What game did you play this week?How's your back and wrists?
>>743195702>What game did you play this weekMushihimesama Futari Black Label God Mode and Devil Blade Reboot>How's your back and wrists?Forever hurting but good enough, I can't remember the last time my hands didn't feel at least mildly inflamed
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Shenmue, Dragon Quest VII, and Donkey Kong 64>How's your back and wristsBoth fine but I get pain in my right thumb sometimes. Both the joint and the fingertip.
Played nothing this week, because I’m in awkward position of leaving for a trip tomorrow and having a multi-week pause with any game makes it really hard to come back to them. But once I’m back, it’s either Morrowind with Tamriel Rebuilt, Final Fantasy X or Xenoblade Chronicles Switch 2 edition.Like shit. Yesterday, had a nerve pain going from my left wrist to my neck, gums, eye and sides of my head, today my right leg and groin feel tense as fuck and hurt.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Valheim with some friends>How's your back and wrists?My back starts hurting if I spend too much time in this shitty chair, I need a better one. My wrists hurt sometimes, and I'm sure one day everything will come crashing down and I'll have full on carpel tunnel.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?WipeOut Pulse, Enclave, Cyberpunk 2077, Ace Combat 7, Menace, Peripeteia, Transience, Ultima VI, Bloodstain Ritual of the Night, Gungriffon>How's your back and wrists?Back and wrist are great, it's the joints that are fucked. Lots of popping and clicking. I'm going to do cardio tonight for 20 minutes. That's it. I really want to get to the point where I can skateboard again. I don't think I'll be hitting stair rails and stuff like in my 20's but I could at least carve around.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Bit of dead by daylight, some total war warhammer and Peak.>How's your back and wrists?fine, shoulders are sore instead.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Blades of Fire and some Morrowind>How's your back and wrists?Fine but my knees crack and pop and my feet hurt like a bitch on occasion and I've bought better shoes and it helped the first time but now even with the new shoes I still take diclofenac pills once a day until the pain goes away. Still though the first time this happened I couldn't walk for a month, did an MRI and they found nothing. Im also not obese so I dont know. I guess my size 47 feet are too long for their own good
>>743195702Total War Shogun 2, did a long campaign on legendary difficulty as the Hattori clan. Shit was rough at first, but late game units and agents made quick work in the end.
>>74319570240Unreal Tournament with a bunch of mods to improve the AI and add new game modesMy body feels fine, but the doctor says my blood pressure is too high and I need to eat better.
been playing nothing but cyberpunk this past two weeks.not stoping, I love this game.
>>743195702>kcd>bustedit's literally over
>>743195702I been playing bloodstained ritual of the night got it on sell for 11$. And both are ok.
34playing mostly Fatal Fury City of wolves. It is impossible to get good at this game on a pad. Might have to buy an arcade stick / hitbox eventually.My back is not that good but my wrists are fine after I purchased a vertical mouse. It is no miracle maker but it helps.Might visit the doctor soon. Friend of mine almost died this week due to an infection and it reminded me of my mortality. I am not that well mentally since I'll be laid off next month and couldn't even get a single fucking interview so far.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?The digimon game switch release. Pretty fun to play on the modern gameboy.>How's your back and wrists?Great. I started up yoga a few months ago thinking if it worked for white women it might work for me. And it totally does. They were right all along.
>>743198438It's fun until you reach the Haitian priests and then the endless yapping begins to annoy a lot.
>>743195702>What game did you play this weekBeen jumping between the Gothic 1 Remake and Pokemon: Polished Crystal. I can feel my will fading between them both and It's been harder and harder to motivate myself into continuing them. Gothic because it started getting really easy as you progress in the story, and a lot of it is just running between camps. Call me a retard or zoomer or whatever but I honestly wish there was fast travel because I don't even fight anything anymore I just run past it. Polished crystal has the opposite problem where I feel like I'm being forced to grind in it. I haven't played pokemon in like 10 years but this mod was recommended to me, and I'm struggling because I don't know a lot about the more in-depth mechanics for pokemon. Also somehow I'm very underleveled against gym leaders even though I've beaten almost every trainer I've come across so far. Just beat morty and I got folded by the fighting-type gym leader.>How's your back and wristsWrists are fine but my shoulder has been fucked up since I was a teenager due to a car crash.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Space Marine 2. Doing a lot of PvE (post story), working my way through higher difficulties. Probably the most fun I had with a game in years, I love everything about this game.>t. 46 y/o ancient boomer
36. Was trying to 100% Star Fox 2026,but got kinda distracted by the steam summer sale. Now I'm jumping between Nier Replicant, Pal World and Stranger of Paradise.My back and my right leg are killing me because I work a shitty warehouse job. It does a number on my body, but the pay is pretty well.
>>743199029nice man, are you a warhammer expert or just a casual enjoyer?
>>743198925>Polished crystal has the opposite problem where I feel like I'm being forced to grind in itUse a gameshark cheat to load up on rare candies. It lets you fuck around with different team comps without wasting dozens of hours even with turbo speed up active.
>>743198579>MFW I'm a NEET Chad who earns NEET bucks!I'm living the dream!Also, why are you getting laid off next month?
>>743198925man this whole posts sounds like unreal levels of grim
>>743199081I read a couple of short stories back in the day but that's about it. My knowledge is just the basics, haven't delved too deep into it.
zoomer here, since nobody gives a fuck about games anyway and just it's blogposting why don't you share some sage unc wisdom instead, how do I not waste my life and make sure that by 30 I won't be shitposting here anymore like you guys are doing here (no offense)
>>743199390You will be. My boss is Gen X, is normie blue collar man with kids, and even here comes here to shitpost.
>>743199390kys
>>743199390There is no advice, you're here forever.
holy fuck by the time i actually get time to play vidya im falling asleep. been playing marathon and helldivers tho, beat the fuck out of star fox and debaiting playing totk or octopath 2 next.
>>743195702>36>What game did you play this week?Mostly PalworldTried to get back into Grim Dawn but couldn't get back into it. Snagged Tales of Seikyu during the Steam Summer Sale as my comfy Steam Deck game. Played maybe an hour of it and it's okj>How's your back and wrists?Back and neck are in rough shape. Been in a hotel for a week now and the mattress isn't great. Can't wait to get out of here and have a good mattress again
>>743199390Any advice I give you will be ignored. So I'm just going to say good luck and godspeed. I don't even know how much money I have, that's a job for my fiduciary.
>>743199257???
>>743199084I am a contractor and work trough a third party middleman and they are not renewing the contracts. Apparently they also can't hire me directly because of some legal reason with said middleman.I also don't live in a country that has neetbux so that is not an option. I don't mind working but I do enjoy receiving a good salary but the market for I.T ahs been terrible ever since the pandemic ended.
>>743199390>how do I not waste my life and make sure that by 30 I won't be shitposting here anymoreGet involved with your community. Use the opportunities to make new friends and obtain personal fulfillment. Find activities you enjoy that aren't related to the internet. If you have to moderate your own web usage with parents controls, do it.
>>743199390Here's my sage wisdom: You know that thing you keep telling yourself you'll do and then you never do it?JUST FUCKING DO IT. The only thing holding you back is yourself, your fear of the commitment or the fear of loss, or the fear of failure.JUST FUCKING DO IT. Loss and failure are stepping stones to success.
buncha uncs in this thread ong fr ahahahaha.i'm 19 and playing Roblox with my discord girlfriend fuckers.imagine using 4chan past the age of 25. couldn't be me uncle festers the molesters.get a fuckin job and take care of ur wife and kids LOL
>>743199390If you're looking for serious advice on here, then it's already too late...Best thing to do is to keep working on yourself and learn to be able to take failures on the chin and keep moving forward with life.Can't promise it'll get better, but it could, and that's enough.
>>743199852I don't need employment, I retired at 25.
I unsubbed from XIV but I'm kinda of lost as to what I want to play. Mostly waiting to see if I might like the Avatar and Marvel Tokon fighters. Back is a little fucked but wrists are still doing great.
>>743199710>I also don't live in a country that has neetbux so that is not an option.Do you live in North Korea or something like that?
its absolutely over once you're over 30.
>>743199917Brazil actually.we do have a neetbux program for extremely poor families but it is not enough to even live a decent life. Most people who use it also have a job on the side anyways
>>743199968That's the demoralization they're trying to push>oh nooooo its too late, give up goy, I mean guy!
>>743200002
I turn 28 in three months and after many years of being neet started working the kind of physically demanding job where you really have to be careful with moving your body. Should I get out of it and find a new job ASAP to avoid any risk of future pain or injury?
was trying outer wilds. now after 8 hours I'm giving up on the game.being able to fly around in a star system with my own space ship was kinda cool, but the novelty has worn off by now.the big "mystery" of the game is the time loop. after some time of exploring the star system, the star goes hypernova and you die. then you wake up on the starting planet near your space ship, and you continue exploring until the star goes hypernova yet again.the whole game world is almost devoid of any life, and the story is told through a million little messages left behind by some kind of aliens who were present on the planets a thousand years before your character was born. also, it's not a linear story: there are many different "story fragments" that you obtain in an order that depends on what locations you visit first.whenever you die and restart, you keep the information obtained from these messages you read. it's stored in your space ship's computer log. this information is basically the only kind of game progress that exist, since I haven't obtained any new gear thus far in the 8 hours I played. I think there's upgrades that let you deal with spiked cactuses and poisonous mushrooms that block certain paths, but it seems that's all the game has in store.the hypernova mechanic kinda wastes your time, since if it happens when you're in the middle of something, you have to spend some time flying/walking back to the place you were, before you can continue.I realized I don't care at all about the story and that the game has absolutely nothing else going for it once the space flight novelty wears off, so I'm done.
I've been playing these. I stay up at night(rn it's 2:09am) and sleep mostly during the day, life's good.
>>743199390You are not getting out of here. There is no magical ”adult” switch that will click on in your head (unlike what young people often think), and if 4chan is your time-waster now, it likely will be it later on too.Also, bury all the ideas that being 30+ is far away and completely different from your life now. Somewhat different yes, but it is closer than you think and if you delay things you want to do while you’re young, soon you will realize that you’re not young anymore.That is also why I find it so hilarious when I see young shitters thinking about ”who cares if my lifestyle is unsustainable when I’m 30, I’m gonna kill myself before that anyways” or something similar. Oh no, you will reach that age sooner than you think, and if you try to imagine that it’s some far-away future you won’t have to face any time soon, you’re just fooling yourself. 5 years, 10 years, they’re basically nothing.
>>743199905Is it possible to play the Complete Edition or the Starter Edition of Final Fantasy XIV without a credit card or a debit card? I have always wanted to play Final Fantasy XIV!>>743200002I see!>>743200062LMAO!
>>743199671>im playing crap i can autopilot through and im bored but i cant stop
>>743195702Can you faggots go to >>>/r9k/
>>743200062shut up. I am white as an Argentinian
>>743195702First descendant. Picked it back up last week and my favorite character (Ines) is back to effortlessly screen clearing without having to bother with targeting. What can I say, I like curbstomping. Back is fine because I went to the gym, wrists are ok but fingers are absolutely fucked from 40 years of left clicking so I can hardly use a mouse anymore. Stuck with controller - it’s tough.
>>743200176I swear time goes by a lot faster when you go past 30
>>743199905Play XI insteadIts funalso incredibly fucking janky
>>743200210No, you can do the free trial that gets expansions added to it every 2-4 years, but you have some social functions limited, can't hold more than 300k on you (but there are ways around this), and can't participate in PVP.
26 y/o boomer here>What game did you play this week?mahjong soul, assetto corsa, armored core 6>How's your back and wrists?very sore, feet and shoulders too
>>743199390You leave and never come back. Equally importantly, you don’t try to replace this place with anything else - that’s what gets most people because it just means you’re still hooked and will come crawling back eventually.
