Thread 718264635

Is gaming 30+ as bad as they say?

>>718264635 (OP)
It's ok. I'm garbage at action games like Sekiro but you stop caring.

no it's worse

no
it's worse

>>718264635 (OP)
In what way?

just smoke weed and vidya will remain fun forever

>>718264635 (OP)
Noggin, it depends.
If you worked manual labour since 18 years old, it's bad.

>>718264635 (OP)
How bad do they say it is?
Im 35 and haven't noticed any performance issues but a lot of motivation issues when it comes to games

>>718264635 (OP)
I 100% wuchang so not that bad

Why would it be?
I've been playing Neverwinter Nights recently. I didn't even know there was an enhanced edition, and it's pretty cool how a bunch of the super good modules got remastered too.
I've just started Shadowlords as an evocation wizard, going into red wizard and eventually archmage if I can. The PRC is a must-have mod. Some things are really overpowered though, while others are worthless, but I figure it's ok if it's just single player.

>>718264875
worse reflexes
no time
not understanding the appeal of new games
constantly thinking about what you have and what you have not achieved in your life while gaming

>>718264752
>garbage at simon says
damn its truly over for you unc

>>718264635 (OP)
>grow up during the literal golden age of vidya
>indie games and AAA games take over, gamergate happens, and mobile games explode
>every title you loved as a kid is being ported/"remade" into a 4kids abomination of what it used to be
>AAAslop becomes so cinematic that the studios you once trusted are now gone and dead after 1 (one) flop
>indieshit has devolved into woke furry pandering with zero graphics, gameplay, or heteronormativity
>nintendo hasn't made a good nintendo game since 2010, the playstation still has no games, and xbox is ??????
>literally the most successful titles are currently chinese gachas, korean gatchas, american lootbox shooters, and japanese brand recognition
>want to play vidya
>already played it all
>there's nothing left
So anyways to answer your question, is to just goon to r34 of gatcha characters and you'll be fine.

No I am better at gaming than ever

>>718264635 (OP)

I'm 39 and just did my yearly playthrough of Dishonored. Then played Dishonored 2 and Prey.

Routinely play Sven Coop for the lulz.

Shit is STILL cash.

>>718265147
sekiro raped and killed your dog or something huh? It's a tight timing based game. Even rhythm games can be hard because of timing. Anything can.

just drink alcohol and vidya will remain fun forever

I don't have the energy i used to but my dopamine receptors are still intact...for now.

>>718264635 (OP)
yeah it gets boring.

>>718265208
the timing isnt hard though

>>718265123
No time is the only actual issue on this list.

>>718265284
Ok buddy I hope you find a game hard enough for you one day.

I haven't played a videogame in weeks

>>718265123
>worse reflexes
This is a meme bro. Most people who complain about this were never good in the first place. You don't actually have significant degradation in this aspect until you are extremely old.

>>718265123
>worse reflexes
That's a meme
>no time
Skill issue, just be a NEET
>not understanding the appeal of new games
Just play old games
>constantly thinking about what you have and what you have not achieved in your life while gaming
I know how it is, good thing it doesn't happen to me anymore

>>718265152
I dunno, dude, have you tried playing something cool? Like Dominions 6 or Soulash 2. Maybe Shadows of Forbidden Gods. Quasimorph. Atomicrops. Urban Myth Dissolution Center is pretty cozy for a rainy night.
Really, just pick a good game and play it, stop fussing over slop.

>>718264635 (OP)
>>718264939
These are pretty sad.
If you're over 30 you should be tending your home, advancing your career, and raising at least two kids.
If you have free time for video gaming I think that's a big red flag that your life is out of whack.

I burnout at games a lot quicker than I used to but I'm not sure if that's indicative of age
I used to be able to 100% a game in a week or so
now I can barely finish a game without getting eventually bored and beelining right to the ending without seeing all the other content
it's very annoying
campaign/sandbox based games are even worse
>put in a fair amount of turns/hours
>burn out
>drop game
>come back
>don't want to start where I left off because I feel like I wouldn't know what's going on
>so start over
>repeat

>>718264939
This but alcohol. Weed is shit. Imagine being in your 30's and still smoking weed lmao.

>>718265621
this.
maybe it was more acceptable to play video games for hours when you're young, but after 30 you should be starting a family which will only let you game maybe 1 hour per day max unless you sacrifice sleep but that's never a good idea longterm.

All I did in August is play the BF6 beta and realize how much those games changed for the worst. The worst part about getting older isn't that you lose the ability to play games, it's that you notice everything getting shittier and you just choose to not play anything most of the time.

>>718265123
None of those are issues you should have in your thirties or even forties, barring the lack of time and energy you have to spend on gaming. I've become way more selective about the games I play as a result and it's helped a lot.

