>>750162861
Why does talking about vidya/anime/nerdshit/whatever IRL feel so awful?

>>750162861
>coworker makes himself out to be a "gamer"
>hasn't seen a single viral AI mod like Minecraft in Skyrim or Project Zomboid Viewpoint mod, or even the Sims 3 64x project...

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>Coworkers start asking me what I do on the weekends

>>750162926
Fear of being seen as childish

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>Coworkers start talking about sports betting and how much they are winning (they aren't)

>>750162982
>friend of mine considers himself a hardcore gamer
>plays exclusively Nintendo Switch and Deep Rock Galactic
>favorite game is Tears of the Kingdom
>quit playing Majora's Mask because "I was stuck in a town and couldn't leave"
>gets legit angry if he loses in games like Smash
>is still on the first world of Tropical Freeze and I know it's because he's getting filtered

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>coworker starts discussing the latest /weg/slop he's playing
>he only does this with me

>>750163028
KEK
>Felt it

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>coworkers start talking about netflix instead

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>talk about games, old cartoons, anime, guns with coworkers at work who are all into those things
>suddenly topic shifts to X celebrity in Y movie directed by Z israeli
>turn to me expecting me to have the entirety of IMDB and People magazine stored in my brain
Yeah the last movie I saw was the first Dune reboot and the last TV show I saw was Stargate Atlantis (not as good as SG-1). I haven't seen an advertisement for anything in 20 years.
>slowly back away

>>750166463
>haven't seen an advertisement for anything in 20 years
Based, been doing this for 3 years now and it's been great. I know what I want and where to get it

>>750162926
You can tell their interests are shallow.

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>you should watch X, it's only 45 dollars to see it in a giant piss smelling room full of people smacking their lips and talking
>check out Y, it is on Apple TV, only 15 dollars a month
>you can log into my Hulu accoun-
No thanks. I have a 277TB unraid server with emby, a calibre library, and a self-hosted music streaming service at home which contains everything I care about already.
>>750166662
>Based, been doing this for 3 years now and it's been great. I know what I want and where to get it
Great way to live. Avoid the programming. It's called that for a reason.

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>Coworker starts talking

>>750166463
> I haven't seen an advertisement for anything in 20 years.
Would you be surprised to learn almost half of ads are using generative AI now?

>>750166463
It's so liberating to not have to keep up with contemporary shit. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd think the effort to demonize imagination in adults for damn well half a century or more was done to make them reliant on outside consumption. The only area I am 100% reliant on that is musically.

I mean just think about the fact that if I were to say
>I cherish my imagination and appreciate it immensely, I don't need to rely on movies or TV shows to be entertained.
I sound like some retarded schizophrenic with an imaginary friend named Ruddlefuddlemiks.

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>coworker asks me about celebrity crushes
>can't think of a single female actor's name so I just list off a bunch of goblin-looking male actors like Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray and Danny DeVito
Pretty sure all my coworkers think I'm gay.

>>750168538
>saying all of that on the fucking videogame board of all places

>>750168725
>on the fucking videogame board of all places

You realize we're on /v/ right. The place where nobody fucking plays games they just bitch about them

>>750162926
Cause most normalfags are superficial about the kind of media they enjoy. “I like sci-fi” just translates to Star Wars dogshit. “I like movies” is just codeword for blockbuster superhero dogshit.

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>>750162982
"I play games."
That is my answer to that statement.

>>750162926
You can’t admit what you actually like if you have interests that aren’t the type of thing a normalfag understands. If you get asked about vidya, say the most socially acceptable thing possible.

>>750162861
I learned the other day that my CEO was a big Baldur's Gate fan and we talked about it for a bit. It was pretty cool.

>>750162926
Anyone that goes outside has at most a slither of a fraction of my power level. Like discussing metaphysics with a 6 year old.

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>just want to show up, do my job and go home
>boss keeps pestering me to socialize more and be more talkative

Why does being quiet bothers normalfags so much?

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>coworker tells me he is a hardcore gamer
>"i have all the camos in call of duty"

>>750168687
This is always a trap question. Like “What kind of music do you listen to?” They don’t want your honest opinion. They’re testing to see if you know the socially acceptable answer.

