In 100 years we'll all be dead and it won't matter which of us was successful or unsuccessful in life

>>729199014
well yeah but to be fair when I played Half-Life for the first time I was 14 or 15 and I had my whole life ahead of me!

>Wastes his life pursuing a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics
>his only friend is an old nerd
>has to live in the middle of the desert
>coworkers dislike him
>he has to pull carrying carts and push buttons
>ends the world
>has to fight aliens and soldiers
>gets kidnapped by some government dude
>wakes up after the apocalypse in a eastern european city ruled by aliens and an ex coworker that hates his guts
Yeah such a good life.

>27 year old
such unc

>>729199093
The semi successful ones will have passed on their genes making the new generation. A lot of no hopers have kids but at least they're actually getting some pussy.

The very successful ones will have children and leave them generational wealth.

What we do in life has ripple effects through our descendants. Or if you're a biological dead end then yes your life really has had no effect on the future.

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>>729199014
Gorden freeman didn't take a shit for over 3 days.

>us

>>729199014
You live in a country where getting a PhD means... you will earn an extra 5,000$ per year as a wageslave.

When effort-requiring accomplishments are not adequately rewarded, smart people don't waste their effort instead of doing things they enjoy (epic videogames).

>>729199454
>generational wealth
You think trust fund babies even know the name of the great-great grandfather who actually got them their money?

>>729199530
when I was a kid I would just not shit so I could keep playing vidya
I ended up in the hospital one time where they thought my appendix burst or something but I just had to shit

>>729199530
there definitely is an in-built toilet in the HEV suit
HEV scientists in Xen were definitely gonna shit themselves

these are scientists after all, they are smart people and would definitely consider that

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>>729199660
You mean to tell me that Gordon Freeman was Diapermaxxing?

>>729199454
>new generation
And 100 years later they'll be dead. Then their children will be dead. One day humanity will be extinct. One day the sun will expand and incinerate the Earth.

>>729199393
The sad part is this is pretty accurate and hits a little close to home

>>729199646
you could play horror games to prevent this

>>729199714
well I wouldn't tell it to you like that but yeah
piss, shit, survive

>>729199014
>us
No need to project, anon.

>>729199454
okay but how does any of that apply 1,000,000 million years later?

>>729199014
Who cares, it's just luck anyway, who gets the best genes, best parents, best location. I'll still be better off than billions of Africans despite being a neet

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>>729199093
in the afterlife our morality will which is the problem

>>729199720
AGI machines (humanities children) will live on and explore the stars

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>>729199393
hey man he has a fucking sweet car though

>>729199014
White people cant go to ivy league

Its strictly for jews and browns

>>729199454
>sentencing an entire exponentially branching bloodline after you to the torment of life
For what purpose? There would be infinitely less suffering if you didn't pump a baby into some idiot. Why would you make decisions that infinitely increase suffering????

>>729199856
Being a neet is a gift tho, not everyone can afford it

>>729199014
I have a masters in mech. engineering. My masters thesis was not cool to write. I don't want to get back into academics.
>>729199014
Here you get decently paid while at it. For the extra pay afterwards I can't really say.

>>729199827
>>729199559

What was your PhD in?

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>>729199871
>afterlife

existence isn't like dungeons & dragons retardo what you see is what you get

>>729199930
I'd rather be a Brazilian gangbanger than a Finnish neet with an 500k inheritance and a masters degree coming up. Life is dull and empty, shooting up drugs and nightclubs sounds fun

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>comparing yourself against fictional characters
dont

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>>729199093
Who cares about 100 years in the future, I want to be happy now. I'm not happy being a fucking loser.

>>729200082
that's a hard 20

>>729199914
>non-canon fanfictiob

we get this thread 10 times a week

>>729199014
He's 48 neow

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>tfw video game protagonists have more successful lives than me

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>>729199014
>27
Hmm

>>729200176
it's fucking sweet you can tell by how it has more polys than the Black Mesa truck
Gordon is paying for them polys
those are the kind of polys you can afford when you get a PHD in Theoretical Physics and you live in the middle of the fucking desert

and he has a sweet ponytail too
a ponytail which actually is unfortunately canon

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>>729200003
cope however you like, you'll find out soon enough when we both die, fortunately i know better, unfortunately i have too much potential for evil so that knowledge is going to waste to some extent

I was finally forced to get a job this year and I miss being a NEET so much. It's only been a few months and I already feel dead inside, trying to autopilot through the week just for those two short days where I can do something I want again.

>>729200005
Nothing like a white boy to romanticize crime

>>729200437
We gotta build an app, it's gonna make millions

>>729199916
>Anti natalist
You're welcome to start with yourself.

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>>729199014
He got to live out every chuds dream of the world going to shit while he can do whatever he wants to his co-workers without consequences. All those dead eggheads? Unfortunate work accidents.

