How old is too old to be playing video games? I'm 37 and feel like I should be doing more with my life.

>>714776861 (OP)
I'm sure if I did more with my life, video games would evolve with me.

>>714776861 (OP)
If you are 30 or older and still have no kids or wife its literally and unironically over
t.37 year old single millenial

>>714777104
what exactly is over?

>>714776861 (OP)
Y'know this isn't a video game issue...Anon
But to answer your question, no it isn't.

>>714777230
It (1990)

>>714777104
Some people get old and video game mechanics from 20 years ago are still popular.

Other people get old and mechanics are invented EVERY DAY to keep them from leaving the hobby.

>>714776861 (OP)
18

>>714776861 (OP)
>I'm 37 and feel like I should be doing more with my life.

Like what? Everyone else just works until they're old and then they die. What do you wish you were doing?

>>714777432
going to school perpetually

>>714777230
your life chances.

>>714776861 (OP)
16 is the cutoff point since its the age you should start having sex and having you're life figured out

>>714777475
>going to school

Which school are you talking about? My high school experience was horrible.

>>714777542
Sucks to be you.

>>714776861 (OP)
Like fucking what? Travelling? Fishing? Getting screamed at by a bitch wife and hating everything? You can do all that and more in a video game.

>>714777432
list the top 10 things you want do do before you die.
if there is nothing in the list that just shows you're braindead due to video games

>>714777681
It does suck to be me. You don't understand at all. Not only did I sit by myself in high school, but 4chan (in 2025) feels exactly like high school did. I don't like a single person, and so I'd sit by myself. This thread is only 10 minutes old, so the NPCs aren't enjoying the board either.

>>714777741
I'm not braindead, and I'm just realistic. I'll be doing the same thing every day until I die. If you want to know what that is, look where we are. I'm filtering this thread now.

>>714776861 (OP)
Fuck all that shit. So long as your future is secure, do what you enjoy. Life is too short to not indulge in what you find enjoyable. 42 this year.

>>714777718
see
>>714777741

>>714777542
High school sucked for me too. I didn't get a physical gf until junior year, didn't lose my virginity until senior year, mom never let me join any sports, had two jobs; one at a museum and another at a shoe factory: had to join every other extra curricular program they would let me as a result... it was like Rushmore all over again.

>>714777782
Kwab

>>714777718
pressing buttons is not the same as travelling to the worlds best places. you're clearly retarded

>>714777539
This is bullshit, I know plenty of people who didn't have sex until college. I have no idea how you can make it through your early 20s without getting laid though, it's easy mode then.

>>714776861 (OP)
The problem is that you're not doing other things besides playing games.
Actually, if you do the math you are probably spending more time in this board than even playing games.

>>714777927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

>>714776861 (OP)
No such thing as too old.
I'm 31. Homeowner, married, and parent. Inweaseled my way into a day job that's WFH and I'm in the top 4% earners for my age group. I can't really earn more. I'm dabbling in some consulting gigs but they aren't paying very much because the economy is shit.
With the free time I have (not that much) I do game since it's a hobby I like and I'm doing what I need to otherwise.

>>714777927
The world's best places aren't worth travelling to.

How old is too old to watch roided out grown men hit a ball with a stick? Or run around a football field? Or spoon on an mma mat? For me it's 16. If hitting a ball with a stick gets boring at 13, you might be a genius. And if you pay to watch it and your kid isn't playing, you might be retarded.

>>714777510
Ok, so then just quit life right?

>>714778186
yes

>>714776861 (OP)
Imagine pushing 40 and asking for life advice from teenagers on the internet. Genuinely kill yourself.

>>714777104
It's only over when you give up, retard. You're using the failures of your past to justify persisting in your failure. "Oh, I missed the boat, guess I'll just give up!" You could fix this, and yet here you are.

>>714778234
Ok. So when are you killing yourself then?

