How's it going, boomerbros? What are you playing in this veritable wasteland of entertainment media?

Gaming good.

Playing some Blasphemous, Grime, Salt & Sanctuary, Tiny Tina's Wonderland and a few other games.

>>714416350 (OP)
I haven't played a single game since April. The only way to tolerate how utterly shit everything has become is to take frequent breaks.

>>714416350 (OP)
Huniepop 2. Sarah is a QT

>>714416350 (OP)
I mostly hang out on >>>/vg/528853264 these days

>>714416350 (OP)
I’ve developed a factorio addiction. It’s 4:30 in the afternoon and I haven’t eaten yet

Playing Lies of P again, butthis time with the not-yamato

>>714416350 (OP)
Was that soul-crushing picrelated really necessary, OP?

Uma, I'm recovering from e33 and some very, very bad MDMA, waiting for SHf and the new Hannelore volume this august.
Installed Death stranding ten days ago, but it joined the never going to start once club

>>714416350 (OP)
I've been having a lot of fun with Palworld.
Haven't reached the new update stuff yet.

replaying ghost of tsushima while waiting for rematch's crossplay update

>>714416350 (OP)
Over the last 10 years i lost all tolerance for unfinished games. Up until 2012/2013 the industry made games that were like 90% finished. Some small DLC over the first couple months and some patches but in essence the game was done. Maybe an expansion a year later. But the industry has shifted more and more to 'minimum viable product' system where they release a broken and half finished game and spend the next X years fixing it.

I'm the kind of guy that picks up a game, plays it all the way through once(or twice if it significantly branches/expands in a ng+ mode) and move on to the next. I don't replay games, i just don't. I don't rewatch movies or TV shows either. I expect the game to be the best it ever can be when i buy it. The games that i like are so insanely rare that i can either play it as it comes out or play nothing at all. Pic related.

I don't like Souls games or any form of ongoing/live service game. My perfect games are story driven and character focused singleplayer games (RPGs) with a grounded story, edgy tone and third person shooter or sword fighting combat.

But all the companies that used to make games for simply stopped. Ubisoft is in the shitter, Eidos Montreal is gone, Crystal Dynamics are off in lalaland, Bethesda takes a decade to make a game, Capcom is extremely hit and miss, Bioware hasn't made a good game in like 13 years.

And indies aren't any better. They keep their games in early access forever because they plan to never stop working on them. They all got the feature creep bug.

Haven't touched any vidya since late may so i think i might put the whole thing on ice until the games that i bought this year, but unfortunately are extremely unfinished, are in a playable state. Pic very related.

>>714420821
Based slop enjoyer
fuck those indie games

>>714421054
But they are not even any better. I love milsim shooters and there are a bunch of them i keep an eye on but the one that is showing the most promise is so deep in early access it might never leave. Pic related. Even Tainted Grail, which i have played for about 90 minutes, is just a skeleton of a game that needs at least another 1-2 years or a BUNCH of mods. And the devs have said they are planning to keep working on the game for a long time. That game is singleplayer, "full release" but it's FAR from done.

just gave soulstone survivors a try its pretty good but i hate the art style
tried mecha break yesterday its trash
hyped for marvel rivals season 3 in a week
next big game ill play through is ff7 rebirth just waiting until i feel in the mood for it,
>>714420821
tldr your life story but saw the tired of early access, same i am tired of having to spend time on an unfinished game, then wait for it to release then re-spend the same amount of time because all the progress is wiped . i just wait for 1.0 now for everything, even AAA games you gotta wait a fucking year or two years for them to finally patch everything and release all dlc like i bought KCD 2 and im waiting on all their dlc now which hopefully will be by 2026

another game i might play soon is no more heroes

>>714420109
>>714416350 (OP)
Soul crushing? My only thing of attention from that image is why the fuck he would want to steal her amulet. It makes no fucking sense. Its old and powerful? Cool but it still belongs to the KINGS FUCKING DAUGHTER you DUMBASS. He will send mooks after you and youll get ganked on top of having to be on the run.

Just turned 38, been playing Hitman and Death Stranding 1 on PC lately. Maybe every other month or so I'll start an Epic speed game of Civ 6 and play it for a couple of days until it's clear that I'll win. Earlier this year I finally played through Fallout 4 for the first time, which was fun and not as bad as I thought it would be. I also replayed GTA4, the two GTA4 dlcs, GTAV, and the RE4 remake. I think my standards are just too high now having lived through the truly golden era of vidya that hardly anything can keep my interests, and most new games seem to suck. I'll try some new meme thing like Schedule 1 and get bored within a couple hours. I tried to get back into Terraria again but none of my friends hardly play on PC anymore and I don't want to play by myself or with randoms. I'm unironically excited for Borderlands 4 since it's going to be cross-platform and a bunch of buddies can get on together, even if the game isn't great the party chat will be fun.

>>714416350 (OP)
Nightreign, Rogue Trader, Backpack Hero, Khazan, Peak, Destiny 2.

>>714420821
>I don't replay games, i just don't. I don't rewatch movies or TV shows either.
Based.

>>714422618
I mean, if it's strong enough to turn you from like vizier Jafar tier to ultimate sorcerer Jafar tier it's probably worth it.

>>714416350 (OP)
I honestly thought this was gonna end in coom.
I’m considering playing deltarune, or just making my own. Third option is just to fuck off, not much in gaming right now interests me at 37.

>>714423130
If there exists artifacts like that theres going to be others,some maybe even as actual weapons of greater or equal power. "Hurrrr steal it" is a fantastically shortsighted way of getting yourself into trouble. The faggot isnt King for likely nothing. Even if it can be argued they dont have the brains, the treasury,his resources and manpower are what can also speak for the role. Its an incredily moronic gambit.

>>714424159
That being said too hes in the best possible scenario anyway because he is teaching her and shes a party member now. He could instruct her on how to use it and use her powers AND status to get another.

Granted half of the point of the story is that hes an abused broken retard much like a criminal who cant think like that but still.

>recently bought a house
>been living by myself for the last 2 weeks
>too autistic to ask out that lass I like
>my ankle started hurting today
>tfw 33

>30+
>Boomer
You mean early millenial and Gen X?

I'm hunting down the remaining soda cans in Stellar Blade, then beating NG+ and then rushing through the whole thing again for all achievements.
I wanna kill myself

>>714416350 (OP)
Balatro, Rift Wizard 2, Soulash 2, Oldschool Runescape, etc.

>>714416350 (OP)
Racing in Gran Turismo 4 again

>>714416350 (OP)
SPT (Single Player Tarkov)
Star Citizen (doing comfy cargo runs)
Expedition 33
War of Rights
Foxhole

>>714416350 (OP)
Basically just playing Yakuza like a pirate dragon majima. Once in a while I jump into body cam or chivalry 2 for a few games.

Been playing through the Souls series and actually doing all the side content. Been pretty fun and its wild how much you miss by ignoring it. Taking a quick break to play this, then maybe Skyward Sword after. I was gonna go for Skyward Sword first but just got into a really weird and random Mad Max mood so its time to finally get this off the backlog.

Other than that, been playing Peak and Nightreign with the little bros.

>>714426059
let me break down how age works for you sport, in terms of how well people percieve you
teens<20s>30s=40s=50s>60+
30 is the new 50
20s is the new teens
Past 29 you are supposed to retreat from social gatherings and wither away to die

>>714416350 (OP)
Life's great. Playing rise of the ronin, nioh 3 coming next year. Making my way through my backlog and next up is all the smt games I didn't play

Played Oblivion Remaster with a modlist that helped to smooth out the bugs and leveling. It made me depressed at how good it was. I wasn't a big fan of Oblivion when it originally released but it feels like its been a long time since Ive played something so damn enjoyable. Obviously it breaks down and become garbage after like 50 hours, but that first 50 hours was good.

That made me want to mod Skyrim and see if that holds up. The Lorerim list is pretty good and the current version surprisingly stable for how many mods it has. Its a little bloated for sure, but its been fun. It hasnt gripped me like Oblivion did, not yet at least.

Got addicted to Dune Awakening and haven't really found much time for anything else. I am replaying A Link to the Past in my GBA.

>>714427039
I like how most of us are playing something retro alongside whatever newish thing we're playing

>>714427117
This. If you're 25 or 30+ with no accomplishments, you're basically not allowed to do anything. No more life experiences, no more vacations, no more milestones, no more anything.

>>714416350 (OP)
Quake II.
On switch.
The game having three quadrillion weapons ain't making it easy to switch on a controller.


Also I'm not reading that

Still punk as fuck

>>714416350 (OP)
Enjoying some 7 days to die with the misses and friends. Sometimes all you need in life is a shotgun, a lady and rare earth's. In games too!

>>714420625
>replaying ghost of tsushima
Jesus

I'm 34 and I lost all my friends and family. I don't really want to play video games. It's not fun being alone anymore. I wish I could figure out how to be happy alone like most people on here. I should have killed myself when I had the chance. I regret every day.

>>714427117
Past 29? Shit, I was doing that for years before I hit 29.

>>714427117
False. 20s is still 20s, everything else is spot on. If you don't have it or lose it before or durring your 30s you are not getting it ever.

>>714428335
Wtf what part of that was even real

>>714416350 (OP)
Playing through Project X Zone 2, a little Total Warhammer on the side. A few new games came out that I want, but I'll wait for them to be discounted.

>hadn't played Muse Dash on PC in over a year because my 5 year old laptop couldn't run it anymore without constant slowdowns
>built a PC last month
>decide to install the game today
>I'm back at Lv1 from Lv2000 or something
>maybe I need to log into my Muse Dash account to sync data because for some god forsaken reason, it's not saved into my Steam account
>select Account
>it's all in chinese, I have no idea what to enter
>now stuck having to unlock Master on every single goddamn song again

Needless to say, I'm pissed off.

>>714416350 (OP)
I've been off all week and feel like I've barely played anything. Go figure when I have free time, nothing sounds fun.

I beat Expedition 33 over the weekend and wrapped up the Thieves' Guild quests in Oblivion on Tuesday. I wanted to try to no-life Oblivion this week but just wasn't feeling it. So instead, I've been jumping between Stardew, playing Wilds with frens, and raiding with my casual static in FFXIV.

>All the weird doomers on here trying to demotivate people in their 30's

What's the point?

Nightreign/Haste/Helldivers 2
Got Onimusha/Ninja Gaiden 4/Ill and Nioh 3 to look forward to and that's more than enough with the free time I have nowadays

>>714416350 (OP)
Palworld

>>714416350 (OP)
warframe. i just like mowing down crowds of dudes

30 year old girlfriendless virgin, i have a job but its retail
Im still playing Stellar Blade. Ive been playing it since launch and still havent beaten it. Just because im working overtime and all that. Its amazing though. I wanted to get all achievements before Wuchang came out but thats no longer realistic. Havent decided if I will take a break from Stelkar Blade after my first playthrough or pass on Wuchang for now.
In addition to no time for gaming, starting to develop an interest for K-Dramas, studying asian history (focusing on Korea right now), and a vtuber. It feels nice to not only be into gaming and anime. K-Drama doesnt feel like either, it’s its own thing

But yeah im gonna get back into Stellar Blade after i finish my current K-Drama
/blog

Been playing Black Desert more than usual lately. BDO has been my main game for a few years now. It's actually in a pretty good spot right now and has more players than I've ever seen this summer.

>>714433531
Right? In your 30s is probably when you begin having full agency over yourself, on average, since you've probably been in the workforce for a few years now and might have enough resources to manage your burdens and live a pretty decent life.
Of course, it'll suck for some people, but there's also a lot of people whose life sucked in their teens and early 20s to get a lot better in their 30s, so whatever.

>>714433673
Been playing since the colab dropped after having put some 60ish hours when it released.
There's so much stuff in the game now.
Either this is already pretty much 1.0 or 1.0 will be crazy.

>>714416350 (OP)
Just 100%'d Risk of Rain Returns, so I'm torn between getting my remaining achievements in New Vegas or buying a new game. Thinking about getting Dinkum. Is it any good?

ur old LMAO

>>714416350 (OP)
>How's it going
I finally downloaded Sailwind and it's just as I feared, it's exactly what I wanted and is going to suck 1000 hours out of me.

>>714434048
Crazy to think the game is at 0.6, 1.0 is gonna be pure sex (with pals).

Been playing white knuckle after beating Death Stranding 2. Good shit.

>>714434270
If only.
At least we got the whole friendship mechanic and sleeping with your pals.

>>714434261
Last game that sucked all the time out of my life was Elin.
It's always nice when that happens as I much prefer to play a single game for a long time instead of hopping between a bunch of games.

>>714434236
youre on thin ice pal but my arthritis is flaring up so you can make it this time

Back to EQ and City of Heroes for me. Might put some time into Prince of Persia: the Lost Crown

Otherwise im trying to find a D&D campaign to join on the weekends, but no bites yet

>>714420821
This entire post is based as fuck, you tell em anon.

>>714434048
Yeah, I don't really get it. I'm not super financially well off, but I'm in a better place than I was in my teens. Can't tell if its just blackpilled old anons or kiddos just taking a jab. Either or, guess it doesn't matter. I will say, having a lot of friends and family in my 30's definitely helps those dreary moments. Not everyone has that so I can empathize.

>>714416350 (OP)
Main focus on Raidou remastered
Messing around in DoA 5 and 6
Doing the other routes in Tactics Ogre
Probably will start another run in Tainted Grail
Life's okay, not too good, not too bad

>>714434665
Play some DDO in the meantime.
Gary Gigax narrated one of the quest chains before he died.
I DMed my first one shot (two shots really) just the other day. It was pretty fun.
>>>/tg/95998605

>>714434901
>having a lot of friends and family in my 30's definitely helps those dreary moments. Not everyone has that so I can empathize.
That is true.
Hell, that's probably key to staving off loneliness, even for somebody like me who's a true introvert. I go out at most once every couple of months.
I am the only friend of some of my friends and it's pretty fucking sad to see sometimes.
I've tried to get them into my other friend circles (because I have a couple, by some divine intervention), but their tastes and hobbies and the like are too different for them to hit it off, sadly.

