How did video games ruin your life?

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I have too many to play and I have no motivation to play any of them, so all my money is wasted. Otherwise, video games are great.

>>377721358
they didn't and never will.

you and your actions ruin your life.

>>377721358
Fuck off with these shit threads /r9k/

>>377721358
made me into a shut-in with no social skills, which led me into being a 27-year-old kissless virgin.

t-thanks videogames

>>377721561
Fuck off with your autism.

>>377721673
>calls others autistic
>is from /r9k/ - Socially Retarded: The Board

>>377721638
Same.

they didnt i did it to myself

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>>377721358
Wasting time became a hobby for me. When I'm not wasting time playing vidya, I'm wasting time browsing /v/ or YouTube

Video games didn't ruin your life.
You ruined your life.

>>377721638
same except I was socially outgoing all the way til the end of the college then i turned into a recluse who'd rather play games than see friends

>>377721358
Video games didn't ruin my life, the internet did.

It didn't

>>377724332
this...

>>377721358
Video games got me into /v/ and I've never recovered.

>>377726891
Better question, how did /v/ ruin your life?

To be honest, this place should've been nuked in 2007 before chanology.

>>377727484
Not him, but it made me complacent knowing there were people like me. That was 10 years ago, and now I can't relate to anyone here.
This board has changed, but I haven't, and it feels awful.

video games didn't ruin my life. i play video games because my life is ruined

Video games set me free, mother fucker.

>Highschool
>Rather normie
>Never want to go out but always get dragged out by friends
>After high school
>Party party party
>Work work work
>No time to myself
>Metal Gear comes out
>Really want to just do nothing for a few days and play the fuck out of it
>Shut phone off for the weekend
>No calls from friends
>Don't get called into work
>Just play vidya
>Feel great for the next week of work
>Not dealing with friend's drama bullshit
>Well rested
>Start doing this most of the time for my days off
>IS THIS HEAVEN?
>As time goes on, friends start moving out of town
>Eventually it's just me left in town
>No friends
>Get to say indoors and do nothing
>Play all the vidya I want
>tfw can go a solid month without saying a word to anyone other then the dog and the twice monthly call to mom
>tfw finally get to be introvert like I wanted
>tfw happy

This has been going on for damn near 3 years now. I don't miss having friends. This shit rocks.

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>>377729190
So extroverts really want to be introverts, while introverts really want to be extroverts?

>>377729842
No. I've always wanted to be alone but I just kinda went with it because I thought it was what I was supposed to do. Once I basically gave the middle finger to it my quality of life greatly improved. I'm pretty sure I've always been an introvert but just never went with it until recently The only thing I really miss is getting laid, but all the same I'm getting pretty damn good at masturbating.

They didn't. They actually.made me happier. I use video games to relax after work or after spending time with my gf. She doesn't play video games and I like it that way. Get to use video games to disconnect from relationship and work. It is truly something that I do just for myself at this point.

>>377730084
>try to ask out woman multiple times
>they either laugh at me or tell me I'm too ugly
>23 hugless kissless virgin
I just gave up.

>>377730084

Literally no fucking reason to spoiler that shit.

>>377721358
They haven't.
They've lost my interest almost completely.
I only play War Thunder and EVE these days.

>>377730331
Be true to yourself or you'll never be happy. If you want love and friends you gotta put yourself out there. If you want to sit in your room and rot then go for it.

>>377730341
Sorry

>>377730504
It's really hard to keep trying when life just keeps swatting me down like a fly. I've tried countless times, and each time it ends the same, with me drinking heavily, well into the morning.

>>377730331

I had the same issue with a girl. Always said no and made excuses. Eventually she said yes. She told me she said no to previous times because either kept inviting her to do things she wasn't interested in. I'm not good looking either and we've been together 2 years now

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>high school freshmen year
>2004 get halo 2 online and WoW
>literally quit sports, outside, going out, everything
>developed autism, stuttering, no social skills, turned into retard with shit grades, no haircut, no dressup
>addicted playing until fucking school started

End of junior year I changed completely, started lifting and wearing fuccboi clothes, turned into a fullblown normie in college freshmen year. Didn't even play vidya my first year because I left everything at home. I have a family now so I get about 1-2 hours a day

>>377730776
This isn't just one female though, it's from many. If 100 people laugh at you and tell you you're ugly, then you must be ugly and too much of a loser to date, right?
Makes me feel like shit.

>>377731047
I'm sure whatever you got going against you can be fixed with a haircut and change of dressing style

I have no valuable skills
I don't understand science
I'm physically weak
I think I'm gay

>>377731149
>lost 100lb
>start dressing well
>get a decent haircut
>get fit
>woman still laugh and call me ugly
No dude, I've tried. I'm just not a good person to be with I guess.

It didn't, if anything video games make my life a little more bearable and is something to do to make time go by while I wait until its time to sleep.

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I don't even play video games and haven't done for about 5 years. I just come on here to argue about them so I don't have to deal with my real life problems that.

I should be looking for a job and going to the doctor about various issues, but instead I drink whisky all day and argue with people about games I've never played.

>>377731546
For me it's vodka, the strongest and best tasting spirit.

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>>377721638
>tfw heading that way
>turning 25 next month
This year i'm really gonna get a gf!....

>>377721358
Jap games made me a lolicon and I've got v& because of that.

>>377731841
Being a pedo is just another facet of humanity.

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>tfw video games as a hobby, not a life style
>Have a job
>Have a car
>Have a home
>Have a dog
>Have some money left over to buy things I enjoy
>Have a few friends
>Never feel like I HAVE to play a video game
>Never jaded
>If I don't feel like video games, I'll do something else
>Cook, read, watch a movie or catch up on a TV show, build a model, fuck around with arduino, call a few people over for board games and a beer, take the dog to the park, stick my dick in the hole in the wall at the adult sore, furry ERP, clean, repairs, just anything really
>So much to do and have fun with other then video games
>Still adore video games too

>dad dies to cancer
>play vidya to cope and distract
>grades fall
>manage to get into uni but stop after half a year
>do nothing but play games for 2 years before I start taking anti depressants
>another 2 years and I start seeing a therapist
>put up a front and pretend I have nothing wrong with me all these years

5 years wasted. Nothing achieved

Just kill me

When I came to value them more than actual people.
I was more upset at my PS3 dying than my grandfather.

>>377732070
>tfw you have no ambition, goals, or motivation in life
>you're just living because it's the only thing you know how to do

>>377731910
Tell that to the national center for missing and exploited children.

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>>377721358
Without vidya I'm pretty sure my life would be shit.

>>377721358
oh for fuck sake if you want to quit spending so much time on videogames then do it.

I don´t care if you have problems with your wife, are an antisocial autist or just generaly depressed. You fucked up with your own actions, stop blaming others. Whatever bad shit happened probably would have happened if you had a different or no hobby.

>>377732341
I would. Some people are more predisposed to killing, we call those serial killers, other people more likely to be depressed, and other people attracted to little kids. It's all just a disease everyone is prescribed to called the human condition.
It's only bad relative to the morals of a society, it's still a facet of what humans are or can be.