>>729199014
>gordon: 27 year old mit phd graduate
he is an ignorant motherfucker just like the rest of us were. PhD means nothing except autistically immersing yourself into some niche topic and making research on it. I'm not saying any retard could do it, but high academy is a personal choice and most people choose to quit at bachelors or even masters. Not autistic nor smart enough to delve deep.
Having a PhD however is not a reflection of som arcane knowledge, great intelligence, or winning at life bigly. It's mostly reflects patience and some determination, if you don't buy the degree from other people and don't let the LLM write most of the text for you. kek.
I'm not dunking on PhD's and being reductive to make them nothing, however. A Doctorate is reseach, sometimes very important in important fields. And these people certainly deserve respect for making the world better by advancing the science and engineering too.
>us: 30+ yr old incel losers
doesn't make sense. A PhD doesn't make you drown in pussy. In fact going for a PhD is rejecting all of the hookup culture and partying, because it is a lot of boring, tedious work.
>loser
also isn't defined by having a PhD. Because most people with PhD's aren't even rich or famous.
>it's sad
Sad is living your life according to the expectations of other people and NOT doing whatever you're truly passionate about. Sad is going for shallow bullshit and engaging in destructive behaviors such as whoring around.
Sad is thinking that you could have been an Einstein and went do in history of science, just if the teacher in college would have graded your bullshit paper a tiny bit better, a little higher.
At the end of the day, the oh so successful Gordon is but a low level pawn in the hands of people such a G-Man. In the end Gordon has to fight for survival against both aliens and his own fellow humans such as the opposing force. Barney does the same.
TL;DR: You think you're making a valid point, but you don't.

>>729199802
I think a lot of snipers do shit like that irl too.

>>729199836
>One generation has children
>Then the next
>Then the next
I can't predict a trillion years in the future. Stop being such a nihilistic little bitch. What we do now has effects far beyond our lives that we can't predict.

>>729200082
Japanese obsession with youth is a strange thing

>>729199014
27 is pretty typical, I got mine at 29

If you don't have kids then you won't make a daughter or a grand daughter who can get BLACKED. Don't you want the women of your lineage taking that fat black cock? Stop being a fag and make more white women for us bvlls

>>729200396
The rat tail gives him personality

>>729199014
I'm also a PhD stemmy from a top school. Still a virgin. Still don't make 6 figgies. Don't go to school, just try to get autismbucks, your education won't get you a job. Higher education is just a finishing school for rich kids to meet up at. If you're not part of the club already you're not getting in.

>>729199014
It's not like that PhD helped him survive the resonance cascade.

>>729200976
But if you're a white kid doing your bachelor's couldn't you just join a frat

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>>729199393
Now he's gotta deal with this blue creature that his old coworker insists is his daughter and nobody seems to notice this but him.

>>729199014
I have a masters in computer engineering speak for yourself fucker

>>729199014
I had a really vivid dream last morning that on the tram ride through Black Mesa that there is a small keypad protected hatch with a code that can only be found by beating the game normally. If you do a special jump as the tram goes by the hatch you can latch on, type the code, and enter a highly secured area with minigun turrets, angry scientists, and some kind of demonic ritual. It then becomes apparent that the resonance cascade was a false flag meant to pin the blame on Freeman, and that many of the scientists were actual occult researchers summoning a demon race. I exit the hatch and find myself in downtown Tokyo, and due to my sequence break, there are now headcrabs popping out of vents attacking Japanese schoolgirls who I try to protect. I enter a convenience store which turns into a maze and eventually leads to the break room area with the microwave in the original Half-Life. A scientist is there and tells me that the way to fix things is to go down a garbage chute, but I know it will lead to the blast pit, and I don't even have my hazard suit yet. The scientist gets very nervous and twitchy so I pull out a gun and tell him to get on the ground. Otis appears and we raid a fridge together, and find a doughnut box. Inside is a powdered chocolate cream filled, my favorite, but when I start to eat it Otis begins touching my doughnut, which creeps me out, and I wake up.

>>729200801
japs cram 100 years of life between the ages of 7 and 20

>>729201234
Then why are you here instead of building GPUs in your basement. Checkmate

>>729201032
a video essay discussing this could probably get some pretty great clicks...
>Top 5 Times GORDON FREEMAN used his PHD to survive BLACK MESA
and it's 45 minutes long

>>729200801
That's where your free life is. After that you were traditionally expected to raise your family and work at a company. Nowadays the former doesn't happen as much. The culture of your 20s being this time when you're wild and free to find yourself didn't really take of like it did in America or Europe

Im 28 now (I think) turning 29 in April.
I don't even count the days that fly by anymore and just try to forget things as I life day by day the same routine.
Wake up, eat, procrastinate to draw, draw while drinking, pass out.
I've been living like this for a few years now and I start having minor health issues after a heavy drinking session.
I do need help

>>729201520
You should make that. Probably make an easy grand over time

>>729199948
no need for a PhD, I got my Master's Degree and that's enough to teach
I'm almost neither 30+ nor an incel
basically you're a niggerfaggot

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>>729201602
That's ok anon that's why i developed chatgpt, your personal life assistant. Just ask

>>729201456
nta, but building a modern day borderline nanochips require equipment and tools with ihumane levels of super precision. plus it has to be a very clean or sterile evnrioment.
TL;DR: he could start building a lab and lower precision tools, but not high end chips by himself

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Would a security guard gig at Black Mesa earn you a decent wage?