>>714416350 (OP)
Enclave and Morrowind.

I just 101%'d Donkey Kong 64 again, this time with the QOL adjustments that the randomizer provides, namely Tag Anywhere. Those make it such a more enjoyable experience.

My switch 2 arrived one week before my second son arrived. Tonight might be the first night I'll game since July 2024. I have an older 3 years old kid that is basically Taz from TazMania. I'm thinking I'm growing out of games bro, but I can't stop buying them. I exclusively buy RPGs though.

>>714434463
>Last game that sucked all the time out of my life was Elin.
I put a little bit of time into that one, super cozy and I had a lot of fun building a tavern and making weird alcohol and cakes. I never took the companions anywhere so they just sat around getting shitfaced and puking all over, good times.

>>714434048
Yep. My social anxiety dies off more with each passing year. In my early 20s I was entirely crippled by it.

>>714435602
>I have an older 3 years old kid that is basically Taz from TazMania
That's so fucking funny.
Probably a nightmare most of the time, but it has to be hilarious the other 30% of the time.

>>714435658
It's a great life-sim-ish sort of game with so many fucking systems. It's like a slice of live adventure. You can sink so many hours in it.

They really cucked Ichiban out of the final boss fight in his own game lmao

>>714420821
gayest shit on /v/ right now

>>714435776
Same.
Having to commute to work from 2014 to 2019, having to go places and talk to people because that was part of what I was hired to do, etc, really, really helped me learn to manage that shit better.
I still get the heebie-jeebies at the mere thought of going somewhere filled with strangers, or even people I'm just acquainted with, some times, but I can still go and do it and not shut off half of my brain when I'm there.
I don't think that's ever fully going away, but I'm fine with that.

>>714435658
I miss them so much bros

>>714416350 (OP)
got bored of gt7 wanted something more arcadeish and tried the crew motorfest liked the made in japan playlist and bought it never played crew before what I'm in for after finishing playlists? I don't want to pay psn to play online

Any of my 30+ bros have a gaming laptop? Trying to decide between a powerful laptop, or a MacBook for shitposting and a Steam Deck.
Kids and no room for a desktop.

>>714436709
Get a laptop thats capable if you have the money. It's not a great solution but if it's a space/travel issue where you need mobility I'd still prioritize having a decent rig

>>714435776
Yuuuup. Same here. Being out in public legit used to hurt. When people would stare at me it was like being burned.
>>714436198
We sound really similar. I recommend a social job for anyone with social anxiety. It feels awful at first, but it helps you an absolute ton in the long run. I know for me, I considered myself an introvert but in reality I was just worried people would hate me so I preemptively hated them first. When you get out and around people enough you realize how easy and pleasant dealing with most people are. There are some negative experiences, but its nothing like highschool.

>>714436709
I have
>pic related
It's pretty good. Do limit the CPU power using uxtu and use custom fan curve if you get it.
It's one of the many Acer Nitro 5 models.

>was going to buy Sunset Overdrive in summer sale
>Watch 20 minutes of the game
>characters never shut the fuck up with bad jokes/humor
>Steam reviews state you can't skip cutscenes, and there are a lot of them
Never mind.

Blasphemous 2, going to start claire obscur this weekend
also peak and repo with friends

Been emulating my way through all the mainline Pokemon games in order of release. Just finished Sword. It was pretty mid. I don't have high hopes for the next one :/

Also playing through some older RTS titles, currently on Age of Empires II: Age of Kings.

>>714436709
>>714436898
Yeah, laptops aren't ideal for gaming, but if you need portability you don't really have a choice.
I've got an old ASUS laptop with an i7 CPU, 16 gigs of RAM, and a RTX 2080. It chugs along pretty well, all things considered. The main issue is how shit devs have become at optimizing performance, especially with AAA games. The last properly optimized big-budget title I played was Doom Eternal, and in that I could put everything at max and still get 60 FPS through 95% of the game. Still, if you're mainly playing indie and older games you don't need much. Hell, even my rig is overkill for most of the stuff I play.

>>714416350 (OP)

finished Yakuza Kiwami 1 yesterday, started Kiwami 2 , man it feels so diferent and graphic wise the game is beautiful

>>714437028
>I recommend a social job for anyone with social anxiety
Right?
Before getting that Software Development job in 2014 I worked for a year in a call center.
That was a pretty interesting experience.

Replaying the Oracles games, starting with Ages.
I'm working up towards finally making the leap and becoming an indie dev. I know what engine I want, I know the game I want to make, so it's all down to actually getting started.
Of course I've also got a three year old and two one year olds who are currently fucking destroying my will to live so we'll see

Anyone else noticing it's impossible to have normal threads anymore, you have to ragebait or goonbait anons into the most mundane of topics, it feels like no one's coming here for normal discussion anymore

This has been the case for other sites for years but it's sad seeing it make its way here, smartphones were a mistake

>>714417173
That... that's fucking disgusting.

>>714437028
Might have been because it was customer service, but I gradually hated it more and more over the years, and now I never want to work a job around the public again. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

My bones hurt...

Zillennials not welcome

>>714438112
Honestly I blame the creation of /vg/. In combination with phoneposters and the /pol/ spillover. The generals here were annoying but a lot of normal video game discussion left with them

>>714438102
>Of course I've also got a three year old and two one year olds who are currently fucking destroying my will to live so we'll see
4chan is for incels only, normalfaggot.

>>714438471
The threads that do get any actual discussion do look a lot like generals, so that tracks.

36, bored to hell in the office on weekdays
im playing mecha break nowadays

>>714426824
Im just waiting for realism in SPT. and also just gonna start over.

>>714438112

That's the whole internet not just /v/.

>>714438471
Honestly the worst drop I remember was after /vrpg/ was made, I feel like that siphoned away a lot of the high IQ posters that kept /v/ alive

>>714438540
They also get told to go to /vg/ if they get more than a handful of threads in a week. Then they're too slow for /vg/, so they die there and aren't allowed here. Fun times.

I started playing my PSP again but I feel guilty. I can't help but imagine what my classmates from the 00s would think if they saw. It would be clear I haven't changed in almost 20 years.

I cringe to think I was playing it the last time I saw my crush in 2010 at my sister's birthday party. Her younger sister was friends with my younger sister. I could have talked to her but I shut down and played my PSP instead.

>>714416350 (OP)
Bought a chinkheld to play some PS2 games.

>>714438702
Bullshit. The alt chans have proper board culture for the most part. Especially hachikun is comfy. Only on this site everything and everyone is fucking miserable

>>714438968
>what would ppl think
Imagine being so insecure and low self esteem.
And psp screen is tft shit

Having fun with my Switch Poo

>>714438112
how new r u?

/v/ has been trash for a decade.

>>714416350 (OP)
40 here. Been playing WoW. Waiting for my Anbernic Slide to come in but it is stuck in customs. About to ERP with an AI.
>>714438968
PSPs are awesome. I was playing with mine quite a bit, I have a 2000, 3000 and Go. I convinced myself to play on my Vita instead, because of the second stick, but somehow I just don't have as much fun with it.

Playing GT7, Assetto and TotK.
Patiently waiting for Assetto Evo, DK Bananza and the THPS 3+4 remake.
Mildly interested in Wreckfest 2 too

Recently gave E33 another shot.
Killed the dualliste and then uninstalled the game.
It’s just not for me.

I need something that I can play without using too much focus but not a total zone-out kind of game. Basically I want another balatro.

>>714440970
forza horizon

>>714416350 (OP)
going great

i've been gaming since i was 6 and been slouched and sitting the entire time

ojisan bros, any indieslop similar to princess maker 2 (and better if possible)?

I've been going all-in on the new Shadowverse game. I liked the old Shadowverse when it was current too. I recently quit Magic and have been playing Shadowverse instead.

>>714439615
Is that you on the right?

I'm going to be 40 in 5 months. How did things get like this?

emulating unicorn overlord with a crt filter because apparently i am a huge faggot

>>714441740
You are, yes

>>714441515
I never played shadowverse but isn't it basically just weeb hearthstone?

>>714416350 (OP)
Could be worse. Having a BBQ with my woman for her birthday. Trying to find a racing game or something else that's chill to lay back with a controller and play. I tried CarX Street earlier but it was probably one of the worst racing games I've ever played.

>>714442060
Basically yes. I can't speak to which one is mechanically better because I didn't play HS past the tutorial, but very similar games.

>>714438112
>try to have a normal discussion with someone
>their first language isn’t English
>they see language as just a bludgeon to spread their viewpoints, not an exploration of ideas
>walls of text for the most banal of bullshit
>if you accept even a single point in a discussion you get “I le accept your concession”
>even if you make progress you’ll regularly see the same person the next day doing the exact same song and dance

I’m only here because nobody really acknowledges me irl

>>714420821
This topic prolly deserves its own thread, but I really miss the Tribes 3 playtests. It's like Alexandria burring tier what happened to that series and genre.

>>714438112
I don't really fit in on /v/ anymore. I grew to hate anime and most japanese media and it feels like the unironic pedo goonposters run the board now.

>>714438112
Because the mods have been actively working to ruin this site. There are no permabans anymore, no range bans, schizos and shitposters go unopposed and ruining discussion of game series for years. Discussing Zelda is downright impossible, Monster Hunter threads have been on a civil war since World was released, you see more and more gacha threads that do nothing but pornpost because no one really cares about whatever gameplay those games might have, and I can go on and on and on. Hell, even Deltarune threads were getting deleted on sight didn't matter if it had just received two new chapters after years of waiting.

The worst part is that there's still nowhere better to go and discuss videogames, everyone outside of this shithole have wet paper for skin, but until Hiro suffers an epiphany that forces him to actually improve this site, we're stuck with the same incompetent horde of powerhungry retards for the forseeable future.

It gets easier when you stop caring how old you are

>>714438220
No, I get that. Used to work at Gamestop in my 20'a and was exposed to the worst of people on the regular. I should have added the caveat that its a social job where its in good conditions/situations. Obviously you can't control every encounter and how it will go, but if its on generally bad conditions with negative people you wont get the same positive outcome for sure.

>>714446095
>The worst part is that there's still nowhere better to go and discuss videogames
The greatest tragedy, and it's not like anywhere else is getting better. It's all just downhill. And every fucking game eventually gets its own dedicated schizo that will do anything to get threads about that game banned.

>>714416350 (OP)
I need some recs
I want something I can autistically play daily and progress in for at least a month
Usually its mmos that scratch that itch but I'm bored of wow and ff right now

>>714416350 (OP)
bg2 occasionally and ds1 (not remastered)

sometimes i check out the ultima online freeshards

9950x3d and 5070ti, i played a modernslop AAA and lasted only 10 minutes

IL-2 Sturmovik 1946

>>714446624
You can get with the times (for a change) and play Umamusume.

At this point, I'm just waiting for my son to be old enough to play games with me. He turned 1 a couple of weeks ago.

obsessed with factorio again
there's so much to fucking do

>>714416350 (OP)
Overwatch with friends (i do not like the game, but i can enjoy it if i drink). Other than that, mostly just slop survivorlikes for something to do for maybe a half hour.

>>714420409
This will be me saturday morning, except mine is extremely pure.

>>714416350 (OP)
>playing
FZero 99, Ace Combat 7, Super Mario Odyssey

I keep debating getting back into tekken 8 or sf6 or soul calibur 6.

My work keeps me away from games for most part, and I am feeling slower and angrier in my age now, hence why I started going towards nintendo games.

Anyone else’s dick stop working? Also porn is boring for me

Is that normal

>>714416350 (OP)
I made a 30+ thread once and got banned because it wasn't posted in /vg/ I hate this board moderation so much.

>>714447415
I dunno, I hear that a lot from people in their 30's but mine works as well as it ever did.

Mario Kart World. It gets the metabolism going enough to unclog cholesterol filled arteries. I also bought Sexy Brutale and Gylt from Tequila Works on Steam. They are next.

>>714447415
>>714447629
Probably over done it with the porn. Start taking L Arginine and Zinc supplements (and other supplements for blood flow) with some cardio to get the dick working again.

>>714447415
right now my libido is at a good point but yes not at all as interested in pornography as i was as a teenager obviously

I played Sunset Riders today, but now I'm gonna end the night with more progress on Raidou.

>>714447415
This is why you need a slippery slope
I'm on my urethral tentacle rape phase
I don't know where I'll go next but I'm excited.

the heat was killing me. it cooled off today and i made 3 cool drawings in a row, one a small tribute to mr. blonde who just passed away today. i hate the friggin sun so much bros. next week it'll be all cool scandinavian summer levels i reckon. lets hope this stays for a while, i was just getting addicted to drawing daily when the heatwave hit. my body also feels better now, while still having issues every day with minor stuff here and there. getting old sucks, but hey, just means i'm closer to dying!

>>714447415
Mine but I'm glad. Porn and maturation took a CHUNK out of my time. Id rather have the self control and curbed libido honestly

>>714416350 (OP)
Well it was years since i stopped playing PVP oriented multiplayer games like LoL or counterstrike.
I absolutely moved to Single player and coop games where i can chill and my worse reflexes dont make much an issue.

>>714447415
my libido's never been particularly high, i think i'm schizoid and at least mildly asexual/aromantic

>>714447415
I've had ED since 25 :[

finished Astlibra a few days ago, spent the last 2 days playing Witchspring R. they were both kino
not sure what I'll play next

>>714416350 (OP)
why are there so many of these 30+ threads lately? are zoomers finally growing up?

im 36 btw

Been playing Stellar Blade. It's not really a good game, though the young lady's model is really good. The Nikke minigame is really good and has potential to be a game of its own.

>>714448813
>has potential to be a game of its own.
Yes, Nikke.

