what are you supposed to do when video games get boring theres nothing else

Learn painting.

>>713585542
thanks doc

>>713585475 (OP)
Start fapping to games with hot women or anime girls like 95% of /v/

>>713585475 (OP)
The greatest psyop to ever exist was telling people that playing videogames is a hobby. It's made so many people only churn through games because they have nothing better to do and will eventually just get bored. What you need is a real hobby, something constructive. Go meet people, make friends and find out what an actual community feels like. Go to your LGS and play card games, rpgs and wargames since thats the most adjacent thing to videogames. If not, pick up a sport - there's an ungodly amount of sport out there so it's impossible to not find one you can't enjoy, especially when you start making friends there.
Once you start playing games less, you'll appreciate them more when you just want to unwind and have some alone time.

>>713585475 (OP)
I dont know man. My ass when i sit now has started to feel like its burning to a crisp and my lower back feels like its shattering into a million different pieces. I literally am going insane because i cant sit to play anymore

i've been reading jerusalem delivared by tasso, fairfax translation

>>713585475 (OP)
Take a break and do literally anything else that sounds interesting
For me it's shitposting on /v/ for 16 hours a day and going to bed when I can't find anything to play. Try emulating some of your favorite childhood games if nothing seems fun maybe, or watch some movies or something.

>>713586008
>Once you start playing games less, you'll appreciate them more when you just want to unwind and have some alone time
I disagree about video games not being a hobby but this is the truest thing I've read on this board.
Vidya is still a hobby though, it shouldn't be your only hobby.

>>713585475 (OP)
goon

>>713585542
I tried and it's actually fucking harder than drawing somehow. I thought it could just be fun and you could wing it. And no it's the complete and total opposite.

>>713588434
Then your fundamental drawing level is too low. Try monochrome painting and then introduce a limited palette. If you can't paint in monochrome, then you haven't built the drawing fundamentals to control light and shadow yet. Reduce things to small planes and consider the light on each first, as if you were rendering them out of triangle surfaces like a computer does. Draw gently in straight lines for outlines and refine those edges by adding more and removing as if you're sculpting the outer surface. You will get to a point where you can paint like this, colour balance is a different issue that you will figure out from practice, but provided you control value and form you will have something that looks like what you want it to.

>>713586008
there's no time for vidya and a second hobby
you can only have one

>>713585475 (OP)
Do anything but play video games, you can't just just fill literally all of your time with non-stop gaming you worthless NEET

>>713585475 (OP)
if youve got a button next to you that injects you with cocaine you shouldn't spend all your time pressing it.

>>713585475 (OP)
you spam ai frogs

go for long (2+ hour) walks/hikes, start doing an exercise regimen in addition to that.

watch old good movies (60's-2000's, nothing past 2010).

read good fiction (nonfiction is fucking retarded and gay if it isn't directly tied to your $$$ prospects)

>>713590469
>nonfiction is fucking retarded and gay if it isn't directly tied to your $$$ prospects
great post up until here, non fiction is based and you are a fag, although a fag with some good advice nonetheless

>>713585475 (OP)

>>713585542
i picked up fiddle recently. really fun instrument. putting a couple of hours into it a day instead of vidya or /v/

>>713590761
Fiddle is like a violin for micks right? I hear that shit is hard as fuck to play.

>>713585475 (OP)
Be bored and you'll find your answers in the boredom. Consult the wall for insights, it's always up for a staring contest.

>>713585542
Nice prompt doc

>>713585475 (OP)
>>713585542
This but video games, learn to make them. If you find them boring make one that isn't.

>>713588613
My prompt just doesn't give good result.

>>713590823
I wonder how much of the rest of this thread is recycled youtube self-help content.
in fairness, staring at a wall just werks

>>713585475 (OP)
im gay and my dad fucks me

>>713590902
In all seriousness, if you're taking up a hobby like painting and not trying to be a fine artist, the value is in the process more than the result. The pleasure is all in the act of painting or drawing and the refinement of your own ability. Do consider giving it a try.

>>713592670
nta but I think he's talking about ai

>>713585475 (OP)
archery.

>>713585475 (OP)
I write shitty web novels and earn thousands of dollars a month, and you could do the same anon.

>>713594187
How?

>>713594226
Just write whatever shitty isekai/harem/litrpg apocalypse story you could imagine, it doesnt have to be anything special or unique, just look at what's popular and copy it but change it a little with your own style (if you have any) and then post that shit on Webnovel, Royal Road, and Scribblehub... if you write it autistically enough, it'll get followers that will be willing to give you money for more chapters..

>>713585475 (OP)
First of all, quit frogposting. Second, enough of these anti-video game threads.

>>713585475 (OP)
Have sex

>>713585475 (OP)
read romcom manga

Most people have at least one or two games that they can always come back to and sink hours into for lack of anything else

>>713586008
do you know what a fuckin hobby is?

>>713586008
There are sports I enjoy but they're too expensive (skiing, racing)

Demoralization thread.