>>729201770
Fuck off you clanker. The last thing I want to talk to is a gizmo

>>729200082
but anon, I have to compare myself against them, otherwise I can't get an idea if I'm going down the right path

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>>729199454
50 IQ Caveman reasoning

technically gordon's life ended at 27 being a genius and his only accomplishments are being G-man's puppet. even if he wins he's probably stuck with a post apoc society

>>729202425
Which is responsible for you existing right now

>20 years ago they piad you to work and get experienced so they culd hire u
>20 years now you paid the company to work for experience

>>729202581
And?

>>729201834
black mesa had that cynical 90's attitude so they probably weren't being paid much, but black mesa is extreme shit so he probably had high level security clearances which is lucrative irl

>>729199454
Albert Einstein.

>>729199530
He didn't take a shit for like 20 years.

most phds make less than minimum wage

>>729199014
Sounds like a you problem. I'm loving life so far, even if it could be better.
t. getting a PhD in Robotics


>>729199393
>>Wastes his life pursuing a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics
How is that a fucking waste, just in terms of landing a sweet job that pays well that you are passionate for? Math and physics are fucking fun.
>>his only friend is an old nerd
It's good to have friends like you. In fact, those are the only people that you should bother making real connections with.
>>has to live in the middle of the desert
The US southwest is one of the most beautiful environs in the world. There really isn't anything as awe inspiring as the rocky desert and the many fauna and flora that live there along with the civilizations (ancient and more recent) as well
>>coworkers dislike him
Who cares about your coworkers? I don't get a job to be friends with my coworkers. I get a job to do cool shit and get paid for it.
>>he has to pull carrying carts and push buttons
That actually kinda sucks
>>ends the world
Based.
>>has to fight aliens and soldiers
MEGA BASED
>>gets kidnapped by some government dude
Grim
>>wakes up after the apocalypse in a eastern european city ruled by aliens and an ex coworker that hates his guts
Only the first part is bad. I don't care about my coworkers outside of them helping me do my job at work and not hindering me on the same token.

All in all Gordon's life is 96% based and you are fay for thinking any of this shit other than the obvious is bad.

>>729202524
>G-man's puppet
Not anymore, after during episode 1 and during episode 2 after starting the Freeman Pontifex chapter the vortigaunts used the vortessence to release him, according to G-man himself Gordon was unwilling so he chose Alyx.

>>729199014
i also just learned leon is 27 in re4
very disappointed i am neither a power armor wielding doctor or zombie fighting super agent at this point in my life

>>729201834
any job at a high security place like black mesa would make 6 figures easily. of course its probably highly competitive and requires NDA's and security clearances.

>>729202917
So when are you building me my fuckable robot maid that isn't just controlled by India

>>729199914
>cut the ponytail
sellout

>>729203071
Just buy a prostitute, retard. No one will ever build that because the IRL alternative (whores) is essentially the same and not a gigantic waste of money that only NEETs and other mentally invalid weirdos would buy.

>>729202917
pretty based anon. I'm in electrical construction management. I want a black site project like black mesa but I need experience and clearance. I can imagine it being extremely high stress given the amount of money being involved

>>729203071
Last job some of my coworkers were discussing about robot wives, saying that they are wasting time and power on genAI when they should be making realistic fuckable housewive robots, they went into great detail about it.

>>729199014
>Anon
>27 year old MBA graduate
I failed at life

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>>729203228
>and not a gigantic waste of money

>>729199014
>Gordon: 27 year old MIT Graduate in the 90s
>Me: Denied admission to MIT because I'm white in the 2020s

>>729199946
A friend of mine got a masters in mechanical engineering and bachelors in physics and now does uber eats deliveries.

>>729203320
It's real eye opening when you graduate with a doctorate and find out your prospective career earns you as much as people who got jobs right after high school bending pipes and moving boxes

I tell anyone who will listen you have to be genuinely insane to even consider PhD a worthwhile pursuit

indians will work for so cheap it is actually destroying the job market for people that actually live in state where the job is located.

Why waste 10 years of your peak youth studying so you can get replaced by AI and a jeet?
You're gonna end up unemployed either way

>>729203285
I claimed i was trans to land a job, it works, always wore a pink polo or a pink blue flower button down to work and out "she/her" on my teams profile.
Big perk was that, there were a total of 3 women in our office, i got to take the most peaceful shits on the women's bathroom

>>729203285
why didn't you win gold at the international math Olympiad and score a full ride scholarship to MIT? was it the jews and the chinks keeping the white man down?

>>729199014
But he was white and a real nerd. Nowaday your modern "scientists" are transsexual autists that will ack- themselves before 30 or niggers who got in thanks to brownie points.