>>377721358
They didnt at all. My alcoholic father, my overly introvert personality and 4chan ruined my life. At worst, they introduced me to /v/.

>>377732304
That's why you broaden your horizons. Don't just find one thing you like to do and do only that. You have to try some things, get out of your comfort zone. It won't happen overnight, but nothing will happen if you do nothing. A little effort goes a long way. Gets a little easier to get up and do something every time you do it.

>>377732658
I'm always scared to try new things, because the entire time I'm thinking about how I could be enjoying the things I already know I enjoy, instead of the possibility that I'm wasting my time trying to find new things.

>>377732071
Do it yourself faggot. You obviously are a weak and pathetic person.
When my dad died from cancer i had to feed my mentally ill mother and little brother. Videogames have been a thing i could look forward to when going home when nothing else did.

>>377732972
>everyone has the same strength and outlook on life as I do
Literally autism: the post

>>377732972
I know

>>377733051
You won´t get stronger or more motivated by calling people names on the internet.

>>377733286
I used to be in the same spot as you, I still kind of am.
We all have a time, just start thinking about things and trying to figure out yourself. I know it'll be hard and will make you feel like shit, but the first step to take is to understand yourself so you can improve.

>>377733381
Giving yourself advice?

>>377721358

I would disregard school to play more vidya.

Now I'm a retard.

>>377733640
Not retarded, just uneducated. There's a difference.

>>377732071
I'm 26 and I'll be going to school again in 3 months to get the chance to study. It'll take two years so I'll be 28 by then.

Shit happens just don't let take you under. It's never too late to change faggot.

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It's not too late, anon.

What I'm getting from this thread is that everyone feels awful to a certain extent, it's how people choose to deal with it. This revelation makes my problems seem a little less heavy.

It's a "I'm gonna a blame video games for my wrong actions and decisions rather than Manning up and making the proper changes" thread

>>377734048

>just gotta pick up your bootstraps etc

>>377721358
videogames are a symptom, not a cause

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>>377733906
>tfw hit 24-26 and 27-29 at age 23
>tfw it feels awful

>>377734048
>the JUST DO IT meme

>>377733906
this is depressingly accurate beside the nojob part
my family has never loved me so thats not anything new

>>377734196
Mind if i ask you what you would consider a "meaningful life"?
Becouse without context this just looks like a routemap back to the meatgrinder.

>>377734196
What if you hit every stage except for the normal functioning part, because when you hit that part it's all just delusions and lies you tell yourself so you dont realize how bad you really feel

>>377721638

I always thought I was a shut in but there's people who genuinely seem like the only thing in their life is vidya and that would drive me insane.

How do you not have an interest in ANYTHING else ? I love to draw and find firearms fascinating.

I also had a girlfriend in highschool and had a TON of unprotected teenage sex, it was rad.

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>only leave my house to go to work
>only leave my room to take a piss or to get food
>don't even play video games
>just stare at my desktop all day or post on /v/
I can't be the only one, right?

>>377735185
This is me and there's nothing wrong with it. I only wish I had the privacy to fap in front of the computer and not in the bathroom looking at my smartphon. I hate it.

>>377734796
People that lock themselfes in completely while obsessing over something that should be an enjoyable distraction or a hobby are ussually mentally ill from the get go.
Videogames do not turn you into a fat virgin, they are just an easy excuse for losers who are so bad at losing they will never learn from their mistakes and need a scapegoat.

>>377721358
My life was shit from the beginning.
Video games just filled the void.

>>377734048
I know it's my fault and my fault alone. Still not able to change myself though.

>>377731292
You probably just don't know how to ask someone out without being a cringelord

Don't put women on a pedestal just act as if they were your friend.
"Hey I was gonna go do X later, wanna come along?"

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>go to school
>everyone tells you all the people who bullied you will end up working for mcdonalds and have a shit life
>I end up working for mcdonalds while my school bullies pass me by in life with a college degree, gf, and friends

>>377735982
That's what I do.
I'm not bad irl, I'm sort of a normie, but /v/ is my roots so I still come here to see what's up.

>>377736021
You should have just tried not to get bullied anon

I've had less motivation to play recently. Logged record low hours recently (last month or so) for myself this year. I'm not really satisfied with my accomplishments in game anymore. I've done it for way too long.

I watched the Jordan Peterson/Joe Rogan interview and a story Joe told really resonated with me. He said he was hanging with his buddy, and his buddy got super depressed all of a sudden. He said "I'm so successful online and in game... but I'm so unsuccessful in real life" and that really resonated with me.

I don't know what my next thing is but I'm on the lookout for it.

>>377721358
It made me prefer traps over women

>>377736193
>you should have tried to not be around other humans anon

>>377736276
And then Joe fails to understand what depression is because he's "jsut b urself" incarnate

>>377736021
It's not too late anon.

Never give up, trust your instincts!

>>377736321
I'm being facetious.

>>377736118
Only other thing I can think is that you're asking out bitchy cunts. The kind of woman who laughs in someone's face and calls them ugly when they get asked out is not a woman you want to be with.

Even if you are ugly, a nice woman would still let you down gently. Where are you finding these grils?

>>377736507
I know.

>>377736402
Yeah, Joe didn't contribute a ton to the discussion besides that anecdote.

Really interesting interview, highly recommend it. I also enjoyed the section where Peterson argued that people who have "meaningless lives" aren't numb and devoid of meaning - he says they feel anxiety and depression, and those ARE feelings with meaning.

Nobody likes to sit around and do nothing - it goes against human nature. Our enjoyment of newfound complacency (in the last 100 years or so) is directly conflicting with our human nature of hunting, gathering, and winning. It's got us all fucked up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USg3NR76XpQ

>>377721358
They make everything else pale in comparison killing my drive to do other shit.

>>377735549
As a former poorfag, videogames always motivated me to get my shit togheter just enough so i can buy them anytime i want and play them in privacy (as in my own appartment)
It took some time and alot of extra shifts but now my life is atleast stable.
Its what you make of it.

>>377736582
Some at work, some were at school, and others were in different periods of my life, like at the gym or something like just standing in line for something. I talk some up them up, some I talk up for weeks, and others are just on the spot. I've tried pretty much everything I could think of, and nothing works for me.

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>>377721358
They didn't, I ruined my own life.

binged on WoW for like two months when I should have been studying for the LSAT last year. Ended up making a 171 and getting into harvard anyways so it's cool - but I probably could have gotten into yale if I busted my ass for those two months and made a 175+

>Have awful motivation to do anything besides play video games
>Starting college in September for network and telecommunications engineering technology
How do I make myself stop procrastinating, I'm scared I'm just going to fuck this up for myself by not studying. I never studied all the way through school my whole life, and I just kinda lucked my way through high school. I know it's not as easy to get away with that in college

>>377721358
As a video gamer, I don't have done life. I have many

>>377735851
Mind to explain whats going? You sound like you desperately need a new view on things. Or new legs.

>>377737026
Sorry anon.
gf's are a time, money, and emotional sink anyway. If you have anything you want to do in life, do that first, a gf will just complicate things for you.

>>377737348
That's how I rationalize it.

>>377737149
Get a routine. Fixed study time and fixed vidya time.