>>750169321
Because most people are conformists and are doing what everyone else is doing because they're afraid to be themselves. When you are a quiet person around conformists they get nervous or worried because they don't know why you aren't conforming and putting on a fake face like they do which makes you stand out and standing out you get unwanted attention. It sucks but you'll just have to deal with it. Most people are terrified useful idiots who wouldn't think twice about throwing you under the bus if it meant they got a reward for doing so.

>>750162861
>yeah i play call of duty on my ps4 and things like that sometimes
that's all you have to say, i don't even have a ps4

>>750162926
Because it reveals that your friends/coworkers are normies with shit taste

>>750169467
It's not a trap question for me, I really want to know
I listened to a few songs from a band one of my coworkers recommended, I didn't really like them but I gave them an honest try...

>>750167142
>I have a 277TB unraid server with emby
what the fuck drives do you even have? i thought i was hot shit with my 4 12TB wd golds..

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>only guy i ever met irl who had decent taste in vidya was one of my sisters boyfriends
>we actually ended up becoming good friends and would hang out without my sister just to talk about vidya or play something together
>eventually they broke up
>we still talked for a while after that but things got kinda awkward for everyone
>we slowly stopped talking to each other

Every other person ive met irl was a gun and ball gamer.

>>750166463
The last movie I saw was the first Joker.
I haven't seen a series on TV since at least 2010.

>>750168687
try saying zendaya or hunter schaefer

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>playing causalities
>co-worker now thinks its okay to talk to me about his pup fetish and how he likes being locked in a cage on weekends
I dont need this. No one needs this. Im only playing it because its single player barotrauma that works.

>>750169321
People tend to want to talk to people because we're social creatures

>>750169643
I work in a datacenter as an infrastructure engineer. I can get whatever drives I want. But a lot I procured on my own or my wife got. That is usable storage. Total storage is 450TB. Between 12TB and 22TB drives. Also have 4TB of SSD cache infront of it in an array (several 500GB high endurance datacenter SSDs). HBAs to break out PCIe lans into SAS.
Also have a metric fuckton of memory that I sell here and there for extra money to offset the increased costs of everything.

>>750169507
Not my problem.
t. night shift guy who hasn't spoken to a human at work in 5 years

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>coworker wants me to play an online game with him and his friends
>sends me a discord link
>ive never even used discord before
>tell him i usually only have enough free time for one game at a time and im already playing something else
>this, somehow, offends him
>he tells the story to other coworkers and they agree with him
>everyone in the office thinks im an asshole now

Am i autistic? I dont understand what i did wrong

>>750170661
>coworker sends me discord link
>"i aint clickin that shit, nigga"

>>750170365
that's fucking awesome, i aspire to have a setup even half as good as that one day

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>Make a tinder account
>I look like shit so I just put pictures of my figure collections
>Get matches
>All of them are absolute normies
I guess they thought am I richfag

>>750170795
probably bot accounts

I don't care how autistic you are, if you work in a warehouse/factory with 30 other dudes and 29 of them all play NBA2k and talk sports all year long, and there's ONE GUY that actually plays vidya, talk to him. Dont be a giga-weird perma freak.

>>750170932
Nah, I talked to them for some days but they just don't even bother to keep a conversation

>>750169027
>>750166664
>>750169597

the correct answers

>>750162982
yeah me, I play real games not twitter

What is it with Americans and their incredibly retarded stance on socializing with coworkers?
If you are gonna waste 8 hours of your life outside your home and loved ones, why not make it better for yourself?

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So is the job market fixed yet?

im a hypernerd who also enjoys sports, so i dont have any issues connecting with the normalfags

>>750162926
Most the time the topic of video games comes up, most people gloss over the moment you mention something that isn't flavor of the month or multiplayer slop or the recent most popular singleplayer game.

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>>750162926
vidya is a childish waste of time

>>750171285
Anon, you're on a dead board and dead site with autistic retards who can't socialzie and you think this is somehow indicative of an entire nation?

>>750167968
I recoil like a vampire who sees sunlight every time I visit relatives who actually watch TV with ads.

>coworkers talking about video games
>hey, anon do you play games
>No.

Never tell your coworkers about your personal life, they'll only use it against you the first chance they get.

