videogames stop being 'magical' to you?

>>713156996 (OP)
never

>>713156996 (OP)
Spore

Getting in my first relationship

32 and I still like them

>>713156996 (OP)
They stopped being magical when you started touching yourself at night.

>>713156996 (OP)
>always waited until the last minute to do reports
>even now in adulthood I wait until the last minute to do anything
Did I need pills?

>>713157390
>night
nigga i sleep at night
aint nobody got time for that

>>713157390
I have been doing nofap and they started being magical again

>>713157390
>get erectile dysfunction
>suddenly games are magical again

>>713156996 (OP)
About 17-18, by that point I had been exposed to enough other media, especially books, that made me realise videogames, by comparison, were made by people who were not very bright.

>>713157390
That's what it boils down to for most normalniggers. You mature, become focused on interpersonal relationships, talking, romancing, drinking, most likely you will also lose your childlike wonder, the ability to be entertained by make-believe and audiovisual feedback loops, so you'll grow out of games, because they are an inherently inferior storytelling medium held back by player interaction and they just don't have what you're looking for. Case in point: >>713157929

>>713158794
>because they are an inherently inferior storytelling medium held back by player interaction
not only that, they are just fucking boring
it's either alternate versions of DOOM, dragon quest, ocarina of time

June 29, 2007

>>713157929
It brings me joy that every passing day, book troglodytes like you that claim that their medium is the peak of fiction, are shown to be just as retarded as the rest

>>713160819
ok bro. don;t you gave 'video essay' to finish or speedrun to shave some seconds off? faggot

>>713160819
>book troglodytes
>their medium
It's not like a sports team, you fucking faggot autist, you can enjoy all sorts of media, you don't have to pick a side.

>>713156996 (OP)
2017

>>713161116
funny how most gaymers hate sports and mock normalfags for liking sport teams but worship their favorite gaming company even more than a football ultra

>>713156996 (OP)
when they took away casual cunny and panties

>>713156996 (OP)
Ironically, the pills are what helped get me back into vidya.

>>713156996 (OP)
They didn't. I just don't play western AAA games.

>>713158794
>because they are an inherently inferior storytelling medium
that's because they're not a storytelling medium you colossal retard.

vidya games stopped being magical to me around the mid-2010s. Two major reasons:
1.) 2010 gaming got really weird, commercialized, and it was the beginning of pandering to normies in my eyes. All the big games seemed like movie games to me and I stopped being open to new series as a result.
2.) In 2013, my friend let me borrow Dark Souls 1. I became addicted, not only to this game but the Fromsoft catalogue in general. After playing DaS, every other RPG coming out at the time seemed boring and trash, like every game felt like a WoW clone compared to Fromsoft. Dark Souls 1 became and still is the only video game that matters to me, just because it had a perfect multiplayer system, which got more muddled with each release. I absolutely love the purity of Dark Souls 1's invasion / co-op and covenant systems, even in Remastered. Sad that the forest is dead nowdays.
TL;DR 2010 and onward, games really stopped being appealing. I also got sucked into being a Fromsoft fanboy, which ruined other RPGs for me.

>>713156996 (OP)
When I made some simple games during programming course. After that they're all ones and zeros, theres no little wizardguy inside the box making it all happen.

>>713160819
I’m a reader and writer, but anon is right. Books get hyped up as the most intelligent and classy medium, but the space is overwhelmingly populated by normalfags who write about stupid, boring shit. There’s something I like to call the ‘e621 principle’, which is the idea that if you told a person what a furry is, and they either melt down and throw a tantrum at you and tell you to fuck off or have a heart attack and die, you shouldn’t pay attention to any art they make, and the guy who wrote Blood Meridian would doubtlessly fail that test, as an example.

>>713161703
>told a person what a furry is
Most people would think it was weird and disgusting, because, as a sexual fetish, it is. They wouldn't throw a tantrum or die.

>>713157390
That's patently untrue

>>713156996 (OP)
Oh the feels... Poor Calvin.

>>713156996 (OP)
Every day and never at the same time.
There are game that I like which rekindle the magic.
There are games that I don't like, but I can see why others do.
And then there is slob, where some scientist looked for the perfect
concoction to satisfy the gamba or gooner brain to extract as much
money or attention as possible, that snuff the magic out.
Not to say I don't like a good feedback loop or some eye candy,
but you know which ones I mean.

>>713156996 (OP)
2009 when wow went to shit. I remember getting shakes in excitement when logging in every day

>>713156996 (OP)
Baldur's Gate 3 and E33 reignited the magic for me again. Not that every year has a good game like those, but they are still made.

