I can't play games for more than 40 minutes at a time now that I'm in my 30's. Is this normal?
sounds like depression
Sounds like a you problem. Step off the meds and become a pred
same, what are we waiting for?
>>731128154I have depression, and I just don't play anything. So, the 40 minutes might be depression too. It's weird because I don't think anyone on this website is even smart enough for depression. Maybe they're just tired from work.
I can play Dota 2 for hours. Any other game? Doubt.
>>731128054I want her to jerk me off with those dirty feet.
>>731128251>I can play Dota 2 for hours. Any other game? Doubt.That's probably ADHD. I played Dota all my life and I can still play other games. What's your play time?
>>731128297Holy Christ....Do you stream your play? After that many hours...you should stream, and post a continuous picture of that statistic on your stream.
>>731128760That's average for a dota player. Pros and streamers can easily have 2-5x as much
>>731128054Normalfag 'le too tired' wagie syndrome, I'm afraid it's permanent
>>731128054It's just a phase; you'll be back to normal before you turn 40.
>>731128054It is very normal. You shouldnt be sitting around for hours like a retard anyways. I play games in several short sessions now and never ever burn out like I did when I was younger.
>>731128297Not the guy you quoted, but I have ADHD too and got 5k-ish hours in Dota 2 before I quit years ago. Any other games you're addicted to that I could try out? I hate playing games for 20 hours then moving on.
>>731129023>Any other games you're addicted to that I could try out?No, and I'm currently playing nothing. If you want to know what I played in the past, then another game I spent countless hours on was World of Warcraft. The last xpac (War Within) was awful, though.
>>731129084>World of WarcraftI was the same with FFXI. Between retail 04-09 and private servers 2015-2024, I too have more hours than I could count.
>>731129084Here's something I played and finished. The key to being a gamer is trying stuff. Like, just today I downloaded and installed a game.
My problem was usually thinking "but what about OTHER GAME" whenever I was playing anything, so I fixed that by only allowing myself to have 2 playthroughs running at the same timeStops me from dropping a game after 90 minutes to try out another one
>>731129237This screenshot is from the ending, so I actually finished it.
>>731128229Depression doesn't require IQ, anon. It's a shitty outlook on life dependable for enough time that you brain actually rewires to see just the gray and it's very hard to get out of it.
>>731128054More like kill yourself you normalnigger tourist >>>/gif/ >>>/soc/
>>731129356>Depression doesn't require IQ, anon.I disagree. If everyone felt the way I did, this board wouldn't be full of threads. What would you say I have if I spend all day doing nothing? Super depression?
>>731128054Probably fried your brain scrolling twitter and shit like tiktok. Put the phone down.
>>731128054Do you have any other hobbies?
>>731130137Are you asking people for their hobbies on 4chan? What do you do when you're not here? Let's hear this garbage.
>>731128054you're not alone, i'm 39 and i can't do more than a half hour. and most of the time i don't play anything
>>731128054Yes it's normal, tastes changes with age, you just haven't found vidya that genuinely interests you. When I was 14 I would listen to death and black metal and think it was the shit. Now I'm 39 and I fucking fall asleep if I have to listen to that, I just find it mindnumbingly boring. Same goes for vidya and I'm not depressed and perfectly healthy. At some point one can only tolerate so much 3rd person moviegames, indie metroidvanias, rollslops, etc etc. 99% of games just aren't exciting to you anymore and it's perfectly normal to change with age.
>>731130452>most of the time i don't play anythingWhat do you do instead?
>>731130679either code, 4chan, or discord
skill issue
>>731128229I'm 40 and I played Nightreign for 10 hours yesterday. You just need to be in the 'zone' for it to work. I drink, so that helps chill me out and lets me play most things for long periods.
>>73112805436 here, thats not normalTake a break from gaming and try other hobbies
>>731130704Oh, nice. I only do one of those things. That's why I don't believe anyone has depression. They do love to rush into my one motherfucking, thread. What is wrong with the other threads? Maybe it's full of people like them.
>>731130810one motherfucking thread, though*
>>731130810plenty of people have depression, but not being into vidya doesn't mean you have depression. it means you might, though
>>731129237>>731129279I've been playing Wuchang Clan but I can only do it for about an hour at a time. I'm thirty six. It's hard to care about anything anyone is talking about when they all have chingchong ping pong names I can't fucking remember.
>>731130857What? Oh my god. I'm just going to leave this thread. The shitskins really crawl into every thread. Speak to each other.
Sounds like a (you) problem.