>try to have conversations with coworkers.
>first time I always manage to hold a conversation but it’s an exhausting effort, the conversation almost dies multiple times if I don’t sustain it, and by the end I’ve burnt it burnt through all my conversation topics.
>next time I see them I have literally nothing to say because I’ve already exhausted all my conversation topics and I’ve most likely forgotten almost everything we spoke about.
>at the same time I repeatedly see all these same coworkers being friendly and having conversations with each other like it’s nothing.
>I’m completely baffled because as far as I can tell their lives are as boring and empty as mine, with going to work, exercising, and watching TV being how the bulk of their time is spent.
I don’t get it. How do people do it? I’m the point where I don’t even bother trying to talk to anyone because I know it’s just gonna end with things being really awkward the next time we speak, and I know it’s not because I’m weird or ugly because they do seem receptive and engage the first time we talk, it’s just follow up conversations are always awful.

>join video game company
>zero coworkers enjoy video games

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>>750171752

>>750171968
You're thinking a conversation topic has to be deep
It can be just "this happened to me the other day, i thought it was funny/sad/annoying"
And no, you don't need to come to a consensus on it and it doesn't have to be something you're trying to blow their mind with, it can just be an amusement to pass a few minutes

>>750162926
Because normalfags

>>750162926
Online you can quarantine yourself with only people who share your niche interests and thus you don't need to explain anything, you all already share most of the same tastes. In person, you're likely to be totally mismatched with nearly every person you meet. They don't know any of the memes/exformation so you're afraid of embarrassing yourself constantly and don't know where to begin. That's why it's so unremarkable to meet people online that share every single interest as you, but so incredible when you meet someone irl that has even a few similar favorites.

>>750166463
haha holy fuck whenever people start to go on about actors, new or old, I'm completely lost and disinterested

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>>750166463
I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD
Hearing the name "Al Pacino" triggers the pineal gland in my brain to start pumping melatonin. It's like the exact reverse of a sleeper agent being activated by a codeword.

im tempted to start collecting a xollage of shit in the casual slack channel for my job

>coworker blasts ai slop music on speakers so I had to start wearing headphones
Thank God that retard quit.

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>>750171326
Fixed? It hasn't even begun to really hit the fan yet.

>>750162926
because you're scared of emotionally opening yourself up and potentially becoming vulnerable so your topics about personal interests remain shallow.

>>750163028
That's why you should always keep a pre-meditated answer handy. Just say you plan on repainting your room or something.

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>>750171968
>burnt through all MY conversation topics
Here is where you are wrong. I am an extremely anti-social autist, but keeping conversation with someone is very easy for me. Most people are very narcissistic and are more than willing to blab on and on about whatever it is they want to talk about. All you have to do is feign interest, smile occasionally and maintain eye contact. If they are talking about something you know, pretend to not know very much about it, ask open ended questions and use your inside knowledge to steer the conversation, dont be a know it all. It shuts down conversation.

>it’s just follow up conversations are always awful.
Try to remember a few things about the person. Did they mention that their pet was sick? Did they go try a new restaurant? Did they watch the new movie they were talking about? All these things show that you pay attention and are someone who cares (whether you actually do or not doesnt matter), people will open up to you more and conversation becomes even easier from there.

It might seem psychopathic but its how I survived working a job where social interaction is a constant.

>>750173456
You're not autistic. Being gay and liking anime does not make you autistic.

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>>750173563
Im sorry, I know using the "A" word hurts real autists like you. I just wanted to fit in. :(

>>750171728
What's he looking up at

>>750169467
Underdeveloped third worlder still ask these trap questions like the rest of the world gives a shit

>>750162926
Because most people outside only have surface level knowledge about that kind of stuff, and just regarding the flavor of the month.

>>750172772
That's why it's not Al anymore; it's Dunk!
Is the kinoplex even still up and running?

>>750169321
We're vibe-based organisms and you're weird if you don't even take an opportunity to slack off a bit.

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>video game starts talking about coworkers

>>750162926
because you know too much, you can very easily slip up and say "oh yeah i S+ ranked this mission on very hard kinda tough" when they spent hours just trying to beat it, the autistic genie is out of the bottle after this

>>750166463
good news, >>>/tv/ loves lapping up normalfag slop ALL the time and their favourite movies are all pretentious crap, spend a while there and you will have an endless repertoire of normie-friendly knowledge

>>750166463
>I haven't seen an advertisement for anything in 20 years.
how people live without adblock I don't understand
>erm have you seen that really annoying ad
no I haven't. I didn't even know about the jewish car commercial everyone was talking about until I looked it up.