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Video games were there for me when I single-handedly ruined my life with my dumb decisions, lack of initiative and hesitation with everything I do in life.

So does everyone just feel awful and have no motivation, it's not just me? And it's just people learning how to deal with it is how people are able to carry through in life?

>>377736021
Well, you actually had to do something. Use your mind to get you ahead of the curve.

You couldn't just lay there curled up while getting kicked going 'hurrhurr jokes on you scumbags im way better then you'

>>377737754
>parents condition me that life will unfold itself
>karma etc
>never happens
>end up fucked because im a retard and believed them
>now I'm fucked while everyone else wasn't a retard and did something
Not making excuses, these past couple of years I came to terms that it is my fault. I should have known, even if I was a kid, because every other kid didn't turn out or behave like me.
The problem was myself.

>>377735316
holy shit I though I was the only one

>>377737420
Don´t you just love how they keep talking about "a gf"?
As if any random bitch would do. People keep talking about finding a mate as if it would be the same thing as buying a car. And being "alpha" would be your driver license. Its pathetic.

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>All these 20 year old faggots
>MY LIFE IS OVER ITS GOING NOWHERE ITS TOO LATE

You've got plenty of time. If you're literally 55-60 then yeah. It's too late. Past that you've got plenty of time to do what ever the hell you want.

>>377737716
Yes. Almost everyone feels awful, to some degree, all the time. Everyone is dealing with shit.

Most people are better at dealing with it than you or I. I openly admit to having very little discipline.

It's not the Video Games. That's just the easiest way of escapism. If it wasn't video games we'd be reading or watching movies to get our fix of being the "hero".

Because that's what every man wants. We all want to be the hero. Video games gives us an easy way to do that. I want to become heroic in real life now.

>>377737953
I don't think about it anymore.

>>377738018
This puts things in a new perspective. I'm the only one stopping myself, now that my suspicions are confirmed.
Thanks anon.

>>377737998
>Past that you've got plenty of time to do what ever the hell you want.

I can't experience teenage love. I missed out and the chance will never come back.

They didn't but being ugly and poor did.

>>377737998
Yeah no, you still missed 20 years of your life not doing what every other kid was doing. You're never going to get that time back. You can't experience teenage love at 40.

WoW literally ruined my life.

I am now 22 years old, played WOW from 12-18. The most crucial phase of ones life to form character.

I literally cannot into social interactions because I was in my room for 6 years. I just came from a date and she asked me why I didn't kiss her just 5 minutes ago on text.

I am thinking to myself
>Well bitch you didn't make any signal
truth is I just don't know any signals because the only expierence I have is the rare times women initiated kisses. Not often I tell ya.

>>377738145
We have to find something that is worth suffering for, anon. Right now the world is difficult, ugly, and cruel. It's intimidating and scary to take a big new step and try something new.

Right now it's easy for us to sit here and play games because we get dopamine hits without much difficult work.

To find true satisfaction, we have to find something in the real world that we are so passionate about that all the bullshit of the world that keeps us inside now is worth dealing with.

I don't know what's worth fighting for yet for me personally. I'm trying to figure all this out too, anon. Nobody has it all figured out.

>>377738018
Its rather easy to lose oneself in entertainment nowadays, becouse nothing you do feels like it has much weight in the long run.
Every job feels like a dead end i keep going back to so i can pay the bills. Every girlfriend is either just one of many or not there at all.
I don´t feel needed and so i look for things to keep myself busy.

>>377738353
Don't worry, it comes with time. I have the a 60 IQ, but if you do something long enough you can learn it, it just takes time with a dash of suffering.

>>377731170
do you want a daddy? i'm lookin

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I've been here since 2004.

I play Dota all day, every day.

I tell myself that if I could be good enough I could make money doing it but it's been forever and I'm only 5.5k MMR, it's just not enough

NEET life, tfwnogf, etcetc.

The video games are more of an escape from the bullshit of real life then they are the actual thing that ruined it.

>>377738353
>vidya ruined my life
>I just got back from a date
?

>>377732304
>people still think life has some kind of meaning or that they have some purpose to fulfill instead of just living life how they want and enjoying it

>>377738353

just reply with "i'm stupid"

>>377738491
I personally have no ambitions or motivation. I don't care about a new car, a wife, kids, a decent job. My only goal is to be happy, but that escapes me somehow. It's really hard to live in a society you feel so detached from, so I've settled with trying to make my own place. Society has done nothing but tell me to fuck off and die, and I'm tired of it telling me to do that. Instead, I'm going to force myself in and find a place for myself, and if I can't, I'm going to make one, just for me and the few who are also like me.
If I ever meet any anons out there who are suffering just as much as me, I'll be more than happy to make room for you. But first I'm going to need to make that spot for myself. I"m going to try.

>>377737716
Totally.

Getting up and doing shit is hardest the first time around. Every time you do it it gets a little easier.

Everyone is tired and bored. Everyone feels like crap and just flops around their room for a few minutes before hopping in the shower. Their job kinda sucks. Their friends are kinda bullshit. They don't really feel like cooking but eh, they gotta eat.

You've got everything in common with your fellow man. You just have to fight the laziness like everyone else. It just gets easier the more you do it.

>>377738693
I'm not concerned with that, it's more that I feel empty inside doing what I already do, all the while not knowing how to fix it and make life happy for me to live. It's all dull, my memories have become a blur. The past seems so close, yet so far away while I see it crumbling before me.

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>>377738317
>>377738215
>MY LIFE IS WORTHLESS BECAUSE I DIDNT GET LAID IN HIGH SCHOOL

Yeah, okay, nevermind. I hope you guys rot.

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>>377721638
I've always blamed this on being born in the countryside in a town with barely 200 people. There wasn't much to see or do outside of work.

I could move, but now I think I've just grown to be more comfortable on my own.

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>>377727941
I just realized I've been here for 9 years

>>377739262
No, I don't think that. I just think about all the missed opportunities and changes I missed and how I wish I could take it all back. The missing teenage love example is just a common one that almost anyone here could relate to.

>>377739421
If you enjoyed it, why cry? Would you have done anything else in its place?

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They haven't they just take away a lot of time because of their achievements and various challenges within them. I tell myself its pointless but I make an effort to do achievements or if they dont I beat it so I feel I got my moneys worth. They dont cost a lot, I just have a syndrome or something where I still get things done but I get them done later then I should cause I expend a lot of free time to work on completing game achievements or beating parts of games I missed.

Like pokemon emerald, I beat the game so long ago as a kid but I eventually want to get a gba player and play it since I still have the cart and beat the battlefrontier since I knew I didnt beat them as a kid. I tell myself this cause I think hell, I could die any day and I'd atleast wanna die knowing "yeah I did that". I dont know what its called, its a 21st century disease.

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>>377721358
Video games never ruined my life. I did that by my own hand. I have nothing to blame but myself.

>>377739291
>grow up in a city
>still grow up thinking theres nothing to do other than to stay in my room doing the only thing I know I enjoy
It's all relative, don't stress too much. Chances are you would have turned out the same anywhere else.