Yeah, it's that bad.

>>729203243
Noice. Yeah, I'd imagine it would be really really high pressure to work at Black Mesa just given how state-of-the-art and large the actual facility along with having the best and brightest working there. Still, I'd imagine it would be pretty fun in some sense despite that.

>>729203401
It's worthwhile if your goal is to be a researcher. In fact, it's the only way you should be able to get a job in any position like that. If you just want to earn money, go find a job after college (really high school).

The truth is the modern American education system is fucking retarded because it treats the entire university system as a generic job training program rather than a program for select people with select degrees for those who aim to have specialized jobs such as those who aim to be engineers,doctors, lawyers and professors/researchers. It just keeps people in the system longer than they have to be and puts them into a shitton of debt. It doesn't help that there is the retarded social notion that you must go to college when most people wouldn't benefit from it.

Manufacturing jobs and low-profile white collar work like the type your average office worker does don't need degrees to perform. It's kinda embarrassing how topsy-turvy the educational system is here just so administrators and the government can squeeze money out of the middle class.

>>729202763
Yes if you're amazing your accomplishments will echo through human civilization. But for 99% of us that won't be true. Especially the mouth breathers here on 4chan.

>>729204013
your accomplishments will be drowned out by AI sorry to say

>>729199014
If the government wants to hand me a crowbar an a glock 17 and send me after aliens in an underground facility, like some neo-Tunnel Rat, I'm ready and waiting for the call.

Until then, I sleep.

>>729203228
Sometimes I wish I just stuck with prostitutes. But it gets expensive. My divorce is sure going to be a lot more expensive though.

>>729202917
you will never get a position in academia
if you go for industry, people with bachelors degrees will be ahead of you

>>729199014
>incel
Speak for yourself. I have a live-in GF.

>>729204258
I'll believe it when I see it. I don't trust random retards on the Internet, especially considering that we're on a site known for anti-intellectualism and low quality retarded posts.

You act as if the US is the only place on Earth and Europe, Asia and Australasia are non-existent and don't have industry or academic positions.

>if you go for industry, people with bachelors degrees will be ahead of you
They're almost always jumping from job to job and if they do manage to find a long term gig, they tend to not really get higher up because they don't have the prerequisites for a more position with prestige so to speak. I know because I've talked to people in my university's CS and Engineering department that had to deal with their career being halted because they only had a Bachelor's degree, so they had to go back for a Masters at minimum in order to get higher paying jobs. The era of easy tech money is over. You should be looking for something that will deliver good dividends over a long period of time rather than a stint at Google or Apple or some shit like that.

>>729203765
>claimed

>>729204358
lol simp

>us

um maybe just you man

>>729199014
>work hard
>get the phd
>get the position at the secret research facility
>your reward is being put in stasis only to come out and perform herculean feats for no compensation

this is what hard work gets you

In my country, all higher education is practically bachelors + masters and we have mandatory conscription, not to mention the studies being prolonged by the Covid craze.

So guys our generation from higher education started working at like, age 27. Finland is a country full of late-bloomers.

>>729202917
>Getting
Reality will hit when you’ve gotten it and you get to the real world, but honestly enjoy, I’d do anything to back to being a student

>>729204605
Keyword being halted, they already got experience, although it is not as bleak as the other guys say, they are somewhat right.

>>729199014
>Gordon: Fictional character made in era of prosperity
>Us: Real people living in weimer 2.0

>>729199014
at least we're real, bros

>>729204917
Again, if you are able to adapt to the situation/environment and get/make good connections, do good work and present yourself and your ideas well, then you should be fine. Academia is separated from many other corners of the wider research nexus, but that doesn't mean it's useless or that you can't adapt to how industrial work operates. Also don't work on things that are too niche or esoteric

>>729204998
I don't disagree, but like you said it's not as bleak as they're making it out to be.

>>729205334
that's arguable

>>729205395
I’m ngl that’s what 90% of students do, that sort of basic info is taught as a necessity in undergrad at most schools, if not just common sense from before then. The fact of the matter is everything just sucks at the moment. You might get lucky and do great as soon as you finish, but while you’re still in the middle of getting your degree you can’t claim everything’s a cakewalk.
I know a guy who got an outstanding degree from the best school in my country and he recently decided to swap to the trades because it was a better prospect for him

>>729199594
Why would that matter? Their owe their very existence to him either way.
What difference would it make if they know his name or not

>>729199014
I fucked up having a family and I'm still looking for a job. Only vidya can save me.

>>729199014
Speak for yourself unc.

>>729199916
>Why would you make decisions that infinitely increase suffering????
not my problem, also suffering is a good thing otherwise you wouldn't know what to avoid

I'm 30 and work minimum wage

>>729199014
>30

haha...

>>729199014
I remember as a high schooler I used to look up to phd students and be like wow, that's so cool! then every phd student I met at college was an alcoholic who hated their life and wished they'd never started the phd kek

>>729202819
Being in stasis doesn't count.

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>>729199530
That's normal though, isn't it?

