PeopIe in the past looked and felt so much happier, healthier and enthusiastic when it came to games.

Everything backed then felt healthier and more joyful and optimistic. I pity people who didn't take full advantage of the time or were born too late to see it.

>>715095920 (OP)
What caused this to change? It's not just companies being greedy and making shitty games, it's a people problem. Everyone today is like a zombie. Is it porn/masturbation?

eat shit and die /pol/tard

>>715096715
Sitting and laying in one spot all day

>>715095920 (OP)
The medium and market catered to a narrower, more focused audience, but there was still sufficient variety to satisfy distinct tastes.

>>715096715
Social media, smartphones, the cost of basic necessities going up, the realization that all forms of media and life will get worse and become homogenized for further, inferior generations. Everyone who died before 2010 is probably the luckiest man or woman alive.

>>715096715
demoralization stemming from late stage capitalism. humanity isnt celebrated because it isnt profitable

>>715097405
>late stage capitalism
Shut up commie loser

There's really less joy in the world
That isn't me projecting my own views, it's me observing everybody else

I can take dogshit I never had any interest in like Michael Bay Transformers and Halo 3 and still objectively recognize that they brought people hype and joy and that doesn't happen anymore

>>715097302
>remember this comic from way back in the day
>agreed with it but thought it wasn't a big deal because most people aren't going to spend that much time on the internet anyway other than autists such as myself
>how many people spend all day at their computer lol this isn't gonna be a widespread problem

>>715096715
Smartphones fucked everything up

>>715097405
True, this wouldn't be a problem if Hitler had won

>>715096715
Yeah it's mostly a systemic problem caused by greed. We're living under "techno-feudalism", and we're the serfs, and we suffer.
>>715097405
Yeah I was about to mention late-stage capitalism when I saw your post. I deleted that part so I can reply to you.
The thing is "late-stage" implies there's something coming soon after, but there won't be. Capitalism is here to stay for decades unless there's a literal bloody revolution. Now it's techno-feudalism, with tyrants at the top who impregnate hundreds of women in-vitro to create a race of privileged world leaders and us poor niggers who work for breadcrumbs and die of brain cancer at 35 due to pesticides and shit like that. It's literally what's happening right now.
There's no late-stage capitalism, that would have been great but we're going to see the bad ending.

>>715097496
>PLEASE FUCK ME HARDER BILLIONARES

they hate you and want your grandchildren brown and arent going to share their wealth with you

>>715098219
Why the fuck are there always weird racist arguments from guys who will say abolish whiteness and borders in the next breath

>>715096715
Living in the decadence period before the fall.

>>715097496
Your lord will not save you

>they hate you and want your grandchildren brown and arent going to share their wealth with you
True. But commie shitbags like you want to murder me and steal my property, so basically I'm fucked no matter what.

>>715097778
Something to consider is that having a shared comradery and interest outside of the internet, wanting to go out and experience a movie or launch event is gone now. You truly need people to uplift one another and share positivity with even if you're an introvert or autist. I feel like that truly died sometime when capeshit managed to gain steam and truly ended before the pandemic hit.

>>715096715
People are horrified of being recorded saying something cringe so they keep cards close to the chest.
I'll post about whatever on here because it's anonymous. In real life you could not pry anything about my games out of me. I will say I play some shooters and street fighter (I play tekken) here and there and that is all you will ever get out of me.

>>715098617
i think youre being a little hyperbolic about commies wanting to kill you

>>715098318
It's like "political Tourette's". Even the bigoted ones are aware there's a solution, they have to come from somewhere even if it's fucked up.
It's a shame but it's not surprising.

>>715096715
twitter

>>715096715
social media
its just trendy to be miserable and hate everything

>>715095920 (OP)
The answer is always late stage capitalism.
>HURDUR COMMIE
Not really. Capitalism was pretty good during 1970~2000. Arguably the best years of humanity since BC years.
Been shit since then.

>>715098675
One time my boss asked me what kinda games I'm playing. Luckily Elden Ring had just come out so I had the most normalfag-friendly answer ready

>>715095920 (OP)
Because the hobby didn't hate them, there wasn't stupid bullshit like a 24 hour rumormill/hype cycle around games.
>Good game come out, buy good game, enjoy good game, hope they make another but if not oh well
>Go to nidnight releases and cons, meet people you connect with, bond and make new friends.
>>715096434
A lot did because things made sense
>Game pandered to audience that paid for game
>online lobbies let everyone talk and gave you tools to mute and block rather than ban people from games
>Buy game disc, own game disc, own game, only buy again if disc breaks
>Go to con, celebrate games, listen to stories and news about games.

What made everything joyless and suck is when people started attaching their non related bullshit to a hobby it ruined cons, when games pandered to an audience they thought existed and assumed their core base were so dumb they will buy no matter what games started sucking, when the business model became losing money in order to sell other shit or collect data and sell it the industry started sucking, when venture capital started buying up everything to run it into the ground strip all profit and then declare bankruptcy to get out of paying debts and have none of the decisions fall on that firm because "company failed, not the owner company telling them what to do" it fucked everything into the dirt.

>>715098809
it was mostly reagan's fault

>>715098749
Shut up gaslighter, you fuckers have already gone mask off. You're beyond the stage of pretending not to be barbarians, nobody believes it. We know what you are.

>healthier
>posts pimple face with glasses

>>715098896
i think youre being disingenuous and you are really into aesthetics more than a coherent world view that benefits you

So fucking sick of retards in their algorithmic prisons thinking they know shit about the world.
>notice how there's no more ducks in the world
>there used to be so many videos about ducks but I don't see any nowadays

>>715098896
How do you handle living in fear like that, bro.

>>715098981
Communism doesn't benefit me. Just need to ask my parents who grew up in the GDR whether they preferred it to capitalist united Germany

i'll tell you why. because you're being shown cherrypicked highlights of those times where all of these people had some or all of the following apply to them:
>they were young so no physical or mental issues from getting older
>their parents were young and working
>all they had to worry about is attending school and doing their homework
>they didn't have to feed themselves, pay bills, pay taxes. all taken cared of for them.
>naive. they're too young to yet understand the way the real world works.
>they are single with no kids
>their friends are still around and they seem each other daily

>>715095920 (OP)
With better glasses and haircut he'd be slaying pussies left and right.

>>715099040
I'm not afraid, I'm just calling out lies where I see them. I'll defend myself when the time comes, faggot.

>>715096715
Ignorance is bliss, and we live in the Information Age

>>715099035
This

>>715098919
That guy has a good chin and jawline. Hes probably married with kids and normalfagging it away, but without the glasses he looks fine.

>>715099214
I don't understand these demotivation attempts. Right guy still looks way better than if he was fat or skinny, so who cares

>>715099035
>>715099213
>>715099291
What really blows my mind is how every developed country is making up falsehoods about
>suicide rates skyrocketing
>birthrates plummeting
>economic mobility becoming nonexistent

I mean what do they gain out of making doomer shit like that up when in reality everybody's doing great and we're living in humanity's golden age right now?

Everybody I know is doing great. The census is just lying. It reminds me of 1936 in the USSR when the CIA snuck in and changed the records to make it look like there was a famine happening, even as Comrade Stalin was giving his speech about how everyone was fatter and richer than ever

>>715098660
>wanting to go out and experience a movie or launch event is gone now
>715097778
>I can take dogshit I never had any interest in like Michael Bay Transformers and Halo 3 and still objectively recognize that they brought people hype and joy and that doesn't happen anymore

IDK, I might go see Superman tonight.

That's comics and capeshit, though. I've never had a serious video game fandom. If I did, I'd probably be depressed about them. I'm content playing retro games and not bothering with Fortnite or COD.

Escapism always exists, especially when times are tough. Just go look for something.

>>715095920 (OP)
New technology is exciting. What relevant mainstream thing we got since smartphones? Shitty drones? Lol.

