thoughts on taking breaks from videogames? is it necessary? or just an effeminate affectation?
i have not seen a good meme image in like 10 years it's all just shoddy caricatures of "le other guy" now
>>721639716He looks like he beat Silksong.
>>721639947Hollow Knight: Silksong is a 2025 Metroidvania video game developed and published by Australian independent developer Team Cherry
whenever i do i always forget the mechanics so i restart from the beginning when i go back
>>721639814/thread
>>721639947NGL it took me 2 weeks to beat Silksong 100% and I wasn't even struggling with anything past the Last Judge, I just took breaks to come back refreshed and BTFO everything.
>>721639814The world had gotten stupid the past 20 years. Since 2012 in fact.Remember when shit like OP was childish and silly? It's no different than a toddler drawing mean pictures of their bullies and now that's the norm and instead of being ironic or intentionally childish, it's treated like a legitimate punch.Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy movie, not a documentary.
>>721640165>whenever i do i always forget the mechanics so i restart from the beginning when i go backtrue, or if it's an RPG i just forget who my character is and all of the plot-threads i'm trying to follow so i just restart a new character....
you should take a break from posting
>>721640201>>721639947took me 2 days to finish that flash slop.zoomer niggers are just as retarded as their """""""""memes"""""""""" >>721639716Try harder next time
>>721640529don't worry, it's easy and refreshing
>>721640545>playing games for 10 hours a day
>>721639716So this meme came from Reddit right? Why does it have such a reddit feel as opposed to organic-schizo feel
>>721640372>Since 2012 in fact.Haha yeah remember the sky trumpets? Some really old gears shook off their dust and began turning back then. It's no coincide everyone's gotten more neurotic and ridiculous since then, and that the powers that be aren't even trying to hide things anymore. Devils walk the earth freely.Visible and invisible, bro. Don't forget okay?
>>721639716Taking breaks from a challenge is normal.I don't think videogames have reasonable difficulty anymore. The pendulum has swung from "games aimed at adults a diapershitting blind baby can beat" to "unreasonably difficult, but because it's beatable if you point out the flaws everyone will rush to lynch you."Devs are afraid of making easy games so they make them tedious and annoying.Gamers are desperate for validation so they will mindlessly defend anything that filters normalfag casuals because then there's a chance someone will praise them once and their ego is boosted for the next year.
>>721640780or roguelikes, where you just keep playing until you get the boons that allow you to win easy without improving anything
>>721639716man zoomers are beyond saving
>>721639716I don't get it, the guy in the image is being completely reasonable.
>>721639716If you're not having fun it's better to stop playing
>>721640372>Remember when shit like OP was childish and sillyIt's not?
>>721639716How utterly, thoroughly bombastically butthurt must the author of this have been to draw this>getting tilted at a videogame>goes somewhere to rant about how hard the game is>someone makes the reasonable suggestion to take a break>they draw this insteadAtomic, incandescent levels of seethe must have had a hand in this
>>721639814you should take a break from the internet and come back to it
>>721641194easy bait type of comic
I have never taken a break because I thought a game was too hard.Why is every meme a random caricature insulting one person they don't like?
>>721641625I don't know but honestly I'm all for it, the more petty and seething the better. This one is great but I'm sure there must be worse out there.There's that one recruiter jak that has some venom behind it.
>>721641625Why do you think every meme in existence must be personally targeted towards YOU?
>>721642825That's not what he implied at all you terminally ill nigger.
Help a brother out here, is this a dig at people who like things really difficult but find the difficulty causes frustration leading to the need for breaks to keep their mentality healthy, or does "difficulty" mean something else here and this just is a gamer who doesn't like to play for extended periods, almost to a fault?
Retard Ragebait slop that Twitter tards will latch onto and make into a wholesome meme character
>>721639716Whoever made that image lacks venom and hatred. He just looks like a guy instead of a wojak.
>>721639716Your brain processes information in cycles. You have a gathering phase and a processing phase. Breaks are when the processing phase happens naturally; it's why "I quit for the day and then came back and beat it in just a couple tries" is such a common thing.