>>714778352
nta but im waiting for zoomers to take over the world so i can experience the world going to shit, then i will be able to say
>"i was right, fucking zoomers"

>>714776861 (OP)
as you get older you need to cultivate a level of maturity.
When you don't have it and you grow in age you become a faggot who only has opinions based on the environment they're in.
Ask yourself this if you didn't see other people supposably happy with their life choices would you have question your own. Tl;dr you just have f.o.m.o

>>714776861 (OP)
The "too old to play video game" meme come from the 90's, where most people in their 30's hadn't played video games as children, so they had no connection whatsoever with it.
Now you need to be like 65-70 to be "too old to play video games".

>>714777510
chances at having zoomer kids addicted to phones taking your free time? lol
having kids in modern era ruled by corpos and ads is nothing to boast

>>714776861 (OP)
It's too old when you're not doing it for fun. Video games are a hobby, they're not a skill, they're not an achievement, it is purely for fun. The moment games you're playing or in general stop being fun, is the moment you're playing them out of compulsion, obsession and habit.

I'm 25 and I've reached a point where I'm not interested in video games much anymore and now I'm looking forward to having an adventure in real life. Starting a career, travelling and doing exciting things in the real world.
For Christmas I'm giving my little brother my PC and setup then I'm buying myself a steam deck just in case I get a bunch of downtime.

>>714778657
if zoomers are that bad, why do anons somehow think that having kids in modern era, kids who are of even newer gen than zoomers, is somehow a good thing? lol

>>714778754
>doing exciting things in the real world.
good luck with that, most things in the real world require a phone 80% of the time these days.

>>714776861 (OP)
Theirs a counterstrike team of retirees in their 70-80s
You're never too old to game out, man.
I was changing a hot water heater in this one dudes house and he was playing Rome total war, it was his first official day of retirement from being a math teacher and I've never seen someone so happy.

>>714777104
I'm 42 but didn't have my first kid til 39. It ain't over til your dead in the ground.

>>714778754
You'll soon realize the real world sucks and it wasn't the video games you had a problem with.

Your life starts at 19.
If by 30 you don't own your own place, have a wife and a kid coming soon then you failed at life.
There is nothing left for you to do except kill yourself.

>>714779185
>If by 30 you don't own your own place, have a wife and a kid coming soon then you failed at life.
I'm 35 and have my own place but no wife, I'm also a multimillionaire. Did I fail at life?

>>714777741
Women and gays are obsessed with spending all their money on travel to temporarily visit places. Not fun to me. I'll chill

>>714777104
my uncle is 42 and is only getting married now

>>714779185
This but 17 and unironically

>>714779185
My parent's divorce made me never want to get married. I also am incapable of trusting women for a long term relationship. At this point I'd rather just remain single.

>>714779338
Yes, your whole purpose in life was to reproduce, not to make a bunch of fake fiat paper.

Travelling is a meme, you're just going to a place where similar to where you are, with some tourist traps you will look at 15 minutes and that's it unless you go to bumfuck nowhere, where you will do some climbing and shit, but still just "observing" like a jew on saturday.
If you want to do something more worthy than "playing video games", you need to create, you need to actually change the world, even a tiny bit, you need to make something you did.
Can be children sure, but can be an army of mettaurs, or a game or music or whatever.
Preferably something that will outlast you so you don't just turn into ashes and disappear completely without any evidence of your existence.

>>714778657
That's cool anon, but that other guy not replying hopefully means he chickened out on the attempt and is now considering how dumb his premise is. If you miss out on chances, there's no point in regret anyways because you can't change the past. And other people don't know your past. They don't need to know. Make your current life interesting and you'll likely stop thinking about the stuff you missed out on. The only roadblock you're going to hit is just being behind on certain things, but you're going to be like that anyways, so might as well fix it now. Yea I know this is just a giant platitude but whatever. Chances are, if you think it's over now, you thought it was over then, and you'll think it's over in the future. The honest answer is you just don't want to do anything with your life.

>>714777306
I was born in 1990

>>714779338
Yes
>a castle with no subjects
>A fortune with nothing meaningful to spend it on

>>714779421
I can easily get a wife, though. A simple bar trip in my Porsche and I pull women EASY.