>>715098675
This happened to me yesterday. I'm a 42 year old ugly white guy, alone in the grocery store. I am checking out and the 20something kid bagger must have been in a talkative mood because out of nowhere asks me if I know who Charlie Kirk is and started talking about some online tiktok video, he literally pulls out his phone and shows me the video while I am standing there with my grocery cart. So I was patient and watched for a few seconds and asked him, "how do you feel about this? what do you think?" but as soon as I started talking he pulled the phone back and started typing on it, his body language made me unsure if he was even listening. Also I am not sure but maybe he was recording me? Probably not. So it ended up being somewhat awkward so I trailed off talking and then left. An unpleasant social encounter, I rarely leave the house as it is.

>>715099439
>Lifting for holes
You've already lost.

>>715099439
Nope. While some people just genuinely enjoy lifting, the point is usually to make yourself look good, but in his case it literally does not matter, he's ugly and he'll always be ugly and no amount of self improvement could change that. He might as well have just not wasted all that time and energy on vanity if that's what he was after.

>>715096715
>Porn/Masturbation
I keep seeing a weird push to equate porn as a societal problem and demonize videogames the same way.

I know thay isn't your point so I won't give you the lecture of "wow how strange that despite the generations that porn and videogames have been freely available, only once social media (a technology that openly admits to running psychological experiments on users) came about everything went to shit and a bunch of BAN PORN AND VIDEOGAMES became a cry from social media addicts and rightwing people upset men checked out after being told they were hated.

People are broken.
I don't have an easy fix cause talking to one another feels like walking on egg shells.
People care too much about shit that doesn't matter like politics and instantly shun and get weird.
Women don't have hobbies.
People think way too highly of themselves, and constantly shit on others.
No one gets jokes anymore.

I don't have an easy solution.

>>715095920 (OP)
this nerd phenotype is extinct

>>715099675
>>715099754
We all lift for women bro

>>715099754
the point of lifting is to make yourself feel good physically and mentally, and in some cases the get off on the idea hurting other people. if you lift for hole, you're going to be miserable because 20 something year old twinks will mog you with women if youre norwooding

>>715099754
>ask you why you're trying to le epically demotivate
>DEMOTIVATION BRO HE'S UGLY
Cool
He's ugly, which means liftan turned him from a 4/10 into a 5/10. Again, who fucking cares, can't change your face anyway
Nigger

>>715096715
Abuse.

>>715099754
But women do find him attractive, just not as lean as he is. That's why they're talking about the after photo, there's a before photo where has a bit more fat on him and there was a whole discussion about what women prefer and they by far preferred the fatter and still muscular version of him.

>>715099954
You're agreeing with me and don't seem to realize it, my low IQ friend

>>715100026
They'll sing a different tune when they're feeling his arms

>>715099505
>Everybody I know is doing great
Well, everybody I know is doing bad. I don't doubt the skyrocketing suicide rates for a second.

people were happier back then in general. the reason? they did not have smartphones.

>>715100058
>I say he did increase his attractiveness
>you said "it literally doesn't matter"
>these mean the same, because change != no change
Keep trying bro, I'm sure you will cause somebody to become depressed or whatever your goal is

Why do so many men blackpill themselves when they aren't immediately attractive to every woman on the street? If you're fit and mentally stable, you will find your niche of women who like you

>>715099784
>wow how strange that despite the generations that porn and videogames have been freely available, only once social media
Stopped reading there, you're retarded. Porn before the internet is not even remotely in the same league as the freely available mountains of HD internet porn destroying our minds today. Porn is horrendously damaging to your brain.
>I don't have an easy solution.
I have one: stop touching yourself and writing defensive paragraphs to convince others to touch themselves when someone suggests that porn is bad you coomer weirdo.

>>715100272
Internet says it's impossible to get a woman if you're not chad, sorry

>>715100229
What kind of doors do you think open for you when you go from a 4/10 to a 5/10? Genuinely nobody will give a modicum of a shit, it's wasted effort

>>715099784
Today's porn industry is the direct result of second/third wave feminism and the sexual revolution.

They can't admit that.

>>715100095
He wasn't fat fat in the before photo, just not as lean. There was a poll about what women and men thought better and women overwhelmingly preferred the bulkier version of him while men thought he looked better with less fat on him. It's fucking stupid who cares.

>>715095920 (OP)
Because the world wasn't brown and Chinese back then, both of which are miserable hateful spiteful and jealous of Whites and Japanese

>>715100272
An entire board obsesses over 3DPD and how society views them, this place is basically diet /b/ and /r9k/ now rather than a hangout for social outcasts who poke fun at such things.

>>715100272
and then shell immediately drop you when she finds a guy with more cash

>>715100521
why don't you have more cash?

>>715100272
>niche of women who like you
No one fucks down, anon

>>715100574
I put it all in stocks

>>715100465
>>715099784
>>715100281
In case you want a woman's view on this stuff instead of just blackpilled 4chan incels, there was a great article in the New York Times last month where a former editor of Playboy Magazine talks about how porn has ruined men

https://archive.is/Sxs5L

tl;dr
>men don't work for prestigious degrees anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead
>men don't get high paying jobs to impress women anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead
>some men stop interacting with women entirely to jerk off to porn, other men objectify and exploit women in one-night stands treating them like pornstars instead of dating or marrying them like they're supposed to

She describes a heartbreaking scene recently where she went to a high end restaurant and all of the patrons were women, either alone or in friend groups; she didn't see even one man there treating a woman to dinner.

>>715100272
There's been about 15 years of MGTOW propaganda that has seeped through the internet.

>>715100281
>Why is everything bad now??
>"men are masturbating! they didn't used to do that!!"
Yeah I'm just not buying it sorry

>>715100574
because people on the internet told me i didnt need it to find a girl

>>715100272
They're chronically online and addicted to social media. If you step out into reality, you'll see the most average and even ugly guys with wives and happy families. Then you show that to them and they say something like >>715100521
because they don't want to admit that they're just bitter retards who aren't even trying to look for a relationship.

>>715096715
Humans are not meant for 24/7 socialization and stimulation. Smartphones and social media are unironically to blame for this.

>>715100712
>In case you want a woman's view on this stuff
I don't care what women think or say about anything.

>>715100712
>retreated from intimacy
Yep, that's a woman alright

>>715100612
you can reasonably pull women within 1 rank of your own standing on the 1-10 scale.

if you are a 6, you can pull a 7 if you lock in

>>715100784
Okay christcuck

>>715100868
based

>>715100817
7 is a bit young for me, I'll take a 11.5

>>715100712
There is literally nothing wrong with the first two. You should pick degrees and careers because they're what you want to do, not because you hope a woman will get wet when you tell her you're a financial analyst making 300k a year.

>>715099784
>I keep seeing a weird push to equate porn as a societal problem and demonize videogames the same way
it's convenient morality and an easy target. the people who push for porn ban would not tolerate their own sex lives being regulated.

>>715100735
Try not masturbating for a month and see how different you feel. If you still don't buy it, fine. Otherwise you're talking out your ass.
>"men are masturbating! they didn't used to do that!!"
Way to put words in my mouth.

>>715100712
>>men don't work for prestigious degrees anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead
>>men don't get high paying jobs to impress women anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead
do women genuinely not understand that porn is a symptom not the cause?

>>715101038
>woman goes on tinder to have sex with strangers 3 times a week
>"ugh where have all the good men gone"

>>715100712
>In case you want a woman's view
I don't , not going to read but I'm guessing whatever it is is going to be how it doesn't specifically benefit herself.

>>715100712
Good. Women are not entitled to my love.

>>715100990
Then you're abdicating your responsibility to women.

>I remember when part of heterosexual male culture involved showing up with a woman to signal something — status, success, desirability. Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men. It wasn’t always healthy, but it meant that men had to show up and put in some effort.
>That dynamic has quietly collapsed. We have moved into an era where many men no longer seek women to impress other men or to connect across difference. They perform elsewhere. Alone. They’ve filtered us out.

>>715096715
Wanton use of SSRIs is the problem. Look up the symptoms and side effects of SSRI use/abuse.

