Thread 724805551

What was your life like before 4chan? Has it improved or ruined your appreciation for games? I can't imagine how looking at these god awful threads improves it. I used to actually play games before I came to this shithole. I hate it here.

I'm 28 and I've been posting here since I was 13.

>>724805551 (OP)
It's exactly the same. I only engage in cool discussions with normal anons and not contrarians.

>>724805551 (OP)
>What was your life like before 4chan?
I was browsing other gay time wasting websites, just less edgy. I guess discovering this one felt like hard drugs at first but the novelty has worn off along with the community here dwinding

>>724805551 (OP)
>What was your life like before 4chan?
Normal I guess?
>Has it improved or ruined your appreciation for games?
It has done neither honestly. I just come here for entertainment. None of the opinions held here or any other place are going to magically sway me or change what I think of something. If that's not the case for anyone here, then they're are way too naïve and impressionable.

>>724807679
girl moot is such a qt

>>724808067
Have you seen Todd's daughter?

>>724805551 (OP)
No bra?

>>724805551 (OP)
>What was your life like before 4chan?
Do you want to know? My life before 4chan was using a Warcraft 3 forum. That was it; I played Dota and used a Warcraft 3 forum.
>I hate it here.
Why not play some video games? If you don't like it here and you stay, then you are causing your suffering and not anyone else.

>>724809802
How do you think I reached that play time in Dota 2? It's because I'm not a woman, I don't say things that aren't true. I would never even say "I hate it here" and I would just leave. If you can't leave and play games, then you're not even a person, because you no control over your actions.

>>724805551 (OP)
I've been lurking since I was 12 but only started posting regularly after the election. I guess I had less social awareness and was definitely easier to bait back then.
>Has it improved or ruined your appreciation for games?
I do not give a shit about the opinions of others on anything unless I personally know I can trust their opinion. But it did lower my opinion of gamers and I guess I could've been playing vidya instead of writing this rn. Although I distinctly remember this one annoying faggot who was really into Castlevania, which combined with the fact that I wasn't a fan of the first game, pretty much single-handedly turned me away from this series. Something similar happened with Sonic too and I know that I would not have given any tendie game a try had I not already played them before. But on the other hand this board did introduce me to many games I enjoyed that I never would've played otherwise and I'm grateful for it.

>>724805551 (OP)
I realized most anons are retarded and I don't listen to any of you motherfuckers

Beating Death Stranding made me realize that /v/ is always wrong and that I shouldn’t care what anyone says here. Every day it’s the same threads over and over, it’s almost like this board is just /vg/ 2. There’s maybe one or two fun threads a day and maybe one anon worth replying to, but other than that the rest is just retards arguing about nothing.
My advice for everyone with a 4chan addiction, just pick one thread, read it through, then just boot up a game for the rest of the day. Whatever thread you think you missed, it’ll be there again tomorrow with almost every exact post word for word

>>724805551 (OP)
Before 4chan I was a teenager and a completely different human than I am now, but that's just because of normal growing up rather than 4chan. Back in the day I discovered some neat games on here and enjoyed the threads where that happened, and my sense of humor is very informed by the humor of that time. Nowadays I keep coming here because it's interesting in an anthropological sense, like visiting the zoo but people, and find new games elsewhere. That said I came out alright despite my time here during my late formative years.

>>724805683
Literally me

>>724805551 (OP)
I started Silent Hill 3 for the first time a few days ago and You're Not Here is one of the best songs I've ever heard.

>>724812016
>Before 4chan I was a teenager and a completely different human than I am now, but that's just because of normal growing up rather than 4chan.

How are you different now? You still seem like a normalnigger to me. I was the guy who sat by himself in school, so I was always going to end up on 4chan. I haven't changed at all since I was a teenager.

>>724812316
It's actually funny to me that everyone thinks they're unique and special, but to me, every single tiny brained faggot on this board is like one person I don't like. It's why I so casually filter most of it. If people are going to shit out low IQ garbage in every thread, I'll just remove any thread I don't like for any reason. Modern 4chan is so horrible. It's like some kind of ethnic hivemind where regardless of what ethnic they are, they're equally stupid. The absolute state of humanity.

>>724805551 (OP)
Better, been browsing since 09, met friends through /tg/, made more friends from them, and now am engaged and have a rather decent job. Still shitpost and enjoy most if not all the things i used to and have picked up a number of hobbies. Just got back from vacation where i went to hang with anorger friend whome i met through 4chan a few years back.