>>718265621
>tending your home, advancing your career, and raising at least two kids.
bro thinks its 1985

>>718265774
Yeah, there's something fundamentally wrong with living life purely for pleasure seeking. Humans are meant to keep pushing society forward and building legacies that history can be proud of.
We talk a lot about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, but how is an adult who plays games for 4+ hours a day any better?

>>718264635 (OP)
i've gotten noticably worse at shootans since my 20s. i used to main scout in tf2, nowadays i play engie and medic

>>718265406
>/v/ anon doesn't play video games
shocking news

>>718264635 (OP)
If your wife hasn't weened you off video games by the time you're thirty you might as well go on playing. It won't be fun or fulfilling in the slightest though, but neither will anything else.

>>718264635 (OP)
>>718265224
Toxotransmosis moment.

>>718265653
Side content has always been useless time-wasting filler, you probably just see through it more now that you're older.

>>718265815
>I've become way more selective about the games I play
This so much. All the years of gaming experience simply makes it so you can easily filter shit games from games you're sure to like so you play fewer games overall.

>>718264635 (OP)
Anything done to excess becomes boring.
That goes for life as well.

>>718265837
Plenty of people in the millennial generation are figuring things out. It's really only an extreme minority of adults who wind up in the perpetual failure state.

27 here.
i noticed that i'm more irritable when i game. at first i thought it might be an addiction thing. wasn't this way when i was in my early 20s while gaming. then i noticed that if i don't play games i feel less annoyed. turns out i grew out of video games but because it's all i knew as a hobby i forced myself to play video games i wasn't even excited for. since i've stopped playing i've become much better mentally. now i enjoy doing chores and grown up shit.

>>718265837
:skull: :skull:

>>718264635 (OP)
Gaming has always been a love and hate thing for me. I love some games and hate other games. I don't see how that would change after 30 except maybe shuffling around games between the categories.

>>718264635 (OP)
I fucking fell asleep in front of my PC after coming back from my shift at factory, it's over. I feel tired most of the day and I sleep 8 hours a day.

>>718264635 (OP)
yea, when i was young i had energy to play all day no matter what, but now after my 4th, sometimes even 3rd nut of the day i'm just pooped and need a nap

I'm 33
I'm lonely all the time but at least I've got these video games

>>718266342
Probably because you're blowing loads all day.

>>718264635 (OP)
No gaming, no job, no sex, no

>>718266303
you getting "good" sleep though mate?
i used to drink a bit before bed and found weird shit like sleeping sober to be worse UNLESS I slept sober for 3+ nights in a row and then felt alive

a shit diet etc doesnt help either

There's an emerging genre of "boomer Co-Op games"
>Deep Rock Galatic
>Darktide
>Vermintide
>Helldivers 2
>BG3
Games that require some reflexes but not so much that you're having to keep up with energy drink-addled zoomers.

I have crippling schizophrenia and am trying to get on disability this year.
I get to play all the vidya I want whenever I want, it's pretty great.

>>718264635 (OP)
Yes because Karens start forming around that age and therefore game corps start tailoring to that demographic more and more, thus the games formerly tailored to your demographic become very shit very quickly and you're then forced to play zoomer shit, which is just boring in a different way but still slightly more tolerable that playing Karen infected shit tailoring to older, larger whale markets.

>>718265186
>Dishonored
Based
>Prey
Assuming you mean the Arkane one, but based either way really
>Dishonored 2
Get out

>>718266553
If you're american, good luck because this year it's been functionally impossible, and it wasn't exactly easy before.

>>718266594
Have you tried playing good games instead of obsessing over slop?

>>718266531
>you getting "good" sleep though mate?
it doesn't feel like it, I don't drink often, only on occasion, I try to avoid trash food as much as possible, maybe I should workout more or something

how do you become a normal functioning member of society once you realize you don't care about video games?

>>718266594
bruh wtf are you on about, no one is forcing you to play candy crush

>>718265186
When I was a kid, dolls (not sex dolls) were for little girls and old male craftsmen.
Kinda strange how the latter just don't exist anymore because of laws and stigma now.
There used to be a lot of old male barbie collectors. Often just because they're interested, autistically, in the manufacturing of them and what they show for the time period.

Now people just see dolls as sex toys and that kinda makes me a bit depressed.
Internet kinda ruined that shit and just replaced it with sex dolls for "exactly the reason you think they're for".

>>718264635 (OP)
YO LIL DONNIE

>>718266676
It's easier than ever actually

>>718264939
Weed is already enough of a loser thing as a teenager, imagine smoking weed at 30+. My condolences to your parents.

>>718264635 (OP)
Only if you're a neet

>>718264635 (OP)
Multiplayer stuff gets worse, but I started finishing way, way more games after I turned 31. I'm 36 now, and I've finished the same amount of games in the past 5 years as I did in the previous 30 before it.