>>743199390Realistically no matter how much success you have you'll probably still be posting here, given how fucked the world is for your generation though I would just try to find things and people you enjoy while you still can. Not because you'll get too old but because I really cannot say what the world will like in ten years if we're all still alive
>>743195702Mostly Hitman WoA and GT7. Just spoiled myself today, bought COD MW reboot for $20 CAD and will try it out tonight and bought these 2. Received them 20 minutes ago. The controller will be slightly customized, gold front trim, metal golden thumbsticks and a better battery and got 2 TMR units to install too first
Forgot to add there >>74320067135 YO
>>743199390You are here forever, been 22 years in there
>>743200330Damn, this is why we can't have nice things! I was hoping that I could start the free trial and then buy a game card code in Amazon because that's the only non-physical thing that I can buy regarding Final Fantasy XIV, but no, that doesn't work either! Square Enix doesn't even sell anything regarding Final Fantasy XIV in Amazon anymore besides the time cards that are not even physical.
>>743199390buy high sell low
>>743199390your 30s are built by the habits of your 20s. If you are still here, its very likely that you will remain here in the future, not because 4chan has a magical grip, but because you made it an habit and the longer you wait to break it, the harder it will be.And also, unlike other anons that posted here, by your 30s something inside you will flip. And why? Because at that point you are old and EVERYONE will remind you of that, including your own body. If you have a goal or something in mind that you keep postponing, you better do it now. Life is unkind for the eternal bystander, like those suckers who never bought PC parts before the AI boom because they just waited and waited for the prices to come down.
>>743199390Making friends becomes harder and harder so try to make a lot of friends nowInvest in your retirement now even if it's only like 100 bucks a monthFor the love don't stop going to the gym and if you don't go to the gym start, even if it's just running for 30 minutes a day I didn't start exercising until I was 29 and even then it was a huge pain in my ass
>get over the 30 hump>tire out of video games still like them but only into single player kino>look at alt history theories>look at big names in video games>look into art and design game design exc>read a bit of surface history schizo theories exc>realize a lot of pre covid video games are probably soft disclosure from freecarpenters>getting suspicious why the big shift with fortnite and GTA VI and AI into generic no disclosure content for massesI'm starting to think "fiction" books from centuries ago are real stories at this point.
>>743200210Yes, you can play XIV without a credit card, i myself do so.First, you can download the Free Trial and play for free for unlimited time, you will have some limitations and will not be able to access the newest expansions, but you can easily get 100+ hours of the Free Trial.Eventually you can use steam wallet to pay the sub and buying the game
>>743201424I'm sorry, but I'm NOT a Steamie!
>>743201504Time to become one thenSee it as a payment platform
>>743195702abiotic factor mostlythey're doing great, daily pushups plus regular weightlifting has kept me in great shape. still as spry and energetic at 40 as I was at 20.changed my tricep exercises and I ended up pulling the left one, so Ive been resting since Weds until the soreness goes away. means more abiotic factor time
>>743201613I should go to the gym more but I hate being sore and I am a lazy fuck
a ton of games but now its mostly marvel rivals , all mihoyo gacha and wuwa and black flag remakeim doing okay but hurting a bit. I got like full body arthritis but its not been too bad latelyblack flag remake is good and fun, genshin exploration is still god tier and wuwa just got updated and star rail getting a part 2 of a collab which looks really good and zzz new update soon then next up is genshin 7.0 the final region of the entire games main story. just annoyed how they've been fucking up character design and balance releasing doa characters for no reason
>>743195702finally finished gta4, what a piece of shit of a game that was, and i am currently rerererererereplaying vtmbmy wrists are fine and i've only had back trouble twice in the 36 years of life i've had on this world and neither were gaming related
>>743203096>finally finished gta4, what a piece of shit of a game that was,what is bad about it?
>>74319570233Body is fine, getting fatPlayed guild wars 1 and granblue relink
I don't play a lot of video games anymore. I work, work out, garden, read, play my guitar, spend time with my wife, and sometimes get loaded drunk and play something easygoing or revisit old games. Lately I have just been waiting for the 1.0 update for We Who Are About To Die to come out, and I will probably sink 100 hours into that. Not a lot else appeals to me.
33. Played through Sonic & Knuckles twice this weekend, and some Mortal Kombat II until I got sick of the cheating bullshit AI. Both on my Sega Genesis. Also my wrists and knees are just fine (for now).
>>743203132Not him, but GTA IV looks like shit, runs like shit, and is really annoying to play. However, in spite of all of that, it's a deeply soulful game filled with pointless, extraneous detail, and it's also really funny. I remember my mum watching my older brother play it when it came out, and she'd sit down while doing paperwork to watch the cutscenes and would laugh a lot at the dialogue and situations. It was the only video game she cared about because it was "like a good TV show".
43 here to report. If you avoid hard labor jobs, weight, lifting, and sports in your youth you will still feel young in your 40sMeanwhile I have been playing Avoriion and RE9
>>743203572You might like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oQsktO4iRg
>>743203591Alternatively though i can eat a bag of takis every day and a pint of chocolate peanut butter ice cream as well as an italian sub 2x a day forever and just accept a death at 50
>>743201147Exercise is the big one. A whole bunch of heath issues pop up in your 30s if you let yourself get sedentary.You're a lot less likely to accidentally hurt yourself or develop chronic pain, and you'll feel a lot better too.
>>743195702I don't play nothing but old games. Modern gaming is dead. Industry is fucked beyond repair and there's no saving it. I didn't play anything this week on the other hand.
>>743203627Very accurate.
>>743195702played palworld and duckov. really nice saturday.
>>743200113youre supposed to wait for the sand to rise to get through the cactus path. I just flew through tho lol. there are no upgrades, the entire game is just solving puzzles, theres one item basically. the /super/ nova and loop arent the mystery but rather why they are happening is.all that said i found the ending very disappointing, oddly similar to lost.
I played some dwarf fortress but I mostly just watched old episodes of the Simpsons. Friday I had sex with a bpd chick so that was cool.
I’m finding it hard to finish FF VII Remake on PS5 because of the pacing. I’m on chapter 16 so HOPEFULLY it’s done wasting my time with sidequests and repetitive cutscenes.
I play only turn based RPGs.I can't stand it if it's clunky though.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Helldivers. I kicked my Destiny addiction. My knee is a little fucked tho. Need to lose weight
>>743195702I played stardew, factorio, pal world, xenoblade x, and genshin in the past week. I've never had wrist or back pain
>>743195702Dominions 6ElonaPath of AchraRift Wizard 3Watched brother play FZero GX and i felt physically ill at the fast motions
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Final Fantasy VII. I just got Vincent Valentine and got to rocket town. Thinking about playing Dynasty Warriors 8 >How's your back and wrists?they're fine
>>743195702>36Been loving Songs of Syx. Took lessons from my first food strapped town and started a second one that farms so hard there's food rotting away that nobody can get around to eating.Wrists have never given me trouble but i started doing daily lower back stretches a couple weeks ago. Been helping a lot all the way to my neck and shoulders.>>743198438Build?
40 here. It's summer vacation so I have been playing Street Fighter 3 and Fuzion Frenzy with my daughter when she's not at some camp. It's given me an itch to play more SF so I have been having fun playing 2CE and Hyper Fighting by myself. I have also been playing Windjammers and Pirates here and there, feels sort of summery I guess.I love games but theres too mich real life shit to do and when I get sucked into some strategy game or rpg I end up neglecting more important stuff. It sucks but oh well.
I play ARPG with mainly minon based builds. The latest I'm doing now is a companion based wolf summoning spirit walker in poe2.Yes the game practically plays itself but I have the manage all the rest of everything to get it to that point which is where I find the fun. I guess that's how it goes when you're 30+ anyone else know this feel?
I broke my right hand wrist earlier this yearI got off the cast like a month agoI'm slowly working through my physical therapy and still don't have most of my range of motion or strength backI've been only playing mostly slow strategy/management games and just recently started playing fps again but I can tell how off my aiming is compared to beforeit sucks
>>743195702played palworld all weekend until 2 am, haven't done that in decades.
>>743195702>games playedDoom TDA DLC (breety grood, can easily break 2000ups with the new movement techs), Iron Meat co-op with my wife, finally got Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy (steam sale) and loving it, also enjoyed a bit of Cursemark but thinking I'll wait for another update before I play more. >back/wrist healthWrists are perfect thanks to switching to low DPI, ultralight fingertip mouse with sapphire skates and a large cordura mousepad. Back is great too thanks to my posture and optimal monitor height.
Playing 09 des blind having never played a souls game before. Was kicking my ass hard for the first 10 hours but became way easier and I am assuming I am pretty close to the end now (?) I may just spend the rest of the year playing souls games until gta 6. Back gently fucked, gentle carpal tunnel, etc.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Gothic Remake and a I got my AYN Thor this week, so I started playing Parasite Eve on it as a side piece.>How's your back and wrists?Perfectly fine. Keep fit and don't use cheap dogshit chairs and mice.
>>743199905I'm always going back and forth with XIV. I keep telling myself, there are better, more original, more satisfying games to play. But I still keep coming back to it because one, it's an mmo and even though there really isn't that much connection between me and the other people who play it, I still feel the need to be at least around them. And second it's not great or that much fun but it's honestly the last mmorpg that is worthpanting at all so once it dies that entire experience will never be available again so I might as well stick to it.
>>743195702Various snes and sega genesis gamesserious sam TSE HD moddedunreal tour 2004
>>743195702been playing nudoom dlc, its alrightmy back is feeling fantastic lately ever since i bought a new softer mattress>>743203591>avoid hard labor jobs, weight, lifting, and sports in your youth you will still feel young in your 40sits not the other way around?
I turned 37 two days ago. Played some clone hero, city of heroes with my daughter, and continue trudging through ffxiv.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Monster Hunter wilds.>How's your back and wrists?My back hurts whenever I get up in the morning.
>>743195702I'm replaying through Xenoblade 1 and Breath of the Wild Also played the new BBK update, it was really short but it was nice seeing the truckers and motel raccoon again, even though I feel he's using "talk to Vector at the diner" like too much of a cope-out to jam a bunch of scenes together without taking any effort to properly set them upMy back and wrists are ok, though I feel like I might have pulled a muscle in my upper right arm while swimming.
>>743195702>36>what game did you play this week?Skate., forza horizon 6>hows your back and wrists?Fine, my thumbs pop time to time.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Unfortunately, Bubsy 2. My daughter is fucking obsessed with it, so she keeps asking me to play it. I fucking hate Bubsy.>How's your back and wrists?Not as bad as my wife's, surprisingly.
40Tried palworld. Still shit. Still disgustingly ugly. Still just a fucking ARK clone (which also fucking sucked)Proving yet again normies will hype up anything thats popular
>>743209252i kinda liked it. vintage story is the only survival game thats truly great though.https://youtu.be/ow0iT3DXySgIts like peak old man gaming, i dont know why more people here dont play it
>Be 34>Buying a drink at the old bottle shop>The dipshit cashier has the nerve to ask for IDYou knew what you were doing you little bastard. No, I won't take it as a complement. I know I don't look under 18. I'm almost twice that age. Fuck you.
Tried Noita. Not really getting anywhere... and when I get lucky some bullshit takes me out anyway. I haven't even seen a boss lol.
>>743209801its a yuropoor game, so the most consistent way to win is to go really, really slow and have absolutely zero fun
>>743195702Dokapon Kingdom, Katamari Damacy, Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and a little Deadlock. Back and wrists are great.