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>>377721638
Same situation, but I don't blame video games. When I was a child and adolescent I also spent a ton of time sitting in my room watching TV or movies or reading. I was always a shut in.

I was molested by an older man, rejected by my older brother, rejected by my father, rejected by girls in my early years except for ugly ones, rejected by people who were supposed to be my friends. It really isn't any wonder I became a recluse. I've sort of recovered from it in my adulthood, but when I was younger, people terrified me.

>>377739262
Just one examples of many m8, and the easiest to understand.

But yeah I'm not gonna mop around like a depressed cunt IRL, I only do that here to discharge. Outside I have to put the tough man act because I have the Y chromosome and it'd be shameful if I actually displayed my feelings.

>>377734796
Sure, I like history and computer-related stuff(hardware, programming etc.) But none of those hobbies can help me meet new people and get in a relationship.

I dont even think that I would be able to actually keep a gf, Im not that bad looking so getting one shouldnt be much of a problem.
The problem is that I am literally the most boring person you can find.

>>377721358
They didn't.
In fact, I'd say vidya had quite a positive impact on my life as a whole

>made me not spend time with shit kids back in school who went on to be shitstains
>gave me a fun hobby that isn't too common and when you find someone like-minded it's a joy
>even when I'm alone I have you guys to argue with and get angry at

>>377739878
Hello, other me. Seriously, your life sounds like mine, it's kind of scary actually.

Life was ruined before I even touched video games desu.

>>377740002
>The problem is that I am literally the most boring person you can find.
Doubtful

>>377740020
Is your mother also an alcoholic and your dad a dude weed lmao enthusiast, and dealt with domestic violence your entire childhood?

If so, you are literally me.

>>377739581
I could have probably done something productive or actually play some vidya

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>>377739878
Same, except even fat/below average girls wouldn't give me the time of day. When I was younger, my dad used to cut my hair, trim my pubes, cut my finger and toe nails, shave me, and smell me when I got out of the shower to make sure I used soap on my penis/armpits. It was all down hill from there.

>>377740208
>smelled your dick to make sure you used soap
Jesus Christ. I can only imagine how fucking weird and uncomfortable that was.

>>377739731
Yeah, pretty much. I've lived in a city suite for a few years, but it's not like it drastically changed my usual lifestyle. Just taking it one day at a time.

>>377737934
No bro,
>parents condition me that life will unfold itself
This is the philosophy they implanted you with, it's not your fault. You couldn't have known better being that young.
The fault is with your parent's, even though I'm sure they had good intentions.

no friends ruined it.

>>377740112
>wake up
>go to school(18)
>come back at 3 PM
>fall on the bed and sleep
>wake up
>play some shitty games until midnight
>take a bath
>go to sleep

Weekend
>wake up at 1 PM
>eat
>play some shitty games until midnight
>take a bath
>play for 2 hours more
>go to sleep

Sounds pretty boring to me.

>>377734796
I'm ugly so social reject by default. I wanted things like relationships and sex for the work I did just like everyone else, the world and everyone in it told me they didn't owe me anything, so I gave them the bird and became a shutin that only plays vidya and goes to work at his shitty job because hey, I don't owe you anything either. "When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world" I guess.

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>born autistic
>never been loved
>family is a trainwreck
>been alone since the age of 7
>got bullied in school
>got bullied at home
>got molested by psychiatrist

>>377740173
Yeah actually. My dad doesnt smoke anymore, but he used to. He turned into an alcoholic and my mother is MIA.

>>377721358
You mean, how did you ruin your own life with videogames.

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>>377741375
Wew that sucks dude

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>>377741375
That's rough

They didn't.
Life ruined my video games.

>>377740182
So? Fuck the past, it's long gone. You can feel bad the rest of your life thinking about all the shit you cringe at, at night, but that's never going to get you anywhere. There's no point in feeling sad about something that's already been done, you should only be feeling bad about what you AREN'T doing to fix it.

>>377740353
I've come to learn that everyone hates where hates where they grow up in, and that people are always longing for that which they don't or can't have.

>>377740380
This.

It's easy to say that in retrospect you would have done things differently, but it's impossible for your younger self to know any better.
Anyone looking at their past can always make the correct choices, but it's not so easy at the time they need to be made.

I used them as a kid to escape my pathetic life
Now that im 20 life is coming to drag me out and expect me to do shit

Video games didn't ruin my life
fucking polio did

Nobody's life is ruined, it's just what you get. Sweatshop or 9-5, play your hand

>>377721358
I dont blame games for anything.

I'm not a whiny faggot that thinks the world played him for a fool.

>>377741375
Same boat, except the psychiatrist was my neighbor.
This is really fucked up, but just know that there are people out there suffering just as much as you, with the same problems as you. Just keep living dude, getting hung up over problems that people have experienced for thousands of years will just make you want to quit. Life isn't out to get JUST you, it's out to get everyone, so pick up the torch and start fighting like everyone else.

>>377738948
This is the gayest thing I've ever read.

My life was already ruined by the time I was playing video games as a coping mechanism.

>>377739464
>>377739951
You guys sound conditioned. You've both said exactly what the other did 2x now.

>>377742272
t. a person who's had a good life

>>377721358
They didn't. Childhood neglect and a lack of support did.

>>377742369
Could be, it doesn't really matter now, though, does it?

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>>377741375
But you're still standing. That counts for a lot.

>>377742369
That just shows you how many people think the same, and how many people suffer the same.
It's a form of catharsis, you're not the only victim in the world, where everyone else seems to be getting along just fine.
It's just another piece of wisdom to add to yours.

>>377732071
M8, I started going back to uni at 25 after falling for the WoW meme. I just graduated and am now working as a software engineer making 80k. Don't let your dreams be dreams anon.

>know what I should do to fix my life and stop being miserable
>don't

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>tfw you will never be a teenage grill experiencing life

Is the start with exercise meme real

>>377742509
>>377742727
Nah it's probably more like you both use the same board (r9k maybe) or browse the same threads to get the same responses.

>>377742857
No, this is just another piece of wisdom to add to mine: people always believe their own judgement instead of the reality before them.

>>377721358
>reasonably socially outgoing
>steady fulltime job
>friends
>a significant other
>not a kissless virgin
>bachelor's degree
>make enough money to live, support my hobbies, and have a comfortable amount of money to spare

I'd say they didn't.

>>377721358
It's not the means that shape you, it's how you achieve them that do.

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Ah the good old daily "old/tired/jaded/cynical gamer thread that blames it all on vidya" thread

>>377741375
>>377742231
Know what that feels like
Except being autistic
>Got molested by my gay cousing before I was younger than 10 but still old enough to remember
>Got molested again by older brother when he was drunk
>Hes a diagnosed schizo and I still share a same room with him

>>377743137
you cant blame it 100% on vidya but its a massive part. the most productive part of my life was when i sold my pc and had a mac. its actually fucking scary how easily i can waste a lot of time without realising

I'm about to get a engineering degree from Texas A&M they didn't.
just kidding I'll probably never get a job with my low gpa and neet like personality

>>377743327
What were you doing with your free time when you had a mac?

