Are we just wasting away our lives playing video games?
>>335759252
If only. I don't even play video games anymore.
>>335759252
yes
>>335759252
no, just shitposting on /v/
You are spending your time at exactly the same rate as everyone else. Everything evens out in the end. Do whatever you want.
I waste away shitposting on /v/.
I accept the life I have chosen.
You guys don't have to play video games, you know.
>>335759484
>>335759252
We will all die in the end, so who gives a fuck.
>>335759252
We'll be wasting our lives anyway, so why not waste it doing something we enjoy?
You could conquer a fucking GALAXY and build a portrait of yourself with its stars, everything is going to turn into a lifeless shell soone or later, the heat death of the universe is unavoidable.
We're here for no fucking reason at all and wathever you do will be useless, so enjoy whatever shit you enjoy doing, you're going to die, brother.
>>335759252
No but I'm wasting my life responding to your shirty thread to tell you it's shit
>>335759252
>he still plays video games
Kill yourself.
>>335759631
Shut the fun up you piece of spit
>>335759607
I'd arrange the stars into a dick.
With the earth already conquered and the stars still out of reach, we have no purpose but to simply enjoy life without going insane.
I'll use my time to game and cuck fucks.
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted timeI'm going to die alone and unfulfilled
>>335759814
You've never cucked anyone in your life
>>335759607
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4vk0TLrpcY
>>335759252
I'm just twiddling my thumbs playing video games until I work up the courage to kill myself.
everyone is wasting away their lives
in 4 billion years the sun will balloon outwards as it starts to die and completely incinerate the earth. humanity will be long extinct by then and all remaining trace of its existence will be annihilated and nothing that anyone ever did ever will have mattered
>all these defeatist manchildren itt
not a waste of time if you like doing it
if you don't like doing it but continue doing it anyway (usually the case with repetitive online multiplayer) you're probably retarded
>>335759909
Shit I've been exposed by some wageslave normie.
Better take this to /r9k/ where I feel safe.
>>335760073I learned this shit in kindergarten and cried for the rest of the dayEveryone thought I was nuts
In all the threads that this question has been asked
Not only in 4chan but always that this question was presented
Everytime someone used his/her mind to present this riddle to someone else
secretly we wanted the following answer
It doenst matter that it doesnt matter, because I love you.
This answer is never given to someone whos asking this question
This answer is only given to someone thats giving it to someone else.
PARADOX
but
trust me
You know.. Kuja had the right idea. We're all going to die. The world will go on without us. Nothing we can do will stop it. What we do is irrelevant. Why are we letting that happen?
>>335759252
Even if our lives are objectively meaningless as individuals in the end, our experiences are what mold us. Time is never wasted if you accept that fact.
>>335761207
Because there's nothing we can do about it.
It's and endgame state interwoven in the fabric of reality itself. Entropy is an unstoppable countdown to oblivion, and it looks like the universe is built to accelerate it even further. Just by existing and using energy to move, and cook, and travel and shit we are using energy that could never be recovered.
It's a nice memento mori.
>>335761501
No but you could be out there doing what you TRULY want. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? Shitposting on /v/ in your time you're not slaving away at work/schol?
>>335761707
What you TRULY want is exactly what you are doing, if you TRULY wanted something else you would be doing, but you probably did an assessment of risk/reward and will/satisfaction and decided this is the most rewarding experience for you.
Of course we could be out there hunting bears in Svalbard, or getting fit and fucking bitches, or fucking skydiving for all that matters. But it's not in our mindset, it would just be a forceful act to impose on ourselves. We are made for this, shitting up internet boards and playing chinese electronic games for kids.
>>335762042
This is not true, your desire mutates, thats why you can settle with something less enjoyable
You just want to excuse yourself.
>>335762042
You've just settled anon. Too afraid.
>>335762607
>>335762212
Excusing myself makes me comfortable, that's what i really want.
Everyone does what he really wants, there's no escaping. What i really want is settling, but i understend your youthful brazen spirit wanting to live life at the edge.
>>335759252
How do you define "wasting"? Emerson might suggest we're succeeding dramatically.
tfw put 870 hours into Pokemon X and I haven't even had it that long
>>335759372
no!
now don't say that!
why
without videogames, you would never contemplate suicide!
NO MORE GAMES!
NO
MORE
GAMES!
HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
NO GAMES!
>>335759252
Wasting away? what would be your definition of productive and successful then?Who said we owe the world anything?
It really doesn't matter man.
If you get a job, people say you're wasting your time.
If you get a degree in something, people say you're wasting your time.
Do what you want in life. The only people that complain about others wasting it are the ones who regret doing what someone else told them.
if video games were never invented, all your dreams would have been fulfilled anon. your insignificant lives would be slightly fulfilling for a brief period. but now, in the prime of your life, you've essentially gone hollow. you're a shell, a puppet. you put on a show when you go to school or work. when you get home there is nothing that will satisfy you. there is so little of yourself left that you can't even remember what you're like outside of your pretend persona. but at least you can come here to scream out your impotent rage. maybe a few people will notice, but it won't matter. nothing changes.
