>I've become an unsociable person.
>I've spent over 6,000 euros on video games in the last five years.
>I don't have a job.
>I don't have a girlfriend. What about you, /v/?

>>712932593 (OP)
where did you get 6k from?

>>712932593 (OP)
They've improved my life a lot.
I met a girl on Call of Duty back in, like, 2012. Now we're married with three kids.

>>712933113
pocket money and part-time work, this was done over several years

>>712932593 (OP)
Not having a job is what started your antisocial trend. Just go get some shitty part time work doing something easy, it feels good. You might even meet women. They’ll be grossed out by you being a fat gamer, but maybe you’ll lose weight working too.

>>712935483
Well done, I too have known people who met their girlfriends or even their wives in video games.

>>712932593 (OP)
only singleplayer games

>>712936476
I'm not fat fortunately and yet I eat quite a bit, it's a genetic luck but I'm a very lazy person in everyday life I have incredibly little willpower

>>712932593 (OP)
If you had never played video games, you would have gotten addicted to something else. You just don't want to admit your lack of self-control.

Kill yourself fed, your psyops are too obvious

>>712937651
I generally agree with you.
https://youtu.be/B29YStCYorY?

The reason video games caught on is because of the decline of accessible or affordable social spaces for young people IRL. I couldn't find anyone my age outside of school, so I was forced to play video games to pass the time.

how did you spend 6k on games in 5 years?
There's been less than 1k worth of games worth playing.

>>712932593 (OP)
What makes you unsociable just from video games? I think there is something else. Unless your a sweat or play league you should fit in just fine with a game obsession. Really seems like it's just a you thing that you need to work on.

There are millions of people who play video games and are social though. Vidya didn't do that to you, you did that to yourself.

>>712936547
>>712935483
I hear this bullshit all the time. is that even possible? I never came across gamer girl online its always 99# dudes

You don't work so you're a leech on society. Bro this is all on you videos are irrelevant to your ineptitude. 6,000 euros on what? Skins? Could have bought a car, could have taken a girl on a luxurious date. You're probably like 20 so just get it the fuck together dude.

>>712938472
I got lucky. Met my gf on a maplestory forum when we were 14 and we only lived one state away. When graduation was closing in, we started getting really serious and she moved in when I got a job, then a year later we had our own place. We have 2 kids now. It was definitely possible in the 2000s to maybe the early 2010s, nowadays idk how people are meeting each other on the internet like that outside of some weird simp dynamic or some dodgy discord shit.

>>712938472
It depends on the game. Most women don't bother with anything but FOTM and mainstream games. You absolutely won't find a girl playing an RTS. Maybe on MMOs you'll find women but they're usually landwhales.

What happened to being able to meet people IRL?

>>712938203
I had to pay about thirty games for $60, and the rest, let's say maybe, $4,000. I put them into Paytowin games, like Clash Royale, or games like Good Game Empire. So it's a bit like Clash of Clans, but not really. That's what destroyed me. In fact, the worst games are where there are microtransactions because you pay, but in fact, the game is never really yours, it's to have in-game advantages.

>>712938496
People can tell when someone is behind for their age and instinctively avoid them, which makes it even harder for them to catch up.

>>712935483
Know what? This is really what I should consider doing, I just always felt it was a weird spot to make an approach cause they likely get it all the time. It just clicked that they get it regardless, so as long as you approach with confidence and be chill it's really no big deal. I like the nerdy, quiet, bookworm types and they infest the cool/survival games I play, while being inherently hard to bump into irl.

>>712936963
Relatable, my man. I will say if you actually want to change that about yourself even a little bit, making a checklist of extra things you can do each day and actually getting them done is a great way to fight sloth if it's your vice. Ime, making those lists ahead of time makes it a lot easier to do more with your day than trying to wing it.

All women are degenerate whores with body counts in three digits. You aren't even allowed to talk to them unless you are a chad with a killer jaw and hunter eyes. Best move is not to play the woman game, many such cases!

>>712938169
Also true. $40 for a game I can enjoy for 100+ hours, or $40 for a handful of drinks one night. Roller rinks shut down, especially during covid, ice arenas are less common, and most of the hot "activities" to do are expensive or don't attract women. I like disc golf, but it's pretty male dominated.

I used to have a group of quiet and introverted friends, but they all vanished after high school.

Video games didn't destroy your life. Your bad choices destroyed your life. Do you not have free will? Do you not have agency? Take responsibility for your bad choices and stop blaming everything else.

>>712932593 (OP)
>I've spent over 6,000 euros on video games in the last five years.
Sounds like you have a spending problem, not a video game addiction.

>>712938985
you're retarded and deserve everything

>>712932593 (OP)
I receded into games as it became clear to me throughout high school that I can't escape being weird. Just now I'm working a job and I haven't changed since I was a kid. I still stutter and struggle with eye-contact. I always do double-takes when people ask me things because I'm unable to comprehend if they're making jokes that i had to understand or if they're genuinely telling me information.
Sitting at a table eating dinner with people is my biggest nightmare. Those 30 hour breaks you need to have once per day I just want to erase if I could. I can do horrid work just fine, but those 30 minutes of forced face-to-face interaction while pretending it's about eating food, where everybody can just switch into "small-talk" mode is something that severely depresses me, and it only gets worse the older I get, and the more I can have hindsight to see all the things I'm missing out on.