>>715100750
Most people don't socialize 24/7 on phones. But the stimulating thing? Yeah thats whats bad and its because everything is immediately accessible at any given point in time. In 2002 if you wanted to go home and see what was going on in some forum or play your games you had to sit through school or work and that made you appreciate it more. Now everyone can click away on a passcode, shitpost on reddit or 4chan, look up video clips devoid of an adblocker or record some shitty tiktok video.

>>715101038
She literally worked for Playboy corporate management bro, she knows her stuff
>We knew what worked. We knew how to frame a face, a gesture, a moment of implication — just enough to ignite fantasy and open a wallet. I came to understand, in exact terms, what cues tempt the average 18-to-36-year-old cis heterosexual man. What drew him in. What kept him coming back. It wasn’t intimacy. It wasn’t mutuality. It was access to stimulation — clean, fast and frictionless.
>In that world, there’s no need for conversation. No effort. No curiosity. No reciprocity. No one’s feelings to consider, no vulnerability to navigate. Just a closed loop of consumption. What struck me most wasn’t the extremity of the content; it was the emotional vacancy behind it. The drift. The way many men had quietly withdrawn from intimacy and vulnerability. Not with violence or resistance, but with indifference.

I WILL continue to watch porn
I WILL continue to avoid all social interaction
I WILL be content
And you WILL NOT stop me

>>715095920 (OP)
WARNING
WARNING
MILLENNIAL FAGGOT BLOGPOST THREAD

>>715100712
I'm guessing youre porn free and extremely rich, because my coomer ass is just a lowly middle class man with a family.

>>715101132
Even this is covered in the article that you're all covering your ears about

>There was a time, not so long ago, when even a one-night stand might end with tangled limbs and a shared breakfast. When the act of staying the night didn’t announce a relationship, just a willingness to be human for a few more hours. Now, even that kind of unscripted contact feels rare. We’ve built so many boundaries that we’ve walled off the very moments that make connection memorable. And frankly, morning sex is often the best sex. Sometimes you even get a side of eggs before you disappear from their bed and their life forever.

Even the fuckboys aren't as chivalrous anymore when they pump and dump.

>>715096715
People were jacking off to porn all the time back then, we weren't repressed weirdos like zoomers are.

>>715095920 (OP)
it was a time before the alt right

>>715099505
>we're living in humanity's golden age right now?

>>715101312
Why does being a corporate manager (someone who has nothing to do with the subject matter of the business, by the way) at a porn magazine make her an expert in college attendance statistics and psychology?
Didn't read the greentext by the way, fuck off hoel

>>715101312
>The way many men had quietly withdrawn from intimacy and vulnerability.
women sure love projecting

>>715096715
Funi green line must go up

>>715100712
>she didn't see even one man there treating a woman to dinner.
oh my god! women having to pay for themselves?? why arent their serfs paying for them!?!? this is literally the handmaids tale...

>>715096715
If you want a trendy answer, it's the iphone.
Real friendships were replaced by integer numbers in a server in fuck you nowhere.

>>715101405
I don't give a FUCK whether a random whore gets eggs in the morning or has to call an uber at 3 in the morning cause the third dude she fucked that week didn't want her to sleep over

>>715095920 (OP)
Yeah because they were playing games and not terminally online posting about all the games they haven't played

>>715100712
>men don't work for prestigious degrees anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead
>men don't get high paying jobs to impress women anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead
>some men stop interacting with women entirely to jerk off to porn, other men objectify and exploit women in one-night stands treating them like pornstars instead of dating or marrying them like they're supposed to

Women campaigned for the social situation they have now. I don't say that in some he-man-woman-hater blackpilled way. I like the women I work with and see in my community. The social paradigms are just different now. Men have lost their way, haven't caught up, or maybe don't care. At any rate, there's no incentive for a lot of men to do anything but cope with porn and gaming. Modern life is tiresome. Social media teases us all with lifestyles we can't lead.

I have two degrees and a decent job. I'm over six feet tall and lift weights 5+ times a week. I don't date right now. I don't blame anyone or call myself an incel. After I get off work, I just want peace. It's not my job to entertain another adult 24/7. That's what a lot of American women want from men, who also have to be tall/attractive/rich in some cases.

>>715101479
>>715101334
>no I will not take women out on dates
>WTF WHY IS THE BIRTHRATE COLLAPSING
Are you expecting chicks to start mitosis or what

>>715097778
WHAT?! You didn't get excited for Dragon Age Veilguard?! What are you, some kind of homophobe???

>>715101572
Why did you reply to two posts and pretend they have to be the same guy, hole?

>>715100712
I don't know if you're advocating for this but this shit is like textbook reasons why "blackpill" ideology has taken root.
Complaining that men are doing things they presumably actually want to do and not selling their soul for a paycheck to date women who are only interested in how much that paycheck is. Complaining that guys would rather stay in rather than drop 60 bucks paying for a high end meal plus however much in cocktails/wine for a girl they don't even know.

I don't even subscribe to the incel/blackpill/whatever shit either, this is just a shit article.

>>715101312
>She literally worked for Playboy corporate management bro, she knows her stuff
You're completely retarded.

>>715101032
I stopped eating sugar and got actually measurable benefits within weeks why not rail against actual harmful vices like that instead of hawking your snake oil? oh right because it doesn't directly benefit women which as we both know is what this is REALLY about.

>>715098219
Who will redistribute the money in your gay commie utopia if not the same people who want to replace us?

>>715101667
>60 bucks paying for a high end meal
lmfao when's the last time you've been in a restaurant my dude

>>715101686
i think he was being facetious

I'm not a braindead coomer but sometimes when I don't fap for a few days I do get so horny that I understand why normalfags spend 80% of their brainpower on getting women

>>715101405
Advocating that one night stands are acceptable is a problem in itself. Shit like Tinder has built an entire revenue model on degenerate shit like that.

>>715101312
She worked for a magazine that lost a battle of relevancy against porn and is advocating against porn? Wow surely that doesn't have any affect on her judgment.

>>715101690
>oh right because it doesn't directly benefit women which as we both know is what this is REALLY about
I don't even know what this schizo nonsense is supposed to be implying. Good on you for quitting sugar though.

>>715095920 (OP)
Old fart here. I can confirm that we were much happier.

>>715101826
It doesn't. Her judgement comes from not having enough dudes treat her to dinner (seriously)

>>715101572
why would i take you out on a date? what do you have to offer that isnt mid heavily-used pussy

>>715100712
>she didn't see even one man there treating a woman to dinner.
Why should I pay to treat someone a dinner who I don't even know?

>>715095920 (OP)
>people were happier when each new AAA game was a generation defying masterpiece and there was no horse armor to sell to the player
Say it isn't so. Cynicism, broken promises and devs that hated and actively antagonized their players hadn't set in yet.

>>715101773
A few weeks ago when I paid for father's day dinner.

>>715099439
he took a bad picture of his face, the lighting is making him look ghoulish. Tbh anyone posting shots of themselves like this are faggots anyway. shouldnt be following people who do that

>>715101667
>60 bucks paying for a high end meal
60 bucks don't go that far anymore , I paid about that much for a mediocre meal at a red lobster .

>>715101923
Come on, you saw her posts on hte faceberg, you gave her a like or two.
You have everything you need to know to invite her for a dinner.

>>715101795
Honestly I do draw a line between "pretending to be retarded" and "pretending to be an educated professional woman in the world's preeminent media organization who is utterly retarded but is completely serious about it"

Is it still HURR DURR HURRDURR when there's literally tens of millions of people, a plurality if not a majority, who just cross their arms and go "Yep, that's how it works"

>>715095920 (OP)
Because the people playing games were people that were specifically interested in playing games rather than normalfags consuming the latest product they've been told to consume.

>>715101923
women can't comprehend that they campaigned against their own interests and changed the societal framework.
They just expected to gain more benefits without sacrificing anything in the process because men were supposed to shoulder everything.