>>718266915
I dunno about you lad, but I work from home, so really all I do is get a 1ish hour stroll in most days.
Working out more does help, as does "winding down" for the night. Like stepping away from the PC to lay in bed and listen to music or have a video you barely pay attention to just for 30mins before you go to bed.
It's never perfect, I can't "pass out" like I did in my mid 20s, but for me I think the key is a routine. I go to bed the same sort of time, spend the same sort of time watching/listening to stuff before trying to actually sleep, then it largely works out.
Even if I wake up feeling like absolute shit sometimes, it does improve through the day.

I dunno man, it's a fucking pain ain't it? But to me the best remedy is the body being forced into a routine and a bit of exercise/movement to give it a good reason to sleep.

>>718265621
The normie life seems like a ton of work for nothing, it doesn't even offer fake grandeur like videogames.

>>718266961
A fellow doll enthusiast! I've always wanted to start a collection, but have never really had room. I remember years ago, I decided to visit the doll general on, I think /toy/, and someone posted some of the most beautiful little ladies I've ever seen. They were all nude, with some light body horror I guess you could call it, weird proportions and multiple arms and such. I wish I remembered who made them because there was one in particular I really wanted. She had nice little horns(?) or something adorning her head.

>>718264635 (OP)
No

>>718265621
I've advanced my career to the point where I have more money than I would ever need, own my own home, and enough time for vidya and by vidya I mean stare at my backlog and ignore

>>718264939
Grow up

>>718266704
Nowadays there are few good games made because there's just no budget and those corps with budget just make mere slop.
Fromsoft was sorta like those old school AAA producers (until Nightreign) but the other AAA producers lost their soul the moment 2008 happened. We just didn't know it as kids at the time how bad it would affect AAA games.
Now we know, all of them produce pure censored and safe slop compared to AAA back then. Playing old games from 2001 that I didn't even play back then has opened my eyes as to just how bad things have gotten. Indie devs, though trying, are not cutting it. The games are just catering to their low budgets or small teams most of the time.

I'm interested in seeing how Silksong turns out because of how big HK was however. I do keep an eye out for big indie devs that are making their next game. Often they just get the same issues as AAA devs despite it being their mere second or so game.

But even orgs like Rockstar had issues the moment they became successful. 2008 just made it worse because it must have affected something to do with game financing since then for large scale games. Fromsoft just got lucky for a long time I guess.

>>718265713
weed makes you retarded but so does alcohol while also making you fat and fucking up all your organs

>>718264635 (OP)
Depends on the person but at 31 I almost never feel a strong urge to play games anymore. It fucking sucks.

>>718267141
>Multiplayer stuff gets worse,
Yeah, but I seem to have the opposite problem of the Anons here. They complain about having slower reflexes and shit, getting worse at vidya while I find that the older I get, the more people play like absolute dogshit. I've abandoned all hope for team based PvP of any sort, and have even gotten to the point where I have to climb to high rankings just to start having a fun challenge.

>>718267147
>I dunno man, it's a fucking pain ain't it?
It is. To me it is hard to sleep if I hear shit around me, heard foxes screaming last night and I woke up like 3 times in one night, also I fall asleep extremely slowly I always count 8 hours of sleep and 1 hour of me laying in bed before sleeping to calm down. I work out upper body, core, legs with one day rest in between. I don't want to take drugs to sleep because I will get hooked up or some shit. I lose around 1 hour 30 minutes commuting so I can't even nap on my way there because I drive. Or can I? Lmao.

>>718265123
>not understanding the appeal
As far as FPSes go, it's not a lack of understanding on my part, it's just most modern fpses have been trash
A lot of devs are marketing to a small competitive subset to the market (and streamers are trying to convert zoomers to be part of said market) but I feel like most FPS players just want to chill out shoot some niggas for 10-15 minutes

If people feel like this at 30, then what are you supposed to do when you’re 70?

>>718264635 (OP)
no. I beat metroid prime remastered the other day.

>>718264635 (OP)
It's worse. I'll give you an anime analogy because you may be able to relate to it already. You start watching anime, and you really enjoy the vast majority of it, if not for the story outright, then just seeing the medium. Then, once you've experience enough of it, you start seeing how repetitious it all is, how you can predict the stories, how you don't enjoy them in general, and it takes a much bigger "hit" to even move you. The same thing will happen with games. You'll experience enough of the ones (or genre) that you enjoy, then they'll all slowly start feeling like a slog, and when you notice a downturn in actual quality, zoomers will tell you it's just nostalgia and games have always been shit, because they don't know any better. You'll spend years trying to chase the one or two standouts, barely having the energy to give them a try, then you'll resign yourself to consuming media that's people consuming video games (like streaming or 4chan) because you can't make yourself play anything anymore. You'll linger on and I don't know what's next because I haven't gotten past it yet.

Just remember: young people and people who haven't played a lot of games will ALWAYS have shit taste because they can't help it, and insist they have AMAZING taste. This is universal and unstoppable. It would like trying to convince a 4 year old that the baby shark song isn't the greatest thing to exist.

