Thread 720506178

>anytime I try to play a videogame it no longer distracts me from real life
>10 minutes in I just start thinking about why I'm depressed and alone and want to stop playing
I don't think this hobby is for me anymore

play a better video game or start drinking

>>720506245
Like what? I was replaying RE4 Remake and actually having fun yet in the back of my mind I kept thinking "I'm wasting my life/time right now" and shut it off

>>720506178 (OP)
Fix your situation first
The game is always going to be there waiting

>>720506342
You're wasting your time posting here so fuck off faggot

>>720506178 (OP)
Do you really?

>>720506437
Fraid so

get your shit together then i don't care about your problems and i don't want to read about them on /v/ ps where do i unsubscribe from this blogpost?

I feel so ill right now man…I don’t get it I actually made sure to drink enough water and stuff too

>>720506178 (OP)
Same shit happened to me a feww years ago. Now only videogames I play are retro emulating shit, cause it takes like half hour max to beat a SNES or Genesis game

I guess this is growing up
https://youtu.be/sT0g16_LQaQ?si=xoEo_jx848-G-yRC

Most people "grow" out of gaming for a reason

>>720506178 (OP)
Worked yourself into a shoot.

I like how with every other form of entertainment people just either consume it or dont. But with video games, faggots must go to Tibet for 2 years and meditate on whether or not to start another playthrough of their favorite RPG.

>>720507349
Video games are VERY different form of entertainment compared to watching a tv show or movie your retard. It's very much there for you to "escape" and when you can't do that anymore, it's pretty much useless

>>720506342
Funny that's how I feel reading your crybaby blogposts

>>720506178 (OP)
welcome to your 20s, brainlet

Im in /v/ y'all

>>720506178 (OP)
As long as there's balance, it's fine. If you're spending some time working on whatever you think is important, then there's nothing wrong enjoying leisure too.

What really helped me was going on an extremely degenerate drug+escort bender. Having that memory as a sort of "now I'm too far gone anyway!" moment keeps me centered.

>get taste of what having a gf is like after being a virgin for 27 years
>she breaks up with me out of nowhere for no reason and blocked me everywhere as if I cheated on her even tho I didn't
And that ruined my entire head space. I can't enjoy anything anymore, I just want to be with someone and share shit with

>>720507505
This is nonsense. It's all entertainment and none of it is bad in moderation.

I've been depressed before like this and it also ruined my enjoyment for vidya, what helped me was getting a job and socializing.

>>720506178 (OP)
The cure for depression is working out. Both your body and your mind. Treat games like the gym.

Problem solved. It works.

>>720506178 (OP)
it's growing up.
i get done playing and i go "damn that was a waste of time"

>>720508585
living is a waste of time

>>720508650
If you're a nihilist piece of shit, sure.

>>720509036
you exist and time passes, how does the way you spend it end up more "wasteful" than a different way

>>720507780
Most games are inherently immoderate.
They are bloated and insubstantive, no more enriching than a 2-hour film yet several times longer.

The real waste of time is toiling as a wagie, or even worse a salary cuck

>>720509098
That you cannot even differentiate evinces a pernicious atrophy of spirit.
I hope you will one day discover your raison d'être.

>>720509363
>making people hate themselves for the thing that allows them to have a home in the first place

>>720508585
Nothing that improves your body and mind is a waste of time you morons.

>>720509997
What about people who spend their time on video game forums trying to make people stop enjoying video games?

>>720508650
>>720510145
look if you get something out of it, that's great. i can enjoy games from time to time. but it's like TV. i've come to value interacting with people i care about to be more important to me. single player games especially, a lot of the time, feel like getting in a time machine.

>>720510686
Interacting with friends and family is #1. Your health is also #1. Does a gym feel like a time machine? Actually it should, because it adds time to your life. Mental gym just as important. Affords you even more time because the body usually fails first.

Do not listen to sabotage losers about "growing up" or out of games. There is a reason some of the greatest minds that ever lived played chess their entire lives.

>>720511117
everything in balance. everything.
if you come to realize you are using games to hide from reality, that is a problem. games can be a part of your life, or they can be your whole life. they should not be your whole life.

>>720511423
Absolutely. Games & gym. Had a friend that got addicted to going to the gym because it cured his depression and wound up spending more time at the gym than he did playing video games. So yes, balance, always.