Tokyo ghostwire i am having an unironic blastbacks fine since i game laying down and the wrists/back only flare up from work being too busy
>>743209741yep yep, fuck me sir
Splatfest yesterday/today. Xenoblade 1 DE switch2 the rest of the week.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Uhhh I forgot>How's your back and wrists?They're ok. My memory on the other hand...
I tried figuring out forever how to make RTX HDR work on Hitman Absolution. I eventually figured it out on vulkan games you have to have use borderless window enabled or the injector doesn't work. Or you have to do some manual config hack by creating a .conf file to fix the container for fullscreen. The reason why I'm on vulkan since Hitman Absolution is DX11? see pic rel. and this is not to do with HDR. Weird issues on new cards that breaks global illumination and only doitsujin's dxvk can fix it and a very specific version number as well, even his latest build doesn't work/will just crash the game so a very obscure fix. On another note turning old SDR games into HDR looks pretty neat. I'm looking forward to seeing Condemned Criminal Origins next.
>>743199390Read Ecclesiastes every day for a month
>>743201246Every pagan mythology is rooted in actual events of the antedeluvian world. So-called mythical creatures-- minotaurs, centaurs, satyrs, sphinxes, giants, dragons, and so on... Are not "allegorical" or "creative imaginings" of primitives who didn't have access to "le heckin' science"... Instead, these are slightly distorted oral histories that circumscribe what life was like before the flood-- literal unironic abominations existed before the flood and walked the earth; and they cruelly abused, raped, and cannibalized humans. What's more-- so-called "enlightened" occultists love to pay homage to the antedeluvian world. One of the ways they do this is with media. In the 1600s, there were plays funded by occultic groups which paid homage to the Wild Man archetype. Nowadays, we have film, television, and video games instead of plays. Much of the "fantasy" genre in media is a direct re-telling of the pre-flood world. Where giants and genetic abominations and a line of sinister humans (Line of Cain) ruled over humanity and cruelly abused humans in incomprehensible ways. Some franchises are more overt about it than others. VTM is particularly egregious in their open nephilim worship. By the way, it's not necessary to know or understand this in order to do what's right and live a good life in accordance to God's laws and God's will.
born in '91have been playing Schedule 1. I wish police improvements won their update poll, it's too easy to avoid the police and combat with them is trivial. The cartel ambushes or angry customers pulling a shiv on you are far more dangerous. The soundtrack is goated, Kaesul didn't have to go that hard but thank god he did.
Started Stranger Of Paradise. I'm enjoying the moment to moment gameplay and I adore how the cutscenes feel like they're from the late 2000s (in a good way). However, I hated the ARPG-style loot in Nioh and it feels even worse in Jack's Game.
>>743199390Sage wisdom go: its ok to sell out your morals short term to get into a financial position of powerYou can undo social/spiritual damage with money, but being broke will eat up your time and health forever.Just dont stay a bad person. I've seen peeps during my time in Hollywood. Do some bad, get money, and do lots of good with that money. The hard part is not staying in that kind of life.Playing games, addiction, suffering. You develop coping mechanisms for yourself. But you need to not stay that way forever. "Its escapism, its not healthy"
>>743211767oh right, right wrist never hurt, left wrist stopped hurting since I started wearing a wrist stabilizing wrap. Back usually slightly hurts because of my fucked up hip joints courtesy of the US Navy. Usually the military fucks up your knees and lower back, but I've got torn cartilage and nerve impingement in my hips where if I sit with "ergonomically and anatomically" correct posture I start to get neuropathy pain in my legs so I have to sit with a slight lean which tweaks my back. I'm half tempted to find a way to rig a rolling chair pnematic mechanism to a recliner at this point. Unless it already exists?
>>74319570239 here.>What game did you play this week?Nothing but Ascension CoA. It's been great fun. No one knows much anything about the new classes so there's practically no established meta. People are just playing the game, grouping for quests, sharing tips and tricks etc. Really takes me back to the old vanilla days.>How's your back and wrists?The back's great, but my right wrist has been a bit sore for some reason this week. I've never had issues with it before. Would suck to develop carpal tunnel at this age when I've managed to dodge it for so long. I think it's passing, though, doesn't feel as bad as it did a couple days ago.Life's good.
>>743195702I've been finishing up (emulated original) Xenoblade Chronicles. My save file got corrupted due to a thunderstorm, so I enabled level 99 and just blew through most of the game after spending 44 hours leveling to like level 40-42 and being up to the Dragon forest boss in the story before that point.Took me like 2 hours to jump to that point and then I'm about 12 hours up to the Mech's titular city as the war pops off again.Apparently that's around 80% but if I wasn't using cheats, I'd probably be like 45% of the way through the game and at around 60-80 hours.The games good, but Jesus Christ it has some pacing issues and the side-quests being the only effecient way to level in the original kills the pacing because the MMORPG design means dumping everything onto you by following a checklist and then burning through them killing enemies and getting lootdrops if you're lucky to finish them all as quickly as possible.
>>743201003>Because at that point you are old and EVERYONE will remind you of that, including your own body.Man do I fucking hate this shit. I'm 35, not fucking 65, but everyone my age around me acts like being in your 30s is one fucking step away from a retirement home. It's not that bad, god dammit!
>angry and depressed>exercise>too tired to be angry and depressed>body is getting stronger>exercising more>the anger is getting more volatile > the depression feels even worseI'm a little concerned.
>>743213126There's some aggressive grinding in that game at some point and I'd have cheated if i knew any better. I can't remember where but it's basically end game. Mainly to build your characters best weapons and stuff like that.
Well boys, whose ready for Monday
>>743213962Yeah, probably the super bosses which I'm going to ignore because at this point I'm burned out.I really like the MMORPG combat system (even if isn't exactly like the Gambit system/FF12, which people sold it to me as), but they really REALLY needed to refine the sidequest systems. Either show me people have side-quests, make them available and known or fuck off. This whole "stop and forward time backward/forward two hours at a time and then step to a new area in the town" quest system is awful pacing. Throwing in the "affinity chart" system, which is a neat gimmick but also locks quests to where you can't level efficiently is stupid as hell and burns you out quickly.
>>743195702Darktide. Its fun.>back and wristsI am 30 and I've never been more stronger in my life. I used to be a slouch in my 20s, now I am regularly exercising and in the top shape of my life. Never give up lads.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Dead Island 2, Gears Reloaded, Planet Coaster.>How's your back and wrists?Back's fine. Wrists are a little poppy.
Just finishing modding my PS3 to play on my CRT TV.Installed Retroarch for SMS, Genesis, NES, SNES and NEOGeo. Finished the transfering of all the roms and updating the image thumbnails.A handful of PS1 games ready to go, including translated games from CDromance.PS3 games like Demon Souls, Diablo 3 and Skyrim look very good on a CRT btw.
>>743195702Rhythm Heaven Groove and Disgaea 7.I feel fine. My thumbs kinda hurt trying to medal everything though
>>743214030Monday is my one off day this week. Had to cover for someone taking PTO. I'm just gonna sleep all day and maybe play Final Fantasy XV. Truthfully XV will probably help me sleep.
>>743199619>Grim DawnYou've got about two weeks to try to get a character ready for the new expansion. I recently tried getting back into Grim Dawn too, though I somehow got distracted by Titan Quest so my latest character is in limbo. Titan Quest has been a fun trip. Makes me appreciate all the changes made in Grim Dawn and it's neat seeing the first generations of stuff from the same devs.
>>743209801That's pretty similar to my first experience, and the second. Noita is one of a handful of games I ever refunded, and then the second time around it just stuck with me. I think part of it was watching some gameplay from other players Dunkorslam specifically and once I saw what was possible and new some tips and tricks, I felt more motivated to try it out myself. So I'd recommend the same Some of the game is rather obtuse, so a little bit of research isn't a bad idea. My only regret was having the ending spoiled for me, so I'd avoid that.
>>743211474>Line of CainI don't recall Abel having had any descendants. Wouldn't everyone still be of that line?
>>743195702>gaem? path of exile 2, darktide, super metroid, tetris.. I forget the rest>how dem bones? not good homie. I can't cross my legs anymore, can't lift them past knee height. Left wrist feels disjointed daily. right side of my face swells up every few days because my ear canal is so sensitive and my entire sinus duct gets fucked up from it
>>743216767There is a Line of Seth and a Line of Cain
>>743217010
>>743199390you have a lot to figure out. you have been programmed to think vidya is a waste of time.>but i have dreamsyou mean slaving away for money you can't use to impress some imaginary hope in the silhouette of a person with the identity of an instagram ad? literally just play games instead>but games are superficialyou only believe that because your idea of entertainment is based on your entire childhood being spent on fortnite, gta 5, and the occasional minecraft.You think games are nothing because you have gained nothing, because you made yourself into nothing.You were supposed to become a genius in early highschool and tour the world with your ingenuity. You fucked that up and now have nothing to gain or provide. The very least you could do is acknowledge that your desires are purely the shit you've seen on your phone.
this game continues to be very fucking coolhttps://streamable.com/k1bqd0has anyone ever used leftover pickle juice to just throw left over vegetables in there and brine them? does it really work? i'd ask /ck/ but i feel theyd get mad.
>>743195702I've been playing XIV, trying to finish my cosmic exploration shit. It's about as fun as watching paint dry but it gives me something to do.I bought Palworld but it just felt weird to play, very obviously a mix of Pokemon and ARK, but the movement feels off, and the character creator was atrocious. Trying to make a male character that didn't look retarded was impossible without just settling for the old man preset option they had.
Digimon Time Strangers has hit me right in the nostalgia glands and also plays like an SMT especially the good ones like Strange Journey
>>743218829bruh that game plays absolutely nothing like strange journey
>>743218915>scan monsters by repeat fighting them>can capture new monsters by scanning them to full>turn based weakness system just missing coop attacksIt's not dungeon crawling based but practically can be. Maybe I should say more the best parts of SMTIV + Strange Journey.
>>743219003>all the parts where you have to use your brain stripped out>but you can collect bugs and play turn based bop-itwhat are you like 5 years old
>>743199968What is
>>743221530Your 20s
>>743195702>ZZZ WuWa every day>Started playing Cronos The New Dawn this week. Very mid, expected something close to Silent Hill 2 Remake but Dead Space but it's just mediocre. I can probably finish it since I eat up survival horror slop.>Continued playing through Stellar Blade as well.
>30 plus>Own a supra>Love white monsterThats me
>>74319570236Helldivers 2I never had any problems with wrists and my back is better than it used to be few years ago, changing beds really helped with that
Currently playing through E33.I am too dumb to get proper damage on my attacks, so I lowered the difficulty because evading for half an hour where only a third of turns are my own and then getting one-shot by one missed dodge or parry is fucking tedious and not fun at all. The problem is that now it's basically too easy because I barely take any damage. Why can't they ever balance properly?
>>743195702Rimworld, my back and wrist are fine. Whole bod tired tho after bad night sleep.
>>743209396replace that watermelon with pepe frog head
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Finished up with Monster Train. Coming off of Slay the spire, Im a little burnt out and probably should have played something else. I just started Lies of P. >How's your back and wrists?Fine. 35 and not feeling it just yet. Genetics, thank you.
>>743221810How do I find out what kind of bed/matress I need?
>>743223164Get one they let you test for 30 days and see if it helps, if not return and try different one
I’m 36 and seemingly immortal. Zero health issues despite a lifetime of the worst ultra processed diet possible and working a physical job. I’m aging slowly. Most people and AI guess that I’m in my early 20s. It’s weird seeing my peers become old people with old people problems while I still look and feel like a baby.I mostly played Fortnite this week.
>>743195702My back is already killing me if I sit for more than 30 minutes and I'm 23. Same with my thumb.
>>743195702Playan: Relink: Endless Overdrive editionBlogpostan: 40, back is great, had problems after I was bedridden with cancer a decade ago but 1-2 hours working out daily muscled me up again. Probably in the best shape since my early 20s or ever.
