stop posting screenshots from other websites because you are afraid of confrontation and don’t want to say something to that person yourself

>>739433478
>escapism
so just like every other form of entertainment then.

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>>739433478
Didn't happen to me; I just avoid shitty games. Works every time

>>739433478
There's nothing inherently wrong with escapism you retarded cringelord, also this >>739433595

>>739433478
Vast majority of hobbies are escapism and the majority of people who practice a hobby that has "real world" applications do them recreatively anyways.

>>739433595
>>739433684
>>739434008
>>739434087
Okay, but if you still haven’t had sex by the age of 20, surely you must realize that this ”escapism” is bad for you and actively prevents you from an actual life filled with real experiences?

I think I haven't fully enjoyed games since childhood.

They stopped being fun in my early 20s and are back to being fun in my 30s.

>>739433478
It's not that they are no longer fun, but more that as you get older and your desires for a better life start taking priority, it makes it hard to make the time to play games. I got no kids and no wife right now. I work full time and have spent the last year going to the gym 5-6 days a week and being more physically active in my down time. My current curse is that I see games that look like I would enjoy them, wishlist them and purchase them during a big price drop, but never end up playing them. My backlog sickens me to the point where when I do finally give myself time to hop on a game, I can never decide what to play and committing to a new game when my gaming schedule is sporadic at best doesn't sound appealing if I don't recall wtf I'm supposed to do or where to go.

>>739434224
Reading a book is considered a form of escapism, and would also isolate you since you're doing it by yourself. Crocheting a sweater is considered a form of escapism and would also isolate you since you're doing it by yourself. You have literally no argument, you've been brainwashed.

>>739434224
>an actual life filled with real experiences
>sex
LOL as expected from a young'un

>>739434387
Books are only escapism when it’s femslop rape fantasy garbage because it doesn’t require attentive reading.
Crocheting is escapism insofar as it is a hobby, but it has actual use cases and is not designed to be addictive the way vidya is.

>>739434224
Skill issue. I don't drop a game I'm playing because a reality TV show is starting, you don't stop doing something more interesting and fulfilling to do something vapid and boring instead. Maybe women should try being more interesting.

>>739434583
Are you illiterate? A normal social life will be fulfilling and will naturally progress to you having sex. Being a virgin by the age of 20 means you lack said social life, and thus live a depressing life. It’s not the sex itself that gives meaning, but it’s a definite indication

>>739433478
>zoomers/gena larps as 24+ adults
that's what I call top 1 canon events

>>739434685
The logic of a drug addict. Sad to see.

>>739434736
There's nothing meaningful or special about having sex and it's certainly not impacted by whether you play games or not. When I was a fat, nearly 30 year old fuck up I was still having sex and having a social life. It doesn't mean shit and it won't magically fix your problems.

>>739434836
Yet again you miss the point. Are all millennials this stupid?

>>739434736
>young child lecturing everybody on the importance of sex
You are an immature lolcow.

>>739434813
Drug addicts have sex too. Often for money they use to buy drugs. It's a vapid activity sold to sex junkies to fund other scum lifestyles. You don't see drug addicts offering to beat a boss for you in exchange for drugs. Funny how that works.

>>739433478
Im 40 and hasnt happened yet
I think this happens to people that never liked arcade games
Yeah no wonder the "hold up on the stick while characters talk about how much they enjoy sodomy" simulators gets boring

>>739433478
I'm 30 and vidya are still fun.
I don't play normie slop though so maybe that's why.

>>739434895
Socially I’m above 99% of /v/ posters, so I no doubt have the authority to lecture you on life. It’s not my fault you stayed at home and focused on grinding a useless video game while I was outside making memories

>>739434925
Yeah, I think that's accurate. Even genres that I thought I couldn't enjoy anymore now and then grab my attention. Hasn't enjoyed a new fighting game since Marvel 3, super hyped for the Avatar game.

>>739434625
>Addressing the individual elements of the analogy instead of the point of the analogy
Damn zoomers are fucking cooked, enjoy your job at McDonalds.

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>>739433478
Video games are still fun.

t. 37 anon

>>739434992
You are 20 and you are a stereotype who believes that SEX is the end-all meaning of life LMAO work on your bizarre psychotic strawmen before you get yourself hurt in real life, kiddo.

>>739434998
The problem with your ”analogy” was that it was a false equivalence. Books are definitely not a hobby the same way video games are.

>>739434992
>Socially I’m above 99% of /v/ posters
Wife and kid status?

>>739433478
>>739434379
Yeah if you dont have your life together then stuff like videogames will feel bad and terrible to engage in
But once you are content with life and can pay all your taxes and fund all your hobbies then its no problem at all to lpay games in your free time

>>739434998
He's a newfag who came here to shitpost and pretend being superior to "those nasty 4channers" through ad-hom and personal attack spam.

>>739435085
That’s not what I said. Having regular sex is an indicator, is what I’m saying. Being a virgin at 20 means you lack a social life.