>>724805551 (OP)
>What was your life like before 4chan?
Im 38 and have been here since I was 17.
The only thing I dislike is how almost all threads now are about blacks, indians, jews or trannies. It never used to be like this.

>>724812865
Look at this. Am I sharing any threads with the sub-humans? No. Every single NPC motherfucker is speaking to the other people who ruined the site. I don't even scroll past their posts, because they're posting in filtered threads.
It's like they all gathered in a house, and I locked all the doors and windows from the outside. If only I could burn it down.

>>724813352
>The only thing I dislike is how almost all threads now are about blacks, indians, jews or trannies. It never used to be like this.

Who do you think is using the site?

>>724813425
>Who do you think is using the site?
old men that are bitter with the world?

>>724813582
No, not old men. I'm an old man, because I've been gaming all my life and it ages you. I have nothing in common with anyone. I entered a Baldur's Gate 3 thread, and I tried to talk about the game and got no replies. I posted a screenshot and everything. The site is young and looks like this.

>>724813425
probably your mom or something...

>>724805551 (OP)
I've been on here since 2005 when I was 16, now I'm 36. I don't come here as much as I used to because the site kinda sucks now but its hard to even remember a time in my life before I was into 4chan, I mostly just hung out on shitty forums but got sick of the powertripping mods and post count dickwaving that existed on those.

>>724805551 (OP)
Playing dangerous games with sand niggers online doxing and getting doxed and 'very serious' threats

>>724805551 (OP)
I don't remember.

>>724805551 (OP)
It's the only place I've come to constantly since 2011. I needed 4chan immensely as I was well on my way to becoming a Chris Chan or WingsofRedemption and this site called out my autistic faggotry. /fit/ got me in shape, look attractive, get women, and eventually get back into reading. /pol/ redpilled me and it's funny to see 40 something goobers on the Internet talking about "THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN" or the amount of talk about "DA JOOZ" when I was aware of those things 10 years ago.

What I will say is that normies and society are at a terrible spot right now that interacting with them is mentally exhausting and they keep ruining things over and over. I used to be someone who could start a conversation with anyone but you eventually hear the same stories over and over again. NTM the normies can't even pretend to be nice or friendly anymore and every white male in the USA wants to act like a street nigger.

>>724814054
>What I will say is that normies and society are at a terrible spot right now that interacting with them is mentally exhausting and they keep ruining things over and over.

Can you prove you're not a normie?

>>724814102
On paper and at face value? No. But I still remember frequenting /r9k/ before they required your post to be original and before it was a board for trannies to groom lost men.

>>724814332
You can't prove it? Great. I'm filtering the image you posted. I'll take a screenshot so you can see what it looks like.

There is no before and after 4chan

This place is shit.

But even there is beauty here.

This is how it looks. Check the timestamp to see that I just took the screenshot. I filtered all the other images too. I can't tell you NPCs apart anyway.

I smoked crack for the first time, never used drugs before 4chan.
Want to try some LSD and mushrooms and become a full schizo instead of just 25%.

>>724814374
>>724814446
Ok.
>NPC
Normie detected.

>>724805551 (OP)
I wouldn't say it was any different.

>>724812316
You don't know how I seem from that one post, that's one thing adult me knows that teenage me was too insecure to believe. Self confidence is one of the big developments for me personally, as well as having developed a more concrete and grounded personal belief and moral framework. Just a lot of little things. Starting to read books regularly in my early 20s was a good move, as well as forcing myself to socialize and keep in touch with friends after college.

>>724815494
>You don't know how I seem from that one post

No, I do. I can tell you're a stupid person, like everyone else on this website. Do you know how I know? You think I care what you have to say, and I don't. Consider posting in the rest of the board, which I filtered.

>>724815602
Hmm, what a boring conversation. Have a good life telling strangers how you come here to ignore most people and tell the others they're dumb. See some potential there.

>>724805551 (OP)
It was better when people didn't care so much about black people in games like everyone here used to before the Trump crowd shitted up the place.

>>724814718
It's not a secret club; not anymore. 4chan feels exactly like high school, where I didn't want to speak to anyone. It makes me wonder how destroyed society is that instead of losers coming to the internet, it's everyone. It used to be that everyone using this site would be having their NPC talks in the real world, and now they do it online for some reason. What's the real world for, then? Do they just go out and do their slave duties and then shit up the internet in their free time.