>>743221753Same. There is just something about Monster drinks that really hit the spot.
>What game did you play this weekPathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Dota 2 and Skyrim>How's your back and wrists?Everything is fine but I REALLY need to cut back on the drinking and stop smoking
just woke up it is gaming time
>>743198438opinions of gta and rdr games? i need to understand the mind of cyberpunk players.
Lot of Rhythm games. I think Kingdom Hearts MoM burned me out on finishing Rhythm Heaven and Rift of the Necrodancer anytime soon.Back has always been fucked because scoliosis, bone density speaking plus shit blue collar job means knees in constant pain too so on calcium tablets and fish oil.Waiting on Splatoon Raiders.
>>743195702Fight'n Rage and MUGEN with hentai characters. My wrists are frail for sure and I have to work today.
>>743195702Started playing Alan Wake 2 yesterday. Also been playing some Division 2 and stalker GAMMA.
>>743195702Deadlock. Back and wrists are fine, but my neck hurts a lot, leading to headache.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Played Harvest Moon 64, Unreal Tournament 99, and continued my Zomboid CDDA run.>How's your back and wrists?My neck and back always hurt, from a car accident. Wrists are fine though.
I dont get why people are pretending like things arent ten thousand times worse than 15-20 years ago and that the future looks like hell on Earth.
I’m 37 and I haven’t found games fun or interesting since 2023. Coincidentally this is the same year I started undergoing psychiatric treatment. And it’s also the year I tried to seduce a woman on FFXIV and she ended up calling the FBI on me. Just haven’t had the same spark of life since I was 34.
>>743195702Order of Ecclesia
>>743227909I mean, there are people who won’t get out of prison until 2056. At least we have a few years to relax before WW3 and the age of the clankers.
>>743227909Uncertain times ahead for sure but being pessimistic or neurotic makes things worse.
>>743227652*Bone density thinning
>>743227938>I tried to seduce a woman on FFXIV and she ended up calling the FBI on meI wonder what she said to them? "Help, men are flirting with me"? Lol
>>743228017This is such cope, things are objectively fucking garbage compared to the early 2000s
>>743218829Only thing that gets me nostalgic about that series is this character model. I didn't play none of the other games.
I so miss my 20’s and early 39’s when I could eat like shit, stay up till 4am gaming and still feel great. Now I need to exercise every day of my back hurts.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge
>>743228387thanks doc
>>743227990is it fun
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Deltarune.Chrono Trigger>How's your back and wrists?No problem
Palworld. I spent too much time in the sun this weekend and now my whole body slightly aches.
>>743199390you will be here anyway, it doesnt matter if you do waste your life or not.but if i can say one thing then its to keep living with your parents for as long as you can, especially if you earn your own money. its super easy to store away some funds if you dont have any bills to pay.i moved out with 17 and began learning a trade, i had to pay my own bills from the start and no way to save some cash. when i was 20 and we finished training some were able to buy brand new cars and one dude had enough savings for the initial payment (usually 30 percent of the total worth here) to buy his own apartment.living with your parents and saving up cash is such a goldmine.
>>743227909For me, it's the retards online who scoff at the idea of older games being good and start listing off all this AAA slop as "proof" things are better than ever.
>What game did you play this week?Battlefield 6, Cruelty Squad, Bf6 still mediocre but cruelty squad was okay. Need to play FF16 and FF7>How's your back and wrists?Fine. Been back at the gym and feeling good, no real issues. My knees keep popping when I do squats however which is annoying
hi guys i’m 29 (and a half) but i’m very mature for my age. can i post here yet?
>>743195702Playing Palworld. I'm enjoying fucking around in the base and have only cleared one tower.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Finished Nier Replicant, amazing game. Started Armored Core 6.>How's your back and wrists?back ok, fucked up my hand opening a jar of Lao Gan Ma
>>743230007Don’t rush to grow up, young cat
>>743195702outer worlds, its no fnv but i dont get the hate. a mid obsidian game is still above averagethey're fine
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Pes 2017Cs2>How's your back and wrists?My back he's okMy left wrists hurt sometimes when I do single hand push ups because I broke it when I was a kid
>>743230052I dropped it a while ago and missed my chance to refund it.Has the game gotten better from it was on release?
>>743195702>>743230052>>743228709>>743228247>>743228017>backGood (because i actually take care of my body)>wristsGood (because i actually take care of my body)>games playedI haven't played video games since around 2010, video games havent been good in nearly 2 fucking decadesAnyone who has played video games in 2010+16 legitimately has a dog shit soulYou are also definitely covid vaccinated and a gay bisexual zoomerYou are a mentally molested consumer you have been molested by a decaying civilisation
>>743230231I barely played it. I was going to come back a month or two ago, and then they said 1.0 was coming. So I really just started earnestly a couple of days ago. I like it.
>>743224749swear they put something else in it, man. i went through a big supplement phase, and for a laugh i took a bunch of powders and pills that are the same ingredients as monster white (taurine, guanine slow release caffeine, etc), plus a cup of black coffee. it just doesnt hit the same. once back when i was 22 and still in college, i had a can of monster after a good week of sleep deprivation and MAN it hit me. it even cleared up my hearing if that makes sense. as in, i was in the food hall and it was busy and echo-ey, and the russling of the huge crowd became clear all of a sudden. im convinced they sneak a little dose of amphetemine in there, but ive never had that effect ever again.
>>743199390If we knew that we wouldn't be here, you dumb cunt. The only advice is to invent a time machine, go back to ~2001, buy a dozen bitcoins or two and DON'T start playing wow or browse 4chan. Also note down when to cash in the coins.
Playing the last of us part 2Pretty damn good gameAlso got addicted to dirt rally 2.0
>>743207667Hell yeah PS3 bro I just finished that and now I'm on Dark Souls.These games deserve the hype and really are among the best I've ever played but it bugs me how they go out of their way to waste your time. For example the flamelurker boss walk in DeS-- Just give me a checkpoint you squinty fucking nips. That shit isn't fun. And in DaS there's a similar level called Sen's Fortress where the bonfire right before the boss is hidden off a random ledge that NOBODY would ever jump off or look past except by accident. I've never felt less guilty using a guide and looking shit up on youtube.There's also no indication of how your stat progression or current inventory fit into the overall game. How am I supposed to know not to level my katana past +10 or I won't be able to turn it into a boss weapon anymore? Or that it can turn into a boss weapon at all? The chances of running into a fun build order on your own are almost zero.Anyway enjoy DeS bro. What's your build?
>>743230259>civilisation>sCan't we just ban non-Americans from the internet and return it to its early 80s state?
I'm turning 40 in 3 weeks and am in a crisis. I don't want to be old.
Fire Emblem Engage, stomping the game with DLC Emblems on Normal. Also still gotta mop up the medals in Star Fox.
>>743232440I also fucking hate the idea of getting old.Mostly because I fear being invalid or senile
I just beat Rayman 3 for the first time even tho I’m a pretty big fan of the series, they really made globox obnoxious in this one for some reason
>>743232440If 80 is old age, then 40 is middle age.
>>743232657I don't want to be middle aged I want to be young. Science figure out the aging gene and regeneration so I can be immortal and young forever
>>743232440me too, but i'm not in crisisjust find enjoyment in the life you have broyou only get two options in life: get old, or get dead
Turned 35 this month, been playing the RE2 remake and SF6. I've also been looking for an FPS to get into but they all seem to be trash these days
>>743232850I wish I were dead. Life is boring and uneventful.t.30
>>743199390Build up and emergency fund of about 1-3 month savings then learn how to open an investing account e.g. on trading 212 and start putting savings into an index fund (either s&p 500 or global) every month and let it compound over decadesAs soon as you see any hairline refeeding/thinning get on finasteride/minoxidyl. Take a low dose for about a month and see if you have any improvement, stop immediately if you get any side effects.Autistically track calories for a week or two and eat as you normally would, this will give you a sense of some things you eat that might not be worth the health cost (you would not believe how many calories there are in mayo)Treat time like gold, you only have a limited amount of time on earth and any time you spend doom scrolling is gone for good. If you waste 10 minutes here and 20minutes there it all adds up faster than you would think. I'm sure many people think games are a waste of time but the internet is much worse, I fondly look back on getting lost in games during long summers as a kid, I can't recall a single minute of my life that I spent in the twitter mines in the 2010sAlso you can literally just chose to not care about things
>>743199390Work on/through your traumas if you had any. The hardest part is probably just identifying or recognizing that you had any in the first place.Get out of your comfort zone. If you're struggling with socializing do more of that. Even if you don't find people all that interesting, do it at least so it's not out of fear that you're not talking to people.
>>743233065> I'm sure many people think games are a waste of time but the internet is much worse, I fondly look back on getting lost in games during long summers as a kid, I can't recall a single minute of my life that I spent in the twitter mines in the 2010sGood point. I’ve never really regretted any time I’ve spent on singleplayer games, because they at least have a clear end and leave some memories, but doomscrolling consumes insane amounts of time and leaves nothing behind.4chan etc. have their own time and place for those times when you are too tired to do anything more consequential, but spending too much time here is certainly a worse waste of time than actually playing something.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?It's monday
>>743233723the thread is a day old
>>743233767The thread is 15 hours old
I'm playing the game of Aloy & clowns, because a friend lent it to me. I hate it and the game is too fucking long, but I always finish what I start. Also, I'm 39 and have chronic hand pains.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?I'm dipping my toes in Stalker GAMMA. I really don't like how they turned Stalker into a convoluted menu crawling game with the repair and upgrade system, but I do like the smoother feeling combat.I'm a bit conflicted. Maybe I'll like it more when I understand the systems better and know what I can ignore, but ideally I'd be playing something closer to the originals while keeping the combat and graphical upgrades.>How's your back and wrists?Perfectly fine now that I'm taking a long break from jobs. Labor kills. I have no business feeling like an old fart at 32.>>743208043>its not the other way around?Definitely not the labor part at least.
>>743195702I've been playing granblue relink endless ragnarok.It's like if monster hunter and disgaea had a baby.
Nova Roma.I'm messing around with the water systems to make man-made canals and rivers. It's a good podcast and chill game on work days.
>>743195702Been playing Dusklight; mostly enjoying it. Also picked up Dark Souls 3 again for a claymore run. Waiting for Dark Souls 2 (DX9) to go on sale so I can compare to the SotFS. Fucking DS4 has ~.5s (variable) latency over bluetooth for some fucking reason. Bought an official USB dongle hoping it'll fix it (when it arrives from Japan in ~3 weeks).Turning 33 in a ~month, body is still surprisingly fine considering sedentary lifestyle.
>>743199390Fall into a routine where you start feeling bad if you miss out on doing something (working out, studying, school, etc). Don't focus too hard on the inevitably of life, but it does help in starting things now rather than tomorrow. Also, talk to people online or in person, and after school years are over, you have to throw yourself in situations to meet old and new people. Of course, easier said than done.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Vakyrie Profile and AoE 3>How's your back and wrists?Both good
>>743199390This guy >>743199663 is right unfortunately
>>743232640Man I tried getting into it a couple times but I just bounce off of it even though I love 1+2. Music is great though. Hell, I even bought the hardcover book for too much money.
what games are you looking forward to?for me it's wardogs and mortal shell 2still hoping elden ring 2 pirate game is real
>>743195702I played Plants vs Zombies (goty version), as well as Fusion and Reflourished.
>>743198752>It's fun until you reach the Haitian priests and then the endless yapping begins to annoy a lot.Yeah, I agree but even eariler than that for me, way too much talking.>>743207394>Build?fitness gearhead>>743227454>opinions of gta and rdr games?I enjoy the early GTA's, I liked IV better than V. Never played Red Dead and I'm not looking forward VI. I like Cyberpunk because it's more... videogamey.