>>750162926
Nigga please, do you know what normalfags are doing nowadays? Making fake purchases at online stores so they get "retail therapy" without spending actual money to do so. I never want to hear shit from anyone ever again, when that is a level of pathetic no video game could ever hope to reach.
>yeah, but what about-
No. Fake purchasing to feel good. With literally nothing to show for it. At least with any game you have an experience you can talk about, for better and/or worse. What can you say about this bullshit, though? "haha, look at all this stuff I didn't actually buy, guys!" Pure manipulation.

>>750162861
i fucking wish they talked videogames
even fortnite would do
i work with self-proclaimed creme de la creme assholes that don't even watch movies
all they do is watch theatre, and the best thing in the "rep-er-twahr" is fucking boccaccio stories with skyrim quest level of storytelling about black plague or some horseshit

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>>750173450
>Gee anon, you've repainted your room every weekend for the past 10 weeks?

>>750166664
Its this. God i hate when normalfags try to act like they know what theyre talking about

>>750162982
>anon tries to dunk on a "normalfag"
>exposes himself as the normalfag

>>750162982
Sounds like your coworker might actually play video games.

>>750169730
Dan?

>be lawyer
>nearly no one in my line of work plays vidya
>they prefer shit like golf, tennis, dinners and events, with the occasional movie
Sometimes I feel like an imposter because I'm just a nerd among these extroverts, and they keep me around because I am more competent than all of them at the writing part of the job.

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>>750162926
>"oh yeah dude, I love video games. I just finished playing God of War and Red Dead Redemption. are you excited for the new GTA game?"
I haven't played any of those games
and I know the second I mention Dragon's Dogma, Sekiro, Disco Elysium, Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy Tactics, Resident Evil... they will look at me like I've got 2 heads

I'm lucky if I can find one(1) nigga that's played Diablo 2

>>750181557
>>750181593
>Le anti-ai
tiresome...

>>750173456
I think you misunderstand people like me or that anon >>750171968

I know exactly what he feels because it is the story of my life: being incapable of holding a conversation with other people. I've read several books on the subject and memorized several topics, but it's still a chore and clearly for 99% of people it should be natural.

>just ask questions about what they are talking about bro
Nothing comes to mind. My brain can only draw blanks. This is probably because I find other people to be very uninteresting.

>just talk about your interests
Again, nothing comes to mind, because my brain assumes that other people find me uninteresting much like I find them such, so it gives me blanks.

I spend so much effort avoiding being isolated with other people just because then I'd be forced to carry a one-one-one conversation.

>>750178286
>how people live without adblock I don't understand
I know these people because I married one. She's a wonderful human being, but she just does not give a shit about ads. I have offered so many times to install adblockers or Brave...
"It doesn't really bother me. It's like 20 seconds"
The stubbornness reminds me of when my parents refused to let me install games on the home computer because it "slows everything down"

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>>750162861
>Awkward silence ensues

>>750162926
>retard doesn't know what the whole point of power levels shit is
maybe you're some autist who has 0 social awareness and you just tell your coworkers about your hentai games but normally the nerdier shit gets looked down upon, less now but still

>>750182018
As a fellow introvert, the "just ask questions" thing is garbage advice. The key is to give your opinion about stuff. Tell me what conversation you think flows better:

You:
"What did you do this weekend?"
Coworker:
"Nothing much, just played some games."
You:
"Oh, what games?"
Coworker:
"Mostly Counter-Strike."
(now you're out of questions)

Or:
You:
"What did you do this weekend?"
Coworker:
"Nothing much, just played some games."
You:
"Honestly, that's a pretty good weekend. I've been playing [your game] lately, but I feel like I spend more time deciding what to play than actually playing anything."
Coworker:
"Haha, yeah, I do that too."
(now you can naturally branch the conversation in many directions)

>>750162982
based that troon probably roped

>>750162982
>MARIO IN SKYRIM LOOOOOL LOOK AT MY CLIP
and then no one plays it. or gives a fuck besides a passing interest. it can join the pile of like 10,000 other shitty meme mods on Nexus for Skyrim

>>750166463
the amount of fucking times i had to say i only watch old movies rarely and the last shit i saw was probably no country for old men at my last job is crazy
i hate movies, and shows really, i can stomach like 1 anime a year

>>750162861
>40 year old childless coworker who always makes excuses to not go out to work functions still makes threads on 4chan whining about us

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>>750168725
after video games my favorite hobby is lying in bed and imagining being in video games tho

I have never had any issue showing my power level to coworkers and I never understood what the big deal is. I still go out from time to time with my previous office buddies and have a healthy friendship with them.