>>714448520
Probably a lot of us who still use 4chan are in our 30's. There are a lot of other social media sites directed at younger audiences and 4chan isnt the edgy boogeyman it used to be. A lot of people dont even understand the appeal of anonymous conversation anymore as people's identities are so openly online now

>>714448917
That's just a flash game, the way it is done in Stellar Blade fully 3D modeled is the right way.

FF: Tactics
Beat Dorter City Slums last night. Felt great. Re-evaluated my team, adjusted some things, slightly changed my strategy, and beat it! I'm learning now how useful it is to have a move I can do on my turn to earn job points even if I don't have someone to attack or reason to move. Right now it's just accumulate. Makes me do more damage AND earn JP. It's great. So far only Ramza has it. I haven't been going out of my way to grind otherwise more of my team would also have it by now.

>>714416350 (OP)
Done with latest PoE league after farming a mageblood and now getting back to my modded Baldur's Gate trilogy playthrough.

>>714448813
shit taste. stellar blade is a very good

>>714449008
I find Nikke to be a lot more fun than the Stellar Blade Mini game version of it.

>>714449008
It needs a gorillion Nikkers on screen and on pulls so they can't got full 3D

>>714445490
>I grew to hate anime and most japanese media
same

>>714449410
I assume Nikke has it much more developed. If the one in Stellar Blade got upgraded to a full game it'd probably be better. I'd buy it.

>>714428485
>>714420625
GoT certainly kept me busy, and I completed most of the shit to do, but I certainly don't see myself replaying it. Kinda hoping GoY makes the things that were promising about Tsushi actually fun.

>>714448813
this game needs more doro mods

The switch remaster of hitman blood money

>>714416350 (OP)
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Holocure
Legend of Dragoon (Broken Chains sourceport)

>>714448520
The 30 year old boomer meme is 7 years old now. By the end of the decade, it will apply to every non-underage person who was around to witness the original.
On topic, I'm looking for good games to buy from the steam sale but nothing looks interesting (like usual).

>>714449702
this nigga smokes a ton of weed

>>714449951
actually Ive never touched the stuff

>>714447415
Try 5mg cialis everyday

>>714416350 (OP)
Doing my yearly playthrough of all Kingdom Rush games

>>714449702
did I say broken chains? I meant Severed Chains

>>714449990
if cialis fixes the issue, it can be resolved by doing more cardio

he needs to not touch his dick for 30 days and start working out

>>714416350 (OP)
I just finished playing Horrorvale and it was genuinely the best rpgmaker game I ever played.

>>714449382
I just beat Stellar Blade the other day. It's definitely not a perfect experience, but the combat is really fun.
The start of the Orbit Elevator section to the end of the game might be one of the best parts of a game I've played in awhile.

I feel like most /v/ users are underage

>>714450097
I do cardio and weights for years
It fixed my fragile erections plus its the best fucking pre workout
Plus it fixes enlarged prostate which a fuckton of men have

Im playing CatQuest 2 with the wife. Its total dogshit and she can barely kill a regular enemy, but its kinda fun.

My well paying but very stressful job is giving me hypertension, so thats cool

>>714450179
it's definitely not perfect but to claim the gameplay isnt good is absurd to me. also it being their first real game I really can't wait to see how they improve on the combat in the sequel with the experience they now have

32 here
Realized relationships are not worth it because everyone is crazy and i'm incapable of dealing with anyone else's crazy for too long
I fucking finally have a decently-paying job and am in absolutely zero rush to get a girlfriend again. 40 hour work week, and the rest of it is entirely devoted to whatever the fuck I want. Feels Goodman.

Been playing a lot of the recent Fantasy Life, and also went back to Doom 2016 to beat it on UV, and am slowly making my way through Saints Row IV achievements.

>>714416350 (OP)
Dragon Warrior IV on Nes.

>>714450331
Based normalnigger. I played nintendogs+cats with my toddler today and she watched me play some theatryhthm final fantasy curtain call

>>714447415
46 and still hard. Maybe you're depressed.

>>714450950
>works on my machine

>>714450332
Yah, I'm excited to see what they do for a sequel. Shift up has been very open about the few shortcomings the game has too in interviews which I like. They seem very aware of what to do and what not to do for the sequel.

>>714451071
i have the utmost faith in those lads

>>714416350 (OP)
we're almost at the weekend, that means another two days of doing shots, drinking beer, and being belligerent over master chief collection voice chat

Im playing Factorio again, trying to learn circuits and shit.

started AI Limit earlier, it's nice so far. might buy it before i get too far in my pirated copy

Just hit 30 last month and now I can finally be here!
Playing Daemon x Machina since I just got it from this months humble choice.
Game is fun even if it's just diet armored core I'm just happy to have more AC like games. Hope the sequel is good too

Guys
I'm only 29
Sorry for lying to you I hope you can find in your heart to forgive me.

>>714416350 (OP)
(40) Gaiming felt dead to me until I made the switch to VR. They lied to you about next gen. Current gen is fake next gen in a newer package. Real next gen is VR. But you won't really understand until you try flat games modded into VR using mods on PC. Since VR devs mostly are still shitting out tech demos. PVP made for VR is still good, but older flat games modded into VR feel brand new and give that rush a new system used to give and I'm about 4 years in already.

>>714416350 (OP)
I'm playing Stellar Blade and looking forward to playing Black Myth Wukong
Also really getting into tabletop D&D
On the actual life side of things, my mortgage is nearly paid off in a HCOL city so I guess I'm ahead?
Still no qt gf

>>714451890

what games are you playing?

the problem I have with VR is that a large portion of games are arcadey bullshit, theres few games that have nice gameplay and story

>>714451945
Wukong is a lot of fun especially if you love boss fights. i might play NG+ soon

>>714416350 (OP)
I'm playing a ton of Slay the Spire in preparation for Slay the Spire 2. I'm trying to get to Ascension 20 with every character.

>>714451890
what's a good VR setup

>>714428741
all of it

>>714451890
I'd need to buy lenses for it plus I'm pretty sure I'd get motion sickness

>>714452160
I get motion sickness from the Batman Arkham game but I can play Beat Saber without issues. This means I'm fucked if I ever want to play HL Alyx

>>714448380
>image depicts a female when 99% of these people are male

>>714452271
Just like every anime ever

Monster Hunter Wilds. My reaction times are shit and I'm stuck, but it's the closest I'll get to beating one of these. Once I'm done with it, I'm jumping to Valkyria Chronicles 4.

>>714452012
For standalone breachers vr (basically rainbow 6) but they neefed the movement a few weeks ago so I started going back to population one.
Vegas infinite (aka pokerstars)

For mods.
Borderlands 3
Palworld
Risk of rain 2 but they broke the mod haven't checked for a fix yet.
7 days to die got melee added to the mod


Basically any unreal engine game 4 and up

Backlogged priority
Dredge
Slime rancher (they finally released the mod for it a few months ago)
Ghost runner 1 n 2

I'm super lazy about tutorials

Also not gaming but been spending a ton of time doing ai 2d to 3d conversions. They're almost blu ray quality now (and free if you can navigate python/github stuff) basically any video can be 3D now

>>714452269
Depends how long you have been playing. If it's still your first week or 2 you may just not have gotten your vr legs yet. I got passed my period in a week. >>714452117
Right now I can only recommend the quest 3 (for the lenses) until Deckard releases next year (probably late next year). Stay away from the quest 3s. The lenses are dogshit. Feels a full gen behind

>>714416350 (OP)
i'm doing alright. playing atlyss, enjoying more than i thought i would. very fun game if a bit too easy.

>>714416350 (OP)
I feel like I'm close to the end of Death Stranding 2, but it's making me go all the way the fuck around Australia again and I have no idea how I apparently have seven episodes left.
Just bought Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, Bravely Default, and Bravely Second as well, so I guess I'll either start those next, so Wukong which I got on sale recently on PS5.
Also thinking of buying a Deck.

>>714452483
Also don't sleep on payday 2 (there's an issue with climbing ladders in vr and the firet gun you start with is shit, it's supposed to be. Once you buy a better gun ,accuracy works as you'd expect it.)

I forgot about the deep rock galactic mod

Been meaning to jump back into no man's sky (kinda wanna try that space fishing update)

and for standalone don't forget the doom mods work without pc as well as the first half life (and maybe the second, i don't remember if they made the dlc type ones work as well standalone)

>>714452012
But check out the UEVR mod. You can just put that in youtube. Theres a few guys that test like every game. As long as it doesn't have anti cheat you can mod in full VR with motion control aiming and detached head movement (no having to aim with your head, full free movement) literally the implementation is usually better than made for VR ports. And most motion control setting have already been figured out by others. So you can just go to the flat2vr discord, head to the uevr section (might just say ue - join) click the games tab and find the game you're looking for (may need to use the search, sometimes I can't find it without using the search). At the top of that games section there will be a pin with the configuration file needed for motion controls as well as any other mods that might be needed

I also keep forgetting about ace combat 7. That one needs a lot of additional mods to function properly but they added cockpits and stuff. Original cockpits were broken in vr

Another one I haven't tried but been meaning to grab for nostalgia reasons is the Tokyo xtreme racer new release is UEVR compatible.

>>714433951
>30 year old girlfriendless virgin, i have a job but its retail
just like me man kill me
>>714438112
the normalfags piss me off more

>>714447415
i feel like if i didn't stop myself i could just jerk off literally all day long. 38 btw
perhaps your bloodflow is terrible or you have stronger depression than every other person alive

>>714453346
https://x.com/Flat2VR/status/1940831902702985597

Really wish satisfactory would have a real sale.

normalfags and r9kniggers should leave.

r9kniggers first though somehow normalfags are more tolerable.

Sometimes I wonder if I should feel bad for being this happy being alone. But then I get reminded anyone would probably be unhappy to be together with me so I'm actually doing the world a favor.
I'm going to buy a bunch of games this steam sale and vow to finish them all within the year, starting with last years GOTY.

>>714456659
>starting with last years GOTY.
based Nine Sols enjoyer

>>714416350 (OP)
I have not played any games this week

>>714419152
>factorio
im deliberately staying away from that
i liked Spacechem, EU4, Satisfactory
seems like autism bait. but its not like i have a job

how are our hands doing, anons?

>think about getting a gf
>would be nice with someone to talk with
>but i absolutely hate having visitors in my home
>stop thinking about gf

>>714457687
my hand is okay but i feel like my wrist is in a constant battle to avoid getting carpal tunnel

>>714457687
Better than a couple years ago, thanks for asking.

>>714457687
I have a tendon that pops out, and they're both weak.

>>714457689
just get a bf
problem solved

>>714457687
i hope it's temporary and not arthritis

>>714457687
Honestly better than they used to be. Either that or my knees and back are getting all my attention.

>>714457687
Dry but that's because I haven't put on moisturizer yet

graphics should have capped out in ~2012.

>>714458298
agreed
i wish grafix would stop improving so i wouldnt have to upgrade my pc just to play games

Steam stopped working (win7), so i went back to pirating games.

>>714458703
just pirate win10

>>714458838
It's not fair, fuck microshit.

>>714447415
Porn is boring, I just play porn games nowadays.

>>714416350 (OP)
I bought all the final fantasy pixel remasters on the steam sale. Finished 1-3 over the past week and am currently about 6 hours into 4.
I've always thought this series was gay but I'm really enjoying them.
I guess just the newer ones are gay.

>>714458838
I'm planning to buy a new computer next month (tax returns, yeah). Don't know yet if i should install win10 or just go linux at this point.

>>714416350 (OP)
i played the talos principle + dlc this week
what an indescribably comfy game. Was my first time doing the DLC, the puzzles weren’t nearly as hard as people on /v/ said they were except for 1 in the part where you get the grey sigils that felt like it was probably made by a tryhard redditor

I like meme solutions in puzzle games but that one felt like complete bullshit made by a redditor where he accidentally saw that it worked and then they put it in the game

>>714457687
Fine, shockingly

>>714457687
Considering I played MMOs every day in my early years and "should" have problems, they're totally fine.
If you don't put pressure on your wrist you'll be good.

>>714457687
The tops of my both hands have been in significant pain for 5 years now whenever I do things on a computer. I haven't been able to touch any games with mouse and keyboard since. Doctors prescribe Naproxen, and when that does nothing, they just say they've tried everything and can't help me.

And and just recently my thumbs are getting to be the same. Can't play more than like 20 minutes of games now even on controller.

>>714459026
5 is the rawest
6 is the most dramatic
You should have played the 3D remakes of 3 and 4

Just turned 30 and I'm still living with my parents with no job
Is that bad?

>>714416350 (OP)
War Thunder
Euro Truck Simulator 2
M2TW
yep... good times...

>>714416350 (OP)
It's all woke, sanitized shit.

>>714459697
I heard that but I hate the chibi DS art style of them

>>714457687
There's this weird spot in my index finger that every once in a while gets really itchy. Same spot always. It's weird
Also had a fever and fucked up my shoulder, it hurt for 2 weeks, I'm scared to lift any weight with it now.
Knees keep popping when I stretch
Neck stopped cracking

>>714459692
Try asking your doctors for a muscle relaxant like Pridinol. I know it sounds like horseshit but that was the only thing that managed to make the pain stop for me.

>>714459708
the world is fucked up don't let bankers push you around with their expectations

>>714459708
Take care of your parents and cherish them.

>>714459692
>The tops of my both hands
wrist flexor tendonitis? iktf. try stretching forearm extensors and flexors and try that thing where you have a rubberband around your fingers and open them against the band for reps

>social expectations thinking i should be a normie and go out and get my own apartment and rent
>soul says that jews are trying to make me their indebt slaves so i continue to pay taxes and be in debt and go into the rat race when i hate jews

>>714459708
Living with your parents is completely fine here in EU.
The housing market is a nightmare everywhere so it's a nobrainer.
You should get a job though. Doesn't have to pay much, something easy you can do from home can work too.
Being financially independent will do wonders for your mental health.