>>713161908
>>713161703
Let me improve your principle, change e621 to lolicon and watch the normalfags throw a REAL tantrum

Shortly after I got a job and felt too tired to enjoy vidya after work

>>713165232
where's the joke, fuckley

>>713156996 (OP)
based calvin taking his meds on his way to becoming a productive member of society

When I turned 30 and my life started going to shit.

>>713156996 (OP)
they didn’t they honestly just fucking suck. I never played fantasy life before but when the remake came out I thoroughly enjoyed it and put 200 hours into it. also when I first played phasmophobia it was legitimately exciting, and while still fun I no longer fear the ghosts. I would still love to play old games but I have completed all my favorites 10-15 times or more and it’s hard to enjoy them when you remember every minute detail. it’s hard to find new games fun or exciting because they either completely revolve around PvP, strip content for future dlc, aren’t playtested and are woefully unbalanced/systems just aren’t rewarding, take themselves too seriously (artistically lol), or are just a straight up unplayable bugfest

>>713157929
>playing games for the story
bro you seriously fucked up

>>713158794
>lose your childlike wonder
people lose that because by the time you finish your 9-5, do all the chores, and lift, you have literally no time for anything. you start going through the motions and your brain ceases functioning. you just go through the motions like a zombie because what little free time you have left over is invested in getting ahead (continuing education and job training, dating, children and family, less frequent periodic problems like house repair and maintenance and medical checkups)
this phenomenom manifests even in jobs themselves. very often people neglect continuing education and experimentation, preferring stick to their tools because >muh workflow and due to habit. when any changes are introduced, they become like fish out of water, lost and unable to adapt
being a normalfaggot is actually the death of a person, turning into an automaton, a mere cog in the machine that exists only to keep the wheel turning

>>713165232
you forgot the last panel where he fucks his son

>>713156996 (OP)
June 14, 2013

>>713161601
It is, it's just not a very good one, so storyfags drop off over time and all the attempts at forcing games as art will forever fail. Let games be god damn games.

>>713156996 (OP)
one SJWs took over. It is amazing how different is with talentless hacks in place of real devs

>>713165476
The dad realizes he'll have to spend his last sliver of free time to stretch his son's butthole with his penis.

>>713156996 (OP)
When a friend convinced me to join his raiding guild during WoW TBC and I started minmaxing instead of enjoying the fucking game when it was still good

>>713157929
ah, that must be why you are wasting time on a videogame / porn spamming brain rotting forum then

the feeling still exists it's just a lot harder to invoke it. Novelty plays a big part so once you've played 500+ games then inevitably you'll notice and expect mechanics, story beats, character arcs.

I thought Portal was awesome when it released and i was thirteen, really wowed me. If it were to release today (and other games hadn't already copied it's mechanics, so pretend the portal stuff is still new) I'd probably just think it's neat but way too short and far too easy. Same goes for all forms of media. You could hand teenage me any remotely competent fantasy novel and i'd at least complete the first book in a series before dropping it, but i rarely dropped stuff at all. Now a book has about 50-100 pages and being merely decent is not worth my time to continue it over doing other stuff.

I literally just dropped and refunded an indie game that came out today called Metro Gravity. If i had to leave a review on it I'd even give it a positive one. What i played was good, but just 'good' isn't good enough anymore, when there's so many other options to turn to.

>>713156996 (OP)
I thought I hated vidya, until I started replaying some older games i used to play as a kid. Quake 3, Stronhold, Age of Mythology, Unreal. Thats when I realized I still enjoy vidya, I just dont have such diluted tastes to be able to play the dogshit of today.

>>713156996 (OP)
When american culture wars spiraled out of control around the 2016 election.

>>713161703
Anon somehow hits the nail on the head right here. Books like most of everything else got completely infested with normalfags and it will most likely never go back to the good old days.

Why is it so kino

>>713157390
If anything, games that help me touch myself at night are the only games that still feel magical instead of whatever modern slop the industry keep bumping out.

>>713156996 (OP)
They didn't, though games have underwent a serious drop in quality lately. These things actually happen all the time, and people that pretend otherwise are just silly.

No sane person would pretend lute playing today is of the same quality as the 17th century, but people will tell you with a straight face that video games are of the exact same quality throughout time.