I have never used video games as escapism. If you were and you realize that you've been using them to avoid interacting with life, it means you never found them engaging to begin with, and it also means that your avoidance is your fault. People can have hobbies and not be utterly consumed by them. If you are, it means there's something wrong with (You) and by blaming the hobby, you're once again avoiding taking responsibility, but what else is new.

Get ready to do this for the next 10 years too instead of taking action and developing a healthy balance.

>>739434367
Same

>>739433478
Never happened, unlike most of /v/ I actually like video games.

>>739435192
Or it means you arent a degenerate and was able to survive that shit era of your life

>>739435114
Again, you're a fucking under-aged retard with no critical thinking skills. Hobbies aren't inherently escapism in a good or bad way, you can use for good or bad escapism.

>>739435192
Why do you keep making such a big deal about being young, and new to 4chan?

>>739435135
wife? cheater
kid? black and not his

>>739433478
For me? At 20. Then everything became boring at around 25 so I started playing vidya again because it's accessible and makes it easier to pass the time

>>739434387
sounds like you've just realised you have mental issues and you're using vidya as escapism

>>739435192
Trust me casual sex will only make your life worse
But you wont because the lust is intense so knock yourself out kid

>>739435339
But anon, mindless hedonism is the only method of which a human can reach apotheosis!!!!!

Why are there so many old people here? Don't you have anything better to do?

>>739435404
Dude, you are 20 and you think you are better than anybody. Lol.

>>739435404
No, there's nothing better to do. That's the sad secret to life they won't tell you..

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>>739435404
It's literally Saturday morning.

>>739435262
Right, but video game is definitely harmful escapism.
>>739435286
Because it’s a hard pill to swallow for many millennials that a younger person is far superior to them
>>739435339
It’s not about casual sex, but losing your virginity is certainly important. Those who lose it too late are damned.

>>739435404
no. the people older than us looted the coffers and filled them with brown people. I'm waiting to die and hoping it's quick and painless.

That's just because modern games, and all other entertainment media, are shit.

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>>739435496
I ask you again, wife and kids status?

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>Dude, you are 20 and you think you are better than anybody. Lol.

>>739435496
>buzzword spam
>I'm 20 and I'm so mature LOOK AT ME!
A good laugh for this Saturday morning.

>>739435404
>Don't you have anything better to do?

Not anymore thanks to media enshittification.

>>739435545
I’m 20, why the fuck would I want to be married? I had sex an hour ago with my gf.

>>739433478
I thought I started to hate video games when I started doodling electronic music in a daw (during covid too), but then I realized I just hate shitty AAA games and now I only buy indie games on sale. Only AAA game that has my attention is GTA 6, but it's not even coming out on PC until later.

>>739435575
Have you 100%'d Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2?

>>739435550
u mad

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>>739435594
I think you mean "our gf".

>>739433478
I'm 28 and gaming is still fun for me. Why the fuck are you posting on this specific board if you don't find the activity fun or engaging? There are plenty of boards that suits all kinds of interests that you can spend time with, yet you decided to be a miserable attention whoring faggot instead.

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>>739435631
How bro felt typing that:

>>739435594
>I’m 20, why the fuck would I want to be married?
So you can have lots of kids before your gf is old and busted (and so your kids won't be bastards). Time goes fast, get started early.

>>739435673
>nonquote
>non-sequitur
yep mad

>>739435673
like a hipster fag?

>>739433478
I'm middle aged. Anime doesn't hit like it use to but Video games still do. I just play older ones/heavily filtered so I don't get any woke slop. Mostly older games I missed.

>>739435404
"Old people" were on this site likely before you were even born. Why should we leave when we were here before you, kid?

>>739434983
>Socially I'm above 99% of all /v/ posters
And yet here you are on a Saturday, during Memorial Day Weekend posting on /v/ lol, sure bud sure.

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I'm 36 and employed, this is entirely a (You) issue. If you don't feel like playing then take a fucking break.

>>739434087
>nothing inherently wrong with escapism
That's true
The issue is 95% of escapism is done with the intent of ignoring and distracting yourself from life because you're too weak to confront your own problems

>>739435404
shouldn't you be doing homework or at the park playing football like the retarded teenager you are?

Too fucking busy surviving and feeling guilty that I'm not being productive

>>739435770
I didn't say that. Also I assume that more than 1% of /v/ still has fun with video games.
>Memorial Day
The world doesn't revolve around your retarded third-world burger country.

Young people mocking old people is always funny, because they inevitably lose. They will be old themselves in due time, or they will die.

Remember this when some Gen Beta is making memes about your broccoli hair and shitting on Fortnite.

>>739435770
Oops meant for >>739434992

>>739433478
>escapism
That's exactly why I play videogames.

I had the opposite problem and realized only games are fun. I don't want to deal with other people, I don't want to bother wish bullshit. Even a shitty game is more interesting than anything out there in my case.

>>739435887
>The world doesn't revolve around your retarded third-world burger country.
It does, actually

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zoomers play the same 5 gun and ball games their entire lives and wonder why it's boring now

im 31 and i'm enjoying games as much as i did when i was 14 because i like to branch out different videogame genres that wasnt recommended by your discord cabal or streamer faggot

>>739433478
I turn 40 this year and it hasn't happened yet

>>739435887
Calm down, I replied to the wrong post. It wasn't meant for you eurotrash.

