Do you enjoy gaming more as you get older, or is it the other way around?
>>740627098it comes and goesthe older i get i realized i'm not fatigued by gamesi'm fatigued by bad gameswhen good games come out, it's pretty much like i'm 18 again
>>740627098You are not an anime woman you tranny freak.
wish i had time to play all the games i want to or wasn't so tired
There are no 30+ people who post on 4chan. They stopped posting after graduating university.
>>740627098I still love videogames. I just don't have the time to play it anymore.
>>740627098>>740627175Same. Fpbp
>>740627206good one
>>740627098No, im literally an efilist, I think life itself is a mistake
>>740627098In some ways yes, because I can buy myself an expensive gaming PC.
>>740627206Haha yeah so true anon..................so true.
>>740627098>10-18Gaming was my main hobby. >19-30Got distracted by college, work, and other hobbies.>31-currentGaming is my main hobby again.
>stop following modern consoleshit>realize I have an infinite backlog of games that I actually like thanks to PC games, freeware, abandonware, emulation, and having other hobbiesMy 30s have been pretty nice so far.
I don't play games anymore, only talk about them.
>>740627098sex with becky
>turning 32 this yearplease turn back the clock
>>740627098i enjoy playing games for their historical value nowwhat succeeded, what failed, what was the developer seeming like they were trying to accomplish, to say, to show, etcmodern gaming isn't interesting though
you likely won't truly understand until you're in the moment
>>740627098My 30s are pretty depressing and I accepted I will never marry or have kids or be rich, so I went back to gaming hard and play games for 60-70 hours a week. Roguelites and friendslop are addicting.
>>740627206Im 64
what is the gimmick of people liking this depressed looking old gal with tired eyes and cigarettes?
>>740627610>turning 43Sonny, don't worry it only gets worse from here on.
>>740627098On the one hand I have a much vaster appreciation for all of the technical elements that make up a game and how it relattes to other things in the medium, which makes me feel I get a more meaningful enjoyment out of things I really like. Om the other hand I no longer have that childlike wonder and imagination that let me run around like a dipshit in circles not accomplishing anything because I was just that immersed in a game.
>>740627098I wish I could but after losing my job in 2025 and not finding anything I never feel like I am doing enough. 2+ years ago my life was set of work, gym, vidya, shitpost. Perfect. Now after looking for over a year I feel like I will never be able to return to that life again as I will be constantly chasing that """job security""" knowing full damn well it's not coming back. The orange nigger needs to die.
>>740627610No can do. We can make the clock seem to go a little faster if you want- Actually, we'll just do that anyway. Enjoy the sensation of time contraction!
>>740627610>>740627752>>740627685>turning 29you're like babies by comparison
>>740627098I don’t even enjoy being alive anymore, what do you think?
>>740627685Out of 10!
>>740627841Unemployment has almost never been lower. If you can't find a job in this economy, then that's a you problem.
not enough free time for gaming
>>740627875shut up pedo!
>>740627610is that iggy pop
>>740627098I just feel like my time is running out so I look up guides and even play on easy now if a game frustrates me enough. Never used to do that when I was young
>>740627909Absolute lying piece of shit. >unemployment only counts if you are within ~ a month of the day you quit>doesn't include people who have been looking longer or have stopped altogether>please don't pay attention to the fact that part-time work has also shot up as well lol
>>740627206YOU ARE HERE FOREVER
i fucking love hashbrowns
>>740627098Gaming is lowkey stressful now. Knowing im about to lose another few hours between me and my next shift is dreadful
>>740627206>tfw 32 and finally graduated and already submitted 10 applicationsDoes anyone know if theres 4chan but no porn or swears? Asking for a friend, idk if I can quit 4chan literally all other methods of communication are complete pants on head retar I mean bad.
>>740628126sounds like you're just becoming a feeble casual.play games tailored for your deteriorating skill or brush up and learn to lose yourself in something again.you shouldn't be feeling the dread of running out of time until you're at retirement age.
>>740627098I no longer get hyped by the idea of new games like I used to. I know that itll just release and be forgotten in less than a few weeks, but i still enjoy playing them.Games tend to take much longer to develop and are getting shorter than ever, which i don't mind too much because I no longer have as much free time as when I was a kid.
>>740628273You are stressed because of your job. You worry when the time comes for your next shift. Gaming is not to blame.
>>740627206the average /v/tard is in his 30s btw. there's a reason the tree game bumped up the age requirement to 40. there really aren't many new posters going onto this website, outside of a handful of forlorn boomers that went schizo on /pol/, but those aren't helping bring down the average age any. that's also why there's way less college posting and edgy teen/20s "MUH LIFE SUCKS, MUH FEELS, MUH GF, MUH NO GF" /r9k/ posting. it's a gramps site now and we'll only get even older. i'm looking forward to the midlife crisis arc that'll start up some decades from now
>>740627098Both. I enjoy games a lot more but my expectations are far higher than where the industry is right now. As a kid I saw consistent and iterative improvements as time went on then in high school things just plateaued while my expectations kept growing. Many games fall below my expectations meaning that I can not enjoy them at all and I just never play them again while the few that meet my expectations I fall in love with and play without end.
zoomers when it comes to playing games:>lets play some fortnite after school no larp fr>boomer when it comes to playing gamesi hate that im getting old, let me make an off topic post on 4chan
>>740627206>graduating university.yeah, about that...
>>740628416>there really aren't many new posters going onto this websiteI really REALLY wish this was true
>>740628310I have zoned out of reading anything about Pragmata and didn't care until I saw threads about the release on /v/. The game was shown off 6 years ago. Imagine if some underage newfag saw the game in middle school and was excited about it, he would be in his first year of university or old enough to work.
>>740627206I'm 33 about to be 34 in a month. Granted I don't post as much as I used to but I still lurk.
>>740627685What are you doing on /v/ ojisan?
>>740627098Why does this happen? How is it that by the time you're 30 you just don't care anymore?
>>740627098Same as it ever was only this time I'm only looking for more unique experiences and significantly better versions of a genre as I've already played them all.
>>740628521You're right it's full of third worlder spammers and faggots that make bait posts for their blue check mark on accounts on xitter
>>740627098Get you a waitress who will spell out your age in bacon on a pancake for your birthday, anon.
>>740627098I turn 41 in September and still enjoy vidya very much. Mostly story heavy and indie games these days. Silksong and Mina were fun.
>>740627206>They stopped posting after graduating universitythat's gonna be me in a month when I'm done with my master degree
>>740628572>No upward mobility in life>No chance in having a family>Friends and family drifting off or dying>Going through the motions until you die>Innocence gone forever Pretty easy to imagine.
37 here. I have been posting here since 2007. I love vidya when I have free time. Like this week I have off and it's a blast. Taking a Halo break right now.
>>740628360I love the dorky looking phase that girls all go through.
>>740628631And normalfagsDman normalfags everywhere
Take comfort in knowing that most of the games that you like to actually play have already been made. You just gotta discover it like the New World. I recently got into playing Total Annihilation with my gf.
>>740627098I'd say so, mostly because I'm free to pursue the games I actually likeit helps that my life situation is currently the best it's ever been
>>740627098Honestly? If things hadn't gone to shit after Covid, I might agree. I still enjoy games, but literally everything got worse after 2019, no modern game appeals to me:-Games take forever on pointless shit I don't care about, or go all in on multi-player or somr gacha nonsense.-Few franchises I enjoy continue to fuck with things they should leave alone.-Economy is fucked so buying a house gets more dificult every year, and it's been going down for 6 years.So at this point, I only like old games, there's nothing left for me in the modern market.
>>740627098Getting older is simply part of life
>>740628306talking to LLMs about 30 year old videogames you just played for the first time
I enjoy it more in some ways and less in others. Not sure if I like it more or less overall. But there’s one thing I know bros… I’m a gamer. I get shit DONE (in game)
>>740627206I'm 39 and I haunt this place like a specter to shit on you low iq zoomers.
>>740628349very true but I gotta eat. it is what it is
>>740627175/thread
>>740627098>Play a game for about an hour>Never touch it againI don't enjoy vidya anymore but I have no other hobbies. It's so over.
>>740628572because by the time you're 30 you have a good idea of what you do care about and learn to ignore everything else
I enjoy it as much as I always did. I am more deliberate about it though. That is, when I play games it is planned out and I play until I reach a goal (such as beating it), then I put it down and mostly forget about it. I used to just fire up whatever game I have been playing and mindlessly fuck around until late hours, now I waste a lot less time gaming, like I waste a lot less time doing other things too. The older you get, the more you start to sense you don't have infinite time for everything.
>>740627685Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
31 year old zoomer, I'm very jaded, like a chinese emperor, is there a way to fix this?
>>740628572At some point, you recognize it's all a rat race.And if you're especially not involved in said rat race, with all its sunk costs— why try to keep up?Someone remembering it's her birthday was probably enough to put a smile on her face. Like getting socks for Christmas.