>>713156996 (OP)
They haven't yet, but i never used them as a replacement for other things

>>713156996 (OP)
when i typed sv_cheats 1 in console

>>713156996 (OP)
I started losing interest in video games in my mid 20s.
10 years later, I just don’t care anymore. Maybe I’ll play something but only for a couple of minutes. A new game might interest me but I’m likely never going to play it. I used to be able to play video games all day when I was a kid and my interest started dying in the 2010s.

>>713166115
>9-5
Nobody is at work for only 8h anymore, it's 8h paid work and 1h unpaid lunch.

>>713156996 (OP)
Just because you're a miserable faggot doesn't mean everyone else is.

>>713156996 (OP)
they never were magical to me
that's why I prefer playing with them to playing with women

>>713156996 (OP)
magical? sometime around 29yo after i had to go back to work when lockdowns at work finally fully ended. I've been quasi-depressed ever since then.

>>713171296
what is this game launcher?

>>713176478
Playnite

>>713156996 (OP)
When I started going on message boards and people told me what to think about them

Its been a slow burn, games I would be or still am excited to play have their novelty wear off pretty quickly and it feels like just another game before I even sit down to play it.
I'm also much more critical of games now which makes it harder to enjoy anything because I have 30+ years of experience in games and can't tolerate bad game design

>>713156996 (OP)

>>713162381
Romanticizing maladaptive aphantasia is problematic. Take your fucking pills and support abortion and fags twerking at kids.

>>713171203
The GOAT

>>713165232
What did he mean by this?

>>713156996 (OP)
15 minutes ago.

Man, FUCK videogames.

>>713178065
Where my maladaptive nigs at?
>t. Trick myself into long distance sprinting by thinking of battles

>>713171123
Dont worry. With global literacy rates dropping, we can soon gate keep reading again.

>>713156996 (OP)
I never needed them to be magical to be engaging and fun. People don't seem willing to "play along" with a game anymore. It doesn't matter how hard a game telegraphs its intent and what you're supposed to do, people will either be "clever" by doing the opposite, or do the completely standard thing for the genre and get mad when it doesn't have a completely standard result. Games designed to cater to this mindset are killing the industry slowly.

Tennessee added Calvin and Hobbes to their banned booklist btw

>>713156996 (OP)
They're still magical, just less often. No matter how shit the industry gets, games are always more appealing than real life.

>>713156996 (OP)
What do you even mean by 'magical'? Fun? Nostalgia? You're just throwing out a vague term and hoping people fill in the blanks. When did videogames stop being 'cromulent' to you?

>>713156996 (OP)
When I can give a game my undivided attention for 10 minutes it just works 8/10 times.
The problem is prying myself away from 4chan and my phone long enough for the game to get me going.

>>713177905
This is funnier to read as an adult than as a kid.

>>713156996 (OP)
I got things done early in college so I could bing bing wahoo even harder.

>>713157929
You have to be really fucking retarded to think literature is somehow exempt from being infested with weirdos and retards

>>713179997
I am sorry anon, but this is wrong. Books are now written at a 7 year olds level. And no matter how much people become unable to read they will still claim listening to audio books is reading but better. Used to work in a publishing house until last year so I know first hand how fucked it is.

>>713156996 (OP)
Better than in your case, AKA you never played videogames and instead shit up this place for free

>>713186917
literature by definition is exempt of faggotry and retardation. they're timeless classics that transcend their origin and go on to define a canon; the foundation upon which civilization's culture lies

>>713156996 (OP)
>posting the edit

>>713188070
lynchian

At around 2014. Then I found the joy of vidya again in 2022.

that's the dumbest fucking comic.

i have spent my whole life writing and drawing. before i got my meds i never finished a single fucking project. ADHD without treatment just makes you a useless scribblebrained fuck. creativity is worthless without productivity.

furthermore, ADHD meds don't even make you less creative. they certainly make you less distractible though and you spend less time daydreaming/percolating, so less time doing creative work, but that creative work occurs when you're fucking supposed to be doing other work. you can still be creative at any other time.

and, lastly
THEY ARE NON ADDICTIVE AND HAVE ALMOST NO WITHDRAWAL EFFECTS.

JUST TAKE TWO OR THREE DAYS OFF EVERY WEEK LIKE I DO.

god i fucking hate normalfaggots.

>>713161553
This

>>713161703

>>713156996 (OP)
around ps1 N64
games start becoming "serious". the graphics competition was real.
I grew to 8 and 16 bits. games were pixels, stories were simple to non-existant. this start changing by 16 bits with RPGs but still were mostly fantasy stuff.
so ps1/N64 for me

>>713187890
No matter how eloquently you try to phrase it, your post just boils down to "I'm a pseudo-intellectual faggot and have no clue what I'm talking about". I'm willing to bet you haven't read a single book that wasn't mandatory for elementary through high school English classes and even then only because you had to.