>>739433478
Why is every one on twitter a miserable nigger? The most popular xeets are always some faggot crying about how they aren't enjoying life anymore or some gay shit.

>>739435930
just because its owned by jews

>>739436060
>Why is every one on twitter a miserable nigger
lol
>implying

>>739434224
>and actively prevents you
You have the cause and effect reversed, as usual when trying to paint something in a bad light.

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>>739436060
Being a miserable nigger is the most common symptom of internet brainrot.
Now guess where these brainrotted people flock to the most. There's your answer.

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>>739433478
In my early 20s, then in my early 30s I realised vidya is cheaper and a lot better than most modern forms of 'entertainment' normies and twitter grifters try to push on you

stop making this thread every day

>>739436069
And yours isn't, lol. Tell us what country you live in?

>>739434625
Not all vidya is designed to be addictive. Just the AAA garbage. When I got the feeling of OP's picrel, I realized I was playing garbage and my tastes shifted rapidly over the next few years. I stopped playing FPS and competitive games altogether (the games built with psychologists to be addictive and stimulating) and opted for tighter experiences made by smaller studios or solo devs. Now, I prefer co-op stuff with friends, games that challenge my reactions and split-second decision making (i.e. racing or souls games), or story driven titles with interesting worlds, dilemmas, or plotlines. I realized games as a whole weren't my problem. I just still chased the stuff my teenage brain enjoyed, but I no longer had a teenage brain.

Having shit taste and then blaming all games is like having 1-2 flavors of Greek yogurt, getting sick of it, and saying "Greek yogurt sucks, man. I just can't enjoy it anymore." You didn't try adding some granola, different fruits, or mixing it into a recipe. You just wrote it off for good after over-indulging for a long time. It's midwit behavior.

>>739434008
It happened to me for a period of time, but that was because of total tranny takeover of the gaming industry and the industry needed to recover

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>>739433478
>Top 1 canon event

>>739433478
I have a daughter, wife, dog, cats, house, job, car, motorcycle and am happy. Video games never stopped being fun.

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I was always social I just ghosted everyone because honestly socializing is boring.
I never understood how people enjoy each others company for hours.
I am already bored minute 2 even if I talked to an astronaut world record deadlifter scientist gigachad millionaire billionaire.

>turned 18 during covid
please kill yourself

>>739436387
I was 14 during covid

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>>739433478
Can't relate. Not playing the same live service game for 10 years in a row helps a lot.

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They are still fun, but I just don't want to play them as much. Video games where more fun when you had people who you actually hung out with because either you played and talked about video games with them, or you had those more personal "you" games that you could hyper focus on and keep to yourself when you needed a bit of alone time. Then you become an adult and your friends either get married/in a long term relationship and just seem to abandon everyone but themselves while your single friends just kind of give up on life and self isolate for seemingly no reason. It's bizarre how the moment you hit 30 everyone kind of expects you to completely stop socializing and forming relationships of any kind.

>>739434224
sex becomes very not worth it when you get to a certain age, especially all the baggage and annoyance to get to that part. Prostitution really should be fully legalized. It’s way better to just pay $200 to blow your load then leave

>>739436236
where in my post did i say my country isn't owned by jews? spanish

Things just stop being fun and interesting in your mid 20s, and it's never coming back. My father's 70 and he told me as much, and this far I can't say that he's been wrong.

I am 29 with a wife, a kid, and a PhD. Games are still fun and some of the best games I've ever played have come out in the last few years and fun titles continue to come out every year. I am super excited for the future of gaming. I guess if you are brown/poor/a consolefag it must look pretty bleak.
>escapism
Lol.

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>>739433478
>ningar

>>739433478
I feel bad for zoomers. From when they were kids all up until they've become fully grown adults, the games that everbody played was minecraft, roblox and GTA5.

If you played anything other than that you'd be considered as some weirdo freak. If I were in the same position I'd get burnt out too. Zoomers are too afraid of trying anything new.

>>739436567
>getting a PhD in 2026
KWAB
Basically adult kindergarten

>>739433478
9 out of 10 times, the people who say this usually only play the same Live Service game for multiple generations straight, or only AAA games. They never liked video games in the first place. They only liked 1 game or being trendy. I am confident in this statement because I have watched video clips of them showing their console dashboards while saying it and is always Fortnite, COD, Fifa, Madden, God of War, The Last of Us and Spiderman.

>>739433478
I quit for a few years and went through an "all games suck" phase but then I came back. I built a gaming PC in 2023 and downloaded Starfield and then played through a bunch of 2023 AAA on hardest difficulty and overall enjoyed it. After a year of that I sold my gaming PC and found my niche, arcade games. So just play those now

i am 18 years old
i have a buggati. 8 wifes, 2 twins, i'm a billinare, games are fun . i dont need to work . i travel to mars daily , and i get to kill people for fun when i'm tired of playing call of duty

>>739436176
>Three step kids, a stay at home wife. She's partied out, and now wants some dude to raise her three kids, and support her. Welcome to America in 2026, no thanks I'll keep playing video games.