>>715099505
I know over a dozen people that have committed suicide in the last 10 years. Everyone I know is doing poorly. The world a shit anon, you're a schizo retard.

>>715101312
Appeal to authority fallacy tranny.

>>715100712
>In case you want a woman's view
no I'm not gay

I have literally never flirted with a woman, don't really go to social gatherings, and don't use dating apps or sites
And I'm not having sex, how could this have happened

>>715099214
...is it the hairline?

>>715102280
>>715100169
Yes Ivan, we know you're raiding
No Ivan, we're not going to do a heckin' blackpilled domestic terrorism for you
Yes Ivan, you will die in the next drone bombing

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/09/g-s1-9010/russia-bot-farm-ai-disinformation

>>715095920 (OP)
Gee I wonder why

>>715102387
Grim

>>715102387
I'm holding out for when Bryce Dallas Howard inevitably breaks into my house and rapes me
I know she's working on it

>>715102409
No, it's clearly the moustache.

>>715102670
zoomers are so fucked

>>715102387
>we don't believe in gender roles anymore
>why aren't you fulfilling your gender role
sorry I'm on a sex boycott until women start putting the work in to romance men

>>715102409
a bit, but he also just looks really goofy, whereas left guy looks more natural.

>>715096798
ywnbaw

>>715096715
>What caused this to change?
ragebait
look at this thread for example, basically every second post is an attempt to make you mad for no actual reason whatsoever
no joy and no fun

>>715100712
I dont think its porn specifically but the internet in general which provides an easy and cheap alternative fulfillment of your basic social and sexual needs. Though that fulfillment ends up being shallow in the end.

But also yeah, much easier to jerk off than to improve 5 different areas of my life simultaneously for months straight, just for the chance at the very end to somehow meet and impress an average woman. And then after you jerk off you realize its not worth the effort anyways.

>>715100712
>tl;dr
If women are being beaten out by porn then perhaps men dont see any value in women beyond sexual gratification. Perhaps women should step up and provide something of worth beyond just that so men will want to improoooove themselves for.

>>715100272
>If you're fit and mentally stable
But I'm not mentally stable and thus I don't even look for relationships

I'm a zoomer and i feel like my mind is not right even when compared to my peers. I dont have a release valve for stress. Drinking feels like nothing. I'm also extremely pessmistic and have a low self esteem. Never talked to a woman bc i assume it'd go badly.

>>715100712
How are people so fucking stupid that they think this is a sincere post? IQ dropping across the board is the real reason everything has gone to shit.

>>715096715
Do you think people in the 90s/00s didn't have access to porn? Does it look like the guy in OP doesn't whack it daily?

>>715103759
Was it a sincere article?

>>715103729
Just stop being stressed then

>>715101741
>redistribute money
>commie utopia

the united healthcare ceo situation is the platonic ideal for how antisocial white collar adrenaline junkies would be handled

>>715099358
>abolish wage labor
>abolish work
>wants 10 trillion immigrants
are they stupid?

>>715103729
whenever i talk to women, i just pretend im possessed by some not autistic magic spirit and it usually works

>>715103729
stop drinking
find a hobby where you make things.
then when you level out a bit, start reading some philosophy so you can more properly reason through your thoughts and get direction.

>the world is miserable
We all agree on that. The question is what minor or major thing are you doing to make it less miserable?

>why are people unhappy
>say people who don't talk about videogames in a videogame board

>>715103759
it doesnt need to be a sincere post to engage with the idea it presents.

>>715101032
I now feel very horny and desperate. It makes me want to seek a woman, any woman, who I will now hold to dangerously lower standards than before (as a result of aforementioned horniness and desperation) to alleviate myself

>>715095920 (OP)
Ah yes who could forget all of the people dying of lung cancer and looking 40 at 20. You niggers are so stupid. I bet you watch those faggy YouTube videos of random people in the 80s with le sad and le somber music playing and complain about cell phones

Fun fact: people were just as cunty and fake back then.

>>715100712
>women do everything they can to destroy every single traditionally male thing
>women are now alone and crying about it
>men are happier and seeing their friends more than ever
from
>i don't need no man
to
>I NEED A HERO
in 10 years.

>>715104002
yeah

>>715104371
Damn yeah that 15 year old talking about the PS2 surely died of lung cancer

>>715104371
>Fun fact: people were just as cunty and fake back then.
people were definitely not as insane and unhinged in the 90s on average.

>>715104371
>literally every society and group of people are exactly the same because that makes it easier for my smooth brain to process

>>715104142
Engaging in escapism during every waking moment possible. It's the only thing that actually works!

>>715104142
>The question is what minor or major thing are you doing to make it less miserable?
i host free servers of minecraft, terraria and other autistic easily hostable servers for wee babbies
>why
a company i worked for was throwing out their old server rack and i asked if i could have one (i meant a single unit and they thought a whole rack) and i'm not using it for anything else anyway

>>715095920 (OP)
e3 2006 happened

>>715100712
Surely it isn't due diversity hires and retarded HR women blocking off white men from well paying jobs and liberal society trying to kill of white people in general. Fucking this dumb bitch.

>>715104495
Its funny how 80's and 90's media played up this whole idea of childhood and teen years being filled with psychopathically unhinged bullies and jocks and it isn't even the case.

>>715105487
why did you use this pic of horton hears a who to express your opinion? are you happily saying what you said in your post?

>>715104478
>>715104495
>>715104571
Grow up and take off the faggot tinted glasses.

>>715105487
It probably was true for the type of kid who ends up as a showwriter or farthuffing author desu

>>715096715
dopamine overload, low desire to do things, always satisfied

>>715095920 (OP)
We had more friends and sex than zoomers. You would gather with your friends in their home and play videogames locally, it was different than the soulless matchmaking slop of now. I banged a girl playing psx, what zoomers gonna do in fortnite? Sexless

>>715106210
i grew up playing both co op splitscreen in person, and remote online lobbies. i lowkey preferred remote online play with friends because i retained my full screen size.

>PeopIe
>pIe
>I
who the fuck is "peopie"

>>715105487
It's even worse, turns out the weird/nerdy kids just get completely ignored by everyone.

>>715096715
People will say smartphones but by the time the first gen xbox bro gamers rolled around, that's the first time I started to get worried.
With hindsight, you can see Sega of America really started this garbage in the early 90's. But like I said, without hindsight I could see the normalfag menace clearly in 2002.

>>715095920 (OP)
because gaming was progressing at an extremely rapid pace. everything that's released today is only slightly improved from what's come before.

>>715095920 (OP)
>when it came to games
when it came to anything. 2012 happened and the world ended. We're in hell. Things will only get worse.

>>715107435
i turned 13 in 2012 btw if that matters

>>715097789
"Don't worry," said the actual sociopath. "You're valid."
god this hits hard

>>715107546
you're my favorite tarot card

>>715100712
>porn is bad because women give me less free stuff
woman moment

>>715107042
Its smartphones, the invention and popularization of facebook and twitter and a plethora of other stuff that all occurred in 2007. Im sure someone has the image of things like Steve Jobs and such indicating just how much damage it did.

>>715108219
*men
the porn has made me retarded too

>>715100712
>womeme

>>715096715
>it's porn
I wish nigger faggots like you would spend one fucking moment in your livestock life to actually look at what's going on.

>food is ultraprocessed into horror
>the entirety of most people's social circle is run by an algorithim that focuses on outrage bait, engagement, and fake connections.
>Everything is exploding in price while high paying jobs are being shipped to Indians and foreigners and low paying jobs are being twisted into sick careers where people are literally treated like numbers and assets to be exchanged
>The entire government is visibly bought out by foreign and corporate interests that throw crumbs at people
>Companies are spending a near half trillion dollars combined to invest in technology intended to replace people, especially in creative professions
>the average man is sexless not by choice and when he is sexually active, more than at any other point in history are going sexless by choice
>The average woman is chronically lonely, unfulfilled and directionless
>The west, without immigration, is in a Japanese-level demographic crash
>Everyone is being ground up in a system where it's a rat race to stay on top of flooding inflation and economic chaos, where even a $1 million nest egg might be nothing more than a "vacation break" for retired people in twenty-forty more years.
>A future where you will own nothing, you will see your rights slowly stripped away, and when you are angry, the powers that be will sick you after other americans they have dehumanized to the point that you don't even see them as your countrymen
>It's a time where to be in the have not is to be a fucking product that every corporation is selling consoomer goods to with increasingly little shame
>All while politics and politicians have become completely shameless, with the mask dropped. We no longer have morality, kindness, or a shared love of the country but a fucking poison where people argue over which pedophile is least worse.