>>740629102nope. once you realize its all shit you cant bottle it back up.well maybe with some sort of drugs
>>740629102no
>>740628524Thats modern game dev time in a nutshell. Back in the day we could get an entire trilogy like uncharted within the span of a few years, but now it's the norm to see a teaser then wait 5+ years just for the trailer. People joke that games like kh3/gta6 took so long to come out that they had time to finish highschool, university, get a career, married, buy a house, and have kids, and still have to wait for these games to come out. Man, I'm just tired of these IPs and the corporation that think sinking hundreds of millions and several years is the way to go.
>>740627098I would say I enjoy busywork in games less. Like I stopped playing the "open world crafting games" because I either have to waste time collecting resources (which is boring) or do it in creative mode (which is also boring, but for a different reason). But other than that, I would say I still enjoy games. I liked Olden Era and I finally decided to try Resident Evil and liked it! I'm also looking forward to the 3rd Cultist Simulator installment. When Valheim and Deep North comes out, my buddies and I are going to do a full playthrough. I still like TTRPGs more, but video games are fun so long as you're not a terminally online jaded fucker.
>>740627175based. I've gotten better over the years at recognizing what kind of games I dislike and what to avoid
>>740628869i want to fuck both issy's
>>740628360Young people today are aging at an accelerated rate, and no one knows why
>>740629102wu wei, my young gweiloit gets a lot easier when you learn to appreciate what you have while you have it
>>740628819>with my gf.Whose penis is bigger? No, seriously, the chances that a female has been born that is attracted to men and doesn't look like a man who likes games like that are lower than the Epstein files ever being released.
>>740627175Sometimes I get paralyzed by choice because there's so many good games to play. That's really the main difference between now and back then I guess.
>>740627098You shouldn't be playing videogames after turning 18
>>740627610Me too. My only regret was not being more social and buying a lemon car.
>>740628572Because you cared in the first place. I say this without any sort of edginess or whatever but discovering nihilism and then moving to existentialism has changed my life.
>>740627196Sippybippy. Point out these board ruining agp freaks on sight.
>>740629370Correct. You should only be playing computer games!!!
>>740627206I have memes older than you
>>740628416/vp/ is majority underage posters though. Like it's a very real problem.
>>740629262>no one knows whyMaybe it was that untested vaccine we all got a few years back
>>740629592prime breeding sow
>>740629592>3DPD
>>740629592Endocrine disruptors. They don't "age" quicker, their bodies sexually mature earlier. Their brains seem to be lagging behind more than normal too.
>>740629592>he took the goyvax
>>740629716unvaxxed hyperborean checking in
>>740627098>played games avidly during highschool>was painfully aware that I was too dumb to multi-task and juggle college, work, and vidya. So I took a 4 year break.>got myself the newest console+GPU as a graduation gift but realized that I hate the current state of the industryIve gotten into indies but finding something worthwhile feels like digging through a sea shit to find a diamond
>turning 40 in SeptemberI want off this ride already
>>740627098>Be 30 year old NEET with unlimited time for vidya>Want to play vidya but struggle to have that much funNow I mainly just play so I have something to do until bed time
>>740627206On the contrary, did you post on 4chan when you were underaged?
>>740627196I'm a plate of bacon and eggs with a side of hash browns.
>>740627175FPBP.Every now and then I come across a game that hooks me in just like back in the days. Recent examples would be Nier automata, Ys VIII, Days Gone, RE2make and of course, Expedition 33.There are good games, you just gotta look around more.
>>740629592The age of sexual consent should be lowered because of this
>>740629574/vp/ is mostly 30+ actual autists that just really hate change in my experience
>>740629267Elaborate, how do I stop feeling like that?
>>740627175Dis
>>740629959ywnbab
>>740628195nta but it's true, multiple positions in my company we're trying to fill but very few applications. possibly can I suggest maybe don't be a gov't employee and also possibly maybe learn a valuable skill
>>740629961>Expedition 33
>>740627175thus
>>740629370Trvth
>>740630141Indeed. Squeenix and their 'turn based is le old' mentality BTFO.
>>740627206found the nigga who thinks he's gonna leave here eventually when his life gets fun and interestingprotip: it wont
>>740630141'fraid to say it is that good
>>740628572Because by 30 you're supposed to be well into family life, so the male human brain rewires to no longer give a fuck about nonsense because you're literally not trying to impress anyone anymore. This is biological, so it happens even if you're still single.
>>740628869issy mogs the fuck out of all the rest
>>740630327I'm sure it is Anon
>>740627206>never finished my degree So thats why I'm still here...
>>740627098I like gaming a lot still but I'm going through another mental breakdown episode right now after being mocked in public for looking retarded and being an incel
I'm 39 and I love games as much as ever, but my tastes have changed. I prefer cheaper, shorter games now rather than the "ENDLESS HOURS OF CONTENT" stuff. Anything I can't complete in 25 hours or less makes me cringe, I have better things to do with my time.
>>740627098I've become far more picky and less patient to my own detriment, once I got to be over 30 I started just dropping games the moment they bother me even a tiny amount, if I feel like my time is being wasted or a game is getting repetitive in an unfun way or if a boss has a gimmick or a character is annoying or anything at all I'll drop it on the spot, I used to complete dozens of games per year now it's 2-3 at most
>>740630141>>740630196>>740630327It's literally a game for people who don't play games (or who don't like playing games anymore). Fuck off non-gamers
>>740629370>you should stop (hobby) after (age)
>>740630727Unfortunate truth nuke
>>740627098I don't get it
>>740629262Stress from 24/7 social media + all the chemicals in the makeup they refuse to stop using.
>>740630626Nah, that's not it anon. 32 here, finished waaay back and I'm still around.>>740630727Sure sure, whatever you say, "gamer".
>>740627098even being sad was better when i was younger
>>740630748>replying to frogtards
>>740630290Can confirm. My life is fun and interesting and I have everything I could possibly want, and I’m still posting here while my kids watch paw patrol and my wife cooks dinner. It never ends.
>>740630083by accepting that it's okay to feel that way, that you feel that way for specific reasons, and that identifying those reasons allows you to address what you can and accept what you can't
I was going to horny post but let me give you a genuine answer before handGaming is fun, it never stops being fun, but like your tastes like in food changeJunkfood and high sugar slop doesnt please you anymore. Time wasters hurt because you have a limited amount of energy and time in a day to do anythingSometimes you dont have the reaction speed needed to play faster games. And thats ok. You get to take a break and enjoy being a part of the audience now instead of a player. Watching youtubers play games you would never buy or play is a great way of enjoying it. I could never play some high skill stuff like league or dota or fighting games. My wrists hurt now too much to keep up. But once in a while i see a funny meme or youtube short about a new generation player complaining about something and i still get a good laugh in. If they seem stuck i might chip in with advice.Dont give into despair friend. Have fun
>>740627610I'm turning 32 tomorrow and I'm still a virgin
>>740630839>NormalfagsPart of the reason this shithole sucks so hard now
>>740627098I think I've reached a curve in expectation of necessity to near impossible. When I was younger, a customizable main character for MMO or single player J/RPG was enough, then as I got older I wanted more and more into it; like abilities and classes, then housing, then pets, and so on and on. Because of AI chatbots, you can basically make a custom world, with what you pretty much want but with limited to imagination "graphics". Though, the concept still stands, so when I try a new game, nothing scratches the itch. Nothing meets to the expectation of AI chatbots with 3D graphics, maybe 2D yes.Anyways, second best thing I found entertaining is casino games with fake chips. I always lose so it keeps me real that if I spend irl money I would never hit the spot.
>>740630839Why do your wife's kids watch gay shows made for fags? I don't remember ever watching those genuinely awful shows. I watched Prime Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon and Three Stooges vhs tapes
>>740630868What's the problem?
>>740627175fippy bippy
Don't worry bros, everything will be alright with the second coming of Christ.
>>740627098pretty much this >>740627175i still basically play every day but if I don't like a game I just drop it nowadays.
>>740628572personally I realized I was going insane from caring too much and gave up around 30. Feels better, if nothing else.
>>740627098You enjoy older games more because they remind you of better times. I just can't get into the slop that passes for video games these days. I would quit gaming altogether if it wasn't for emulation.
>>740630964I'm a hikikomori NEET
>>740627175>>740629245>>740630716Those. You just know what you want, and it's easier to identify bullshit so you drop a game that you wouldn't like in one hour instead of playing half or all of it and be disappointed.
>>740630784Don't forget the food. Something's certainly changed, especially in burgerland where pretty much everything is a processed 'product' with artificial flavoring and scent.
>>740631108Based?
>>740627175the correct answer
>>740627206
>>740631246
>>74062720631 here, It's funny reading your replies when I post with an anime pic and you label me a trannyYou'd better keep your fetishes to yourselves
I'm 24 years old and every single day is a pain and struggle. Life after college feels like one giant abyss and I feel like I'm slowly rotting away. How do you unironically live like this bros?
>>740631443>only 24
>>74062720630 year old hikki herewould be nice if people were actually willing to hire me though
>>740630894Guess what nigger - I used to be like you. Not everyone is content being miserable and alone. >>740630952>can’t stop thinking about cuckoldrySad. Anyway MY kids are watching it because they’re 3 and paw patrol has exactly zero wokeshit. It’s one of the only shows left that isn’t completely pozzed.