>>743235152xenoslop genesis, and that that new rayman game (mr. dark pls) >>743235091
>>743199390>I won't be shitposting here anymore like you guysHaha, too late kid. You're here to stay
>>743234558>convoluted menu crawling game with the repair and upgrade systemYou shouldn't need to be doing much in the menus. Upgrade and repair systems are easy once you learn how they work with the crafting bench.Best thing for crafting is when you get to Rostok, buy a crafting workbench as soon as you can and store all crafting, upgrading and repair stuff in it.Repairing armour is the worst thing as there is more to it than repairing a weapon, haven't tried the most recent release of gamma (0.9.5) but the armour system was reworked so might be easier than it was.
36 I think i’m getting carpal tunnel
>>743235246now you must play holo vs robo
I've been playing with my new standing desk/treadmill combo, it's a lot of fun.. with the steam sale I got titanfall and silksong, both of which I have put 40+ hours into each. Currently playing through dq3 remaster
>>743207394Based fellow Songs of Syx connoisseur.
>>743232640https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ItloYdYEo
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Grabbed Black Souls 1 and 2 during the sale and was not expecting something this good. Currently making my way through DLC 3.>How's your back and wrists?Besides joints popping, I'm fine.
>>743235434>Upgrade and repair systems are easy once you learn how they work with the crafting bench.I guess. I'm just sitting here looking at bazillion items trying to make sense of what is trash and what I should keep. It just feels needlessly in depth. Like keep a few key items for maintaining your slavshit gun, but why am I picking up textiles and fucking plastic jars bro.Anyway, where do you get basic tools from to craft those repair kits?>buy a crafting workbenchIs that different from the ones at the mechanics? Anyway I'll stick with it a bit longer to see if it clicks. Thanks.
>>743235441I've always used mouse pads (innovera) that have a raised gel thing for your wrist. I can't guarantee it improves things, but I haven't had problems (yet) though I'm early in my 30s.
>>743209801Stick with it. Noita is a very different game from most others. In fact, I wouldn't even worry about having the "I need to beat this game" mentality because just getting to the bottom and beating the boss is only the beginning and it is much more fun to just explore and experiment. Do the daily challenge runs if for nothing else it lets you experiment with things you may not have seen before (it starts you with random spells / wands / items). It is great for learning.
>>743235517This (or having an exercise bike set up in front of the PC / TV) is an incredible cheat code - more people need to do this.
>>743195702I platinume'd Lies of P and I started Horizon Zero Dawn yesterday. I got a used copy of HZD dirt cheap and never played it so I thought I'd try it. So far I'm doubtful I will finish it.I also bought the RE4 remake during the Steam sale so if/when I drop HZD I'll probably try that.
>>743198752>fun until you reach the Haitian priestsi did like killing them all becuase the leader wanted to talk shitgame is kinda boring though, overallprobably its just they want me to like the story and I just don't
>>743227909Its all a big nothing anyway Just pretend you're in a game and do what you want. Remember that you only have one life left, so no respawning here
>>743237413Speaking of no respawinging. Who here loves playing on Iron mode?its so addictive. The rush of losing a hundred hour save over a stupid mistake. Fuck me
>>743235517I really need to get one. My main problem with exercise is that my mind craves something to focus on while walking or running and I ache to get home to play or read something, but having the option of exercising while doing something interesting seems like it could be an easy eay to ”cheat” a bit of exercise in without even noticing it.
>>743195702Just started Yakuza 0. Wrists are fine. Back is fine most days. Right shoulder is fucked up though. Can't sleep without an ibuprofen these days.
>>743227909Yeah everything is going to shit. WW3 will soon be upon us.
>>743239695Dramatic much?
>>743227909Because many of the people saying that are nonwhite and cant think.
>>743239768It's not that far fetched wouldn't you agree
>>7432396952 more weeks....
>>743239768honestly, I don't think so.There is a severe decline in quality of life, the job market is complete fucking trash and governments are shitting the bad with retarded policies in almost every country. Sooner or later something is gonna give and they will have no choice but to start a war.
>>74319570231Dragon Quest 7 3DS, fuck that phony guy in the Altreides Abbey.Both are great (for the time being)
>>743240068Did you avoid the switch remake?
32 years old, only play CS2, Binding of Isaac, puzzle games, and recently Mewgenics
>>743239887I wouldn't. Most of the people complaining are Americans, and a lot of what they're reacting to is the decline of their country's global dominance. Look back at 2016, where most of the middle east was at war with itself. or even 2006, where the Iraq war was at full swing. You know, the war that killed over a million Iraqis?bad things were happening for most of the world, even if life seemed relatively better from an American perspective.I'm not like anti American or whatever. Its just the facts.
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>>743240897I'm not american either
>>743240897Life is still better in the USA. The shit on the news doesn't actually affect anyone with a job.
>>743240971>>743240974why the fuck are you complaining then?
>>743195702My back's been threatening to blow out for awhile now. Gotta keep that posture right.
>>743241021Strange question.
>>743241021I'm not. /v/ is one person, though.
How do we get old people to play cool games again instead of retirement home slop
>>743240906Just curious, I only ever played the 3DS remake which I liked a lot. And I heard that the switch remake is dumbed down to the point that it could ruin the game
>>743227990Wait a second...
>>743195702Asscreed black flag.Fallout 4.
>>743195702Just uninstalled Dota 2 after 5,400 hours. Watching your favorite game slowly morph to be as time wastey and pointless as possible to stretch out playtime put a really bad taste in my mouth.
>>743228503It's castlefuno
>>743241309This shit was designed to be addictive. I had the same issue with Marvel Rivals. I genuinely feel sick just thinking about it.
Fuck almost 300 replies already>What game did you play this week?I finished my completionist run in Balatro and now I don't know what to play. It's too hot to play on my PC so maybe I'll just play some shumps on my chink handheld.>How's your back and wrists?Both perfect, except for balding my body is pretty good.Also fuck summer.
>>743240897>I wouldn't. Most of the people complaining are Americans,i am not and i am original guy you were replying to
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Stardew (treadmill only)Dying lightPalworld.>How's your back and wrists?Both are great. Sometimes my legs hurt a little though.Oh baby this blood sugar is definitely the lowest it's been in over a year. Two for one giga margarita slushies is gonna be tiiiiiight tomorrow
My brother is addicted to vidya, he's always asking me to play Dead By Daylight and lately Wave Race with him. We played a bit on Saturday, those are the only games I played last week. Lately I have been more occupied with my garden, tabletop games (painting some Alien RPG stuff) and my books.
>>743241469>>743241309Same thing happened to me with warframe a few years ago.Even thinking about the name makes me physically sick. Only play video games I can pause whenever I want now.
>>743241980>Wave Racebased brother
>>743241228Exactly what I heard, exactly why I avoided it.
>>74319570232>What game did you play this week?mostly pokemon crystal, steel reign, mariokart 64, slowly adding to my r36s favorite tab>How's your back and wrists?back pain only flares up when I bend over for hours on end, but that's the job. I thought about getting a back brace.
>>743241309>>743241469Glad i'm not alone in this.
>>743239486>>743236470it's pretty great, I got a solid 7 mile walk in last night just playing DQ for 2 hours and I didn't even feel it. Plus you can sit on discord and still chat with people/be social while walking, so it makes it way more fun. I love exercising at the gym/on the trail too, but this is really a great supplement. It cost about $500 to set up for both the desk and the treadmill, but when I think of it as "health" money that seems pretty solid to me.
>34Mostly grinding Relink with friendsMy back and wrists are fine and I'm not even balding still, but my untreated for now central sleep apnea is fucking killing me and I have to wait months for my appointment. I feel generally unwell on any given day and slowly losing the joy of life
>>743243378>I feel generally unwell on any given day and slowly losing the joy of lifehow is your diet and exercise? I'm the same age and I feel pretty sad as well, but I try to stay super active and groomed (even if I have an ugly face). It feels wild that I'm almost 34 yet I still try to date 25 year olds, because I still feel like I'm 28 or 29. Covid stole so much prime dating time from me, and then I was in a dumb three year meh situationship after that..
>>743243579>how is your dietpretty shit to be fair but not american-tier>and exerciseAlso non-existent, but I walk a lot, if that counts, and sometimes go on longer hikes. Usually there's an underlying cause for central apnea, and given how actual intensive exercise makes me feel like I'm literally dying (and I'm not even obese), I feel like maybe my heart is going. Oh well.>because I still feel like I'm 28 or 29I can relate but I also feel like that's maybe how everyone feels, even when they're older. I'm sure I won't feel much different 10-20 years from now, if I manage to live that long.>I was in a dumb three year meh situationship after that..Same, kind of. Now another seems to be forming, on the initiative of some grill I know, which is too bad because I feel like we're on different wavelengths with her. I may still try and see how it goes.
>>743195702Ive been playing GTA San Andreas for the first time. Totally missed the GTA series growing up cause of strict parents. This game is probably gonna end up among my all time favorites, holy shit is it good>How's your backStructurally like bone and stuff I'm still good but my fucking muscles keep spasming. I'm building a bit of muscle right now to help with posture/back but the tweaks I get on the path to /fit/ness fucking kill
>>743243986>holy shit is it goodOne thing I didn't appreciate when I was a kid is the voice acting. It's better than anything you find in newer games.
>>743199390I wouldn't know I've been struggling for longer than you've been alive. Just keep grinding and learning and know it doesn't get better. There's just peaks and valleys. Your best day will be topped and so will your worst, sometimes back to back. There is no rhyme or reason to any of it so just try to be as flexible in skill set and knowledge as possible to adapt.If you don't learn something a day you might as well be dead.and I don't mean skin a YouTube video. Do it. That'll serve you pretty well.
>>743244258Oh and to contribute to the thread, Palworld.I was playing a lot of Sword x staff but my phone is a POS so it crashes too much for me to bother. I was also playing Overgeared Hero but overnight the paypigs took over. Average Arena power went from 30k to 80k and my cheap ass was never keeping up with that. Top mother fuckers went from 50k to multiple millions in power. Fucking lame.Wrist is fucked but it's been like that since college and I wake up every day with my hand swollen but that's whatever. Construction sucks, don't do it. I need to get back into industrial maintaince
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?I'm about to finish Crash 3, started Gothic 2 and GTA 2>backAbsolutely fucked but I don't even want to think about back surgery
>>743243986San Andreas is really a miracle in the sense that they clearly threw everything they could come up with at the wall, and the game still mostly works and is actually really damn entertaining. You can see where they ran out of time and there are some stinkers in it, but still.
>>743195702i tried pathfinder and it is fun mechanically. but i cant stand the quirkiness of it at all. why must modern rpgs be so 'modern'? give me icewinddale with updated mechanics pls, not colorful snowflakes.
>>743243913>how is your diet>pretty shit to be fair but not american-tier>and exercise>Also non-existent, but I walk a lot, if that counts, and sometimes go on longer hikes. Usually there's an underlying cause for central apnea, and given how actual intensive exercise makes me feel like I'm literally dying (and I'm not even obese), I feel like maybe my heart is going. Oh well.Walking definitely still helps, but it might be worth starting to clean up your diet a bit and being a bit more active. I bought a bike recently to take some rides outside and it feels so great to get in nature and burn some calories. It really helps with my moods
>>743243579>It feels wild that I'm almost 34 yet I still try to date 25 year olds, because I still feel like I'm 28 or 29.I'm 30 and I'm hesitant to date 24/25 year old women. I just can't stand them constantly talking about social media and other vain insipidities.