>>739433478
guess I missed out on that one
just like teenage love and all that jazz

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video games are still fun for me
the problem starts with convincing myself to actually play one
my brain has been completely destroyed from playing retail WoW from 2006 to around 2017
during that time I barely played any other games, only WoW
and WoW kept rewarding me with all those little items and goodies when I played it, I would always get a little reward when playing it so my dopamine was re-programmed for it
now when I see a game I just can't fucking bring myself to start it because I think it's not gonna be worth it, there won't be any meaningful reward etc
my brain doesn't see fun as a reward
the only games I can still kind of play are games that have are story-focused, some examples from the last few years
>cyberpunk (didn't finish)
>new resident evil games
>wukong
>elden ring (no dlc)
>e33 (only finished the main story)
>hogwarts
my brain is just completely fried

>>739436176
THIS is what OP wants men to marry into?
Yikes.

>>739433478
20s dudes that think like are so cringe. If you're 25 and still care what others think you're certified normie cattle.

>>739436697
Congrats! You've realised that most vidya are shit and/or a waste of time. Now you can start reading books.

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I am 26 years old and video games are still fun

>>739433478
Are you stuoid? Literaly everything in out life beside basic survival on day to day basis is kind of escapism.
>hobbies?
Escapism
>family?
Escapism
>art?
Escapism
Its escapism from the void of death that wait for us all. The only thing that is kind of magical is love, but its probably just hormones making you think that.
Whenit comes to vidya I agree that they less fun in current age, but I feel about that also about movies and other media. Basicly its normal to see world becoming shittier, its a common knowledge at this point, seeing this as a 18yo dont make you a grown man, whole post reeks with pseud energy.

>>739434224
I rather die alone than have to beg an stupid whore for sex.

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>if I do nothing else with my life and spend all my free time doing the same activity for years on end it gets boring
wow

>>739436835
Atheists really think like this huh

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>>739436176
Same, I had sex for a decade than GTAV and Skyrim dragged me back. Honestly that 2015-2018 time was worth it, but I should have got out their again after 2019.

>>739436683
Most single mothers I know actually had 'respectable' average partners they just split up because typical modern marriage fights.
It's not gigachad pumping and dumping babies.
Its average 30-40s joe getting divorced or kicked out of a relationship after losing his job or whatever bullshit relationship trouble.

"Getting drunk is no longer fun" is a far more important event.

>>739433478
>buy PC
>bored as fuck
>buy Nintendo
>have fun
It was that easy

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>>739436835
How many times I have to tell you this bro, go suck on some titties!

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We will all be dead by 30, I have nothing absolutely nothing

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>>739436918
today i played brotato for few hours and drank 6 beers so far and i'm 35

>>739436897
>Get fired
>Get cuvked
>Get divorced
>Watch the mother of your children hit the cock corasol

>>739436897
It's still bullshit because they have a kid and want a father figure but any man willing to date them they'll instantly suspect are pedos trying to groom their kid.

>>739436897
>>739437096
Im debating this. Is it really worth the 2 point bump in hotness to deal with the baggage of another mans kid.

>>739436567
Esoteric Ebb and Skate Story were both great releases this year. Pair that with the brigador killers demo having released and honestly its been a good year so far.

>>739434224
Sex is escapism.

what else are u supposed to do? work?

>>739436697
Maybe ARPGs like diablo and grim dawn would be your speed. Very loot-centric and whatnot

>>739437189
Esoteric Ebb has some awful ESL writing

>>739433478
Oh yea you are a big boy now anon, better leave us children alone.

>>739434367
same

>>739437276
>if I'm not consooming the only alternative is wage labor
you are cattle

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>>739433478
>vidya was just escapism
no shit? and what did you think they were before you came to that revelation?

>>739437276
Achieve ego death and then die biologically, that's it

>>739436897
sorry to break it to you
the single mothers cheated

>>739437276
Work hard to ensure mr Shekelberg gets to buy yet another yacht

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>>739433478
are all zoomies this mentally challenged?

>>739437560
The ones that use tiktok/instagram yea

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>>739436897
I'd rather be a non-breeding male than a non-breeding male taking care of someone else's offspring.

The problem is nothing else is enjoyable. No other hobbies are interesting, no “doing shit with my hands” isn’t interesting. No I don’t have depression I’m not getting on 6 SSRIs to permanently rape my brain chemistry, retarded ass Reddit “solution.”

>>739436876
I am not atheist, i just dont need religion to set my moralcode.
Our life is shadowed by the death, peopel might say they dont dwell on this topic, but death surrunds our concious thoughts. You want to surive to find a good mate, you want to find said mate to procreate, you want to procrate to prolong your gene, thus cheat death in some form. Those are all escapisms. Every other action that you perform can be called an sidequest escapism that mostly serve as a help for keeping us sane. Even stuff like being altruistic is about your ego in 99% of case, which is also an escapism because its a mental gymastic ritual to make yoy feel better about your existance.
>>739436967
Im in love and still think its magical, but logical side of me try to ground it. I have two wolf inside me, no knots tho.

