Do you still enjoy coming to this board after all these years?

I come here to remind myself that I'm not as retarded as I think I am.

honestly no
E3 ending has changed everything
spring/summers on /v/ are boring

uh? yes otherwise I would not come here anymore you fucking retard

>>717301821 (OP)
>Do you still enjoy coming
ask your mom lol

>>717301821 (OP)
the /v/ I knew is so far gone that it seems like it never existed but as an autistic crazy person there isn't anywhere else I can exist as myself.

As bad as it is, it's far better than any other place that discusses video games.

>>717302763
This. /v/ is now filled with schizos and psychotic gen z's who think you need to hate everything and go for the jugular in even the smallest argument, but there's nowhere else for me to go.

>>717301821 (OP)
Well yeah
if I didn't, I wouldn't do it

It's either
>places where you can't discuss video games because YOU'RE RACIST YOU'RE RACIST YOU'RE RACIST
or
>a place where you can't discuss video games because YOU'RE BROWN YOU'RE BROWN YOU'RE BROWN

>>717301970
You could come here out of habit

No. I hate it here, but I can't leave.

>>717302763
I feel like there is no other place to freely talk about video games with randos, but it's not like you can have conversations on here either

>>717301821 (OP)
In many ways it's the same it's always been, 95% of the catalog throughout the day tends to be stuff I don't care about but occasionally there's something interesting/entertaining.

>>717301821 (OP)
I don't enjoy it so much as it's a relief and a comfort that it's there. Like a toilet. A big public internet toilet that I start to feel backed up when I'm not regularly shitting into it. There's almost never any enjoyable discussion or anything worthwhile so I just flit around posting whatever stupid shit would amuse me and continue on

>>717301821 (OP)
Given the rest of the internet yes. Its all Dead Space out there. This is the Earth of the internet. Every other planet is infested, and at best, useful for some resources in passing. There's nowhere else to run, and the "Brother moons" of the world government will come for this place last. On that day, I don't know what I'll do if there aren't more immediate concerns needing attention. This isn't just the last bastion of free speech, it's the only one, which isn't even true because glowies and tranny jannies have already begun the infection.

>>717304869
Why do you hate it anon, tell us.

>>717301821 (OP)
Hell yeah it's been 20 years of fun, I love you fags

>>717301821 (OP)
Not really but it still beats the rest of the internet

>>717306642
>Treat it like a toilet
>It's full of shit and never has enjoyable discussion
It's a self fulfilling prophecy
But tell us, anon, what would you like to talk about? Any games you've played lately? Any genres you enjoy?

>>717304192
is not just /v/ or 4chan but the whole internet

internet culture was replaced by hate culture

>>717305110
>Scream to the void
>The void calls you a brown tranny faggot
Is this what being a psyker feels like

it's great when you filter the rpg tards.

>>717307058
>Bait culture gives you engagement
>Social media and everything apps capitalize on it to keep feeding you adds
free market capitalism

>>717305110
Let's have a conversation then, anon. What would you like to talk about

>>717301821 (OP)
no but where else is there to go?

>>717302763
4chans still the best live-action forum to talk anonymously. Unfortunately the OC production has gone down the fucking shitter in recent years, yeah people bitched about nu-/v/ or whatever even back in 2012 but at least there was a unique culture. Everything is unironically just downstream of twitter/tiktok at this point.

>>717306973
Nice try anon, but I write long rambling schizo-posts about the games I'm playing because I write them for myself and post them in only vaguely related threads. They pass largely ignored among all the bait since no one wants to read all that shit, but it satisfies the itch of putting my thoughts in order, and I avoid engaging much with other posters because past experience has shown I'm the only human being in this webzone

>>717306804
Wojak and frog spam. Over a decade of the exact same shit is very grating. Zoomer speak as well. I'm getting too old for this shit. I've been on 4chan since 2004. It's been my home on the internet. I have nowhere else to go.

where else would i go?