>>377743260
>get molested by step dad
>get molested by friend
>get molested by a kid from my class
This is just really hammering in that a lot of people experience the same suffering that I do, and that there's no point in giving a shit about it when so many people are affected by the same problems, because that's just life. It happens.

>>377742839
What do you mean is it real? Do you really think being in shape could be anything but a net positive to your life?

If you're fat, lose weight. Your life enjoyment overall will increase.

>>377743007
Is this supposed to be ironic?

>>377721358

My obsession with my favorite games (i don't want to confess which) keeps me from using my zero social life for something productive. Same goes for 4chan and the internet. But when i try to focus on my duties, i see other people enjoying their lives and say to myself "why shouldn't i enjoy mine, my way", which takes me back to vidya. It's a vicious circle.

>>377743260
Fucking hell, reading stuff like this makes me really appreciate my relatives. Can't imagine what it feels like for people you're supposed to trust to betray you like that.

>>377743327
a mac is a pc

>>377743553
No, I am victim to my own statement. I realize that. It's just part of life.

>>377743260
>>377743539
Would either of you like to join me for some video games at my place while i molest you?

>>377743539
It's not "just life." Getting molested fucks children up. They stop trusting people, they develop sexual deviancies when they grow up and they struggle to connect with others.

>play vidya at a young age
>get interested in computers
>graduated with a degree in computing last Saturday

All thanks to video games. You fucks suck.

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They didn't, lewd/sexual stuff just fucked my shit up over the past 4/5 years or so, and now I'm stil here, a fucking NEET, though I was NEET status after high school graduation, hell I didn't even get my high school diploma

>>377743581
First time admitting this shit but growing up I was surrounded by people who didn't care about me so I gotta let this out somewhere

>>377743517
actually sold it because i was busy doing normie stuff like hanging out and skating. at home i was mainly watching movies and stuff but that wasnt even close to the time i can spend shitposting here

>>377743749
except for all the other kids this happens to that are perfectly normal.

>>377743749
What drove me to my suicidal tendencies was that no one else had the same problems at me.
Knowing that other people do, however, I am at peace.
I guess I also have a different perspective. To me, it's not worth thinking about or stressing over something that everyone else has experienced, because that just tells me it's a common theme among those that share this planet with me. That, for me, can simply be expressed with: "that's life."

I was the big kid in the neighborhood. I'm sorry I molested you anons. It makes me feel sick sometimes when I remember it. It wasn't anything too h horrible but I'm sorry guys.

>>377737953
You look in to it to deep. It is kinda like buying a car. You look for someone decent who thinks you're decent and then and love comes after the fact. It's far mor pragmatic then Television leads you to believe. Why do you think arranged marriages actually work?

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>>377744097
>molested kids
>it wasnt anything too horrible though

>>377743983
>"Perfectly normal"
yeah I bet they'd like you to think that
I bet they'll tell you their distrust of their peers is just their natural tendency of keeping people at arms length or that whatever weird fetish they've developed is "just what does it for me"

>>377744019
But molestation isn't something that just happens to everybody.

>>377743646
macs can't play video games

>>377744209
Same age, like 6 or 7 years old.

>>377743806
>suffered though high and didn't get the diploma
That's true despair. Actually makes me feel good about dropping out in middle school and getting a GED instead.

Video games are the only thing stopping me from killing myself

>>377734796

>I also had a girlfriend in highschool and had a TON of unprotected teenage sex, it was rad.

Fucking normie.

>>377735185

But why?. Why post in a videogame forum if you don't enjoy vidya anymore?. I know it's pretty common, but i don't get it.

>>377744324
>Feeling good about getting a GED
Employers are legally required to consider a GED the same as a high school diploma, but they don't. Once you have that status of "I dropped out of school," it never leaves you, no matter what sheet of paper you might have that says you're considered competent by the state.

A GED is a note that says you fucked up. It's better than just being a dropout, yes, but it's not a good thing to have.

>>377721638
>party hard during high-school but mever got gf because "will get one later"
>once friends moved on rarely go with other students in university
>no job that is fun for me and pays well, zero friends and chat outside of job, though not as free as before still enough time for vidya
Car, good job, Saint Laurent jacket and money won't automatically get you laid as long as you are autistic af. I knownit first hand, by now I just accepted I missed my chance and hope to meet a girl as miserable as me.

>>377744216
I know, which is why I stated what drove me to my suicidal tendencies. I always felt like I was the only victim, and I contribute that largely in part of having no friends or family to talk to. I was alienated from the rest of the world, and this thread helped me realize I was among aliens just like me.
I can't really explain it that well, but just knowing that the world isn't out to corrupt or destroy me, that feeling that life is out to harm everyone, that comforts me. It makes me feel like I have a fighting chance since everyone is susceptible to the hazards that life throws them. That to me is just life, and it's how we choose to deal with those hazards is what shapes us.
I've been given a moment of clarity, and I don't know if I can explain it that well. If not, I'm sorry. It's just that I finally feel at peace and that I can move on with my life.

>>377744514
>Why post in a videogame forum
But he doesn't

>>377744268

Mine can. It's just a harder, you have to limit yoyrself to Windows XP games, some ports and emulators.

>>377744624
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
I'm fucked up too, anon. A lot of us are.
Everyone has their scars. It's through the understanding and support of your peers that you can ever begin to heal.

>>377744527
Yeah I'm well aware of that. Still better than what happened to that other anon. Which was my point.

Video games ruined my life as every day I have to look at this board and see that all the influence of the last two decades have been completely shattered in favour of flavour of the month, shilling, and reddit attempting to draw attention to shitty new indie projects.

>>377744527
That can change if you can turn it around and get a college degree, even an associates degree. At that point the GED doesn't even matter.

>>377721358
nothing ruined my life, I was born ruined

>>377741792
You're right.
I've got a degree, job, car, etc

Just so much wasted time.
I should be studying Japanese instead.

God speed anon.

>>377743752
>degree in computing
>computing
Sounds like a top notch degree

>>377739464
Stop thinking of what you missed and start concentrate on what you want to achieve. Cliche, but looking back want make you happier anyway. And better try hard now before you hit midlife crisis realising shit's really too late now and putting your head in a noose.

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>come into thread expecting jokes
>get depression instead
>also get legit advice from broken anons to help me not neck myself
Seriously, thank you. If not for this thread, I don't know where I would be. No matter how much we joke around, I'm glad we all can come together to help each other out when we really need it, especially since we're all anonymous. None of you had to do what you did. Thanks /v/, I love you all.

>>377745102
>and get a college degree,
Not that it's an advantage anymore. It's pretty much the same level as a HS diploma now literally everyone goes to college. It's all bout a portfolio and experience now: stuff college doesn't give. Also job applications ask your high school and graduation year most of the time so a degree won't erase GED.

I hate what the job market has become.

>>377744870
I hope you can come out clean anon. It's all a struggle and we're in this together, don't ever be afraid to ask for help, there will always be someone willing to give it, especially in the unlikely of places.