>>740631443it gets dull. you'll have existential crisis moments some day, but then you forget again. who gives a shit anyway. humanity has no plan and no direction, everything is just a distraction.
>>740630138>dude my dad works for nintendo trust meAgain, blow me you lying fuck. Yes I'm mad.
>>740631672>I'll be miserable and lonely without a whore in my lifeThink that says more about you then me famalam
>>740631159I love how everytime some faggot tries to debunk this by saying processed cheese is still real, everyone posts dozens of pieces of evidence about how it's practically poison made for cattle, let alone food, let alone cheese. If the US hasn't fallen apart in the next couple years, the next president could just ban all tranny ingredients like corn syrup and canola/onions oil and americans would be at least 40 percent healthier
>>740630868I'm a virgin too but I'm 33, what cool degenerate fetish did you get? Mine's size!
>>740627098Based Studio System enjoyer
>>740631823I got incest, which has been getting mainstreamed by normalfags so now I'm not as unique, interesting, or suave when I jack off to mother daughter futanari :/
>>740631443dont worry it gets way worse lil frog nigger
>>740629749>unvaxxedIt's cute that you think that lol
im 33 and im having a blast playing videogames
>>740632215Pretty fine tasteExcept for that Balls Hurt slop on there
>>740627206University didn't get me a job so I'm here and old
>>740627175
>>740632031the vaxx is bad doughGot my brown neighbors to get it and almost all of them and their little faggot kids died.They can't make more because one girl says she's infertile somehow, and the other guy has heart disease so bad he can't walk down the stairs without getting dizzy and falling over. If covid means more of my brown neighbors die while I snoop around and take all their shit, then I'm all for a second one.
>>740632297Major?
>>740632297Same. I turned 36 yesterday. I can only wait to die.
>>740632448No, Colonel
So what happens when you graduate college but you're too dysfunctional for adult life or a corporate job? What do I do now?
>>740631790daily reminder
>>740627098I still enjoy gaming just as much, but I only find joy in retro gaming (gen 6 and older)I'm tired of every fucking thing considered "good" in modern gaming, from the business models of the systems themselves to the samey games that somehow still take 300 years to fucking develop
>>740632504>Never heard of the NEETpill
>>740631823nta but guro
>>740627206I'm 35 but you're right, I don't post here anymore. I mostly post on the towa now
>>740627098yes, even more so to some extentI'm 41, but I find that the older I get, the more I desire to have more engaging content and I despise 'streamlined' shit even more so with age. The older I get, the more that I *greatly* appreciate thought out complexity and passion in a game's design, anything carefully crafted, anything that has used friction as a means for immersion.The principle of which, seems to be cross with everything I've heard people say, that were older than me, growing up. All these "gamer dads" or whatever, just lying through their teeth. Turns out I've always been ahead of the bell curve and a bunch of proto-redditor fat fucks forming a bloc coalition to make games dumber on purpose, was just because they're extremely stupid and lazy.
>>740627098Not gaming but life. In this era it's rather difficult to maintain dopamine highs if you've "won" life aka make enough money + only have to work part time so you have too much free time.This is why NEETs are always so horribly depressed; you can't just spike your dopamine 24/7. It needs breaks which is what work does. Thankfully Total Warhammer 40k looks pretty good and has reignited my dopamine.
>>740627206>turning 30 in a matter of months>already washed out of the corporate rat race>friends stopped playing vidya and all have real responsibilitiesPosting here is about to become my full time job.
>>740632258>Balls Hurt slopwat
>>74063182335 yo virgin. i love lolis
>>740632785Baldurs = Balls Hurt
>>740632785i like xcom games, bg3 has a similar kind of gameplay which i enjoy a lot
>>740632512I'd post that pic showing how beneficial good fats like butter and olive oil are while also showing how toxic sneed oils are, but I'm lazy and thankfully nobody really falls for the shit you post anymore.
>>740627206haha yeah i got a degree and married my college sweetie like you're supposed to
>>740632757>Posting here is about to become my full time job.Wew.
>>740628869Beth legit looks like a tranny wtf
>>74062709830+ here.I still enjoy gaming but it takes like 2 months on average for me to finish a single game which is a fucking bummer.
I’m glad I am not a failed normalfag like most of you niggaz
>>740632448im a sucker that went for CS. I'm looking at trade work now, hoping I can do electrician stuff
>Do you enjoy gaming more as you get olderYeah, being able to play every game I give a shit about when I was a kid/teenager because I have a job and can afford a PC with a high end parts to play 7th generation and previous games is fucking sick. New games suck besides some indies, so I literally do nothing but play video games at home, and play them at work at my "do nothing" job.>lmao get a life or gf or somethingI'm a fucking Filipino living in America, we're the fucking black people of oriental Asia. NO ONE wants to date my retarded ugly ass. Also I'm too socially retarded to date, so all I do is gardening, exercising, cooking, and playing video games.
>>740627206Don't forget, you're here forever.
Can't find a job despite being near graduation, And yet I keep seeing the headlines say that they Added 170.000 new jobs.Why the fuck can't I not get any call backs? I'm not even Entry level I've been doing Radio Technician work for four years, and a .net Fullstack dev for a year prior.I'm not even that Old, I'm 27, where is everyone else working at in this thread?
>>740633096But unemployment is at an all time low according to 2 fuckheads ITT! How could that happen?!
>>740627098I became one of those faggots who turns them on and just enjoy the environments and atmosphere for an hour or two
>>740627206ill break this only to say youre right. i still lurk but i havent posted regularly since shortly before 1016for the on topic, I turned 38 in april and i still enjoy gaming but i find my self becoming increasingly harder to enjoy new stuff and spend my time with my retro games in my game room. i havent hooked up any console in my new apartment newer than my Genesis and SNES since i moved to my new one 8 months ago
>>740633161>where is everyone else working at in this thread?Either LARP, wagie (retail, food, part-time, etc), or haven't looked in 2-3 years.
>>740633095SameThere's nothing gayer then crying over women
>>740633096Didn't want to transition into a slop charmer?
>>740627875he was 39 durning "that" event, please respect him.
>>740627610Today's my birthday, I'm turning 36. I wanna go back but I shudder at a lot of the stuff I made it through.Sharing a birthday with Frank Lloyd Wright, Kanye, and DFV, there was no way I was going to end up not messy.
>>740632504I just work seasonal and then NEET and work on projects until the money runs out
>>740632936>I'd post a picture with some made up claims but I know you'll just prove me wrong so I guess I win hehfine by me if you want to waste your life being terrified of some shit that was literally made up by a jewish psychiatrist to sell snake oil supplements
>>740627206I didn't even finish high school
>>740627657My buddy was talking about having the surviving fellas get together for his 40th. It was surreal but also nice because we've been friends since we were toddlers.
>>740627098I 1cc'd battle garegga this weekend. There is no way I would have done that when I was 18. I am double that age now. What I don't get is the dudes in their 30s playing like... mmos, betheda/squareslop and loot treadmills. That's legit fucked. Like gaming is not my only option. I can go out on the river on my kayak. I'm not playing games for a simulacrum of adventure, I'm playing them because I want to play a game. Like anyone who says "I have to play slop because I'm old now" is a liar. It has nothing to do with being old and you know that lol
>>740633161HR doesn't do their job. Before they would just skim resumes for keywords, now they have an AI agent do that for them so they can be even lazier. Plus a lot of job "openings" aren't actually open at all, they're just there so they look like they're hiring.Shit sucks if you don't already know someone who can recommend you for a position.Took me a year to find a place that'd take me, I hate doing interviews with HR people just let me talk to the hiring manager.
>>740633543>I can go out on the river on my kayakThat sounds like a nice luxury.
>>740633229>i havent posted regularly since shortly before 1016MOZART?!
>>740633161i deliver mail. its a living.
>>740629592Legal in the civilized world
>>740633161>they Added 170.000 new jobsThose jobs are for immigrants or women. Reminder 99% of new jobs have gone to immigrants or women for the past two years.
>>740627098I don't enjoy "casual" games as mucheverything things to be mutliplayer slop or CRACK like an open world game (cyberpunk) or autism game (factorio)they honestly don't make games as good anymore desuI'm still waiting on XCOM 3 when they've only done a random spin off and a fucking marvel xcom for some reason
>>740633161I've been (basically) a NEET for 2 years now and I want to die already
>>74062978535 in a few monthsStill feeling strong and in my prime. My bloodline is one of long lived individuals that keep relatively young well into their 50s. We barely age.
>>740633656How is it a luxury? You can buy a shitty river kayak for like a third of the price of a switch 2. What's the cost of a "luxury" for an independent single man in their 30s? What the fuck else am I spending money on?
>>740633096electrician shit is fucking miserable. I hated it. they treated me like shit, shifts sucked balls (got chronic sleep deprivation thanks to it), list goes on. now I just wagecuck and focus on hobby shit.
>>740633775I will say playing a rando kids game once in a while is delightful, Super Mario Wonder was pretty funI think the last mario game I played was 3D world on the 3DS
>>740627206You're half right, I mostly lurk these days.Too often I find myself mid typing a post and think 'why the fuck do I care about this' and move on.