>>721639716you really can't expect your brain to be on top of everything 100% of time, this is literal common sense
>>721639716This meme actually broke me when I was playing Silksong I was stuck on the beastfly and was close to quitting or taking an extended "break" but then I saw this and something clicked in me So I did nothing but play silksong until O beat it wven when I was tired and not enjoying the game. I only took breaks to sleep and get food and eat while playingI got it eventually but I did not have fun
>>721640372>Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy movie, not a documentary.Wow that's a banger of a one liner! Did you come up with that yourself?
>>721644283>I got it eventually but I did not have funbased
>>721644465hahaha your life is falling apart!
>>721640780>The pendulum has swung from "games aimed at adults a diapershitting blind baby can beat"Yeah, I remember multiple videos from around 2011 parodying how easy games have gotten at the time. I honestly think Dark Souls 1 was the catalyst for games becoming harder now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUPD5y0nrUc
>>721639716Taking breaks really does help...
>>721644923>was the catalyst for games becoming harder now.Not harder but sloppier. They have less mechanics than ever, pressing a dodge or a parry button is not a hard thing, even a chimp (zoomtard) can do it.
>>721641365I like how they had to misrepresent Hitler because he wasn't evil enough for this point
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>>721640372>parroting the Idiocracy lineThe irony
>>721645217it was a different time, now we know better
>>721639716i take breaks of certains games to play other games
>>721641194>words words wordsIs this what zoomies think is funny?
>>721645660this is from the time when we didn't hate words in 4chan
>>721644923It's pretty undeniable that Dark Souls becoming a major hit by breaking all the rules of "proper game design" that the experts had at the time greatly changed the direction of games as a whole. If it wasn't Dark Souls then it would've been some other game, but its success definitely changed things.
>>721645852>Zoomie tries to revise history and pretend B^U doesn't exist
>>721639814More people online means more retards online. It's been going downhill since 2007 with the iPhone and there are no signs of it stopping. There's such a large proportion of phoneposters now people don't even bother calling them out.The proliferation on 4chan could be remedied, or could even have been prevented entirely, but the mods have negative IQ. moot showed himself to be the smartest one here when he left before things got out of hand.
>>721644797Wrong.
>>721645217They didn't though? (Positive value judgement)
>>721646359>nigger doesnt get the comic is satire of words words words in the first place
>>721644283>got bullied into not having fun by a shitty mspaint drawingunc...
>>721645869>If it wasn't Dark Souls then it would've been some other gameYeah, I think people at the time were just fed up of how casualized gaming had gotten.
>>721639716I still find it hilarious that some dude was so assblasted by Silksong he made this image.
>>721639716Stop falling for FOMO and play what you feel like. You don't need breaks then.
>>721640053This is fake news. We all know Silksong never actually released and all the devs were jailed on possession of child pornography charges.
>>721639716lmao whoever drew this publically humiliated themselves
>>721643798I'm going to help you out by telling you not to overthink a shitty meme image made by someone not mentally well.
>>721649070it's a fetish....
>>721639814I liked that "30 year old missing hiker" set that gets more and more esoteric as the years passed for the character, if that counts
>>721639716https://youtu.be/oVs7b7iHgbc&t=531
>>721643798It's someone seether trying to say "if you took a break then you aren't having fun"
>>721639716>erm excuse me bwo you should just try the same thing for five hours straight you'll crack it champ!yes take a break dumbass you're supposed to take breaks its important to function. Even medieval peasants even fucking roman ancient era barbarians took breaks
>>721639716>Wahhh I suck at video games and need some way to tell everyone I'm better than them for suckingHello game journo. You will NEVER be able to beat the cuphead tutorial.
>>721639716>spends his free time taking a break from his hobbyfuck
I don't take breaks, but I do switch between games.
>nooooo you're supposed to get mad and keep throwing yourself at it
>>721639814>it's been nearly 10 years since people started posting soijaks everywhere
>>721640372>Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy movie, not a documentary.