>>739437336
The writer is swedish, so it wouldn't surprise me. Mind sharing some of these awful passages?

>video games aren't fun anymore
>only plays the latest games on gamepass or whatever or gacha and never finishes games

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>will be 30 in a month
>still repeating the bimonthly cycle of feeling disdain towards gaming and then relapsing hard
it's over

>>739437009
Look how well developed this mans skull is,how big and protruding his facial Bones are.
Clearly made for another era of hunting human fights and pillaging yet he is a recluse loner surviving on ramen and playing videogames alone in his appartment.

>>739437616
>No I don’t have depression
Maybe not clinical depression but you have definitely rationalized yourself into some nonsense or have other mental problems

>>739434224
How about you shut the fuck up huh? have you thought about that???

Normalfags really play the same cookie cutter goyslop for their whole life, then complain about video games. The craziest part is they hardly even play that, it's mostly just social media doomscrolling. That is like digital crack to stupid people.

>>739434983
I'm 44 with a wife and kids and play video games all the time

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>>739433478
Multiplayer? At 20 years old
Single player? Still fun at 30yo

>>739434008
>Clancy Brown will pass away in your lifetime

>>739436176
how the fuck are video games cheaper than watching movies or TV shows. Even with piracy you still need a good PC to drive your shit while you can watch any show from a free streaming on a shitty phone at worst.

>>739437771
You’re right time to spend 5000/session at shekelsteins psychology and rape my brain with chemicals permanently so I can sit in front of Netflix for 8 hours a day on weekends and finally be Happy(tm)

top canon event for a normalfag is stop having fun and sacrificing himself so I can get more neetbux to enjoy video games

>>739437616
loads of other hobbies interest me but not a single one of them can match video games when it comes to paying 10 bucks and getting a hundred hours of enjoyment out of it.
most of the hobbies i'm interested in have a cost of entry beyond anything i can afford

>>739437848
Why are we all addicted to multiplayer games in our teens?
Literally everbody has that phase of multiplayer obsession around 10-20 years old.

>>739437908
>mindraped by jews into nihilistic faggotry
yep expected. It's too late for you I'm afraid

>>739437884
>how dare you say 'most' around me
calm down

>>739437971
the only multiplayer game I played was csgo

>>739433478
I remember the first guy who said this to me. My cousins husband who just got married. Guess who abandoned his wife and child to escape to Mexico. American fuck lol

>>739436897
So just like my post, they still want someone to raise their kids, and support them. But, but, these are better because they came from failed marriages. Different departure, but arrived at the same destination.

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>>739433478
>Vidya is just escapism
so is the internet in general.

>>739437971
because our friends from school were playing them too

>>739437984
sounds like a great argument for getting rid of all jews

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>>739437009
>We will all be dead by 30
must've missed the memo cause I'm 32

Also doesn't help every person who said this turns out to be a gambler with the pokies.

>>739433478
>consume modernslop made for women
>this isnt fun, i must get a new hobby
stop playing bad games retard

>>739438056
>sounds like a great argument for getting rid of all jews
And you're going to do that how
You're just going to seethe impotently your entire life kek

>>739434224
>>739434736
Anyone who obsesses with having sex before 20 is a virgin.

>>739437884
phone plans arent free dumdum

>>739437908
Some of us are simply cursed. You'll find a way to cope or die trying. Drugs and alcohol will only work for a limited amount of time. Accepting that OK is as good as it's ever going to be takes some time, though. For me it took a decade.

tiktok opinion

>>739437884
>need a good PC to drive your shit
you can literally build a pc out of scraps and sticks that runs most of the pre 2015 shit (i.e. shit that is worth playing)

I completely skipped over the not fun part to the it's fun again part.
>too depressed to touch my backlog for decades so I missed most of the single player gaming phase
>games now are more like social simulators where the game is secondary to talking with your teammates and cracking jokes like SCPSL
>now getting back into single player experiences like Tomb Raider

Honestly, the whole 'games are no longer fun' phenomenon is not any different to the 'I don't read books anymore' phenomenon. Even though people brought up with the boomer mindset perceive the former to be some kind of marker of maturity because of social pressure, at its core what it really is is just a sign of mental deterioration where your mind no longer has the capacity to entertain fictional worlds and ideas anymore.

But now that the social contracts are pretty much all broken and the social pressures are gone, people kust do whatever they like now without shame, gaming past 30 being no different, especially when they can be social experiences now.

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Actually, the top 1 canon event for young men is when sex is no longer worth it.

>>739438298
>a sign of mental deterioration where your mind no longer has the capacity to entertain fictional worlds and ideas anymore.
short form content addiction

>>739438005
What other modern "entertainment" form are their for actual normalfags, and not tiktok grifters?

>>739438109
hurr durr, still need to get an internet plan to pirate your game. the barrier of entry for just sitting on your ass and watch something is still lower than video games

>>739434224
why the obsession with sex? what real experiences? getting drunk? I have gotten drunk. Most of the time it doesn't end in good sex. Many of the times doesn't even end in sex. What other experiences? Travelling? I can do that on my own and I had. Eating new food? Same, Benn there done that on my own. Having a pet? I have two.