>>740633813I've been a NEET for a decade and I'm just fineUnironic skill issue
>>740633881he means living near a river and having a car i think
>>740633881Believe it or not but rivers do not exist everywhere on the planet. Rivers access to dump a kayak and be allowed to boat around it even less. Your location is the luxury
>>740633990This may come as a shock to you, but a great deal of civilization is built around water.
>>740627098I'm now in my 40s and unironically gacha games brought back the magic I was missing for years. It's not the gacha system itself but the way the story establishes an emotional connection with each new character.
>>740633990u can always just move
>>740633669i meant to say 2016. theres no way i would still be alive
>>740634045This come as a surprise to you but "a great deal" is not "every single settlement." Plus since the invention of plumping building on waterfronts was no longer a necessity.
>>740634063>the way the story establishes an emotional connection with each new character.Nigga that ain't video games
31yo neet here. I 100%ed a fuckload of games these past months, I don't think I'll ever work again. That's the gayest shit you can do with your life.I've also been to 7 prostitutes and all but the one chinese bitch were complete trash. Since escorts don't count as sex I'm still a virgin. Not worth it.I can run 10k in an hour tho. Proud of that. Going for another run tomorrow.
>>740634063>kiked into liking shit gacha waifus to extract your time and moneypour one out for the dumb homie
>>740628306i'm 32 too and just graduated community collegebased taking it slow bro
>mfw 32 years old virgin brazilian
>>740634085Yeah just dump your life, drop everything, spend shit tons of money and le move. Why do you retards always just say le move as if that's an option for most people? Is moving free? Does moving guarantee you a job or place to even live? no it doesn't fucktard.
>>740627098After Code Vein 2 betrayed me I've only been playing hgames and lewd gacha
>>740627206I'm 40.
>>740634171welcome in. yes, its over.
>>740634097>building on waterfronts was no longer a necessity.Sounds like you've got some water to put a kayak in. Realistically, there is not a single location on Earth where you can not get to a river or a forest within an hour by train, and if you are within the small minority you're living worse than literal jeets on the ganjes.
>>740634171>brazilianspawn RNG sucks in this game
>>740634171Don't they just give the sex away down there?
>>740634085>>740634283>just have excess amounts of expendable cash!It's always some ignorant who cannot fathom other people not experiencing the exact same conditions and having the exact same resources. My peers are manchildren.
>>740634302thats what I was going to sayjust buy a huge assed prostitute for 30 pesos fuck her in a dirty alley and be done with it
>>740634171isn't Brazil full of prostitutes and cheap trannies to fuck when you're bored? I don't get it. I thought teh whole point of being Brazilian was to fuck, dance and shoot people.
>>740634302There is a highly likely chance he's some deformed monster that is too crippled to take it by force if it bothers him so much he needs to make it a part of his identity.
I like to eat a whole pack of breath mints which cause me to shit liquid diarrhea five or six times in quick succession. No idea why but I fucking love mints.I also love vidya. Playing thru ghost of tsushima legends mode with my lil bro.
>>740627206zoomzoom cringet. 38
>>740634408Brazil is like a Bethesda Fallout game. Same trash everywhere, ransacked buildings, shantytowns and dysgenics trying to rob you for nothing.
>>740628360Holy hon
>>740634449its the sugar substitute. try one with splenda instead of xylitol
>>740629262>>740629592Thanks orange pedo.BTW, the real reason for every is aging faster is all the drugs and hormones in the corpro food slop they're being fed on top of the stress of living in a trickle down economics shitshow where everyone is being flat out told 'You will own nothing and be miserable' given their hard push for AI slop has caused the cost of living and goods like video games to increase instead of go down as time goes on.>>740634171Congrats on attaining wizardhood, harness that power that many willingly throw away.
>>740627098I feel nothing.
>>740627098Yes I do. Just don't burn out your dopamine receptors by playing videogames nonstop. Savor it, enjoy other things in life whether its some type of craft, working out, gardening ect and come to videogames once and a while you'll feel refreshed. If you treat it like it's the only thing in life, then you'll just feel spiteful and miserable.t. 37 year old
>>740627175getting over my fears and getting into resident evil franchise saved gaming for meso addicting wtf
>>740634171same, but 34.I could get pussy if I wanted but I can't be bothered to even pay for it.
>>740629102your only path from now on is moving on to new, more interesting hobbies for you 24 yo here, one of the most striking changes i felt is that i became more technical, or more rational i should say. much less feelings/passion, and when i do have one it's very contained. gone are the days where i used to do some dumb shit out of just feeling like it, right now i literally can't.i used to waste hours arguing with /a/utists about anime lol
>>740628869Wide Beth immediately.
>>740630138>but very few applicationsEvry tiem
>>740633161I work quality control in a distillery, which means I smell the alcohol and corn to make sure it smells right and run it on various machines
>>740628360kek white roasties will never escape the nasolabial folds
>>740627098I enjoyed gaming when I got older from being a teenager to my mid 20s, but now from my mid to late 20s, I'm feeling the dread, the depression everytime I play new video games, I have to play old ones just to blind myself of my age
>>740627206I mostly started posting here after university
>>740634302Only to chadsYes, even during carnival where orgies are everywhere, uggos like me aren't allowed.
>>740634393What does that have to do with being 30? You're not living like garbage because you're old, now are you? Even a neet has infinite time to go wherever they please, no one is stopping you from going to the beach with some shitty tent. The average price of a campsite is $30 per night and if you're just a retarded neet with nothing to lose you can just go out into the bush and set up for free. Better get used to that, because it's your future when your parents croak.
>>740634594based volcel chad
>>740627175this but unironically. Most games today are hot ass, but when you find that one good game it’s like I’m a middle schooler again
>>740634664>camping and visiting the beach out of nowheresasuga
>>740631613Nice image, here is a like;)
>>740627206>all these repliesIt really is this easy to bait people on /v/ these days huh?
>>740634664Damn this wagie be seething
>>740634723thisalso>neet means homeless bumlmao
>>740629785You're not too old to do a flip bro
>>740634723Going to these places will likely place you near water for an extended period for a low cost.
>>740634524HuhThanks for the advice anon, I'll check the ingredients next time.I got used to the shits now. Not a fetish or anything but I kinda like them now. I should record the sounds my ass makes and sell them as stock sound effects. They're some of the funniest sounds I've ever produced not gonna lie.
>>740633393>(((wikipedia))))
>>740634667I don't think I am based, there's probably just something wrong with me.
>>740633953Just wait until your parents die off and you have to start paying to keep the electricity/water/internet going along with property tax. Then the fun truly begins for you.
>>740627175came here to post this exact reply. I don't hate the hobby, it's the fags ruining it and the shills that enable them
>>740634112>>740634121The gameplay is fun too THOUGH
>>740634749>It really is this easy to bait people on /v/ these days huh?Yep. The other day I made a normal thread and the exact same thread but with a softcore porn OP, and guess which thread hit 600 replies in 5 hours?
>>740634971Nah, it's just being basedYou're not bound by your base instincts like an animal
Is this the health and nutrition thread?
>>740635051Ill take it
>>740627098I enjoy it more now as an old man because when I was young I was only capable of maneuvering through DOS and launching executables and wasn't able to do things like making boot floppies to maximize RAM so I did terrible things like play outside. Now that I'm old and have no friends or family I can spend all day playing video games and doing increasingly autistic stupid shit with AI to amuse myself until I inevitably have a heart attack and die and someone's forced to knock my front door down after complaints about the smell and find my moldering corpse, cock in hand, in front of a computer endlessly generating pictures of orc women
>>740635006>Another tard who thinks being a NEET = living with your parentsSad!
>>740633493My friend group since High School is still together, still playing games in our 30s. Problem is that more than one of us is having some health scares and the idea of even one dying is terrifying to me. It's like losing a family member.
>>740634576what did you use to find scary about the series? I remember playing one of them in front of a friend to help ease him into the series
my only surviving family member is my soon 80 year old mother and I haven't gotten laid in 900 yearsI am so fucked bros
>>740634576I've been recently reading the RE novels lol never played the games and never will. The books have been a lot of fun. I'm on the final book: the Code Veronica novelization.
>>740635013Bruh if a anyone can ruin you're gaming experience with superficial shit like politics you're playing the wrong stuff. Nothing I play can be "ruined" by some supposed woke agenda.I simply see the current state of the industry as people getting what's coming to them.
>>740627098 I am THE ONE WHO KNOCKS
>>740634526Think you could have fit a few more buzzwords in there?
>>740634659Damn, I feel you bro. I mean I'm ugly but at least in the US people are generally reserved enough not to openly mock me for my ugliness so I rarely encounter anything but a surprised grimace if they happen to look directly at me.
>>740634063I've been meaning to ask you gacha uncs, did it replace anime for you? and if not would you say you'd be watching anime instead if they didn't exist?i think anime has been kinda less popular ever since gacha came out specifically genshit impact
>>740630138>possibly can I suggest maybe don't be a gov't employeeThis poster is a woman, specifically in HR. Gov jobs are so fucking easy it should be the goal of anyone who hates working to do it. I literally just fuck around in SCCM all day and play vidya.
>>740628869Beth looks like a bitch I fucked in college... who was also named Beth and a similar haircut.