>>721649685What’s so funny about ? Autists are fucking subhumans
What's wrong with taking breaks?
>>721639716why do people bad at games constantly cope endlessly about it 24/7?
>>721639814What is even more ridiculous is that the "I AM SILLY", type of bullshit was known as such 15 years ago but today but almost every meme and argument, especially wojacks are nothing but the "I am silly" argument.People shit on Pepes but those at least try to be funny and simply taking the piss as opposed to any wojack or variant of it where people often argue seriously with it.
>>721640780Aren't games way easier than they used to be? I haven't played the modern meme difficulty games but I doubt they are as hard as Zelda II
>>721650280Some people are bad at games mostly due to their limited intelligence and reaction time and assume that the only way to beat tough games is to play them endlessly until fully memorized instead of learning quickly from mistakes, studying the npc and honing your skills.
>>721649986there is no other genre this is more important than in puzzle games like Baba Is You. I'll bang my head against the wall for an hour on a difficult level that requires a particular epiphany I'm just not grasping. I take a break for 3 hours or a day and what do I do when i come back? Solve it instantly.Sometimes your subconscious needs time to chew bro.
>>721650405>15 years ago>/v/ hates Reddit for overusing dead memes>now /v/ itself is flooded with endless wojaks
>>721650175>calls someone else "subhuman" because you doesn't understand a joke
>>721650874it's really telling how when 4chan went down there was an endless amount of people on reddit wishing they could post again
>>721639716literally me btw
>>721645363>it doesn't matter if it's true or relevant, I heard it before and that invalidates your point.>No I won't address the differences between that statement and the overuse of memes, it's far more convenient for me to be stupid.
>>721650405>People shit on Pepes butBut nothing. They're ugly as fuck. I'm sick of seeing such an ugly ass frog every single fucking day everywhere for the past 15 years.
>>721650413Games were hard when gaming was young and arcades were a thing to jew you our of your quarters.Then they aimed to be commercially successful and reach out to casualfags, beginning the age of easy baby games for people who sat on couches watching movies.Now the pendulum swung back to hard for the sake of bragging rights and clout.
I've been stuck on a section of a game, then quit out and came back to it a day or two later and just crushed it completely
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>>721651880We should replace pepe with actual frogs. Those are cute even when doing gross things.
>>721639814I havent even seen a semi decent shitpost. I just read some long winded post where the punchline ended up being a convoluted joke about niggers.Its like the meme comes first and /v/ is just so absolutely fucking mind numbingly retarded nobody can even write a simple joke anymore. You ask someone about a videogame and they spew 100 words about "jeets"
>>721652290>t.jeet
>>721652290Stop talking about AAA slop then
>>721652339>herewego.jpgTranny, jeet, nigger, bugman. Its all fine off the cuff but i wanna talk about videogames not read some extended schizo babble that was an attempt to be funny
>>721652445Nigger, its in every fucking thread on /v/ stop trying to act like theres any place on the board a random facet of a game cant spiral into "if you like/dont like this youre a brownoid who x because y saar"
>>721639716Thats why I mod my games. I just skip the bullshit
What is "jeet" even? Is it a made up word or an actual Indian word?
>>721639814i remember you're genocides is soulful af tho
>>721653795Just a bastardization of Sikh names ending in "-jit"
>>721653795It's short for Pajeet which is a made up Indian sounding name
>>721639716HAHA! Yeah!Funny image!
>>721639716Fun fact: Sometimes when I am struggeling with a Dark Souls boss, I like to take a break and then my brain compiles the information I have gathered while I sleep and I think about what I have learned and which tactics to use while not playing, so when I come back, I usually play much better than before.The first boss of Salt and Sacrifice, the Inphyrean Warden took me about a week of breaks to beat. Subsequent bosses only took me one break at max and I even beat the easier ones first try.
>>721639716>I <3 not playing gameswhoa, he's literally me
>>721645317A child has the right to dream...
