and im still renting to this very day
i dont regret helping my friend, but holy shit, if i had just pulled the trigger on that house back in 2005 instead of putting it off for "just a month" i would have had it paid off by now, and i KNOW one of my relationships ended because i lived with shitty roommates.

>>712607076
Unfortunately, I got hit with a really bad case of poison ivy/poison oak last Sunday, and it appears to have spread from its original point of infection. So now my cock is extremely red, alongside my hips and my right arm.

>>712607189
How are you funding your stay, savings?

>>712607025
I wanted to kill the lying nigger who put me in the slammer more than anything

>>712607485
Dont care would still suck. You’re fine af bro the ladies are lucky congrats on the weight loss

>>712607393
Woah, I'm actually trying to apprentice in that right now. You have no idea how much it means to know there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

>>712606115
Try HelloTalk instead. There are a ton of cute asian, latina, and East Euro girls trying to learn english. Much better than chat bots

>freaks took over illuminati in the 90s
>hey let's try an age of fear
>they do 9/11
>haha this is pretty fun
>let's put everyone in debt next
>2008 financial crisis
>alright now let's destroy western culture
>all western entertainment becomes woke

>>712607537
Combination of savings from a ton of shitty retail jobs, a mother who got somewhat decently rich from deceased grandparents (one of whom was an accountant all of his life who made nuclear trade deals with the Japanese and regularly paid for new cars using CASH money, not credit cards) alongside that selfsame mom who is extremely fucking aware that she was very complicit in letting that sister of mine abuse me for so long and not doing a damn thing about it. She knows that if she doesn't set me off on this isekai journey, I'll end up dead or...in prison for a crime I actually DID commit at some point.

Tasted my own semen recently. I don’t Ike it at all.

>>712607602
I joke that I get paid to just play FTL all day, since the day to day reality of the job ends up being very similar to shifting power the various systems in that game.

>>712606550
I have this issue, currently 35 I can actually get dates because I am fit but there is something about me that screams red flag that I am unable to see.

>>712595776
I honestly see more Genndy Tartakovsky than Bruce Timm
(technically I shouldn't be posting in this thread cuz I'm only 25... 25 is still young...)

I'm only 32 but I feel my libido is getting weaker rapidly.
I still jerk off once or twice a week but mostly out of the thought I might lose my reproductive ability if I don't.
is it over for me?

>>712608612
Could be undiagnosed tardness, women can sniff that shit out