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>>729199014
I got my PhD (although not MIT, obviously) at that age as well, and here I am.

reminder that people with their phd make less than people who stop at their master's

>>729208007
Was it worth it?

>Comparing yourself to a fictious video game character
>Having your standards be based on that
>Comparing yourself to others
>Not embracing individualism

You should strive to be proud of yourself, and if you're not, then that's a (YOU) problem. I believe in Man VS Himself more than Man VS Society. We live in a society, and the society isn't the issue, though it does contribute to a certain degree.

>>729208208
>fictious
It is fictitious, my melanated companion.

>>729208417
>Spelling mistake
>Still knew what I was saying

I know you're trying to humiliate me, but the fact that you knew what I was saying and what word I was attempting to spell still proves that you understood my post. fictious fictitious...tomato tomatoe. That is a common mistake people make when spelling that word by the way, so don't go all "LE SMUG REDDIT" on me. You knew what I meant regardless of how I spelled it. Jackass.

>>729208113
Not necessarily. A sizable percentage of phd graduates from nice universities usually make comfy money through patents or go on to make cutting edge tech developing startups which then get acquired by multi million dollar corporations.

>>729208128
No, not really.

>>729208658
Chill dude. You seem to be very confrontational for a guy who believes in "Man VS Himself".

>>729199014
Speak for yourself fagot, I'm so sipping from this bullshit forcie nostalgia baitgame makes you pathetic.

>>729208208
>I believe in Man VS Himself more than Man VS Society. We live in a society, and the society isn't the issue, though it does contribute to a certain degree.

You aren't wrong but I think you have to factor in that society is fucked (it always has been in general but especially now) and if you want to get anywhere in life, you'll have to deal with fucked up people that you can use ass ladder rungs to get where you want.

The key to success is to believe in yourself and to interact with society in such a way that it doesn't drag you down, but up and bring anyone you love and loves you up with you like family, very good friends and a woman sees you as her king and whom you see as your queen.

Sappy, but being proud of yourself, treating yourself well and dedicating yourself to growing as a person is something everyone ought to do.

>>729199014
Wasn't the original rendering of Freeman a literal caveman?

>>729208824
Are you just going to make me because you're a literature major and I'm using the "incorrect" versions of the concepts? You clearly know what I'm referencing, so why does it matter? It doesn't. You're just being pretentious to ragebait people. It's an obnoxious personality trait, I hope you know that.

>>729208964
*mock*

Oops better fix that before you nitpick that as well.

>>729199014
this videogame isn't real

>>729209035
Yeah, they know, but retards don't care because they hold themselves to the standards of FICTITIOUS people.

Gotta make sure I spell it correctly, so Reddit Mcgee feels good about himself.

>>729208964
>seething
Lmao okay dude.

>>729200003
>he can't see beyond material garbage
ngmi

>>729209108
>Lol I ragebaited you
>Dude

Yeah, congrats. Now go back to your Madden and CoD, normalfag.

>>729200314
Rough paper route. Dude looked 45 all day

>>729199014
If he's so smart why is he not real or getting a third game

>>729209198
Neither can you. Your understanding of the afterlife is just as baseless as anyone else's.

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>>729201675
You're just an insecure lying faggot.

>>729202882
Less than minimum? No, you are confusing them with grad students. Less than average yes

>>729199014
Phd is pointless now that Chatgpt has become prevalent. Most people just shit out their thesis from it and no one would know any different. Academia is a scam unless you do it in the most prestigious universities where there are actual ethics.

>>729209794
Professors can easily see through a chat bots writing. They always have this repetitive style

>>729209928
Im talking about 95% of the universities where professors dont give a shit as long as you keep shitting out publications.

>>729204605
A PhD just isn't much of a leg up, especially if you don't have specific experience using certain instruments/methods that are geared towards industry. And the competition is pretty tight, if your PI can't pipe you directly to his industry contacts to get you a job it's a waste.

>>729199594
Who cares, faggot is still richer than I will ever be. I don't give a fuck about my great great grandfather and I'm sure I would give less of a fuck if daddy was rich

>>729199014
speak for yourself normalfag-kun

>>729210252
I don't think you know what that means

>>729209409
Nta, and while i can't "see beyond the veil" either i disagree with your claim that claims about the afterlife are "baseless", there's proof, just nothing physical since for you to actually see the afterlife with your own eyes and experience it you'd have to die

>>729210513
>just nothing physical since for you to actually see the afterlife with your own eyes and experience it you'd have to die
There is no seeing without the seer. There is no knowing without the knower.

>>729205395
>I don't disagree, but like you said it's not as bleak as they're making it out to be.
No because it's bleaker as of this year
-t. Ex Academia NEET

>>729199720
Ok, if nothing matters why don't you just kill yourself and get it over with you angsty faggot?

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I was just on Indeed and I saw that GameStop pays their employees $8 an hour.

>>729211408
That's because part time roles dont need to follow the minimum wage law.