>>335761263
in other words, it is the journey?
i'm in a poor mental state right now /v/. this is a nice thread
That's an interesting choice of an OP image. Would you mind telling me the source, OP?
>>335759252
I don't play video games, I just shitpost on /v/.
>>335763368
But then you would feel unfulfilled all the same. You would look at your boat, you wife that is cuckolding you with the gardener, your deficient son or slutty daughter and then you would feel exactly the same as you feel now - empty inside.
Because there's just you, you are the protagonist of your life and everything you can do will only quell the roaring emptyness inside your sould for mere hours of day. Other people, inanimate objects, they're all useless. You just have to understand that everyone feels the same as you, the same sadness and sense of underachievement. There is no way to avoid it, no matter how hard you work to forget it or whatever or whoever you surround youself with.
>>335759993
What have you been playing?
>>335763581
This
1h of vidya, 10 h of shitposting.
Ive become more addicted to 4chan than video games. this is even worse than enjoying games. holy fuck im such a failure
anyone got a (you) in the house? im lonely, sad...could use it
>>335763368
Nah. Stop blaming videogames.
Another hobby would've filled that, like watching TV all day, reading comic books, etc.
It's so easy to just blame videogames for all your problems.
It's your fault.
>>335759252
Yes.
But when you get down to it everything is wasting your life, except for taking 20 seconds to shoot your seed into a vag, then you've fulfilled your duty to your parents and people before you if a baby is pooped out.
>>335764383
Hey friend. How much time do you typically spend on 4Chan a day if I may ask?
>>335764383
We are kindred spirits then, you and I. You see when I come home from work. I plan on playing video games to experience some brief enjoyment.. but instead I come to this board and read all the shitty threads. It was around 6pm when I started and now it's almost 11pm.
>>335764383
I know that feeling. The urge to break this phone I'm using right now happened to me more than once. It's pretty worrying
>>335759252
You are wasting your life if you are not doing something that feels fulfilling.
If you play video games for a few hours, stop, and then suddenly realize that there are important things in your life you are not focusing on, don't play video games. On the other hand, if you play video games for a few hours, stop, and then have the desire to play more video games, keep playing.
It really isn't that difficult. The only problem is that people (like myself) deny their own feelings. They'll bury themselves in entertainment rather than attempt to fix their lives. Don't do that.
>>335764776
What if nothing is fulfilling?
>>335764383
>Ive become more addicted to 4chan than video games.
Well, shit. I never understood people's obsession with getting (You)s though, I hate getting them, to the point where if I reply to someone or make I post I will go out of my way to make sure if I'm replied to I won't get a (You). Not too long ago this simply meant closing the tab and reopening the thread in a new one, but Moot fucked that up before he left and now I have to completely close my browser and reopen it if I don't want a reply to give me a (You).
>>335765012
Have you tried therapy/medication?
>>335759252
I know where you're headed as I've been there before, let me save you some time. Search for Jiddu Krishnamurti brah.
>>335764664
I force myself to stay off for a few hours after i wake up. but typically id be on 4chan for maybe 12 hours a day...lets see, 8 for sleeping, another 4 for trying to resist. sounds about right. its such a fucking waste
>>335764730
i dont work but i remember having that feeling being in school even. id wait all day to go home and game but then once i got on 4chan, i wouldnt be off till 3 in the morning.
>>335764753
i dont browse on my phone but sometimes i get that feeling where i want to just punch my monitor or kick my pc just to end it all. no pc, so id be forced to do something new even if its equally stupid.
>>335765112
its not the (you) im addicted to, its more the exclamation mark at the top of the browser in the middle of the 4chan logo that gets me going. i LOVE that little pop up exclamation.
but thanks for the (you)s and excalmation marks everyone, appreciate it. i remember being back in high school reading some people saying they waste more than half the day here, stuck, unable to have fun with games or anything anymore, laughing and saying it would never happen to me....and now its happened to me. i cant wait for death
There is absolutely no reason you exist. You never asked to be born. Why do you feel like you can "waste" your life? Sure, I mean perhaps you can consider existing as a human a gift that shouldn't be wasted, but how do you define wasted? Do you want to contribute something to humanity? Why?
who /daydreams of runing away often/ here? fuck I just need a change of scenery.
>>335765012
What >>335765134 said. Seek out therapy. It can be very helpful so long as you follow the therapist's advice.
>>335765427
time is only "wasted" because we have a finite amount of it. we're going to expire.
>not living long enough to be a cyborg
Are you fat fucks drinking nothing but mountain dew big mac smoothies all day?
>>335759252
I don't feel like I am. Every night I come home I play vidya to escape. I work, I pay my taxes, why do I owe the world even that? I never asked to be born. It was the world that treated me like a castaway.
It is lucky I simply chose to keep to myself.
It keeps our brains challenged and stimulated, unless you play casual shit
On the other hand, growing up playing hardcore vidya can really fuck you up when nothing stimulates you as an adult
>>335765416
I'm no life coach but I don't think you need to spend your life waiting for death. Perhaps if you were to spend just a bit of time you would normally spend on 4chan learning something? Or maybe you could setup a block on 4chan from a certain time to a certain time. Also, there is therapy and or medication that helped me to some extent. You may have heard these things before but I just want to help in any way I can.