Did vidyas do that? Maybe, OR, vidyas are just my only cope to find some small amount of joy in an otherwise nonsensical "system" that has been furnitured with normal people in mind, but not people like me. So all I can do is my obligations and then fuck off into obscurity and play video games.

I'm not even unambitious. I used to have several things I tried to do, but it always claps back when I get to the social encounters. I even gave up on game dev because I had to do a course where the female designer talked about how "what got me into the company was my social skills."

There's nowhere you can fit into the hamster-wheel society without being about "The people". All I need is a place to fit where I can focus on "Work mode" and everyone being on the same page. My last workplace had elements of that, but at some point people only remember you for what they know about you as a person, and don't give a shit about anything else.

>>712939336
I have tried to do things other than play video games, and every time, I get turned away and forced to leave. I can't even shoot pool at the bar because no one will play with me.

Anything I'd want to do, I can't because I'd be doing it alone and I got sick of doing everything alone decades ago.

>>712939019
You know good multiplayer survival games, AND they have real nerd chicks? Gimme.

>>712932593 (OP)
>I've become an unsociable person.
Have you considered that you would have developed into an unsociable person even in the absence of video games?
>I've spent over 6,000 euros on video games in the last five years.
There is some personal responsibility in keeping a tight budget, which is something it seems you could stand to take a few pointers on.
>I don't have a job.
Have you considered that you would have remained unemployed even in the absence of video games?
>I don't have a girlfriend.
Just get an AI girlfriend.

>>712940179
i'm disabled
the only motivation to live for me are video games
fuck reality
fuck society

>>712940394
>I think I was already a, let's say, not very sociable person, but this has made it even more so. I think without video games, I would have had difficulty socializing, but we're still in a pretty extreme situation now.


>The fact that I spent $6,000 in the space of 5 years on my passion, I don't find that so crazy. I knew people, they played tennis or soccer, they didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money on their passion.


>I don't live on unemployment, or benefits, or anything. Well, it would be more like if it weren't for my parents. I wouldn't have anything. But I think without video games, I would have left the house.


>I often talk to AI, but more like a friend than a girlfriend.

>>712941037
Odd, that doesn't sound like a survival video game.

>>712940394
AI is fucking dogshit. I've been using it for years and at no point did it ever feel like a suitable replacement for real companionship.

I'm super social and going, but also ugly, so I got bullied for that in school.

So despite having the right personality to "fit in", I don't have the looks needed to succeed.

>>712936476
honestly decent advice

>>712932593 (OP)
I play vidya because i like it over interacting with people. Playing didn't make me antisocial.

>>712932593 (OP)
For me they're just an effect, not a symptom. Due to other bullshit in my life I reclused myself and well I needed something to do.

>>712936476
>>712944846
Then why do I want to kms when I'm at work?

>>712932593 (OP)
oh look, yet another glowie psyop
eventually your kike masters will figure out that nobody's dying for Israel

>>712932593 (OP)
Don’t you get bored with games after a certain time? Even if i love a game, I have to stop and do something else after 2 hours of gaming.

if it wasn't video games it'd been something else. like gambling or alcohol.

>>712948181
Yes, indeed, I get bored. Before, I never got bored. Now, I play for more than an hour, I get bored. But hey... I have this psychological block that prevents me from going outside now.

>be turbo poorfag as a kid
>got a psx when the ps2 was already coming to an end
>I always dreamed of playing all those cool “next gen” games one day
>only was able to afford vidya when I was in my early 20s when I got a real job.
Im 35 now, and buying/playing games still feels like a special treat. I honestly don’t get why you fags feel guilty for ENJOYING your hobby. Normies literally watch netfllix or reels for hours, meanwhile Im lasso’ing nigs in rdr2

>>712948710
Literally just go for a walk around the block.

Video games are a young phenomenon. The reaches of its repercussions have not been fully documented or realized

If video games didn't exist a lot of us would probably be addicted to fent or some shit and die young

>>712949890
That's exactly where the discussion thread comes from. So, for you, generally speaking, have video games brought more good or more bad?

>>712949768
Heck, add television and internet to that. It hasn't even been a century.

>>712932593 (OP)
If I didnt play videogames I'd be doing some other autistic shit that pre-vidya boomers did, like collecting coins or being way too much into cars and whatnot. Or I've joined the army and killed for zog. As a short ugly man I never stood a chance at social success in the first place.

>>712950090
Modeltrains sounds kinda kino

>>712932593 (OP)
>>I've spent over 6,000 euros on video games in the last five years.
You retards need get a job. Normalfags are spending more than that on a single bicycle that they'll ride for less than 3 hours before it rots away in a basement.