I do space out when they talk about reality shows but we have other things in common. Also they ask me about videogames when they want to know something in specific and im happy to oblige.

>>750162982
AIfaggot

>>750182310
I straight up say that I browse 4chan to everyone and even introduce them to boards like /fit and /g/. There is no such thing as too much power level.

>>750182154
I actually enjoy exposing my power level to random people around, have been doing so since I was a kid. Yes, most people brand me as a turbo autist as a result, but I don't have to keep track of what I'm saying and I've also found a few great friends doing that

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>coworkers stop talking about video games
>and start talking about the different sports our kids are enrolled in and what kind of meals our wives cook

>>750163028
recreational computer use!!!!!!!!!

>>750166463
>I haven't seen an advertisement for anything in 20 years.
It's quite sickening when the adblock lifts for a moment and you see that shit. If you thought it was bad then it's downright atrocious now. Don't even wanna know what kind of slop they're serving up to boomers on poorfag television these days. Must be some real barrel scraping hours on that one.

>>750182240
Only bad when you end up with shit, you can never go wrong with stuff like Indiana Jones trilogy and back to the future. Old classics are classics not because they're just old, but because they absolutely expose how bad is post 00s medium's state.

The Shield is the best tv show of all time btw

>>750182368

I think the key is not having a shitty personality and having actual interest in other people. One of my ex coworkers did enjoy games from time to time and we talked about some stuff. He had quite some normie opinions, but I wasnt going to make him feel bad about them. Just disagreed amicably and that was that.

>>750162926
It'll only feel that way if you are insecure about it or force the convo to someone that doesnt give a shit or would look down upon you for it. Otherwise if its something both parties are passionate about it can easily become the thing that makes you friends

>>750163028
I mean i just say i hang out with my friends which aint even a lie, its just a virtual hang out

>>750182471
>The Shield is the best tv show of all time btw
For me it's Blackadder. Four different time periods with comedy to match each era. The first was kino for the grand medieval sets but the 4th is the best for WWI antics.

>>750166463
> last time I went to a theater was the angry birds movie
> last tv show I watched as it aired was kill la kill
> I own all of perry mason and hogans heroes on dvd
> I'm currently reading a 900 page long book about the manhattan project, for a second time
My coworkers still talk to me, mainly since they know I never get offended and can enjoy their shitty or edgy jokes they can't share on social media, but they've learned not to ask me about modern media.
I did convince a 17 year old coworker to watch The General after she asked if there were funny movies from before the 90s, and she came back later and started talking about how much fun she had watching Steamboat Bill Jr with her deaf grandpa, so I think I'm having a positive impact

>>750168687
Liking William Dafoe isn't gay, it's common sense.

>>750169730
Disregard sister
Acquire fren

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>>750169321
Ignore the other people complaining. Coworkers want you to slack and chitchat because being a hard worker makes them look lazy. I got shit for not being talkative until I said I'd have more time to shoot the shit if I wasn't the only one not standing at the register bitching about inane shit. I think women are afraid of other women who actually do work and get raises and promotions because it makes their oppression excuse fall apart, none of the guys I work with ever complained about me being quiet.

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>>750163028
i make mods for morrowind but for some reason conversation dies down pretty quick once i mention it
i've tried explaining them how fun lua mods can be but they just don't get it baka

>>750171285
Socializing in America involves interacting with American Society.
This is like euros wondering why we don't have government healthcare, forgetting it would be run by the American government.

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>coworker starts naming his favorite pokemons
>tfw I work the night shift alone

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>>750181757
For what it's worth, there's a really good book that sounds like a shitpost called "How to use courtroom drama to win cases" that really highlights how the social performative aspect of legal work is actually important for jury trials, since you have to take legal facts and present them to a layman-jury in an engaging way. It's a fun read.

>>750163028
>Drink beer and play PC
>Blank looks
>Shrug
And that's my social life

>>750169321
>Do the most work on the team
>Be the first to be let go
Work isn't about work mate. It's some orchestrated adult daycare system where people want to distract themselves from the fact they are wasting their life working for the jewman

>back in high school, 2nd year or so
>out walking with the boys
>goth dude suddenly mentions krystal or renamon
>nigga you on that furry shit?
>yeah
>cool, so am i
>never talk about it again

>>750182202
>>750182352
A literal golden age of game modding is on the horizon and all you can say is this... ai haters truly are something else...