Fuck you /v/ I didn't ask you to make me cry with how supportive you assholes can be ;_;

Playing video games is pretty much the only thing I did with my free time those past 15 years (with animu).
I can't relate with people my age, I never experienced the basic thing of life but desu if it wasn't vidya it would probably have been something else, I get "addicted" to things pretty easily

>>377745612
Thanks for your kind words, but I dunno how well I'm going to get along in life. To spare you my life story, I'm not getting any younger and I really don't have much going for me. I stopped trying to talk to women a long time ago-- I don't have anything to offer them.

At least I have vidya.
I hope you're in a better situation than me.

>have job and money
>be not ugly
I just can't motivate myself to get a gf. I enjoy my free time and hobbies and fear she will take them away from me. What's a point to live together just so that you can cook and sleep in one bed.

What worries me is that I didn't masturbated in half a year, I just fell absolutely unaroused by anything. Is it something to be concerned about? Goes on for 3 years already. Before I fapped to guro and sexualized torture or snuff porn out of boredom.

>>377745405
>so a degree won't erase GED.
I mean I guess that's true but it won't really matter that much. If you have a degree and experience and you give a good interview the GED isn't going to screw you. Unless it's really marginal.

>>377721358
Video games can't ruin your life anon, they only make it better.

I wouldn't say video games had much of a negative affect on me, 4chan on the otherhand..

>play video games
>play video games on youtube
>become millionaire
>life is good

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>>377745405
>Going to get an IT degree in the next year
>Have no clue what I'm going to do with it since I just took advice from friends and family
>Everyone tells me to follow my passion
>I'm passionate about bitching about video games on Christmas Islandian Mochart boards
>Sweat every night in terror about an automated future

All I want to do is be able to afford a home, car payments, and health care so I won't be a burden on my parents anymore. Any suggestions?

>>377745969
>have a gf
>she hates video games
>okay
>play video games anyway

You gotta find a girl who won't take away your shit.

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>>377734796
>I always thought I was a shut in
ok
>I also had a girlfriend in highschool and had a TON of unprotected teenage sex
>I was a shut in
?!??

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Meanwhile video games are why I'm NOT as fucked up as I would have been.

I was abused as a kid: physically beaten and then isolated. When I wasn't at school being bullied for being "weird" I was forcibly alone or hiding from my parents. Video games gave me somewhere where I could see another world. They gave me hope there would be something else some day and let me know something wasn't right about how I was being raised, even if nobody believed me when I looked for help.

When the internet came out I finally got some social experience. I was still very shy in person, but at least I could think and talk a little. MU*s and later MMOs and multiplayer games are why I didn't end up basically a lunatic raised by wolves. Random strangers taught me what kindness and cooperation are. They also confirmed that my upbringing was fucked up and helped me learn the difference between what was "right" and what wasn't.

If it weren't for videogames I would have been a complete monster with no understanding of hope, forgiveness, mercy, or love. I likely would have just killed my parents as soon as I was strong enough to be able to, then everyone else I could find, then myself as the world was empty and harsh. Provided I didn't end up in an asylum first.

I'm pretty sure video games saved my life.

>>377745969
She will take away from your free times and hobbies, don't do it. Sex is a meme, keep jerking off once a day and doing what you like, maybe go to the gym or learn a new language or skill.

>>377721358
Nothing can be worse than this fucking site. It's a work of a devil, I swear. I have so many things I like to do and would do, but each time I go here I spent rest of the day shitposting. Is there even an explanation on why 4chan's so addictive and how to fight it?

>>377721358
They didn't, I'm a law student with real life normie friends and a GF. The thing is though, I hid my power level during my entire high school and college life. That helped a lot.

Also, If I weren't playing vidya since I were a little boy I couldn't increase my english proficiency this easily. On the other hand, if I spent more time with courses instaed of vidya I would've been better off academically.

>>377745937
Sounds a lot like me.
It's all about perception anon. You remember that saying "life is what you make of it?" It really is. It's you who make all those barriers, all those roadblocks. You stop yourself from being alive, from feeling, to being a real person with a real personality.
If what we think shapes our reality, why don't we just change our thinking? There's nothing in this world to subscribe to other than what makes us tick, everything else is just a fruitless adventure designed to make us feel like shit. If the only reason you care about finding a gf is because everyone else has one, or that society says you need one, then throw that line of thought out of the window. Who cares how well society accepts you, it's all about how well YOU'RE doing, not what society wants out of you.

Find what makes you happy and stick with it, life is really that simple, and it's us that makes it so complex. We may be simple people with out ambitions, we may think complex thoughts, but that doesn't mean we have to. We just need to find that which makes us feel like life is worth it, and that can come from anything.

Life is too short to overthink it, we need to simplify our problems.

Whole thread is literally crawwling in my skin. Get some skin faggots, life won't magically improve by itself,

>>377721638
Yep ... but if it wasn't for Videogames I probably would have killed myself. Something to look forward too, something to want, fun to be had.

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>>377746235
IT is oversaturated. In fact, anything to do with computers is a bad idea as it's the one degree prettymuch everyone gets if they didn't major in something stupid like Feminist Dance Theory.

Your best bet is to get a grunt job during college where you can get customer service experience. From there get a help desk job somewhere. It's repetitive and sucks, but it does pay well if you can stick with it.

Also live as simply as possible and save up to outright buy a USED car. Public transit, lots of veggies and little meats in your diet, buying clothes from thrift shops and such are your friends. Your college debt needs to be erased before you even think of car payments. That debt will haunt you for the rest of your life and will spiral as the interest accumulates, so kill it fast!

Good luck, friend.

>>377746461
Well, no, it's not about society pressuring me. There's no pressure. I've just always wanted to be loved.

You're right, though. I feel as though you should be happy with what you have, even if you don't have very much. Live for yourself, first and foremost. Be happy with yourself, and work to make you love yourself more. That's key.

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>>377746430
>go to high school
>don't hide powerlevel
>entire class is a bunch of nerds and we're all great friends
>go to college
>hide powerlevel
>literally the loneliest time of my life
explain this

>>377746340
get real life friends.

>>377721638
Same here, only I'm 29.

I don't blame video games, though (some of us were doomed from the start). I'm just glad I can still enjoy playing them after all of this time.

>>377734102

In this case, it is literally true.

No one is saying it's gonna be comfortable or easy, but pretending you're powerless to change things is literally counter-productive.

The only way to counter established behavior is by suffering through forming and strengthening new behavior.

>>377746623
Exactly, make life what you want, not what life wants out of you.

Keep struggling anon, I believe in you.

>>377732304
oh nasty

>>377721358
It didn't ruin my life but having so many people who expect great things from me mke it hard for me to properly enjoy games. I just want to work a normal job make just enough money to live on my own, feed myself, and afford videogames. I don't want to be famous or successful. If I won the lottery that'd be great but I'm not going to try and get rich.

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>>377743806

I'm twenty seven, sleep in a van now, it's my uncle's, not mine, since it just sits there since he never uses it. I also live off general relief and food stamps. It was my resort since I got kicked out for being NEET there for most of my life for never having tried for myself nor looked for work/jobs, then again they were and still are pissy and bitchy cunts, they're also bigots so all the merrier that I've never supported these people not even for rent

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>was going to kill myself today
>see this thread
>now have a new lease on life
I just don't know what else to say...