Most of my spending income goes into guns these days. I don't even really like car shit anymore after hitting 30 cause It got really gay & pay2win, just a bunch of trustfund queers showing up with their newly leased hellcats destroying people who actually put blood sweat & tears into their vehicles.

>>718267641
Ah fair, once I'm gone the noises dont bother me too much.
When I struggled like you I legit set like an hour aside to go to bed - pop on an album I liked - and just lay there and enjoy it while drifting. As then I had the white noise or background listening to distract. Can't help you with 3am noises though, at that point maybe you need ear plugs or something?

Drugs never work. Evenm booze it gets you a good single night then the rest are shite or you become too reliant. Mainly wind down with like tea or something to make you "cosy" rather than "high", but honestly I avoid all food/drink besides a touch of water maybe like an hour before bed so I go to bed "empty" as I like that.
>I work out upper body, core, legs with one day rest in between
Should be enough honestly, way more than me.
Maybe slap in some cardio, that always tuckered me out more, but that's all I got for possible advice. The battle of "getting sleep" is a battle I'm not winning in but surviving in.

>>718267261
Personally, I could understand androids, but not dolls.
I did like trains though and I did like hotwheels.
I would have been into things like xenomorphs and monster dolls if I got my hands on them.
But most of all, I was obsessed with dinosaurs (like all of my sisters) as a kid. We all just liked dinosaurs.
We had a doll house from our parents, still just chose the sandpit and dinosaurs.
I threw away my action man for another fucking dinosaur.
Dad discovered I liked Kashmir from Led Zeppelin through me humming the riff from 1997 Godzilla. To me it's still "the Godzilla song" somewhere in my brain (kinda metaphorically correct).
I was just that obsessed about big fucking lizards/birds that destroyed things and ate people. That made me happy. Not human dolls.
Probably because I hated the shitty fucking system I'm in even back then.
Nothing's changed.

>>718264635 (OP)
Nahh just remember to stretch more often

>>718267776
Don't think anyone feeling like this will make it to 70.

fuck no, I'm playing and finishing more games than ever in my life at 32. benefit of quitting MMOfaggotry and online slop. I've finished over 40 games this year

>>718265123
>not understanding the appeal of new games
They're bad.
>no time
Sure.
>worse reflexes
I'm not a year over 30, so I can't say. I don't have issues with most games.
>existential crises
Skill issue.

>>718265713
>>718267026
did a weed smoker fuck your mom or something? weed is awesome lol

>>718264939
it was the opposite for me. I was a daily smoker for half my life and the later years of it I was barely playing vidya. I quit a couple years ago and play so many more games

>>718265123
>worse reflexes
You have to be like mid 50's to 60's for your reflexes to really becomes worse, unless you have some sort of disease.
>no time
Yeah, you have to budget your time. Probably was already like that when you were 18 when you had to take on school and a job, right?
>not understanding the appeal of new games
Some are made with an old game philosophy so it's fine. I also have way too many games I need to play.
>constantly thinking about what you have and what you have not achieved in your life while gaming
Maybe if you're an addict.

>>718268017
>I've finished over 40 games this year
based NEET

>>718267882
>Can't help you with 3am noises though, at that point maybe you need ear plugs or something?
I was thinking about those and alarm clocks for deaf people. I am yet to try those.
>Mainly wind down with like tea or something to make you "cosy" rather than "high", but honestly I avoid all food/drink besides a touch of water maybe like an hour before bed so I go to bed "empty" as I like that.
I don't like drinking before bed because I wake up to take a piss so I count 1 hour before sleep just like you and then I no longer drink or eat anything until breakfast.
>Maybe slap in some cardio, that always tuckered me out more, but that's all I got for possible advice.
Always told myself I got cardio at work but maybe that could make things better.
>The battle of "getting sleep" is a battle I'm not winning in but surviving in.
Well, we will struggle until death with this one, maybe then I will get some eternal sleep for once. Keep on fighting anon, thanks for advice.

I've only gotten better at video games as I've gotten older.

>>718268017
>I've finished over 40 games this year
I've always wondered what Anons played when they say they finished a game. The kind of games I play nowadays don't really have an end to them, you just keep playing them. 4x and sandbox rpgs mostly.

>>718264635 (OP)
Im watching kdramas instead of playing

>>718268017
Were any of them good?

Tomorrow I finish government class then just a few more classes then one more year until I can get a job and move out and finally have sex. Wotr is alright but didn't hold my interest now I'm playing RE1 and I'm about to boot up Shadowed the Demon Castle of Ooe.

>>718266923
You go to a 4 year university, then start looking for jobs as soon as you graduate. As long as you don't look physically old and decrepit for your age, people will assume you're the average college student and not a former NEET/failure.