>>714427448
mages and vikings is superior I'm afraid

>>714460109
i meant extensor tendonitis but w/e

>>714459873
Will look into it, thanks. Only thing that works for me is topical CBD oil, but often it just results in hurting twice as much the next day because it's just masking the pain.

>>714460109
I literally got one of those finger band things today. Spooky. It seems like tendonitis, but since it came on suddenly in both hands, and somewhat even my feet within the span of 2 weeks, I'm not sure. Might even be neurological.

>>714416350 (OP)
The age-range for boomers (1946-1964) is 61+. You are not a boomer. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT

>>714460235
Plus in the US Medicaid is getting fucked.

>>714460628
>but since it came on suddenly in both hands
same more or less. i think i have many issues some easily treatable some not. currently the biggest one is some of my finger joints are very painful, the tendonitis type feeling on the topside went away quickly after starting stretching etc.

>>714460702
We're vidya boomers

Been playing expidition 33 all day then had my wife dress up as a fast food worker. I then made several requests such as licking her arm pits and eating her ass while she ate burgers and teasingly complained about getting off her break on time. Eventually I fucked her holes and came in her ass. I love women.

>>714457687
i have extremely smooth feminine hands. they're okay.

>>714459708
I live with my mom at 32, but not really the same. I moved back in with her bc I gradually started realizing she’s an unbelievable alcoholic but she’s also in complete denial so i have to be there to prevent her from being a retard

I would suggest just getting a job, even a shitty one. You will be amazed at how much better it makes feel. Living with your parents is not a bad thing with how absolutely FUCKED the housing market is. I have a pretty decent paying trade job and my current situation basically being a babysitter is still preferable

How do you get over a habit of only playing old familiar games and motivating yourself to try anything new?

>>714459708
>Just turned 30 and I'm still living
yeah, you should stop

i got angry watching the kickstarter for ahoy because its another disaster project in the making and ive been waiting since potbs got raped into waterworld of warcraft by sony for someone to make an age of sail multiplayer game that doesnt suck and uses modern tech. best we've had is sea of thieves which does a lot of things good and totally leaves the rest to rot.

so now im making my own ive spent a good while wanting to die learning how to build a server with global deterministic gerstner waves that disallows floating point math on clients and making a platform that players can stand on and not warp around and clip through while keeping it all server authoritative. had to rebuild a lot of how UE5 character constructor handles network physics bc it was too simple. i just want a good game man this blows

>>714460702
anyone over 30 is a boomer and that's a fact

I'm really lonely. How do you get a girlfriend? I feel like I'm getting desperate.

>>714433582

Is that Kevin James and Jensen Ackles? Id watch a modern Supernatural with those two.

>>714461626
rein it in, i got scammed out of $150 trying to pay for sex because I couldn't rein it in. clear your head and do something else.

>>714461360
I used to be like this. Emulating the good old stuff all the time. Now I don't think I've touched an emulator in a couple years. As for motivation, I'm probably in the same boat, which is why I've picked up free to play shit since there's no commitment and I'm a cheap ass. Past me would probably shame me for my current gaming habits and claim I have shit taste. And I wouldn't deny it.

Also fuck that area. Worst one in the entire game.

>>714433906

Dont you usually play video games to escape from your work life?

>>714461626
Go out and be a bit more social. Are there any trail walking or dogwalking groups or anything in your area?

Just making an effort is half the fight.

Getting to 30 in 4 days, I have achieved nothing this far other than getting 3rd place for scale model armor in a local model show on my first attempt last year
Currently building a roster to enter again

Other than that, the occasional game of world of tanks and red alert 2

>>714416350 (OP)
I really enjoyed FNAF SotM.
I am not sure if Silent Hill f will be any good or not, so I am aprehensive to buy it.
Once I beat Elden Ring (I'm very close), I am going to start Sekiro. Nightrein doesn't look very fun to me so I think I'll skip it for now.

>>714416350 (OP)
Done buying new games, just gonna play what I already have.

>>714461691
I can't, I'm so fucking lonely. I don't even want sex I just want to cuddle with someone or spend time with someone. How did you get scammed?
>>714461783
I just go walking? I don't want to be an incel but I really feel like unless you're a heartthrob nothing's gonna work. I don't have a dog either.

>>714461827
Sekiro is a gem of a game, nightreign is ass unless you’re into roguelites. If you are it’s a decent one but nothing more. It’s a bit of an annoying game bc it has a lot of fun combat mechanics that should have been in ER

>>714462017
If you find something on, just go along and try be normal. Plenty of normal nice people out there with not much going on socially or people who have recently moved.

>>714461745
WF is a brainless easy game and grind can be just ignored - you quickly reach a point where you dont need constant upgrades to progress or do 'end game' activities like in real grindans

>>714462017
Literally just put yourself out there. Find a situation where it isn't totally weird to strike up a conversation and do it. Hell, even if it is weird to strike up a conversation go for it.
Yes sometimes people will be mean. Yes sometimes you'll feel like a complete fucking idiot. But you have a better chance at finding someone by doing that than just sitting at home doing nothing.

>>714416350 (OP)
Nuclear Option but I wish it had better gamepad support. I just want to play on the couch.

>>714416350 (OP)
>30+ y/o
>grey hair
do people really have grey hair in their 30s? I thought that shit comes in your late 40s/early 50s
fuck, I am 23 and I am already afraid of old age

>>714462017
Unironically get a job
I jokingly asked a female coworker if she has single friends and she gave me contacts
Hiking invites work 60% of the time

>>714462346
my little brother started getting grey hairs at like 24 and more than a decade later i'm still fine

>>714462346
varies wildly

Beat Dragon Quest Builders 2 a couple days ago, it really is soulless (gameplay-wise). I'm never good with sandbox games so the post-game has me avoiding playing at all.
In the meantime I'm directing more energy toward exploring and experimenting with Unity with the goal of eventually creating a game.
If anyone has a recommendation for a comfy town-sim game I'd appreciate it, I hate how your townspeople hardly do anything in dqb2. Elin turned out to not even actually simulate the town, it just looks at the numbers and generates consumption and output based on those.

>>714462017
I got baited in by a sob story and some hot pictures, she never met up with me before I sent money, it was extremely dumb to do and would have never even been done if I had a level head

How do I stop wanting to have kids? I'm a khv at 33, it's not happening brain.

>>714447415
It’s time to stop looking at porn

>>714462017
do you have friends at all? work on that first
my friends gf hooked me with her friend
online dating is a scam and everyone became disillusioned in it, and hitting on randoms irl is more likely to cause trouble unless you are mr.charming
also one friend found a wife in MMO but she was a divorcee with a daughter and broke, of course

>>714462349
yeah you are more likely to find someone via friends/coworkers

>>714462346
it varies, I'm greying since 22

>>714462346
Getting gray hair before my brothers, who are both older than me. Lots of gray at 38, and people can start to notice it from a distance as recently. Fortunately, my fate is still better than my friends from highschool, which are now bald.

YOU NEED TO STOP PLAYING GAMES AND GO TO WORK!
MOVE OUT OF YOUR PARENTS HOME AND GIVE A LANDLORD MONEY NOW!
YOU ECONOMIC TERRORISTS!

>>714461626
is the cat ok?

A zoomer coworker told me she thought I was gay because I was thin and had "good skin."

>>714462886
kwab

My last girlfriend (ended up lasting about five years though honestly we should've kicked it in the head after two or three since we hated each other by the end of it) was just an old school friend I bumped into randomly one day in town after we hadn't seen each other for nearly ten years.

Do some sleuthing and see if any of your old school friends are about, you might have some luck.

>>714462886
>telling someone he has good skin
Was he Buffalo Bill?

>>714462886
she just thought you were gay cause you act like a fag
the rest is just trying to sugarcoat it with compliments, you know how women are - they insult with compliments

>Monster Train 2 out
>Rimworld DLC coming
>Against the Storm DLC coming
Eating good this summer

>>714433951
>>714454457
>i have a job but its retail
If it counts for anything, that alone means it's way less over for you than it is for a lot of people here.

>>714462886
Someone told me recently that they thought I was gay because of how I any
Which makes sense why no girl was interested in me, besides being ugly

>>714462886
She is trying to woman logic out why you haven't tried to fuck her yet, they do that shit all the time.

>>714449248
Are you the anon that was getting super frustrated in a previous thread?
If so gud job on gitting gud

>>714463780
>Someone told me recently that they thought I was gay because of how I any

nigga what

>>714463741
it's a minimum wage chickenshit job, they hire sandniggers by the dozen for this shit, it's nothing. it's genuinely soul sucking.

>>714463836
They thought he was gay because how he any

>>714416513
>grime
my absolute nigga
I'm hyped as fuck for grime 2

>>714463841
Do the bare minimum anon, and always take 3 15 minute shits on company time every shift.

Finished Gal Gun Returns.
Finished Felvidek.
Now playing Kenshi.

>>714463939
just make sure if they press you on it you have an excuse ready, like IBS. be warned they may eventually ask for proof

>>714463939
it fucks with your head after a while. shit's a revolving door of people, I'm still there, racist manager hires and promotes his own, passes me up intentionally, nobody to talk to, the list goes on. fuck man I fucking hate this shit

>>714416350 (OP)
Been playing Hollow Knight, it's good fun. Just got the dream nail.

>>714462775
I have friends but only one has a gf and the other are varying degrees of ngmi.
>>714462685
You know now at least.
>>714462349
I have one, I can't exactly ask the zoomers I have nothing in common with to do that.
>>714462180
>Literally just put yourself out there.
and look like a retard?

>>714416350 (OP)
35.
Mostly all I'm playing as a "regular" game is Warframe and loving it, Caliban is based, even if people hate him for not being meta.
Other than that, I sometimes play retro shit on my 406h and I played some Planet Crafter today to try out the new moon, but it's unbalanced as shit and I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Might do another run of the normal world but with all the difficulty settings maxed out (no permadeath though because fuck that.)
Might get a second chinkheld but pick one that caps out at SNES FX games max and has no analog sticks as an ultra-portable device for more casual use, but prices have gone up and there's far fewer stickless chinkboys these days, so I'm not sure.

IRL family shit's going downhill but I'm a 45 minute drive away from Ground Zero and glad I'm dodging most of it but I wish I could drop everything and head over there to see if I can help fix some of it.
Pretty sure my sister's an undiagnosed schizo.

>>714438112
Nah, ragebait to fuel threads has been a thing for a while, especially /v/.
But yeah, it's getting worse outside of 4chan too, it's just ragebait or SEO shit, one or the other, nothing else.

>>714459708
As long as you're not some lazy-ass NEET that won't even do the dishes.
If you're gonna be a freeloader, at least be a good one. Mow the lawn, water plants, cook dinner sometimes, clean up after yourself.

>>714464406
yeah it's pretty dumb but it got me out of my rut pretty quickly. I mean if you're dumb enough to get scammed for paying for sex you really just snap out of it. damn

>tfw turning 30 in one week
no.. it wasn't supposed to be like this! i'm still hip and young!

>>714464465
Welcome to the old man club, anon. Please remember to take care of your back.

>>714464465
>i'm still hip and young!
nah unc frfr u ain't bussin bro

>>714416350 (OP)
>32
Was playing Raidou, but then Persona 5 X released, but then Star Rail got an update so I was catching up all week. Gonna go back to Raidou tonight or tomorrow.
Also playing through the Ace Attorney collections because I forgot everything but main twists. It's fun, the remakes are pretty well done, but I'm still mad Capcom did not make a single new entry after Spirit of Justice. Or was Great Ace Attorney 2 the last one? Doesn't matter.
A guy from my office (a lolicon in his fifties) recommended me FutanariCoffee shop describing it as quite possibly the best management sim he ever played, so picked it up on Steam sale.

>>714464506
you're joking but if I sleep funny me back/neck actually hurts for a week.

>>714464614
Man, I wish I was joking. That was just an earnest warning.

>>714419152
hey brother, me too. 3:19AM and I need help. It's okay, I'm automating gleba science packs now.

>>714464465
just wait until you're turning 35 and it feels like you only turned 30 the year before

>>714461626
Man, I'm a kissless virgin with zero interest in relationships, dating, or kids, but even I know the basics:
>have hobbies/interests(/jobs) that put you with/around other people that you can chat with
>go to places/events with lots of people that you might want to interact with, even just being a regular somewhere can get someone to drop a "hey"
>don't stink
>be fit + healthy
>don't do any obviously bad shit like scratch your buttcrack or pick your nose
>don't drop your spaghetti the second someone says "hi"
>pray your voice isn't annoying (test recording your voice if you want) ;_;

captcha: RV SAD

>>714416350 (OP)
Ace Attorney 3. It's very comfy

>>714465173
>>pray your voice isn't annoying (test recording your voice if you want) ;_;
it's a natural phenomenon that everyone hates their own voice when played back to them in a recording. i've seen somewhere that that can be overcome, look it up, i haven't bothered to really try it out for myself, just have no time or energy to

>>714465173
>don't drop your spaghetti the second someone says "hi"
Not the guy you're advising, but I do this any time I find a girl attractive. Thank god I have pretty specific tastes, so I just seem kind of awkward most of the time.

>>714438112
I've noticed this for some years now, yes

I'm literally 70 years old.
It gets worse kids, it gets worse!
Lately though I've been mostly playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Love big tits!

>>714464465
It doesn't really hit until about 33 and you realize nothing is getting any better.

>>714465634
Hey man you're closer to death than all of us so stop fucking bragging

>>714438112
it's impossible to have normal conversations anywhere, even in person. casually talking to people at work and some retard will pull out their phone, google some shit which agrees with their dumb opinion then pretend they're an expert

>>714465705
This shit drives me up a fucking wall.