>>731130907once again a retard on 4chan thinks a white guy is brown
>>731128054Get off your phone
>>731130936He doesn't act white.
>>731128054have you tried drugs?
>>731128251>>731128297Dota become mental draining for me. I used to play for hours, now I have to take 10-20 min breaks. I play 1 game of tft, casual cs or master duel.
>>731129023play factorio lad. Plenty of depth and rewards looooong play.
>>731128054that's a man
>>731130907Ok faggot
>>731130976I solved this problem by tanking my rank and playing shittier. now dota is chill
>>731130956What did you think the shitskin said to you?
>>731130876has anyone else played this? which weapons are worth investing points in? I tried the spear for a while because it was great in Nioh but the combos are really awkward in this one. There's longsword, one-handed sword, dual sword, axe, spear. I'm using the longsword because you can get a blue charge out of the quick first two hits and then use that to quick-charge a heavy attack
>>731128054Yeah I think it's normal at some point we become more and more self aware and start asking questions, I'm browsing this board when I have no intention of playing videogames and I don't even know why I'm here. I've mostly quit videogames I went on a LoL binge recently but I quit again.
Because you play dogshit singleplayer gamesTry playing online. Get into hard stuff like CS, R6, Dota, Valorant, or anything that you like. Get 2-3 people to play with. It's endless fun.I play with my friends (who I met online years ago) and now we are very close even met couple of times even though we all live in different coutnries. We could start playing CS:GO at 9pm and finish at 2am. Time just went flying. I can't play singleplayer games since forever now. It's just not stimulating, interesting or fun for me. If I want to enjoy story I just watch films instead.
>>731134028You definitely need a bro to play with, heightens any game. I'm lucky me and my brother still play together all the time since childhood. I did have an online group from the old WOW days but it's hard to get together. We eventually did a 4 player group of Divinity OS2 from start to finish, took us months by doing one night a week but it was crazy fun.
>>731134343>one night a weekDamn that's rough. I literally play everyday. And no, me being unemployed doesn't matter. I was doing same during uni days, or working days too. Having no kid helps.
>Vision is fucked by CVS
>>731134028>just play engagement-based online matchmaking turdgames that are designed specifically to ruin your day and mood bro
>>731128054There's just a lot to do. When I was younger sure, I could get lost in a narrative or a grind for days.But my oil needs to be changed, fuses have to be swapped, animals need hay, plants need fertilizer, you know? Wife needs attention, want to make time to listen to a new album or watch a movie or something. Want to practice guitar. Have a conversation with my parents before they pass away. I kind of just shitpost on /v/, make fun of some gacha retards, 30 minutes and I get up. Right now the sun is about to come up, gotta check greenhouses for excessive frost before the timer opens them up.
>>731130925some people... staaaarted singing not knowing what it wasand they'll go on forever just because this is the song that never ends yes, it goes on and on my friends
I find it hard to play singleplayer games that dont have top of the line quality gameplay, nioh 2 I enjoyed throughly. Competitive 1v1 games like aoe2 and sf6 stimulate me and make me forget about my depression when the adrenaline is pumping
all my favorite multiplayer games are deadFistful of FragsToribashLethal League worse is that they're not really dead but they have like 10 european players with 200 ping
>>731135019Im the same way.Im burnt out on roguelikes, because all runs feels 95% the same until you encounter 1 or 2 bits of variable information your not quite familiar with, which causes you to wipe a run.They just can't compete with the variance of online multiplayer gamesEvery match of dota and aoe2 feels unique
It's great not having depression I suggest you try it.
>>731134637>ruin your day and mood brothast your problem
>>731129491I don't have the IQ to understand why you posted that image.
>>731134573>Damn that's rough. I literally play everyday.Same, but most of them had families etc. I work but as soon as I'm home I'm pretty much playing stuff all the time.
i kinda get you, i guess. im 27 (soon 28) and decided to open a small business on top of my normal day job. can hardly find the time to do anything, weekends included. thought about playing pathologic 3 yesterday for the entire day and could only do it like 10PM, played an hour or so and had to go to bed because day job today. keep in mind im single, have no wife, no kids, nothingyou know, i kinda realized something. when normies tell you 'grown men dont/cant play games' or any of that patronizing stuff, i thought they said it as a way to simply be mean, to ridicule you. and that's not it at all - it's envy. because some married dude is FUCKED time wise and he knows it, and unlike my business which i can just quit, he cant easily do that. so normies at 30 or so are trapped, they are fucked, its wife and kids on one end and job on the other, he has NO TIME to go to the gym or pursue a hobby or a passion, and he realizes that albeit too latein the end, i realize the meme of the comfy pepe eating tendies while the wagie slaves away is pure truth. adult normies may have everything, but they dont have freedom at all. and they deeply resent it
how is everyone so busy? I try to do the following and it really clears up my time:>White board on my fridge with ongoing to do list for work>daily task list, written the night before. I track completions in a notebook>I track when I wake up in that notebook to try to reinforce a good schedule>weekly planner to try to keep track of longer term goalsI really need to get into journaling and long term goals, but at this point I do maybe an hour a day of work for my job while my coworkers are all still mega behind. Once you get on top of things it becomes so much easier..My free time is mostly spent reading, gaming, and working out.
