Why do people spend 8+ hours grinding on games like runescape

>>37632258
cause they want short term rewards to feed their addiction.

>>37632258

because rpgs are designed to constantly trigger the reward circuits in your brain with loot and levelling up

it makes you feel productive

Why do people stay at home on the weekends and don't just wageslave more do they hate money or something?

>>37632331
literslly crinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnge

original

>>37632258
because they're dumb as fuck
being a shutin loser dosn't make you intellegent contrary to normalnigger memes

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>>37632258
because im too drunk all the time for that, thats why.

>>37632661
I legit agree with this statement

>>37632258
it's exercise you can do forever, without the benefits of exercise

As someone who grinds OSRS for many hours most days, I read a fair bit and I'd like to think I know quite a lot about a broad variety of topics, but it takes a certain type of person to want to do nothing but satisfy curiosities all day, every day. I think for lots of NEETs, grinding video games (particularly repetition heavy stuff like runescape) becomes a sort of surrogate 'job', it allows for the contrast between mundane and the interesting/exciting to exist.

There are those out there who also get addicted to the """competition""" of moving higher and higher up on a scoreboard that has an insanely high cap, there's very little skill involved in it and it's really just a measure of how much time you've wasted. I think for those that aren't NEET that must be the main motivation, it's intoxicating being one of the "best" at anything, even if it's totally meaningless.

Maybe the meaningfulness comes from the person. There's no intrinsic value on reading Goethe, for example.

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>>37632258
What if I have read books obsessively for 8 hours a day and decided that vidya would be a more fun way to throw my time in the trash?

Also vidya is cheaper than books.

>>37632258
>>37632661
You know you can play a game like that and do other shit at the same time right? I've been playing OSRS lately for the nostalgia, and while I play I listen to Jordan Peterson lectures and swipe tinder and bumble

I swear I used to have autism or something when I was a teenager. I was able to get max stats but logging on recently made me realize just how much of a boring grind everything was.

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>>37632994
>intoxicating being one of the best even if it is meaningless.

amen man. people will go to great length just to be number 1.

>>37633007
Theres great meaning in learning a skill though. like imagine instead of cutting virtual runescape trees you write down kanji in japanese all day or something similar.

>>37632258
They're addicted to shitty video games.

They're stuck in that razor-thin crossover of soul-crushing tedium and occasional orgasmic euphoria.


Also books are gay you nerd lol

>>37632258
Books are work, I don't want to think when I'm tired

>>37633085
Yeah but learning sucks, it's never fun. The process of learning is soul-crushing and just as repetitive as any shitty video game where you kill rats for coins.

The reason why people do manage to learn anything is because they have a desire to be someone and do something that guides them through that boring hell of repetition and exercise.


The shittiest and grindiest of video games is at least more fun than that.

>>37633085
yeah like learning dying gook language for your chinese cartoons is any worse than clicking on virtual trees

>>37633167
It was literally an example you sperglord.

>>37632272
>>37632299
>>37633106
Is browsing 4chan not exactly like this?

Think about the amount of content and replies that are irrelevant to you or full of dogshit before you find someone or something that resonates with you and makes you feel that little spark of interest or emotion that keeps you coming back.

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>>37633290
an example to how people waste their time like everybody else but think they are accomplishing something?
Probably think reading books by some hack writer from 100 years ago "enlightens" you.
The only reason to live is self enjoyment. None of your accomplishments will mean shit compared to my "wasted life" when we are both in the dirt friendo.

>>37633372
It 100% absolutely is.

We collected (You)s instead of pixels on a screen.


During my peak NEET phase I would shitpost for 14 hours a day and waste my time that way, play maybe 15 minutes of video games at most.

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>>37633085
"Meaning" is subjective. There's no point learning a skill that doesn't align with your needs or goals. Why don't you learn how to suck then dick since it's still learning a skill instead of shitposting on /r9k/?

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>>37633555
I am gay and I just studied extensively for 4 hours. I am just throwing out my thoughts into a medum hoping to start a discussion.

>>37633619
>>37633085
>>37632258

Do not shitpost with my wifi, please and thank you

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>>37632258
Books are honestly really boring to a shit-ton of people, and its not just the "dumb people" either.