So explain to me what real experience am I missing because I play videogames

I still have plenty of fun playing vidya when I drink a six pack or more :D

>>739433478
They're still sorta fun, it's just the fun comes from PvP and competing against real humans. I can't handle the vast majority of single-player games anymore because:
1. The gameplay is just a rehash of something done before, and defeating a bunch of if/else statements designed to be beaten doesn't feel satisfying.
2. The writing is best video games is mediocre at best when compared to average books or TV series. There's maybe 1 game every 5 years that has writing and story that can keep me interested. Even games that have supposedly amazing writing according to the general audience like BG3 or CP2077 are bad.
3. Ironically, now that I'm older and have loads of money, I'm way more stingy about spending than I was back as a kid/teenager, so by the time I thnik the price of a game is right, I realize that not only it's not worth my money, it's not even worth my time which is even more precious.
So yeah, I've been mainly playing a niche chink pseudo-MMO called Conqueror's Blade for the past few years, because it has guild rivalry, allows me to joke around with a ton of people in my guild (Slav guild so there's 0 rules aside from not insulting our allies) and offers a relatively unique mix of gameplay (kinda Mount & Blade, Dynasty Warriors and Total War combined).
I used to think it was depression, but I can still have fun with other hobbies and a new game very now and then. My standards have simply risen exponently and the vast majority of games can't match them or offer something unique enough that warrants lowering them.

>>739438415
access to the internet will always be necessary when and is a moot point
a phone plan is optional since free wifi is almost everywhere except in a person's home
also there are cheap computers that can run a massive portion of the history of released games and cost less than a phone
the games can be obtained for free

>>739433478
>turned 18 during covid and realized
son there’s even more you need to realize and i sincerely hope you will

I’m 36 with a wife, 2 kids, house that’s paid off, car that was purchased brand new in cash, a stable, long term well paid job, workplace pension and personal investments, and also side projects that are making me passive income and video games have never been more fun

>>739436897
holy unc thread

>>739438431
not that dude but doing all those things with someone else is a different experience

>>739438346
Yea I suppose. Though I can inexplicably sit through hours of the right media so part of me thinks it might be a quality issue. I also skipped all of social media too, never even used Facebook and every platform between that and tiktok.

>>739435496
You posting here diminished any status you had immediatly, you're the king among the land of blind people at best, rejoice!

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>>739433478
>>739434224
I didn't have sex until 23 and I still enjoy video games. This sounds like a personal problem.

>>739437951
This, the other hobbies I'm interested in besides video games have a steep entry price point.

i'm a sex haver on the four chins you're fucking nothing

>>739437560
Unfortunately, yes.
They are the iPad generation who were consuming brainrot garbage since birth, which caused severe cognitive development issues.

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>>739438334
Now what are the number for zoomie girls

>>739433478
It never happens to me permanently, but I'll go a couple weeks where I have no interest in gaming occasionally. I just came off a 230 hour play though of Xenoblade 2, and I haven't had any desire to play games in about a week.

GO TO REDDIT FAGGOT
JANNIES CLEAN THIS SHIT UP

Thinking having sex or even having children is a marker of status or the end goal is a sign of immaturity.

It's that brainlet/midwit/bigbrain trichotomy graph all over again. Men who have kids realize too late it's not fulfilling like they expected and fuck off to pursue their hobbies just like incels do.

Yes coupling and having children are nice but they're optional pleasant pitstops along the way, if they happen they happen, if you try to bruteforce it or make it into the final destination you're going to have a Chris Watts of a time.

>>739433478
I'm 34 and games are still fun. Just stop playing shitty games and you won't have this problem. Play some good games. Play some retro games, try genres you haven't tried before. Of course you're not going to have fun when you just play the same walking simulator with a different name.
I have stage 4 cancer yet get to enjoy vidya every day because life's good when you don't act like a depressed sack of shit wallowing in self pity lmao.

>>739437161
Honestly not really. Even if you are smart enough to not fall for /pol/ rethorics about women, single moms are still generally single for a reason. You are still kind of sol anyways because as other anon said, their kid comes first so they will be on your ass about it and paranoid about your true intentions for a long time.

>>739433478
>le escapism is bad guys
annoyed_anime_girl.png

>>739439945
Shit I'm sorry, but if I had terminal cancer I'd be doing anything but playing games

>>739434736
>you lack said social life, and thus live a depressing life
we need that californian chud edit but with NORMALNIGGER ALERT

>>739440469
>>le escapism is bad guys
Yes

>>739433478
i've had stints where i just dont play video games and watch a tv show or do other shit with my time but honestly i always come back to it eventually.
Theres so many games out there man. and as i've gotten older ive been getting into driving sims and flying simulators.

>>739434224
>an actual life filled with real experiences?
Please describe said life and real experiences.

>>739440715
You know what they are and you're just coping

>>739440760
I wanna hear details. If they cannot be provided, they're clearly not important.