>>717301821 (OP)
nope, use to be better before the tortanic shit

>>717307550
Not much to say about that
>>717307601
I'm honestly getting tired of it too. There is the occasional kind anon that talks to you for a bit and avoids immediately resorting to angry slurs, that gives me hope but otherwise it gets very repetitive.

Haven't seen a wojak in a good while myself, I count myself lucky

>>717307058
It's because smartphones enabled every normalfag and his grandmother to use the Internet and gay up the place. Now the Internet sucks especially now that governments are starting to heavily regulate it.

>>717307868
It's not just on 4chan. The wojak/pepe cancer has spread to every corner of the internet. You can't even go to youtube without seeing some retard with one as their avatar or in a thumbnail.

>>717307868
My least favorite faggot on here will always be the one immediately trying to be argumentative, especially if he assumes you're taking some kind of position that you haven't even alluded to

>>717308094
>Gay up
Straight down

>>717301821 (OP)
I hate it here so fucking much and I hate it even more that everywhere else sucks worse

>>717301821 (OP)
Yeah but I only come here 2 months a year anymore is a fatal dose

>>717301821 (OP)
it's still better than ~2010 and better than anywhere else
pre-2010 was def. much better tho but that's true of lit. everything

>>717301821 (OP)
No. Zoomers and a lack of moderation legit killed the board and the few people that remain are mentally ill.

>>717308306
Been watching 40k lore vids lately, haven't seen any Wojaks or pepe, then again I m mostly leaving them on the background

>>717308423
I have better conversations on fucking youtube than I do here. 4chan is one of the worst places to post on if you're looking for any sort of conversation outside of baiting teenagers.

>>717308380
I wonder why the default position is always confrontation, is it because it keeps people posting?

>>717301821 (OP)
Eh. I made a post the other day and another anon said it made them laugh. That made it worth it. I love you guys.

>>717308520
Haven't been too lucky myself on YouTube. Comments are mostly bots, and YouTube is significantly more popular that this place

>>717308618
Making strangers smile is the best feeling

>>717308520
>go to twitter
>bots and retards
>go to youtube
>bots and reatrds
>go to discord
>children and retards and trannies and degenerate retards
If I didn't have my brother or the occasional conversation when I go hiking or shooting I would go fucking insane, I just want someone to chat obscure vidya with but everyone I know is too old or doesn't care about games

>>717308962
If everyone everywhere is a retard while believing you're the only sane one, you might be the retard, anon.

>>717308962
>Everybody is a retard tranny degenerate
I'm not sure I'd be willing to discuss anything with you, you sound really bitter and unpleasant

>>717301821 (OP)
I mostly still come here out of habit and to browse offtopic softcore threads but every once in a while there will be a thread for a game I like or am currently playing and there's no where else to get vidya discussion where people respond quickly. Your only other options are discord, which is filled with zoomers and troons that don't acutally care about the games, or boomer forums like rpgcodex where you'll wait a year for a response to have some guy call you a faggot. This is the best middle ground I've been able to find.

Its here or kiwifarms there is really nowhere left for text based discussion. Somehow 4chan feels largely unhit by the bot epidemic of other social media.

>>717308520
youtube comments are a cesspit, even on very unpopular videos you're unlikely to get any kind of good conversation out something you post.

>>717301821 (OP)
Without question. Reddit is everything I dislike about social interaction. In this space, the only thing of value is the shit you bring to the table. We are truly blind to race, age, ethnicity, religion, every single quality is removed from the equation. That's nice.

>>717309286
I still have better conversations there than I do here which says a lot about how terrible /v/ is. Even youtube comments are more moderated than here. It's a real schizo's paradise.

>>717309191
Are we going to pretend that X is not full of trannies and retards?

>>717309304
This is technically true of reddit, but the community there obviously puts much more of an emphasis on identity than anyone here does.
>>717309371
I still regulary see botted youtube comments that advertise cp sites and shit like that, it's truely awful compared to here in terms of moderation. I fucking hate it but the post delay seems to keep at least some of autist spamming and ads at bay here.