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>>729210513
>there's proof
>I can't present the proof though but trust me there's proof

i have 18 days left of being in my twenties and my life is functionally no different than it was when i gave up at 16 years old

>>729211630
It will not be any different 10 years from now either if you dont try to change.

>>729211630
Ok? why would it be, chuddy?

>>729211731
both of my parents will be gone by then so ill either be somewhat normal, homeless or dead by then
>>729211771
it wouldnt

>>729211836
it wouldnt it was just a funny observation i realised upon reading this thread*
sent reply too early

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>>729199014
And he went on to lose his job before he hit 28 and now he's now a 47 year old unemployed and homeless faggot who hasn't had a job in 20 years.
So much for that gay ass MIT education

>>729211836
You'll probably become one of those fent zombies

>>729210026
You build a lot of contacts aside from your PI's direct contacts in the course of doing research over your PhD. I got my job with the help of one of my lab mates who became a senior research scientist at the big company where I work.

>>729199915
No, they're for asians.
t. asian.

>>729211971
i dont even know if we have fent in bongerland

>>729212035
Nigger, there's fentanyl everywhere

>>729209409
Do you see numbers? Do you see the laws of logic? Do you see minds and thought? You reject the very thing you use to even form coherent sentences and ideas.
Even your ideas of materialism is itself not rooted in matter or physical objects.

>>729199454
On a long enough timeline every species goes extinct, so it doesn't matter

>>729212146
>Even your ideas of materialism is itself not rooted in matter or physical objects.
Sure they are
>brain releases chemicals and and electric signals that make me want some shit
>brain releases more chemicals that make me feel good to reward me when I get that shit.

Gordon hasnt sleept since the incident happened

>>729199014
So demorilization was the meta last year, the new meta is murlocks

>>729199646
What a loser. I’d go a week on vacation not shitting, cause, ocd. I fingered fossilized tied o it or my ass before I’d ever admit to my parents I had an issue. No shame with you, huh?

>>729212360
You see thoughts in chemical reactions? Show me the proof because you should win the Nobel Peace Prize for physically locating where thoughts and consciousness is, something no scientist has done before.

>>729199014
>us
settle down with that projection lil bro

>>729199014
I'm 18 so it's not as bad

The real issue here
>gordon's job: press buttons
>gets paid $200,000 US

>>729212586
get out of here, kid

>>729212647
Lol

>>729212647
chillax Unc

masters degrees are for useless retards. if someone tells me they have a masters degree i immediately assume they’re a moron
people with masters degrees either failed the phd program, or they were so useless with only their bachelors degree they needed to spend more money to try to get another piece of paper to make themselves more marketable

>>729199916
This is why we shouldn't let niggers breed.
Us whites shoul make all the babies

>>729212551
>Nobel Peace Prize
That has nothing to do with scienctific achievements.

Gabe Newell was 27 when he made half life.

>>729200437
Welcome to the grindstone, it won't stop until you're 70

>>729212605
Pressing buttons is hard work

>>729212940
I got a big fat cushy job with my masters. I dont know what you're on about.

>>729212605
Hey, he also pushes carts

>>729213003
>Erm, ACKTUALLY it isn't the Nobel PEACE Prize
Yeah I see no reason that you are capable of answering basic questions when you are being this evasive.

>>729213219
No idea why you refuse to acknowledge the fact that you were talking about the wrong award but okay.

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>>729212940
Tradie or more probably wagey cope.

>>729199014
>27
>looks and sounds like a 47 year old

>>729213759
>sounds

>>729213775
yea i said it

>>729211408
this should be illegal

>>729213589
Yep, they're the only losers who hate people who pursue higher education

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when you stop comparing you're happier

>>729212940
I have my M.S. in structural engineering and I completely agree; it was completely worthless. I only got it because nobody was hiring during the financial crisis.

>>729214165
>structural engineering
Kekaroo. Must have done something useful like electronics considering the AI hardware boom.

>>729214165
meanwhile hr roasties earn 200k at google using ai to reject your resume while doomscrolling tiktok

>>729199014
>You need a PhD in physics to get a job about ramming a cart into a light beam

No wonder why the average Joe like us cant get a job

>>729214250
AI wasn't on my radar back in the late '00s.
I do wish I would have gone into software engineering, but my high school was absolute shit and did not have a technology program.
>>729214302
Yeah, feels bad man. I have over ten years experience, am a registered PE and SE, and still make less than six figures.

I own a home, have kids, and the promise of eternal life through my Lord and savior Jesus Christ. I'm good with what I got

gordon freeman didn't even get to work remotely

>>729202917
>Math and physics are fucking fun.
t. someone who has never done any math or physics

>>729212940
but did you ever consider that you're wrong

>>729215215
More like you are just shit at it and projecting right now

>>729199093
Depending how medicine goes and war, some of us might still be around in a 100 years

>>729215215
>let me tell you about your hobbies

I wasted my time getting a PHD and I am still an unemployed loser.

>>729200640
He wasn't wearing the HEV suit yet when he popped the casserole

im only going to get my PhD at 35, most people i know got it around 29-30.

