Who else uses cars and bikes as a distraction from their shitty

>>15014967
you've come to the right place

cars + video games here.

>>15014967
This depresses me :/

>>15014967
>not that many close friends
>most of them live multiple hours away
>none of them are into cars

Fuck, I don't even have my license yet, let alone a car.

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>>15014967
I use my car obsession to fill the void left in the absence of any real relationships or close friendships. I have one good friend who doesn't understand why I like cars so much, and my response is usually to play it off as a joke like "haha I must be obsessed or something"

I'm only 20 and I already have two project cars and they're the most important things to me

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>>15014967
I go out for a drive all the friday and saturday nights to avoid staying home alone and feel depressed.

It's pathetic I know.

>>15014967
I guess sort of?
I think thats what a lot of people do with their hobbies though.

I mean - i have a ton of friends. 85ish % of them are all car/bike friends.

I think most things outside of cars/bikes are shitty.

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>>15015302
>try to make plans with a friend
>friend has to cancel last minute
>could call another friend and make new plans
>decide not to and drive through the local mountain pass to get my mind off of how lonely I am

This is a regular occurrence

>>15015337
Just curious, but I have a hard time enjoying a casual drive when someone is also driving close behind me. How do you deal with that?

>>15015302

its not pathetic, night drives/rides are the best.

>>15015476
I'll usually let them pass if I'm going really slow. The mountains out here have plenty of turnouts and I'll just slow into one of them and let them pass. If it's late enough at night there arent a lot of other cars, anyways

bikes, my truck and music make my life bretty good

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>gf dumped me after 5 years
>next girl I tried broke me hearty
>no genuine friends
>bored of the uni

And finally, my car came out of the shop. Still doing the engine's first 500km with the ECU limiting at 4k and we're dyno tuning it afterwards...I'd wager 220fwhp out of my beloved unassuming southamerican shitbox.

I kiss it everynight and with it I think much less frequently of suicide.

Pic related.

anime/weeb bullshit and cars

yep.

i'm either jerking off to doujins or working on my bmw if im not sleeping in bed all day or working

>>15014967
>mfw take out my aggression on the touge by bullying normies in my 280whp straight piped FD

>>15015476
drive faster senpai

>Driving slow enough that someone can be on your tail
ISHYGDDT

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>dump my super nice gf
>move to california for master's
>student housing, no garage
>had to leave cat with parents
>apply for lots of jobs, no bites
>no project car
>stay up all night shitposting with adult swim on in the background
>drink too much
>go on long drives and wonder what I'm doing
>no cat

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>Best friend moved to texas
>lost contact with other friends after highschool
>don't like facebook or other social media
>spent 3 years literally doing nothing but living with my dad
>my car has problems but no money to fix it
>tfw no gf

Living the dream

>>15016712
This. I drive my shitbox like a madman. No power means I dont know how to use brakes, all about that momentum.

Yeah I guess so, aside from cars and bikes all I've got is crippling loneliness.

Its impossible to find a guy into it to be honest, all my straight mates are bikers and we all work on shit together, they're also all ronery. I guess its just a magnet, can't fix your own problems so fix a machines.

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>>15017317
You a gayboi?
>tfw no cute bf to wrench on car with then retire to nextfilx and chill

>>15017333
Yeah, that's pretty much the dream life.

Hardly any gay guys are into cars in the slightest, the furthest it goes is "oh, I drive a red one". Shit, most people don't have a clue what displacement their engine is or anything.

I've given up man, I always meet dudes who I wrench with and inevitably crush on, then one day suddenly
>I can't today, I'm out with my gf
>out with my gf
>gf

Every time man :(

>>15014967
I do op, i just baught a ls integra to toy with when im not working on my 89 crx

>>15014967
Cars (more specifically lack of thereof) is the reason of my misery.

>>15017358
>"oh, I drive a red one"
Usually for me its "I drive a sports car, what one? A miata" The stereotype is real

>>15015543
Where you from, man?

all I do in my spare time is drive to new areas of my city as well try to improve my driving ability. I havent had any friends since school ended 2 years ago.

Im not unhappy just lonely.

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>Drive my STi on the I-25 corridor at midnight to get out of the house
>Regularly reach speeds of 100+ mph
>Mom worries I'll end up dead
>Driving fast is the only way I feel alive anymore

There has to be more, right guys?

>>15017434
Yeah, theres always 200mph.

>>15017440
My car is stock other than the Accessport. Can't get to 200 even if I wanted.

>>15017449
Oh well.