>>717309391
I've never used twitter. By the time that it started to get popular, I was already in my mid 20s and didn't see any reason to create an account there. From the outside, it just looked like 50% political shitposting and 50% flat earth trolls and you can find all of that and more on /pol/.

>>717309304
>We are truly blind to race, age, ethnicity, religion
>Gets called Zoomer, boomer, millenial
>Browns
>Trannies, fags
>Jews
But you try so hard to make up the equation

>>717309391
Where have you been the past 4 years? Most of the fags have fucked off to bluesky after the moderation team decided the nigger word was allowed.

>>717309535
>X is now 4chan with adds and more bots
Why would you be happy to export this site's """""culture""""" elsewhere is beyond me.

>>717307550
I still do greentext stories about my game, and yes it is ignored by everyone, but I'm content to know that some lurker will read it and relate to it, even if I get no replies.

Yeah, its always been like a zoo to me. An ocean of retards with the rare socratic argument

>>717301821 (OP)
No. I don't enjoy sitting behind my computer and withering online but I have nothing else to do.

>>717309191
>>717309223
It's only online you retarded degenerate trannies, real life people are great but they don't play games

>>717301821 (OP)
I remember feeling like a retard reading the arguments here in 2009 but now I feel like the only person with a brain sometimes. I wish I knew if I changed or if /v/ changed

>>717307550
I took a month break from 4chan when an anon was arguing with me by feeding loaded questions to an AI in order to "own" me instead of posting anything himself. That's when I realized that I'm better off just talking to chatGPT. I have a better conversations with AI than I do with any of the people that post here.

No, I barely visit anymore. Sometimes I'm away for months, working and playing video games.

Fucking brown retard and AI infested shithole.

yes. despite the huge amount of ill intended shitposters this place still is one of the most entertaining places on the internet.

I rather have this than shit like reddit or reset era.

No, it's super negative about fucking everything and yet wokefag posting is now a thing, some people are even doing it just to be contrarian. I was much happier when it shut down and I only wanted it to come back to spite the smug articles saying "good riddance".

>>717310168
Hopefully you don't talk to irl people like that

>>717301821 (OP)
no, most anons are retarded miserable assholes and half of the anons here just want you to be miserable like them, they don't mind wasting their time as long as they're wasting yours which is horrible.
with that being said porn threads are better(barley) because everyone there is under no pretense, but they suck become they're thinly veiled porn threads i want to talk about games and have FUN
>>717304869
same

Boy, I sure love having to make an account and register my personal information and have to walk on eggshells to not enrage the local troon clique
t. non-/v/ users

>>717309469
>that advertise cp sites and shit like that
what kind of sick garbage you watch to find those kinds of comments?

>>717301821 (OP)
Im new only been here for a month

>>717301821 (OP)
Yes, despite all the shitposters, the softcore porn and commie faggots like you.

I don't know how much longer I can last.
It's not just the retards, it's not just the schizos who don't understand anonymity and make up multi-week samefags, it's not just the faggots who see niggers or trannies in everything.
More than anything, it's the shills. /v/ always had viral marketing people but it's never like this, and you can see it clear as day, and it's so clearly enabled by the mods. Every normal singleplayer game? Banned in a week. Meanwhile there's four gatcha generals up at any given time which are diligently bumped and ALWAYS have a positive OP. You get random topics so arbitrarily forced that it's obvious they're a force of anti-marketing too (Marathon was the obvious one for this).

Once upon a time I came to /v/ because it was the only place that talked about niche and weird games. Now I'm not allowed to talk about anything that isn't megapopular slop.

>>717301821 (OP)
Where else? Everywhere else has gotten even worse

>>717310196
2009 /v/ just reminded me of 2000s era gamefaqs but a bit angrier. I don't remember the anons being much smarter back then but there was definitely less trolling and more serious conversation.