>>718266981
Shit really? I should try applying then I even have a diagnosis (not for schizo tho)

>>718268089
lol, dude
hear me-lmao
hear me out
lol
weed

>>718264635 (OP)
If you mean enjoyment decreasing, yes, it's pretty bad.
I can still enjoy a game but it's much harder to get into. The whole spell that tricks your brain into enjoying games, breaks easier now. If I'm in any way not locked in mentally, I feel like my time is being wasted. Pointlessly open world games are a big offender here.
I did eventually finish Elden Ring, but I enjoyed Sekiro so much more it's not even close.

It really doesn't help that most new games are actually shite, the industry needs a kick up the arse. I spend almost more time looking for games than playing them these days.

If you meant skills worsening with age, no, I don't have that problem at all.

>>718268520
here they are
>>718268706
yes every single one of them was good, otherwise i wouldn't have finished it
the worst games on this list are The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails and MH Wilds, but they were still fun only since i played Wilds with bros
>>718268242
i sadly am going back to work next month, but this year has been a very comfy ride until now

>>718268017
Same, I stopped playing games between 14 and 23 ish then came back to them after that after my former goals became impossible to me more and more and I became jaded with contributing to the system that made shit like covid happen.
It's either this or the military perhaps. But committing to the military would be feeding the troll for me.

>>718268948
I hope that guy's right, but I still have to wait 6-12 months just to hear back about my application. And that's not guaranteeing they'll even give me the schizo shekels I need so much, just means they can tell me "lol nope" after a fucking year of waiting.

>>718269136
forgot pic

>>718264635 (OP)
Depends, I'm just now hitting 30 and I still feel fine, consistently above 2.0 in everything I do.
I do feel slower, I know i can't do the kind of shit I did in my prime, but I'm sure I can still hit top ranks in the stuff im commited to.
The real difference is that gaming isn't really that fun or engaging anymore, I don't play any new releases, have no hype for anything and im starting to branch out into other hobbies.

>>718269067
it really is unfortunate that games are generally becoming worse, as a rule, more bugs, worse performance, and more pointless tedium instead of linear games where you just see all the important parts and move on, but zoomers buybuybuybuy and defenddefenddefenddefend this garbage and call you jaded when genuinely these games are just boring as fuck and shitter experiences compared to the shorter, more focused games of yesteryear

>>718267552
>slower reflexes
This is such bullshit lol all it is is that 30+ year olds have less of an ego so you realize you’re not as good as you thought you were. Games don’t even require that much reaction time

I don't know what it is but in my 30s, it's like I've unlocked some wizardry powers because I'm better at video games now and are able to discern things with a keener eye like slight frame drops or noise detection.

>>718267996
Yep, I have been sick for too long and it ruined my 20s and nowadays my 30s. Hell even my teens. No meds have helped. I did 3 sports when I was starting to get ill. I didn't consume bad things, that happened when I realised my body wasn't functioning so well to cope with being "off" at parties.

Turns out, my system has been poisoning my food and water for some time post GFC in prep for inevitable revolt from the peasantry. It worsened post occupy. They been caught lying about food and water safety time and time again in my area in particular. Things like PFAS.

>>718269032
Hear me out though when your head is buzzing it does make guitar distortion sound even better. I immediately understood the appeal of Electric Wizard when I got high for the first time, even if I still don't like them.

>>718264964
Not really. Im 32 and I do just fine. I've always sucked at fps games though but I never even liked them to begin with

>>718264635 (OP)
It's not so bad. Could be worse.

>>718264635 (OP)
>tried playing bf6 after a long hiatus from the series and fps games
>cant kill anyone
>go 1-13 every round (worse if you count revives not counting as deaths on scoreboard, meaning i probably die at least 20 times a match)
i used to be decent when i played 2, 3, and 4. i could play all classes and vehicles reasonably well. thats gone now.

>>718266545
Thats where i'm at. Its like a pvp experience but no stress and i can show off some skills.

>>718269465
It's infested with cheaters.

>>718264635 (OP)
Living on a penal colony for a planet gets more unbearble as you age until you either play minecraft in public or kill yourself.

it's not like you're 30+ and suddenly gaming is shit. It's more that you're now juggling alot more things in life and it becomes really hard to just sit down and play vidya as much as you used to

>>718269337
Wow that's the complete opposite to me.
I've gotten shitter at them because of heart and sleep issues I suspect. Also estrogen in my water supply probably isn't doing me well either with my testosterone levels pouring out of my skin. That might cause a bad reaction in my body.

>>718265713
haha yeah bro I drink alcohol it helps me calm down bro haha *sip*

>>718269638
This but with energy drinks. I don't know what it is but it taste good enough for me and it also unrazzles my brain and helps me relax. The caffeine headaches are a bitch though.

>>718264635 (OP)
>exercise 3-5 times a week since 20
>now 35, cant sit more for more than 30 minutes without lower back and legs feeling like its on fire
i would rather have not existed than live with chronic pain for 75%+ of my total existence

>>718265713
>>718269638
>>718269886
DUDE
DRUGS

>>718269527
>Living on a penal colony for a planet gets more unbearble as you age
I was sick of this shit at like age 7. I used to tape news and docos on government bullshit because I was that mad about my state of affairs around me. People took advantage of me trying to disassociate from my shitty system and that just made it worse. So thanks government agencies and corporations, your existence itself made me this angry.