But sure, it's porn.

>>715098617
Why didn't you reply to the guy directly you fucking faggot?

>>715108606
/v/ will hate you for stating the truth.

>>715096715
social media and the internet. People don't compromise or settle anymore cause they always see the grass better on the otherside somewhere else, so everyone is either fake or depressed. Along with that many don't go out anymore and just stay one phones. Then when on phones they are bombarded with shit off tiktok or twitter or instagram, full of people trying to be important for attention, and they have to keep doing increasingly fucked up things to get noticed so then that becomes the new norm.

Everyone can see each other and no one feels important anymore.

>>715108606
Love your cognitive dissonance. You have no problem rattling off a laundry list of shit that's ruining and enslaving us, but NO NOT MUH PRECIOUS JEWISH PORN >:(
THAT'S where you draw the line. Amazing.

>>715108873
It was an accident

I really miss the old internet. I was raised on this shit, I can't mesh with the modern faggy post social media one where you can't say faggot or retard anymore.

>>715099505
You're fucking retarded.

Jews, troons and women ruined everything

>>715100956
Out of 10!

>>715109048
explain how you are "enslaved by porn"

>>715099505
>blows my mind
The answer is right in front of you, anon, it's exactly what they tell you it's not and silence discussion about.

>>715108606
My list of reasons why I've dropped out and will be a NEET until the money runs out and I KMS. Good post.

>>715109048
I'm sorry that porn of all things was able to destroy your life and not anything that actually matter from what anon listed, faggot.

>>715109048
Yea it's the porn. If we ban the porn, suddenly, the very next day, at the very next moment... People will be happy till the day Jesus returns for us.

Sure nigger. Go up there and fix everyone's problem. Clap when we have another crumb throw at us. Everything in your life went wrong the second your hand touched your penis in pleasure.

I hope the Jews play with your corpse with that corporate heaven bullshit that's being patented right now. We're all on a train to hell, I get to ride it with you.

>>715109048
Nta kys
If “Jewish porn” was some conspiracy they wouldn’t be actively trying to block you from accessing it

Been struggling with semen retention lately. I've gotta give thanks to the retarded cumbrain losers in this thread frantically defending the precious harmless kike porn industry. You're giving me the motivation I need to spitefully retain my seed :)

>>715108606
>bans porn
>silicon valley stops existing
>the average american iq goes up by 20 points
>economic and social conditions magically return to the 1950s
>billionares suddenly stop lobbying the government
>economic and social conditions magically return to the 1950s
>israel stops existing magically

anon was... right?

>>715109810
You should probably do that for yourself instead of obsessing over what other people do.

>>715109810
I'm blowing a load to videogame milfs right now just to spite you

I've literally never used social media for longer than like 5 cumulative minutes in my life and I have no idea how so many people are so addicted to that shit. It's just a worse form of internet communications full of extremely fake garbage. The fact that most of the internet these days is completely manufactured pretend personalities and performative shit done purely for money, and that this is even remotely ok with other people at all, baffles me.

>>715109906
Thanks for sharing man

>>715109810
>this motherfucker is trying to recycle his semen like chris-chan drinking cum fanta
LMAO

>>715109887
Yes I should. But spite is a good way to bootstrap the process until I build up a streak and get me motivation back.

>>715110051
Sure, I can share

https://mega.nz/folder/1hd1lBxD#pu9pzX6sf1vYMxsRZtxLdw

>>715110032
If you use it for more than 5 minutes it tailors itself to what you want to see, you make social connections and a lot of people use that to substitute what they're lacking irl.
Don't. The less you're on social media, the happier you'll be. I stopped doomscrolling and avoiding shit that made me sad/angry and life got a lot better. Even being here takes a toll on you if you're on it too much.

>>715108606
adding one thing to this.
>every single day you see people arguing FOR the boot pressing down on their neck, begging for it instead of rising up against it
>When you argue with this person, statistically, there's a 50% it's a bot if it's on social media
>When you bring up anything from that list to anyone else, they say "Yea well what about [culture war shit]."

Honestly, I feel whatever waits for us, we not only earned it, but we deserve whatever scorn comes from future generations.

>>715110192
maybe I'll make a mobile game about monitoring retention streak and get you addicted to that, goy

>>715110249
>If you use it for more than 5 minutes it tailors itself to what you want to see
This isn't unfathomably nightmarish to other people? This is acceptable?

>>715110289
You do you, jew

>>715108606
Accurate.

>>715104002
Lefties are massive retards no shocker there

>>715110032
4chan is still social media. It may not have usernames or karma but it's social media nonetheless and some of the cancers of social media are absolutely included with it and even exacerbated by the ability to samefag with plausible deniability

I don't think all porn is equal. If you are jerking it to real life videos of depraved broken people or shit like brazilian fart anal vore chimpanzee diarrhea sumo surprise what the fuck ever disgusting shit...yea, that's probably pretty bad for your mind, but rubbing one out to a sexy videogame girl or a canon couple making passionate love, I don't see the harm there.

>if I don't cum for long enough i'll get superpowers
Nobody REALLY believes that, right?

>>715110427
There is no left or right. There is only rich people and non rich people. No poor Redneck or Liberal Arts major is going to send a SWAT team, a drone, or a literal tank to your house to kill you.

>>715110512
I believe it because I've experienced it.

>>715110464
>and even exacerbated by the ability to samefag
Fuck whoever decided removing IP counter is a good thing

>>715110330
>This isn't unfathomably nightmarish to other people?
It is to people who understand how these algorithms work and why it's bad, most people either don't, or do but don't care. It's also one of the most effective methods of social conditioning ever, especially in the last few years with some of the major advancements in tech. The more you're on it, the less likely you are to be skeptical about it.

>>715110512
yes you actually do, the power to cum even harder

>>715095920 (OP)
You got old, that's all. Video game main target are always kids.

>>715110512
I stopped jacking off for a month and this is pretty much what it was like

>>715100712
>I spent over a decade behind the curtain of digital desire. As the custodian of records for Playboy and its affiliated hardcore properties, including sites like Spice TV, I was responsible for some of the most infringed-upon adult content in the world. I worked closely with copyright attorneys and marketing teams to understand exactly what it took to get a man to pay for content he could easily find for free.
And not once in the article does she express even a modicum of guilt or remorse for her actions.

>>715110032
I hate it because its horrible for finding art or content and projects since every fucker on the planet thinks twitter or instagram is the nexus of artistic talent.

>>715110512
Bro, trust me, doing a nofap makes your chin and muscles grow

>>715096715
Zoomtards

>>715096715
troons

>>715096715
The only way to fix the normalfags is to ban social media.

>>715110330
Most people don't understand it. It's bread and circuses in your palm that has become political extremist propaganda designed (like actually designed) to keep you terrified, scrolling, and reacting.

>>715110512
I've done passive no faps on carriers when I was in the Navy (i.e. 7 months+ without nutting voluntarily). Only thing that actually happens is >>715110746.

That's actually why I think the no fap caught on because that first fap after a 7 month deployment had me collapsed on my apartment floor, shaking, after nutting.

>>715101334
based

>>715111264
no fap caught on because are gullible and desperate

>>715111264
I did a NoFap for fun and that first jerkoff after the month was like cumming for the first time again. I actually ended up doing it a couple of time. Usually that last week, all I could think about was how much I wanted to beat my meat at the end and get that high again.