>>15014991
>owns a car
>/o/ is the right place
choose one

>>15014967
welcome to 4chan

each user of each relevant board uses the boards subject to fill that void.

/vg/ has video games
/mu/ has shitty music
/tv/ has child actors and films
/o/ has cars

we're all the same on 4chan hence why we're all here.

Just revival in the fact /o/ isn't all NEET's with no money and we can fill that void with not only cars but retail therapy.

Imagine the poor anons on /pol/ or /b/ who literally have nothing but 4chan.

>>15017434
sometimes i wish i crashed and died while driving at high speed, then i can always be remembered for being a madman.

>>15017545
You've got to live as a madman to be remembered as one.

>>15016787
>trying to get car registered in this state
>take it to mechanic for MOT
>at inspection
>rear coolant bypass pipe blows
>defected for pod filter being too loud
>cv boot falls off
>I just spent all my money replacing all the shit they told me was broken before
why even live?

>>15014967

Same. I suck at wrenching but even though it took me hours to do some simple shit I thought about work for 0 of those

I've got over $60k in various cars to hide the fact that I hate living.

I hate women because of the number of times I've been hurt; wish I were gay, but I'm 100% straight.

I'm not even ugly or a NEET; I'm a lonely introvert.

We're it not for my cars, I'd have blown my head off.

>>15017540
I literally have nothing but 4chan. but even when I had job, gf, friends, was studying, the only thing that made me happy was talking to you faggots here. so I dropped out of all of that stuff. and to be honest, just being NEET and being here all day on autism bux is the happiest ive ever been. I even moved back into my parents house and used my /diy/ skills to renovate my room. I get a twinge of panic whenever i think about the future, that i dont have any 419k, retirement fund, children to put me in a nice nursing home, tfw no qt3.14 grand daughter to sit on grandpas lap. but then I just go wrench or play vidya until it stops.

>>15015302
A lot do that, actually

>>15015302
You'll be surprised a lot of guys who actually have their own families do that to get away from them.

I personally spend my friday and saturday nights drinking myself to slumber, then spend saturday day wrenching. thats how i cope.

I used to have close friends now I have a wife and a kid and fun cars. It's different but not that bad.

>>15014967
pretty much

I have one friend and he is moving to another state. And even then he can be a bit annoying, I don't think we're super close.

I have no direction in life, the only thing that I actively work towards is the next thing on my project car checklist

>>15014967
I do
I fill the hole with cars and motorcycles.
Hell the motorcycle was because I was hoping that someone would t bone me and end my life

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I love my life and I love driving. If you have no friends why not go make some to love driving with? I recommend getting into club racing but there are other ways to enjoy cars and bikes with other people you could do too if that's not your bag. Even iketani and itsuki were lonely drivers together.

>>15017633
Get a dog dude

>>15015302

The faggots that come into work go golfing at 7am to get away from their families. They spend 4 hours fucking around on the course getting shitfaced on light beer and beating on the golf carts.

>>15017960
Allergic to all animals.

>>15018024
get a robot

>>15017633

get a gay bf who's not into sex.

>tfw live in eurocuck country
>can't even use cars as a distraction because the only thing government will let you drive is a 1.3 diesel

>>15018355
>tfw soon my country's gubbermint will ban ICEs completely
>>15018155

Just wanted to say that I love you guys
N-no homo

>>15014967
I use working on cars to get away pretty much.
Hate my wife hate my life no friends in my state
Kicked family out for bumming off of me. But I've come to a point where I don't even want to wrench because no matter how my car runs my life won't get any better

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>>15017406

ColOmbia, south america. What about you anon?

Pic related: my only reason to live.

>>15017397
Haha thats real? I thought that shit was something from family guy.

>my only friend is my boyfriend
>1000sq/ft apartment not big enough
>own 2 cars
>not happy with where i am in life
i just need to keep paying over the minimum payment on my car and show up to work for the next 10 years and ill have my complete dream garage

so many friends turned to assholes and they all always come back, their loss....

>>15017540
I used to be all of that. But by the grace of god and lady luck I got a gf and was able to sort myself out. Pretty soon I'll be able to get my dream car. Already secured the house and wife, credit is going back to normal and Im controlled with my PTSD and depression. I dont know how i did it but im glad i had you all when i was down. Thats why im still here.

>>15019944

Anon, Im genuinely glad fortune smiled upon you and bestowed you with a grill. Mine was the perfect woman and after 5 years she dumped me unceremoniously for a fucking guy she met at a choir. If I had cancer she wouldve had pity, but since it was severe depression then "I" am the one to blame.