As a 2018 newfag, I want to apologize to the oldfags. For what it's worth, I don't post very often nowadays. I usually just lurk

>>717307550
Holy shit this. I don't even talk to people here anymore, or rather nobody here wants to talk to me. I usually just find a pseudo general and go on a schizo rant about whatever game I'm currently playing. Going into autistic detail about things about it I find particularly charming and laying out the honest criticism I have of it so I don't sound like a shill. Nobody ever replies to me but, Goddammit, I need to offload this shit somewhere

>>717310498
Watch any fotm youtuber and you'll sometimes see bots in the replies. They usually link discord servers though and in those servers are likely tons of gore, revenge porn, and cp. Daisey's destruction was posted on yt through one of these bots. They'll usually have something in a foreign language or they'll say something inflammatory to get the user to click on their profile. For a time they also had Mr Beast's logo as their pfp.

I have no one and nothing else
This place is the only constant in my life

>>717311889
90% of the people here

I still have fun throwing shit with you guys. Even when I make a thread that gets no replies except one that calls me a faggot I still giggle to myself at the notion of shitting up the board

Yeah. Nowhere else on the internet makes me laugh (out loud) 1/4 as much as random anons on 4chan do.

>>717308596
for (you)s

people are socially isolated, especially a lot of people who regularly post here or on other websites, and getting a response (even a negative one) is still better than being ignored and invisible

>>717313428
faggot

>>717301821 (OP)
Yes, I do.

>>717302763
>it seems like it never existed
it was bad in the 2010's, it's even worse now.

>>717301821 (OP)
Yeah but for different reasons. My fond memories are of the KSP and Space Engine threads and stuff like that where I discovered cool new games. Now it's 30+ and F F F F F FRIDAY/S S S S SATURDAY threads mixed with asking culture warriors simple questions about their beliefs and watching them freak the fuck out about it cuz they dont self examine very closely.

Not much, but everywhere else is either autistic cliques I have no desire to interact with or no man's land. This is still one of the few populated places (possibly the only one left) that allows for freedom of thought without devolving into a pure jungle. It's workable enough if you know which threads to go for and which to avoid.

>>717310516
If your reaction to seeing sexy girls is to clutch your pearls about "softcore porn" like an old church lady you don't belong on this site, kill yourself already you miserable faggot.

>>717301821 (OP)
I just come here because it basically serves as an aggregate news source with less journo faggotry and in very rare cases I find out about a cool game I didn't know before and might want to play. Discussion quality is complete shit and I'm convinced that most - though not all - people who come here nowadays are scum and garbage.

>>717301821 (OP)
I unironically don't know how to post in anything other than 4chan and i dislike having to hold myself back when talking, so even if i dislike it at times and want to pull my hair when reading some posts, i don't really have anywhere else to post.

>>717314862
It's softcore by a thin hair. At any given time about 1/5 of the threads have an OP image that's basically porn, but just barely doesn't break the rules. But if you let this go on forever it doesn't end up well, just look at /b/. It's always been a shithole but now it's just a random porn board, with none of the stuff that used to make it good (sometimes)

>>717314639
>that allows for freedom of thought without devolving into a pure jungle.

I miss the days when we were known as radical leftists

>>717301821 (OP)
Sort of
I'm quite retarded and I keep entering threads that I KNOW will be a shitshow, full of attention starved retards, but every now and then I stick to slower threads for games/series I like and I do have a good time.

>>717315650
never happened. 4chan used to worship Ron Paul and hate George Bush, though

>>717308094
That's why we need to move to the dark web. I was on onion infinitychan's /v/ recently but that board is so slow nothing gets bumped for days
No retarded email verification or 800 seconds waiting time to post either, actual anonymity

>>717315763
That's pretty progressive for a bunch of suburban white kids during the iraq war

this is the only place that is not fake and gay

>>717301821 (OP)
I've been swimming in this ocean of piss since 2011'ish. It's still an ocean of piss.

>>717315927
For as much of a so-called pendulum shift we seen are well currently in, the modern day chuds of today are progressive by 2000 millennial standards.

>>717315927
It was mostly about being against any and all forms of censorship, nothing to do with left vs right. Back then Christians were trying to censor violence and sex online and in video games, but left/right wasn't really an aspect.