>>714776861 (OP)
I decided to get my degree and start a D&D group in addition to gaming. I thought I was ready to knock out my geneds on sophia and I could but as far as calculus goes they barely teach it, so im going to learn it on khan academy first but I already paid 100 bucks to sophia and I don't want to ask for a refund because I dont want to fuck things up for when I breeze through it next month reee

>>714779518
They will only ever see the money and not you, anon. Maybe that's enough for you though.

>>714777741
>you must do things
why? I'm happy right where I'm at.

>>714779686
>moving goalposts

>>714779518
All the good women are taken already
And no, 20 year olds with mental or daddy issues are not in that category
All the good 20 year olds are already dating/married to guy in their cohort.
You are getting the broken goods if you date young, and the used (and broken) goods if you date at your age or older at this age.

>>714777927
Traveling is nothing to boast about in the 21st century when literally every place on earth is reachable in comfort in less than 24 hours.

>>714776861 (OP)
Like what?
>>714779501
>get married
>lose it all to divorce rape

>>714776861 (OP)
You're never too old for video games. What you're actually going through is the weight of lack of purpose. Your biology is telling you something needs to change. Easier said than done, but if you can figure out some way to add some color to your life, that will go a long way. It doesn't have to be work either, especially if you're already taken care of financially. Don't fall into that trap if you have options. It's easy to guilt trip over feeling like a societal tumor, but the current work environment is unfathomably stilted and abusive anyway, only a faggot or troll would leverage that against you. No one with any sense would blame you for not participating if it was possible.

If you DO need money though, consider office technical support, not over the phone. It's technically a social job but it completely revolves around shit you probably already know how to do. If you're a social tard, just fake it. Fake confidence. Be easy to talk to and don't try to randomly bring up Touhou or some fuckin shit in a conversation. Even if you look like gregor, you'd be surprised how far even a facade of charisma can take you.

But the main thing is stop holding yourself to the standards your elders probably beat into your head. You can still understand the importance of work ethic while acknowledging how fucked shit is nowadays, and you'd be justified to not partake if you don't want. Just fuck it man. Whether it's a job or another hobby, do it. You may even enjoy video games again with those things in the cards finally. You just gotta get up and move around my man.

>>714776861 (OP)
Don't know, but 2025 is definitely the year to stop buying video games for many people over 30.

>>714777927
Dude everywhere is full of niggers and tourists now thanks to infinity migration all over the globe and tiktok influencers. You have to que at the top of mount everest now. Fuck travel.

>>714776861 (OP)
If you only play games, then maybe you should find another hobby on the side. I paint miniatures, do medieval reenactment, and shoot guns. Only need to get into model trains now and my waste of money would be complete.

>>714779796
you get what you're worth

>>714780053
There's no one on the east face of K2
go there

>>714779956
Thats more because the games are dogshit than time or age

>>714779886
>die
>money goes into the void because no kids to inherit
Same result at the end of the day. And before you mention wills if you're dumb enough to marry a harlot then you're dumb enough to forget to make a will.

>>714776861 (OP)
36 year old loner here, i just don't give a fuck

>>714776861 (OP)
I'm 38, two kids.
The only thing that changed with vidya is that I don't have time to play, and I have stopped running after modern shit to actually focus on my childhood vidya backlog (ETA: Iron era of the universe, fuck the PS1/SNES/MSDOS for having so much shit I skipped).
Also started making an actual vidya instead of giving up on the project after 3 months once the main gimmick is done.

So no, go for it Anon.
Vidya is forever.

>>714780423
Very based.

>>714780346
Then you choose the option that doesnt include years of misery in court dumbass

>>714780423
I get to feel like this sometimes, but I also remember there's someone out there that's always doing worse than me, and then you guys say that shits made up too.

>>714780423
based fellow 36 year old loner

ITT: retards discussing mid life crisis.

>>714780826
Better than discussing blatant felony charges.