Sincerely hoping you dont get as fucked as I did.

>>15014967
>One friend, rarely talk to family
>If I'm not at work I'm thinking about/wrenching on something
>Only time I go out other than work is for food or to get parts
>Have two unregistered cars I can't drive because I'm a sucker for cheap shitboxes that go nowhere

Busrider against my will, want to die everyday :^)

>>15017358
If you're still here, where do you live?

>>15019937
grill? post feet

if not fuck off bender

>>15020036
What's with all the fucking tripfags lately?

>>15017397
Well that's something, at least you could go for a ride with them in miata power. I've literally never met a single guy with even the slightest interest in cars at all.

>>15020022
London
Plz be London ;_;

Being American middle class sounds tough, going by this thread.

>>15019870

>south america
>car upside down

Checks out.

just need to start shipping Columbian booger sugar to an American anon and you both can have really nice cars.

>>15020051
ive been here all summer tho

>>15016787
>>dump my super nice gf
Fuck up #1

>>move to california for master's
Fuck up #2

Everything after is a downward spiral.

Why did you give it all up anon?

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Driving/Wrenching are are the only things that make me smile anymore
help

oh wow, at least you guys had a girlfriend or something, >>15019944 this guy even managed to get married despite the ptsd. while i don't even have money for gasoline and no job because in this crappy yuropoor no one will even look at you if you don't have some sort of shitty degree, even mopping floors is kind of tough to get. i'm just wasting my life and having 0 motivation for anything, survived a ridiculous car crash and the only thing that makes me happy is i might die soon in another car crash.

I'm a uni student with no money. I own a car but it's hundreds of miles away, and it's just a vaguely practical 1.4l non-VTEC Honda Fit.

There's one person that I get on with, and Ihave no idea what she is to me, but she's hundreds of miles away too.

I don't know what I even live for

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>>15017540
>tv has child actors

>>15017434
Kek which part of I-25, senpai?

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>>15021424
Mostly Hamden Avenue down to Interquest Parkway. Nice straight away through some cool scenery.

>>15014967

My life is great, but sometimes at night I'll go throw my car around a parking lot or take it on the highway if I've got something bothering me.

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>>15020118
1. We weren't going to work out long term. She had really bad emotional codependency issues and I couldn't keep up.

2. It seemed like a nice place

It's gonna be okay, I just have to wait another year, then I can wander on. Pic related is first on the list.

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>>15014967
feel you OP, losing my mind now that I have no money for parts

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>>15021567
I'm in CO too anon, I love to hoon about garden of the gods or on the dirt roads out in Peyton / Falcon real late at night. Driving around and working on my babies are the only things that make me feel any sort of happiness anymore.

>Pic related: muh babes.

>>15017540
/pol/ makes me depressed so then I go driving. Day of the Rope is starting to seem like less of a meme and more of a want the more I read.

>>15014967
literally the only reason I haven't dropped college entirely and given up on life is because I want to buy a car and have it be completely my own, like the satisfaction I got when I first built my computer.
I still do really shitty though because its hard to stay motivated

>>15018024
Zirtec and non-shedding dog

>drive a shitbox
>have to go out for dinner with gf and her family, offered to drive because I enjoy driving
>drive nice and easy while I have passengers in my car
>as soon as I drop them off, go full WOT and push my shitbox to its limits

Am I the only one?

i use slutty bottom boys to escape reality

i want to move out with another /o/ dude, it would be super chill

>>15023541
haha nope, soon as im 1 houses away its WOT

>>15020749
Im /pol/, /k/, /o/ and /ck/, dont have guns and cant cook, anyone else multiboard?

>>15023649
i am /pol/ /ck/ /o/ /k/

I have car, guns and can cook. Also Trump 2016

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>>15014967
for me it's cars and guns.
/k/ommand/o/ life is suffering
my piece of shit project gokart thing is my stress relief.
pic related - sorry its a neck breaker, phone is a bitch.

>>15023673
>/k/

I want furries to LEAVE.

Yup. I will only detail/clean my car when I feel like shit. Takes my mind off everything for a few hours.

I think I polished my rims 4-5 times the other day before I realized how many times I had done it.

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>>15023673

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>>15023649
kek I'm all those as well
>/a/ but have shit taste
>/pol/ even though I'm a black muzzie
>/k/ even though I'm a nofuns
>/o/ even though I drive a poorfag civic
>/ck/ even though I eat exclusively subway and what ever my mom cooks
>/r9k/ is the only board that I can actually relate to as a depressed collegecuck

>>15024002
KYS.