>>729199014
come ww3 we are all going to die in some ditch side by side, don't you worry.

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>>729199014
It's kind of crazy that a sizeable portion of 25-30 year olds worldwide are basically living as if they were 20 and not doing anything really, just waiting to see if something will happen that will change the world. It's kinda funny and I like it, fuck modernity.

>>729199892
lol

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>>729217861
>>729218150

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>>729200110
>>729199014

>>729200693
This, ladies and gents, is what's known as a wall of cope.

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>have dinner with some old school friends
>wives and gfs too
>two of them are divorced
>most of them spend all dinner talking about work and money
>another friend tells me he's come with a plan to make a million in a couple of weeks
>another one is talking about marrying an OF whore
>divorced guy's ex got pretty much all his money and he's talking about buying designer's furniture and going on a 10k cruise
>friends has to leave mid dinner because his daughter won't stop crying
>one of them had a seizure after working 90h in a week to afford paying for his second house
>tfw when I just bought an old house near to the sea and I spend most of my time reading, writing and fishing
As I get older I'm less interested in being a normal person.

>>729199454
not my problem

>>729221838
Being normal just means adapting to the societal standards set by the elite to maximize productivity and profit. Normal being tied to morality and human nature was lost a long time ago

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>>729199093
Your life is all you'll ever get so maybe it should matter to you

>>729200110
stop being a pussy.
the only reason you’re not living the life you want to live is you keep fueling the life you hate day by day

>>729203252
that's pretty based, what job?

>>729199093
Quite the opposite. If we were all immortal, nothing would matter since in a quadrillion years we'll still all be here. Because our time is limited, what we do with it is invaluable.

>>729199530
This is my normal. Ever since I was a kid my body kinda consolidated all my shits into one or two bowel movements a week. I make big logs.

>>729199014
Is this the reason why /v/ and other pathetic forums (like rpgcodex where losers dwell) hate Half-Life? Because it reminds them of their pathetic when they're trying to escape reality?

>>729218642
Yup it's a waste of time. There are no jobs. Society collapsed but we're in free fall and haven't hit the ground yet.

>>729222921
Worse is they're coming after our games.
>hardware are getting more expensive
>games are getting shittier
>everything else aren't affordable
All we wanted to do is just bunker down and play gaymes but now society has caused me to pick up an automatic and

>>729221838
>tfw when I just bought an old house near to the sea and I spend most of my time reading, writing and fishing
living the life, I'm envious t b h

Us? You must mean the "United States" by that cus theres no us

Im 24 and graduated and employed in my area (finance), speak for yourself you peasant

>>729211332
Yup it's grim out there. If my mom didn't have a job and house for me to stay in I'd be homeless

>>729211985
It's the same kind of connection but even more luck-based. You can scout out a PI with connections before joining their lab but you can never be sure who your labmates are going to be. In my case they either got an academic position (in their home country) or they work in something that didn't need their degree at all like sales.

>>729199014
I planned on going for a phd after graduating but then my dog got terribly sick and I dropped the whole academia thing instantly. Now I'm just waiting for a miracle before I blow my brains out.

>>729221838
>bought an old house near the sea
>having the money to buy a house
yeah okay Richie Rich

>>729199916
>torment of life
>less suffering
YOU
ARE
GAY
Suffering is NOTHING, why the fuck are you faggots acting like it's a big thing

>>729199093
This is the ultimate cope

>>729199093
does that mean there's zero reasons for me not to start blowing up synagogues? WAAAAAGHH

>>729223893
>t. worked hard for nothing

Bragging about having a higher ed degree is like bragging about rich parents. Like okay fag, you were born smart and don't have to work hard, good for you

>>729223337
Is your dog better now?

>>729223858
>t. mr.cozy life

>>729224123
Nobody's bragging, if anything everyone here is lamenting the time they wasted on it.

>>729224123
>, you were born smart and don't have to work hard, good for you
I know literal retards who got through masters degrees and got good jobs thanks to their sheer doggedness. They are still dumb and make their coworkers lives difficult but they still earn a nice salary.

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>>729201365
make a hl mod out of this

>>729202917
hi Gordon

>>729224410
That's just bragging, it's never wasted.

>>729199014
I hate it

it's a videogame, are you really that stupid to mix up fiction and reality?

>>729224043
>he never strived towards anything
Lets be honest, think how many years you've been in the same exact spot, doing absolutely nothing. Grim to think that people wasted their one chance at life doing nada

Going to college is the biggest regret of my life. I spent a decade getting a degree, then a masters then working a job that made me want to kill myself.
Then I spent ONE (1) year learning web dev on my own and now not only I make more but I also wfh.

>>729224123
people with degrees in hard sciences work harder in a year than you will in your entire life at the amazon warehouse you wage in

>>729224482
NIN NIN ALLERGY DONOR

>>729224948
No they don't. If you work hard in stem you're NGMI and I speak from experience, people who work hard for a degree are going to fail horribly at work and waste their time and money because getting a degree is supposed to be the easy part. Working hard to get by in college just primes you for failure

>>729225097
This applies to work as well. If you work hard to complete your tasks you'll get raped by eventual crunch, you need to coast on using your intelligence.