>>739434224
I guarantee you if I would quit all escapist entertainment I would still be a virgin

>>739433478
can your life have non-canon events?

>>739441028
Only in your dreams...

>>739441028
yea
it's when you pretend to yourself that some of the shit you did didnt happen
actually thats a funny question to ask

>>739434992
I have a wife, kids, and have a career making 150k a year running a sales team.

I would 100% enjoy the company of a v/ poster who's sincere in his convictions likes and hobbies vs someone who thinks the amount of gash they smash determines value.

The fact of the matter is that a shallow flashy "social life" and hunting one night stands is meaningless escapism from building a life that you actually enjoy. Now that I don't have anything to prove I spend my very rare free time playing 20 year old video games and building model kits.

One day you'll grow up and realize that everything you espouse right now is immature, it's a sign that you enjoy nothing and cannot stand your own company.

>>739434625
what the fuck are you talking about lol, books are a hundred times more potent way to escape reality
at least with video games you have some control over the narrative and utilize some actual thinking, analyze your surroundings, interact with the world, sort of an augmented reality shit
you open a book you come out days later not knowing who the fuck you are or where you've been, it's like shooting hardcore drugs

>>739438334
Definitely a big event for me was realizing I could have sex but it's meaningless if I don't actually like the girl I'm having it with on a personal level, and I really hate women. Sorta the same realization just a little different

Never, because I keep varied hobbies and am not completely depressed.

>>739441247
I always tell people about all the wacky shit I've done. often with minimal context.
I like to keep them on their toes.

>>739434202
If you aren't posting on sharty all day complaining in pedos then you're partaking of escapism and demoralisation

the secret is succeeding in other areas of life. a healthy mind will feel guilty about leisure activities when one spends no time being productive

>>739433478
>visa översättningen
Du är homopeter :-DD

>>739441774
Imagine being such a goyslave that the thought of not being productive for shekelstein makes you feel guilty.

dad gamers fly under the radar for how much of a blight they are

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>>739433478
I'm 32 and it hasn't happened yet.

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>>739434224
god you sound like such a fucking loser

>>739434224
tits or gtfo

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>>739435052
Same.

>>739434224
>free time BAD goy
>work extra hours with no pay like a REAL GO-err MAN

>>739443932
it will never happen for some of us

>>739433478
the cause of this is actually advanced brainrot having ruined your ability to focus to the point where it is strenuous to try to play a video game compared to passively scrolling or while listening to some dipshit's 8 hour essayslop on something you don't even care about

>>739434894
Your point is that you are a sex obsessed virgin and you are projecting that on to other people. All the old people I know who aren't baby boomer-tier just do whatever the fuck they want because they all realized they are old and nobody cares what they do anymore.

SO i am taking a page from those guys.

>>739434736
Maybe consider that sex is an intimate thing you experience with someone you connect with deeply rather than trying to get rid of social stigma known as virginity which leads retards to unconsciously pass on their own intergenerational trauma and doom the world with even more immature people that think the same way as you

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>>739434224
Anyone else find it extremely odd that pedophilia is discouraged while at the same time society encourages you to have sex in your early teens where pedophilia does happen?

>>739435339
Coping mechanisms on an instinctual level get held at such a stupidly high standard because retards look at money, harems or excess as success when they're clearly unhealthy methods to try to fill a void
Niggas love to avoid looking at themselves, or when they do, they do not sit with the pain long enough to realize anything they might think is still a coping mechanism
It's hard not to put blame on anyone because everyone's just too dumb to realize anything about life or themselves

>>739435404
It's either this or completely my idles of the day young chap

>>739439292
I was born in 02 and grew up on dvd and vhs

>>739433684
I guess it's escapism. I see it more as filling a void most men have and that is, in so many words, the need for competition and combat and beating fuck out of each other.

>>739434224
Lol What a crock of shit. I didn't lose my virginity until I was early 30's and before I met the girl, I was having plenty of "life experiences." BAD ONES. Doing bad things and getting into trouble. Things would have changed my life for the better had I chose to just stay at home and play the videogame. Stay on your games, Anons. You ain't missing shit out there.

>>739441450
anon they have never experienced this, they simply are unable to read.
sane people understand how addictive books, how easy and passive of an experience it is, and because of how low effort it is you just get slurped into a book and come out with so much time having passed suddenly.

its always the most schizo people who would get fucked up by a good book the most who deny that books are like this, they get too fucked up on small potatoes shit to ever make it to losing days to a good book

>>739446758
yet here you are heeding the braying of internet strangers

>>739434224
Sex and relationships with women that doesn't lead to eventual marriage and children is a waste of time, money, and effort. The chance of finding your soulmate before you're like 25 is very low anyway. You might as well play video games, it's literally more productive.

You fags never liked video games

>>739436897
I literally don't care

>IMG_4229.jpg
>shit thread
kek every time

>>739434008
I’m 38 and I still have fun playing even shitty games.

>>739434224
You are mixing up cause and effect. Escapism is the result of failing to get an actual life filled with real experiences.