>>743245491>I just can't stand them constantly talking about social media and other vain insipidities.they're not all like that. I dated this absolute gem of a girl who was 22 and had just started her PhD program in physics at Stanford, while doing competitive ballroom dancing on the side. She was such a sweetheart and cute too, but a bit autistic. Anyways I miss her a bunch, she was chinese so maybe she just didn't talk to me about the social media stuff, but it didn't matter much to me
>>743245634>they're not like thatThey are.
>>743245634I mean sure there are outliers but generally speaking the zoomer women I've been out with are only into basic bitch activities like clubbing and socializing with their friends. It's mind numbingly boring to speak with them.
>>743245465Yeah, I keep thinking about it, but the hardest part is to start and get into the habit. Especially in this heat. I'll definitely start doing something as soon as it's not 35 degrees outside though.
>>743245785I might just be one ugly fucker but I have never attracted someone like that. Probably because I would never be photogenic enough to put on their social media lol..
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?I got into the Final Fantasy series a couple weeks ago after finally getting a SuperStation One. 1 was jank, but I could appreciate that it was 'new' at the time. I did not enjoy 2 at all. So many dead-ends in dungeons and the 4th party member slot was just a revolving door. Some ideas were cool on paper, but the execution was off. I'm almost done with 3 and it is fantastic.>How's your back and wrists?Back is great. My left wrist is kinda weak, but I adjusted to doing knuckle push-ups, so it's fine.
>back and wrists are fine>feet all fucked up, crazy pain in bottom of heels, hurts to stand up in the morning>got achilles tendonitis from running like two years ago, didn't heal properly and now I have a spur or whatever >Canadian so doctor doesn't give a fuck, said he'd refer me somewhere and they would give me a call, that was a month ago>miss running so much its unreal, as it stands I can barely walk, no health care professionals care and there's nothing I can do about it at least I have video games I guess
>>743195702>DOTA 2 mostly, some Civ VI and Endless Space 2>Back gets a bit achy at times, but I just fix my posture and it's normal again. Wrists are a-ok, no complaints there.
I had to put my dog down this weekend. She was my gaming buddy for 17 years and now vidya doesn't seem fun anymore
>>743199710>>743200002Shit man, I feel for you as a fellow brazilfag. I'm lucky I got a nice, cushy job, even if it pays barely enough to get by. It's fucking bullshit, you have to get in the know with someone to get a decent job anywhere nowadays.
>>743198579>playing mostly Fatal Fury City of wolves. It is impossible to get good at this game on a pad. Might have to buy an arcade stick / hitbox eventually.Just go full keyboard, anon. Just get used to it and if you get the feel well, get a hitbox later.
>>743198925I can only play pokémon games if I play it as a nuzlocke nowadays, otherwise it's either too easy or a grindfest like what you are telling us.
>>743199049https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krG2YBfVNcA
>>743245970The last dungeon of FF3 is notorious for it's difficulty
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?i bought the dlc for risk of rain 2 but quickly got bored of it, either there's nothing spawning and you just stand around waiting for things to happen or you get overwhelmed by 50 mobs spawning at the same time, and the item variety is pretty shit on a new save>How's your back and wristsback is fine but my wrists start hurting when i play poe for too long
>>743208043>avoid hard labor jobs, weight, lifting, and sports in your youth you will still feel young in your 40s>its not the other way around?Here's the thing, exercise keeps you healthy, but too much exercise destroys your joints and puts unnecessary strain over your body. If you don't have some prime genetics to thrive on said exercise regime, you'll just be spending your body's "warranty" way faster than necessary. Just eat well, walk around more instead of getting in your car and occasionally lift some weights and you can keep your body chugging well into your 50's.
>>743230558Hey, I went for strength as a general guideline and settled on sticking with bastard sword because I liked being able to switch to 2 handed and break enemy defenses like that. The coolest moment was realizing I could use it with the shield too with high enough stats. The difficulty for me was the start where I didn't want to use up my healing items since I couldn't gauge their scarcity. Same with stones of ephemeral eyes. I spent basically the first half of the game gimping myself and progressing at a glacial pace because of those unknowns. Once I felt more comfortable in being able to obtain resources it turned into more or less of a cakewalk for me by the end. But the runbacks were absolutely horrid before I got a grasp on everything yeah and I think flamelurker was one of the hardest bosses in the game too. Then there's the whole thing about the optimal stage order which made a huge difference too. Like if you did the mine levels first you could get a shitton of upgrades for your swords in a very short period of time vs basically no resources for that elsewhere and that's like what almost 2x the damage output difference? I feel like putting 1-2 as the stage most players would likely pick after the intro level was purposeful bait.For the stats and builds and weapons I am okay not being a minmax fiend the first time around though I do agree they should fully explain everything on that front so that your decisions are as informed as possible. I'll probably be doing kf4 or das next, looking forward to it and seeing in what ways these games are the same and different from one another.
>>743245925It's for the better. You'd stop losing hope in women if you continuously dated people like that.
>>743246058>and there's nothing I can do about itReturn to your doctor about not getting a call? Get their contacts yourself? Go to a private clinic?
>>743246706Yeah, I just got the Ninja and Sage jobs, but I'm a couple levels too low. Apparently I can change to them at 40. But it sounds like I'll have to do some more grinding after that.
>>743246883meant to say start instead of stop*
>>743246058Got cash?Just go to mexico
>>743195702Back: hurtWrists: alight Played: Bioshock 2Hoping: The Persona 6 leak is real and it releases Sep 2027 so I can get a physical copy on PS5 as the last game I'll ever own.
>>743213897You should go to the doctor and take a raincheck on your hormone levels. Check to see if your body is making the right amount of all the chemicals it needs to make/not make to keep you fine.
>>743247024>You should go to the doctor and take a raincheck on your hormone levelsSo you're saying that he should go to a doctor and then bail on taking his hormone levels for another day? Why shouldn't he do it then and there?
For any fatties in hereJust take ozempic8 weeks in and this shit is amazing
>>743247357Working out is free you fat fuck.
The older I get the less okay my legs are, I look around and nothing makes sense!
>>743247357Yes goy inject more vax into your body.
>>743247401But not stuffing my face is impossible
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?the game of used car and housing markets>How's your back and wrists?fine, it's my knees that are killing mei should stop squatting
>>743247401requires mental fortitude and costs time and effort
Gonna continue with Tales of Xillia. Otherwise not really sure.Back is meh as always. Got worries about my job security long term, due to a massive company buyout that is way over my head, but I guess I'll cross that bridge when or if it comes to it.
>>743195702Played some Castlevanias up to Rondo of Blood and started OoT.My wrists have never been the best, but they're not bad to the point they affect typical stuff either.My back is a fuck, I should find the time to go to the doctor.
>>743247443Do you at least gain Brouzouf?
>>743246280yeah this shit sucks. I make good money but now Ill have to gamble on a new job that might not even pay 1/3 o what I receive today.>>743246334i used to have an arcade stick long ago but had to sell it.might give the keyboard a go, because doing instant blocks and guard cancels on analog stick is fucking terrible.
>>743195702about to be replaced by the machine. IT bros how you holding up?>What game did you play this week?nothing... I've replaced playing games with making games as the main source of fun>How's your back and wrists?fine. Got a lumbar cushion for the chair and a mouse pad with a cushioned wrist rest, and they are really helping me.
>>743248361>IT bros how you holding up?we ain't
>>743248361Yea.. fuck IT guys. Those lazy assholes never respond to service tickets on time. I would love to see them replaced with AI.
38, playan battle brothers,Bear belly above 35 got real for me, thumbs hurting because of phone postan Everything else is fine
>>74319570238>What game did you play this week? Continuing slowly through Lufia 2 at a pace of "maybe one dungeon per night." I don't think it's especially good but I'm pretty sure I'm well past the halfway mark so I might as well see it through. Also played a lot of Binding of Isaac since I got it's DLC for cheap on the Steam sale. Played a Mecca Chameleon with friends on Friday night. It's dumb fun with just a couple dollars admission.>How's your back and wrists?Just fine usually. I am dealing with some foot pain that's expected to keep me down for 6-12 weeks, though. There's definitely going to be some strength loss in that time. It's only one week in and the idleness is killing me.
I've had back pain since my 20s and just started getting hand pain. Hard to say how much is from video gaming and how much is from work, maybe it's a combo. I just live with the back pain. It always kind of hurts but it's not crippling, except once a year for two weeks when it flares up. Hand pain is new, about three weeks now, definitely carpal tunnel. My hands sometimes go numb gripping things like the steering wheel or a controller/mouse, but they're fine at work. Excruciating pain when waking up every morning, but it immediately stopped when I got a hand splint so I'll be alright. My biggest worry is how much worse this stuff will get when I'm older. I'm only 35 now. You see those healthy, active old men, but I will probably be that fucker with a walker or in a wheelchair honestly. Only pre-middle-aged youth is keeping me going right now. This shit is going to suck ass before I'm even retirement age. I don't think there's any fixing it without surgery and that doesn't always work
I don't know if I can resist the siren's call of the Season 3 League of Legends event.
>make moves on wife>she says we'll bang that night>dont>get assmadanyone else?
>>743230259brown hands brown hands lmfao
Playing some childhood classics and a few ones that I missed or never even heard of.Finished the portable ports of GTA games. Now I'll try NARC
>>743250925>lufia 2 BASED, don't forget to use the pocket monsters too. I recently beat the game for the first time and I never found them lol
>>743195702>32a little Spess Muhreen 2, a little AC6, and some dailies in ffxiv
32Just started up VTMB to play in between day job, game dev, and life.Never had wrist problems. Back strain went away after I got a chair with head rest and lumbar support.
I spent the weekend ghosting a girl who invited me over in order to binge drink, order chinese takeout and emulate Saturn, PS1 and PS2 games.
I became a lot more puzzle-game-pilled after getting full time job and a full time gf.I only have 3 40 minutes time slots to play something. And I found out that that's the perfect time to solve a couple of puzzles and feel satisfied. Currently going through Patrick's Parabox, it's a bit too easy so far, but I'm having fun. Puzzles are quick to solve and usually clever.
>>743247516>he doesn't know
Mexican here>What did you play this week?I played an Arcade racing game called Inertial Drift, it's not bad but not great either, it has a high learning curve and it's not optimized for Switch and sometimes crashes.Currently enjoying Genshin Impact, Stellar Blade, Asterigos and Grid Legends on PS5; Gal Gun Returns, Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Mario Kart World on Switch 2; and also playing Thymesia, Motorslice and Battlefield 3 Campaign on Xbox Series XAlso I recently bought a physical copy of Cruise n Blast on Switch 2, Devil May Cry V: Devil Hunters edition, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Xillia on Switch 2Anyone can recommend me other games for this summer?I'm thinking on playing FF7: Rebirth (on PS5 tho)>Back and wristsWrists are fine but my back aches at night>>743197937Is Blades of Fire any fun? I wanna try it>>743207673Is the Gothic Remake any fun?>>743211978Really need to play this one>>743214334How is Gears Reloaded?>>743234619I bought Endless Ragnarok a few days ago Is it any fun?
>>743195702Still playing Atomic Heart, finished the main campaign and moved on to the DLC's. The story and presentation are good, but it's shit that you can't destroy anything but oddly enough, human bodies lying around on the floor. You can hack them limb from limb but you can't smash windows, crates or bottles.I swear that gaming is going backwards.
>>743251678muh wife
Cooking Simulator 2 with a friend, very fun
>>743256551Nice
I tried street fighter 6 but motion inputs are too difficult
>>743221753i bet it's not even his car
Finishing my replay of KCD, then will replay Death Stranding after that will play both sequels.