If anything, 4chan used to be just hardcore libertarian and it still mostly is

>>717301821 (OP)
better than anywhere else i guess

>>717315403
Relatively speaking of course. Compared to wastelands like /b/, this board is serviceable enough.

>>717311862
>watching any fotm slop
shiggy diggy

>They usually link discord servers
why the hell would you click any of those, also
>using discord
faggot

>they'll say something inflammatory to get the user to click on their profile
even more reasons to not click that stupid shit, are you sure you weren't looking for that kind of stuff

>>717301821 (OP)
I hate coming to this website in general but it's the only thing like the Internet of old. Most of you are ugly, austistic looking fuckers with at least 25% of you being unironic trannies. How do I know this? I visited /soc/ for the first time in forever and holy shit. I remember 10 years ago that board had decently normal looking people with a few Chads here and there but now it's fucking cringe. And to think I post on the same website as retards like you. Whenever I see some cunt posting a fumo reaction pic I immediately think of some sperg on /soc/ and die a little inside.

>>717316405
selection bias

your average anon isn't posting pics of themselves on /soc/ lol that whole board was created to contain attentionwhores

I tried reddit because I am tired of the shit moderation in this place, but it turns out that making literally every user potentially able to make replies disappear is even worse. The downvoting system is literally unbearably faggy; upvoting already does enough to keep the """good""" posts on top, there really is no need to give every random faggot who disagrees with you the power to essentially delete your reply. Once your post reaches -2 it might as well be deleted because these faggots will just dogpile you
This place is still shit, I'm just saying that other places I've tried are somehow even worse.

>>717316405
What normal individuals would go on fucking 4chan of all places to post pictures of themselves?

I have to stay here because I hate identity. Every time I tried to create an identity to interact with people outside of this place I was eventually disliked or simply ignored.
I don't fucking want to be anybody. I want to be Anonymous.

>>717316014
I miss the phrase moralfagging.
/pol/ really has been a net negative for the site, Chris Dorner is when the wheels really started to wobble.

>>717316458
Doesn't matter. The demographics have changed from 10 years ago. /soc/ now is filled with a million trooner threads trying to get laid. Back in the day I remember fun threads like "Post your face, get a role in a fantasy setting".

>>717301821 (OP)
I just come here because I hate having to make new accounts to post on social media.

>>717316525
normal looking*
Key difference is that you could look no different than a normalfag and still post here because you enjoyed it more than IRL. Now it's full of fags that seem like they were legit groomed on Discord.

>>717316620
And to add: Rather than choose to come here for the lulz, they come here because nowhere else would have them.

>>717316405
What do you consider "internet of old"?
10 years ago was 2015. /soc/ always a containment board for normalfags, not the "internet of old".
So basically, kill yourself faggot.

>>717316405
>/soc/ representative of 4chan in any meaningful way
May as well talk about the attention fags on /fa/, /cgl/ or /fit/ as representative of the whole site while your at it.

This site should close like, tomorrow.

>>717301821 (OP)
In small doses, this board is a solid way to get current news about vidya. But when I’m feeling bored and end up spending excessive time browsing here, it really starts to drive me crazy seeing how fucking stupid and unoriginal other anons who post here can be.

>>717316671
I think that applies to most 4chan users at this point. Even if you're not racist/sexist/whateverist to a criminally insane degree, you can't actually post your opinion on most sites today without getting banned quickly. You have to agree with the majority or you're done

>>717316620
>>717316671
You do realize that you're exactly the kind of person that most people in this thread are complaining about, right?

>>717316845
Wrong, bitch.

Do you understand that most 4chan posts today come from mobile devices aka cellphones? Can you cope with that?

>>717301821 (OP)
I can feel 4chan as a whole becoming more quiet and reticent as if 4chan were a person suffering from depression. Always felt like there was an obsessed freak ready to jump down my throat at any moment in the past but there's just silence now. The only thing that would really bring me relief is if I could leave somehow.