>>739437971
i still prefer multiplayer games in my old age because most singleplayer games are piss easy. the only real exceptions are really well made RPGs like BG3 but those are extremely rare

>>739433478
I’m 40 and I still fucking love video games. Skill issue etc

>>739433478
>turned 18 during covid
so you're a literal child.
unironically try some good games, aka games from before your time.
go to /vr/ and ask for classics

>>739447243
>I may be confusing you with the people born ten years after you but you're not living like the amish so I win
You're a nigger who's also using the internet

>>739433478
>escapism
then escape from my hobby and fuck off you god damn tourists, i actually like videogames.

>>739447815
>most singleplayer games are piss easy
there are tons of rhythm games, bullet hell games, precision platformers and some really complex or fast puzzle games but you prefer story mode games

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>>739433478
I'm 34 and videogames are still fun.
If entertainment isn't fun, it might be you who has the problem.

>>739434736
My dad took me to an Irish prostitute when I turned 18 to get it out of the way. The only annoying parts was having to hear her "baaaing" the whole time, picking the straw out of my ass cheeks from the barn floor, and having to feed her hay afterward.

>>739434224
you'll realize that sex, same as vidya loses its charm, especially when you ACTUALLY meet women

>>739434224
i could had sex at any time i wanted, but that's the thing, i don't want to, because i am scared of women, commitment and the consequences of casual sex, so fuck off already

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>>739433478
Nothing, I still find games fun.

>>739448383
that was a welsh girl, dickhead

>>739433478
It didn't. Stop playing shit games you braindead zoomer.

>>739433478
>Fill in the blank
I no longer play video games. However I came to a board dedicated to video games because _____

Retards still falling for bait I see.

>>739434224
>dumb 20 something year old retard thinks the only thing to life is sex
Hate to say it buddy but you're not wise beyond your years, enlightened, or however else you like to think of yourself as special. You're just another kid who can't think with anything except your dick.

>>739435052
I'll be 37 later in the year. Games are still fun for me too, sometimes I have that thing where I play a streak of mid games so I play less but eventually I'll find a good one and get back into it.

>>739436759
Most books are shit and/or a waste of time.

>>739443635
i'm holding my son in my arms while i type this and laughing my ass off at the idea that your bloodline made it all this way only to end with you

it didn't happen.
i just stopped playing childish pew pew games and started playing map painting games and flight simulators.

>>739433478
Nah good games are still good and fun, most of the games released these days are terrible. Take for example the most anticipated upcoming game GTA 6. It will be the same garbage rockshart gameplay with the same garbage rockshart writing, with the same garbage rockshart design. The graphics will be pretty though and people will buy in droves and have "fun". It won't actually be fun at all but they'll still claim they enjoyed it to fit in.
Choose your games wisely and you won't have this problem.

>>739433478
>Turned 18 during COVID

>>739449475
>map painting games and flight simulators
These are afflicted with enshittification as with every other genre in gaming. Buying IL-2 1946 is a substantially better deal and more fun than cutting yourself with overpriced broken DCS modules.

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>>739449403
You don't even read the posts/chain you're replying to

>>739449403
If you're browsing any board on 4chan, especially /v/ with your kid in your arms it just goes to show you're a pretty shitty father. Kid's going to need therapy before he even starts elementary school from all the gay furry porn and dicks you've exposed him to.

>>739449698
your poor reading comprehension and obsession with jews has you believing "success in life" means "making lots of money." i am trying to impart upon your pea-brain that success in life = procreation. everything else is material.

>>739449992
you're speaking with a lot of authority for a permavirgin who has never spoken to a woman

>>739450147
You're projecting an awful lot of insecurities.

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>>739433478
>17 when I realized real life can be more fun than vidya
>23 when I realized all the bullshit you fantasied about being fun really isn’t all that great
>28 when I realized I’m not willing to jump through the ever changing hoops of society in order to have “fun” irl

vidya is fun again

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>>739450085
>Feeling guilty about your leisure time
>You nutted in a woman at least once so you're successful
Ok

>>739433478
>tranny ragebait thread
>screenshot in some third world shitskin language
>300 replies
Never change /v/

>>739434224
do you define yourself by the act of rubbing one of your organs against the organs of a third person?

>>739450085
>am trying to impart upon your pea-brain that success in life = procreation
I deal with dudes at work regularly who prove that's a load of bullshit. Usually I'm calling the cops on them because they've left their kids alone in the hotel or in the food court so they can get shitfaced in the bar or shoot fentanyl or meth in the bathrooms.

>>739433478
Most games are just shit nowadays, I still enjoy the occasional well made game.

>waaaaa let me engage with something that hurts me
gets sad, dies of lonely

>>739434224
I've sailed across the equator twice, got drunk in Singapore, attended Comiket in Tokyo, watched Chile break out into mass riots, admired some wombats in Australia, drove from seashore to seashore across the continental US, looked down upon Brazil and its shityy fucking favelas from the Christ the Redeemer statue, swam in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, spent Christmas in Honolulu, spent New Years Eve in New York City, I did all this and so much more but I've never had sex.
>>739433478
It's never happened to me. I enjoy video games much more now than I ever had as a kid or teenager.