Finally did a solo sakhal bunker run in dayz without getting slimed. Then i got into it with the roomies and live in my car. Oh well ill be ready to game again once o get a new place
36, I reinstalled BF1About to play Cyberpunk 2077 here soonMy right wrist bugs me a lot now I have to do a prednisone rotation for a few days every monthLeft wrist is starting to hurt too, but surprisingly my back feels a lot better
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>>743195702was playing that stupid underwater mini-game in genshin. back and wrists are ok but I get wrist pain during rainy days.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Kenshi with mods, fun shit >How's your back and wrists?Fucked my wrists up weightlifting but they're healing quickly
>>743248361>I've replaced playing games with making games as the main source of funwhat are you making? what's the main premise?
Why do you all have messed up backs and wrists? Im 35 and feel fine
>>743246123My condolences Anon, if you're still here.
>>743195702factorioback is fine, been doing core muscle exercises since 18, better investment than my moderately funded mutual fund
>>743261921They dont work out.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week? Isaac. Doing some T. Bethany runs. She's pretty fun to play with.Baby Steps. It's okay. Lots of donkey dicks.Banjo Tooie. I'm trying to replay it but it doesn't hit the same that Kazooie. Some Mario 64 hacks. I've been recommended some hacks on YouTube and I've wanted to try some. I'm playing Green Stars right now.>How's your back and wrists?Fine. No problem for now.
>>743261921morbid obesity and chronic masturbationsad, really
>>743251361That's just before I quit, I think. I'm not installing their root kit malware for a nostalgia trip though.
>>743195702I had sex and played some TF2.41 my body is my castle.
>>743258168Why aren't you using the modern control scheme then?
>How's your back and wrists?my back is fine but my right wrist is fucked. i physical job so i do a lot of lifting shit and throwing out tons of heavy ass bags of garbage and just overall the physicality of the job is killing me but im applying to other jobs and seeing no luck whatsoever so i just continue to suffer.
>>743262534 I'd suggest wearing wrist braces to make sure you maintain proper form. It'll get uncomfortable so it might just be for part of the day, but that's better than nothing. It might stand out but you shouldn't be too prideful to protect yourself.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?assassin's creed black flag. it's fun.>How's your back and wrists?fine i guess. I've been going to the gym, trying to lose some weight.
>>743261921my doc said my back was likely to end up cursed as a pre-teenthe game was rigged from the start
>>743261921some of us like me have jobs that require lots of physical labor>>743262974i was consistent in the gym before getting this job that is so physical i stopped going to the gym
>>743263138work on your form and do stretchesevery single one of my coworkers who bitches about back pain is either morbidly obese or visibly lifting with their backs
>>743263863my back is fine anon like i said its my wrist. also my legs from all the standing and walking up and down stairs not to mention carrying things as im going up and down said stairs. its not involved pain its more like wear simply from doing all this shit. i went to the doctor and they checked everything and said nothing is medically wrong with me its just wear from this physical of a job and their only reccomendation was to get a different job which im trying to do but havent been able to yet
Bros, I'll be joining you in a month. My 20s sucked balls, please tell me it gets better in your 30s.
>>743195702Nothing, it's too fucking hot, was Ninja Gaiden 4 before the weather heated up, was enjoying it but man the yellow highlights make me roll my eyesBack good, right wrist not so good, ironically playing games makes it better since it means not being on the PC
>>743264148Stop being a little bitch and get an AC
>>743264109Not at all
>>743264307I wanted to but I'm moving out next month
>>743264109It's literally only downhill after 30s, everyone will tell you that even normalfags
>>743264109It might personally get better for you but society itself is going down the shitter
>>743264109it's way better, assuming you weren't a friendless NEET the whole time
>>743264547well...assuming I was a friendless neet the whole time, it can only get better, right? I mean, the only way is up.
>>743264109I think you REALLY need to find yourself in your 30s, otherwise it is utter cancer. You really also need to lean into what makes you happy and fulfilled. In your 20s it is bearable to have a stressful job because you're still young, and even if women don't call you back you still have the potential for meeting a baddie the next day from youth alone. In your 30s, you need to actively hunt down those possibilities with a fervor far beyond just "working hard," otherwise you will be stuck with a boring 30 year old woman who just wants to drink beer and watch the office all day while whining. Basically if you want to date a winner it becomes REAL difficult. I think that's why people start caring about fitness and fashion so much, you really need to up your game in your 30s.
Bounced between all of these in the past week.
>>743264109Life is what you make out of it! If you do things or say things that are depressing and pessimistic, then you won't be happy! You can't just keep waiting for good things to happen to you. You have to do something about it to get the ball rolling.>>743264394>you>leaving your mom's basement>in the year 2026Fat chance!>>743264547This!
>>743264695>knights in the nightmarebased
>>743264718Reddit post
>>743264695>shadow warrior based
>>743264661>putting all this effort into a society that will be wiped out by 2030there is no future except technocratic slavery unless we have a revolution
>>743264758Twitter post!
If I find myself not enjoying my 30s or see that things aren't going my way, I'm taking the pink pill and becoming a tranny in order to live the good, easy life.
>>743265076>I'm taking the pink pill and becoming a trannyDon't do it. I got engaged at the ripe old age of 40. Currently 42 and the wedding's in two months It's a marathon, not a sprint. Definitely don't get your dick cut off or go on estrogen in your 30's, you'll end up part of the 50% statistic.
>>743265226What's the age difference? This is important.
>>743265076>MFW I'm a NEET Chad who earns NEET bucks!I'm set for life!I'm living the dream!
>>743264109I'm a newfag to this but so far it's mogging my 20s if only because I just freed myself from college hell...which says more about how my 20s were dogshit, either way I've been having a good time and hope to only make it better
>>743265331She's 38. We started dating in 2020.
>>743199390>how do I not waste my life and make sure that by 30 I won't be shitposting here anymore.dont rent anything.save money and buy a house.never make kids
>>743264148having a slim low TDP laptop is great for the summer season as long as you stick to indies and less demanding games. another good alternative is cloud gaming and geforce now which would allow you to play some AAA games with idle temps. playing on the handheld is also an option.
>>743265548Oh...well, I guess it beats being alone.
>>743199390One of the best things you can do right now, is literally leave this place.I'm not joking or trying to be an ass. Leave and don't come back
>>743264871sry bro I don't give a fuck about society but I love baddies in tiny outfits.
>>743265562renting can be much better than buying, buying houses is fucking expensive and it locks you down into one area
>>743195702Playing Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate. Wrists are doing good but back is kinda iffy.
>>743265785>sickly-pale, plastic stick bug with a factory's worth of makeup on and seen through a dozen beauty filtershow about you post a human being next time?
>What game did you play this week?I started my... 4th (?) replay of Cyberpunk because my wife wanted to watch. I tried Doom TDA but dropped it because it fucking sucked ass. I also started replaying DMC3 with the style switch mod and it's pure kino. First time I've replayed that game since PS2 and it's crazy how good it is. Going to try and finish Khazan sometime this week too. >How's your back and wrists?I'm 6'5 my back is fucked sometimes even though I lift/stretch regularly. Wrists are fine though.
>>743265969sorry anon that's my type
>>743195702void stranger and it's making me think I'm retarded
>>743261585I'm working on 2 games: one is a mix of zelda and dragon's dogma for PC, and the other one is a game with goblinas for the N64 (picrel)
>play this weekFactorio on the weekend, been staring at my monitor wishing I had the energy to play anything today>BackNo issues>WristsBeen doing a lot wrist exercises and stretches in preparation for the new Path of Exile league (I'll have to tab out after like a week most likely)
>>743266010Based white conqueror obsessed with bleaching yellow bugs.
>>743265851??? no it fucking doesn't, you can sell the house whenever you want
>>743195702I shit myself today and started playing runescape
>>743266071>one is a mix of zelda and dragon's dogma for PCboring, I sleep. >and the other one is a game with goblinas for the N64 (picrel)this is a winner.
>>743266147selling your house is a mega pain in the ass and costs a huge amount of money
A house should be treated as a place you want to live in, not as an investment.
>>743266198I shat*>>743266215noooo both games will be ludo, promise
>>743199390You just stop now? I don't get these posts. If you feel like it's a waste now why would you keep at it? Leave this place or don't, but don't measure yourself from an NPC perspective. You aren't going to magically change radically from one moment to another just because nor should you try to do that artificially. So if there's someone you'd rather be in the future, be that person now.In short, bee you'reself.
>>743265851>renting can be much better than buyingkys
>>743266328Agreed. I think it makes sense if you have a kid, or like you said if you really want to treat it as a home. They're normally much nicer than apartments, and you can renovate and make it your own. I had a buddy take a complete bath on a house in Denver (2br,1ba, half a million dollars), right as the market crashed in denver. The guy lost like half the value and decided to just peace out to Copenhagen instead. He is stabilizing now, married with a kid on the way, but the property still plagues him since he can't rent it and needs to still pay etc. I like the house, it's nice and hip, but there are so many fucking homeless around it now that people won't touch it.
>>743266257no it isn't and no it doesn'tworst case your city has point-of-sale inspections that might run you a couple grand, but you'll make that back out of your equity regardless
>>743266353I shit all over myself bro
>>74319570240+ here.About 66 hours into Metaphor. I kinda love it. Probably the best written and voice acted jrpg I've ever played. It sounds and feels as though English was the native language of the devs.Back and wrists? They ache from time to time but it's nothing Tylenol can't handle. Gonna grab some angry orchards later.
>about to be 36>live like a teenager still>just work and do nothingyeah this is epic
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Still playing Abiotic Factor and started Daiakuji recently which I've been waiting for since the Daibanchou translation came out in like 2011.>How's your back and wrists?Same as they've always been. Drink plenty of water
>>743266198>>743266675You should wear a diaper, buster.
>>743266704I'd say Metaphor has one of the coolest villains in vidya. Up there with Grigori, Irenicus and Armstrong
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>>743264109I'd say my 30s have been better than my 20s because I give less fucks with each passing day
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Star Fox remake and the recompiled version, it's insane how the two of them have their pros and cons so I can't really say which version i the definitive one. The Expert challenges are just annyonig gimmicks though, i dont think i'll bother with them.>How's your back and wrists?Both are in good form which surprises me since i am a fat loser and I work in CS so i type a lot.
>>743266768don't fuck with me or ill do it again!
>>743266704>About 66 hours into Metaphor. I kinda love it.stunning and brave anon.
>>743266704>Probably the best written and voice acted jrpg I've ever playedReading this actually bothered me, I'm going to be honest with you
>>743195702Slay the Princess, and fine since I work out and am not a norwooded cunt pre-40. If your wrists hurt at 30 just wait until you're 60 bud.
>>743267271Which jrpg has better English voice acting? Most Japanese games sound like they hire really shitty western anime voice actors. Everyone in Metaphor sound like European stage actors, which maybe the exception of Gallica who sounds like Lindzey from Kingmaker.>>743267060Literally the whole plot of the game is centered around race so it is what it is. There's zero LGBT/pronoun shit in the game so I count that as a victory. Also literally everyone in your party roster is white except maybe Basilio.>>743266779I'm loving the Archetype system. Kinda reminds me of Job systems in various final fantasy games.
>>743267635Metaphor's voice acting is like a young adult novel imitation of FF12's. I take issue more with the "best written" part thougheverbeit
>>743267635Basilio stroke me as either irish or scotish
>>743264695There's surprisingly little love for the Zanac games.