The river I used to love camping at as a child was just recently fucked up by strip mining and gold mining. Most of the ocean I used to enjoy fishing from is now empty and the fish toxic. The ocean itself is getting worse every day.
And then you just go "but we don't know why violent extremists and radicals exist on the internet, these people are just evil plain and simple" and then you wonder why I have spent most of my life hating your system.

So things like games were how I coped with this burning hatred of administrators. Not a single day goes by where I am not thinking about their heads on a stick. Not a single one.
And then they fuck up your games too. Censor your information.

>>718269886
try not to exceed 300mg of caffeine

>>718269998
Alcohol isn't a drug.

>>718269998
Drugs just make me want to strangle people. I avoid drugs.
Then again no drugs makes me want to strangle people too.

>>718269236
Indeed, I never really cared about graphics so I find myself going for indie titles and hidden gems.
If corporate hands touched it, it's almost guaranteed slop.
Another downside of being old is that I've already fucking played everything good.

>>718269465
>i used to be decent when i played 2, 3, and 4. i could play all classes and vehicles reasonably well. thats gone now.
You can still do it now retard 6 is slop and mechwise it reflects it.
This is like the difference on CSGO to CSS to 1.6. The so-called skill curve does not follow logic.

I live paycheck to paycheck and want to kill myself

>>718269954
bro what the fuck did you do, not stretch at all? exceed your known safe limits constantly?
i've been exercising regularly since i was a teenager and i've worked manual labor the last 13 years and i feel great, i was powerlifting in high school but i stopped at 19, but still kept lifting reasonably ever since, bike to work daily

>>718269886
yeah i also became the i need caffeine to function person. down the energy drink right at work. limit it to 1 a day though.

>>718264939
>>718267434
>>718268089
>>718269395
What's even the point of weed? I tried it after they legalized it here, and all it did was give me a buzz for a few hours.

>>718264939
Weed makes me too retarded and I can't play anything. I just get hyper focused on details and do nothing

>>718270012
Caffeine doesn't really stop shit other than making you remember words a bit better.
The problem is living in a shitty world that makes me unhappy because it is unnatural and disgusting and ran by people who think their shit doesn't stink while raping lolis and hiring mercs to murder civilians. It's hard to find energy when you are surrounded by complete garbage that tries to convince you it's "human development" while killing you faster than ever before for the sake of experimentation.

Fuck jews.

>>718270185
drugs don't have the same effect if you try them for the first time after your brain's fully developed so you'll never get the appeal that someone who did it at 13 saw in it

34 here

i only game when its not summer

>>718270149
Enjoy the osteoarthritis when you get older, anon.

>>718270030
Yes it is

>>718270185
must have been shitty weed. anyone who's had the good shit would never ask "whats the point"

>>718270185
it passes time and makes nothing to do something to do

>>718269136
>>718269192
Man, I usually put hundreds of hours into MH, but I just burned right through Wilds and lost interest. Some of the weapons are super fun, just hoping they improve the roster in G rank.

>>718270301
i'm basically the same age as you bro, that's why i'm asking, because i don't have back pain or anything even though part of my job is regularly lifting 150lb bins manually

I'm a 36 year old giga NEET and the hardest thing by far for me is motivation

>>718270298
t. cold climate
Where I live, summer is up to 50C.

>>718270185
the high cbd stuff is good for joint pain

>>718270417
nah its not un at 35°C 4 days in a row

>>718266372
Pic related

32 here, I still play some fps and still do well, I'm not going 3:1 anymore, probably solidly in the 1.5 to 2 k/d. I've mostly moved on to strategy, turn based, and RTT games. It's not bad anon, gaming after 30 isn't the massive cliff zoomers seem to think

>>718270298
The older I get the more I hate Summer. The world naturally heating up leaving the tail end of the ice age meaning longer Summers makes me want to kill myself. I wouldn't even want kids if a woman was spreading her legs in front of me right now knowing those poor bastards would have to live with 8 month long Summers.

>>718264635 (OP)
I haven't gotten worse at games and play on higher difficulties or go for achievements I wouldn't have when I was a kid. My issue is that I've been on this godforsaken earth so long I have actually played just about every good game in the two genres I like best (horror and western RPGs) and even most of the just OK ones. So my options are to play absolute slop. wait for the two games that come out a year I want to play, or branch out into other genres. I played some Far Cry and Atelier games recently and they were fun.

>>718270467
same fuck summer

>>718270467
just breed a latina

>>718265571
>I dunno, dude, have you tried playing something cool?
>proceeds to post the most uncool shit ever

>>718264635 (OP)
It's still fun. I play VR so it's immersive and engaging.