I stopped because it did the opposite for me, regular masturbation schedule is fine for me.

>>715109148
Oh okay. I'm sorry for calling you a faggot.

>>715110746
>Nofap out of circumstance for a period of time
>Insanely horny, had to stop going on 4chan because all of the thinly veiled hentai or porn threads would get me too worked up
Kinda sucked not gonna lie. Other than the dam bursting when I could finally rub one out, which was great but not worth it.

>>715109810
>enter thread with retarded argument about how jerking off is killing people (despite the fact that people have been jerking off well before the invention of the internet)
>get called retarded
>immediately starts grandstanding to show everyone how "not irritated" he is
Please keep posting bro you're fucking hilarious

Life was better back then because games were better back then.

>>715111984
but old games still exist. they didn't disappear

>>715111935
>Please keep posting
I will not. This is my final post.

>>715096715
You can trace the decline of modern society back to women getting rights, unironically.

>>715112291
libshit here. i dont really get the stoicism/chud/whatever take on hating women. this presumes that 50% of the global population isnt sapient and that male brain chemistry magically ensouls you. feel free to giga chad >yes in response, but i always found the more logical understanding of this take to be that men over estimate their own scholarly-ness and women cant really challenge this because of the threat of physical violence.

ive met a lot of intelligent men and women throughout my life, and feel like they both have a right to talk so long as they want to uplift others with their ideas.

>>715098981
>coherent world view that benefits you
All the retards that believed this the first few times died pretty quickly.

>>715104038
>start reading some philosophy
For example?

>>715104038
>start reading some philosophy
Don't tell bro that, he'll take one look at modern society and go full Ted Kaczynski

>>715112583
>libshit here
Could you not?

>>715112583
>grrrls cant be smart because...theyre hiding it so they dont get physically beaten!

>>715112583
bitterness about not finding love

>>715110654
Huh thats weird cause lefties love saying they want federal agents to take my guns/ruby ridge us when some falseflag shooting happens and gun control discussions show up

>>715095920 (OP)
>>715096434
what if people are less likely to take pictures of themselves when they're sick and miserable? what if those pictures are less likely to get published? maybe they are forgotten rather quickly?

>>715096715
AI and pajeets

>>715112594

NTA but every communist state was sabotaged by the CIA or heavily embargoed to the point of unreasonably needing to be unrealistically self sufficient despite existing in a post globalism world. ideally communism is mixed with mercantilism to still incentivize citizens to work but the government still retains more responsibility to make sure private citizens arent becoming neo jarls

>>715112194
Sayonara....

>>715096715
People will say social media or smartphones, but that isn't specific enough. It's personalized algorithms and engagement-based profit models that have specifically fucked people up. Everyone's views are skewed by the personalized, algorithmically-driven slop that they are fed, and as time goes on the amount of common ground gets smaller and smaller. As for profiting off of engagement, the things that grab people's attention the most are outrage-bait, violence, etc. So these platforms have a profit-incentive to constantly keep their users agitated, while also tuning themselves to know specifically what most stimulates each and every user as they use it. People being less happy when they're constantly being subjected to this is exactly what you would expect.

>>715113090
As a lefty, you deserve your guns and Ruby Ridge was a criminal attempt at murder only surpassed by Waco.

I hope we're in the same trench when the mask falls off and the feds come for all of us.

>>715099784
>virgin

>>715113475
>control half of the world
>get taken down by an intelligence agency
damn this communism stuff sounds pretty weak

>>715100712
>In case you want a woman's view

>>715110512
If by superpower you mean shooting a massive fucking load, then yes
Balls gotta recharge

>>715100712
>other men objectify and exploit women in one-night stands treating them like pornstars instead of dating or marrying them like they're supposed to
Because this is exactly what women respond positively to and flock to. Then 90 bodies in they're disillusioned and jaded and wonder why the other group of guys would rather spank it to porn to get their rocks off instead of marrying them for access to busted pussy.

>>715114702
>the cia isnt the great satan of the modern era

bad faith brian... I....

>>715115587
that's not what my post says

>>715100712
>use the full extent of government powers to undercut and replace men anywhere possible
>wtf why are things different?

>>715096715
whoa cool it with the antisemitism.

>>715101407
porn was more difficult to access back then. that stereotype of men in trenchcoats, covering their faces standing in line to buy smut was true. now I can literally whip out my phone and look it up and feel nothing.

>>715116068
yes it is

>>715116527
you realize you can just imagine your greatest sexual fantasy and jerk off to that right

>>715116601
nope, here's what my post said:

>control half of the world
>get taken down by an intelligence agency
damn this communism stuff sounds pretty weak

>>715101407
Adding to the first reply: not only was porn less available, there was also less variety. 90% of porn you found was vanilla missionary with average looking people. Nowadays you have porn for every fetish imaginable.

>>715116796
no you didnt

>>715112583
Even if women weren't less intelligent on average (they are), they are simply more susceptible to social conditioning and thus more likely to adopt retarded views pushed on them by kikes. Peer pressure and groupthink tactics works on most men, but it works on ALL women. This is why they are overwhelmingly libshits, like yourself.

>>715117346
what if you met a woman smarter than you?

>>715099214
Just to be clear these are 2 different people right?

>>715100712
So she concludes that men are the problem in this scenario?

What do you think the dude in the OP is up to now?

>>715101312
What she's describing here is quite literally hoeflation. The juice stopped being worth the squeeze.

>>715117346
>(they are)
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

>>715101405
So she's sad that the one night stand isn't going out of his way to be courteous to a slut and expects her to know her place?

>>715111264
>Most people don't understand it
Most people shouldn't be on the internet. The problem is normalfags. These people are complete retards and the only reason they didn't shit the internet up earlier is because it had a barrier of entry in that you had to own and know how to use a desktop computer to use it. The microsecond Steve Jobs invented a pocket sized retard proof device that could access it, it was over. Now everything is complete fucking garbage tailored to the lowest common denominator because the amount of drooling idiots out there eclipses the amount of people with functioning brains.

>>715097778
Boy do I feel that with Transformers. My mom Tivo'd an episode of ET where they announced it and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Not to mention that first teaser was actually pretty cool. Plus I was also very much into Transformers with Beast Wars and the Unicron Trilogy (I did also know about G1). Boy, if only I knew what we were in for

>>715118852
Putting it this way, normalfags really do just fucking ruin everything.

>>715109886
this, we need to be like iraq

>>715096715
the internet

>>715099784
porn is an issue wether you agree or not. the easy access to it moreso. the internet is to blame and phones extrapolated that issue.

>>715095920 (OP)
It also came from a better culture.

>>715100712
Notice how even in this 'plea' they can't help but demean men as 'hiding'

>>715118852
The internet wasn't even better back then lol

>>715116905
I can't believe zoomers actually believe this is why things are bad, it's one of many scaepgoats. Here's why things suck now: The economy is shit because of the growing class divide, and social media has ruined people in how they percieve the world, also sends them down echo chambers. That's it nothing else to it.

>>715100735
>>"men are masturbating! they didn't used to do that!!"
this is true for most men globally

>>715118852
Will we ever get another internet sort of thing with a high barrier of entry, so that we can be saved. Yes, that is the problem normies bring their real-life identity to the internet, and they want it sanitized like cable tv, which is garbage.

>>715120532
i think that you might be projecting your addiction onto everyone else

>>715110512
I go days without cumming because that first orgasm after days of denying yourself feels so good my knees almost give out.