>>713161489
I have yet to meet a person who uses the phrase "sportsball" who I like, same vein as "toxic masculinity". Dont even watch sports.

Rockstar killed the hype with GTA Online.
EA killed the hype with Need For Speed.
Nintendo killed the hype with Breath of the Wild.

>>713157534
No.
Why they hell would you worry about things until you absolutely have to.

>>713188775
>normalfaggots
>writes like a redditor
go back

>>713189492
stfu fag

>>713156996 (OP)
Video games lost a lot of their magic when online play became mainstream. They lost even more magic when SJW types started fucking with the narrative of single player games.

You still got a lot of fun stuff though. Dragon's Dogma 2 was a fun time (despite how hard /v/ shits on it) and I've been having fun with the 9th Dawn series.

>>713189572
like i said, go back

>>713188936

>>713189602
no u

>>713189660
no u

>>713188775
>THEY ARE NON ADDICTIVE AND HAVE ALMOST NO WITHDRAWAL EFFECTS.
>ritalin and aderall
>non-addictive
The second one is a god damn amphetamine for fuck's sake.

>>713189791
yes, non-addictive.

>>713189492
Nigga you all talk like redditors now, you didn't stop people from crossposting on either reddit or twitter and this is the consequences of that. When's the last time we had an actual fucking meme made here that wasn't just swiped from one of those sites because it was trending?

>>713188775
shh, anon. let the retards believe that life is a choice between being an unkempt mess who can't get anything done and giving up your hobbies and selling your soul to attain success

>>713188775
How do I understand if I have ADHD?
I haven't finished a single project in years. All this time I just thought it's a severe case of procrastination.

>>713187890
You're not going to find a single person who'd consider the book I posted there a timeless classic. Hell I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't even read the whole thing. They'd stop at the part that's just pages upon pages upon pages of weird geriatric incest sex with scat and piss play that read like some weird deviantard's erotic fanfic and either throw the book away or outright burn it.
I'd imagine you didn't even recognize it as the cover of a book though since it's not Catcher and the Rye, the Great Gatsby, or one of the very small number of other books you've actually bothered to read and even then only because a teacher forced you to.

>>713174505
>tfw 10 hours of work and 30 min lunch.
God i love 3 day weekends, with 4+ on holidays

Is there anyone left who doesn't think video games, as a whole, dropped dramatically in quality during the mid-2010s?

They never were, I just didn't know any better

>>713193606
>mid-2010s
I'd say late-2000s, the 2007 meme is accurate

They're still magical in the sense that they're the only thing on this entire planet that doesn't feel like work to me. Yeah there's faggoty shit like battle passes but I can just ignore those games.

>>713190440
>How do I understand if I have ADHD?
going to see a psychiatrist would be the place to start.

however, to cut a long story short, here are the DSM criteria
https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/diagnosis/index.html

the way i describe it is if you can't do the things you WANT to do.

lots of people are lazy about their shit job or household chores, but if what you want most in your whole god damn life is to write a book but you can't sit down for more than 20 fucking minutes at a time... ADHD inhibits action EVEN WHEN DESIRE IS INTENSE. that's the most important takeaway.

people with untreated ADHD also tend to develop avoidant behaviours, which are different from ADHD. for example:

>getting "stuck" playing a videogame or shitposting on 4chan or whatever, literally unable to stop doing it
ADHD, classic case of a failure of executive function to inhibit behaviour
>putting off starting my writing task because 'naaah i don't feel like it right now'
avoidant behaviour as a result of a lifetime of failing at my writing tasks and subsequently feeling like shit, not ADHD

the other thing i'd say is that ADHD is a disorder of executive function. executive function is like the hand of god that comes down and tells you to stop being a stupid fucking animal and do the smart thing that you're supposed to be doing. executive function's primary role is to INHIBIT and REGULATE your behaviour - stop you from just being a pleasure-seeker who lives in the moment.

the last thing i'd say is this:
>All this time I just thought it's a severe case of procrastination.
Normal procrastination: you put it off, feel a bit guilty, then eventually get it done with some effort.
ADHD procrastination: you literally feel unable to start, like you're paralyzed. hours or days vanish while you do something else compulsively. you hate it, you're aware of it, you can't stop doing it anyway.