>>740635412k
>>740635117Ok I'm sorry, you live with your grandparents. My bad.
>>740635175watching a fun YT playthrough of RE2R. knowing all the possible scare moments beforehand made it easy to play the game solo afterwards. also got a high rank in a competitive fps at that time so the confidence in my aim helped ease fears too.
>>740635117It's the same one. His first immediate response was defense and judgment. He's a bitch.
>>740635462Try again.
>>740635254kek these are canon?
Definitely going out to breakfast tomorrow, to my usual diner. Good, cheap food. I go enough that they crisp the bacon the way I like it, and bring cinnamon on the side for the french toast.Life is good.
>>740628869uh they all lost it. What the hell is in the water over there that everyone over the age of 21 is a mongoloidian ogre?
>>740635013there's NO way you're over 30 and still have trannies rent free in your mind right?
>>740627098I enjoy it just as much pretty much
>>740632215wheres nioh 1?
>>740635303it feels to me lots of IPs have their stench, but I agree I don't play those games to begin with. I just miss gen 6 and getting legendary games every month. I stick to emulation, my backlog and barely buy like 5 new games per year>>740635254so you just like the lore I guess? why not watch no commentary/silent playthroughs?
>>740627206I wish.
>>740635506I don't know how far you would take the 'canon' but due to the nature of the book, there is a lot of characterization. There is a unique recurring OC because of the author's editor, and there are two completely original novels which were actually pretty fucking good. I believe the RE movie Retribution may have used parts of the original novel Underworld.>>740635610Not so much. I'm just one of few bookfags who actually reads these days and I'll read damn near any fantasy/scifi. I owned the books as a teen but I sure didn't remember anything about them.
>>740635013
>>740634749that post was mostly just ironic postironic shitposting really
>>740631443either fall in love or start seriously engaging with art. these are your choices (and suicide, but that's not much of a choice)
>>740635742>fall in love with an AI botfixed
>>740635572i... didn't like it..
>>740627098I enjoy it more now that I can play the games I missed that I didn't have the money for at the time growing up or technically know how. There's the problem of sheer abundance I have to manage with the desire to play and what I should put my time towards, which I didn't have when I was younger since you played what you were given, and you were happy.
>>740627098I dont enjoy much anymore, and I find myself logging onto games to kill time rather than have fun. My behavior in these games tends to be overly silly and almost lol random in a vain attempt to find amusement.
Why is getting laid such a big deal?
>>740631443>24You've only just started. Men die around their 30s and 40s. Their bodies die decades later.
>>740635894Normalfags are NPCs who only know how to think with their dicksIt's a sad way to live
>>740634937>that doesn't count because I said sodid you know this guy co-owns Liver King's supplement company
>>740635336All those facts don't care about your feelings.>>740635506Novelizations are rarely canon. Just because most would have done irreparable damage to the brands they were from. Like the Disney Star Wars movies are complete dog shit, but they mind numbingly better than the EU novel slop we got spearheaded by this 'person'.>Vidya gaems?She's currently ruining Gears of War and Halo.
>>740635894it's the only way to live forever
>>740628360she looks most attractive in the last clip
>>740636129she looks best in the yellow shirt nigga
>>740628360complete art hoe at #4
>>740627206Wait until your first colonoscopy :)
>>740633894More or less this. All trades suck and electrician is the "easiest" so just imagine how bad the rest are. If you find a magic company that does only 40 hours with optional OT, go for it. The rest will be making you work 50 hours as a minimum. You can easily expect 6 days, 12 hours on the regular especially in the summer.
>>740636009everything she said is true though?anakin skywalker himself is an ex child slave who doesnt like the jedi order for using "disposable" clone armies (and not abolishing slavery)am i missing something? am i taking crazy pills? this was the plot of the movie? hello?
>>740629592And male.
>>740633161Property Manager at a casino. Started as a slot tech. Miss slot tech dearly. Loved fixing machines. Now I get to squabble with drunk patrons security denied entry to and pretend like I know what I'I'mm doing even though I absolutely feel like that Ronnie comic. I have no fucking clue what is going on and I just wing it. Damn near every day someone comes running up to me with a problem and I just shrug and say "Dunno. Let's go find out.">"Mr Ymous, there is a trailer of oats here for the track">Cool>"Where do they take it?">... the track?>"They can't get into the boneyard.">*Have no idea what the boneyard is* Ah, have they talked to the track security?>"No, I'll let them know.">Word>Half an hour later, get paged to the front>Some carnie looking mofo shakes my hand>"Thanks for helping us out with the oat delivery. Usually we are waiting for like two hours.">Happy to help.
>>740636531>Jedi are the villainsThe Dark Side, and shit taste, your mind has been clouded by.
>>740631159Dont they remove the flavor to put it back on later fucking jews.
>>740636740>Mr. Anonymous, we have just received that shipment of oats we have been waiting on.>But now Prince Arthas of Menethil has arrived and would like a word.
>>740636009ok so the cunt acknowledges the characters to be imaginary yet gets triggered that people's opinions on their deaths? her passive aggressivenes is eye rolling too, her fucking higher than thou attitude tells me she's a staunch feminist as well.
I work at a gas station I live with my parents. I’m getting a belly I’m 5”10 I see a small bald spotI haven’t had a friend since middle schoolI spend 10 hours on my phone.
Anyone else have an autism game phase they grew out of? My mid 20s were basically exclusively strategy games but now I'm mostly playing retro games and the few recent gems I missed out on.
>>740636891COME PLAY MY LORD
>>740633161in every entry level tech job you are competing with american citizens who were laid off from faang because of jeets
>>740627175Yeah, I get that. There are so many games out there but I just stick to the ones I already know I love and try a new thing every now and then for variety only if it seems like it's worth it.I don't have it in me to give many chances to things that aren't truly enjoyable.
>>740636883Is there a specific place in that wall of nothing where I can see what the ogress really is saying? I gave up around 4 paragraphs in because it felt like it's wasting my time. Also who is she and why should I care? I have a feeling that might be important.
>>740635610>it feels to me lots of IPs have their stenchHow is a game like this gunna be ruined by "woke"https://youtu.be/VNN6L7po_DkYou guys play too many cinematic games, what's happening now was inevitable. Like if Master chief is a strong independent black woman and the game isn't fun any more, maybe it just sucked to begin with
>>740627098I had less of a choice of what I played when I was younger so I wouldn't say I enjoyed it more
>>740636740This gave me a good chuckle. I wish you the best, casinoanon.
>>740627206Keep lying to yourself, I'm 32 and I'm still here. I'm not a oldfag, started posting around 2012 when I got into college.I've graduated, hated my field, went back to college and graduated again. Still here.Nowadays I just play simulators and map painters.
>>740636994she was making sense at the beginning and I was actually agreeing with her, but eventually she used her "smarts" to excuse why she made drastic changes to the canon and you're a fucking nazi if you disagree. she literally says so at the end. bunch of words to say "I'm a righteous cunt and will see Nazism everywhere".
>>740627175>think I no longer like games>just start playing all kinds of games>eventually realize I still like games but most games are shit and not worth getting intofippybippy
>>740628869Ginny went full Max
>>740637228So I have to read the entire wall of that slimy wriggling to get the point? Nah.
>>740636883>>740636994Boils down to her hating the Jedi, (the protag group) and creating a head canon that the Clones (The soldiers that served under the Jedi) secretly hated them and were also so well trained that when they got a secret order to kill all the Jedi, the Clones just followed them instantly, no questions asked.Later a canonical explanation was created given the clones were shown, to be on extremely friendly terms with the Jedi, in the form of Inhibitor chips implanted into the clones' brains that cause them to turn on the Jedi when the order was given, and this caused the author and her followers to go berserk because it totally refutes the head canon she created. >>740627175This is what it comes down too, bad devs or good devs strangled by publishers.
>>74062720633 and counting
>>740637338>>740637359I'll always find it hilarious that these people argue about morals and shit, but have no qualms getting paid to write for an IP they clearly hate. talk about being a hypocrite when then you ask people to have values. I'd never work for something I hated, why suffer at all?
>>740637359I know what Jedi are. Clones were designed that way, whether they regretted it or not. According to Battlefront games some did. Although mouse has made or approved of some new BF games so I have no idea whether newfags consider something from that canon now.
>>740628360From 3 to 4 is when she got on the cock carousel and it shows
>>740636009Idc she writes cool mil fiction.
>>740637530Traviss has a very consistent MO when she moves into an IP>Step 1: Select an underdog faction>Step 2: Promote them as the real heroes and turn them into borderline mary sues>Step 3: Shit on the established heroes as much as possible to make her faction look better by comparisonStar Wars fans were the only ones that put their foot down when she pulled this, so she moved on to pollute Halo and Gears of War instead.
>>740636780>Jedi are the villainsIn the prequel, they're tragic heroes. They're mostly not actively antagonistic, but they have fatal flaws that lead to their downfall, which we're meant to recognize as fatal flaws that lead to their downfall. Yoda realizes it, Obi-wan eventually realizes it (despite basically being one of the densest motherfuckers in the entire franchise), and Han Solo starts out knowing ONLY that part and having to learn the power and wonder of the Force and, by extension, the decency of the Jedi.>The Dark Side, and shit taste, your mind has been clouded by.It is incredibly ironic that you would make this specific reference.