>>715112291
Sexual revolution too

has nothing to do with porn
war on terror , lack of freedom and security and being stripped of rights for the sake of george bushs illegal war
after that shit went down hill and people cheered as Obama bombed middlr eastern women and children every week

if 99% of the posts in this thread aren't filtered you're fucking up

>>715112291
>>715121969
just say jews

>>715095920 (OP)
its because back then talking to someone across the world was a novel thing, you didn't hear about some war till it was weeks already in, you didn't hear about how some cunt named kat left her son in the car with the sun blasting him through a window causing him to die, you only heard about this if it happened in your local area or someone told you about it.
Humans are not built to hear about the problems around the world along with the daily problems they will have to deal with. We are not equipped to handle a fucking thing that is going on right now but we are expected to some how understand it and have an opinion on current matters in places of the world you may never see or hear about till the next big thing that requires your opinion.
God help if you have the wrong opinion your job is gone, doesn't matter if you don't care or don't know anything because you live in your own little world (as you fucking should) people will actively go after you to ruin your life via physical threats, financial ones or emotional threats.
this is why we have so many freaks right now, people have a mental break but instead of helping them we give them a platform, some people don't even realize they are broken mentally and just keep going.

>>715122068
Thanks for reminding me to add "filtered" to my filter list.

>>715101215
>We have moved into an era where many men no longer seek women to impress other men or to connect across difference. They perform elsewhere. Alone. They’ve filtered us out.

Men and women both are responsible for this change. We've completely inverted the idea to the point where interacting with a woman at all can get you socially labeled and shunned as a simp or a coomer. A man being around a woman is a legitimate threat to his social standing in today's society. It's not worth the trouble.

>>715095920 (OP)
I fucking hate happiness, fucking gay ass shit

>>715121757
nah, the state of /v/ and /co/ akd other boards proves my point. it wasnt this insanely horny years ago. christian soccer moms were correct. you are on par with lusting third world coomers and its quite pathetic.

>>715125324
>it wasnt this insanely horny years ago.
AHAHAHAHAHA

>>715125324
Way to out yourself as a new fag lel

>>715095920 (OP)
this was before woke ruined society. people are bitter and angry because future prospects look grim for the average man. in 2007 a 30 year old man could have gotten an 18 year old gf and married her within a few years, that was normal back then. now you're labeled a pedo and instead must settle with women who past their prime and done have fun

>>715125324
/v/ jannies didn't even used to care about nudity you fucking tourist

>>715096715
>Everyone today is like a zombie.
I'd say it's more of a mice utopia issue, or that we're becoming the people from Wall-E. The world has been designed to be so incredibly comfortable that people get diseases from not standing up. Literally 90 percent of people's anxiety and depression can be solved by taking a 20 minute walk every day but the solution is so simple you aren't going to believe me unless you try it and your doctor would rather diagnose you with 50 different illnesses and 100 medications because it's more profitable.

>>715095920 (OP)
>PeopIe in the past looked and felt so much happier,
Hellworld didn't really kick off until around 2008, even then things were relatively OK until around 2012.

Why should I be happy when the future is a hopeless nightmare, the present is a slog and the past is being slowly turned into a binary schizo-fest of shame and revision.

>>715108606
this is nothing new, the world has been ruled by evil powers for at least a century, the only difference now is that it is showing his true colors

>>715126138
The Mayans we're right
2012 was the end of the world

>>715126297
>2012 was the end of the world

>>715096715
America became less white

>>715097778
In all aspects of life, yeah.

>>715100281
>>715100712
And do you have a single shred of evidence to back up any of your fucking bullshit? Anything at all, any peer reviewed scholarly articles? No? Yea, shut the fuck up. People have masturbated and fucked and done all sorts of shit before porn was a thing and there has been no correlation that looking at porn does anything different to imagining it.
>b-but addiction
Yes, literally anything in excess is bad for you. THAT is the problem, that we have infinite entertainment at our fingertips 24/7. We have burn out. That isnt just a porn thing, thats fucking everything. We are all addicted to the fucking internet. Youre probably also addicted to games, anime, or whatever else because this is one of the first times in human history that we are doing so well that we can afford to focus all our time worrying about stupid inconsequential shit instead of what your going to eat a week from now and if you have enough resources stored up to survive the winter.

God damn, fucking midwits always screech about muh porn and the moment you say anything they flip the fuck out. Stop projecting your particular addiction on to everyone else.

>>715095920 (OP)
Reminder that Adam lived almost a thousand years. There is no systemic solution.

>>715098896
Wow, you're really paranoid. No wonder you aren't happy when you've convinced yourself everyone is out to get you.

>>715109048
>ITS PORN THATS WHAT IS HAPPENING ITS A A CONSPIRACY
>also pls ignore that said ebin conspirators are trying to actively make porn viewing harder the past few years
Get your story straight you enormous fucking retard

>>715126540
You're flipping out rn.

>>715126917
Kill yourself asshole

>>715099505
You're in a bubble sadly. Most people are not doing well.
While the CIA is always fucking with everything, the census isn't just making it up.

>>715127085
>act like a hostile cunt
>wtf why is anon being mean back :(

>>715095920 (OP)
Because they were.
They lived in better times desu, even tho games seem like a weird hobby for most people back then, the so called gamers had it better without todays weirdos.
Basically saying past gamers had a good life balance with normie life style and gamer hobbyist life, even tho they felt sometimes judged for their love for games.

>>715100712
>>men don't work for prestigious degrees anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead
>>men don't get high paying jobs to impress women anymore because they just jerk off to porn instead

This bitch a gold digger. Most women are gold diggers though. It's why these women are so unhappy lmao. There are less and less men with money they can leech off.

>>715095920 (OP)
What was the reason for this?

>>715127271
>mean
More like whiny, playing at muh sources while telling people you don't know how good they have it. Also you could have cut that post in half by not crutching on profanity throughout like it was helping you make a point.

>>715099505
You are right in that it is a golden age, but thats the problem. Shit is too convenient. Humanity is crushing it so hard that were suffering from success.

100 years ago if you told someone that we are capable of manipulating a local environment on the micro level just to cool/warm you up a bit, they would claim it was witchcraft. AC, microwaves, dishwashers, etc are extremely recent inventions. We live like fucking kings. But its left us directionless and easy to manipulate. Convenience is the ultimate pacifier. So we sit around all day looking for shit to care about and get worked up on because all our immediate needs are taken care of. Look at all the isreal/palestine shit. 60 years ago, nobody would be giving a flying fuck about it. Why? Because its half way around the world and a bunch of kooky faggots fighting over rocks, who the fuck cares, you need to figure out what youre going to eat next week. No you have people going apeshit over it because their lives are so fucking posh that they are trying to advocate for people that hate them for existing just so that they can feel accomplished.

>>715099632
Shoulda just told him to put the fries in the bag

>>715100712
>This idea that vulnerability is a threat instead of an invitation has created a culture of hesitation
gee I wonder why that happened

>>715108606
truth nvke

>>715127480
>>715095920 (OP)
Explain yourself OP.

>>715127676
>More like whiny, playing at muh sources while telling people you don't know how good they have it.
Cool story, so once again you dont have any shred of evidence and your entire argument hinges on your feelings. So, unable to refute anything said, you try to suddenly act like you are the reasonable one and didnt go into hostile cunt mode first. Yea, shut the fuck up and back up your claim or get the fuck out. Nobody gives a shit about what was revealed to you in a dream.

>>715127964
I'm not part of your faggy slapfight. I'm more interested in why OP used a capital I instead of a lower case l lmao.

>>715099035
I was glad to see fireflies again. Swear I hadn't seen them for a long time.

>>715099784
There is a problem you get from porn (I like porn), but ther was an article that stuck in my head about the demonization of porn, orgasm, masturbation and sex. It was feminist-y left-wing so it was focused on women's pleasure and also why they are so anti-abortion and I wish I had saved it but vibe was:
>These are pleasures with for women no gatekeeping: Anyone can masturbate and orgasm, porn there's gatekeeping possibilities but it's diminished and with sex the social pressures have diminished to gatekeep it.
>The state/society is not able to dictate who gets the pleasure, who doesn't. Everyone gets the carrot nobody fears the stick or has to compete for the carrot.
>The poor are able to enjoy it as much as they want
>That fucking infuriates the authorities (IE tools who can't exist without bossing others around).

You can see it with why women are mad now because it's the exact same sentiment as that feminist article, just turned back on its head against them >>715100712 It's women in the place of government/society.