>>713194371
xbox is when it all started to go downhill, 360 in particular. dumbfuck normies LOVED that console.

>>713188775
>shut UP and take the FUCKING pills, goyim
when I was a child I got "diagnosed" with multiple disorders (ADHD, SPD, and MDD)
as an adult I realize that literally only happened because I was surrounded by retards and needed coping mechanisms
your cheap tricks don't work on me

>>713194371
>I'd say late-2000s
I would personally argue that generally high-quality games were still being released on a regular basis up to around 2011, but everything after that has gone so downhill that it's unrecognizable.

>>713195558
lastly there are subtypes of ADHD.

i have fairly severe impulsive ADHD which is the laziness subtype. but there is inattentive ADHD (mostly in women) which is being scribblebrained, and there is hyperactive (mostly in kids, tends to chill as you get older) which is being hyperactive.

on days without my meds i literally can't write for more than 20-30 minutes at a time. my brain just completely fucks off after that amount of time and no amount of effort or punishment can restore my focus. with my meds i can sit down and write for 4-6 hours or even longer. not every time, not even most of the time, but the difference is massive. however, the meds don't help me actually do that. if i don't actually plan out and structure the time i will just end up spending 6 hours playing Victoria 3 instead.

at work i would just be fucking gone after 2 hours, literally unable to be productive. meds don't turn me into a work machine or anything, they just mean that i don't have the problem of my brain just fucking off and quitting on me anymore.

what do i mean by "my brain just fucking off and quitting on me"?

i mean that trying to focus on the assigned tasks is like trying to bench 100kg when your max is 50. you just can't do it. it's not possible. you bring your attention to the task with massive effort and it just slides off the task again 5 seconds later and you're back to square 1. it's like having someone blasting an airhorn in your ear every 5 seconds. the more you force it the more irritable and pent-up and frustrated you become. why does this happen? ADHD brains are understimulated so they seek stimulation to compensate. stimulant medications solve ("solve") this problem.

anyway i'm rambling.

>>713156996 (OP)
Everyone agrees that life has been much worse after Gamergate and that is a good thing because we're at war against the Globalist Democrats (I'm not even American lmao)

>>713196124
Thank you for your 5th grade level interpretation

>>713196687
you're lucky to even get that.

>>713196741
Well with how under developed your knowledge is I more of less figured that's all that was coming out of you.

>>713195689
based and realistic anon

>>713196834
your aspirations to condescension would be more compelling if you were doing more than just gesturing vaguely at the vast, superior expertise and planetary brain that you want us to believe that you posses.

of course i would never expect you to be as generous with your time as i am with mine, though. a man like you must have a great many pressing matters to attend to.

>>713166115
those problems are literally made up

>>713157050

>>713170993
this. you start to crave more... refined experiences

>>713178065
I still don't get how the normalfags put up with that shit but go after our animes.

>>713157390

>>713170993
>Novelty plays a big part
That's a massive problem with modern games –novelty and originality seem to have completely bottomed out. Everything is being made as part of a strict, defined genre nowadays, AAA and indie alike. Did this medium really run out of creativity so soon?

>>713195558
>>713196124
Thanks, anon. I think I have ADHD.

>>713197538
it doesn't get any better

>>713156996 (OP)
Everything stops being "magical" as you age. Particularly media as the vast majority of it is derivative of what came before and the more you see the more you realize it. Nothing is ever as impactful the second time.

>>713188775
you took stimulants and became productive? wow those "meds" must be working! better boof some more of that shit and finish organizing your porn folder

>>713161703
Chickenfucker had it right all along

>>713197657
>you took stimulants and became productive?
nope. it takes a lot more work than just the stimulants to be productive.

>>713186917
>He thinks all books=literature
t. readlet

>>713195558
>>713196124
Pretty interesting stuff.

here's a good point to look at if you want to talk about when video games began an objective decline. as they were no longer for people who liked video games.

>>713194371
Nah, the 7th gen still had a lot of great titles. It's everything after it

>>713197753
oh i'm sorry then. i guess those stimulants were only the spark that ignited your inner fire and you could totally go without them now that you've unlocked your inner potential

>>713197538
no problem bro. i was supposed to be in bed 3 hours ago but i'm still here.

it does get better but it takes therapy, not meds. meds remove an obstacle but i had to learn a whole new way of structuring my time and life to enable me to be productive. in addition there's all the related-but-not-ADHD-shit like perfectionism and avoidance to deal with too.

therapy for ADHD is more like coaching than therapy desu. i go in every three weeks and tell my psych what isn't working and we make plans to solve the problems and then implement them and see how they go. the meds are the easy part, you just get a script and take them in the mornings. the hard part is that what works for normies doesn't work for ADHD people so you have to approach life, work, hobbies, everything in a different way and no random normie you encounter will be able to help you with that or have any useful advice. hence the therapy.

