>Can't enjoy games anymore because it feels like I'm wasting time that I could spend learning or mastering something useful.
Am I the only one?

according to who's expectations?
why do you feel you should meet them?
is it worth it?

>am I the only one?
No, you will literally never be able to ask this question without getting a no. And just so you know, unless your hobby involves building things you can use or hunting, you are wasting your time with a hobby no matter what. We're supposed to have fun and waste time sometimes. Sorry, I'm sure you just wanted to start a shitfling war like every other faggot around here

>>712949480 (OP)
then wtf are you doin on this board
go to a different board
maybe >>>/d/ is more your style you faggot

Gaming is useful

I used to feel this way, then I gave up on life. Now I'm burnt out and I don't know what to do anymore.

As long as I complete a hard workout every day I feel like I have accomplished something and my mind it put at ease for me to enjoy vidya.

>>712949480 (OP)
Unfortunately, not. There are other beta males like yourself with your pussy ass thinking. Have you tried taking estrogen?

>>712949480 (OP)
>Am I the only one?
No, we have one of these threads every day.

Useful doesn't mean anything, what matters is if you are having a good time while playing. Playing games is no different from watching a movie or reading a book. If you're getting bored specifically because of videogames themselves, then it might be worth trying something else, but not because "you're wasting time"

you're not the only one
i bought a Switch 2 today and I feel nothing

>>712949480 (OP)
>Am I only only one?
Nah, but that's not your problem.
>feels like I'm wasting time
That is the problem. Don't force yourself to do something you don't wanna do. If you do wanna play games then just change how long you do it.

>/v/ Well fucking leave then
Nah the trick is mate is "have fun". However if playing games is your life and all you do is games then that can fuck off.

I have 2 buds that games is all they fucking do. Then they bitch and complain about being alone or about how I won't burn every Friday and Saturday night wasteing my time with them instead of going out and having fun.

COVID is over get your life back.

>>712949850
does this really work?

>>712949480 (OP)
Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time.

>>712950152
Based take. It’s always the dudes who do nothing else all week that suddenly think gaming is the *only* valuable use of time on the weekend, then get all doom and gloom when it doesn’t fulfill them. Games can be great, but if you’re not balancing it with anything else, yeah it becomes hollow real quick.

Touch grass, talk to people, lift something heavy — then go back to your backlog with a fresh brain. Shit's more fun when it's not the *only* thing you do.

>>712950764
only if you live with guilt for enjoy life, yes it works. so, if you’re a low test male like yourself and feel guilt for enjoying vidya, do what he does

>>712949480 (OP)
i play videogames to forget im wasting time

>>712949480 (OP)
i accidently broke my tv :/

>>712949746
Yeah for lining da jews pockets

>>712949480 (OP)
>it feels like I'm wasting time that I could spend learning or mastering something useful.

Lmao. Mastering something useful? Like what? Name some things you could have mastered.

>>712953845
It's just crazy to me that not a single NPC using this site can see themselves.
>video games are a waste of time :(
>i will post on 4chan instead
Why are you guys like that? It's okay to be stupid, but you guys are stupid and still feel the need to post. You should just be stupid in silence. Anyway, I'm going back to filtering every thread on the board. The sub-humans can post but I don't read any of their shit.

life begins at 65. its a waste if youre not accumulating wealth

>>712953845
building things, repairing things, cooking even knitting is a more useful expenditure of your time than getting every achievement in Kirby's Return to Dream Land

>>712949480 (OP)
become a streamer

>>712949690
Am I the only one answering to you with this post number above my text?

>>712954249
>building things, repairing things, cooking even knitting is a more useful expenditure of your time than getting every achievement in Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Okay, so why aren't you doing those things instead of posting on 4chan? Can you see yourself, or are you like everyone else on this website?

>>712949480 (OP)
I'm the contrary, my life has gone pretty damn shit, but at least I still enjoy games just like when I was a kid, maybe a part of the young me still lives inside me...

>>712949480 (OP)
Goofing off instead of learning how to make Mr. Shekelberg more money. Man child.

>>712954873
I'm sure wasting your money on his latest videogame is gonna make him cry.

>>712954995
>I'm sure wasting your money on his latest videogame is gonna make him cry.