>>731137320>I do maybe an hour a day of work for my job while my coworkers are all still mega behindYou don't have a job
>>731128054>Is this normal?Huh, yeah? Why do you think the a average arcade game takes around 40 minutes to beat
>>731128297Sheeeit I got 3,000+ on dota and I’m entirely done from moba games forever. Not sure how you pushed that far. I use to farm for 70 minutes every game as Medusa and solo the enemy team, I had the highest rank back then (can’t remember what it’s called desu)
>>731137320lol what do you need to get done really? I feel bad for people with nothing going on and they actively try to make their life harder for some reason. I work out of state 70% of the year and that last 30% i spend at my house maxing out on literally nothing.
I have the same issue. I plan to choose better my games and only start gaming when I can put of headphones and forget the world. Something I noticed is that I start something and my wife or someone else asks for my attention then when I come back to the game I lost all interest.
>>731137320>I do maybe an hour a day of work for my jobI didn't go to college so I have to actually work manual labour for 8-9 hours a day.
>>731137320>how is everyone so busy?>I do maybe an hour a day of work for my job>My free time is mostly spent reading, gaming, and working outSo you don't have a real job, no kids, and no actual interests, no wonder you feel no time pressure.
>>731131831I played the magic build. I invested in the tree that gave me more and easier charges, as well as weapon infusion.
>>731128054You are just tired OP
>>731137320>how is everyone so busy?Wife and a job will do it. Kids will clear up your time. Go the the gym and you won't have time for anything else.
>>731137998Time pressure is a trap, if you constantly check the time, constantly speed in your car, constantly making sure things are organized around a dedicated time schedule ( i can only play this game for 45 minutes before i have to do this next thing) you’re living like a slave. You are mixing up responsibilities and being a servant
>>731137998>has no interests because he doesn't work 50+ hours a weekthe capitalist brain is strong with this one
>>731128283why are you a feetnigger
>>731137320Get a wife. Just that alone will suck your time up. Kids on top of that and its basically over
>>731129491>If everyone felt the way I did, this board wouldn't be full of threads. What would you say I have if I spend all day doing nothing? Super depression?Maybe your own particular experience is not exactly the lens everyone should assess their lifeAnd you won't get a definitive answer to that here. Look for professional counseling, even if it's not right I'm sure it will be better
>>731129356>Depression doesn't require IQ, anon.Any outlook on life at all requires introspection, which has an IQ requirement. It also seems like it's far more common in first world countries, which means if it's not directly IQ-dependent then it at least requires a soul.
>>731138641I'm not very fond of IQ due to confounding factors (nourishment, education, socioeconomic status), but I certainly believe that high IQ and believing in soul are inversely correlated.
>>731128297Nice blog, freak. There's nothing "normal" about your compulsion to embarass yourself
>>731138208>mentions kids and non-consumptive activities>working out only takes 1.5hr out of your day max>cant understand how wageslaving isn't the only other option>>731138641What IQ do you have to be to not think depression is for faggots?>>731139047>(nourishment, education, socioeconomic status)None of these things remarkably affect IQ unless you're literally starving. Will, extroversion, social skill and problem solving are all neurologically affected and you can describe these things as 'soul'. I think you just have depression because you're gay
>>731139047Ask me how I know your skin is brown
>>731128054No. I bet you doomscroll for hours.