>32
>everything in life goes wrong for me
>no matter what I do, I can't prevent anything bad happening to me
>co-worker just recently asked me if I've always had bad luck considering the things that have happened to me since the year I've been working at this place
>getting so depressed it's affecting me physically
>can't even get myself to go out jogging anymore
>keep spiraling because no matter what I do, I get fucked
I am literally incapable of having a good life. I've been depressed for the past 16 years because nothing good ever happens to me and when it does, it's simply because the world decided to allow me a sliver of happiness just to make the downfall harder and make me even more miserable. All the shit that happens to me is completely out of my control too. I don't even have to do anything and shit just hits the fan. The only living thing that's happy to see me is my cat and he's getting up there in age

>>714465705
>>714465809

>>714465173
You can literally change your voice if your try.

>>714427117
This is correct.

>>714464465
You stopped being young like 10 years ago anon

>>714434901
This, you should only KYS yourself if you have no friends and family.

>>714462346
Like others have stated, it varies
I started getting gray hairs when I was 22 (much more noticeable on me since I have dark brown hair)

>>714465863
you can just delete the first bubble of speech and it's every other 4chan thread.

>>714465634
>xbc2
This must be the poster child for "it gets better 20 hours in". Because it does. Just make sure you stick sweets in your pouch to make the game's combat faster than a snail pace, which I would even recommend for a 70 year old. It's that slow.

>>714435602
>my second son arrived.
crazy way of saying "the baby came out of my gf's vagina covered in slime and blood"

>>714465852
whenever you anons think you're a defeatist read this post and be happy you arent. you're trying. just keep trying.

>>714465852
>everything in the world goes wrong only for me and I have no agency to stop any of it
anon straight up you are a whiny faggot.

>>714466043
This guy knows. Game is so much better when you're on sweets, but the game doesn't tell you. It's indeed a slow burn, but one of my favorite games. Desperately needs a Switch 2 patch to bring out its true potential because it was held back by the hardware at the time. Monolith improved with their work on XBC DE, XB3 and XBX which all released after XB2 on the Switch but it was still always lacking the juice it needed to really thrive. Those games will look great once they bump the resolution and unlock the framerate

>>714463741
working in retail is worse than nothing

>>714465992
You can always make new friends, is it really that hard?

>>714466276
It at least gives that guy a steady income. But you could say a lot of those jobs aren't worth it due to the amount of retards you have to deal with on a regular basis. If it destroys your soul and/or body in the process it's definitely not worth it for some dead end job

>>714416350 (OP)
I quit gaming around 2006 because Oblivion was such a massive disappointment.
I got back into it thanks to Dark Souls only to be disappointed again afterwards because there were next to no good games coming out after it.

How you guys can tolerate all of the junk that's been released for the last 10 years is beyond me.

>>714466357
>You can always make new friends, is it really that hard?

>>714466445
Shit, I forget I'm a charismatic hunk. Forget it

>>714466435
for the past 10 years I've played probably a game or two a year. 90% of things are shit but that still leaves dozens of decent games a year when you account for indietitles.

>>714438471
/vg/ is arguably in a worse state than /v/.

>>714466423
that's what I meant. But it beats homelessness, sure. In the process it rewrites your brain and body. Not to mention the time you're wasting but that's unavoidable for all non-wfh jobs

>>714466568
What do you think were standout titles of the last 10 years?

>>714420821
>Up until 2012/2013 the industry made games that were like 90% finished.
You are clearly a zoomer if you believe that

>>714416350 (OP)
Married boomers out there: how is gaming life after marriage for you? any advice / tips will be much appreciated
Just to give context:
mine will be next month
dropped online gaming when TF2 fucked itself to OW when it came and never touched anything since
playing comfy shit like Ace Attorney, Atlus and Layton games
have no problem stopping the game when I have to go somewhere or work
she still has no idea about my DS collection I made years before covid

>>714466357
Friends don't do a lot. If friends will fix your issues then you don't have many to begin with.

>>714465634
reading this in professor farnsworth's voice

>>714466117
Okay
>get my first gf at 25
>everything is going great
>suddenly breaks up with me and refuses to say I did anything wrong
>tells everyone I was stalking and harassing her
>get fired from job because she lied and so did my manager because, in her words, he was a pervert
>get convicted of a crime I didn't commit (stalking)
>no military branch will take me because it's too "egregious a crime"
>wasn't able to get hired anywhere for awhile because of said crime I didn't commit
>finally get hired somewhere
>supervisor goes psycho and fires me because he perceived my resting face as being pissed off
>get hired somewhere else
>get hit 2 different times while driving and the people fled both times
>place I was working at starts going downhill
>people mass quitting and getting severance pay (except just me for whatever reason)
>deer jumps out in front of me and totals my car
>end up getting a subaru wrx sti
>engine blows up despite me not driving crazy, residual from previous owner
>warranty company initially refuses to replace it because it had an aftermarket exhaust when I bought it
>get a new job
>work second shift for a year
>currently getting bullied by management and putting me on a schedule that leaves me with no way to do anything during the week
>after several months get car back with a new engine
>starts having more problems left and right
>have to get rid of it and get a different car
This isn't counting the countless other bullshit that happens to me like people trying to run me off the road out of nowhere, the psychological and emotional abuse I get, and basically everything else.

>>714466623
/vg/ is full of unironic trannies.

>>714466654
The thing about the homeless is that you have to actively choose to be homeless. You COULD clean yourself up and make an honest living, but they've come to the decision that being high and sleeping in a tent and occassionally begging for cash is a better life then working in a wage cell and an "honest life". They have opted out of that lifestyle. Sure as a homeless person they'll wind up with all sorts of mental illness in tandem with whatever horrible drugs they're snorting up but to them that's a better way to go.

>>714466741
damn man

>>714466689
>You are clearly a zoomer if you believe that

>Some small DLC over the first couple months and some patches but in essence the game was done. Maybe an expansion a year later.

>>714466741
Sounds like if it wasn't for bad luck, you wouldn't have any luck at all
https://youtu.be/uIPGhI7Gl_0?si=NI-7wOfLtRVQwqm_

>>714416350 (OP)
Nothing actually but I did 50 miles on my ebike this morning and I witnessed a home burning down that was something

>>714416350 (OP)
>How's it going, boomerbros?

Eyes hurt.
Back hurts.
Wrist hurts.
Have to work overtime.
Have to watch my sugar.
Have to make my daily steps.
Have to take the kids from school.
Have to work on the car, then quit, then take it to the service and pay 2 weeks wages to get it fixed in 20 minutes.

Yeppp, its 30 year old boomer time!

>>714466734
>Friends don't do a lot.
Yeah but it can be nice to have some friends to bullshit with. Only reason anyone is here having this conversation now is to simulate that kind of friendship we would have with somebody

>>714466957
>>Some small DLC over the first couple months and some patches but in essence the game was done.
The game wasn't done. The game was just thrown out of the door because patching games in a physical prominent industry was extremely expensive and even lead to developers and publishers (who would have to shoulder the costs of patching) headbutting.
A famous example is Troika games and Bloodlines

You are a retarded zoomer farming for 4chan karma, did noone tell you this isn't Reddit?

>>714466692
>she still has no idea about my DS collection I made years before covid
Why is this something you need to hide. how do you mother fuckers get married but your spouse knows nothing about you lol

>>714448380
I was schizoid, WAS, not anymore. I had a spiritual awakening and and suddenly start craving social contact after neglecting that for decades, I wanna be schizoid again. You don't just start having a social life at 35 after having zero, it doesn't happen. Why did I have to have a spiritual awakening? Don't believe the hippy crap, these things suck

I am playing the game of job at the moment

>>714466687
I'm not gonna go year by year or anything and I'm sure I'm missing more than a few, but just some that come to my head I personally have enjoyed a lot in that time:
Factorio
Nier Automata
Battletech
Pretty much every FromSoft game though ACV wasn't entirely my bag, but it had some cool MP ideas
Slay the Spire
Divinity OS1, 2 and BG3, not sure if OS1 was in that timeframe too lazy to check
Rain World
Outer Wilds

>>714467163
>games weren't done and to prove that i'm posting one of the biggest exceptions in vidya history

For every VTMB we had 10 baldurs splinter conquer duty solid cry game.

>>714467163
I do remember my local PC gaming magazine having patches for popular games on the CD, for people who can't download them.
But yes, generally, back then games couldn't be patched up, and sometimes games released, and remained, basically broken.

Bloodlines was literally unplayable for me on release, I only rediscovered it years later. To think I could've missed out on my favorite game, because it kept crashing all the time....
And IIRC either Morrowind or Oblivion would not load a game if you had too many saves/too large combined saves file size, and it took me weeks to find out why I can't continue my campaign. The original Witcher game also would sometimes crash to desktop when saving/loading if you had too many saves.

>>714467265
are you winning son?

>fall in love with video games when they were 2D and handhelds had 4 colours of greens
>wow imagine what games are going to be like in the future
>in the future
>games stopped innovating in the 360 era at best

Feels bad, man

>>714467360
i dunno. i am getting paid for 40 hours while actually barely working 20. i'll ride it out as long as i can

>>714467392
As always, 3D was a mistake.

>>714416350 (OP)
I only play star citizen

>>714467448
but there's nothing to play

>>714466934
>>714467001
The worst part of it all is that I can't get myself to kill myself nor does anything actually life threatening happen to me. If it does, I instinctively avoid it and just continue to wallow in misery.

As far as the topic of the thread goes, I'm playing Raidou and waiting for Nioh 3. I can also hope that the new album comes out soon from my favorite band https://youtu.be/BzONJQRHtj0?si=LK1DzOhEWADAPFC_

What if we started a fight club?

>>714467392
Everyone wants money and money they stopped having fun with tech

I'm turning 28 in like a week
Can I post here?

>>714467472
I haven't played it in 5 years and just reinstalled it two months ago, in genuinely having fun

>>714465964
>tfw 6 years away from turning 30
I swear the past 4 years have gone by so quickly that I feel I haven't really enjoyed my youth at all. It's like a race against the clock to finally fulfill every dream I had hoped for back in my teenage years.

>>714467595
No because you actually still track when your birthday is

>>714467290
If those are the standout titles, I guess I was right to quit gaming again.

>>714467501
https://youtu.be/-0UKvwOR4ks?si=WLLIHPV1hkHNowI6

You need to get mean, and I mean plum mad dog mean.

>>714467675
What are your favourite games anon

>>714467595
only if you take notes and try not to become us

>>714467147
blackpilled anons are the product of more than 2 decades of mistakes made by their parents and by themselves, in addition to having shitty genes and being shat on by society for the crime of being weird. You can't fix it that easily

>>714467392
Two factors I think contributed to this great stagnation
>less limitations (limitations breeds creativity and our brains fill in the blanks)
>gaming turned into a multi-billion dollar business full of suits who only think of line must go up
Its sad, but it is what it is
can only hope the industry implodes and we get a reset

>>714416350 (OP)
Any CRUSTY OLD 30+ BOOMERS wanna groom a YOUNG and IMPRESSIONABLE 28 year old BOY. I only have some back pain and still have a year and a half to turn my life around before I also become a boomer. UwU

>>714467745
And in a way that's how people here can be friendly to one another like in threads like these. Even "fake friends" with no faces are better than nothing, pal. The nerds come together as buddies and overcome the jocks just like the movies. We're those nerds!

>>714467807
I'm willing to pretend to be a positive male role model in your life for 1200 a month

>>714416350 (OP)
Decided to try and make a game a month ago with no prior experience.
I finally managed to make a small fps game test and I'm pretty proud of it even tho its shit.

>>714467736
I've already been a neet for 10 years, all you oldfags actually have jobs and driver's licenses and shit and live on your own

>>714467724

>>714467807
Yeah here's my advice. Stop posting. Best thing you could ever do kid

>>714467886
well that's definitely a generic ass list I can't do much for you with I guess

>>714467872
And that could be you, if that's what you really wanted

>>714467840
yeah but you're all just anonymous words on a screen and wouldn't have my back if I really needed help in my life
I don't get that warm tingling feeling in my chest posting here like I did playing video games with what I thought were my two best friends in person until they ghosted me entirely and I realized I've never had real friends and always disproportionately put all the effort into every relationship I ever had

It's been a few months that I realise that I have less interest in story heavy games and I have more interest in fun gameplay. Im enjoying action games more like all of team ninja library despite having very boring story like Rise of the Ronin and Wo Long. Waiting for Nioh 3 now. I've also caved in on the sales with Crash N sane trilogy, Crash 4 and Space Marine 2.

Finally, Im trying to finish Expedition 33 which is a good game but Im not that interested in the story.

>>714467886
You need to go back and play the older gems you missed.

>>714465863

yeah its like that everywhere
dead internet, half the posts are bots, everyone human is angry or apathetic or worse than bots with nonsense oneliner posts

>>714466623
t. /v/ shitposter

>>714467886
At least play Chrono Trigger once.

Kill yourselves you moping blogging fucks.

>>714467960
Well, it's generic because these are simply great games. Obviously they would be on every list ever.

>>714467971
It's not about what I want, it's about what I can cope with
Talking to a cashier makes my hands shake and I can't even make myself wake up on time to watch fucking anime on the internet
Everything about who I am is incompatible with modern society
And instead of having a financial and emotional cushion from my family to help me integrate they are all dying and have no money or plans or anything and my entire life is falling apart after being abused through my whole childhood and I would genuinely be better off if everyone around me was dead

>>714468025
There, there buddy. People are cold these days. I am too. I'm not your real friend, you can't really rely on me. I'm an antisocial motherfucker, and a loser. But that's why you gotta put more faith in yourself. Stand up on your own two feet even when life's kicked you down. You can do it friend, sorry you had shit friends. Good people are hard to come by. Thing is friends come and go just like anything else. Enjoy them while they're there, but people move on, get married, move away, sometimes die, or you get in a fight or a disagreement or maybe just get busy with your life and grow distant from people. That's life. You just gotta keep fighting through it cowboy

>>714468093
I probably wouldn't rank half of them on my own great games list but so goes opinions.

>>714468087
I did. It's good. Just not one of my favorites.

>>714468035
I probably did.
Tbh, Darklands should probably be on there too.