>>715101312
That she was a self-declared succubus preying upon insecurities and desires and then morally harraungs is infuriating. It's that saint augustinian shit that just makes me want to shake them like a rattle. Even if I get her point and it reminds me of Kojima's shit about how we're being less and less human

>>715101667
It's just bougie types starting to realize the disaster we've all sleepwalked into but which they've done more to enable than the average person.

>>715103460
It's what I find the most foul and disgusting with /pol/. It would be fine if they hated women, jews, nigs, all that and brought some kind of community with it. Some kind of friendship. Like you watch a vid on an FBI undercover agent who talks about being among white supremacists and they're falling over themselves in buddy friendliness and humanity. Shithole like /pol/ and left wing equivalents and whatever the fuck kiwi farms is do not offer that silver lining. It's just pure ragebait hatred and misery without any companionship to make it easier to swallow.

>>715104142
I try and make the lives of people I Interact with better by being nice and courteous. I enjoy writing fiction for people that helps them escape the pain if only for a little bit. I'm happy to see that mod stuff I worked on 10 years ago still gets played by people and textures I made are still used for people's projects.

We need more people like >>715104789 who just offers something pleasant to others for no reason but to pay it forward. No profit, no monetization, just contribute in an ephemeral anonymous-ish way (I doubt little babbu knows who he is or cares who he is) to an environment that lets the babbus make fun memories.
I've heard the sentiment almost verbatim of "Why should I plant trees I'll never be in the shade of". So everyone should try and plant a tree here or there. Make the world better for someone by your being in it.

And don't be on social media. That includes 4chan. I fell back into the habit of using it but very little good comes from a place like this.

>>715125436
>>715125636
it wasnt

>>715129436
hownew.ru

>>715095920 (OP)
Because gaming back then was a white man's hobby full stop. Especially the late Gen X (who were graduating high school in 2002).
Now it's all brown poorfags like the ones that infest the steam fourms, Twitter and this board. They HAVE to hate the new thing because they can't afford it or run it.

>>715096715
oversocialized by phones but no real socialization in real life so people are lonely, drugs to cope with shitty internet life, usually adderall or anti-depressants, most culture is dead from mass immigration so no community, money is in the toilet so cant afford shit, and everyone knows the world seems due to collapse in a decade or two. Oh, and the effect of long-term quick gratification and easy access to internet should be studied for people born into the internet age.

>>715129576
Every brown person on my street is noticeably wealthy.

>>715100712
This stupid dumbass article has been marinating around in my head for the last 4 hours and the more I think about it the angrier I get.
Kids aren't going for high end degrees because you can't go to college without racking up tens of thousands in debt. Nobody is getting high end jobs because gen xers and boomers are holding onto them with a death grip. People
Millennials and Zoomers can barely afford to move out of their parents houses. Why on earth would we be going to high end restaraunts to hit up girls? Who even hits up girls at fancy restaurants? A bar is one thing but do people go to 3* restaurants to hook up? Just waltz over to a table at a high brow place and sit down? Nobody outside of the top 3% if that can afford to do this if it's even something rich people do do at all.

This is just a fucking dumbass rich gen xer unable to realize what the world is like for people under her age and blaming the villain of her former job.

>>715112583
99% of the population isn't sapient it's just that women are more outwardly annoying and disruptive with their animalistic behavior than men are

>>715097405
Actually """"""""""""empathy"""""""""""" is pretty profitable nowadays for corporations. Maybe that's somewhat why life seems so cringe and fake nowadays

you will never experience what we have lost

>>715130326
Honestly a part of me suspects the
>YOUR BROWN
And obsession about wealth on 4chan is actually "The call is coming from inside the house" and it's third worlders. The discount on that is I've seen /arg/ where it's conspicuous consumption of AR15 shit to dab on poverty pony poorfags, but you watch the shitflinging enough and an obsession with brown skin as opposed to a stronger slur starts to come across really strongly like the colorism you have over in the third world.

Like if one of us hates you for being a filthy foreigner we'll just go for the jugular with a slur. It's not shitskin you'll notice, it's brown.

>>715131397
I find it surreal how people are nostalgic for this. I didn't like it when it was happening.

>>715131397
>cut to homeless guy sleeping in his car
Wow man real cool so nostalgic

>>715131397

>>715099754
a lot of men start lifting for women or attention, but then realize they like the feeling of being in shape, and the routine of training. Its very meditative once you get used to it, especially with music. repetitious movements, breath control, solitude.

Everything was better and don't let anyone tell you otherwise

>>715110512
>he can't fly
heh later loser

>>715095920 (OP)
Too many people are hooked onto a live service game simply because of fomo. You know how most of the internet's traffic is shared between just a few sites? Something similar happens with gaming but with GTAO, Fortnite, and Roblox making up the majority.
How about when the gaming industry brags that it makes more money that other entertainment media. It used to be about sales number but these days it's about most of the money being made from microtransactions from so called Free2Play games

>>715096715
People weren't camera trained from birth so they acted normal when being recorded.

>>715131397
>chads and stacys
none of that changed but it's alot more brown

>>715096715
Its social media. People used to be way happier back then, just compare the early Smosh videos from 2006, something like that would be mocked as pure cringe in today's society by people of the same age group. Its like having fun is not allowed anymore, and everyone is keeping tabs on each other to keep it that way which keeps everyone miserable.

>>715131397
Filming people in public back then was different because you actually had to lug around a giant camcorder and it gave the impression of professional film equipment. Compared to today with people just showing you the back of their phone, it doesn't feel as flattering or glamorous.

>>715132453
Being recorded also used to be a bigger deal because it would be one of your only chances to be seen outside of your local area and be marked in time. Nobody gives a shit about that now and most just want to be left alone.

>>715132241
>chads
every man in that footage is a 6/10 by today's standards, tops

>>715132021
all you have to do is stop being a rage-addicted retard stuck to social and news media
you have the power to curate your own existence and are squandering it along with your finite lifespan to complain about things you have no influence over

>>715132834
phone-addicted retards ruined civilization
look how happy these kids are
today, they'd all be glued to their phones and miserable

>>715132675
Yeah but social skills have declined so steeply that every man in that footage could pull a 9/10 zoomer stacy just by not being a sperg

>>715132834

Back then: "Nobody's going to see this video. Nobody cares"

These days: *bitter social media dweller makes a huge shit over how the people in the video had a happier life than they did. Turns it into a 'white supremacy' social movement out of disgust*

I don't even think a lot of people realize how detrimental it is that boomers are passing no knowledge down and everything is getting uglier and more mean spirited

>>715095920 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBnVSxffFA
half the people in this video are dead..

>>715134292
25 years isn't that long ago, anon. If anything they are in their 40s-50s now.

>>715134292
Well, that kitty is dead for sure.

>>715101889
She's also a divorced 52 year old woman with children, the retard shilling this didn't mention that one.

>>715096715
Less IRL socialization means less happiness, more extremism, more distrust, more prejudice, more schizophrenia and division.

Games vs Skinner boxes

>>715095920 (OP)
Statistics weren't as good back then, so devs made games with the simple goal of them being fun and good with the hopes of that leading to sales.
Nowadays, publishers and devs have a pretty great understanding of the market and what drives purchases, so they make absolute slop min-maxing consumers in ways that make people more stressed and frustrated but more likely to spend money.

>>715135385
all according to keikaku

The internet was a mistake

>>715097789
This image is old enough that it was made when Google Search was actually useful.

>>715095920 (OP)
pre-overstimulation of the hyper internet rush.

>>715096715
see >>715135508

>>715135480
>Allowing normalfags into the internet was a mistake.
Ftfy

>>715100272
>If you're fit and mentally stable
That is the hard part.

>>715100272
>you will find your niche of women who like you
False

>>715135385
People still socialize but they also have 24/7, free internet access to anything and everything no matter how inane, mentally deliberating or mindnumbing it is. At any given moment a child can go on Tiktok then see what conflicting nonsense is being said on various outlets then play some mobile game and do it for hours on end.

>>715113421
uh huh