>>740627206I went from being a degenerate coomer with an omega level chris chan autism to becoming a father of 3, a senior accountant, married my highschool sweetheart, and I have my own home. I started coming here when I was well below the age requirement. Now I am 33. Buddy, you will never leave here.
>>740627098What started as an interest turned into a hobby that helped me at my lowest, The spark only dies if you let it
>>740637530I'm powering through this crapfest now because I guess I hate figuring out the assembly problem more at the moment and she simply doesn't know her source material. The clones aren't "a slave army of cloned human beings". She simply refuses to accept that fiction can have different rules than reality. After writing multiple paragraphs about how she realises fiction is not the same as reality. That pic is enough to inter her into a mental asylum because pretty sure she's dangerous to herself and others.>>740637742I wonder what a professional would say about this clearly pathologic behavior.
>>740637742then she's a fucking leech. nothing worse than someone who only destroys IPs to support itself. at least chuck wendig was fired lmao, that dumbass was also writing stupid shit for star wars
>>740638025yeah she realizes this is fiction, but can't separate reality enough from it not to get triggered at other people's opinions. it is interesting how someone with such intellect can waste and twist it just to spread hate
>>740627175Correct post
>https://poe2db.tw/Catalysts#AcronymHuh
>>740627206I think i saved myself from ever getting in college debt by not going to college. what's it like to be in debt? the fact AI data centers are replacing jobs, how the hell are graduates suppose to prepare themselves in the world.
I grew up mostly getting hype for games I would never actually get to play. We weren't poor, but my parents really didn't value games. Even when I got them, I wasn't the kind of person to play them out; I mostly just dropped them after having my fun.As an adult, I spend way more time watching the industry than playing. I still call myself a gamer, but I suppose I'm not really. But I do still like games a lot. Last games I finished were... >Anodyne>A Short Hike>FFVII Remake>ControlI tried Rebirth but dropped it after completing all the extra bits in Junon and just watched someone else's playthrough. Same with FFXVI, Project: Wingman, I think a few others.
>>740638145This is the definition of projection.
>>740627098I've been playing games for thirty years now. I think I enjoy games more because as an adult I can better appreciate what went on behind the scenes to make them. I like giving encouragement to indie devs on X as I see their stuff on my timeline, and I bang on pots and pans for those games when they're almost out. If it increases the chance we get more great games like that by even 1% in the future, I'm gonna do that. Marketing's the number one thing that fucks over indie games, especially in a time when more than ever are coming out, it's non-stop now. No one guy can keep up with all of it. Demos and release dates sneak up on people.
>>740638414The saddest part for me is how she vomits out an entire fucking lecture about what's real and what's not and then constructs a strawman and runs around it screaming in terror.
>>740627098I'm in my mid-30s and like games just as much as I always have. But my tastes have definitely changed, and I don't care about 100% things anymore. Don't care about competitive stuff or playing on the hardest difficulty anymore either.The problem I have though is finding time to play games. These days it seems like I can only play games in small bursts. It's hard to get immersed and truly enjoy something when I only have 1-2 hours to play. I miss the days where I could play undisturbed for hours and could truly get lost in a game or any hobby for that matter.I'm tired, boss....
>>740638495This post brought to you by white male fragility.
I play TF2 and use old weapon loadouts i find fun to relive memories that no other games can give me anymore.
>>740627449This
Let me touch boobies dang it, you ho you bitch WHORES
>>740627685Have you done all the stuff in this song you bald fuse-mending (who the fuck mends fuses these days) fuck?
>>740627098I still enjoy them and play them often but I do go on breaks. Its very important to have interests other than video games. I have an actual skill Im finally building. And other hobbies. I do regret wasting my 20s just playing video games though. Because Im 31 and only just starting to build skills.
>>740627098I still like games it's just that modern games are shit and almost never catch my attention, the most interesting game this week for me so far has been Spyro and even that looks dull. I mostly find myself going back to play older games or the few decent live service slop games.
>>740636887>I spend 10 hours on my phone.I'm really glad I hate phones. Seeing people not enjoy themselves on one wherever they go is equally parts depressing and baffling. Mine just has work and emergency contacts on it and many photos of my huge penis (for reference in case I forget)
>>740627206Turning 36 this month, been here since high school. Mainly lurk these days, but no good alternatives exist.
When I was 21, each year felt like a huge year, if you asked me to wait a month it would be like a lifetime away.I feel like I was 25 a week ago, I am 34.
Time constraints make me constantly on edge. I can't just get lost in a game because I gotta go to bed early and wake up tomorrow so I constantly keep track of the time and worry about it instead of playing. On the weekends I can't stay up too late because if I do then my sleep schedule gets fucked when I go back to work again. I need my sleep because when I run on less than 6-7 hours I feel depressed and angry and bitter but when I get full sleep then I feel happy and wonderful and the world is right again.I need a vacation...
>>740637445This is the only girl I liked from what I saw of this game and sadly I don't care for the gameplay.Hope she becomes popular enough to get lots of fanart.
>>740639141Alarm clocks and their equivalents exist.
>>740639141I have zero idea of what a full night's rest is like.
>>740627206falseyou're here forever and so am i
>>740638787to the video, you're supposed to plan the seeds of the fruits you want. no one can make you happy or solve your problems, having all that shit but no one to share it with is his problem, fucking fag
>>740639126Yeah for any younger anons reading, your life is basically half way over when you hit 25. There's something about hitting that age that completely destroys your old sense of time.
>>740639041God I missed this place when it went down last year! no other place can I call someone a retard with shit taste or critique something without needing a paragraph explaining how "I'm not a hater but..."
>>740638585>Don't care about competitive stuff or playing on the hardest difficulty anymore eitherThen you have completely lost the plot. Getting older has only made me MORE competitive, only made me better at games and desire greater challenge, and made me want nothing more than to see my enemies scream and suffer. I can not fathom what has gone wrong in the lives of my contemporaries to kill their souls like this, but in any case, it sickens me. I can't believe I'm forced to endure people like you. Get out.
>>740639415I hope it comes back in my 40s or some shit because I literally just don't remember like, anything from age 27 to 31, and thats 4 fucking years man
>>740639270It feels amazing... I use one of my days off and set no alarm, take melatonin before bed, jack off before bed, and I make sure to go to sleep around midnight so I don't get woken up by my neighbor mowing his lawn or something and I wake up and feel capable of conquering the world
>>740639141this shit is what ruined games for meI'll just jerk off or do something that I know will make me "feel good" (even though it ultimately wont) instead of spending 3 hours getting immersed because I gotta go to work tomorrow
>>740639536Covid is going to be '2 years ago' for a long time yet
>>740627098Much like life in general, I enjoy some things more and some things less, though restoring the Eastern Roman Empire in various strategy games still elicits childlike joy in me.
>>740638585I know that feel. Before you had all the free time but limited games, and now it's vice-versa. I always like single player games with long playtimes. I used to be able to play a game spontaneous for several hours, but now I have to plan a day/vacation to find time to play anything.
>>740639461X lets me offend trannies and females too but it wants my ID so fuck that, 4chan it is.
>>740639592>he can't fall asleep without supplementsngmi>>740639524wow you're so cool anon. can i see your trophies?
>>740627098Work and mental issues make it increasingly harder to enjoy games, but I do still enjoy them as I used to
>>740628360>the fucking wall slam from 3 to 4
>game>workout>obese, lgbt coworkers can see I'm not a tapdancing shabbos goy with le friends or a family and snootily say I need hobbies like fishiny as I don't already touch grass and my hobbies aren't real hobbiesLaunch normies into the moon, make gay fat craters you can see with a telescope!
>>740639828no I can but it helps me stay asleep and get a deep sleepI never use it unless I have at least 7 hours of sleep ahead because if I have an alarm going off in 3-5 hours I'm sleeping thru it
>>740639524I stopped being competitive when I was in my early 30s though, I dropped fighting games because it just sucks to feel compelled to play many hours a day or feel like shit. I play the games I play now because everything else is just boring. Like if I play a Capcom or fromsoft game I just feel like I'm being treated like a retard. The stuff I play now I don't even feel is super hard, I just feel everyone around me is not even trying lol
>>740638624No U
>>740639963I have hobbies like going innawoods and fishing and backpacking but I'm a massive sperg and give people the creeps so they avoid me
>>740627098I'm 32 and I fucking love gaming. I'll never run out of cool, interesting, fun things to play. All that "le tired gamer" bullshit is just from joyless retards who hate themselves.>>740627206lollmao
>>740627206I'll be 33 soon.
>>740632512>unironically defending sneed oilabsolute retard
>>740640061I know right? Holy moly gaming is more diverse than ever, Steam only gets better and better
>>740640262But there is a bit of loss with no more Source multi-player games and mods being alive of course, just a bit not a big deal, lacked options back then
>>740639828>trophiesGross, dude. I only play Playstation for ports companies refuse to bring onto PC for some god foresaken reason. And I don't play them for gay little trophies. You wanna see what I've accomplished? Click on my Garegga link
Life is not enjoyable anymore, no matter where I go, clubs, concerts, nothing makes me feel excited. There is nothing to strive for.