>>377734643

Meaning is constructed. You can accept a meaningful life to be what's handed down by society (family, place to live, stable job) or you can see what makes you tick and pursue it.

First step getting out of the slump. For me, suffering through the first few months of gym was the catalyst to a bunch of changes, but YMMV.

>>377746950
You're welcome?

That's the best part about having a bleak as fuck life: your perseverance can save others.

>only friend is my motherfucking coworker who is 15 years older than me
>moved here to his wife, has no friends beside me
>wife left him and he spends his free time with me playing coop games and drinking after job
He is a good guy and didn't deserve it, I try to cheer him up but I'm even worse than him. At least I can see first hand what can happen to me in 15 years if I take this or other descision.

>>377746950
Hey, buddy. I've been there too. I'd say that /v/ is going to make me kill myself one day anyways though, especially with the quality of posts we've had recently.

I feel so privileged by reading this thread since I had a peaceful life without any trouble, well except the fact I'm a neet with shitty social skills

>>377747134
That's why /v/ is so popular, I think.

Made out okay academically. Socially I'm moderately fucked though

>>377746631
You should have at least one other hobby than vidya, anon. People always get acquainted, sure, but what makes them friends is their love for a similar "thing". Mine is politics-history and travelling abroad, for example, so I were able to communicate with people with same hobbies easily. After forming a friendship you can talk about vidya anytime you want.

I used to reveal my power level at 7th-8th grade too. It's not good.

>>377747342
Got any other good hobbies? Can't travel abroad 100% of the time as much as I would like to

>>377736276

Ah, so THIS is who Jordan Peterson appeals to.

>>377746950
Anon pls, you have get 100% completion in all dark souls games first.

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>>377747464
Fishing
Atleast thats what I tell people

>>377721358
They didn't. While videogames were a method of escapism for me, my poor decisions and habits are what ruined my life, nothing else. People who blame other shit or other people need to grow the fuck up, 80% of bad shit that happens to you, is most likely due to your own bad judgement.

>>377746631
>hiding your power level in college

They're adults. They don't care.

>>377737149

It'll suck at first. But as soon as you can, go over what you need to do. Try to do your work on the same day of the class and to read up on what you need for your next class. It'll be really hard at first, because you don't have that behavior set in yet, but you gotta do it even if it's half-assed.

With time, it'll take less effort and you'll become more efficient. Free time slots will emerge naturally and you'll be able to organize your shit better.

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>all this advice
This is a good thread. Keep on trucking anons, you have an entire board of autists ready to help you, including me. Don't ever be afraid to ask for help/

>>377746631
Maybe your power level is pretty low

>>377747342
i like art and history and lots of other subjects too

>>377721358

They didn't. 4chan did.

>>377747783
i think it's because we're nominally all adults that I found uni so boring
I've only ever made friends with nerds like me, and now suddenly there's a bunch of normalfags with varied interests? Goodbye socializing.

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>>377746612
>>377746612

Backing this lad up, even here in the UK, comp sci is one of the worst degrees to get as the market is currently fucked up thanks to foriengers being cheaper than any undergrad. Even taking a brief scan at news highlights that comp sci really offer any opportunities.

Its better to get some experience now and decide if the degee you feel 'passionate' about is ultimately worth it. It might be better to bite the bullet and get a degree that doesnt interest you academically but can economically motivate you instead.

>>377738353

Don't worry, man. Just keep at it.

If bitches are literally asking why you didn't advance on them, you're not doing that bad.

>>377747464
>enjoying a fine meal, whether a pricey meat or a hidden urban gem
>fishing, camping, outdoor stuff
>if you are semi /fit/ (at least not fat) sports

Couldn't think of more atm. All of these are socially acceptable and team-friendly hobbies anon. If you try to join a club about them, you should make friends.

Maybe if you are one of the good ones, you could join a charity's local establishment. Look up AIESEC. It's an international student charity organization and they socialize a lot. You might like it.

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Mfw im a 280 pound 20 year old shut it in with no work experience who decided to go into community college for a career as a cop to force myself to change for the best but keep failing classes and still gaining weight

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>>377721358
>19
>finishing HS in a matter of days
>mom wants me to get a job, I would but I would probably get fired for incompetence
>very few friends, I have barely anything in common with them
>vidya is my one solace
>and I'm complete and total shit at it
>love games with a passion but I'm shit at all of them(300 hours in SFV and barely made it to Silver, played Dota for over 1000 hours and never made it to 2k solo)
>everything in life is pointless
>tons of people wasting their time trying to help me and yet I'm still miserable all the time and doomed to fail, the fact that these people still haven't gotten the message that I'm done for doesn't help
>really want to kill myself but lack the spine for it

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>>377721358
It didn't. Buying my first computer right after middle school killed half of my High school social life though.

>>377721358
I'm pretty sure I ruined my life all by myself

>>377747915
Then you should find a place where you can discuss them, anon. Individual hobbies are better if shared with peers.

>>377748248
>almost forgot to add, 5-11 and 175 lbs and still think of myself as a fat piece of garbage

>>377721470
*tips fedora*

>>377721638
I was a shutin already before I got into games, they just gave me a great way to pass the time while not having any friends.

>>377721358
Video games didn't ruin shit

The internet did

>>377737149
My experience with procrastination is that you get into this mindset where it all seems like a ton of work and it's not even worth starting, so you just keep procrastinating. You start the day by browsing the chans, get hooked on that sweet dopamine and boom, the day is gone.

The hardest part is starting to study, every day, but once you get going it's a bit easier

I'm addicted to video games now. So it's hard to do school work. fml

>>377748248
Dude its easy to get a job take it from me im in the same boat with you except im actually good at vidya
Just start looking up methods on how to make a resume and apply for an easy ass job in retail

>>377748068
I don't know what you're talking about. At least in my experience there's more nerdy people than ever before. And if you want to develop another interest college is the perfect place to do it. Just pick something you actually find interesting instead of something you think will make you more likeable.

>>377748539
The issue isn't that I can't get a job, the issue is that if I get a job I don't know if I'll be able to keep it without fucking up and getting fired also I really like being alone and don't want to give up time alone for a shitty job that will probably make me feel even worse about myself

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>>377747134

>tfw comfortable life, family is proud of me doing further education
>tfw got decent grades at school, going to get my degree in History soon from a half decent uni
>other hobbies like playing rugby and cooking to balance out vidya
>trying to get into the gym to help lose more weight currently at 85kg
>small close knit group of friends back home
>kissless virgin at 22

Threads like these remind me that I'm really privileged and lucky as hell with the life I've got. Strange that it would take Mongollian throat singing forum to really highlight that fact.

>>377748248
>love games with a passion but I'm shit at all of them(300 hours in SFV and barely made it to Silver, played Dota for over 1000 hours and never made it to 2k solo)

Just stop playing competitive multiplayer games like the ones you mentioned, more often than not they tend to be unfilling timesinks that can make you feel miserable

t. someone who dropped Dota over 3 years ago

>>377732304
>no ambition, goals, or motivation

I'm pretty much the same. I've never had a real drive for any kind of career or hobby. I always thought it'd be awesome to make video games, but that requires talent and ambition.