I hate what these threads have become. From comfy gaming to old people moping. I'll be 35 tomorrow and I'll be playing rhythm games. Fuck you all.

>>714468025
>two best friends in person until they ghosted me entirely and I realized I've never had real friends and always disproportionately put all the effort into every relationship I ever had
This sucks.

>>714468129
>it's about what I can cope with
Fair enough brother.
>Talking to a cashier makes my hands shake
I've had phases of bad anxiety like that. You can overcome it with practice. But it is crippingly when it's at its worst sure. Doesn't mean you can't improve it or eventually get over it, or at the very least have it be tolerable.
>I can't even make myself wake up on time to watch fucking anime on the internet
Probably because you're depressed. It's just an anime, you can always watch it later so why get upset about it.
>Everything about who I am is incompatible with modern society
Modern society is crazy, and there are many, many people in a similar situation who fee at odds end with society and are opting out altogether. In that sense you're not alone in your isolation.
>And instead of having a financial and emotional cushion from my family to help me integrate they are all dying and have no money or plans or anything and my entire life is falling apart after being abused through my whole childhood and I would genuinely be better off if everyone around me was dead
That's tough man. But there is a way out. Just keep working towards something, even something simple. You've been getting by alright without a cushion from your family, you can carve your own way. Sure it's scary and uncomfortable and breaks your autistic habits but if push comes to shove you'll figure it out. Start thinking about what you can do to ease the burden and work towards it.

>>714468185
if only every single person on earth had a super computer in their pocket at all times that you could use to send a message electronically whenever you wanted
I guess that's too much to ask from people I knew since elementary school who I took to the beach for a week every year in the summer and who always came to all of my birthdays (but they never invited me to theirs) and who I always made the effort to do things with that would be fun and who were close enough to me that my fucking grandmothers on both sides of my family still asked about them before they died or developed severe dementia
yeah I guess I really just ask for too much

>>714468372
Like dance dance revolution or hellsinger?

>>714468223
You can't live long enough to play every great game that ever existed, you're only looking at surface level stuff. Even if you look at every game made before 2006 there's so many amazing games. You gotta broaden your horizons and step out of the type of games you would normally play. Trust me there's some fun shit that you wouldn't expect to be fun, take a chance and play something you wouldn't think you'd like. What's the worst that could happen?

>>714468412
>You've been getting by alright without a cushion from your family
I have literally never had a job or lived on my own

>>714468432
>if only every single person on earth had a super computer in their pocket at all times that you could use to send a message electronically whenever you wanted
people who think like this fucking suck honestly bro. I don't want to be in contact with everyone all the time. Even my friends. Sometimes I want to be an unreachable motherfucker and be left the fuck alone and not feel pressure to respond to a fucking meme or whatever.

>>714468432
Nobody owes you anything pal, not even friends.
Like I said it sounds like you just had some shit friends. That sucks. But now you know that putting in all this effort to make people like you doesn't pay off. You gotta be yourself and if people don't appreciate your company than fuck em, you don't need em.

Playan Elden Ring (it's so fucking long...)
Also just bought Subnautica and want to finally beat Slay the spire with The silent

>>714468519
>I want to be an unreachable motherfucker and be left the fuck alone and not feel pressure to respond to a fucking meme or whatever.
fucking this

>>714468519
you're right, ghosting someone you've known for 20+ years entirely without a trace is much better

>>714467840
that's true to some degree, I've had positive experiences here but anons will very easily take the path of least resistance and use /v/ as a way of venting and dumping their emotional problems on the rest of us. The so called "tranny" anons (not all of which are actual trannies, more like vulnerable covert narcissists).

I wish more people understood that mutually beneficial interactions are objectively the best type of interaction between 2 humans, and there are many examples of such interactions in humanity where 2 people meet and both obtain more than they've invested in the interaction, but as a formerly blackpilled anon I don't blame them, it's very easy to seethe and turn into a drama queen tranny. Most of the work that needs to be done has to be done by (You).

>>714468432
NTA but stop with the bitterness, it's poison and becomes an addiction at aome point.
You're not in school anymore. You most likely wouldn't even like those people anymore anyways since 99% of friends grow apart.

>>714468510
But I'm telling you you can do it, even if you've never done it before. You don't think you can, but you actually can. Start trying to INCH towards that realization. Don't be so down on yourself. Absolute retards can work jobs and have wives and families and support themselves, and you're a SMART retard. You can do it, it's just scary and weird but you'll figure it out. Just put in some effort and thought towards the idea. Use it as motivation to push yourself out of your comfort zone little by little.

Replaying BOTW on Switch 2, while lazily going through Mario Kart, Welcome Tour, and a second run of Cyberpunk. Also fell in love with both Clair Obscur and Bayonetta Origins earlier in the year. Planning on scooping Dankey Kang, Shadow Labyrinth, and Kunitsu Gami next month. I'm eating pretty good this year. I also joined an orchestra that plays vidya music. I freaking love video games, even after 30

>>714468596
I'm not making a judgement call on your life or situation, but I am on that sentence because it drives me up the fucking wall to be pestered with nonsense. I get it. Some people love to fucking chat. But I get chatty 1% of the time. I can go weeks without sending someone a message and yet they're my closest friends.

So, I guess I'm not normal in the regard that I don't really care about other people all that much unless I actively interact with them. As in, I can go years without talking to someone and not see anything wrong with it but that's abnormal? I don't feel any different towards them and I'd still take a bullet for them even if I haven't talked to them in a long time but nobody else really seems to understand my point of view. Maybe it's because of the childhood neglect I faced when I was younger? Or that my mom moved constantly and I moved around 50 times before I was 18 so I never really had any long lasting friends? I don't even know how to be a friend

>>714468486
I try out a lot of stuff but the vast majority doesn't really grab me. To be fair, it's the same with books and movies. Maybe I'm just a snob.

>>714468626
high school was the last significant thing that happened in my life that you could consider a milestone
that was 10+ years ago
I've literally been hiding in my bedroom away from my parents screaming for my entire life

>>714468596
You cant know if they started doing drugs, trooned out, went insane, found jesus or joined some other religion/cult.

>>714468634
putting in effort doesn't magically give me the money for a car and mandatory car insurance payments that are mandatory for me to be able to function in society and even get a job to get money in the first place

>>714468601
The internet is serious business anon.
even the mean stuff people say on here, even if they mean it. What does it even equate to other than retards arguing about dumb shit? We can all be nice to each other, but even when we're fighting or calling people slurs, is it really THAT bad? I think it's kinda nice that we can do that and act like assholes to each other with zero repercussions, but maybe I'm just a sociopath. I don't mean any real harm in it, I just think it's funny to bullshit with people.

>>714468701
Well that's just your fault at this point.
If you sat in your room crying for a day I'd just call you a faggot for missing your fag friends.
But now it's just you being self destructive.

>>714467319
>one of the biggest exceptions dr dr
It wasn't uncommon for games to have bugs and glitches. Vtmb is only famous of the amount of them

>>714468659
> I can go weeks without sending someone a message
I'm literally just asking for the two people I thought were my niggas to do even the bare minimum to maintain a lifelong friendship
instead one completely disappeared and the other completely disappeared until they randomly texted me asking for hundreds of dollars for rent years later and when I said no completely disappeared again

>>714416350 (OP)
I'll be 30 this year
Still enjoying video games
Still doing my own thing
Still thriving
Still smiling

>>714468729
You're close to piecing it together. That effort can help you find a job that will help you pay for the insurance. Listen I know it's not easy. Many people are struggling. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. You like challenges in your games right? You like HARD difficulty right? Well then play the fucking game! You can do this shit, it's a job. You're overthinking it. If you wanted a job, you could go out and find one. Maybe it wont be great, but there are jobs where you dont need prior experience and even agencies that will help line you up with one. And if that doesnt work out you can find another. I'm just saying you can do it.

>>714467290
I enjoyed them too, those are some good examples.

>>714468372
42
Having more fun with vidya and life than ever
Quit moaning and fix your shit anons

>>714468818
>until they randomly texted me asking for hundreds of dollars for rent years later and when I said no completely disappeared again
Literally drug addicts.
Why are you not happy that you missed out on druggieshit?

>>714452271
it's a way of making it cuter

>>714468818
Shit sucks man, but you gotta put it behind you. At least they didn't try to kill you, or your loved ones or something you know what I mean? Fuckers like that exist. So be glad the worst they did was break your ol heart. You're better off without people like that in your life, remember that

>>714468839
On the night of your 30th birthday, a wizard will visit you in your sleep, and cast a spell that gives you backpain, bellyfat and GERD.

>>714468818
Anon, you know the thing about childhood friends? You didn't pick them rationally. You were a fucking idiot kid in a tiny array of people. A friendship of happenstance. The overwhelming vast majority of people do not keep friends from elementary school, because the chances you made friends with someone as a child with undeveloped views on the world from the tiny pool of people around you who then grows up to stay consistent with you is ridiculously tiny. Every friend you have while you're still in school is a temporary friend, most likely, and it's exceptional to be otherwise. Make some fucking internet friends already.

Holy fuck this thread
These threads use to be comfy
Pic rel asap

>>714468372
>>714468898

Based got-it-together anons. looks like this place is just a glorified /adv/, but I try to help these suckers when I can. You guys remind me of me when I was more depressed. I'm better off these days, not great. Not gonna say I made it, still need a lot work, but I'm working on stuff. You other guys will be alright if you just keep your head up.

>>714468919
that piece of shit hit me with gout too
joke's on him I still slurp shrimp

I wish I could stop thinking. How do I stop? It's fucking retarded and I have to fight myself every single day. It's exhausting and it's been going on for 15+ years. I just want to be able to fucking relax. I am my own worst enemy and I feel like I can't do anything about it. I certainly can't run away

>>714468754
I find banter funny too but I wrote that in response to the anon who complained about blackpilled anons who take demoralization to srs bsns levels and derail threads. And then there's the discord troons who turn it into a full time job

>>714469021
if you've done it for 15+ years it will take a while to break the habit
at least a few months

>>714469021
Unironically go to therapy and get medicated to deal with your anxiety if it's that bad.

I may have posted without getting to the end of the thread, what in the hell anons. Make some short term goals. Clean your kitchen. Make yourself a home cooked meal and do some laundry or something. Small things that keep the space around you in order help keep your brain from scrambling.

>>714416350 (OP)
Took the arcade pill recently. Realized that arcade games are the peak of gaming. Playing Gradius V and Arcaea. I'm towards the end of God of War II and might not finish because it's a shitty movie game. Primarily into PS2 emulation lately

>>714468919
I've had that since 15

>>714468475
Project DIVA and Rift of the Necrodancer.

>>714468771
Yes, being born mentally ill to an abusive family that is poor because they're so fucking retarded they knowingly made every bad financial decision they ever could is entirely my fault
When you turn the arbitrary age number the government decided you are magically an adult and everything is your fault now and you deserve all your suffering and need to pull yourself up by le bootstraps while your mom is getting so shitfaced she falls over and severely hurts herself and your cancer ridden dad who never saved a penny in his life and can't work anymore is trying to fight her to put her busted arm in a sling while she spits on him and calls him worthless and I have to call 911 to get her in a fucking ambulance meanwhile she was supposed to take care of my dad when he's about to go through this radical cancer treatment that might make him mentally incapable and meanwhile I'm just in the middle of all this not even being treated like I exist because I'm autistic and my only coping mechanism for my absolute nigger life since I was a child getting hit by my dad and having him force my door open to hit and yell at me because I did something in a way he didn't like or wasn't """"""normal"""""" enough is putting a pillow over my head in my room cuddled in a ball and never saying anything because I can't communicate properly and my retarded dad can't either because he's also autistic and doesn't even believe mental illness exists and yells at me when I take the initiative to clean the busted tile kitchen floor the cat puked on because I delayed him getting a cup of water by 1 minutes instead of saying fucking thank you

I'm never talking to normalfags again, why are you all here on my outcast autistic weeb forum instead of on fucking facebook or wherever your kind leeched from like wet garbage seeping out of a bag?

>>714468852
Thanks bro. I found they all offered something pretty unique. I didn't like BG3 as much as the Divinity games but I still feel like it's worthy of an inclusion even if I honestly just hate Act 3.

>>714468781
>It wasn't uncommon for games to have bugs and glitches.
But you realize that it's a disingenuous argument to compare "bugs and glitches" to singleplayer games literally releasing, well now they call it "launching," with content/update roadmaps?

>>714468708
I can't know if they don't fucking COMMUNICATE
Why is everyone so fucking scared of COMMUNICATING
Why am I, the autistic anxiety riddled non functional shut in, the only fucking person in the world who ever tries to reach out and communicate with ANYONE????

>>714469123
everyone is born with some amount of problems
being burdened with those problems isn't your fault, but dealing with them is your responsibility.

I miss when this place was all fat neets, the fake positivity gym shit the normies spout is incredibly tiring

>>714469123
not your blog.

>>714469078
Therapy doesn't work for me. I can't even speak to therapists because I don't view them as actually caring. Even when I tried working around it by writing things down prior to going in, it still didn't do jack shit.

>>714468970
yeah that's why it's called "attraction"
this word is very apt
that's why autistically trying to force romantic relationships and friendships doesn't work
people either like you or they don't

>>714447415
38 and fap all day

but if im with a woman/hooker ill go soft due to anxiety

>>714468847
>If you wanted a job, you could go out and find one
you literally, LITERALLY cannot work where I live without being able to drive, and you are required BY LAW to have proof of insurance to even get a fucking driver's license
there is also NO PUBLIC TRANSPORT and NO SIDEWALKS on any of the roads and many roads have no crosswalks of any kind
explain to me how the hell you're supposed to deal with that, exactly

>>714452483
If you need a push, I can't stop playing Dredge, genuinely fantastic in every aspect, especially the core loops.

>>714468910
they were the only friends I ever had

>>714469173
Communication is a gay jew meme. All of the beta nerds who designed the current internet social media ecosystem predicated it on the axiom of frictionless oversharing to the world being a good thing. And now people are more fucked up and depressed than ever.