>>740640351That's my link though?
>>740640567Correct, it is MY link. Thanks for noticing.
>>740635148For me it's none of them can play games anymore cause they have kids.one guy I know gets maybe 4 days a month where he can play games for a handful of hours.
>>740640401Kill yourself then, pussy.
>>740640637Literally all of us are either single, gay, or unable to have kids so we're just a bunch of dead ends I guess.
>>740640642Why?
>>740640629But that's my run.
>>740628572>How is it that by the time you're 30 you just don't care anymore?Life experience. You know who you are, you know that you won't achieve your goals, you know that the world doesn't care about you. The people who didn't put in effort will be filled with regrets, the people who did will accept that a 6/10-7/10 life is the best they can get and proceed to focus on the min in the min/max equation of how to live their best life.
>>740640847Yes. It's MY run. Are you going aomewhere with this?
I'm in my late 30's, but I am not a doom poster.
>>740640795Life is not enjoyable anymore, nothing excites you, you have nothing to strive for.
>>740628869Beth could've held off the wall by not going danger hairIssy is an absolute qt3.14 and would still be one and my choice if she didn't ruin herself by going Stacyand good on Eloise for losing the weight
"dude life is a lot more enjoyable if you stop comparing yourself to others and fiction! Be grateful for the things you can control and uh.... block out everything else XD"
>>740627175As you get older your tastes get more particular and novelty becomes a more narrow thing, at least imopeople don't really make the kinds of games I really want to see that often. in particular the kinds of games the zeitgeist seems to promote (mainly, "singleplayer/multiplayer games that are exactly like the ones I played when I was 12") don't really excite me.
>>740627175this, but good and bad are subjective.When you're a dumbass kid you can be easily entertained. As you get older, inevitably your tastes get more and more refined, in the sense that the specifications of what you enjoy and don't enjoy become clearer and more strict.Now most games feel like the same garbage, but when I find some kino I spend days on end playing that shit so much I end having dreams of the game kekLast time I had these was with Void Stranger, discovering all these secrets with fellow anons was greatGrey owes me paizuri btw
>>740641646Hey man, it's not anyone else's fault you're insecure and unsure of yourself.
>>740640965Realizing that nobody givies a shit about you, (unless you owe them money) and that you dont need to give a shit about them is a huge step. Making peace with that is something not many do. Younger people still think they arent completly on their own. Then theres the entiltlement. Of course they are supposed to make good videogames tailored to me. No they put out shit and sometimes that shit aligns with your taste.
>>740633161just got a job at a data centerit's pretty much a gold rush with how many are being builtif you have any sort of decent mechanical experience there's a good chance they'll take you, you can fill in the knowledge gaps with basic electrical, hvac, and data center courses you can take onlineit pays pretty damn good, like I wasn't expecting to be making as much as I am right now with how little experience in the industry and how little money I was making beforehand
>>740641979Interesting. Can you elaborate on what you do and how online HVAC/electrical courses help?
The age of the average 4channer keeps going up. Why aren't young people joining the chans like they used to?
>>740641130You don't play, I play
>>740627098i feel as a game developer a new type of joy playing games from when i was a child. the old joy is still there its just harder to ignite
>>740642184>Why don't young people want to see miserable milennials not play anything and talk about rpg lore all dayIt is a mystery
>>740642184Because chincord. Probably other antisocial media too.
got to be careful working at data centers. you have to deal with protestors and redditors trying to dox you.
>>740642184You're here forever and the underage people lie
>>740628572it was kinda the opposite for meI went through my 20s not caring, eating whatever, dropping out of college, working dead end jobs just to make enough money to keep being a slouchnow at 28 I said fuck it and am putting in some work to get my shit togetherby 30 if I keep at it I will be in the best shape of my life, physically and mentally and probably the most miserable I'll ever be after realizing how much better my life most likely would've been if I never let myself get to this point and actually spent my 20s learning the talents and skills I've always wanted to, just telling myself "yeah tomorrow, I'll totally get started on it... tomorrow"
>>740627610Try to enjoy it...I just finished my 30's and it fucking FLEW by. Was looking at an old timetable shift paper from where I used to work when I was 31...All the names I saw on there from the people I worked with, seems like fucking yesterday, I remember it so clearly. Was 10 years ago. Even the fact that 10 years have passed since Trump first got elected, is crazy.
>>740627206Lmao, why do zoomers think that they will "grow up" at an arbitrary future point in time? Im 35, own a house, have a wife and kid and another one on the way. Ive been posting here for 21 years now. You dont just "quit" anonymous discussion.
>>740627175Pretty much. I just play the games I either used to play and love as a child/20-something or games like that. Just due to the massive fracturing of the hobby and society as a whole, there's no need to keep up with the larger gaming world and keep up with the Joneses. Just learn to enjoy yourself and what you have in the here and now.I'm basically going to play Nier Replicant/Automata, Red Faction Guerrilla, Brutal Legend and other games with that 7th gen esqe AA action/adventure games that do cool experimental things till I either die or I stop caring about gaming and that's fine by me. I'm amenable to newer games that do things like that like Kunitsu-gami, but they're getting rarer and harder to find whereas you could find many of these games with ease when they were new. Still, there's no need to change when you're having fun.
>>740627206N
>>740633123>fil-amEven worse than being filipino I'm afraid. But only 0.001% of the population are too ugly to date, chances are you're not one of them.
>>74064244022 years*
>>740642184Because this is a fundamentally Millennial website. Zoomers and Alphies may wander in but they'll never define 4chan's culture. This place is pretty anomalous in how free and lax it is when contrasted against other "big" sites on the English internet these days.
>>740628869Greetings, from Kazakhstan.
Other way around. Gaming became too mainstream, and the result of that is the quality to noise ratio as the amount of releases yearly ballooned the fuck up. Been harder to find smaller titles of interest.
>>740632512How do people even deny this shit? If seed oils are so good, then why the fuck would you choose Olive Oil over it? Oh wait, because seed oils ARE bad. Polyunsaturated fatty acids = Linoleic Acid. Linoleic acid = Omega 6. Omega 6 = inflammation. When they promote seed oils, they're somehow saying that massive amounts of omega 6 oils are somehow GOOD for you. The daily suggested amount to meet your biological needs is .5g-1g of that fatty acid. The average person gets nearly THIRTY grams a day.
I appreciated games more when I was a kid and would only get 2 games a year.Being an adult and can get anything i want whenever just loses the luster really
>>740627098falling in love with a waifu gave me the motivation to play vidya againyoure never too old to get that spark, it can come from anywhere, and maybe youll end up seeing things in a new way, or even in the old way again
>>740642448Im also having a good time playing a lot of older gen games from my golden era through emulation. I missed out on a lot of cool games when I was a kid because like many, I only replayed the select few games I had back then while many blew under the radar.
>>740635994do you know wikipedia is controlled by always-online leftists faggots like yourself?
>>740642440I think it's because of the bullshit "grindset mindset" a lot of zoomers have, as if most people don't have their own self-inflicted problems. It's not to shit on bettering one's life so much as realizing we're all fallible and that's a fundamental part of the human experience.>>740642786Yeah there's way to many good games from the past to play to truly say there's no games to play. YOu can spend multiple lifetimes looking for them. It's just a matter of actually looking for them.
>>740642175I took a EPA 608 universal course. There's a site called Skillcat that has a bunch of different courses and things you can actually get certified in that's officially recognized by multiple orgs and one of them is EPA 608 universal that covers the basics of HVAC and the refrigeration cycle, you'll need it anyway if you work a job that involves handling refrigerant. Membership is pretty cheap like $20/mo and you can bang out a number of courses on in a month if actually dedicate a good number of hours every day to it so all you'll need is a month.For data centers there's a couple of courses but I went Schneider University because the course they have, DCCA I think is the name IIRC, is completely free to take you only need to shell out $250 if you want to take the included exam to get the little cert itself. EPA 608 is a good cert to have because even HVAC is a pretty good money making industry to get into.For electrician there's NFPA 70E which I personally didn't take which turned out to be good because I had to get it for my job anyway so my job ended up payibg for it for me anyway. Schneider University actually covers a lot of the electricity stuff you'll need to know like AC/DC voltage, Ohm's law, UPSs, breakers, electrical line-ups, transformers, diesel generators, ATS, etc. They're a big electrical corp they offer a number of electrical courses not just data center shit.Yeah I really only had two years as a janny at a bank but it was considered "critical infrastructure" so that was enough for an interview I guess after tweaking the resume to make the jpb seem a bit more importantthan it was, for the interview proper I used the knowledge from the courses I took to get through the technical knowledge they were drilling me on.A lot of my cowprkers came from construction, HVAC, even a couple of car mechanics.
>>740627175based video game enjoyer not deterred by the retarded misanthropes on this site
>>740642858I put "oat milk" in my coffee every single day and that's just straight up jizz colored sunflower oil. Do you feel on the ball? At the top of your game? Maybe if you stopped eating a stick of butter every day you wouldn't be lazy and depressed and suck at games.