>>721639716Taking breaks from anything difficult unironically works though. You internalise a lot of your experience with a good nights sleep.I've been shocked at how many times I've struggled with something for hours. Read up on it and still can't get it right. Go to sleep, then the next day go back and just immediately get it right.I suppose the joke here is that taking a "break" just means not doing it or going back to it ever though?
>>721639716I use the 20-20-20 rule. Because of this I have a lot more gamer stamina than most gamers I know. And I don't even get headaches or red eyes.
>>721639716I don't get it. Are you supposed to beat your head against the challenge until you either get a lucky victory or become frustrated and rage quit? All my best attempts at any tough challenge always happened after coming back to it the next day. Not only is that good vidya advice, it's just good life advice in general. Maybe you should take a break from /v/ and come back to it later.
>>721651651Why is it so hard to believe that some people think difficult games are fun?
>>721652290but you see anon, jokes are passionate things, if you're laughing and having fun you're in an emotional state where you're not constantly checking yourselfyou have to be wearing fifteen diapers of irony and never ever subject yourself to a vulnerable state and always be paranoidedly looking over your shoulder for mockerythat's why they love the meme of accusing everyone who disagrees with them of being some "character"- tranny, jeet, brown, shill, whatever whatever... because the ultimate mindless, irony laden and disconnected response to that is just to double down and accuse anyone who calls this tactic stupid as being said thing again, and the ritual continuesand eventually it goes on for so long that they themselves start believing it
>>721656329>made up
I play too many different gamesHaven’t been able to stick with one since I quit wow in like 2013. I am an ancient gamer.
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>>7216398144chan has been creatively bankrupt for many years now. All the fresh new content now comes from xitter and TikTok.
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>>721645076>>721645317Its the turtle hermit way
>>721639814I agree with this. I blame normies and I'll always blame normies for everything. Normies ruined the internet, bringing directionbrain shit and us vs them shit to every corner of every place.
>>721669549>normiesYou best stop hating normalfags, you are one.
>>721639716I only take like 30 seconded breaks each 3 hours to use eyedrops
>>721639716This meme could really use some more varied points to it. Taking a break is not the only advice given to anyone struggling with difficulty.I get that it's the low hanging fruit since it involves not playing the game, but you could also have him saying things like"You're clearly not supposed to go that direction if it's too much of a difficulty spike. Oh, you are? Well you should have known what you were getting into from the previous section""You just need to take it slow and learn the boss patterns. Any mistake you make is always your fault for not memorizing everything""Have you tried grinding/exploiting for OP techniques? They might help you, and I'll still mock you for using them."
>>721657126I did this exact thing when I was struggling with Margit, I got pissed, went to sleep, woke up the next day and beat him without getting hit.
>>721651880>that whole thing fit inside of ithmmmm
>>721639814The right can't meme
>>721646417That also means more cool people got access to internet too.Just because there are tons of normaltroons attention seeking and coping doesn't mean there aren't sensible chill dudes on the internet. Most of them just lay low and autistically do their own thing instead of engaging with hiveminds.
>>721639814quirk chungus was pretty good
>>721639716Been gaming for 40 years. I've never been the sort of person that will just get up to a boss and just try it over and over and over.I'll give it a few goes, and if i can't beat it i'll put the game down and play something else, then pick the first game up again the next day.And almost always, just sleeping on it makes it easier and i'm able to make progress the next day.Repeatedly bashing your head against something you can't do for hours on end is inefficient, and a waste of time.... at least that's how my brain works.
>>721639814Memes now are all reskins of "my opinion good, your opinion bad" and it's so boring and forced
>>721650405The Gigachad memes also piss me off, 99% of the time its cringe normalfags acting like their normalfag opinion is so based rather than something that is actually based or ballsy.I don't even have a problem with the pepes or wojaks themselves, but I hate how cleverness, creativity and wit has been replaced with using these memes as an avatar for themselves.
>>721639716>Guy likes difficult games>Actually finds them hard>Takes breaks>Thinks the difficulty is fine despite being stuck>Doesn't complainActually a respectable position.