>>15017540
>/mu/ has shitty music
Spotted the peasant

Also you forgot /g/ has gentoo (neckbeard OS), or Arch (time sink OS)

>>15017540
Which is made sadder by 4chan being cancerous and destructive.

There's so much bitter negativity and overarching propaganda that you just feel like you're being beaten down by all of it. The faggots over on places like r/4chan think this place is all jokes and funny, creepy greentexts but they don't know just how rare that kind of crap is and how so much more is just angry cynicism and naziposting thats lost all illusion of irony.

What makes it worse is all the introverted loners are pushed into places like this because few people seem to understand or even care about them, and when explosions like gamergate happen which are supposed to be reactionary against all the pushing and attacks, it only makes us more isolated and alone.

So we keep coming here again and again even though we hate it because there's just nothing else.

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>>15024230
Bullshit. 4chan, just like life, is what you make of it. If you can go in lighthearted and seek out more lighthearted stuff, you'll have a great time. If you only focus on the negativity (like you seem to be doing) then you'll only see doom and gloom.

Chin up and see the sunny side of like mate.

>>15015302
You're not alone brother

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Iktfb

>>15024752
Too true. This is why I will never take any complaints about "muh patriarchy" seriously. A woman can always find a man to cuck and will always have men throwing themselves at her, but a man always has to put forth the effort to escape the throes of loneliness; with no guarantee of success.

>>15024248

I have definitely noticed the quality of 4chan go down and I never sought that kind of self-validation you're talking about. Gamergate being wholly unironic where 4chan was concerned is a pretty good indication of this.

>>15024752
I mean, look at this guy. The jokes and pathetic self deprecation turned into real women hate.

>>15025027

I dislike you so much. I don't are about your girl problems. I rather an endless stream of spaghetti greentext over this

>>15025060
That shit was there from day fucking one. Chanology was the exact same shit as Gamergate, but that was 2007. That's nine years in the past now, man. It's just that in the aftermath people start making up bullshit because they think that their personal version of history is much better than an objective account.

In my opinion both were worthwhile causes and in no way failed at their stated mission. 4chan's grassroots as all fuck and so has an easy time to get the ball rolling on a whole lot of things like that. It's fine to be wholly unironic and get really involved in something you care about. That's what an interests-based community like a forum circling about a single matter (videogames, cars, technology and so on) ought to be all about. Not doing so in fact could be seen as a failure to deliver.

Bigotry and its myriad subforms have been on 4chan since day one also. Remember Happy Negro, or the Nigras? Or the Habbo raids with epic swastika forming? Do you think that was done because everyone on 4chan was a perfectly PC individual? Anonymity sets you free, so the ugly sides of your fellow humans are on display, those that they usually hide from plain view. Only a narcissist would think that the environment changed and not your perspective.

>>15024752
>>15025027
>>15025060
top fucking lel
love these posts
>i-it's just because we men have it so hard!
>girls have it so easy!
stop being fucking pussies and grow the fuck up you little shits

>>15025087
Chanology was different from gaymergate because with Gamergate the mods/admin had a direct link to the issue at hand.

4chans unfettered way of presenting things is the best methods, no one is trying to dress anything up to get fame or points - it's only your message as its typed.

It's also why the videogame/car/music/whatever community here is so useful and good because people aren't building an image. They're here because they want unfettered conversation about an interest without building an e-persona or something dumb. That's why whenever there's ever a vidya contest between reddit and 4chan leddit gets shitstomped.

but I am a ronery driver.

>Left uni and became wageslave, suddenly not doing much except work and vidya slowly losing all appeal to me
>Didn't even know why but just didn't find games fun at all anymore, didn't engage me and didn't want to watch any shows or movies.
>Was probably depressed at the time, did stuff like drive as fast as the car would go, never bothered putting my seatbelt on before drives even
>Started going out on the backroads every night instead of playing vidya raging my car around as hard as it would go trying to get a faster time
>Did about 2500-3000 miles a month for a few months purely raging around the backroads at the redline
>Had to learn to do maintenance and do basic stuff to get a bit of extra speed
>Started going on /o/ and buying/upgrading to better and better cars as a result of sheer boredom.

>>15025192
>without building an e-persona or something dumb
Unless you're GS400faggot or that furry punk

>>15025087

Okay, now imagine people having serious arguments about whether or not niggers are lazy or shit like "Why are all black people hood rats?" Now imagine a heated debate on /v/, with 100s of posts, backed by much anecdotal evidence, with people who have been "cucked" by hood rats, posting long serious rants about it.