>>713197949
>i guess those stimulants were only the spark that ignited your inner fire and you could totally go without them now that you've unlocked your inner potential
instead of guessing you could just ask.

but nope, the stimulants are essential. they are one of two necessary things and both need to be in place. if you're on stimulants but your time is unstructured you'll just completely waste it doing stupid shit like rearranging furniture or playing videogames.

>>713170039
Readlet absolutely destroyed. Bet that fag reads 1 book a year at most IF he finishes it

>>713196124
>When I'm hoped up on regulated meth I can be a good little worker bee
Truly deranged. Everyone has bouts issues focusing or completing tasks, even ones they want. This is a grooming post for getting other people hooked on drugs because you are as well. Literally anyone, and I do mean anyone, can learn self-regulation with enough practice. It is a matter of actually practicing but it is doable.

>>713198152
Yet you are here wasting your "precious time" arguing retarded shit. You surely showed all of us.

>>713190440
The only way to know for sure is to get evaluated by a professional. Otherwise you'll start reading shit on the internet and self diagnose yourself with a anything like a retard. Also, no diagnosis, no medication.

>>713197040
>reddit spacing
>trying to counteract being condescended to by busting out his thesaurus to counter-condescend
>failure to properly capitalize or structure sentences correctly despite all this formatting work
I accept your concession

>>713198259
>Yet you are here wasting your "precious time" arguing retarded shit.
my vyvanse wore off like 5 hours ago, so yes. here i am.

your excuse?

>>713198241
i want to be a good little worker bee you fucking retard. i have a job that matters and i want to be able to do it well and take pride in that fact. also, i need money to fucking live.

there is literally nothing wrong with aspiring to be productive instead of a useless piece of shit.

>Everyone has bouts issues focusing or completing tasks
"issues" are not "total paralysis and complete failure and dysfunction". you obliterate this distinction because you are a moron who cannot handle it.

sometimes video games loser their power of distraction. those are bad times.

>>713198152
i know what you mean. one can't simply start gooning to JAVs right away. first i gotta warm up with some echi, then i progress to hentai until i finally visit /gif/ for the more raunchy stuff. then and only then can i start looking for the perfect movie.

if i went in completely unprepared and with the wrong mindset i would simply cum and then play video games or something. it requires determination and discipline to kickstart a proper +24h goon marathon

>>713198420
I am schizo, so you can't have any moral high ground with me, fuckso.

>>713198395
the correct phrasing is 'i sneedcept your chuckcession' but i'll allow it.

>>713197538
You don't, he's a grooming schizo intentionally misrepresenting symptoms to try and delude others like himself. You can do whatever it is you need to do with enough dedication and self-discipline. It is harder for some to learn but learnable by anyone and everyone.

>>713157390
I was fapping in grade school
Get on my level

>>713198152
Holy mother of cope. Go back to your sad little illusion of worth, pillmonkey

>>713197810
>About 17-18, by that point I had been exposed to enough other media, especially books,
>especially books
Your words, faggot.

>>713198486
based. welcome to the bucket, i'll be your crab for today. do you name the voices or do they name themselves?

tbqh i get visual hallucinations coming off vyvanse, very very mild just gross scary faces when i close my eyes to sleep. i find it super cool (although very creepy) but obviously in my case it's incredibly mild.

>>713198715
the voices made two miracles happen and everybody just dismisses me as insane. literally money being duplicated, but I stopped telling my tale since mo-ds nuke my posts when I tell about it.

>>713197909
If you hate CE you're a contrarian, plain and simple

>>713198420
>NOOOOOO you have to be a good little wagie, they told me so and I NEED to be a wagecuck!
Being productive has nothing to do with being a drone.
>total paralysis and complete failure and dysfunction
Not a thing, you are simply hiding behind a convenient excuse. I can handle anything just fine, I'm not the one who is such a junkie they claim they are paralyzed without their fix of drugs. A weak man who has deluded himself, no different from an opium fiend of yesteryear. Absolutely vile

>>713198934
t. butthurt zoom zoom

>>713198865
if it can't be replicated it's a worthless miracle. tell those fuckers to put in some actual work if they want to convince you. but to be fair it doesn't matter. once you've caught the bait you'll bite everything. are there times when you're lucid or is it like a constant background psychosis?