>>740633161>And yet I keep seeing the headlines say that they Added 170.000 new jobs.Here's where they went
>>740642184It would be nice if we didn't fucking stagnate so badly since the election tourists took over.We're still being flooded with reddit frog and reddit man, when normalfags are still using it.
>>740627098I turned 36 yesterday and I feel fine. 4 years sober, I can actually get into vidya that I thought was too obtuse for my drunk low attention span cumbrain ass like C:DDA, Door Kickers 2, Hunt: Showdown etc. Not to mention more productive hobbies like FL Studio, solo ttrpgs etc
>>740642175>>740643032But that's for the maintenance/engineer division of the data center which actually is the highest paying roles, at least for my company, unless you're talking full on software engineeras for the IT sector of a data center you're better off with IT experience naturally or a comp sci degree or the like amd if not that don't fret I've seen guys get hired with just very limit IT experience supplemented with certs like CompTIA Server+/Network+/A+, CISCO, AWS/Microsoft cloud fundamental shit (these are actually starting to become important, especially if you want to work IT at an Amazon or Microsoft data center, they're some of the more numerous ones) yeah I've got coworkers in the IT sector here that got the extent of their experience as being fuggin geek squad guys lul
>>740643182This is pretty crazy if its true, although, I would have liked for him to cite his sources.
>>740643321That's pretty interesting because I applied to some IT network operator positions at a bunch of local datacenters near me, and I'm in my senior year for CS at ASU, See this post >>740633161I was also a radio tech for four years in Airforce working in a network control station. And before that I was doing full stack for .Net development for a Fintech company in Atlanta as a contractor for a year.And yet I don't hear back from literally anyone whenever I apply to these jobs, I don't know what I don't have that everyone else seems to have.
>>740643357The fact this is net increase of jobs is proof this isn't recent.
>>740634576spooky games make me feel alive like nothing else does and i used to get scared of the fucking gun truck in SA2 when i was young, i would get my sister to beat it for me lmaooo
>>740643357Not him, but if you look at the recent jobs numbers the overwhelming majority of new full-time positions created are in hospitality and medical care (nurses not doctors), and those are always overwhelmingly women. Pretty much every other industry is losing jobs.
im starting to get arthritis in my hands so obviously gaming when younger was better
>>740627098I enjoy it more, there's enough games out there to fill the grand canyon and I know what I like so I don't get mad over whatever /v/ is seething about at any given moment
>>740643357The jobs in question were largely the healthcare industry, which is almost entirely women, which indicates a much scarier issue, but it's not one that suggests jobs are declining for men. In fact, that was never an issue, but I suspect the government will now try to frame healthcare and childcare as "masculine."
>>740643620>the overwhelming majority of new full-time positions created are in hospitality and medical care (nurses not doctors), and those are always overwhelmingly women.This actually lines up with that article I read that was saying the exact same thing. Although it didn't divulge into gender specifics. It is true that healthcare is a predominantly women field unless you like a doctor or whatever. And the retail and food jobs checks out, but I do wonder if they account for gig work as apart of these numbers like doordash, that would surely increase the numbers.I am really tired of this government just blatantly lying to save face. I'm ready for this real recession already so we can reset and start building shit again, it's a normal part of a our economy anyways to have recession periods.
>>740643620>>740643846So it's more culture war propaganda to continue to get the gullible to vote against their economic self interests.The really damning part is we're halfway through the year and only have 369k jobs created, which isn't even a net gain, due to all the jobs being hemorrhaged, which >>740643914 pointed out.
>>740643516that is interestingare they smaller data center companies?I know for a fact AWS is wanting bodies and ex-military is a cherry on top, they're even paying for relocationthere is pretty much a straight pipeline from Navy nuke to data center maintenance at AWS, for example
>>740644058>So it's more culture war propagandaNothing culture about it, it's just corrupt authority figures clinging to power as the ship sinks, sort of like 4chan. Any time anyone says culture war it's a grift to let some retard stay in power.
>>740627098people who feel this way don't fit in with society
>>740644078>are they smaller data center companies?on looking up some of my old applications, they do indeed seem to be small companies, 50-200 people from what I see on ziprecruiter. When I look at AWS positions for Data centers at least in the Atlanta and metro area they seem to all have been gobbled up. I guess I left the military at the worst time, since from what I have been looking at on the jobs online seem to just be the scraps of the previous hiring period. And many, many ghost job listings.
>>740642184Only the most autistic of the early Zoomers post here habitually, I have never seen anyone else younger than that does not only visit this place like a tourist.
>>740644164Which is exactly what they're doing since it's being framed like women are getting all the jobs, so you, a male, should feel slighted over it and should keep voting for the very people who are fucking you over.Insidious as fuck by them and why you're seeing them flood places like /v/ with culture war slop.
>>740642184because they prefer an app with 10 second content instead
>>740627206>Don't forget, you're here forever
>>740642243Wow, you're consistently right! You don't play, but I do.
>>740627175>if its not fun why botherhe's right
>>740627098>get older>less baconFUCK ITS NOT FUCKING FAIR!!!
>>740627098I have less time to enjoy things and I enjoy them less. This applies to everything, not just games.
>>740644228I can tell you AWS does have a cluster in Atlanta but North Virginia is the data center hotspot, largest concentration of data centers in the USthey also have clusters building up in Ohio and the Chicago areas and they're just starting to build up in Pennsylvania amazon.jobslook up Data Center Technician (DCO)but you can just look up "data center" because there's also shit like design engineering which you could look into, it sounds like you got the experience
>>740628869what's the punchline?
>>740644572Hmm... I'll look into it, thanks.
>>740644456Reggie was wrong because he set the stage for nintendo to spiral into fake fun, and now nintendos primary audience is aging homestuck fans acting out homosexual relationships between Deltasone donutsteels in tomodachi life or whatever
>>740644553You have less time to enjoy things because you probably have shit time management skills and feel for the family meme. And you enjoy things less because the things you like suck ass and you're just now realizing it, but are too stupid to realize you're realizing it. Hope this helps!
>>7406391413 hour doomer gets to hate far more than 8 hour sleepr
>>740644629no probI'd look up data centers currently being built and cross reference it with open positions you can find in the areathe ones currently being built will have the highest demand for positions to fill ergo standards and hear-back times are lowerI applied in early January and heard back mid February, got interviewed and hired late February and started Mid-Marchlike I said, the places they are just starting to get a foothold in they are building up the fastest so demand for roles is higher so being open to relocate is a plusmy site isn't even built yet so they're paying me to travel to their other data centers all over to get experience, like even Ireland and Japan, shits honestly pretty cash desu
>>74062720630+ medical resident. All I do in my free time is study, sleep, and browse 4chan, especially this shithole. It's a living.
>>740627206hello anon
>>740644674You should learn to make posts with better words
>1998 >I'm playing a ton of Settlers 3>2026>I'm playing a ton of Settlers 3book ends
>>740645262My posts are all well-written and astute, and I am consistently thr most literate poster on the board. The fact you even have to bitch out and whine about grammar mistakes that aren't there is laughable to me. Pipe down, junior. Your in over your head.
>>74062720631 here, also still a virgin, see you niggers at 40, you will know if I can cast spells.
>>740627175Fips bips
>>740627685MARIO?
>>740633952Damn, are you me?
>>740627206already got my degree and I'm still here, it's been so long, you begin to notice when a chunk of people simply leave and newfriends fill their place and change the culture.
>>740627206Going on 35 this year with no higher education haha...
46 here. Married with a house and kids. Still jerk it to hentai games whenever I get a moment
As this thread comes to a close, I just wanna say I'm so proud of myself for avoiding the pitfalls most my age fall into. I am the happiest I havr ever been, and I don't imagine that will change any time soon. The only sorespot is you shitter faggots who keep trying to drag me down with you. Well, too bad! I'll keep playing games and watching anime until I die (probably around age 100). I know you don't like it, but it makes me better than you. Them's the breaks, dood!
>>740645827I'm a dropout and I'm doing pretty good for myself despite burying myself in a tens of thousands of dollars pit for zero gain so you can make it too
>>740633161>Added 170.000 new jobs170.000 with a period, not a comma>I'm not even Entry level I've been doing Radio Technicianilliterate run on sentence>a .net Fullstack dev for a year prior.nobody who speaks english natively says "for a year prior">I'm not even that Oldcapitalized OldGET. THE. FUCK. OFF. MY. WEBSITE. THIRD WORLD SCUM
>>740646256Fuck yourself nigger
>>740646256If you're still on 4chan and in a happy state of mind, you're a liberal.Have fun with that.
>>740646434Sure made you mad, didn't I, child?
>>740642448Play Stellar Blade after the Niers to break the gay spell. What people need is to pirate, because no achievements and no library makes you realize why you play games in the first place, and you learn to seek what you really want to play.
>>740646256Based>>740647143Cringe
>>740647143>>740647240>feeding attentionwhoresYou are the reason manlyblob will shit up more threads rather than less.
>>740639595When I worked for several years in a row, I mostly saved my gaming time for the weekendsSometimes I’d play Battlefield 3 and Garden Warfare at night, but I mostly played on the weekendsAnd that was even though I worked Monday through Saturday, with the last day being a half-day
>>740648215It's still the truth