Every time this question comes up, the usual rebuttals are
>Who cares, everyone dies
>In the distant future, humanity will not even exist
And so forth. How about you faggots think about YOUR lifetime. If you're sad thinking about your failed existence, then do something about it or just shut the fuck up and hang yourself.
I was a NEET 6 years ago and now I'm in school to be an RN, anything is fucking possible when you get tired of the same shit every day.
>>335766092
youre right but i just see no way out mentally. i feel trapped. anything i try i fuck up at. im short. im skinny. im stupid. ive done nothing since finishing high school. id bet even my family wants me to croak since i dont contribute outside of some chores. not even the army would take me since i would start crying, would be to weak to complete basic, and to retarded to assemble a gun, let alone remember a bunch of symbols, gestures, codes, formations, and all that when i cant even remember my own zip code sometimes.
the only reason i wake up every day is for news on persona 5. after that i really just might take my dads gun, bike to a deserted area (to scared/retarded to fucking drive even) and kill myself. i really see no future or hope for me outside of wilting away miserably and slowly. even here if i present an opinion, i get called a loser and that im just shitposting. not even 4chan accepts me fully. god damn i cant wait for the end
>>335765771
I'm afraid I'm beyond help. I can't even remember the last time I had a real interaction with someone. Don't get me wrong, but I'm at work. I do what is expected. I appear totally normal at work. I fear I am like a sociopath at this point.
>>335765991
C'mon you guys can't be this deluded. You don't owe the world anything, you were given a life at random and now that you're here you get to experience all kinds of shit. Stop looking to fulfill your desires externally, it won't happen. The fact that you are somewhat intelligent means that you eventually realize how illusory the world is and that's okay. You are a small piece of the greater whole, and you share the same fears and desires as everyone else. Society is literally made up completely by all of us fearful people awaiting death. Life is temporary, that is a fact. No matter what you do it will eventually be for nought, therefore nothing has meaning. Stop taking it so seriously, we are brothers.
We waste our lives no matter what we do.
>>335761046
>This fucking movie
Biggest waste of time in my life.
yes
and i wouldn't have it any other way
>>335765012
How do you decide if something is fulfilling or not? Maybe you are living by someone elses definitions and standards.
>4am general
>>335759252
Better than being a drug addict and getting wasted on alcohol
>>335759252
>we
>our
>blogging thread
>>335767575
video games are the drug of today's youth. truly the modern opiate of choice.
>>335766424
You should try not coming at these problems with a negative way of looking at it. It's kind of like a self fufiling prophecy when you tackle a challenge but the whole time you think "I can't do this, This never works" then eventually you give up on trying to do anything because you tell yourself there is no point. That is why I recommend seeking help from a professional and trying some medications it can really change youre point of view. I certainly don't "have it all figured out" but I sought help and I do feel better and I'm in a better place to tackle my problems. Also if you really are interested in joining the military than, if you haven't already, look up the requirements for whatever branch you want to join and meet those requirements. I'm rambling now but if you would like feel free to add me on steam it's Congawonga
>>335767354
fulfillment means getting some kind of enjoyment out of doing something right? I haven't had that feeling at all from doing anything. not work, school, the arts, or even video games.
>>335759252
Yes, waiting for Süsser Tod
>>335759252
I've been playing computer games nearly everyday all my life, since the age of 2 or 3. It's an integral part of my existence.
>>335767640
Can't argue with that man but what else are we supposed to do? But still like I said I'd rather prefer video games over alcohol and drugs
>>335765112
(You)
>>335759252
Watch this OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFoo5Vh8i0c
>>335768363
that doesn't help at all
>>335759607
>nihilism
18
>>335762765
I agree with you, anon. I've done a lot of stuff that people list as cool achievements. I've worked on cool secretive shit, I've traveled to faraway countries, I've had crazy romantic adventures, and yet I still have the same complaints as other anons. I still wonder if I'm not doing what it is I truly desire, I worry I'm missing out on something important, I think about all the opportunities I might have missed, and nothing I do ever makes it fade away. The lack of ultimate satisfaction and the search for something to quench the burning desire for more is one of the deepest parts of what it means to be human. Somewhere along the way, we make choices to keep ourselves sane. A partner we decide to take with us, a hobby to divert us from the cavernous future before us, a dependent creature for which we can exercise love and care to give our efforts meaning... these are examples of beams that hold up the houses we build for ourselves. Eventually, the structures we've created crumble and die. Whether we leave a monolithic legacy like Ozymandias or are buried by strangers that we've never met, our magnificent mansions and homely hovels will all fade into the same dust.
>>335768892
is this what (you) wanted?
>>335768892
Fuck off /asp/ie.
>>335763705
Aren't you describing Micheal De Santa?
The best thing about being human is that humans can deceive, delude and distract themselves.
Humans can fantasize and lie to themselves.
Humans can forget.
Aren't humans wonderful?
Now go enjoy your time with your waifu.
>>335759252
You're wasting your life by wasting your life.
Don't blame video games for your mediocrity, you slimy wet cunt.