>>750184790
>A literal golden age of game modding is on the horizon
>AI slop
If anything that's plastic era

>>750185248
>>AI slop
troon

>>750185313
YWNBAW

>>750162982
I have literally never heard of those things

>>750185313
ywnbah

>>750185731
Poor console gamer...

>>750178138
/tv/ is somehow both normalslop and /pol/ (even more than /v/)

>>750185757
but i wani be a robot, i think i'd be pretty decent at being a gross biotech heavy machinery thing

These kinds of threads are utterly unrelatable. Just refuse to talk about anything not work related. That's it.

>>750181496
Youre a normalfag that uses an image board.

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>>750169321
>decide to actually go to their get-together once
>can't be that bad right?
>enter the bar
>4 ppl per square meter
>music is overtuned to bass you only hear boom-boom-boom
>people pretend to enjoy flailing their hands to the rhythm
>finally some discussion begins
>can't hear 80% of what they are saying
>decide to buy a drink
>everything is 4x the price and does not look sanitary
>every minor action like somebody's back from the shitter is accompanied by "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" and clapping, what are you cheering for?
>just feel tired and out of place
>find a moment when nobody's looking and slip away
never again
don't care if it hurts my employability or whatever normalnigger success metric ppl use

>>750171951
My coworkers already know I am weird and now I just don't answer positively to any of the questions because I know they are trying to trip me up for laughs.
>what music you like?
>i don't listen to music (no way I'm telling I like OSTs and jpop)
>then why you wear headphones?
>for noise reduction
>... other day
>do you like reading books?
>i don't read books (i actually still enjoy W40K shit but i know it will go over your normalfag head)

>>750169321
They don't know what you're thinking so it scares them, you could be suddenly violent or destroy the tribe, or be a spy.

It's mostly subconscious but real. Humans are wary of outsiders.

>>750187125
You just sound like a slightly weirder normalfag high off his own farts deathly scared of sharing his extremely milquetoast interests. I introduced some guy in class who only played FIFA to Risk of Rain two days ago. It's not that big of a deal.

>>750169321
Aloofness translates to normalfags as just you being an asshole.

>>750162926
It doesn’t if you’re normal.

>>750170280
That doesn't mean I have to nor want to talk to people I have nothing in common with, especially when it isn't fun or edifying in any way. That's why you should have friends outside of the workplace. The working space is for working, not being an annoying slacking faggot.

>>750162926
Because people are just fucking awful to deal with, especially in America nowadays, I just try to minimalize my contact with anyone here as much as possible now, its unbearable.

>>750171285
Unlike euros we can't talk all day about FUCKING AMERICA!!! because we already live here
You dumb fuck

>>750162926
I like sperging about the stuff I love with my co-workers, I usually use it as an opportunity to teach them about something I find interesting

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>>750162926
Not for me, helps being surrounded by equally autistic people and not normies
We all have a pretty similar level of interest in our hobbies, something the normies can't comprehend

>>750190273
Struck a nerve lol

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>coworker tried convincing me that Nintendo stole the character of Mario from Sonic the hedgehog
Do some people just get off on spreading easily verifiable fibs?

>>750190483
Yes.

>>750181778
The thing that kills me is that they could just ask "That sounds interesting. What's that?" or 'How did you discover it? That sounds cool." and I would give them a surface level material that sells the idea of why those games are cool.

It's not that hard to have a conversation, but if you're not going to even pretend you're interested, I'm not either. I don't think autism is the problem so much as normalfags don't know etiquette when talking to others.

>>750190483
I knew a co-worker who was convinced Mario was based on Indian mythology, no, they weren't Indian, she was a white lady. She just saw SMB2 and spun an elaborate yarn about how Mario pulls from the dharma, chakras, and stupas. When I told her SMB2 was an outlier and a reskin of another game, she seemed stunned and went "Well, I guess I'll have to do some more research."

>>750190635
This level of autism deserves poking at.

>>750190635
I once tried to convince my mom that we were all sperm mechs, and that if you found and destroyed the the one true sperm you would drop dead.