>he went to college and stressed at exams and pointless shit and was miserable
>he got a job and is miserable
>he makes money and experienced pointless stuff and stupid people and worthless places but it doesn't mean anything in the end
>meanwhile goverment pays for my vidya and weed and i do what i want freely
i won

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>>729199014
>>gordon: 27 year old mit phd graduate
>>us: 30+ yr old incel losers
>it's sad
Yes…

>>729225097
>If you work hard in stem you're NGMI and I speak from experience
t.poorfag salary capped nigger with no published papers in years that didnt get selected and employed by a big private company right out of graduation
>because getting a degree is supposed to be the easy part
>Working hard to get by in college just primes you for failure
Read my post again, illiterate negro
>college
im really talking to a affirmative action nigger LMAOOOO "college" geeeeeg

>>729225475
What a weird thing to post on Christmas eve

>>729224298
considerably, but it was a liver issue and some damage was done
ironically I was in vet school, so I knew what was going on before it could spread

>>729225607
im kinda of a Grinch

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>>729199454
>making the new generation
imagine all this just to birth kids who go to schools with students who dont look like them, hate them for being native born, make no money in corporate helljobs, and then you're married to a woman in modernity so really even Chad even Bezos Billions have to deal with hypergamy, the State and Media telling her to be pissed off out _____ this week, or was it ____? Either way she's not putting out, and putting your kids on Antideppressants to chill em out, what's a 7 year olds tantrum to a Xanny she laughs sipping your Wine
A lot of the game is just over m8, if you are shitposting here you actually have ascended that's less of a cope than al the hoops Chad jumps thru. Cultivate inner peace, everyone here deserves that. I believe this will all my heart, merry Christmas as well anons.

>>729225939
Well you have atleast one good thing in your life. Hang on.

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>>729199916

>>729226003
You're wrong too, I'm not even American and I was strictly talking about stem.

>>729199530
HEV suit take care of that

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>>729200435
Which afterlife do you believe in?
If it's an Abrahamic afterlife, I've got bad news...

>>729201365
Was there a staircase involved?

>>729199530
my stomach is so fucking weird and depends on the location
>in my apartment everything is fine
>when i go to my parents' house i have runny shits and i fart so fucking much, like very long and wet farts. I took a shower a few hours ago and my underwear smells like ass already
>when i went on vacation with my extended family i literally never took a shit or farted for almost 2 weeks, took the biggest most agonizing shit literally 5 minutes after i entered my house

>>729199530
>implying he didn't shit everything out in ravenholm

>>729199393
nobody liked him because he was late and fucks around with people food

>>729222332
>Your life is all you'll ever get
You have no way of knowing that

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Pretty sure I'm going through a midlife crisis with my lack of real human connection and spending 40h a week doing something I find meaningless for a company I hate as pivotal points.
I regret getting into programming. I should have been a forest guard or a fisherman.

>>729203905
>It's kinda embarrassing how topsy-turvy the educational system is here just so administrators and the government can squeeze money out of the middle class.

Our entire society is like that. The medical industry is the most egregious about it.

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>>729199014
>mit

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dont be sad its christmas eve !

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>>729227831
cope

>>729199014
I don't care about getting laid anymore I just want to be around people that accept me for who I am.
At least I enjoy what I do for work and find some meaning in it. Would be nice to have coworkers you have more things in common with than work.

>>729224710
>Do something
>Regret it and wish you never did it to begin with
Feels like a waste to me. It wasn't even fun or useful.

>>729203320
That sucks, I got a cool job managing long distance connection.

>>729199393
>>has to live in the middle of the desert
low six figure salary in 90's dollars
new mexico is and was full of equestrian enthusiasts and skiers
dude was in the prime of life and rocking a goatee ponytail combo so you just know he was fuckin lonely rich bitches on those cold desert nights
hell some of them were probably government honeypots sent to make sure none of the ladrats are leaking state secrets

i tell you again gordo was living large before the cascade

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>>729199093
>this is the average wh*te man thinking
It's not really a wh*te genocide, it's just wh*te suicide

It's over.

>>729226402
you really need to learn how to read.

>>729199093
if nothing matters, then i will strive for good and meaning in defiance of it.

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>>729209564
yeah dude, working a teaching job before 30, whilst also not being a miserable faggot
basically unachievable

>>729199014
i wasted my youth posting here and getting a meme degree in a subject i wasn't even passionate about, while repressing being a troon just long enough to guarantee that i'll always be hideous

>>729229681
>teaching job before 30
>without phd
YWNBAP (You Will Never Be A Professor)

>>729199014
My parents had me and my older brother when they were 25. They owned a nice house and car at that time and only my father was working as a taxi driver. Don't let zoomzooms gaslight you into thinking things weren't better in the past.