But games and gyms arent a waste. They are vital supports of health if you treat them as such.

>>720506178 (OP)
I had a horrible incident last year where all my family members except my mother betrayed me.
Nolifeing in MMOs is the only thing that keeps me from thinking about it constantly. I don't think about why I'm playing and what else I could do with the time, I just play. Otherwise it would be unbearable.

>>720511703
>Everybody else betrayed ME!
Sounds like you're the common denominator, fagget.

>>720511620
Games are nothing more than an indulgence, like junk food.
They do not contribute positively to your life like exercise.

>>720506178 (OP)
holy shit, is that THE BIG DAWG? what is he doing on /v/?

>>720513279
This. Games are just junk food for the brain after a certain point. Once you get your hand-eye coordination noob gains, there’s no reason to keep playing.

>>720511703
Holy shit Tommy Wiseau posts on /v/

>>720506178 (OP)
I don't care fag, this is the video game board, not the sad sap sympathy board. Go to /lgbt/ if you want to write gay posts

>>720513817
fpbp

>>720506245
>start drinking

That's possibly the worst advice you can give the anon

Thanks for letting us know

>>720513180
Some families are simply broken beyond repair. If you haven't experienced it yourself then I envy you.

>>720506245
Alcohol tastes like shit tho?

>>720506178 (OP)
Why are you wasting time doomscrolling /v/ then faggot? You self hating blogposters always contradict yourselves by the mere act of posting here.

>>720514212
If your *entire* family turned against (you), (you) fucked up.

>>720513279
Nope. Especially in old age, any movement is good movement. Same for brain activity. Proven science.

>>720516010
Ah the numbers logic. If 9/10 vote to fuck a tree, they must be sane and the 1 who voted "youre all retarded" must be wrong. Good luck with that.

Should i get back into wrestling? Im kind of tired of vidya and movies.

Are the current happenings fun?

>>720506950
What's that from?

>>720507752
I've been recovering from a 13 year relationship for over a year and I really don't know what to do with myself alone. It's terrible.

>>720514504
It’s extremely feminine behavior, and they always start arguing back with you when they’re offered solutions, just like a girl does when you’re dating and you try to fix the problem for them with advice. Either fix your shit or don’t.

>>720518381
Oh lord no. If anything, I'm probably stepping away from wrestling for a while now because it's gotten so bad and stale again.
A few years ago, Vince got ousted and HHH took over. Things were pretty great for a bit. WWE was have a renaissance and becoming revitalized for the first time in decades. These past couple of months though, every episode has felt the same. It's the same plotline of Seth Rollins gets 2 crony henchmen to hide behind while he's the world champion, that they've done 5 times in the past decade. So sick of seeing him and how he sucks everyone around him into a vortex of becoming as bland and boring as he is. Bron Breaker was great and had so much potential! Now he's just Seth's goon and might as well be a generic strongman.
Most recently they had Becky Lynch slap CM Punk about 50 times in the face, and of course Punk did nothing, making him look like a bitch. Then they bring back Punk's wife, AJ Lee. They have her cut promos in which she talked about getting therapy, which got the crowd to chant for therapy. She even used the feminist trash word "mansplain" in an unironic way. All this crap just to setup a pointless mixed gender match, which is always the worst kind of match you can have.
I'm taking a break. Maybe I'll check back in with the Royal Rumble in a few months to see if it got any better, but right now it suuuuuuuuuuuucccccccckkkkkkkssssss.

>>720509207
you play the wrong games. a movie or music is only ever about consuming. a game is interactive and can require a substantial amount of effort. play games for a little bit longer and you'll grow bored of ubislop and reaction based skinner boxes and then we can talk

>>720506178 (OP)
How old are you? It took me a while to realize people didn’t make me happy, if anything they made me feel even lonelier. Try exercise if you haven’t and get another hobby.

>>720513979
this isnt a fucking therapist office, if anon is going to come online looking for a pity party hes going to get self destructive advice in the hopes we dont have to hear his bleeding vagina whining anymore

>>720511117
>Interacting with friends and family is #1.
i don't have any friends and interacting with my family is draining
>Your health is also #1.
i can't get out of bed

>>720516010
sweet summer child

>>720506178 (OP)
playing videogames is not a hobby, it's watching TV with extra steps

>>720511703
your mother probably betrayed you too by coddling you too much and stiffing your growth. you should cut her off too. i'm being serious here. you don't expect mold to magically stop at your favorite fruit

>>720506178 (OP)
This was me right after school. The nagging in your head is probably some ambition that you are neglecting. I didn't even own a gaming device for a few years and if it weren't for covid, I might have still stayed away. It's now fun again to have a pastime like videogames because I've gotten my shit together (mostly), but you should probably spend your hours more wisely so that you have something concrete.