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>>750190483
I have a distinct memory of being in line to buy Smash 3DS and two people behind me were talking about TF2, one of the was adamant Disney owned Valve. I still have no idea what he was on.

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>Only coworkers I'm friends with are a 60 year old woman who said she would try to bang me if wasn't for her health conditions I'd probably say yes and two girls my age who don't want to bang me.
I managed to talk to one of the IT guys about Balatro once but that's it, I wish I had a fellow autist to talk with.

>>750172470
Real niggas that about movie directors. Directors make or break a project, see s1 of the walking dead and mind hunter, directed by the same guy

>>750170280
Fat lie. Being a dick to who is quiet is prime anti social behavior

>>750169730
Is having a sister the gateway to good friends?

>>750190483
Sometimes but sadly 90% of normies just accept everything they see on social media as true. I have a coworker who spends her whole lunch watching the most retarded tiktoks and I thought they were a joke but she takes them completely seriously. "SCIENTISTS USED AI TO TALK TO SQUIRRELS AND WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY ABOUT GOD WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!"
My favorite (in a depressed, suicide inducing sort of way) was the day she was crying and I asked what was wrong and she showed me a video about "The great Bering Strait Horse Migration" and she was so sad that out of the 8.5 million horses that cross the Bering Strait every spring when it freezes over, over half die from exposure... and then her coworker friends thought it was real too and got sad... "Anon you read science stuff and news all the time, how have you never heard of this?"
The difficult truth is that most people are functionally retarded and we've replaced beatings and the fear of God with social media self-reinforcement.

>>750191182
Who said he was being a dick however
All we've got to go in is the guy saying he was being 'pestered', which considering the people here, could mean something as light as just being asked "why don't you talk more often" a single time

>>750171968
>>750182018
Poor memory recall and possible anxiety + skill issue as other anon pointed out, most probably due to lack of socialization as a kid
t. anxious ADHD haver

>>750182189
>Mostly Counter-Strike
Now you just comment on it. You are overthinking it

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>>750169321
Most normal people see talking as a fun thing for both parties. Like imagine if everyone had half a christmas cracker, and could only open it with someone else, and you would both get good things for opening it. If you turn them down they think you're just some kind of asshole.
t. Chameleon

>>750162926
Because everyone else has the wrong opinions.

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only ugly people are afraid of coming off as nerdy or weird.
if you're good looking no one will think less of you for being into niche things. usually the opposite
just look good bro

>>750187292
>a spy
nigga what

>>750183564
Missed out on getting goth gf(male) Maybe it's better this way.

I have never heard anyone sound so worked up about something than my coworker gets when talking about Helldivers.

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>coworkers know im the company weirdo
>they know I dont know a lot of things like current shows or musicians
>only talk to me about funny work stuff
Its nice

>>750164068
Based. Where do you work?

>>750191432
maybe true but good looking people tend not to know anything about the medium anyway
it's often a very shallow interest or understanding but nerd shit is in as mainstream
so they're in for the clout or money

>coworkers talk in every language except english
Stay in school kids.

>>750192534
>fake frankenstein language
shame we're all cucked to use it

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>>750190635
>she seemed stunned and went "Well, I guess I'll have to do some more research."
that was actually a top 0.1% foid that acknowledges her shortcomings

Man 4chan is just full of miserable people who are never going to change and die alone.

>>750192589
Learning that Modern English is like 50% French loanwords and retains basically nothing from Old English really fucked me up desu.

>please 4chan validate my opinions

Aren’t you kinda old to live like a 9th grader?

As he uses desu

Complains about it but does nothing about it.

>>750194313
Me when I vaguepost instead of contributing to a conversation

>>750182471
>Indiana Jones trilogy and back to the future
I feel like this has to be the most Reddit taste possible, but whatever, continue.

I dno I'm always honest but I was at a job for 6 months where after the initial introduction I never spoke 10/12 guys if it wasnt about the job. I had absolutely nothing in common with the x generation guys. One guy played elden ring and some vidya. Mostly I just tried to pry if he was interested in an upcoming game but 90% of the time it went nowhere. I'm not autistic at all but people dont really do anything on weekdays.

>>750174362
>What's he looking up at
God.

>>750163028
What the fuck do normalfags even do? Like I don't even understand what an acceptable week would be in normieland, thought I assume it's very different depending on profession and if you have a family or whatnot.