>>713585475 (OP)
Buy some rope. Teach yourself how to tie knots.

>>713585475 (OP)
Learn different genres of videogames

Teach yourself to enjoy fiction. Reading is the mentally healthiest way to burn time on the couch. Anons think they don't like to read but then they sit and read this very website for hours on end. It's all about finding the right content for you:

1. Immediately disregard other people's lists and recommendations. Fiction has the most variety of all media. What other people like is probably not what you'll end up liking.

2. Also disregard the literary canon. Those books weren't written for you, and you will not enjoy them.

3. Choose a vidya franchise you like and try the most popular novelization. If you don't like it immediately then just put it down. Treat books like Youtube videos. They aren't sacred relics. Read what you like and just skip what you don't.

5. Keep trying different books and short stories that intrigue you. For me it was short stories, by the way. Look for cool cover art, connections to an IP you already know, some kind of kinship you feel with the author's life story, etc. Could be Warhammer 40k or Star Wars novelizations. Could be girly paranormal romance.

6. You'll know you've found the one when reading stops being a ten-minute break activity you do when you're bored and starts being something you look forward to. You'll dwell on that story even when you aren't reading it, imagining the world and wondering about all its possibilities.

7. Read more of that author until you get bored or run out of his work. Then find a similar author from the same genre or literary scene, probably one of the first author's influences or admirers. I did this and can now read and write for pleasure. I strongly recommend you try it. My starting point and the first work to fully immersed me was Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard. Now I read all kinds of related work. When I'm old I will be an expert on the Weird Fiction genre, but will never have touched Faulkner or Dostoevsky

>>713588613
I like painting but I just play at it, but
> Try monochrome painting
That’s a good idea for me. Helpful painting advice post

>>713588857
Not to brag, but I did for 4 years before I ran out of money and had to work again. Last year I had something like 2800h spent gaming in a year.

>>713585475 (OP)
1. Go to a hobby store, pick up a whittling knife + other tools
2. Go to a scrapyard and nick a load of decent sized bits of wood
3. Let your male instincts take over

>>713585475 (OP)
try balatro

>>713585475 (OP)
do something else as hobby for a while
start taking regular walks
read about shit you like
pirate shows/anime
buy knock off gunpla and assemble that (ot assemble WW2 model with your dad and watch him lose his shit over tank treads)
really anon just even just taking a nap is satisfying

>>713585475 (OP)
Bump

>>713585475 (OP)
You're depressed, anon.
The worst thing you can do is to change nothing. To keep playing games that you can't muster to be interested in. To keep spending more time on sites like 4chan idling around, not discussing your hobbies, but just endlessly browsing. To always give in shorter temptations, becoming less and less resilient to them over time.
By doing all of these things, not only are you prolonging it, but trapping yourself deeper and deeper, as you convince yourself it's where you belong.
If there's nothing else, well do nothing. Literally look at a wall for some time, I can assure you it'll be better. Sure, there's better things you could be doing, but fulfilling things like active hobbies also take effort to get into, which is the one resource you're low on right now. You need to put into your mind that for now you don't need to replace all the bad habits with good ones, but even with nothing is more beneficial.

Then, once you manage to give your brain some breathing room, games won't be boring again.

>>713596593
You're welcome. Same goes for working in sanguine, pastels etc - starting with monochrome is a fantastic way of using the knowledge you build up in pencils to gain familiarity with a different medium and way of expression. Same goes for a limited palette, it sounds like a meme but pick a nice palette (e.g. the Zorn one for portraiture) and learn the ins and outs by failure and success. Eventually you'll always have those mixes stored away in your brain in a way that a mess of fifty different colours will never offer.

A step between monochrome and small (e.g. 4-6) colour palettes might be to pick a light colour and a shadow colour too, or even a warm and cool version of the same colour and employ them carefully. Best of luck with your painting/drawing/art, anon.

>>713586008
My body is too weak to properly play a sport.

You go back to being to normalfag you are.

>>713585475 (OP)
you just need to find the right video games to play
ive been there, multiple times, and always came to the same conclusion
>new releases are dogshit
play older games, they will reinvigorate your passion for gaming again

>>713585475 (OP)
Kill yourself. Male suicide is skyrocketing because they're pretty much useless. Can't compete in academia, can't compete in society, can't work, can't form a community, can't form bonds, can't become emotional mature, thinks that there are no male people to look up at despite on youtube there are males trying to clean up the ocean or become smarter everyday. Like...everyone on here are just losers that sit at home and cry about being bored when spending 400 hours in front of a computer and complaining that women are whores. Get a grip fucking faggots.

>>713586008
>hobby
its not a hobby you brainless retard its entertainment, a pastime

>>713585475 (OP)
Humans were made to create.
Creation brings more joy than vidya ever could.

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>>713603382
All good advice
>>713603245
Start with training your body. Do some simple workout, wait for your body to recover and do another one. Then repeat. Also fix diet

>>713585475 (OP)
Bump

stop bumping your shitty dead thread frognigger