>>714469309
NTA but I enjoyed Dredge, still need to get the DLCs some time

>>714469296
>explain to me how the hell you're supposed to deal with that, exactly
Move

>>714416350 (OP)
I still play lol, mostly aram tho

>>714469021
if you're like me and your brain is racing at 1000 miles an hour constantly and you really struggle to break out of yourslef mentally and introspect weed will unironically help you immensely
it did for me, and it's actually enjoyable and doesn't ruin your sexual function like the shit therapists will push on you without telling you it does that

>>714469128
I liked how much content bg3 had and it was pretty immersive, it reminded me of old school rpgs and diablo clones (like Sacred) from the 2000s.

>>714469231
Most of them do actually care. Caring isn't binary though. There's degrees of giving a shit. I'll tell you right now you aren't a main character in the world so you really should lower your expectations on people giving a shit about you at all and realize that if a therapist even gives 1% of a fuck about you as a patient it's enough to help you with your problems.

But you won't ever, with anything, make any progress on yourself if you can't actually open up to someone about your problems, and if you can't do that to someone you're paying to do that as a neutral third party then who the fuck are you going to do it to?

>>714469184
and how is an abused mentally ill child supposed to deal with them, exactly?
you're asking someone with no legs to just get up and fucking walk while their own family keeps beating them with baseball bats

>>714416350 (OP)
I'm on a Metriodvania roll right now.
Last three games i've finished were Blasphemous, Blasphemous 2, and Ender Lilies.
I'm planning on finishing Ender Magnolia tonight.

I also tried playing Manhunt inbetween, but put it on hold at the moment. I enjoy stealth games in theory, but have to get into a proper mindset to finish them.

>>714469330
those apps are designed by psychopaths who hire teams of psychologists to come up with dark patterns and addictive systems that mostly boil down to social weaknesses like fomo, sex, envy, etc.

hope you gay whiny niggas get some fireworks and barbecue tomorrow

>>714469507
if you can identify yourself as a mentally ill child and whine about it on a mongolian basket weaving forum you can do more in your life than nothing

>>714469374
with what money? with what car? what means? how are you supposed to pay for all the essentials to live without a fucking income? do you realize how fucking insanely expensive and draining moving is?

>>714457687
Have a roough spot on index finger that could be a wart or fungus. I left a cotton swab soaked with apple cider vinger taped to the spot. The vinegar ate through my flesh over 8 hours till i felt pain and took it off. Had dissolved enough till i could see red. But after it healed, the rough spot came back. So i dunno what to do anymore . kinda crazy how it just dissolves your skin

>>714469123
>blogposting faggotry
Are you sincerely over 30? You sound like you’re 18. Boohoo, mommy and daddy are alcoholic subhumans. Well, nigga, why the fuck have you done to get out of there? Applied for government housing? Gotten a good education? Maybe a job? You’re so gay it’s crazy. You know what friends are? A privilege. You don’t deserve friendship. You get friendship from making a little bit of effort and presenting yourself as someone people want to be around. No one wants to be in the presence of some snivelling fag.

>>714416350 (OP)
Anyway I’ve been replaying Warhammer 40K: Space Marine in the remastered edition. Pretty good times.

>>714469507
just accept that being born forces you to deal with problems that you haven't caused, mostly because your parents wanted to have a few minutes of fun. The worst kind are the genetic ones. Like imagine being that crippled faggot who owned that alt chan. He broke almost every bone in his body and is confined to a wheelchair. Psychological ones are bad but at least you can deal with them given some time. You'll still need to dedicate a few years to that and yeah you'll miss out on a lot of stuff

>>714469440
It had quite a lot, I just loathed that Act 3 is both the biggest area of the game by a landslide AND the point where the plot has slid into the end game and pressures you constantly to not dick around and explore this giant city we just dropped you in. Drives me freaking nuts. The end of Act 2 could have just lead right into the final confrontation, or close enough. I much preferred the biggest areas being earlier in the games. Div OS1 might be my favourite just because getting dropped in Cyseal right at the start felt great to me.

>>714469550
i don't think they're going to do that anon, but they should. There's a bird with eggs living in our grill so I don't think we'll be grilling tomorrow.

>>714458703
when did it stop working ? i remember it was working for months after

>>714469431
>weed will unironically help you immensely
I haven't smoked since I was 17. I never wanted to but my best friends, my cousins, started to so I decided whatever. However, I made a hard decision that I will never break and that was that I'd never pay for weed. It also didn't help back then either. I still wanted to blow my brains out and that was 15 years ago.
>>714469464
> you aren't a main character
I've never believed or implied this.
>and if you can't do that to someone you're paying to do that as a neutral third party then who the fuck are you going to do it to?
I don't know and I've rarely done it. It doesn't help though. I can't fake being positive. Every time I'm positive or happy, something outside of my control ends up happening to me that brings me crashing down. It's an inescapable truth. No matter how much I try to not think negatively or be negative, something negative happens to matter what. There's nothing I can do. I'm started to feel like my depression is more of a disease that goes unnoticed by anyone except me

>>714469123
Just go to a good psychiatrist and take SSRI. Seriously this is the only good advice in the entire threads. Im sure schizo people here will tell you that psychiatrists are bad and poison your mind but that is just untreated schizo rambling.

>>714469341
It takes an especially good and fun time to get me to play lovecraftian games, in general I can't stand any of that nonsense, but it's such a relatively light touch and such an otherwise enjoyable game that I don't even think about it.

>>714469546
It's not psychologists. It's mathematicians that make the algorithms. The algorithms are designed to keep as many people as engaged as possible for as long as possible, because communication good data good human well-being unimportant. They a/b test each part of the UI and news feed and use the one that farms the most engagement

>>714469710
> I can't fake being positive
Bro who said fake being positive? You don't go fake shit to a therapist, tell them how you feel. Tell them your mind is racing 1000 thoughts a second and you feel anxious as fuck over every decision you make. Like what the fuck, just say the truth.

>>714469669
>IMG_
>redditbob
zoomer post

>>714469764
I have. I wrote down exactly what I was thinking and got nothing out of it. I was simply stating that I can't fake being positive

>>714469803
Therapists are humans, go to a different one.

>>714468919
Ironically enough, my stomach issues stopped being such a big deal once I turned 30. Don't know how or why that happened but I'm not going to complain.

>>714469679
well the US government just decided I'm not worthy of healthcare without working so I guess I'm not allowed to get help and try to slowly learn how to cope with integrating into a society violently hostile towards me
might as well blow my brains out and quit pretending there's any hope

>>714469830
I did that and I wasn't able to talk to her either

>>714469579
I've moved across the world several times. All it takes is a plane ticket and a personal item. Move to a place where you don't need a car. You will be able to save money that way. Delete your ego and go to work bro. Even when I was in your position with no walkability or buses I was still able to bike to the nearest mcjob. Get a job doing literally anything it doesnt matter

>>714469579
Walk, take a bus if you have a little cash, get a job washing dishes or doing manual labor and live in a hostel.
>do you have any idea
I've moved dozens of times, it's only expensive and draining if you allow it to be, or you have enough possessions to make it difficult, and if you do you could sell some of them for travel fare to a less suburban sprawled area.

>>714469736
DO NOT TAKE SSRIS
THEY WILL PERMANENTLY RUIN YOUR DICK
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8061302/

>>714469746
You realize that the computer scientists writing the algorithms are also psychology majors, sometimes neurochemistry dudes? Zuckerberg was all on psychology. They all understand the psychology of trying to waste as much of your time as possible and the lack of ethics that comes with, and they went forward with it anyway. Mathematicians solve fun little formulas for fun. "Computer scientists" come up with software that is supposed to extract money from you. You don't need to be einstein to vibe code this shit together. You just need a lack of morals and principles and a few code monkeys to string along.

>>714469846
I guess so retard, should have gotten a fucking job

>>714469764
I have no fucking idea how to even get set up with a therapist

>>714416350 (OP)
I was going to play old JRPGs like suikoden 2 before bed to relax wifh my tmj/jaw back and neck pain then I found black mold so now I'm sleeping on the floor and not playing videogames at 6am

>>714460139
its just people that had bad relationship with parents, trying to gaslight you to move out since you dont have to spend $800 a month on rent and it makes them seethe

>>714469896
>Two other syndromes have been described which appear closely related to PSSD. One is post-finasteride syndrome (PFS). First described in 2011, this occurs in young men taking finasteride to stall hair loss (Irwig and Kolukula, 2011). It also occurs with other 5-α reductase inhibitors – dutasteride and saw palmetto. Genital anaesthesia, loss of libido and sexual dysfunction are features of this syndrome. Initial finasteride treatment can produce some sexual dysfunction, but this is less common when compared with SSRIs. It is unclear if the sexual dysfunction that appears on treatment is continuous with PFS or distinct from it.

fear it, run from it, the norwood reaper comes regardless.

>>714469736
What is it, 60% of Americans are on some sort of SSRI now? And have depression rates gone down at all? No, they only go up, people get more depressed. At BEST this shit is placebo. SSRIs don't do jack shit, nobody is any less depressed but more people are on them than ever before.

>>714469945
On my matress*

To cope with pain I play JRPGs

Fuck me

>>714469879
>All it takes is a plane ticket and a personal item
I'm an autistic obsessive compulsive and the nice things I've bought like anime figures are the only thing that brings me joy in my life, I can't just leave that all behind
Also my dad is fucking dying of cancer and you want me to just leave??

Holy fuck
>>>/adv/ is that way
VIDEO GAMES

>>714469846
I'm an EUfag and I think that's how it works in most countries, even here. You have to work and pay taxes to afford healthcare otherwise you're left to starve and die of various health problems. I've never used public healthcare here, only private, but public healthcare does have its uses and it lowers the price of private healthcare through competition.

>>714469868
Go to another one. Keep going.

>>714469160
Most of these roadmaps contain fixes or cut content making it back into the game, so no
You can still play day 1

>>714469971
I asked my doctor about taking finasteride preemptively for hair loss and he said he didn't recommend it because of "male hormone side effects"
I'm (almost) 30 and my hairline is about the same as it was in kindergarten (high as fuck already) so if it gets any worse I'll just accept it and be happy I don't have to wash my longass hair anymore
I'm already an autistic virgin that women don't care about, why would going bald matter compared to my fucking dick not working which is the source of my happiness

>>714470001
Yes nigger you have to forget about your toys becuase your SURVIVAL is on the line. That's what he's telling you. Your father is going to die either way. Then you're going to be screwed. You said he's not leaving you anything? It's tough, but you gotta make your own way man. If you can't get a job at where you're at you need to go. If your family can't support you, then they'll understand. If they don't, oh well. You gotta make the hard decision to survive in this world, that's that. You can rebuy your anime figurines when you get a job and you're self sufficient again.

>>714469840
I have similar, I used to get excruciating pain in my intestines, like to the point it felt like someone was flossing them with razorwire, was basically bedridden from 25-33, but it's slowly getting better now. Did practically evey test and -scopy in the book, but they never found anything beyond mild allergic reaction to avian dander and tree pollen. It's bullshit that I lost the best years of my life living in constant agony, but it's nice to not hear the siren's song of an exit bag calling me anymore.

>>714469936
okay where? how?

>>714470001
Buy your sad some big ole fat mommy milkers before he dies anon

>>714469915
Psychology is something you read on the toilet. The people I met who worked at Google, Facebook, Amazon etc were all math people. Everything comes from a/b testing and the belief that "engagement=good". Some psychologist says xyz? Ok a/b test it and measure the engagement. Some psychologist predicts that abc is bad for engagement? Ok cool a/b test it anyway and measure the engagement.

>>714470023
>to afford healthcare
to gain access to (public) healthcare*

>>714469943
It's actually not very easy unless you threaten to kill yourself (which comes with some downsides of its own) but just look around for any form of mental health services or counselling. Ideally you want to see a psychiatrist, not a psychologist, if you actually know you're struggling with something like anxiety, depression, ADHD etc.

>>714470009
Threads at bump limit, it's over.

I always knew that these zoomers crying about boomers were going to have an existential crisis the second they neared the big 30. Most of the people crying in this thread are 28-29 so it makes sense. They're just trying to cope with growing up in the decline of western society is all

>>714470023
America has no public healthcare at all and going to a doctor for anything or needing any type of medications will literally bankrupt you with no recourse
America is a fucking shithole

>>714470001
If he's not leaving you shit you don't owe him shit. You didnt consent to being born. Sell your funkopops and try to be a man. Nothing you're freaking out about is worth dying over.

>>714470162
You clearly don't know about BF Skinner's studies on social conditioning. These people know how to create a skinner's box to keep you occupied wasting your time, giving you the little boost of dopamine at the exact right time to keep you glued to the screen. That's the type of psychology I'm talking about. Behavioral psychology, and it's very real.

So anyways I am playing Suikoden 2 and it's pretty great.

>>714470156
try down the street and going inside

>>714470219
Unfortunately

>>714469746
that's applied math, not real mathematics. Real mathematics has nothing to do with manipulation and engagement, it just gives applied mathfags nice tools to use, and those tools are then used by other people. Sociologists and psychologists collaborate with mathematicians, programmers, etc. and they come up with these systems and they rely on studies and continuous testing and experimentation.

>>714470303
hell yeah dude

>>714470162
>yeah bro people aren't socially manipulable. it's just made up. like, making buttons different sizes makes no impact on perception, let alone anything more complicated than that.
this thread is for 30+ bro, not 18 year olds who are very smart.