>>720519038
I see, it does sound pretty bad. Thank you for being so detailed.

>>720518452
Rectify

Don't watch, it's too depressing.

>>720518139
>If 9/10 vote to fuck a tree, they must be sane and the 1 who voted "youre all retarded" must be wrong.
Yes, that's how sanity works, you tree-virgin faggot.

post-gaming depression stops around age 30 when you realize youi're in too deep to turn the ship around.

>>720519230
I'm 30

>>720519183
Music and cinema have attained immeasurably greater merit than any vidya.
That is not to suggest that there are no games superior to any films or albums, as there ample atrocities in every medium.
But quality cinema and music offer far more enrichment for substantially less time investment than vidya.
Doubly so for literature.

And as for cognitive exercise, you would be better served learning something, contemplating new concepts and assimilating information.

>>720522791
Why aren't you dead?

>>720523060
holy pseud

>>720507579
>20s
nta only started to feel like that at 30+

>>720523130
why aren't you?

>>720506178 (OP)
>ohhh i'm over 30
>ohhh video games don't do it no more
>ohhh
Shut the fuck up already, I bet you'll stop playing video games, but you'll still fucking come here to shit the place up

>>720523217
Concession accepted.

>>720524354
have fun contemplating thoughts

>>720523327
I dunno, man, that's why I asked.

>>720509997
Your fault for being born to a shit lineage and playing into the system. Shoulda worked during your teens to get a farm instead of playing persona.

>>720506950
this webm is pathetic lmao. do you cry when you waste time at the movies or go for walk? or buy a burger at maccy ds?

>>720524387
It's not about "fun", simpleton, but the reckoning of time.
Quoth the late film critic nonpareil Roger Ebert:
>...for most gamers, video games represent a loss of the precious few hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized, and empathetic.

>>720506178 (OP)
usa must be very calm to feel this way. In eu slop, we don't have time to think because, of the migrants and everything...

>>720524940
*Our* migrant crisis is being solved as we shitpost.

>>720506178 (OP)
do drugs and then play videogames. I reccomend a combination of speed (adderall, vyvanse or meth) and marijuana. you will have a great time gauranteed, if youre not you just need more drugs. plus once youre done with games you can goon for as long as you want and it never gets boring, its incredibly fun, like some of the most fun youll ever have. seriously you guys if you havent done speed, weed+ marathon sesh vidya and porn you are REALLY missing out.

>>720524854
thats not the point anon. playing the game from his childhood reminds him of a time where he was innocent, happy and full of hope. then he reflects on his current hopeless, miserable situation and realizes just how fucked he is.

>>720525138
>just give yourself brain damage bro
I think I'm good.

>>720525312
>brain damage
unless youre taking literal OD levels like a retard not going to happen. if youre already a depressed and broken loser in life (like me) you have nothing to lose. might as well enjoy your shitty life.

>>720506178 (OP)
A hobby is not supposed to be a "distraction from real life".
A hobby is something that you're passionate about and live and that makes you happy no matter what.
It just sounds like gaming isn't you hobby.
Find your hobby, homo.

>>720525446
The only issue I have with depression is the lack of energy to do anything, and a little caffeine solves that just fine

>>720506178 (OP)
Should we just die

>>720506178 (OP)
Thats awesome man, you should pick up something else and leave this board for a forum that talks about your hobby. All the best.

>>720506245
FPBP

yeah starting to feel the same. Video games are fun, but also an abyss for time that enable my avoidance of real life.
GL getting your shit together bro.

>>720524921
>It's not about "fun"
pseud and ngmi too? lol
if you want to be good at something you got to have fun. but i guess it's not like you're good at anything so you wouldn't know that haha

i feel this way, but i also dont know what else to spend my time on. i mean, jobs are fucking boring so it's not like that will bring fulfillment either. most other hobbies are boring. so while gaming feels like a waste of time, most other things feel like a waste of time too.

>>720506178 (OP)
play the wasteland 2
that got me back in love with gays