>>718270685
>a latin

>>718270402
It was an issue for me as a teen when I hit puberty. Then I had a period of motivation built by delusions about what I could achieve to motivate me out of my slump. Then covid happened and I realised I was being fucking retarded and that the aspirations are just fucking games the system gamifies around us to motivate the economy into movement. Money doesn't motivate. Dreams motivate.

So it's no wonder why the economy slumps whenever dreams are crushed and why the world, being as shit as it currently is, crushes the economy and dreams more and more everyday. The only people that dream - real fucking high. Smoking crack or snorting shit. Or they're on pain meds that are far too potent to be prescribed.
Those are the only dreamers nowadays.

That's why everything sucks again to me.

>>718265571
>have you tried playing something cool?
>lists a bunch of westoid slop
kill yourself faggot

>>718270443
Ok, but I will literally die if I go out into bushland in 50C. There's no playing around in nature that brutal. You don't frolic with brown snakes, you don't camp and play around in 50C. That's pants on head retarded.

Not quite as bad as Basra.
>pushing 53C there every summer lately
wew lad. Poor iraqis.

I just started playing Dark Souls recently and despite having no online capabilities, it immediately clicked with me and always wondered what it was like if I just played this back when it came out. It gets the whole "sense of wonder and intrigue" just right.

Soon 35 here
Girl from my d&d group is hot, cute bot god damn also a walking red flag

>>718270030
Alcohol is a suppressant. Its literally slows your nervous system.

>>718270123
>You can still do it now retard
i cant. by the time i even register theres an enemy on screen im already dead.

>>718271082
From memory, it's a hallucinogen, a depressant and a stimulant in one or something of that accord.

>>718270030
>murrican/indian education

>>718270459
Have you tried smurfing? SBMM makes going much past 1.5 a lot less common, since doing it in one game will just put you up against higher tier players next match

>>718271238
just because something has stimulating effects doesn't make it a stimulant in any capacity. alcohol is purely a downer, just like opiates are a downer but people who do them get fuck tons of energy

>>718265621
>>718265774
>>718265886
Normalfag melty. Go back trash.
>After you turn 25, you should NOT be having any fun at all, and if you do, heres a list of acceptable fun activities
Eat shit and drink piss.

>>718264635 (OP)
No if you have a job where you don't give a fuck.
>t.Highschool substitute teacher who plays 20+ hours at work while getting paid $180 a day.
I'm a building sub so a lot of days I don't even have to do any classes. Just gotta be on standby.

>>718271308
Is that what it fucking is? I never really thought about it too hard. I used to just pubstomp in CSS, Unreal Tournament, BFBC2, etc etc and I never had a problem getting a high ratio. Nowadays it's like you said, completely roll a team and the next match I'm fighting for my life

turning 35 in uh march 2026

it's funny because the "wow all this shit fucking sucks huh?" wave I've been hoping for going on near 20 years now isn't even bringing me the joy i hoped for because there's no path back to making things that don't suck anymore. COVID and time have pretty much killed all industry knowledge of fun.

I've gotten better at gaming as I've gotten into my 30s. What does that mean?

>>718271364
Well that's not what scientists classify alcohol. They teach you at school that it's all three categories of drug.
Well if you don't live in America that is.

>>718271629
you're not coping like the other fat retards in their mid 30s whining about their reaction times

>>718271647
citation needed
seriously, i would love to see whatever retarded shit you are reading. and no i'm not talking about whatever your school health teacher or whatever class you euroid faggots have taught you as propaganda

>>718271629
You are based

>>718264939
>watching a movie
>gotta get high first
>playing a game
>gotta get high first
>eating dinner
>get high
>bedtime
>high
don't do it brehs it's not worth it

>>718271629
I used to be a panicky Pete when I was younger. Now I'm calm and composed and way more calculated. I dont get emotional at all anymore and that alone works wonders in competitive. Just hit silver 2 in league btw.

https://youtu.be/FCLYkmKi-c4

>>718271629
Brain specialisation in just gaming.
I tend to study different subjects to prevent this because you'll start to forget other subjects in detail.
It means your brain is dying essentially and coping with that issue by specialising more in the area's of the brain that are more active.

Your brain is muscle, you need to force it to remain active in all areas to not end up a 1 trick pony.

>>718265621
>you need to follow the depressing formula for life that everyone else follows! because.... uh... you're supposed to!

How about this? I will:

1. Advance my career by being a good employee, being a lifelong learner, and staying sharp within my industry
2. Live well below my means (so I can afford to do anything I want without going into debt)
3. Live a comfy life without having to climb the corporate ladder.
>b-but you need a big house and the latest SUV!
I don't need more things. Consumerism is slavery. As long as I have my wife, vidya, good food, and a roof over my head in a safe neighborhood, I have everything I need.