>>713198865
i wish i had voices that gave me free money :(

oh well, keep your secrets. best of luck with it i guess !

>>713199005
Yeah zoomers are known for spending their time playing a quarter century old shooter lmao, you fucking retard

>>713199067
I just take 2 mg of risperidone, not 10 mg like those schizos that need to be imprisoned or they kill people.

>>713198970
>Being productive has nothing to do with being a drone.
yes, and?

>Not a thing, you are simply hiding behind a convenient excuse
what am i excusing myself from?

>>713198934
contrarianism isn't real. halo kicked off the trend of games that just play themselves. of making games for people who don't actually want to play video games.

>>713199163
older zoomers played it, you are just coping and seething pretending you are a zoollenial or some dumb cope.

>>713199164
that's rough buddy. antipsychotics have nasty side effects.

>>713198690
That's not me, schizo-kun

>>713199252
Personal responsibility and not living your life as junkie

>>713199327
yeah I know. but enough about me. just talk about videogames.

>>713197538
>internet self-diagnosis
Just don't, man.

>>713199164
the thing i wanted to tell you is that there most likely wasn't any miracle. once you're gone and in lala land everything becomes evidence. i mean maybe there was but every time i thought this time it's definitely real and there can't be no way it isn't real it turned out to be... well not real. once i looked back that is from a more sober state of mind

just don't make any risky decisions based on that which can't be replicated, tested and confirmed by other people

>>713199591
I had witnesses the two times, my dude.

>>713199658
well then have fun with the money i guess

>>713199436
>personal responsibility
which one exactly?

>not living your life as junkie
50mg vyvanse is not a high enough dose to cause euphoria.

>>713157050
FPBP

>>713198268
>>713198542
I'm aware, I wasn't born yesterday. The meds that have meth in it are outlawed where I live, so even thinking about it is pointless. I have nothing BUT trying to push with dedication and self-discipline.
>>713199473
I'd go to a therapist, but I don't want my driving license revoked. That is a thing where I live too. All in exchange of some therapy sessions the contents of which I've heard a thousands of times.
I've been literally dysfunctional for the last half of a decade. I'll go for a proper evaluation if I can't work it out on my own, and oh believe me I've been trying.

>>713199794
>more cope and deflection
As to be expected. Sober up and maybe we can have a conversation.

>>713199762
it wasn't that much. I just wanted a signal and I got one.

>>713198560
Isn't that normal?
I started fapping at 12 because all my classmates wouldn't stop talking about masurbation and showing porn on their Ipods

>>713199910
i sneedcept your chuckcession.

>>713199930
could you describe what happened?

>>713198865
>actual demonstrable schizo
Reminder that this is the guy telling you to take a bunch of drugs and that it's totally normal

>>713188775
Yep. Don't try to convince retard here it's hopeless. But in >>713195689 case he possibly got misdiagnosed. Doctors are no machine and psychiatry is really hard sometimes so misdiagnosis are common. But this guy could simply be some paranoid schizo.

>>713199992
I showed the bill (desu idk why i even did it) to my mother, it was 50 bucks and went to the store and got change from a bill of 100 bucks. She went back to make sure it was correct, and the old bill was shiny in an unnatural way. Another time we counted 88 coins in small amounts, and when I pulled out my stack to pay something, it was like 115 or so coins when we recounted it again. She saw it and the coins thingy was seen by the business owner which also was a believer.

>>713199962
dilate

>>713200180
no no, there's no need to reply. i already sneedcepted your chuckcession.

>>713157050
FPBP

>>713200139
>My witness is my mother
>schizoism runs in the family
Real reliable witness you've got there. That "business owner" probably was a shared delusion between you two

>>713200310
please stop being mean to the schizo, he is being earnest.

>>713157534
They didn't help. They just make me slightly less sleepy.

>>713200237
>So desperate for the last word
All the proof I needed. Keep grooming, schizo-kun!

>>713200078
They're different posters you retard. However it is transparently obvious that you are the same shitty troll who has been blown the fuck out in this thread like three times now, continuing to come back for more pretending to be someone new each time.

>>713200374
Do not encourage delusions, anon. It's never the right move

>>713200139
ok thanks

btw that's not me >>713200310

i do still think it's a bit sketchy but that guy is an asshole

>>713200310
ok atheist, keep going to hell, it suits you. Also more things have happened and my mother is not schizo and was checked.