>>724805551 (OP)
I first found 4chan a long time ago around 12-13 but it didn't have the in-place image resize addon (nor were there plugins back then) so the porn aspect was bad and I didn't know the culture well enough to enjoy early internet memes. This was I dunno 2005-2006 or something.
Later mid highschool I found it again and installed the add-on and it was mostly a porn site. The discussions were still not really interesting to me.
Couple of years later close to college or in college I got into it properly. Fun times
It's been 13-15 years now but It's not really the same. For the past 7-8 years it's just some place I check up on, maybe shitpost once or twice or jerk off and leave. There's no point in trying too hard because my knowlege isn't compatible anymore. Can't remember the last time I made OC and someone understood and replied. I only get conversation when it's arguments.

But on point, my life before 4chan was life before the internet, torrents. Information was scarce. Hanging out with friends, rollerblading, playing normal games. Socializing was important for learning stuff and sharing copies of games, etc.

Check out this cool dick-shaped top15 I made

>>724809974
>If you can't leave and play games, then you're not even a person
True...

>>724816764
That was me trying my best to get someone to play video games. I wanted people to know that what makes you human is the ability to fight your destiny.
Am I unhappy? Am I meant to be unhappy? What if I don't accept that? I'll play some video games, that are better than my life. I'm fighting the bad life I was given.

>>724814332
>But I still remember frequenting /r9k/ before they required your post to be original and before it was a board for trannies to groom lost men.
Fuck... I completely forgot /r9k/ used to be my main board all those years ago.

>>724805551 (OP)
>>724805683
Same. I met my one of my best friends on here who introduced me to a bunch of other friends I still have. I was also a chubby shit and threads giving advice actually encouraged me to lose weight and I quickly became a scrawny shit. 4chan now is just a bad habit though. There's nothing to really be gained. It's incredibly rare for this board to even be amusing much less have worthwhile discussion and I would never add anybody posting on here now.

>>724816887
Fine, I'll boot up Nioh. But not because you told me to, I was already planning on doing it.

>>724817486
Boot up whatever you want. I played that game in the screenshot because you have friends, and I guess that's the kind of motivation I need. I used to play games where you're alone, but I can't do it anymore.

>>724816035
>It makes me wonder how destroyed society is that instead of losers coming to the internet, it's everyone.
It's bad out there. I live in Bumfuck, Nowhere and have seen normies become more and more urban though recently rap didn't top the music charts so perhaps enough people have fatigue.

>>724817647
If I look back on my fondest gaming memories, it was always doing stuff with other people.

>>724817310
>4chan now is just a bad habit though. There's nothing to really be gained.
TRVTH NVKE

>>724805551 (OP)
Previous to 4chan I was posting on GameFAQs... and before that on AoL message boards in the 90s. Ever since the early adoption of the internet I've been shitposting somewhere. At least here you got to hear people's raw opinions without being saddled with karma or getting banned for saying the wrong thing.

i dont think it was entirely /v/‘s “cynical gamur” attitude that rubbed off on me but for a long while i was just completely boiling down game’s internal behaviour
>oh this NPC is gonna do this if i do that
>they’re gonna react this way if i shoot or do some other thing they react to
>this grinding is just essentially +1 to this stat / resource
>this is just driving around in circles until im faster than the NPC drivers
>this turn-based game is just chess/checkers with cooler looking sprites
and i never really enjoyed multiplayer with randos and now im in my late 20s and grew apart from e-friends and irl friends dont play games, so its fucking weird to play with randos because they’re all 12-18. and every year i find myself unable to “immerse” myself into a fantasy world anymore so that sucks too :(

>>724818174
>At least here you got to hear people's raw opinions without being saddled with karma
Instead you get disingenuous faggots afraid of admitting they like something, hating on things to hate on them, or just blatantly shitposting.

>>724818526
i feel like /v/ is primarily teenagers and early 20s

>>724818246
Stop being so fucking autistic.

>>724818636
listen buddy, tylenol makes me feel good

>>724805551 (OP)
I played games before and I still play games now.
the quality of the site has been declining fairly rapidly for well over 15 years now, but I still come here because the alternatives are to go to places where you will be banned just for the most nondescript opinion if it goes against the mod's narrative, or to tiny forums that have only a few handfuls of posts every day.
if this place ruined your ability to even enjoy games then you were doomed from the start.