>>718271727
School education. I don't have those books anymore pal.
But google seems to think it's just a depressant. That's sorta incorrect.
In reality it causes effects similar to other hallucinogens and stimulants.
That's why your vision goes blurry and why people can get mad and hyper under the influence of it at bars, to the point of fights.

>>718269192
>>718269136
>every single one of them was good

>>718268089
Haha true my fellow redditerino! Upbaoted!

>>718272110
ok which games on that list do you consider bad? post playtime of said games as well.

Im le old and le depressed le sigh...

>>718271824
>Advance my career by being a good employee, being a lifelong learner,
Imagine thinking employment will do this.
All employment does is overadapt the workforce until they become shit at all tasks from sheer stress and fatigue. You just get dementia faster at work.
What you need is active engagement with something you are motivated for and even things not motivated for without the stress that work enforces.

This is why the soviet union made more tech than the yanks, who just stole all of their tech and sabotaged the soviet union scorched earth style. Money doesn't make the world go round. It destroys it.

All paid employment did for me is learn pointless distracting tasks that wasted people's time meaninglessly. This is why your main growing industries in your system are service orientated, pointless redundant tasks. This is why manufacturing is so heavily in decline in the western world and soon china too. Manufacture too much, you flood the market with shit and nobody earns money from it. Capitalism enforces pointless redundant tasks like service industries.

Then again, so does communism. I think systems in general have the same issue with post-scarcity until it becomes rapidly scarce again and collapses on itself like with many totalitarian and corporate nightmares.

>>718272515
Funny, because I was actually happier as a young adult than I was as a child.
I used to break shit as a teen and hated everything as a teen. Those days slowly returned over time as I realised I was correct as a teen with my assumptions and that adults really are fucking retarded ants.

>35
>work from home so I can care for my toddler too
Still got plenty of time for gaming, at least by my standards. I don't really play in long stretches or anything so a couple hours while she's napping or whatever is fine with me.

>>718272441
did posting this un-fuck your mom or no?

>>718272515
and it'll happen to you

Whenever I get sad, I get mad instead and I no longer feel sad.
But somewhere along the line I just got mad all the time instead.
Kinda makes me sad.
Then that make me madder.

>>718264635 (OP)
Im 34 and Ive only gotten better at playing them, but I'm also not an unhealthy wreck

>>718264635 (OP)
yes there's no dopmanine hit anymore. Everything is boring even sex. Only way to feel anything is to get drinking only then it's intresting

>all of these people who supposedly haven't touched gaming in years and have no time ever
>just happened to be lurking v on a Saturday waiting for this thread to tell everyone about their lives
LMAO

I cannot believe most official sources classify alcohol as a mere depressant now instead of depressant, stimulant and hallucinogen.
Fucking pajeets man.
Their Dunning–Kruger stupidity is just OPSEC at this stage.

>>718272980
People have insane amounts of free time and just lie because they treasure doom scroll time and depression staring

>>718264635 (OP)
its fine. there's nowhere near as many good games these days as there was when i was in my teens and 20s. but its still a very fun hobby.

outside of the specific periods of time, gaming is probably a better hobby now than it was when i was younger because i dont play sports or music anymore and my friends are all also grown ups with responsibilities so i cant see them as much.

own my home. good job. two kids. play games with the missus and the kids all the time

>>718266961
>Often just because they're interested, autistically, in the manufacturing of them and what they show for the time period.

they were closeted gays and troons anon

The problem is you.

>>718272980
Yeah you don't keep your friends past 25 when people just start to obsess about money alone. You only keep financially beneficial friends. Especially in a system designed so you don't engage with other people over anything but money. Money systems have designed and naturally selected human beings to become disinterested in people after a stage of plasticity so they focus on building the hive and helping cash flow. Focusing on people for enjoyment and hobbying alone is a bad distraction that could harm the hive. So that's being naturally selected out of our genes.

Genetically programmed hive-vampirism. It's not even mutually beneficial. It's largely destructive to all parties involved.
And this system will convince, through media that this is bullshit like "love" or healthy indulgence when really it's very unnatural and very modern. People weren't like this thousands of years ago. Just look at their religions and memes. It's far more free of these destructive tendencies in man that the system has selectively bred for a mere few thousands of years.

>>718273415
the baba is you lollll

>>718273267
That's what you think because you can't think of anything but your penis because the system designed you to forget about other altruistic things. The system tends to weed out those that do think otherwise. That's also why systems constantly implode on themselves.

Perhaps you need to be castrated.

This threads fuckin gay and stupid.
look whippersnappers im 43 in half a month and still gaming fine. wife kids house all of it...still game.
Only things changed is i stopped caring about certain kinda fuckin stupid things as i got older.
You young faggots wouldnt wanna hear it though. might as well be a retired boomer to you jackasses.

>>718273415
>how dare you question my life choices!
>only YOUR life choices and criticism of my life choices should be questioned!

This is called "cope".
Glowniggers usually cope the most by fucking children btw.