I always wonder how it's even possible for someone like me to exist. Shouldn't my shitty traits have been filtered out of the gene pool by now? Maybe that's not how it works.

>>377737026
anyway, big respect from my side for trying that hard. Many people, including me dont even get that far.

Did u ever tried tinder and similar apps? its mostly just for fucking but hey, even me ( socially ugly outcast ) fucks regularly a tinder slut.

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>>377748714
>rugby

>>377748798
I dropped Dota a while ago, but I fucking love everything about fighting games and really don't want to drop them, also I want to improve but feel like I simply can't

>>377748697
Making mistakes is normal dude not eveyone goes in being the perfect employee were still young and always learning

>>377748954
>I want to improve but feel like I simply can't

Well you definitely can't if you just mope about it and instead of practicing

>>377721358
They didn't. Videogames were a substantial improvement of it. Anyone who blames videogames for this instead of their personal failings is flat out delusional and the very act of doing it shows pretty clearly where the real blame lies.

>>377748928
I never tried asking a girl out and I'm almost 30

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>>377749042
I practice, actually quite a bit, but I seem to just not improvewhich probably comes down to A) me giving up and dropping my stick at 10% health, and B) a mindset of telling myself I suck and I can't improve. I'd fix it if I could but I have no idea how.

>>377748697
That's some serious anxiety there anon. Just try to remember that whatever starter job you get is basically going to be impossible to fuck up. Literally just show up and do what they tell you. People who are literally retarded can do those jobs. And the fact that you actually care about fucking up makes you more qualified than most people doing those jobs.

>>377748928
I've tried it, still no luck. I don't know how I would feel hooking up via Tinder anyway, so that doesn't really bother me. I'm over it though, if it happens it does. If not, then who cares, I have my own life to live right now.

>>377740880

What do you find interesting about the games you play? What do you find boring? What would you like to see?

Just answering those questions will make you significantly less boring.

I'm a 24 year old kissless virgin and don't even have a driver's license. All I do is play video games all day and take a half hour walk in the evening after eating dinner. I tried getting a job but no place would hire me even for the most entry level jobs.

>>377740880
Guess we're equally boring then

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They haven't. I have no friends because no matter how much I try, I can't find someone to click with me, even if they come to like me. It makes me very lonely, but videogames give me something to enjoy and put that loneliness out of my mind to some degree.

It's all about knowing yourself and how you work, anons. I am a routine based person, so knowing that, I replaced my bad routine with a better one, which allowed me to lose 148lb over a year. Find out how you function, then take advantage of it like a video game.

>>377721638
Why are you blaming games for your weak willed, pathetic nature?

>>377749520
Those people liking you in the last panel just meant that the change worked.

>>377749520
Pretty much this
Vidya gives the enjoyment friends can't give

>>377749310
Have you tried getting into security? Here if your police record is clean and you're alive you're pretty much hired

>>377749528
How does one go about that?

>>377749520
>tfw even making online friends is too hard for you

>>377749310
Maybe don't apply for jobs where being a kissless virgin is relevant.

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>>377729842
>Introverted man
>Just want to have a good friend in this world

I've been alone for 2 years, soon to be 3.
It feels good to be alone, but I enjoy a good homeboy.

>>377749857
Literally how I described. Just find patterns in your life and come to know yourself.
All of us are the same, yet slightly different, so my solution might not work for you, but know the process is the same.
Do you eat when you get bored? Do you smoke? Analyze why you do the things you do, and when you find them, adjust accordingly.

Life is like a video game, only you're playing for keeps.

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>>377749645
People liking you is meaningless when you don't like them. You go through the changes with the hopes that you'll form a bond with someone and you'll not be so lonely anymore, instead you just get shallow relationships with shallow people, listening to their gossip and their shitty memes and then you go home and you don't even have the self-respect you once had, when you were just yourself and not the person these vapid fucks wanted you to be. It's like that one movie said "I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

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>>377750023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L4zl6aJHMs

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>>377750023
>tfw 2 good friends who stopped speaking with each other

>>377721638
I'm a asocial weirdo. Once I was without access to a computer for 3 months and I managed to get myself a gf.
Videogames and internet ruin lives.

>>377750023
Same boat. Want to be friends anon?

>>377750110
It's not about them liking you, it's how society perceives you, which can be seen in how those people that used to not like you now treat you. Them treating you positively means the change is for the better, even if you think it's all a lie and a delusion. All of us subscribe to something called humanity, and we all subscribe to society and its ideals. If one facet of society starts to change to recognize you, then that means you did something right, regardless if the majority feel otherwise.
Anyone noticing and reacting to your change in a positive manner is something to keep fighting for.

>>377749714
I've been trying to get into one but my guard license still hasn't been verified online. I actually had a security guard for 3 years working graveyard shift at a office tower. I'd spend 8 hours alone but there was a computer that didn't have blocks on it so I browsed /v/ and played Runescape or one of my portable game systems. I got sick of it eventually of the graveyard schedule and quit the post before finding a new one to work at first. They didn't have any other towers to work at and I spent a month without a post to work at so they fired me.

They are willing to rehire me since they'll take in anyone but they can't unless I have a guard card registered first which still hasn't happened.

>>377750023

I remember when it was only 2 or 3 years, not it has already been 6.

>>377750414
Whether or not they treat you better is irrelevant if it's not making you happy though. What's the use in subscribing to the proper behavior if you're just left as miserable, if not moreso than before?

>>377721358
They brought me to this thread and this retarded OP.

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>>377733906
>lives alone
>shitty, but well paid job
>t. 29
>30 next year
I'm doomed.

>>377750739
It's not really about being the person they want to be, but being someone who you always wanted to be and having society shape around that instead.

>>377750023
>tfw I had a friend with similar interests but stopped being fun to hang around with once his family became Mormon

>>377750342
I feel like I can only make a lasting connection with someone if I'm forced into contact with them. Like through work, or school.

I never understood walking up to strangers and somehow forging a lasting connection through awkward small talk.

>>377750867
they want you to be*

>>377750414
I'm not the same person, but why should it be important how society thinks of you if it doesn't make you happy to do it?
If society likes me for living like them, but I wanted to shoot myself because I live that way and hate it, what is the point to it?

>>377751071
see
>>377750867

>>377750887
>that one guy who can have a 30 minutes conversation about anything with some random people he just met
Fucking hell how?

>>377750867
But that's not what the comic is showing, it's showing him changing his ways to be more popular, or changing his ways to be the person everyone wants him to be, and I imagine a lot of people who do change their ways like that are changing them for that reason, that's why I did anyway. I was fine with who I was, but I wanted someone with me so I wasn't so lonely, so I tried to get my act together, and it worked, but it was all meaningless because the change wasn't for me, it was for them.

>>377751184
Stop trying to change so that other will like you and stick by you, instead be the person you wanted or are right now, and the people who stick by you will be your real friends.

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>>377733906
>doom

>>377721358
Because I have a 25-word poem about history due in 45 years and I can't stop playing vidya.

>>377751345
That's not the point, the point is that I don't care for them. Their opinion of me is irrelevant.