>>714470148
I would rather die than leave behind the only things in my life that have made me happy and given me a place that feels like my own for the first and only time in my life after I cleaned up 15+ years worth of filth and garbage my parents put in my room because I wanted to display the cute girl figures I bought properly without them getting fucking filthy because no one in this goddamn house has ever cleaned anything except for me

>>714468432
no one will ever disagree with you that that's a crummy thing to go through
however, what are you gonna do about it

>>714470219
>going to a doctor for anything or needing any type of medications will literally bankrupt you with no recourse
Just be healthy bro

>>714470212
I'm not unsympathetic but mods have been deleting 30+ threads lately so don't wanna give them more reason to do so

We should make 40+ tbqhwy

>>714470321
there's nothing but suburbs for miles down the street

>>714470219
greatest and richest country in the world
and don't worry that tons of people voted for a billionaire twice because he said he was totally for the working man

>>714470338
I really like this girl and her hedgehog.

>>714470285
>These people know how to create a skinner's box to keep you occupied wasting your time, giving you the little boost of dopamine at the exact right time to keep you glued to the screen.
But that's what you want. You specifically tune in to these programs to be entertained in that way.
There is no benevolent video entertainment, its all, by design and by consent, "wasting your time".

>>714470364
And imagine if one day, your house burned down?
Well right now it's burning down in slow motion, and you're not gonna be able to put out the fire. You're going to have to get up and move either way if you want to survive. If you're content on dying, then I'm not gonna try and talk you out of it. All I'm telling is if you want to survive, you will find a way, and human's survival instinct is very strong. Either way, you'll figure it out even if it seems scary now.

>>714438112
culture decay due to moderation's fault + no willingness for users to engage positively
storytime, the most active place on the website was on /vt/ pre-hack
the most active general, which was for a vtuber corp that prided itself on positivity and reflected in the anons posting there, left to their own altchan after the hack when they learned that mods were biased against them because they liked a different company's vtubers and refused to moderate their thread from a handful of dedicated schizos that hated their popularity and positive attitude, calling it forced and 'reddit'
as a consequence of their exodus, /vt/ is now dying and is only full of dramatourists, numberfags (think steam chart thread retards but for livestream viewer counts) schizos and stragglers

>>714470364
pack your little girl figures into a box and take it with you
really, stop making excuses though

>>714470463
to be fair, numberfags and dramafags were always the worst part of that board.

>>714470461
I scream and punch the wall if I bump into my shelf and knock something slightly out of alignment
I am obsessive compulsive, I am MENTALLY ILL, not in a fucking meme way this shit tortures me every fucking moment of my life when I do ANYTHING and I am extremely protective of my possessions and care about them a lot because nothing else makes me happy

>>714470364
then perish

>>714468601
trauma dumping here is mostly inconsequential because anonymity means you have no real emotional investment towards the anon trauma dumping (they're not a girl you want to get in the pants of so you have to listen to her drivel)

that said, many people here do have legit problems and while it's okay to vent, it's also good to take note that if you're not going to offer words of advice, you can at least take their venting as food for thought, what did they do wrong, don't go wrong in the future

>>714470367
be a miserable and fucked up human being because of my uncontrollable circumstances
just like with my family

>34
>severe chronic pain
>can't play vidya for more than hour without my hands feeling like they're on fire.
>can't stand for more than 20 minutes without getting severe foot pain
>handholdless virgin
>NEET for 6 years
>can't get a job
I still live with my parents but once they're gone I'm fucked

>>714470285
They converged on it by happenstance through testing. They didn't give a fuck about psychology initially.
>>714470337
You don't know shit about math lmao. Do you even know what a study is? There's a control group and a test group. The big tech companies do more "psychological" studies in a single week, using the data they harvest, than some dandy psychologist fag does in his whole career. And they don't even care about the psychological angle at all, all they care about is engagement

>>714470442
When someone makes a (good) music album, it's not made in a way like "oh man we gotta keep this guy listening because if he turns away we're gonna lose a bunch of money!"
Not everything is made with the intent of engagement. Some stuff just exists as a form of human expression, as a means of entertainment. Yes social media is a waste just like watching some shitty reality TV show is a waste, but not all "entertainment" is created equally. A good book for instance, is not designed with algorithms to keep you engaged. Some person and his editors put a clever amount of time to tell you a good story that would stand on its own merits, not using psychological tricks to try and keep you engaged, at least not knowingly! That's what makes those stories special, that's what makes art in general special. Comparing social media to something great that someone created isn't the same thing. It is made with one intent: to keep you engaged so they can extract money from you via advertisements. Most artistic visions don't follow that principle.

>>714470551
You're why I'll never forgivr Reagan for shutting down mental asylums.

>>714470463
Wait, what company are you talking about?

>>714470551
>I am MENTALLY ILL
So are a lot of people that work jobs. You'd be surprised how many regular looking people out there are actually complete fucking mental wrecks. Fake it until you make it anon. It sounds like bullshit but it's real. You will HAVE to get over your complexes if you are to survive, and when push comes to shove, you will force yourself to. I don't doubt you are extremely autistic and need support more than a normal person would, but that's how it is on this bitch of a planet. You will HAVE to find a way, and I'm telling you if you're here having this conversation with me right now, you have enough brain power and will power to make it on your own.

>>714470634
Good music is engaging. Its the same outcome.
The consumer comes to be engaged. Engagement is the service he's buying. This can be incidentally engaging product, because "its good", or engaging by design, because "its predatory", but its the engagement that is being sold, AND BOUGHT.

>>714469123
>Waah waah there's nothing I can do
Lmao sure thing champ. Keep on being a victim.
Have you considered trooning out? You seem the type

>>714470630
>Do you even know what a study is? There's a control group and a test group
This reeks of reddit.
>And they don't even care about the psychological angle at all, all they care about is engagement
That's not mathematics.

>all this self help bullshit in my comfy 30+ threads
Get out you normie fucks

>>714470593
I'm at the end of my work shift and I'm mostly done using my brain, and while I do want to say more things about this matter, maybe I can try.

I've cut off people in my life for not much.

>>714470727
You're not wrong.

>>714469329
Have some self respect, you dont even want some disgusting druggies as friends.
Be happy they didn't drag you down with them. Also it kind of sounds like they were gays for each other so that's also a possibility of why you didnt get invited to gay drug orgies

>>714470791
seriously
why are there so many normalfags here?

>>714470716
>who was hated for cultivating a culture of being positive
hololive
>which company the mods preferred
take a wild guess

>>714469123
You have to consider this also isn't the best place, since people here have a tendency to aggressively pounce on any bit of perceived weakness or vulnerability to feel more powerful. I wouldn't say normalfags are necessarily the problem.

>>714470835
Lack of Gatekeeping

>>714470835
Define a normalfag
do faggots crying about their sad lives make them normal? they all seem genuinely autistic to me. In fact, they probably make you feel pretty normal reading their stories don't they? like in the sense "at least i'm not that guy". Well let me break it to you, that means YOU'RE the normalfag!

>>714469341
Oh I need to play that just for a comfy timewaster on a second screen while I shitpost or watch something

>all these whiny 'woe is me' narcissistic fucks ITT
Jesus christ, I can't believe I'm the same age as you

>>714470791
this

>>714470113
>You can still play day 1
Stalker 2 comes to mind. But again, you are comparing games in a bad technical state to, what has been my argument from the beginning, companies releasing games that are so far from finished that they are basically still in active development and won't be complete for years.

>>714471038
>Oh I need to play that just for a comfy timewaster on a second screen while I shitpost or watch something

>>714470934
no, normalfags are the problem
I don't care about aggressive brown shitposters, they are easy to ignore
normalfags who were born with a spoon in their mouth and can't even comprehend things like having a terrible family trying to give dogshit normalfag "advice" unprompted are a fucking blight and don't belong here
you have retards in this very thread talking about how they hate anime and japan on fucking 4CHAN and no one even cares enough to shitpost them off the board
it's sickening watching a place I called home die

>>714471037
I'm the one writing those stories normalnigger

>>714470727
Before the current slop era there was the old school arcade mentality where your game had to be the most creative and fun to get the quarters. But then after enough time different companies started to try different things. It all came apart in the early 00s. The companies who had inspirational game designers tried it their way and the cinematic movie games tried it their way. God Hand got a 3/10 and God of War got a 10/10. Then God Hand flopped and God of War was a best seller and it just started to spiral out of control from there. In the early 00s there were countless examples like this.

Games stopped being made for gamers and started being made for reviewers. The average consumer's skill is brought lower and lower and the slop spirals out of control. Now we are in a position where there is no financial incentive to innovate or create a great game, and nothing in the foreseeable future, besides a crash of AAA gaming, would fix it.

>>714471092
It's funny, because they way you talk is entirely different from how "oldfags" talked on this site.

I swear people would see this stuff and claim it's reddit or normie central. Stop taking it so seriously. You're not that cool bro, you never were, and you're STILL a fuckin newfag!

>>714469579

do you have friends or relative you can move with, rent together?

>>714471132
So your definition of a non-normie is someone who is more miserable than you?
If someone is able to even pretend to have a smidgen of happiness, or try and offer some helpful advice, they're a normiefag? Listen faggot, I was trying to be nice to your whiny ass. Abusive families are far more common than you think. Many people cope with them and learn to deal with it, you're not special. You're not special for being a whiny faggot, people like you are a dime a dozen online. I could open up reddit and there'd be a million faggots crying an identical sob story to the bullshit you've been crying about all day but refuse to do anything about. You're a nigger and you can go fuck yourself.

>>714470727
It is a good thing I'm not paying for anything.

>>714469296
i wfh monitoring a companies social media during graveyard shift. I only have about 1hr of actual work over the 9 hour shift. I don't own a car

>>714471176
I was talking like this on newgrounds and other random forums
I just didn't know 4chan existed then because I grew up in a technologically illiterate household

>>714471037
We've had the definition established quite a long time ago, don't act stupid.

>>714471074
weak shit, I have work on my 3rd screen

>>714471275
no
all my relatives are 70+ years old
having kids in your 40s should be considered child abuse

>>714471173
>Now we are in a position where there is no financial incentive to innovate or create a great game
Except those are the only games that stand out among a sea of mediocrity. There are indie games being made by one person and they continue to sell just by being fun games by themselves. Look at fucking Stardew Valley man. It's not even taht good but people keep buying it. I could list you dozens of other examples. If you make a shit game, nobody is gonna buy it, that's the incentive. Make something that actually resonates with people, and it can be some retarded shit like Undertale and you can make a gorillion dollars. That's the reality doomers don't want to accept. THOSE are the people carrying the industry right now. Most of them don't even expect success. A lot of them are just passionate developers who want to make games inspired by the games they loved, that's it. And sometimes, if they can actually pull it off decently, it spreads via word of mouth. You can market the shit out of a turd but if it's shit, nobody is gonna tell their friends to play it overand over again.

>>714471290
if you cannot tell the difference between real advice and normalfag "advice" you need to delete yourself from the internet and preferably real life

>>714471398
and how do you get a job like that?

>>714471597
search for remove tech support jobs. good luck competing with 10000 pajeets

>>714471054
its the r9k mindset like wallowing in their self pity for instant validation rather than trying to improve their life or situation, like a fat guy talking about dieting for the 3rd year in a row

>>714471398
I can't imagine a job like that would even qualify for healthcare in the future. Same goes for a lot of online stuff

>>714471570
The indie games are an anomaly. These are the games fhat actually sell:

Best-selling video games in the United States in 2024, by dollar sales
Characteristic Rank
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 1
EA Sports College Football 25 2
Helldivers II 3
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero 4
NBA 2K25** 5
Madden NFL 25 6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) 7
EA Sports FC 25 8
Elden Ring 9
EA Sports MVP Bundle 10
Hogwarts Legacy 11
Dragon’s Dogma II 12
WWE 2K24** 13

You think bo6 sold the most because it's good?

>>714471452
>>714471572


Nobody is telling you to go to a party. Nobody is telilng you it's wrong to like anime. People were just trying to help the autistic people cope with their parents dying. I've been a NEET for close to ten years now. I've been on 4chan for near 20 years. I don't post on reddit or whatever. I don't have real friends, I haven't had a job in ages. I don't really think I'm a normalfag, I was just trying to be helpful. A lot of advice is just shit and unhelpful, that's the reality of it. But when people say those things they're just trying to help even if it comes off as being out of touch. I'm an autistic anxious mess but there are ways to cope with it. Best of luck to you anons.

>>714471860
>The indie games are an anomaly.
We have so many examples that it's not an anomoly, and no, I'm not going to list it out, but it's a huge market, especially for the people involved. When you're a solodev and you walk away with all the profits, and you don't have employees to pay, it turns these nerdy guys into multimillionaires practically overnight, guys like Toby Fox, Notch, and so on. Balatro was literally one of the best selling apps on the iPhone app store. It's not an exception. These games sell a lot. Stardew Valley is STILL topping on the charts on practically every platform, it is nuts.

There are indie games that have sold more than Helldivers 2 man lol. There are indie games that have sold more than Elden Ring. They are hard carrying the market and will always exist because anyone can code a passion project out of their basement and in fact it's easier to do than ever. Bloated AAA garbage is going nowhere and those companies need to reduce the size of their teams if they're going to survive.

>>714471860
the saddest part is that all the sportslop became gacha/skinshop

>>714471869
There is no need to "cope" about any of it.

>>714471712
Sometimes there isn't any clear way to help aside from "go back in time". What advice am I supposed to offer to all of the people losing their jobs from AI?

>>714472012
indie success is worse chance than winning a lotto - there are ~40 new games every day, so no matter if you make a good game no one will notice it, while random derivative garbage makes a bank just because some popular streamer played it

>>714472012
In terms of gameplay Retro>indie and in terms of money AAA>indie. They're in no way carrying the market. You're living in a bubble if you think that

>>714472061
Nba2k used to be a good series but its now unplayable due to microtransactions. I imagine the rest of the sports games are similar

>>714472120
you dont die when you lose your job, retard
find a new career path

>>714471054
vulnerable covert narcissists aka trannies, chuds, incels

>>714472120
who sold all your jobs to china and india

>>714473165
The only thing we're missing here is death cultists peddling their religion of choice.

>>714472360
Many such cases. Never shoulda let developers get away with even going so far as monetizing skins.