I have the same feelings and it fucking cripples me everyday about the thought that I should be doing more but I just know for a fact that getting married and having kids, I’ll be even more miserable.

I turn 27 this year and all I've been playing lately is Mahjong and Dragon Quest 5 for iOS. I wish I was able to just not give a fuck and play games all the time while coasting around but I am married and not finished yet with college and I have a lot of student debt and the economy is bad and I don't know if I am going to get a decent job, yadda yadda yadda

That being said, it could be a lot worse. A friend of ours is about 29 and he got kicked out of his parents house and he lives at his grandparents place now instead. He plays games all day and keeps mostly to himself and doesn't go into the kitchen when someone is there because of the shame of leeching on his old grandparents.


All things considered, it could be a lot worse. You could be in Palestine right now.

>>714776861 (OP)
vidya should be an oldfag hobby if anything

>>714780971
>All things considered, it could be a lot worse. You could be in Palestine right now.
Tie me to a missile and fire me at Tel Aviv.jpg

>>714781026
Isreal could not tolerate Farfours call to the children of Palestine

>>714776861 (OP)
0 years old

>26
>never dated or had a gf
>reaching an age where people are beginning to settle down, dating is more about securing resources and a future rather than getting to genuinely know the other person
>missed out on the period of my life where dating is just fun and mostly carefree

it really sucks that even if I were to start dating now, there's no more wholesome, innocent walk in the park or ice cream dates, it's all "take me to an expensive restaurant so I can see how much money you have, and the first thing we're going to talk about is how much money is going into your 401k"

>>714780950
Kids are awesome but the whole last minute wife thing is the gamble.

>>714777104
its literally and unironically over because zoomers will have no kids at all, even 2nd gen migrants
the population collapse will be brutal

>>714781232
Video games were a white male hobby in the 90's.

>>714776861 (OP)
You have to draw the line for yourself, if you feel unfulfilled from vidya then you just have to find something else to focus on

Name a hobby filled with more self-hatred and habitualized shame than video games. You people love fucking demoralizing one another over this shit.

>>714776861 (OP)
Do what you want to make yourself happy, so long as it dorsnt burden others. Fuck anyone who says otherwise, tell them to mind their own business

>>714781301
Try to find a 20ish year old girl who works a basic job. They're more chill. Shoot your shot lik nigga. Don't go out like a chump

>>714777936
>I have no idea how you can make it through your early 20s without getting laid

by growing up glued to a phone screen with no social skills or desire to socialize irl - thats about 50% of young people these days (more like ~60% for boys and ~30% girls)
>teens in the same class dont hang irl out and only chat online

>>714781301
As long as they're pure NW European, never slept with a non white, have no tattoos and have a degree, then, literally what could possibly exist and be more valuable?

>>714781658
>Try to find a 20ish year old girl
You're gonna get him v& for being a "pedophile"

>>714780423
What kind of nihilist is this

>>714781301
>dating is more about securing resources and a future rather than getting to genuinely know the other person
that's my nightmare, no woman like that is ever gonna get my money, i'd rather give it away to some egirl in my online games

>>714781510
4chan as a hobby

>>714776861 (OP)
We do the best we can with the tools we are dealt. Try something else if you want to, or try to change your mindset and don't judge yourself according to some made up standards that you should be better.

>>714779006
Not trying to be a dick or anything, is your kid autistic? I've heard and read a lot about how having a child at an older age increases the chances of autism significantly.

>>714782523
Significantly is still tiny.

Aiiieeee we don't need 10 videos on what limits are!!! I'm on the clock here Sal!!!

>>714782523
That's just a meme
the rate DOUBLES from like .5% to like 1% or some other negligible number

>>714776861 (OP)
im a goddamn niggerfaggot

>>714782704
Why'd you take AB and not BC coward?

>>714782523
No my kids are normal. Wife is younger than me. Guys here exaggerate everything. I was concerned because of the shit I read but nah. Maybe I'm lucky but it's mostly mother's age that matters and you're pretty good if she's under 35.