>>731128054I can only play modded skyrim. Ive tweaked it just the way I like it. Everything from the graphics to the camera, the animations, and now LLM powered NPCs. Im currently 150 hours into a game, only level 38, ive made it to the greybeards and completed vigilant. Most of my time is spent planning, talking, and the journey.
i usually game for 20-40 minutes at a timeafter that i need a break, going from active to passive
>disgust provoking image
>>731137320>Once you get on top of things it becomes so much easierMy problem is management isn't on top of things which makes everyone's life harder. 90% of my time at work is spent trying to figure out what the fuck to do and how the fuck to do it because there's no real direction or plan on how to get it done. Everything is done so assbackwards because "this is how we've always done it and it works. So why change it!"I can't tell you how many times I've heard managers over the years describe their job as corralling cats when all you gotta do is open a can of tuna - and they'll come running and will stay put. But it's too much effort to open the can I guess.>>731138107>organized around a dedicated time schedule ( i can only play this game for 45 minutes before i have to do this next thing)I'm actually trying to break away from this mentality because it's fucking miserable. My 9-5 is mostly full of meetings so I literally live by the minute 5 days a week. And trickles into my free time making it difficult to enjoy anything.And then when I do have time, there's the pressure to "maximize it". I've found it's easy for me to fall into the trap of saying I need to play as much vidya as possible on a day off and end up just cycling through my backlog. Because I should finish X but I want to play Y but I've been meaning to play Z for so long. And this is why it's hard (for me at least) to enjoy vidya in my mid-30s.
>>731139047"Soul" is not always used in the strictly spiritual sense. It's an easy shorthand for qualities like empathy, creativity, appreciation of beauty, etc. All the things that third worlders lack, in other words.
>>731138261you like holes that bleed and shit but feet are too much? okay buddy
>>731139612How do you bring up the link between neurology and personality, yet then turn right around and dismiss having depression as "being a fag"? You are on like 15 layers of just world fallacy cope right now
>>731142346If you were to agree that intellectual competency assists in problem solving, then you were to say that depression is linked with high IQ (true to an extent), you would have to admit that you have the capability to solve problems but instead are just acting like a fag. If you were then to bring up IQ deconstruction nonsense like education, wealth and nutrition and imply that those things are associated with depression, then you may also be a fat, broke and poor fag.I'm just callin it like I see it!
>>731128054>people like this account for 90% of the threads on the board>often sit down and play video games for 6+ hours by accident, despite living alone and working full time, and i feel /v/, the video game board, is not for me at allWhat websites are best for discussing video games?
Get a console.No distractions, big tv screen, comfortable couch position
>>731142870>Get a console.>don't play video games, just give up and consume slopPeople who's brains operate like this deserve a beheading
>>731142940>>don't play video games????????????????????
>>731143045Do you think watching a shitty movie is a video game because you have to press X every once in awhile? Get real, retard.
>>731143137That says more about your perception of what's available to play on consolesI could do the same thing you're doing, just in the opposite direction
>>731143267Play counterstrike for literally 5 minutes and compare it to call of duty. You have no idea dude.
>>731141519>Because I should finish X but I want to play Y but I've been meaning to play Z for so long. And this is why it's hard (for me at least) to enjoy vidya in my mid-30s.I have this problem too. I think you have to shock the system and start chunking your interest. Just turn on whatever naturally comes to mind and commit to it for ~20 minutes. It feels stupid at first, but once you remove the completion track in your brain you will start naturally engaging with more focus and end up sticking with something in the long run
>>731128054>is this normaldependsif you just can't find the time because you have so much other stuff going on, then that probably wouldn't be common but it would't be bad.If you can't play for longer periods despite having the free time, then that probably means that social media has fried your attention span. not good, but unfortunately not uncommon.
>>731139956and yet i'd rather fuck patty. I mean I'd fuck them both, but lbp a cute
>>731128054Yes, instagram has destroyed your attention span. Stop using it.
just disconnect the internet, it works like a charm everytime for me.
>>731137320>>731137580
>>731146959>Steam cloud data doesn't savereeeeeeeeeeeee
>>731128054>>731128154It sounds the opposite of depression actually.Every time I played longer than 3hours everyday is the first sign that something is not right.
>>731142650How exactly do you "solve" the problem of coming to the conclusion that life has nothing worthwhile to offer? Other than killing oneself, of course, which is fighting against every other instinct and impulse you have.
>>731128054Yes.Depends on the game though. I can play some stuff for hours.
>>731147207just pirate bro
>>731128054Where is your family?
>>731139047>we atheists are so smart and the religious people are all dullards >the man in the tv told me Great, anon. If only rational people like you were in charge.
I get where you're coming from OP>Be 28>work takes 8 hours of my, plus 30-40 minutes of commute each way because roads are shit>go to gym>best I have is an hour for anime, most games feel boring without some beer or coffee and I need a few days off to really have time to get into a game.I think my real issue is that I dont feel any stability in my life and I really just want to be able to live on my own and that anxiety is making me unable to just sit down and relaxGuess thats just me
>>731139956I like both
>>731128821Dude, noone has 5x that much. That would be 10 hours a day, every day, since release