You're right, the racism, bigotry, whatever was there from day one. An endless stream of racist jokes signals actual racism.

Dude, I came here to laugh at the irreverent sense of humor

>>15025087
>>15025192
Chanology was not a good thing for 4chan. That affair flooded us with a bunch of fucking moralfaggots from rebbit and other such places who didn't understand that it was really all just because scientologists have a had their brains broken and as such produce hilarious reactions when antagonized. Also it was originally started by /i/ which was on 711chan at the time, 4chan /b/ and the moralfags who thought it was for some kind of good cause were brought in for volume. I will admit it was pretty funny when those morons actually took it to real life and protested in the streets.

Gamergate was some gay ass shit too but for different reasons. /v/ has always been retarded like that and should be avoided. "Fighting" for made-up causes by protesting and making angry social media posts is for dumb liberal college kids who care too much and believe they can actually change society. We should be better than that.

I don't know what exactly made all the frogposting men's rights betas start posting here, that happened very recently but slowly. Probably a reactionary thing because of tumblr and friends becoming increasingly feminist.

>>15025209
>>15025205
>>15025142
4chans always been shit

its main demographic is people who post exactly the shit you're crying about

reddit was a no-name site in early '08 when chanology was big

if you want to talk /pol/ or meta go to /pol/ or /s4s/

>>15025205
>Okay, now imagine people having serious arguments about whether or not niggers are lazy or shit like "Why are all black people hood rats?"
Happens often enough, even seen it on /pol/ from time to time.

>>15025209
'Flooding'? Nigger, it's a public website. More's always coming, especially the way 4chan influences mainstream culture massively. It's a beacon in the distance that scares normalfags but also intrigues them. Hell, that was me back in the day. As normie as I could have been but now I am here. I like to think I adapted.

Chanology was big. And like any big thing, anons hate it because it's not small. In the aftermath of course, not when they're raiding red hot. This is basic 4chan protocol.

>>15025233
I knew people in real life who frequented reddit and got involved in ancillary irc channels because of the chanology thing. Remember this was well after SA fucked over the jailbait boards so it had already started to become a place for normal people for awhile.

>>15025233
fuck off it was never shit here
and /o/ has always been a meta board

>>15015082
>No license
>no car

You fit in well here

>>15025290
/o/ is a pretty shit board. Just go look at the thread about downshifting to see how shit. Or any of the manual vs automatic threads which to this day still get over a hundred replies every time. People here have always been that dumb though so nothing has changed. I think /sp/ probably knows more about cars than /o/.

>>15025299
Why else would I still post here?

No friends, just the car
Seek social interactions every now and then but I'm socially awkward.
Join forums for my vehicle as they contain specialized knowledge
Just giant circle jerks, comments get ignored
Post on /o/, hoping it will be better
Tripfags everywhere.
Posts for advice go ignored, even after bumps
The same giant circle jerks

>>15025299
how about me? no licence but mopeds and a car

>>15016674
>bmw owner
>weeb

hm

>>15025543
Don't see the issue. Even the Japanese respect BMW's for their superior chassis.

>>15016712
I had a dream today that I drove an FD RX7 for the first time. Was pretty cool. Lots of white smoke, heavy and grabby clutch, lots of brake pedal travel all the way to the floor and almost no braking force

tfw no rx7

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>>15025526
>on /o/
>owns a car

NORMIE!!!! REEEEEEEEEE!!! THIS IS A BENCHRACING BOARD!!!

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I feel like a fag for doing it but I feel the same way.

All damn day at work and all day at home I just think about things I wish I could have, mainly cars. I spend hours and hours doing configurations on all kinds of cars at night. I'll occasionally go out for night drives for 2 hours listening to the Silent Hill 2 OST. Life isn't fair and I accept that, just have to learn to be happy with what I have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTMqiWq-HUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke5VSATXVCI
^ My 2 night drive songs of choice.

>>15025290
/o/ is highly autistic m8

the amount of vs threads is evident of that

Bump for feels. It kinda calms me knowing Im not the only one at that the others feel the same pain.

Autobots united.

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>>15022007
>California

>seemed like a nice place.

>Absolutly adore wrenching
>Love pulling my bike apart and fixing it
>Just hate putting it back together
>And worse is putting it back together only for it to not work
I need a friend who enjoys reassembling things.

I just need a friend actually ;_;

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>>15015280
This speaks to me.

Sometimes I feel closer to my cars than I do other people.

>>15014967
Do you happen to be in Florida dude? You can hang out with me and my friends, we go out to the tuner meetups every weekend