>>713200407
desperate is a strong word.

>>713200470
You really don't understand how this works, huh?

>>713200519
and i lost all of my sympathy for you

>>713200582
ok

>>713198934
halo just fucking sucks ass

>>713200519
>Schizo is also a christcuck
It writes itself, truly grim
>She was checked
That she even needed to be tested says everything

>>713200482
sure but you also can't dismiss them. the delusions are real to the person experiencing them. you should say things like
"i do not believe you found an infinite money glitch but it would be pretty cool if it happened" or whatever. you should empathise with the person's emotional state without agreeing with their delusions. or "i have checked the closet and i did not find an FBI assassin in there waiting to kill you, but i can understand that you're still scared of that. what else can we do to help you feel safe?" or something.

i dunno i got very limited training in this.

however it's not even that. anyone looking for empathy on 4chan is dumb. it's just that i asked him what his delusions were and he very nicely told us and so i'm grateful to him for that.

there is no point to this post.

>>713200139
I think you might be Jesus, anon

>>713200776
No, you should throw buckets of cold water in their face and shine flashlights in their eyes to bring them back to reality

>>713157390
>at night
for me it's early morning so I can edge for 3-4 hours and bust before work

>>713201064
is distressing the schizo tough love or is it killing his capacity to recover on his own?

>>713161703
Hm. I need to finish those books I been putting off on reading.

>>713157390
I jerk off in the morning actually

>>713199905
>driving license revoked for ADHD
You must live in some real shitty country. USA?

>>713156996 (OP)
After GTA IV

>>713156996 (OP)
I don't like this comic because it implies that treating ADHD makes you a walking zombie and removes any creativity or magic from your life. Maybe Calvin just wanted to finish the paragraph he was writing and then he'd go out and play in the snow. Or maybe it wouldn't take him that long to finish and he could both finish his essay AND play in the snow. The comic as-is is way too cynical

>>713201813
this, if anything Calvin would probably go on to write a sweet ass comic titled "Melvin & Hobbes" based off all of his childhood adventures with his imaginary friend.

>>713199905
>I'd go to a therapist, but I don't want my driving license revoked
No therapist is going to revoke your driver's license for ADHD, fucktard.

>>713156996 (OP)
Story games became boring somewhere in highschool. Im still addicted to a good gameplay loop though

>>713160317
Have you tried not playing shit videogames?

>>713201434
No therapist in the USA is going to revoke your driver's license unless you've got some serious mental shit going on that puts you at risk of doing shit like going into a full blown psychosis and plowing through a crowd of people because you're convinced they're commie spies gang stalking you or some shit.

>>713174505
>it's 8h paid work and 1h unpaid lunch.
I hate this shit so fucking much id rather just fucking skip lunch than be forced to be at work for an extra hour fuck jewish niggers

>>713156996 (OP)
never, but for a videogame to become magical, three things must be satisfied:
1. state of mind at the point of discovery
2. low friction in starting the game
3. absolutely no third party opinions about the game poisoning the outlook

>>713165232
Tim fuckly didnt actually write this did he?

>>713201282
They can't recover on their own though

>>713201813
It does make you a zombie though

>>713204573
i have no idea about le american meth but methylophenidate does not make me a zombie
it does have diminishing return though

>>713202428
>unless you've got some serious mental shit going on that puts you at risk of doing shit like going into a full blown psychosis
I might lose my license but at least I'd still be able to buy legally purchase assault rifles.

>>713156996 (OP)
Why is calvin and hoibes mega kini

>>713205505
Go drunk, you're home, but you're also not wrong.

Never but I need to find new things from time to time, I get tired of all the samey games both in the indie scene or in AAA games.

>>713156996 (OP)
I still find video games 'magical'. There's tons of interesting retro games out there to emulate, lots of niche indie gems, etc. It's only people who pay for and play normalfag AAA new releases that get bored of video games.

>>713156996 (OP)
when I got a PC and realised I could download any game I wanted and find mods to turn it into anything I wanted.

>>713165232
Why does his son coming out as gay evaporate the tiny remainder of that man's free time? Does he now have to spend it fucking his son or what?

>>713156996 (OP)
At the start of the 8th generation at age 14-15. I noticed something was starting to feel off even during the 7th generation, but I could still occasionally get that "magical feeling". AC4 got me through a major surgery (injury), so that was magical too, but I never felt the magic after that.

Even games I loved afterwards, like Bloodborne, my appreciation was clinical and there was no childhood amazement.

You can't get it back.