Nice try at a retort, but money isn't nearly as useful as manpower. When a rich person goes to a supermarket to buy stuff, money didn't stock that place and people did. That means removing yourself from society is a bigger blow than pirating a video game.
I may pay for a video game, but I've never slaved away, and so I am fighting the system. If some rich kike comes to 4chan, we don't even use the same website, because I have most of it filtered. If you weren't a Slave Nigger, you would know money isn't everything.

>>712953567
Imbecile

>>712949480 (OP)
Despite the hell that is modern times where people expect you to turn a profit for every breath that you take in, the reality is that there is a subset of people that SHOULD just be enjoying themselves. Some people get joy working, others get joy from the fruits of our labor and encourage us to do more(either with transaction or community level encouragement). Not everyone needs to cure cancer or make music, theres no harm just simply enjoying yourself. The REAL problem is that there was an entire generation of people(boomers) who decided that THEY should be the only ones enjoying themselves and everyone else needs to slave away so you are pressured by these good for nothings to get to work, so you end up feeling bad that you arent meeting society expectations
I mean feel free to educate yourself and learn something fun, but theres no obligation.

>>712949480 (OP)
fix your life or play games you actually want to play instead of ones you think you should play.

>>712949480 (OP)
>implying you played games to begin with

>>712955249
4chan actually mirrors society really well.
>everyone is fucking stupid, and their only purpose is to keep the site alive
Do I contribute to 4chan? Very little.
>I don't make threads
>I don't make any OC
and I did just as much for society. That's how you fight back when you're forced to live with people you hate; You do nothing.

>>712949480 (OP)
I don't like games anymore because they make me feel tired and I'd rather lie in bed.

>>712956151
This is me but my base stress level is already maxxed out against the tolerance line and playing videogames aggravates it over the threshold and i end up watching other people play instead..

>>712954249
>more useful
Useful for what? Dumb pseud nigger

What’s considered useful?

>>712956521
being able to fix a pipe yourself instead of spending 1200 dollars on plumber.

>>712956601
I didn't have breakfast this morning though

>>712956521
Anything that keeps yourself or others alive is useful. So...
>cooking
>making/fixing clothes
>building or maintaining things
and so on. Those are all useful skills. I never bothered to learn any of them because I wasn't happy with society, and so I have no intention of building or maintaining.

>>712949480 (OP)
What stops you from doing both?

>>712956743
>Anything that keeps yourself or others alive is useful. So...
>>cooking
>>making/fixing clothes
>>building or maintaining things
These are all larps tho

>>712956521
dying for israel

>>712954302
i did this

>>712956521
Being a shabbos goy

>>712956601
But if you’re gone learn to do that why not just become a plumber? You can’t be a jack of all trades.

>>712957419
I don't know, my grandpa build his own boat he lived in for years and he was a shoemaker.

>>712949480 (OP)
Learn time management skills and set reasonable expectations. You should absolutely invest time into learning something useful, but it's also important to invest time into leisure. Both are important and both are good for you. Balance is the key; don't spend too much time on studying (or you might burn out), and don't spend too much time on leisure (or else you won't get anything done!). Make a schedule or a routine and follow it (easier said than done, especially if you have ADHD).

Treat it like school when you were a kid. You went to school for X amount of time and then went home and had fun for X amount of time. Same thing. Do something productive for X amount of time and then do something fun for X amount of time.

>>712949480 (OP)
Going to college I learned you can't really learn for more than like 2 hours a day and beyond that the best you can do is rote cramming and grinding which isn't real development of knowledge or skill

Literally just spend two hours a day learning and then you can fuck around the rest of the day but rest assured you are at peak development

>>712949480 (OP)
it's a rare autist that can actually spend every second of their free time pursuing something without hitting a brick wall that requires some leisure time.

>>712958325
this only works if you can actually focus in those 2 hours

>>712949480 (OP)
I'm 43 and I still play games. I take breaks here and there and I only play one "long form" or open world game at a time. I try other shorter stuff, like Subnautica, Balatro, Stellar Blade etc. I work hard enough that it's a break and reward to play some stuff during the evenings.

I can't play games because my dad has cancer and the house isn't paid off
he's going to die and I'm going to become homeless because of his financial retardation

>>712950152
>COVID is over

NOTHING IS OVER