>>717316405
I don't come to 4chan to talk to handsome men with normalfag taste. I want to talk about esoteric weird shit with autistic freaks that don't shave or shower. I can just hit on the girls at work any time I want to converse with normal functional people

>>717301821 (OP)
I only come here for new indie release. Sometimes thread died in less than 200 replies but at least it's actual discussion.

>>717301821 (OP)
No. Companies have infiltrated. Especially turdworld ones.
Being astroturfed constantly is fucking gay.

>>717319180
That's what keeps 4chan going. Even when the discussion is absolutely retarded and irrelevant, it's still the actual opinions of people, even if those opinions are dumb as fuck. Anywhere else you just get the most crowd appealing and acceptable bullshit over and over, written repeatedly with different words and then rephrased to fit the culture of one website or another

>>717301821 (OP)
no

>>717301821 (OP)
It's just habit at this point. I'll miss you guys when it finally shuts down.

>>717308094
Yeah, it‘s the normies fault, not the completely shizo basement dwellers that need to turn every thread into a discussion about trannies

>>717301821 (OP)
No, it's been ruined by ragebait tourists and cumskulled retards.

>>717323043
4chan has always been people posting retarded shit since the beginning

It was better pre-captcha and pre-wait times.

Other then that the content is basically the same, so yes.

>>717323534
IP count removal was the real problem. It used to be obvious when one or two fag were samefagging a thread to death. Now you can only guess.

What sort of boards would Harry Dubois go to other than /fit/ and /pol/

>>717324002
he'd be big on /adv/ and /r9k/

>>717324002
He would use /ck/ for the alcohol threads and mourn the loss of 420chan

>>717324185
/ck/ is the funniest board on 4chan. nobody else gets so angry about food

>>717323592
Satan samefags almost all the threads. But he does it out of different bodies who have the same brain controlling their actions. That’s actually how he made lots of stuff was by controlling many ppl at once. Dude u should watch some documentaries of niggers, because all the niggers are omnipotent wizards who are basically satisfied with their creation. They often show u, they r literally one being who controls billions of bodies. It’s just funny with niggers Becuz in Africa they r so poor looking, but they all know how to teleport. Literally satan made the documentary dude he was every person on the screen at all times. I dont think real ppl r allowed to be photographed.

>>717324330
:P

>>717307428
More on this, I've gotten more enjoyment out of seeing random tiktok reels of seeing people make slander memes or make up insane narratives about sports. 4chan is fucking washed, stuck to outsourcing their content and discussion points from fucking twitter and reddit. 4chan jannies aren't allowed to go on a crusade against the low effort
>screenshot random twitter/reddit post
>well /v/?
threads every fucking day. Your terminology is stuck in the 2010's, I mean to my knowledge /v/ doesn't even make those yearly 'notable moments' collages anymore because there isn't jack fucking shit

>>717316405
>/soc/
That shit cannot be considered 4chan. Anyone who posts pictures of themselves is a different flavor of retard than the normal 4chan stock. Because
A) You're enough of an attentionwhore to post yourself
B) You're also a big enough loser to post on 4chan
It's like trying to get a picture of the average retard on 4chan by selecting purely from fucking /r9k/

>>717324385
Yeah that guy is satan. He loves video cameras becuz he can show off his clones who have recieved genetic luck. Becuz most of satans clones r used for slavery n breeding. It just looks really retarded if u actually have a soul. Nobody really likes satan dude thats why he calls himself satan. Dude he literally is that guy he cloned himself and makes tv shows.

>>717314454
I miss those times too, I remember being poor as shit and hoping I'd one day get a good enough graphics card to run Space Engine to the max. I loved the times where people would randomly pile together to play a game like poohball, real lives, or that life simulator game. Only fun threads I've been in are old nostalgia flash game ones

>>717324440
culture has been frozen since 2017

>>717301821 (OP)
eh its alright.
people act like its the worst its ever been but the quality of the board fluctuates. I will admit that over the past 6 years or so I have started using filters much more often. thankfully the usual retards that shit up threads love using the same images and buzzwords.