>>743195702Back is ok cause I work out and stretchWrist is ok, should stretch the left one more, feeling it a bit when doing pushupsPlaying Crosscode atm, surprisingly fun and charming, Lea's a cute
>>743195702>What game did you play this week? Planned to play a little bit of Starfox SW2 last night and wound up awake till midnight taking the hour or so to do a whole campaign. I'm rusty and some of it took getting acclimated...but deep down I know my run was trash. I even fucked up Sector Z. I was mad at myself. I also played a little FF Rebirth and a replay of FF Remake, which I bought for the full $40 like two days before it got marked down to fucking $17. Aggravating. Rebirth has been more my focus though, since I keep wanting to finally fucking beat it, but I keep getting positively cracked out on side content. Not in a bad way. I'm pleasantly surprised by how well it uses boundaries and limits overall traversal to make you actually *think* about how to reach point B from point A in places, it's not something I encounter often in games that still fit a "sandbox" definition. >How's your backMy back WAS kind of shitty until I finally said "fuck it" and laid out for a day from my job, as I'd been planning to do for weeks for that very reason. Noticeably better at work today.>and wristsLeft one's been acting up for like...a year, not exaggerating. It'll be off-and-on and all a doctor will say is "well stay off it or wear a brace or some shit" and my job doesn't really permit that. And it's not so bad that it risks any serious injury, so meh. >>743196261That sounds like a trifecta of cozy games. What version of DQVII are you playing? I assume original.
>>743267003based mafia 3 enjoyer
And since so many of you have back pain: try jefferon curls and deadhangs, that shit fixed me right up
>>743267927I was playing Zanac Neo specifically. Had to de-rust a bit because I hadn't played it in several months.
>finally on vacation >42Playing El Paso, Elsewhere. Also had some Hot Wheels Unleashed split screen runs with the boys. Father of four here, three sons and a daughter. They're 15, 14 (twins) and 12. Yes. Life rocks.
>>743271405>look up game>"STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO">screenshotfrom this much alone I can tell this is a Max Payne-like, lol. Are you going anywhere for vacation?
>>743195702doom eternal
>>743271898That game is awfully slow paced. Is it turn based?
>>743271682>from this much alone I can tell this is a Max Payne-like, lol.I totally is, and I'm enjoying it so far. Gameplay-wise always, since story is meh much like every game out there.>>743271682>Are you going anywhere for vacation?October I'm taking the kids to their one and only trip overseas (lived there for 2 years), something I managed to pay in full, which bankrupt me: Atuona, Hiva Oa; FP. Google it up, nicest place ever.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?32 here. Finally caved and got the gta trilogy definitive edition on sale. Just hit los venturas going for a 100% run of SA. I guess if you're too lazy to set up a better way to play and get it massively on sale it's alright. The weapon wheel is nice.>How's your back and wrists?I waited til my 30s to start working out so I'm in the best shape of my life and feel it. Hard to say how much better I would feel if I wasn't a shiftless fat fuck through my twenties. Any young anons lurking this thread, start working out yesterday.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Division 2 and some Conan Sexiles>How's your back and wrists?wrists are fine. back is on and off, left shoulder is fucked
>>743272196Damn it looks like just like the vistas of one of my fantasy vidya gaems but IRL. And WOW is it geographically isolated. Is it culturally linked to Australia?
>>743195702Losing weight, backs feeling better. Wrists are perfect. Playing the Second Metro game. They should make more books into games desu.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?I read several titles from the Savvarrah series and tried to play through Serious Sam The First Encounter. I dropped the latter, though, because the SS levels are comprised of all the stuff I can't stand in FPS games. The levels have no verticality, enemies just teleport in whenever you hit a flag, and waves of enemies are overstuffed. I got to Kleer Alley and realized I'd have to restart the level if I wanted to have a chance at clearing it, but I hadn't been having fun so I decided to drop it instead.>How's your back and wrists?Fine. My back is good as long as I don't fuck my sitting posture up too much, though it may be sore for a while after I do my farmer's carry exercises
>>743224749It's basically just sugar free, caffeinated, carbonated, Orange Juice.
>>743266704Yeah, it's pretty decent. You really have to take everything people say here with a grain of salt. A lot of people seem motivated to steer others away from certain games simply because they disagree with the game's message.I've noticed a recurring pattern. almost every game /v/ absolutely trashes ends up being pretty enjoyable to me. It's gotten to the point where I'll check the threads, and they're just full of doomers hating on whatever the latest game is.Sometimes the complaints get downright silly. Every Persona 3 Reload thread has someone posting the same tired FES vs. Reload comparison images, and the criticisms are always eye-rolling, like the hallways supposedly not being dark enough.Revival isn't even out yet. Nothing has been confirmed, and people are already calling it shit. Since they don't have any content they can trash, they're generating AI fake images and trying fo bait people into hating the game with them. It's just so silly.
>>743248120It's funny to me that they made JD on wakeup harder in CotW than in its predecessor. In MotW on reset or wakeup you're still considered in the earliest frames of your block even if you hold it down the entire time, so you basically get free JD. I honestly hate how nerfed guard cancels are in CotW.
>mid 30s>laid off from bad job months ago>job was fake, theres no pivot and definitely no one hiring>worked 12 years to not be pathetic greying fat man living with mom>ended up that anyway>no friends because co-workers were jeets>couldnt even pay off student loans because I had an insane amount of themProbably just going to find a local synagogue and hug everyone in it. I dont give a fuck about the future, my family or some preconceived lie about morality anymore. My whole life has been a bad joke from start to finish, the only thing I have to look forward to is there's definitely nothing at the end of all this.
>>743272474>Damn it looks like just like the vistas of one of my fantasy vidya gaems but IRL. And WOW is it geographically isolated. Is it culturally linked to Australia?Completely isolated but the nearest "big city" can be reached by plane so no worries. Linked to aussie culture? Nah. Australians? Nope, they prefer to go to New Caledonia when it comes to pacific destionations, I guess. Majority of tourists are in Bora Bora, Papeete and so on. Great place to be anon go visit, same money and there it is. I got 4 kids, work my ass off (alongside the wife), it's hard af to pay bills, school is expensive, I drive 50km daily, I'm tired af, I cook, she cooks, I clean, she cleans. I walk the elderly dog yadda yadda... but hey next october we'll be there. So there's that!
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Halo 4 on PC and Sega Rally on Ymir.>How's your back and wrists?So far, so good
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Anki, neurodegenerative diseases. >How's your back and wrists?Good, I go to the gym.
>>743273116Well I hope you have a good time, it sounds like you and the missus deserve it. I have to say I'm in a pretty much polar opposite situation from that. Don't have a family of my own, so I'm slobmaxxing...within reason. Just kind of not giving a fuck as far as I can. It's sorta freeing. It gets depressing, too. But it does highlight how nice it is to be outside of the relationship I was in previously and ultimately makes it to where I'm not horribly fussed over where I'm at. Do have some envy for someone in your situation, with a wife and kids and established lifestyle and all that, but I'm at a point where I try to turn that around to where I'm happy for you, because more power to you. And I hope you have similar gratitude, which I'm sure you do. Anyway to pivot back to video games, I was hoping DQVII anon replied, because I've been curious about DQVII Reimagined since I played the demo, but I understand it's pared down from the original. Still wondering just how essential the content in the original is considered for "the full experience" and all that. If I knew Japanese then I'd probably be more pedantic about playing it in its original incarnation, but I don't, so it doesn't matter as much.
>>743273116>I drive 50km dailyThis says more about your roads than anything else
>>743195702Pokemon Reborn and Godzilla PS4 (but on PC via shadps4)both fine, any back pain i have is due to a weak core cuz i sit at a desk forever and don't work out
My increasingly gregarious and affable demeanor has been bothering the people around me lately. One person has already accused me of making fun of him, though I'm not sure why. It seems that, over the past years, I've surrounded myself with Negative Nancys, and I need to drop them off a ledge posthaste.
>>743273004I am not savvy enough yet to know how good or bad it is. i just find it really hard to do it in a pad.i am still not able to do any zero frame move for example but people I play against can do it all the time.
>>743272869i miss school of the dead.
>>743274435You talk like a faggit and your shit's all retarded
>>743274435most people in 2026 are miserable slaves and are starting to openly resent people that are default happy/easygoing, im seeing it more and more
>>743275008It's still pretty lenient in CotW, like if someone is putting you in a block string you can just sort of lean into auto-black from the initial back input and mash out whatever and still get the guard cancel a lot of the time. I'm not sure just how much something has to be a "true string" for the auto-block to be in effect for this long, from my experience it didn't seem like it, but I don't main fighting games anymore. >know how good or bad it isI'm sure it's mainly considered fine as a mechanic from the competitive angle, people generally don't have a lot of complaints about that in CotW and I'm sure many consider it a positive chain. But I personally hate how scaled guard cancels are and having a meter tied to them.
>>743275346>positive chainPositive change. I'm drinking
>>743275385hello drinking im stoned
>>743275645what's your legal name? and address? and phone number?
>>743271682>this is a Max Payne-likeIt is and isn't. It has "bullet time" but the weapons are all hitscan, so there is no true "bullet time" where bullets travel in slow mo a la Max Payne and the Matrix.It's good for a Unity game though and the sequel being announced has me sort of hyped they'll dial in the Max Payne gameplay.
>>743275645I'm a little of that too>>743275702ur mom 123 fucked by me street555-6969
>>743275702shit is legal now bro
>>743275869>didn't put 420 as the area codedamn I had one job
>>743195702Trying to enjoy Dragon's Dogma beyond the gooked up controller scheme. Back and wrist status = irreparable. I definitely need to get back to the chairo. Whats the next vidya gayme my fellow 30 yo boomers are looking forward too? GTAzoomer normalfags need not apply.
>>743195702What game did you play this week?i've been playing unreal on and off for a whileHow's your back and wrists?i'm working on it, back is getting better and wrists are just as fine as ever but getting creaky as of late
>>743275346yeah being in overheat blocking just defends is pretty bad.what baffles me is that backdashes are basically useless from what i can tell. tried to bait a few dps with tizoc and I took the full damage.
>>743275972oh wow i can't believe i forgot to >
>>743251678>Having an otherGet. Out.
>>743196707Based cardio attempter. I haven't deliberately cardio'd in years but I still cope on the bench. Been thinking about a mill for under the desk while I'm working.
>>743276010I just think guard cancels being free and unscaled in MotW contributes something legitimately interesting to the neutral that changes matches significantly based on whether both you and your opponent do it. Fireballs stay viable but you start having to think about how to time them because doing it recklessly will just mean someone guard canceling into their own and making you take the damage.
>>743199029Patrician taste. SM2 and Vermintide/Dark Tide turned me on to Warhammer (before all of the tranny shit)SM2 especially is extremely high quality stuff.
>>743199390It's too late faggot. You're here forever. As for advice, idk, cut down on the avocado toast and save those goybucks, I guess.
>>743199390you stop caring what little snots think and do what you want which may or may not include continuing to post here
>>743195702Played Flycast and I couldn't get downsampling to work right
>>743200068Unirronically yes unless it pays well enough to destroy your body within the next 10 - 20 years. Unless you're making niggerball money, you're better off behind a desk and keeping in shape on your own time.
>>743199390stop procrastinating, that's all>make sure that by 30 I won't be shitposting here anymoresorry, but once you're in, you're here foreverthere are people with families and children in this thread right now who have been visiting this image board for years
>>743275328>most peopleI don't see that, myself. Most anons are poor and angry, though.
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?Stranger of Paradise and SMT Nocturne. Gud games.>How's your back and wrists?Great, I need to lift again. I got off my schedule.
>>743199390I learned early on to just stop trying and just let things come naturally. >anon, you're hand writing is gorgeous!I literally didn't even try lmao.
>>743195702I've been having a blast with Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug Hunt. I'm 40 and currently researching hair plugs.
>>743280032My uncle did it. lasted about a year before it was all gone.
>>743264109I hope you spent your 20s getting your life in order, otherwise you're in for a rude awakening once your health starts to go (or gets even worse)
>>743195702>What game did you play this week?A lot of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. I just got my first Switch a couple weeks ago. I modded it and downloaded a bunch of games, but I've played more mario kart than anything else.How's your back and wrists?Both fine, I have a good desk chair.
